Category Archives: Heirlooms
Tomato Druzba
We’ve never seen such a beautiful heirloom tomato. It’s up to 4″ across perfectly formed pure red and smooth-skinned. And this wonderful mini-beefsteak has superb flavor. Indeterminate vines assure a long season of harvest much larger than other heirloom beefsteaks.
Radish Early Scarlet Globe
One of the most popular home garden varieties of the past 100 years. Early high-yielding this favorite produces uniform bright red globes with crisp tender juicy and mild white flesh.
Pepper Sweet Emerald Giant
Bred by experts at the USDA and introduced in 1963 this variety produces heavy yields of large blocky 4-5″ x 3 1/2-4″ fruits. The thick-walled dark-green to red peppers have a sweet juicy taste and crisp texture. Vigorous and prolific
Pea Purple Podded
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Our Fordhook visitors cant resist the lure of these edible purple garden ornaments. Heirlooms fragrant purple-pink flowers are followed by clusters of deep-purple pods filled with delectable green peas. Best used as a shelling pea to be
Lettuce Iceberg A
Crisp firm leaves grow in compact medium-sized heads. Light green fringed and heavily ruffled outer leaves with hearts that blanch to silvery white. Grows best in cool weather. The classic crisphead lettuce. Ready to harvest 85 days after sowing seeds.
Swiss Chard Burpee’s Fordhook Giant
This is the classic Burpee-bred chard with dark green thick tender leaves and heavy yields even in hot weather. Easy to grow; eat it like spinach or beet greens. Pick from late spring till winter. 100 seeds sows 20′ of
Cabbage Brunswick
Brunswick is a seldom-encountered German heirloom that dates back to the 18th Century. An excellent late-season variety the large 6-9 lb. drum-shaped heads are dense and firm. A favorite choice for homemade sauerkraut. Stores well for long periods.
Cucumber Straight Eight
This heirloom All-America Selections winner is a cuke for all seasons. Pick when 8″ long for top flavor. For perfect cukes grow them on a fence or our space-saving Trellis Netting. Sow seeds 6″ apart in rows or plant 5
Lettuce Yugoslavian Red
We consider this the most beautiful lettuce we have grown. With bright-green cupped leaves splashed with rosy-red this butterhead type makes a visual and flavorful splash in the salad bowl. The taste is superb buttery and mild. Loose heads grow
Pepper Hot McMahon’s Bird Pepper
A tangy hot pepper that’s rich in flavor and history. Producing tiny shiny round-red peppers this variety was introduced in 1813 by Bernard McMahon from seeds given to him by Thomas Jefferson who was as you may know an accomplished
Tomato Big Rainbow
The flesh inside is marbled with red in the bottom half of the fruit. It has a big lumpy beefsteak shape with a very mild and sweet flavor. It’s a knockout on a platter with slices of our other tomato
Tomato Giant Pink Belgium
This is a succulent and enormous dark 1 1/2 to 2 lb. pink tomato is sweet and very mild and the large fruits are very attractive. Pink-skinned tomatoes occur as a result of a clear skin over red flesh. (Ordinary
Pea Mammoth Melting Sugar
The sweetness of garden peas is legendary. This Burpee-bred early extremely prolific all-purpose pea produces straight 4 1/2″ pods filled with 8 to 10 medium to large peas. Pods of this heirloom variety remain stringless and sweet longer than most
Beet Chioggia
This is an Italian heirloom from the town of Chioggia near Venice and has been popular since the early 1800s. It’s beautiful and sweet flavored. Sliced roots look like bull’s-eyes having concentric rings of white alternating with wine-red. The green
Squash Zucchini Black Beauty Organic
Glossy black-green zucchini with creamy white flesh. Plants have an open habit which makes for easy picking. Best picked when 6 to 8″ long. Certified Organic Seed.
Onion Red Creole
A short-day mid-sized onion especially suited for southern climes. Excellent for storing the hard thick flattened pale red bulbs have pungent spicy purple-red flesh.
Cucumber White Wonder
Burpee introduced this now classic cucumber in 1893 after receiving it from a customer in western New York State. Pale ivory the 6 to 8″ long and 2 to 3″-wide fruits have an exceptionally crisp texture making for excellent fresh
Cauliflower Snowball Self-Blanching
A flavorful heirloom variety that produces 6-8 pure-white heads. When colder weather arrives its leaves will curl upright and self-wrap.
Squash Winter Acorn Table Queen
The flesh of this heirloom acorn is a sweet golden yellow that turns more orange in storage and the rind is dark green and ribbed. Fruits grow to 6″. GARDEN HINTS: Leave on vine until fully mature. Harvest before frost
