Category Archives: Heirlooms
Melon Charentais
The definitive French melon. Originating in the Poitou-Charentes region around 1920 Charentais is considered the best melon ever developed because of its high sugar content smooth texture and ambrosial fragrance. Perfect for two servings the small round melons weigh just 2 lb. Gray in color with slight ribs the melons have rich salmon-orange flesh....
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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!...
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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 of bitterness. Best harvested at 5-7″ long. Prolific and hardy....
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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 the roots are large without compromising their firm texture and high flavor. To avoid green tops blanch the roots by hilling up the soil....
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Zinnia Old Mexico
Old Mexico is a selection of Mexican zinnia (Zinnia haageana) a compact and disease resistant type of zinnia with amazing multi-colored double and semi-double flowers. It’s good for cutting and planting in the middle or front of flower beds. More compact than Chippendale the plants are only 12-18″ tall but with similar flowers 2 1/2″ across in mahogany red and contrasting yellow or gold petal-tips....
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Corn Salad D’Etampes
With a delicious history extending back to the 1880s this traditional French heirloom variety has larger rounder leaves-with none of the cupping of other corn salad varieties. Compact plants are quite cold-tolerant and will overwinter in most areas....
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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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Lima Bean Jackson Wonder
Lovely and flavorful Jackson Wonder was introduced in 1888 quickly becoming an American favorite. A rich chestnut color speckled with maroon the beans have a bright nutty flavor. With a compact bush habit the prolific plants only grow 18-24″ tall...
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Onion Italian Torpedo
The most frequently used variety in Italian cooking Torpedo is beloved for its sweet mild and tender roots. This elongated torpedo-shaped onion has light rosy-red skin. The bulbs grow to about 4 to 6″ long. This onion is best suited to long-day areas....
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Pumpkin Galeux D’Eysines
This heirloom’s lovely French name translates prettily enough as “embroidered with warts from Eysines that being a small town in southwest France. This pumpkin’s random peanut” warts bedeck the flesh-colored outer skin. A unique decorative piece to be sure but also a richly flavored eating pumpkin. Harvest the 10-20 lb. fruits are mature in about 90 days....
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Bean Purple Queen
Easy to see and so very easy to pick the gorgeous beans turn green after cooking. Beautiful in a basket and tasty on the plate....
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Radicchio Variegated Chiogga
Hailing from the Italian fishing village of Chiogga this heirloom radicchio forms large firm round heads of lovely variegated leaves in pure white and rosy red. This rarely encountered variety imparts radicchio’s signature sparky bittersweet flavor....
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Pepper Hot Caribbean Red
This pepper has the same distinctive taste as habanero and it’s hotter. Productive 30″ plants and 1 1/2″ x 1″ fruits. Days to maturity are from time plants are set in garden. For transplants add 8-10 weeks. Space plants 18-24″ apart....
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Broccoli Purple Sprouting
An heirloom variety with legions of fans in Italy and England who are mad for its beautiful deep-purple sprouts and high nutritional content. Introduced to the U.S. in the second half of the 19th century this long-season variety is also a favorite of American gardeners and chefs. Enjoy raw for beautiful color in salads and crudites or cook as you would regular broccoli and the color turns the traditional green. Once the central head is harvested the plants continue to produce plentiful side shoots. In long-season regions you can start it indoors and plant outside in early spring-or if you like plant in late fall allow the plants to overwinter and harvest in spring. Extremely cold-hardy. Harvest in about 120 days if growing in summer in long-season areas or about 200 days if overwintering....
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Bean Red Podded Asparagus
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Tender is the bean. Exotic crisp and tasty red-podded beans will grow up to 24 long but are their tender best selves at 12 long. Asian tropical climbing annual is a beauty too: offering a stunning contrast of red pods against bright green foliage....
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Pepper Hot Pasilla Bajio
Originally from Mexico “Pasilla Bajio” furnishes abundant yields of 7″ x 1″ mildly hot peppers. The name “Pasilla” translates from Spanish as “little raisin” referring to the way the dark green fruits turn deep brown and slightly wrinkled when fully mature and dried. Harvested green the peppers are used fresh in enchilada sauces and salsas; dried they’re used in smoky-flavored sauces. This is the pepper of choice (once dried and ground into a powder) for the famous Mexican mole (mo-lay) sauce. Harvest about 85 days after transplant....
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Pepper Hot Santa Fe Grande
This heavy-yielding heirloom pepper is medium-hot (about 700 on the Scoville rating scale) at maturity and matures from yellow to red....
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Bean Rattlesnake Snap
HEIRLOOM. Dark green and streaked with purple the pretty and distinctive 7-8″ pods are filled with light buff-colored seeds splashed with dark brown. Whether you harvest them as snap beans at about 60 days or as dry beans at about 90 days you are assured excellent flavor. Vines growing to 10′ are drought-resistant....
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Brussels Sprouts Catskill
Catskill produces outsize yields of extra-large deep green 2″ round sprouts that flank the super-strong stalks. Introduced in 1941 this flavorful long-time favorite is a good choice for freezing. Harvest at once for freezing or as needed for eating fresh....
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