Category Archives: Heirlooms
Cucumber Mexican Sour Gherkin
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Get ready for an extravaganza of tiny sweet treats. Mini fruits sweet cucumber flavor is combined with a tangy sourness: as if pickled already. Yields a bounty of tiny cukes for salads snacks and pickling. Gorgeous when cascading from a hanging basket or growing on a trellis....
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Moonflower Giant White
These old fashioned flowers as the name implies open in the evening. As evening falls you can actually watch them open. For added interest mix them with morning bloomers such as morning glories. Grown as an annual but perennial in mild areas they’re easy to grow and grow best in full sun....
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Strawberry Mignonette
Mignonette is a French type strawberry that has smaller berries and a distinct flavor and aroma. Excellent edging border or container variety. Grow as an annual or perennial. GARDEN HINTS: Strawberries grow best in a sunny area with rich moist well-drained soil containing plenty of organic matter. They also do well in a greenhouse during winter....
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Viola Johnny-Jump Up
HEIRLOOM. Very winter hardy and eager to self-sow in the shade of summer plants violas are cheerful surprises in the cool months. Johnny-Jump Up is tricolored in bright purple yellow and white. Violas will rebloom in fall if cut back in the heat of summer....
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Popcorn Strawberry
This heirloom corn is a pop star producing several ears per 5-6′ stalk of highly decorative popcorn when spaced at 9″ apart. Short and rounded the 2-3″ ears remind us of large strawberries with row upon row of ruby-red kernels. Harvest ears in about 100 days....
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Pumpkin Musquee de Provence
A beautiful heirloom from the south of France with large 20 lb. flattened fruits that are heavily ribbed. Green when immature they turn a lovely deep brown when fully ripe. The deep orange flesh is a particular favorite of chefs for its fine flavor....
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Tomato Brandywine Red
Flavorful but not acidic it is a large-lobed beefsteak-shaped tomato with a thin pinkish-red skin. Very vigorous. Best if staked caged or trellised. Perfect for slicing....
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Cucumber Crystal Apple
Originating in New Zealand this unusual heirloom cucumber was first offered in 1934. When mature Crystal Apple’s pretty pale greenish white-skinned fruits resemble Granny Smith apples. To experience the smooth tender and cream-tasting fruits at their peak enjoy them when they’re young. A bright...
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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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Squash True Hubbard
True Hubbard has appeared in American gardens and been served on American tables since at least the 1780s. Weighing about 12 lb. each the squash has delicious yellow-gold flesh and deep green skin. The long-storing fruits are excellent in pies and soups....
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Basil Leaf Green
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Basil found its way into American hearts gardens and kitchens only in the 1970s. Our national love affair with basil has lost none of its passion. We certainly cannot live without this magical herb. We love the flavor and aromatics of these great big crinkly lettuce-like leaves that measure 3 long x 2 wide. They provide plenty of flavorful pesto a delectable complement to tomatoes and a attractive accent to fish entr?es....
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Lettuce Rouge d’Hiver
In 1885 this variety made its debut in the French company Vilmorin’s The Vegetable Garden. A compact romaine type the heads grow to 10-12″ tall producing large smooth leaves that are green at the heart and brownish-red throughout the body. Crisp and tasty the lettuce combines well with green-leaf varieties....
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Tomato Quarter Century
In 1901 Burpee introduced this mild flavorful all-purpose heirloom tomato. Ready for salads or sauces the delectable fruits range in size from10 to 12 oz. Disease-resistant and heat-tolerant. Indeterminate....
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Turnip Purple Top White Globe
Turnip lovers prize its deliciously sweet and tender white roots. The turnips are often 4″ and sometimes 6″ across handsomely blushed with pink to purple at the crown. Young leaves make the classic cooked ‘southern greens’....
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Bean Red Swan
The late Robert Lobitz (1941-2006) was a man with a lifelong passion for bean breeding. This beautiful snap bean is one of his triumphs. A cross between a purple snap bean and a pinto bean Red Swan’s dusty rose-red color is unique in the land of beans. The plants with a bush habit offer up a plentitude of long delicious 4-5″ beans....
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Gourd Tennessee Spinning
In an earlier simpler time kids would carry these 3-5″ green striped gourds in their pockets to play with at school where they’d contentedly spin them on their desks. Hard-shelled when dried this ornamental gourd is a natural for use in crafts making jewelry and who knows...
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Tomato Patty’s Yellow Striped Beefsteak
Cook’s Garden Favorite. We are working closely with breeders to improve upon some of the heirloom tomatoes available today. This striking beauty is reminiscent of ‘Big Rainbow’ but with higher yields larger more colorful fruits and most importantly richer fuller flavor. Try slicing the 10-16 oz. fruits and garnishing with a basil mayonnaise. Indeterminate....
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