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December 2017 – At the recent Great Lakes Expo, which is a fruit, vegetable and farm market show held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we heard how many farmer’s market growers are familiar with and great supporters of All-America Selections and AAS Winners. The AAS and NGB booth saw a lot of traffic to find outRead more

All-America Selections, the 85-year-young non-profit plant trialing organization, announces fifteen new and exciting AAS Winners. Each of the following varieties was trialed throughout North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges who grew them next to comparisons that are considered best-in-class. This group of AAS Winners for the 2018 garden season includes: Canna South Pacific OrangeRead more

All-America Selections Winners were on display during October’s opening of A Tasteful Place at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in Dallas, TX. Leaders of the well-established public garden have added a new 3.5 acre section—a hands-on, practical, taste-and-see adventure, designed to teach, guide, and inspire home gardeners. Naturally, the new vegetable venue included testedRead more

All Treats No Tricks! Halloween creeps up on us with appropriately named AAS Winner garden delights.  These winners are destined to be favorite treats in your own garden! Give them a try next year and get ready for a “howling” good garden.  Pumpkin Super Moon Pumpkin Super Moon Super Moon Pumpkins You and your goblins will love the nice,Read more

This year All-America Selections challenged the AAS Display Gardens to create a design based on the theme “Foodscaping-Interspersing Edibles in the Ornamental Garden.” For this challenge, AAS provided the gardens with Winner seed from the last five years. They also had the option to incorporate any older AAS Winners from the past 85 years. GardensRead more

Diane Blazek, Executive Director of All-America Selections shares how new vegetable varieties become All-America Selection Winners and what it means for the gardener on this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show with Mike Podlesny. Here’s what was cover in this episode of the Vegetable Gardening Show – When did AAS begin and what do they do –Read more

“Harvesting Gorgeous Salad Greens & the Quickest Producing Radishes I’ve Ever Grown” Cali Kim, Garden & Home DIY, harvests gorgeous salad greens including AAS Winners – Bopak Pak Choi  – Artwork Broccoli – Mizuna Red Kingdom – Prizm Kale – Katarina Cabbage – Pea Patio Pride And the quickest producing radishes she ever grew in her organicRead more

Loose Leaf Lettuces, grown fresh in your garden, is one of the easiest and tasty crops to grow.  Gary Pilarchik from The Rusted Garden shows you the best way to harvest, wash and store your loose leaf lettuce for maximum freshness and taste. AAS Winner Sandy Lettuce is a high-quality loose-leaf oak lettuce that can beRead more

All-America Selections recently honored a horticulture luminary at their annual Awards Banquet, held this year at The Penthouse in beautifully reinvigorated downtown Rochester, New York. The banquet was a mid-event celebration where industry representatives, judges, breeders, growers, retailers and resellers gathered to visit All-America Selections Trial Grounds and Display Gardens. Tour stops included the HarrisRead more

Fall is a perfect time to transition a garden bed where you have warm weather veggies growing by planting a cool weather veggie like lettuce. This way you have a fresh, tasty salad to harvest as your warm weather veggies are slowing down. CaliKim Garden & Home DIY shows you how to bring your gardenRead more