Category Archives: Heirlooms
Pepper Sweet Marconi Golden
The golden cousin of the red-colored Marconi this delicious and mild-tasting heirloom pepper is prized in Italy. Very sweet and very large the 7-10″ long tapered fruits are great for eating fresh frying grilling or stuffing. Pick at either the light green early stage or wait until fully mature and golden yellow. Harvest in 80-90 days from transplant....
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Bean Cannelino
Originally from Italy this exceptional kidney bean has been a delectable fixture in American gardens since the early 1800s. The bean has played a starring role in home cooking as well in soups stews and as an ideal choice for baked beans. You can pick the 5-7″ pods and enjoy the beans fresh or allow them to dry on the highly productive 2-3′ plants and harvest for dried beans. 85 days....
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Lettuce Buttercrunch
This extremely popular lettuce has a luscious buttery texture. The soft heads are creamy yellow inside and have some heat resistance. Best in cooler regions. Plant early in spring and repeat every 2 weeks into fall. Protect from heat with shade cloth. Likes fertile soil ample water. Best when picked minutes before your meal. Space lettuce plants 8″ apart....
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Shasta Daisy Alaska
For 3 months Alaska explodes in a burst of pure white petals that radiate from the soft yellow eyes. Under the flowers there’s a neat backdrop of the glistening deep green foliage. The long-lasting 3″ across blossoms make great cut flowers. Mix Alaska with lady’s mantle salvias star zinnias and coreopsis for a vibrant...
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Tomato Red Zebra
Red Zebra is thought to be a naturally occurring cross between Green Zebra and an unknown though certainly red parent. The beautiful and tartly flavored offspring are gorgeous 2 to 3″ round cherry-red fruits with rich orange streaks. The bountiful high-yielding indeterminate vines are ready to harvest about 75-90 days from transplant....
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Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson
Hugely popular for over 150 years it’s one of the most tender and delicately flavored leaf lettuces ever bred. The ruffled leaves are large with an appealing green color. Simpson is well adapted to a wide range of climates and is still the best for early spring sowing....
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Broccoli Romanesco
Romanesco is the preeminent Italian heirloom variety and was first documented in Italy in the 16th century. Its crisp beautiful apple-green whorled heads impart an altogether pleasing nutty taste. Most often enjoyed raw the broccoli if lightly cooked will retain its flavor and unique texture....
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Pepper Sweet Jimmy Nardello
We have one Giuseppe Nardello to thank for this spectacularly tasty sweet frying pepper. From the small village of Ruoti in the Basilicata region of southern Italy Giuseppe brought this heirloom to the states where it was introduced in 1887. Grazie Giuseppe! All season long the low-growing 20-24″ plants produce loads and loads of long thin peppers up to 10″ long. The peppers are altogether delicious whether cooked in a little olive oil...
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Tomato Black Krim Heirloom Organic
This medium-sized very dark maroon beefsteak with wonderfully rich flavor originated in Crimea a peninsula in the Black Sea with perfect “tomato summers”. Extremely tasty. Certified Organic Seed....
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Tomato Brandywine Red (Potato Leaf)
Over the past 20-30 years gaggles of gardeners have been growing selecting saving and exchanging seeds of the revered Brandywine variety giving rise to several new and noteworthy strains. The large indeterminate potato leaf vines produce deep-red fruits weighing up to 2 lb. with excellent mild balanced heirloom flavor....
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Bean Bush Stop
This choice variety boasts an attractive well-mannered and compact bush habit. Harvest by simply pulling out the highly productive bush and hanging it up to dry. Dark-red kidney beans perform marvels in Creole dishes chili bean salads curries and dips....
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Escarole Sugarloaf
Sugarloaf is a romaine-type lettuce heirloom that’s ever-popular in Italy and France. Large and firm the tightly wrapped heads weighing 2-4 lb. have pretty light-green leaves. There’s a nutty undertone to the flavor along with a escarole’s signature tangy bitterness: delicious in salads or on its own....
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Tomato Thessaloniki
Bred in Greece when this variety was introduced in the U.S. in the 1950s its flavor and high-quality fruits made it an instant hit. Indeterminate vines produce uniform smooth 4-6 oz. red fruits with solid meaty flesh. Resistant to sunburn cracks and spots...
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Squash Verte et Blanc
We admire this French heirloom’s looks taste and illustrious heritage. Dating to the 1800s this venerable beauty is patty pan or scalloped in shape. At first the squash is the palest sea foam green (Verte); as it matures the fruit turns all white (Blanc)...
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Tomato Yellow Currant
The tiny round yellow 1/2″ fruits are produced in abundance on vigorous indeterminate plants. Large trusses hold easy-to-harvest clusters of fruit. With strong sweet-tart flavor and firm juicy texture the little yellow tomatoes are perfect for salads and crudites....
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Pepper Sweet Bull Nosed Large Bell
Thomas Jefferson grew this bull-nosed pepper in his garden after it arrived here from India in the 1700s. Bull Nosed peppers popular in early America are due for a renaissance. Still grown at Jefferson’s Monticello the variety has a delectably mild sweet taste and thick walls. Can be enjoyed raw cooked or pickled. Fruits ripen from dark green to red and can be harvested 60-80 days from transplant....
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Pea Lincoln
Appropriately enough these peas were introduced in peacetime just after World War II. Lincoln quickly became a favorite with American gardeners thanks to its high yields and sweet tender flavor. Suited for eating fresh freezing or canning the 4-5″ pods are loaded with 6-9 sweet tender peas. Heat- and wilt-tolerant...
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Nasturtium Phoenix
This glorious re-birth of 1904 Burpee heirloom- Nasturtium Golden Gem. Phoenixs rarely-seen split-petal flower form is a marvel of plant breeding. Vigorous vine plants are soon arrayed with flaming-glowing-red-orange blooms (edible by the way) Great border plant. A hallelujah chorus of color....
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Pepper Sweet Golden California Wonder
Popular since the 1920s this is the golden version of the red California Wonder. Smooth blocky and blunt-ended 5″ x 4″ fruits are thick-walled very sweet and mild. Maturing from light-green to golden-yellow the peppers grow on 22-26″ sturdy upright plants that set continuously. Harvest in 62-73 days from transplant....
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Bean Kentucky Wonder Pole
HEIRLOOM. Kentucky Wonder is a brown-seeded bean noted for its exceptional flavor and its heavy crops of 9″ green pods borne in clusters. Pods are oval thick gently curved meaty and tender and they’re stringless when young. It’s been proven tops for productivity flavor and wide adaptability; it’s delicious fresh...
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