Category Archives: Heirlooms
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.
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.
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
Mustard Tatsoi
Tatsoi a long-time Asian staple forms dense rosettes of mild mustardy-flavored leaves. Enjoy the leaves raw or stir-fried. Crunchy and flavorful the midribs have a bright celeryesque taste. Extremely cold-hardy you can harvest the plants even under snow cover (mittens
Pepper Sweet Banana
Even after more than 70 years this is still extremely popular pepper. Large pointed fruits measure 6-7″ long and 1 1/2″ across. The mild yellow peppers ultimately turn brilliant red. A favorite for pickling.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
