Category Archives: Vegetables
Squash Summer Elite Hybrid
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Hybrid. A super early French hybrid zucchini that is both high yielding and easy to pick. Medium green lightly flecked cylindrical fruits taste great too.
Lettuce Vivian
This medium to dark green leafed lettuce is actually a romaine with the texture of a butterhead. Vigorous plants grow quickly and produce giant 16″ long by 6″ wide heads. A real gem of the garden. Leaves may be picked
Carrot Sugarsnax Hybrid
Exceptionally sweet flavor high beta carotene content and resistance to a wide range of diseases. This super long slim carrot grows to 12″ and keeps its tenderness and flavor-it’s the ultimate snack..
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:
Pepper Sweet Good as Gold Hybrid
Good as Gold the 2012 taste test champ scores big points for beauty flavor and productivity. This green-to-golden orange 7″ Italian pepper is extremely tasty savory and robust whether grilled sauteed or fresh. Cooking only enhances the fine flavor.
Spinach Indian Summer Hybrid
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Hybrid. Our main crop variety here in the garden. Upright dark green and very slow to bolt during hot weather. Leaves are attractively savoyed and taste great! High yielding and disease tolerant for spring summer and fall
Lettuce King Crimson Hybrid
Large-leaved new bronze-red cos is the stuff of salad dreams. The leaves ravishing color brightens up any salad. Mildew resistant.
Squash Summer Pic-N-Pic Hybrid
This Burpee-bred squash has golden yellow fruits with smooth tender skin. It’s extremely productive and best picked when 4-6″ long. Proven tops for performance flavor and wide adaptability. Summer squash and zucchini ripen early and are highly productive. The bush
Cucumber Double Yield Organic
These plants yield a large crop of dark green slender uniform fruits that are ideal for pickling. Best when picked 5-6″ long. Certified Organic Seed.
Beet Albino
An heirloom from Holland this non-staining beet is a standout because of its completely white roots and its delicious sweet mild taste. Beets are ideal for boiling roasting or pickling; they also freeze well. You can pick these even when
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
Carrot Mokum Hybrid
The carrot of carrots. We favor the flavor of this juicy sweet-tasting early to-rise carrot. Excellent choice for homemade baby food and juices full-flavored Mokum is very tasty indeedboth as a baby carrot or as full-size 6-8 taste treat. Short-topped
Radish D’Avignon
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Our choice for the best non-hybrid French Breakfast type radish perfect for early Spring salads. Nearly cylindrical 3-4 inch roots are bright red with white tips. Ready in only three weeks from seeding!
Cucumber Brown Russian
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Brown Russian looks like it came from another planet and the taste is out of this world. Brown-skinned 6-8 fruits with clear white flesh impart crisp mellow flavor sparked with sugary high notes and not a whit
Tomato Chef’s Choice Orange Hybrid
When it comes to a beefsteak for slicing saucing and soup-ing Chefs Choice Orange is your best bet. Combining the perfect balance of rich heirloom flavor and function bright orange 9-12 oz. fruits keep their radiant tangerine tones fresh or
Mesclun Classic Mix
The French approach to salad greens (“mesclun” means “mixture”). Sweet lettuces and tangy tender greens are pre-mixed in just the right proportions as you pick them from your garden. This classic mesclun is a feast for the eyes and a
Tomato Viva Italia Hybrid
Vigorous plants yield an abundance of 3 oz. fruits that make outstanding soups and ketchup. Try the Viva Italia hybrid tomato in your next tomato soup or homemade ketchup.
Lettuce Red Salad Bowl
Red Salad Bowl is a long-standing slow-to-bolt and early maturing lettuce that grows well all season and can be harvested over period of time. Its maroon-red deeply cut and finely divided leaves are crisp and delicious and make an eye-catching
Squash Summer Early Prolific Straightneck
Bush-like plants supply large crop of creamy yellow-skinned fruits. GARDEN HINTS: Fruits are best when 8 to 9″ long. Cultivate or mulch to control weeds. Fertilize when fruits form to increase yield.
Pepper Hot Tabasco
Originally from Mexico-and taking its name from a Mexican state-this small very hot pepper’s a favorite in the South and East where the plants can grow tall and are covered with the petite light yellow-green to red fruits. Best known
