Category Archives: Heirlooms
Tomato Red Currant
Perfect for salads and crudites these tiny 1/2″ round red fruits are notable for their strong sweet-tart flavor and firm juicy texture. High-yielding indeterminate plants bear large trusses of clusters of fruit making harvesting easier....
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Carrot Danvers Half Long
Market gardeners in Danvers Massachusetts developed this variety and shared it with Burpee in 1886. The root is a rich dark orange and is 6-8″ long. A first-class carrot for all soils....
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Cabbage Early Jersey Wakefield
This is a cabbage with a pedigree. New Jersey Wakefield is an adaptation of an older English variety Early Wakefield and has proven a reliable favorite for US gardens since the 1840s especially in northern climes. Quickly produces large dense elongated 7″ heads with a distinctly sweet flavor that is ideal for eating raw in salads and slaws...
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Cypress Vine Red
Treasures for a trellis these early-blooming twining vines are festooned with red trumpet stars and light feathery foliage. A hummingbird magnet and easy to grow....
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Lettuce Little Gem
Cook’s Garden Favorite. The small robust green heads are perfect for individual salads and its firm upright habit makes it great for sandwiches as well. Little Gem is the one to grow for Hearts of Romaine....
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Watermelon Carolina Cross #183 Heirloom
These enormous watermelons are oblong with light green stripes and are ready to harvest just 100 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 conserve soil moisture and protect fruit by keeping it off the ground....
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Pumpkin Connecticut Field
When the first settlers arrived in New England native Americans were growing pumpkins that looked like this one among their corn. It is the original Halloween pumpkin and makes great pies too. Fruits measure 12-20″ in diameter and weigh 15-25 lbs....
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Broccoli Waltham 29
Known for producing large heads and long stalks this longtime favorite is excellent for cooking fresh or freezing. The 4-6″ dark blue-green heads are arrayed with side shoots. Developed to withstand cold it performs outstandingly in the fall....
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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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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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