Category Archives: Heirlooms
Lettuce Four Seasons Organic
Heirloom. The name alludes to the remarkable cold hardiness of this very beautiful 6″ butterhead. It’s still one of the best lettuces both for early spring planting and for fall/winter harvests. Outer leaves are tinged with red. Inner leaves are creamy yellow. Certified Organic Seed....
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Tomato Hillbilly Regular Leaf
With lovely yellow-orange skin and flesh mottled and streaked with red this West Virginia heirloom beefsteak weighs in at 1-2 lb. Heavily ribbed fruits bring superb sweet low-acid flavor to salads and sandwiches....
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Bean Blue Lake 274 Bush
Blue Lake 274 is an all-time favorite bean that’s nearly fiber-free produces prolifically over a long season and has excellent flavor fresh or frozen. A heavy producer over a long season it’s excellent fresh or frozen. Plants yield early and need no support. One 2 oz. seed pack will sow a row of about 20′. Our seed is not treated....
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Squash Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato
A favorite at our Fordhook Farm test gardens this family heirloom squash from Missouri has a flavor that is distinctly sweet potatoesque. High-yielding vines produce a plentitude of cream-colored 6-8″ acorn-shaped fruits with a wondrously sweet chestnut flavor. This squash stores well....
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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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Onion Cippolini Red
120-150 days. One sweet gourmet-ready onion. Cippolini (pronounced chip-oh-LEE-nee) onions are recognized by their small flattened disc-shaped bulbsand delectable deep flavor. Ranging from 1-3 in diameter this red variety’s bulbs have pale translucent purple flesh and copper-colored thin...
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Watermelon Charleston Gray
Flesh is red crisp fiberless and delicious; skin is light greenish gray. Resistant to fusarium wilt anthracnose and sunburn. Ready for harvest 85 days after sowing. GARDEN HINTS: For early fruiting and to overcome a short growing season start seeds in a warm well-lighted indoor area 3 to 4 weeks before last spring frost. Before transfer to garden accustom plants to outdoor conditions by moving to a sheltered area outside for a week. Grow on plastic mulch to control weeds...
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Zinnia Envy
Green Zinnias in your garden make a dramatic display that words can only partially describe. The 3″ double and semi-double blooms look as sensational in the garden as they do in the vase. Try them in fresh arrangements with white deep blue or pink flowers. Can be sown directly in the garden after all chance of frost or start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost for earlier bloom....
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Corn Country Gentleman
Country Gentleman is one of the most unusual sweet corns around because its white kernels are arranged irregularly not in rows. The kernels are also very deep and narrow hence its alternate name Shoe-peg. Developed around 1890 in the Connecticut River Valley it is a much bigger form of a very old variety. In fertile soils it can yield three ears per stalk sometimes more. It is a beautiful corn with wonderful texture and flavor. It holds its peak quality much longer than most heirloom corns....
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Radish Black Spanish Round
Black radishes have been grown and savored in Europe since the 1500s. With handsome black skins the large 3-4″ turnip-shaped globes have crisp pungent spicy pure-white flesh. A winter variety valued for its strong medicinal properties ease of growth and long storage....
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Bean Shell Bush Dragon’s Tongue Wax
Dragon’s Tongue Wax is an old dual purpose French variety (Dragon Langerie) with gorgeous pods that are yellow streaked with purple. As snap beans the pods turn all yellow after cooking but they’re delicious as shell beans too....
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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. Perfect for salads burgers or sandwiches....
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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....
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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 the 26-30″ upright plants bear over a long season and an excellent choice for the South. Harvest in 72-80 days after transplant....
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Lettuce Parris Island Cos
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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 cooked or dried you will enjoy the fresh pods when young and tender. Strong climbing vines thrive in well-drained well-watered limy soil. 55-60 days....
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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....
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