When I go shopping for vegetables at the garden center or look for seeds in the catalogs that have begun arriving, I look for the red, white, and blue logo of All-America Selections. Even AAS winners from several years ago are more likely to produce more vegetables and grow more flowers than current nonwinners.
The AAS testing program is an independent nonprofit organization that tests new plants. They have about 80 test gardens from Alaska and Canada to California and Florida. They also have almost 200 display gardens all across the continent that are not used for judging but are used to show gardeners how well the plants grow locally.
