Category Archives: Heirlooms
Potato Rose Finn Apple
Slender moist with firm yellow flesh. It is great for purees soups sauces and gravies. When roasted eat like finger food....
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Gourd Apple
Ever vigorous this variety’s vines produce mighty yields of striking apple-shaped gourds. Deep green with lighter flecks when fresh the 9 x 12″ 5-7 lb. gourds transition to brown when dried. Excellent for crafts and birdhouses....
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Salad Greens Dandelion
This flavorful dandelion comes to us from Italy where the repertoire of salad greens dazzles in its range of flavors colors and textures. Frequently used in salads sauteed or in egg dishes this heirloom dandelion delivers a complex bitter yet sweet flavor. Dense rosettes of leaves form quickly preferring cooler weather. Pick leaves when young before the plant blooms....
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Pepper Hot Jalapeno Early
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Dark green pungent 3″ hot peppers are excellent fresh or pickled. Zesty flavor is great in Mexican dishes....
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Melon Vedrantais
A delicious Charentais-type melon that originated in Italy achieved full popularity in France and is now a favorite with American gourmet gardeners. The melon with blue-green skin that matures to salmon-orange has sweet fragrant orange flesh....
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Tomato Matina
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Deep red 3″ fruits grow up to 4-6 oz. on extra early plants. Sweet and tart flavor is ideal fresh canned or cooked. Indeterminate. Harvest about 75 days after transplanting....
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Gourd Speckled Swan
With their graceful form and alluring color swan-necked gourds are naturally ornamental. This variety’s large round base is topped with a thick curved neck with a bulbous tip giving its swanlike effect. The deep green fruits speckled with light green speckles weigh about 3 lb. and are approximately 3″ wide and 16″ tall....
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Tomato Red Pear
Cook’s Garden Favorite. The Cook’s Garden organic seed is harvested from plants that are grown using only all-natural certified methods. Our organic seeds are certified by Oregon Tilth. Oregon Tilth Certified Organic (OTCO) is an internationally recognized symbol of organic int....
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Bean Gold Mine
Gold Mine produces very high yields of crisp ultra-sweet wax beans that are borne on compact and unusually upright plants. The beans grow together in clusters that make harvest a snap. Beans are 5-5 1/2″ long. Plants yield early and need no support. One 2 oz. seed pack will sow a row of about 20 ft. Our seed is not treated....
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Pumpkin Long Island Cheese
This handsome squash has smooth skin and is gently ribbed. The color is similar to butternut squash: tan skin with bright orange flesh. Squash average 6-10 lbs. each....
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Radish White Globe Hailstone
First offered in 1908 this early large rooted variety has pure white skin and firm flesh with a juicy mildly spicy taste. Stays crisp for an extended time. Ready to pick in just 23-30 days....
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Bean Lima Big Mama
HEIRLOOM. Soak up a pot of Big Mama and each smooth-textured extra-tasty bean will swell to fill a teaspoon. Big Mama will make “lima lovers” of your whole family. Healthy too 1 cup of cooked lima beans provides 20% of the daily value for copper and magnesium plus a whopping 13 grams of fiber. Easy to grow the 8-10 ft. vines yield huge 8″ long pods that are packed with giant beans. Harvest fresh when pale green or allow to dry to white for storing. Delicious!...
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Onion Cippolina Borretana
Hard-to-find these little beauties are the variety of choice for boiling or creamed onions. With a round flattened shape the diminutive Italian onions are 2-3″ wide and make for delicious eating. Direct-sow in early spring then thin to 1-2″ apart (thinning distance determines bulb size). Dig bulbs when tops fall....
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Potato Princess Laratte
With a nuanced matrix of flavors this gourmet potato’s flavor is mildly nutty-reminiscent of chestnuts hazelnuts and almonds-mingled with a subtle sweetness....
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Tomato Red & Yellow Pear Mix
This toothsome heirloom variety of pear-shaped cherry tomato has been grown (and savored) in the U.S. since at least the 1800s. This mix of red and yellow produces awesome colorful clusters of gorgeous .5 oz. fruits of mild delicious flavor. Mix is equal parts Red Pear and Yellow Pear....
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Pea Blue Bantam Dwarf
Exclusive. Introduced by Burpee in 1902 this heirloom variety won over gardeners with its delicious flavor earliness quality and bountiful production. Compact vines bear bushels of 4 long blue-green pods loaded with eight berries per pod. Peas packed with vitamins A and C and folate....
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Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson Organic
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. Certified Organic Seed....
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Tomato Garden Peach
A unique heirloom tomato Garden Peach was reputedly introduced to US gardens in the 1860s. The small velvety-skinned 2-3 oz. fruits have rich full flavor. The prolific vines unleash multitudinous 3-4″ round fruits with peachy-yellow skin and flesh woven with hints of red throughout. Indeterminate. Certified Organic Seed....
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Pea Golden Sweet
Cook’s Garden Favorite. The gold standard for yellow shelling peas. After a gorgeous fanfare of colorful mauve-purple blooms the vigorous vines (up to 6) fill with alluring golden-yellow pods loaded with bright sweet-tasting peas produced from red-tinged leaf nodes. Enjoy the crisp sweet pods raw in salads or steamed as a vegetable. 60-70 days....
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Fig Letizia
A family heirloom named after plantsman Steve Castorani’s mother Letizia whose parents brought the fig all the way from Italy. Since the 1930s over many years the plant has grown to a multi-stemmed tree dense with beautiful neatly lobed green leaves. An easy-to-grow ornamental bush...
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