WATERLOO—Spring break for all Waterloo schools is Monday, March 14 through Friday, March 18. Schools will be closed during this time.
The offices of the Educational Services Center and some school offices will be open during March Break.
2022 Spring Garden Winning Flowers and Vegetables
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Begonia “Viking Explorer Rose on Green” — This creeping begonia “explores” the garden by spreading and spilling its branches over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. The prolific pink-colored flowers stand out against the glossy green foliage and do so throughout the season. It has a high tolerance to heat and many diseases, as well as wet and dry conditions.
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Tomato “Purple Zebra F1” — A fun new addition to striped tomatoes, producing tomatoes rich with complex flavors and a medium-firm texture. Dark red fruits with green stripes and a deep mahogany red interior do not produce muddy coloration like other tomatoes of this type. The taste is mild and acidic with a hint of sweetness. Overall, this tomato has better taste and thinner skin than comparisons with excellent disease resistance. High disease resistance.
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Tomato “Sunset Torch F1” — “Sunset Torch” has strong, dramatic stripes from shaft to tip. It is a very vigorous grower and was the first to mature in several regions. Better overall performance, less splitting, good yields, a slightly sweet and fruity flavor and disease resistance make this cutie a winner. The sunset-colored fruits are produced on easy-to-harvest clusters. High disease resistance.
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“Pink Delicious” tomato — This early maturing tomato supports the trend for an inherited appearance, flavor and texture with hybrid disease resistance and improved germination, noticeably earlier with higher yield and very uniform fruit size. Beautiful large fruits crack less. What really sets this variety apart is the excellent flavor and high Brix for a sweeter than normal pink tomato.
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“Icicle F1” Eggplant — This cylindrical white eggplant has fewer spines than most eggplants, making harvesting less painful! With larger fruits than other white eggplants, it produces a good yield while providing fewer seeds. Large, durable, vigorous plants are resistant to insect and environmental damage. The pure white skin does not tend to yellow like many other white eggplant varieties. The improved taste and texture have universal appeal (whether fresh or cooked).
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Lettuce “Bauer” – Oakleaf lettuce is a delicious and versatile edible that’s super easy (and quick) to grow. Harvest at the small leaf stage or sprout into the full-sized, rosette-shaped bud. Bauer will please with its darker green color and nicely uniform compact size that can be grown almost anywhere – in soil, containers, home aeroponics or planters. The dense buds produce a plethora of strong, sweet and crisp leaves.
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Pepper “Dragonfly F1” – “Dragonfly” pepper plants produce beautiful purple peppers that have thick, soft walls, unlike the papery thin walls of other purples on the market. This pepper transforms from a green bell pepper into a purple fruit that is as delicious in the green stage of ripeness as it is when fully purple and ripe. Overall a much better purple color than comparisons with a robust, above average pepper flavor.
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Pepper “Buffy F1” — This hot pepper will suit you, producing a good yield of juicy, thick-walled green fruits on strong, healthy upright plants. Buffy’s fruits are more attractive than comparisons and slightly larger. Peppers are held high on the plant and matured faster than Tobasco in AAS trials.
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Petunia “Bee’s Knees” — This deep, rich yellow petunia is the first petunia to win a gold medal since 1950. Each ‘Bee’s Knees’ petunia is filled with lush blooms that put on a colorful show of deep yellow blooms that won’t fade throughout of the season. . The intense yellow color of the petunia contrasts beautifully with the dark green leaves.
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Sunflower “Concert Bell” F1 — ‘Concert Bell’ delivers quite the performance with a unique floral display of multiple clusters of 10-12 flowers on an upright columnar stem. Beautiful golden yellow flowers appear earlier than comparisons. Each plant grows to a very uniform height of 5 to 6 feet and, if used as a cut flower, forms an instant ready-made bouquet from a single cut. It is praised for its durability and sturdiness even in heavy storms and winds.
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Watermelon “Century Star F1” – A new seedless watermelon similar to the popular heirloom variety, ‘Moon and Stars’, ‘Century’ produces a good yield of 10 pounds of fruit on long vines. The fruits have an attractive mottled rind and delicious, crunchy, sweet inner flesh.
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