Category Archives: Heirlooms
Squash Winter Lakota
Plant breeders have recreated a stunning winter squash once prized by the Sioux but long lost to cultivation. Fine-grained orange flesh is sweet and nutty. Mature fruits are 8″ x 9″ and weigh 5-7lbs.....
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Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo
Hales Best Jumbo was developed by a Japanese market gardener in California around 1920. It became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. It’s a beautiful oval melon with deep green skin and golden netting. The flesh is an appealing salmon color aromatic and sweet....
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Bean Burpees Stringless Green Pod
HEIRLOOM. This Burpee bred bean is entirely stringless; it’s brittle meaty juicy and has exceptional flavor. Plant yields are early and extremely high; pods are round about 6″ long and slightly curved. Plants are entirely self supporting. A 2 oz. seed pack will plant a 20 ft. row. Our seed is not treated....
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Marigold Sunset Giants Mix
The ultimate American garden flower prized by the Aztecs 1000 years ago. Legendary garden designer Gertrude Jekyll liked drifts of tall marigolds planted in the middle or back of her borders to complement blues and grays. Blossoms 5″ and more across in orange gold and lemon yellow....
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Eggplant Turkish Orange
Native to Turkey this heirloom variety is a favorite of Italian gardeners and chefs. The petite 18-22″ plants produce abundant yields of round red-orange 3″ fruit. Eat when the fruits are young and in the green stage. Once orange the fruits are excellent for stuffing. 65-85 days from transplant. Insect-resistant....
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Salad Greens Purslane Goldgelber
Purslane has an honored place in the European repertoire of greens. Mildly acerbic purslane’s tasty leaves have a pleasant lemony fragrance and make for a sparkly salad offering a nutritious bonus of high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids....
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Squash Ronde de Nice
An heirloom prized by generations of French squash connoisseurs for its mild nutty flavor and ever-so-tender flesh and skin. Harvest when fruits are young when they are merely 2-3″ in diameter and steam or saute. Ready in about 45-52 days....
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Cleome Queen Mixed Colors
Also known as Spider flower this plant will make the back of your border a focal point. Colors includes Helen Campbell (white) Rose Queen and Violet Queen. Airy 5-6″ flower clusters on strong sturdy stems. GARDEN HINTS: Grows best in full sun. Space 15-18″ apart. Can be started indoors or outdoors....
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Tomato Persimmon
An heirloom originally from Russia this beefsteak type has very large persimmon-colored 1 lb. fruits. Uniform and blemish-free the tomatoes have high flavor low acidity and a small seed cavity. Performs well in short-season areas. Indeterminate....
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Tomato Green Grape
A favorite heirloom of farm markets and restaurants thanks to its unique tart flavor and attractive presentation. Originally created by crossing Yellow Pear with Evergreen Green Grape produces clusters of 6-8 yellow-green 1″ fruits....
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Squash Italiano Largo Hybrid
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Hybrid. Deeply ribbed zucchini type summer squash with robust nutty Italian flavor. Fruits are long and thin with a slight curve and few seeds even if allowed to get large — which they will do. For a real delicacy harvest small with the flowers still attached slice lengthwise and sautee in a bit of olive oil and garlic. No problem…plenty more will follow!...
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Pumpkin Jarrahdale
Lovely and decorative this pumpkin with stunning blue-green skin comes to us from the town of Jarrahdale in New Zealand. Weighing in the 8-10 lb. range and 10″ tall the flattened firm-ribbed fruits have mild slightly sweet almost fruity golden-yellow flesh that’s highly aromatic...
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Spinach Bloomsdale Long Standing
Popeye’s favorite heirloom variety! Bloomsdale Long Standing is an old standard. It’s a large spreading spinach has dark green savoyed curled leaves. The yield is good and it is slow to bolt. For first crop sow in spring. Plant again in late summer. In mild winter areas fall plantings yield in early spring. One packet contains 300 seeds and will sow a 30′ row....
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Strawberry Alpine Fragola di Bosco
Fragola di Bosco is an Italian alpine strawberry that enjoys popularity in gourmet salads. Plants are everbearing and productive. As with other woodland strawberries fruits are delicately sweet and best eaten straight freshly picked. Early to flower and fruit plants stand out in late spring to early summer....
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Swiss Chard Burpee’s Rhubarb
Another excellent and nutritious Burpee-bred chard with crimson stalks with glossy green crinkled leaves. Easy to grow; eat it like spinach or beet greens. Pick from late spring till winter. Proven tops for performance flavor and wide adaptability. 100 seeds sows 20′ of row. Grows best in full sun tolerates partial shade....
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Squash Delicata
Introduced in 1891 Delicata’s taste is remarkably similar to that of sweet potatoes but it’s much easier to grow. The vines produce plentiful cream-colored green-striped oblong fruits about 3″ in diameter and 6″ long....
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Melon Collective Farm Woman
Cook’s Garden Favorite. This is one delicious melon in a hurry ripening in just 60 days. With a flavor residing in the delectable peach-pineapple continuum Ukrainian heirloom grows to 10 with a yellow-gold rind with and super-sweet white flesh. Harvest when skin turns orange-yellow. Cool-weather melon perfect for short-season gardeners. Stores well for weeks after harvest....
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Pea Thomas Laxton
Thomas Laxton is considered the greatest pea breeder ever and this century-old variety is his masterpiece. Try it and see why. Pods contain 8 peas and often up to 10; vines at 3′ are easy to trellis....
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Tomato Riesentraube
Originating in Germany this heirloom cherry tomato was grown by the Pennsylvania Dutch (who were in fact German) as early as the 1850s. The variety’s name fittingly enough translates from the German as “giant bunch of grapes”. The compact indeterminate plants produce huge clusters of 20-40 red fruits 1 1/2 x 1 1/2″ with rich meaty flavor....
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Gourd Extra Long Handle Dipper
This is one ornamental gourd that’s worth watching. Leave it on the ground and marvel as the long swooping curved handle-up to 6′ long-twists and turns. If a straight handle is your thing training it on a trellis will do the trick....
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