YOUR INDUSTRY SEEDS FEATURE
NEW VARIETIES FROM: KINGS SEEDS
In response to requests from growers supplying farmers’ markets and specialty retail, Kings Seeds is releasing commercial packs of the following varieties popular in Asian cuisine.
PEPPER GREEN BEAUTY
TOMATO ORANGE ICICLE
MELON CHINESE WINTER
Popular Korean pepper harvested at the green stage with no pungency.
Good tasting, meaty paste tomato. Ideal novelty tomato for farmers’ market sales.
Also known as wax gourd. A gourd used in Asian cuisine much like you would use bitter gourd, okra and luffa. Fairly bland taste but absorbs the spicy flavours of what it is cooked with.
Has a taste and texture similar to cucumber, bred for high health properties to aid in controlling diabetes.
Mid-season production of 100 to 150gram fruit often hanging in clusters of two or three. Indeterminate variety.
CULANTRO
EGGPLANT THAI GREEN EGG
ROSELLE
Strap leaved herb with a strong coriander taste. Well-known in Asian and South American cuisine.
A hybrid eggplant, Thai Green Egg produces small fruit approximately 3-5cm in diameter. The sturdy plant produces high yields of the pale green fruit with a dark green vein pattern. Popular in curries and Thai cooking.
Grows like okra having a tall upright plant. Flower buds are harvested for edible flowers and to add colour to cocktails. Leaves are also very nutritious.
Very good shelf life when cut and excellent for dehydrating as it retains its flavour.
24 NZGROWER : JUNE 2022
Popular in Asian cuisine and in cocktails worldwide.
