Category Archives: Heirlooms
Lettuce Buttercrunch
This extremely popular lettuce has a luscious buttery texture. The soft heads are creamy yellow inside and have some heat resistance. Best in cooler regions. Plant early in spring and repeat every 2 weeks into fall. Protect from heat with shade cloth. Likes fertile soil ample water. Best when picked minutes before your meal. Space lettuce plants 8″ apart....
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Shasta Daisy Alaska
For 3 months Alaska explodes in a burst of pure white petals that radiate from the soft yellow eyes. Under the flowers there’s a neat backdrop of the glistening deep green foliage. The long-lasting 3″ across blossoms make great cut flowers. Mix Alaska with lady’s mantle salvias star zinnias and coreopsis for a vibrant...
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Tomato Red Zebra
Red Zebra is thought to be a naturally occurring cross between Green Zebra and an unknown though certainly red parent. The beautiful and tartly flavored offspring are gorgeous 2 to 3″ round cherry-red fruits with rich orange streaks. The bountiful high-yielding indeterminate vines are ready to harvest about 75-90 days from transplant....
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Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson
Hugely popular for over 150 years it’s one of the most tender and delicately flavored leaf lettuces ever bred. The ruffled leaves are large with an appealing green color. Simpson is well adapted to a wide range of climates and is still the best for early spring sowing....
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Broccoli Romanesco
Romanesco is the preeminent Italian heirloom variety and was first documented in Italy in the 16th century. Its crisp beautiful apple-green whorled heads impart an altogether pleasing nutty taste. Most often enjoyed raw the broccoli if lightly cooked will retain its flavor and unique texture....
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Pepper Sweet Jimmy Nardello
We have one Giuseppe Nardello to thank for this spectacularly tasty sweet frying pepper. From the small village of Ruoti in the Basilicata region of southern Italy Giuseppe brought this heirloom to the states where it was introduced in 1887. Grazie Giuseppe! All season long the low-growing 20-24″ plants produce loads and loads of long thin peppers up to 10″ long. The peppers are altogether delicious whether cooked in a little olive oil...
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Tomato Stupice
Prized for the rich tangy flavor this heirloom tomato variety from Czechoslovakia produces impressive yields of succulent 2″ red fruits. The indeterminate plants with potato leaf foliage are early to yield making them delicious candidates for northern gardens....
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Lettuce Tom Thumb
A unique English heirloom lettuce that can take the heat and stars in the kitchen. Mild and creamy the bright yellowish-lime green leaves from the tiny 4-5″ butterhead are just right for individual salads. The bright yellow-lime green leaves form medium-tight central heads even in hot weather and ignore the heat when fully mature in the garden resisting bolting and allowing for a longer harvest. Cut the individual leaves or pick the entire head....
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Tomato Thessaloniki
Bred in Greece when this variety was introduced in the U.S. in the 1950s its flavor and high-quality fruits made it an instant hit. Indeterminate vines produce uniform smooth 4-6 oz. red fruits with solid meaty flesh. Resistant to sunburn cracks and spots...
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Squash Verte et Blanc
We admire this French heirloom’s looks taste and illustrious heritage. Dating to the 1800s this venerable beauty is patty pan or scalloped in shape. At first the squash is the palest sea foam green (Verte); as it matures the fruit turns all white (Blanc)...
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Tomato Yellow Currant
The tiny round yellow 1/2″ fruits are produced in abundance on vigorous indeterminate plants. Large trusses hold easy-to-harvest clusters of fruit. With strong sweet-tart flavor and firm juicy texture the little yellow tomatoes are perfect for salads and crudites....
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Pepper Sweet Bull Nosed Large Bell
Thomas Jefferson grew this bull-nosed pepper in his garden after it arrived here from India in the 1700s. Bull Nosed peppers popular in early America are due for a renaissance. Still grown at Jefferson’s Monticello the variety has a delectably mild sweet taste and thick walls. Can be enjoyed raw cooked or pickled. Fruits ripen from dark green to red and can be harvested 60-80 days from transplant....
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Pea Lincoln
Appropriately enough these peas were introduced in peacetime just after World War II. Lincoln quickly became a favorite with American gardeners thanks to its high yields and sweet tender flavor. Suited for eating fresh freezing or canning the 4-5″ pods are loaded with 6-9 sweet tender peas. Heat- and wilt-tolerant...
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Nasturtium Phoenix
This glorious re-birth of 1904 Burpee heirloom- Nasturtium Golden Gem. Phoenixs rarely-seen split-petal flower form is a marvel of plant breeding. Vigorous vine plants are soon arrayed with flaming-glowing-red-orange blooms (edible by the way) Great border plant. A hallelujah chorus of color....
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Pepper Sweet Golden California Wonder
Popular since the 1920s this is the golden version of the red California Wonder. Smooth blocky and blunt-ended 5″ x 4″ fruits are thick-walled very sweet and mild. Maturing from light-green to golden-yellow the peppers grow on 22-26″ sturdy upright plants that set continuously. Harvest in 62-73 days from transplant....
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Bean Kentucky Wonder Pole
HEIRLOOM. Kentucky Wonder is a brown-seeded bean noted for its exceptional flavor and its heavy crops of 9″ green pods borne in clusters. Pods are oval thick gently curved meaty and tender and they’re stringless when young. It’s been proven tops for productivity flavor and wide adaptability; it’s delicious fresh...
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Tomato German Pink
Here is one of the two Batavian heirlooms from Diane Ott Whealy’s family varieties that became the impetus for the compendious Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa. Nearly seedless the indeterminate potato leaf plants produce large meaty 1-2 lb. fruits with plenty of rich sweet flavor; ideal for slicing canning or freezing....
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Pepper Hot Tabasco
Originally from Mexico-and taking its name from a Mexican state-this small very hot pepper’s a favorite in the South and East where the plants can grow tall and are covered with the petite light yellow-green to red fruits. Best known as the pepper that lends the kick to the namesake hot sauce from Avery Island Louisiana. Harvest about 80 days after transplant....
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Melon Charentais
The definitive French melon. Originating in the Poitou-Charentes region around 1920 Charentais is considered the best melon ever developed because of its high sugar content smooth texture and ambrosial fragrance. Perfect for two servings the small round melons weigh just 2 lb. Gray in color with slight ribs the melons have rich salmon-orange flesh....
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Radish D’Avignon
Cook’s Garden Favorite. Our choice for the best non-hybrid French Breakfast type radish perfect for early Spring salads. Nearly cylindrical 3-4 inch roots are bright red with white tips. Ready in only three weeks from seeding!...
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