Category Archives: Heirlooms
Mustard Southern Giant Curled
With crumpled frilled edges the bright green leaves impart a mild mustardy flavor. Served raw the young leaves are tasty in salads-they’re also delicious lightly stir-fried or sauteed. Superb candidate for freezing or canning. Cold-resistant and slow to bolt the large upright and vigorous plants spread to 18-24″. Harvest young leaves in about 50 days or more mature leaves in about 70....
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Pepper Hot Fish
You may have encountered (and savored) this heirloom pepper in the oyster and crab houses around the Chesapeake Bay. One of the prettiest peppers ever to grace our test gardens this African-American heirloom predates the 1870s. Boasting handsome variegated foliage the 18-24″ plants produce 2-3″ long pendant fruits. Starting out an unusual cream color striped with green the fruits ripen to orange with brown stripes before turning all red. An attractive attention-getting choice for containers. Harvest about 80 days from transplant....
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Pumpkin Small Sugar
Small Sugar is even better for pies than its larger cousin Connecticut Field pumpkin. When Mr. Burpee offered it in 1887 he said: “A very prolific and handsome little pumpkin; usual size about 10″ in diameter; skin is a deep orange-yellow. It is very fine-grained sweet and sugary and keeps well.”...
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Tomato Black Cherry
An heirloom too rarely encountered this delectable variety fully merits a place in the garden and on the dinner table. Yields plentiful clusters of perfectly round 1″ true cherry tomatoes that are deep red with a blackish hue. The flavor is complex rich juicy and sweet. Indeterminate....
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Kale Lacinato
Also known as Dinosaur or Tuscan Kale this Italian heirloom dates back to the 18th century and is an essential ingredient of caldo verde (green broth) a popular soup in Portugal. By whatever name the sweeter milder blue-green...
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Tomato Yellow Pear
This extremely old variety makes a vigorous plant that bears enormous numbers of bright yellow bite-sized fruit. The flavor is deliciously tangy. Perfect for summer party hors d’oeuvres....
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Bean Asparagus Yardlong
Asparagus Yardlong bears loads of slender very long pods that are best picked when less than 18 in. long. It has a delicious nutty flavor steamed stir-fried or sauteed. It’s easy to grow and has no serious pests or diseases. GARDEN HINTS: Do not work around plants when wet. Keep beans picked for continuous bearing; shell mature pods and use as dried beans....
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Tomato Polish Linguisa
A meaty delicious variety from Eastern Europe that was brought to America by Polish gardeners in the 1800s. Extremely large the 10-12 oz. sausage-shaped fruits are produced on indeterminate vines. The bright red fruits lend themselves to a broad range of uses: paste sauce canning drying or freezing....
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Carrot Touchon
Touchon is still one of the finest of the Nantes-type carrots. The best for eating out of hand and free from hard fiber. This old French variety is quick-maturing to about 6″ long and 1″ across....
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Raspberry Heritage
Luscious flavor and heavy yields of juicy sweet red fruits. Space 3′ apart in rows 6′ apart. Plants produce berries on old canes in early summer and on new canes from August to frost. Vigorous and hardy. Self-pollinating. Grows best in full sun....
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Asparagus Mary Washington
Asparaguses are perennial vegetables so you just plant them once and enjoy season after season of succulent spears. Seeds can be started indoors in spring for transplanting out around last frost. Bare roots can be planted as soon as they arrive in spring. Rooted plants are great for fall and should be planted 4-6 weeks before first fall frost. In 2 years you’ll have a light crop and a regular crop thereafter. Long after harvest the graceful feathery green foliage is still attractive....
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Cucumber Lemon
Don’t be fooled by this heirloom’s unusual shape-these bright yellow balls are excellent for salads and pickling. They have a clean crisp taste and are never bitter. Normal-sized vines yield heavily and for a long time....
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Tomato Mortgage Lifter
This huge heirloom beefsteak (up to 4 lb.; average 2 1/2 lb.) consistently wins taste-tests. Developed in the 1930s by a gardener who planted the four biggest varieties he knew and crossed one with pollen from the other three. He did this for six seasons and created a variety that produced immense tasty fruit. He sold the plants for $1 a piece and paid off his $6000 mortgage in 6 years....
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Kale Red Russian
This delicious grey-green kale is pretty enough to plant among the flowers. Much larger than regular kale (2 to 3′ tall) the stems are purplish and the leaves are shaped like big oak leaves and colored a velvety gray green. The purple colors become richer after frost when the flavor becomes sweeter. Surprisingly the big leaves are very tender and delicious. Garden Hints: Kale requires good cultivation; mulch or hoe frequently to keep soil loose and weed-free. Plants may be left outdoors all winter. Frost improves flavor....
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Pepper Sweet California Wonder
HEIRLOOM. The standard bell pepper for many decades this 1928 introduction is still the largest open-pollinated heirloom bell you can grow. A perfect stuffing pepper-blocky 4″ x 3 1/2″ thick-walled tender and flavorful....
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