Category Archives: Heirlooms
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 Chinese Giant
Sweet Chinese Giant was twice as big as the largest bell pepper of its day. Plants are a compact 24″ tall. Fruits are usually 4 by 4″ but Mr. Burpee pointed out that if you thin the fruits they can grow 5″ across and 6″ long. Truly remarkable then and now....
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Watermelon Moon And Stars Heirloom
A spectacular watermelon with fine flavor introduced by the Henderson seed company in 1926. The skin is deep green speckled with hundreds of golden yellow stars and a few half-dollar sized moons. Even the foliage has yellow “stars”. The fruit is red. Melons are medium sized 25 lb. and slightly oblong. Certified Organic Seed....
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Pumpkin Atlantic Giant
Over the last 30 years this here gigantic pumpkin has earned miles of blue ribbons in growing contests. Proudly descended from several strains of prize-winning “Mammoth” pumpkins that go back centuries and were legends in their day. Given the right conditions-proper care and attention full-sun location; soil that’s deeply tilled high in humus has adequate moisture and with a pH of 6.5-7.0-your pumpkins can range in the vicinity of 200 lb. Abundant and balanced fertilizer applications are key to producing these giants of the pumpkin world.....
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Beet Bull’s Blood
HEIRLOOM. Bull’s Blood has the reddest foliage we have ever seen. The earliest thinnings spark up spring and fall salads with a leaf color as richly dark red as radicchio. As the roots enlarge the baby beets are also delicious cooked and mixed with salad. The small sweet red roots are best when harvested young. When sowing mix beet seeds with fast-sprouting radish seeds to mark the rows. Grows best in cool weather and full sun....
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Pepper Hot Poblano (Ancho)
Called Ancho when dried Poblano when fresh. This is one of the most popular peppers grown in Mexico. Plants grow to 2 1/2 ft. tall. Fully ripened red fruits are much hotter and flavorful than the earlier picked green ones. Days to maturity are from time plants are set in garden. For transplants add 8-10 weeks....
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Cucumber Straight Eight
This heirloom All-America Selections winner is a cuke for all seasons. Pick when 8″ long for top flavor. For perfect cukes grow them on a fence or our space-saving Trellis Netting. Sow seeds 6″ apart in rows or plant 5 or 6 seeds in groups (hills) 4 to 5′ apart....
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Lettuce Yugoslavian Red
We consider this the most beautiful lettuce we have grown. With bright-green cupped leaves splashed with rosy-red this butterhead type makes a visual and flavorful splash in the salad bowl. The taste is superb buttery and mild. Loose heads grow to 12″ across and can be harvested in about 55 days....
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Pepper Hot McMahon’s Bird Pepper
A tangy hot pepper that’s rich in flavor and history. Producing tiny shiny round-red peppers this variety was introduced in 1813 by Bernard McMahon from seeds given to him by Thomas Jefferson who was as you may know an accomplished plantsman. Striking and decorative the 12″ plants are ideal candidates for indoor or outdoor containers. The medium-hot fruits can be strung like cranberries and dried. Plants can be overwintered indoors. Harvest about 90 days from transplant....
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Tomato Big Rainbow
The flesh inside is marbled with red in the bottom half of the fruit. It has a big lumpy beefsteak shape with a very mild and sweet flavor. It’s a knockout on a platter with slices of our other tomato varieties. The large fruits (often 22 oz.) are borne on tall plants....
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Tomato Giant Pink Belgium
This is a succulent and enormous dark 1 1/2 to 2 lb. pink tomato is sweet and very mild and the large fruits are very attractive. Pink-skinned tomatoes occur as a result of a clear skin over red flesh. (Ordinary red tomatoes have yellow skin over red flesh.) When ripe fruits retain green pigment tomatoes take on purple and brownish hues....
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Pea Mammoth Melting Sugar
The sweetness of garden peas is legendary. This Burpee-bred early extremely prolific all-purpose pea produces straight 4 1/2″ pods filled with 8 to 10 medium to large peas. Pods of this heirloom variety remain stringless and sweet longer than most others. It freezes well and is an outstanding winter crop in Zones 9-11. The best way to stretch the harvest is to plant early and late varieties. Direct-sow in early spring again in midsummer for a fall crop. 200-225 seeds per packet sows about 30′ of row. Our seeds are not treated....
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Beet Chioggia
This is an Italian heirloom from the town of Chioggia near Venice and has been popular since the early 1800s. It’s beautiful and sweet flavored. Sliced roots look like bull’s-eyes having concentric rings of white alternating with wine-red. The green leaves are an excellent spinach substitute....
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