Category Archives: Heirlooms
Arugula Garden
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Our spicy ” salad star! We have tested many arugulas and we think our strain is by far the best we’ve seen for both flavor and heat tolerance. This large leaved selection of our piquant salad star lets you harvest young for maximum quality and still get the high yields that make most of small growing spaces....
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Tomato Yellow Pear Organic
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. Certified Organic Seed....
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Swiss Chard Five Color Silverbeet
To know chard is to love its tender and delicious somewhat meaty flavor. Originating in Australia this strain of bright and highly ornamental chard comes in colors: red orange purple yellow and white. Each color is planted and harvested separately then their seed is mixed to ensure an optimal range of colors....
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Tomato Orange Roma
Salmon-orange in color scrumptious in flavor this early-yielding heirloom has just the right credentials for orange-colored sauces and salsas. Nearly seedless the large firm fruits grow in prodigious numbers on indeterminate vines....
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Pea Mammoth Melting Sweet Pod Organic
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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Pepper Hot Serrano Tampiqueno
Heat-lovers here’s another Mexican favorite used in a variety of dishes from salsas to soups. Large 2-3′ plants produce plentiful smooth club-shaped 1 1/2″ long fruits with medium-thick walls. Best used fresh the fruits mature from green to red. Heat scale is about 3 00-0 Scovilles. Harvest about 75 days after transplant....
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Leek Blue Solaise
It’s hard to exaggerate the stalwart hardiness of this 19th century French heirloom. Indifferent to cold the plants will happily overwinter in Vermont. True blue-green the very large 15-20″ tall stalks turn still bluer as the weather gets colder. It’s sweet mild and flavorful....
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Radish China Rose
Jesuit missionaries gathered up this ancient winter radish from China and introduced it to Europe in the 1950s. Now ours to enjoy the long peppery roots-6-8″ by 2″ diameter-have bright beautiful rose-colored skin with white flesh. An ideal variety for fall planting....
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Arugula Myway
Cook’s Garden Favorite. This quality Danish strain is the earliest of the arugulas to mature in our salad garden. The deep green serrated leaves show good disease tolerance and even though they mature early do not stretch or bolt with the first warm spell. Slightly milder in taste than others it is a great choice for braising or for tossing into a mild mesclun blend....
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Tomato Gardener’s Delight
This old German heirloom boasts many clusters of 6 to 12 cherry tomato all summer long. It’s indeterminate crack resistant and very prolific. Proven tops for performance flavor and wide adaptability....
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Tomato Burpee’s Jubilee
Bred right here Burpee’s Jubilee is the outstanding result of a stabilized six-generation selection from a cross between Tangerine and Rutgers tomatoes. Jubilee was an All-America Selections winner in 1943 and you can taste and see why. Up to 3″ across the bright golden-orange globular fruits are smooth and solid with a mild delectable flavor. High-yielding indeterminate plants....
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Onion Cippolini White
120-150 days. Cippolini (Italian for little onion) boasts outsize gourmet flavor. Rarely found in groceries cippolinis small size and flat shape make them perfect for roasting. Once roasted and caramelized this white varietys full sweetness and flavor will astonish and delight. Ranging from 1-3 in diameter saucer-shaped bulbs have translucent yellowish flesh with thin papery skins. Toss quartered...
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Eggplant Rosa Bianca
Rosy-lavender with white shading the fruits of this beautiful Italian heirloom are large round and 5-6″ long. With a mild non-bitter flavor the fruits’ robust shape is ideal for slicing baking or roasting. Plants grow 24-36″ tall. 70-85 days....
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Broccoli De Cicco
De Cicco is an excellent choice for extended harvests for home gardeners. Vigorous plants yield 3-4″ blue-green heads. After cutting the main head more side shoots develop producing many more small to medium-sized heads through the summer. Good for steaming stir-fries and for freezing. Sow indoors six weeks before transplanting outdoors....
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Bean Cherokee Trail of Tears
These were the beans carried in the pockets of Cherokee Indians on their tragic forced relocation from North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains to Oklahoma in 1838-1839. Shiny and jet-black the beans are harvested dry and can be happily incorporated in an array of traditional American dishes. The beans are encased in 6-8″ greenish-purple pods that are left to dry on the vine before picking but they can also be picked green and prepared like snap beans....
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Nasturtium Peach Melba
Bright creamy yellow blossoms with maroon blotches near the centers. The plants are compact with blue-green foliage. Peachy!...
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Pepper Sweet Corno di Toro
The name of this Italian heirloom translates as “horn of the bull” a tribute to the peppers’ full tapered shape. Ripening to a bright red the fruits-8-10″ long and 2 1/2-3′ wide at the top-have a sweet crisp full-bodied flavor. A tasty favorite eaten raw fried...
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Nasturtium Vesuvius
Grown first in kitchen gardens young leaves buds and flowers were picked for salads. (Buds were also pickled like capers.) By the late 1800s breeders had developed many dwarf forms in a wide range of colors and they became popular in bedding designs. Cottage gardeners often preferred the rambling old-fashioned types letting them climb through other vines and spill over fences and trellises. Compact 12″ plants. Dark blue-green leaves salmon blooms....
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Zinnia Candy Cane Mix
Zinnias add bold vibrant color to gardens. The more you cut the more they bloom! Heat-loving and very easy to grow. Candy Cane Mix has bright pink rose and cherry stripes on white and sometimes gold blossoms flecked orange-scarlet. This Burpee bred double flowered heirloom will give you eye-catching 4″ across flowers from midsummer to frost. Butterflies love them and they make great cut flowers....
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Pepper Sweet California Wonder Organic
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. Certified Organic Seed....
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