Category Archives: Heirlooms
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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Lettuce Cimarron
This red romaine heirloom variety has been an American favorite since the 1700s. A profound beautiful deep-red-going-on bronze the 10-12″ tall heads packed with broad flat leaves take on a lighter green tone inside. Impervious to bolting....
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Bean Tenderpod
HEIRLOOM. This 1941 All-America Selections winner remains a customer favorite. Why? Because the beans stay tender stringless and ever so tasty when fully mature. Bush bean pods are 4 1/2 – 5 1/2″ long thick and round in cross section with distinctive curved tips. Superb as a dried shell bean....
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Swiss Chard Burpee’s Fordhook Giant
This is the classic Burpee-bred chard with dark green thick tender leaves and heavy yields even in hot weather. Easy to grow; eat it like spinach or beet greens. Pick from late spring till winter. 100 seeds sows 20′ of row. Grows best in full sun tolerates partial shade....
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Cabbage Brunswick
Brunswick is a seldom-encountered German heirloom that dates back to the 18th Century. An excellent late-season variety the large 6-9 lb. drum-shaped heads are dense and firm. A favorite choice for homemade sauerkraut. Stores well for long periods....
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Cabbage Charleston Wakefield
In the 19th century cabbage was a delicious fixture on American dinner tables. Introduced in 1892 this longtime favorite has lost none of its flavor. The large 6-8″ elongated heads tip the scales at 4-6 lb. and store extremely well....
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Tomato Rainbow Blend Heirloom
Beautiful and tasty heirloom varieties chosen for a rainbow of colors and range of flavors from mild to sweet to tangy. The mix is composed equally of Bonny Best (red) Brandywine Pink (pink) Golden Sunburst (yellow) Black Krim (purple) Evergreen (green) and Djena Lee’s Golden Girl (orange)....
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Brussels Sprouts Long Island
HEIRLOOM. The semi-dwarf plants are stocky with leaves closely spaced so there are lots of tasty sprouts on the short self-supporting stems. Introduced at the end of the 19th century this was once one of the most important commercial varieties. It’s still a great pick today....
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Beet Early Wonder
Sweet is the beet. When it comes to beets the earlier the better. A dual-purpose beet with sweet early-producing 3-4″ roots and extra tall and flavorful tops for harvesting as greens. Cut the 18″ tall greens and use in lieu of spinach kale or chard. Beets also freeze well...
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Pumpkin Rouge Vif d’Etampes
We introduced this pumpkin to America in 1883 but it had long been popular in France. It was used as the model for Cinderella’s coach. The fruits are slightly flattened heavily ribbed and make wonderful autumn displays....
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Tomato Pruden’s Purple
Often favorably compared with the illustrious Brandywine the gold standard of heirloom tomatoes. With dark pinkish-purple skin this widely adapted heirloom produces large slightly flattened 1 lb. fruits with firm meaty crimson flesh and few seeds. Indeterminate potato-leaf plants....
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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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