Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day! Hallmark vacation, although it might be, we determined just a little celebration was so as, so we compiled an inventory of ten of our favourite crimson and pink varieties. These stunning crimson and pink greens, flowers, and herbs are positive to go away a mark in your coronary heart.

Candy Valentine Lettuce

We couldn’t have a Valentine’s listing with out together with Candy Valentine! This romaine lettuce has deep crimson leaves and is the sweetest lettuce we provide. It’s excellent for spring planting, and the heads maintain lengthy into the summer season warmth with out bolting. 

Scarlet Runner Beans

Simply acknowledged for its scarlet crimson flowers, these beans look simply as at house in a decorative backyard as in a vegetable patch. Scarlet Runner beans are a timeless heirloom that dates to pre-1750. Early colonists grew these beans after receiving seeds from Native Individuals. They’re beloved by gardeners alike.

They’ve obtained greater than attractiveness, although! Scarlet Runner beans produce 8-12 inch pods with mottled reddish-purple beans. Harvest these versatile beans as snap beans when pods are small, or use them as inexperienced shelly or dried beans, every providing a novel culinary expertise. Dried beans from the Runner Bean possess a pleasant nut-like taste.

For optimum progress, remember that top temperatures over 90°F could restrict pod set. If grown for consumption, anticipate pod manufacturing primarily throughout late summer season or early fall within the Mid-Atlantic and southward. A bulbous root is produced in delicate climates, permitting for fall digging and spring replanting.

Oxheart Tomato

These heavy-yielding tomatoes produce giant, pink fruit weighing one to 2 kilos! Their distinctive oxheart form resulted from a genetic mutation, most likely round 1925! They’ve agency, meaty flesh with few seeds and delicate taste.

Beaujolais Spinach

The improbable of us at Rebellion Seeds not too long ago bred this OSSI selection. Beaujolais has glowing magenta or crimson veins, very like Swiss chard. Nonetheless, its easy, tender leaves are milder than child chard. We’ve discovered that it bolts sooner in spring than Bloomsdale sorts however has good survival of winter freezes.

Pink Zinnias

These gorgeous pink flowers are new to the Southern Publicity Seed Alternate listings for 2024. Pink zinnias are straightforward to develop and produce a smorgasbord of pink flowers on tall crops. They’ve a beautiful mixture of single, double, and semi-double flowers. 

Among the finest options of zinnias is that in case you sustain with deadheading, zinnias can bloom till frost!

Crosby Egyptian (Early Crosby Egyptian) Beet

Beets are, with no date, probably the most intensely crimson greens we have now! Earlier than the appearance of chemical dyes, beets have been usually the crimson dye of selection for material and meals. 

These Crosby Egyptian Beets are one in every of our favourite historic varieties launched in 1880. Their mother or father pressure originated in Germany in 1865. Crosby Egyptian beets develop predominantly on the floor of the soil. They develop 3 to five inches large and have a novel flattened form. They’ve a wealthy crimson inside. 

Lipstick Candy Pepper

Bred at Johnny’s Chosen Seeds, these brilliant, candy peppers are one in every of our earliest varieties. They’re nice for short-season areas as a result of they’re prepared to reap in simply 55 days! Lipstick produces chunky, triangular peppers with flavorful, juicy flesh. The crops develop about 4 toes tall.

Thai Crimson Roselle

This hibiscus species produces brilliant crimson calyxes you should utilize to make “zingy” tea, sauce, syrup, jam, and even sweet entire for a novel deal with. Traditionally referred to as “Florida cranberry” within the Nineties, this plant presents edible flowers and younger leaves with a citrus tang, excellent for Burmese cooking!

Thai Crimson produces stunning 3 to 5-foot crops with placing crimson stems and leaf veins. These crops thrive in hotter climates and wish loads of house for good manufacturing.

Cherry Belle Radish

Cherry Belles are our sweetest spring radishes! Prepared in simply 24 days, they carry loads of coloration and taste to the backyard early within the season with their spherical roots, brilliant crimson pores and skin, and agency white flesh.

Cherry Belles are much less prone to growing pithiness than different varieties and have been the 1949 All-American Choice winner. 

Bowling Crimson Okra

This heirloom was stewarded by the Bowling household of Virginia for the reason that Nineteen Twenties and was the most effective varieties within the Kerr Middle’s trial of 30 heirloom varieties! The early, productive crops have stunning crimson stems, red-veined leaves, and lengthy, slim, tender crimson pods. 

In the event you’re ordering your self just a little Valentine’s Day seed listing, make sure to add a splash of crimson or pink! These gorgeous varieties will convey loads of coloration to the backyard and desk within the coming season.