Amish Gold Slicer
Blemish free, very firm fruits with excellent flavor. Great for fresh eating and canning. Extremely productive.
Amish Paste
An old Amish heirloom that dates back to the turn of the century! Generations have used this tomato in sauces and for canning. Full and rather unusual flavor. Said to taste the best of all paste tomatoes. Tasty, solid flesh used for stews, bottling, drying, and sauces. 8-12 oz. plum shaped fruit. Twice as big as the classic Roma tomato. Great in salsa, ketchup or spaghetti sauce. Excellent for slicing. Bright red.
Asparagus
Asparagus is the earliest vegetable harvested fresh from the garden each spring. A productive bed of asparagus can last 15 years or longer, so choose your location carefully before planting. Asparagus likes sun and loose, well-drained soil that is rich in organic material. Enrich the soil with rotted leaves, compost, or manure. Water weekly if it doesn’t rain and don’t cut away any asparagus shoots the first year. Allow the foliage to grow yellow and die on its own.
Bean, Black Wax Pencil Pod
The Pencil Pod Black Wax bean is a highly productive and long-standing bush bean. Also known as Eastern Black Wax, these beans are bushy, vigorous and resistant to rust and mosaic virus.
Bean, Kentucky Wonder Pole
Kentucky Wonder is a brown-seeded bean noted for its exceptional flavor and its heavy yield of pods, borne in clusters. Pods are oval, thick, gently curved, meaty and tender, and they’re stringless when young. Pole beans yield much longer than bush beans, right up to frost.
Beefmaster
Beefsteak-type, deep red and good-flavored, this late tomato has important disease resistant qualities. Bears heavily.
Beefsteak
Easy to manage in the garden, the Beefsteak tomato has a uniform shoulder color and consistently good taste. Great slicer!
Beefy Boy
Gigantic size and gigantic taste! A meaty tomato with excellent disease and virus resistance. Deep red, round and smooth, ripening uniformly on the vine. Perfect for salads, sauces, hot dishes, or eaten straight from the vine.
Better Boy
The Better Boy tomato is juicy, crisp and explodes with classic tomato taste.
Big Beef
A very popular all-around hybrid tomato. This tomato is red and meaty. It produces high yield and has large leaves to protect the fruit from sun scald injury.
Big Boy
A Beefmaster type with twice the yields. It bears attractive, extra-large fruit. Disease tolerant.
Big Brandy
Big Brandy adds a new flavor dimension to the rich complexity of its parent crosses Brandywine and Big Dwarf. Richly flavored pink beefsteak-types are great for sandwiches and salads.
Black Krim
Black Krim combines bold, smoky flavor and good texture with an unusual deep brown/red appearance.
Black Prince
This is one of the most popular and favored black tomatoes. The globe shaped fruits are crack resistant with very dark red skin. The tender, juicy fruits have a flesh color that ranges from dark red to chestnut brown. Black Prince, a true Siberian tomato, grows well in cooler climates with a flavor that is deliciously different from other tomatoes.
Brandywine
Brandywine, which dates back to 1885, is the heirloom tomato standard. One taste and you’ll be enchanted by its superb flavor and luscious shade of red-pink. The large fruits grow on unusually upright, potato-leaved plants. The fruits set one or two per cluster and ripen late, but are worth the wait.
Broccoli, Green Comet
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.
Broccoli, Packman
These very early uniform plants with 6-7 heads are also resistant to heat and disease. After center head is cut, side shoots are produced. Vitamin-rich broccoli is delicious fresh or frozen.
Broccoli, Raab
This vegetable has broccoli-like florets on long, thin stems, but is actually related to the turnip. It is grown for its tasty, mustard-like leaves and flower stalks, rather than the florets, which stay small.
Bumble Bee Purple
Slightly elongated little cherries with lime green and bronzy-purple stripes. Crack-resistant fruit is produced all season long on plants that are unfazed by temperature extremes. The flavor is complex but sweet.
Cabbage, Early
This early maturing cabbage is ideal in size and shape. Stems and core are short and interior quality of the head is good. Popular for salads and sauerkraut. Try in stir fry!!
Cabbage, Late
Sweet, flavorful heads resist disease. Cool-weather crop.
Cabbage, Ruby Perfection (Late)
This hybrid produces deep-red, medium-sized heads that are solid and well-filled. Enjoy in salads, cooking or red sourkraut.
Cantaloupe, Sugar Cube
A sweet-tasting melon ideal for the home vegetable garden. Perfect for use in fruit salad or eaten on its own.
Cauliflower, Amazing
7-10″ pure white heads with domed solid curd. Self-blanching, tolerates heat and cold stress.
Cauliflower, Snowcrown
Nicely rounded, pure white heads up to 8″ across. To preserve white heads, pull the outer leaves over the head and tie with string. Superb for cooking, freezing and serving raw.
Celebrity
Heavy yielding plants are exceptionally strong, bearing clusters of uniform, smooth, round, firm, bright red fruits.
Champion
This is an excellent home garden tomato. It is crack-free and highly productive under a wide range of growing conditions.
Cherokee Purple
Beautiful, deep, dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very-large-sized fruit. Try this one for real tomato flavor!
Collard, Georgia
Georgia collards are prized for their sweet, cabbage-like flavor. Leaves are ruffled and blue-green and taste best when young. Rich in vitamins and minerals. Grows best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade and even appreciates it in the heat of the summer. Withstands cold weather; frost makes leaves sweet. Great for fall.
Corn, Chubby Checkers
This deliciously sweet bi-color corn is as pretty on the table as it is on the stalk. The ears of corn are a nice mix of white and yellow kernels and measure 8.5 long with 14-18 rows of kernels. This is a good variety for the home garden and is best planted in double rows to achieve optimum pollination. With an extended harvest time and a sweet taste, it is sure to be a garden favorite.
Corn, Fantastic
This sweet corn lives up to its name–it’s Fantastic! It’s the sweetest bi-color corn there is. It’s tender and full of rich corn flavor. 6′ tall plants produce large 8″ ears filled with 16-18 straight well-filled rows of bicolored kernels that almost melt in your mouth. The tight husk protects the ear until it is ready to eat. Fantastic Sweet Corn is a delicious early-to-midsummer treat.
Corn, Peaches and Cream
Peaches and Cream is a summer roadside stand favorite! A delicious, gourmet, bi-color sweet corn, yellow and white kernels are on ears averaging 8″. A great choice for the home garden as it matures fairly early.
Corn, Popcorn
My entire family enjoys the simple pleasure of growing our own flavorful popcorn! The hot popped kernels will have delicious flavor and tenderness with a fluffy shape and good color. This plant boasts good stalk strength, grain color, and successful popping. Popcorn can cross-pollinate with other varieties of sweet corn, so plant them at least 14 days apart. Plant your corn in blocks or rows of 4 or more to ensure good pollination. Leave your popcorn in the garden until the stalks are brown, the husks are dry, and the kernels are hard. Twist and snap each ear from the stalk before the first frost, then strip away the dried husks from each ear of corn. Hang or spread the ears out in a warm, dry location with good air circulation for 4 weeks to cure. The kernels are ready for storage when they can easily be twisted or rubbed from the cob. The kernels keep up to 3 years in airtight containers. Pop your homegrown popcorn on the stovetop or your usual, favorite way.
Corn, Super Sweet
Super Sweet is a real sweet treat. The seed kernels are smaller, lighter in weight, and have a shrunken appearance. The texture is crispy rather than creamy. The shrunken kernels greatly increase the sweetness and slow the conversion of starch. Because of the slower conversion of sugars to starch after harvest, it can be stored 7-10 days. Adequate soil moisture is critical for plants to form tassels, silks, and to develop ears. Ears should be ready to harvest about 3 weeks after silk emergence.
Cucumber, Burpless
This is a space-saving form of the favorite Burpless Hybrid. Short vines grow about 2′ long, long enough to trellis if desired. Fruit is straight and cylindrical for easy slicing. Eat these delicious cukes fresh, pickled, or sliced into salads. Excellent for small gardens and containers.
Cucumber, Bush Pickle
Bush Pickle is great if you want to make pickles but have limited space. Instead of a sprawling vine, these cucumbers are produced on compact, bushy plants making them especially good for small gardens or containers. Pick fruit often and for best flavor do not permit them to grow too large. Pick pickles smaller for gherkins. The cool mild flavor of these pickles also makes them a good choice for slicing and using in salads.
Cucumber, Pickle Jar
Pick a peck of delicious pickles! Making pickles at home is fun and easy with Chef Jeff’s Homemade Pickles. This vigorous plant produces a good crop of pickling-type cucumbers with interiors that are solid and crisp. It is a great choice to make the best crunchy pickles that you have ever tasted. The plants show excellent resistance to diseases and produce heavily over a long season.
Cucumber, Pickling
An easy-to-grow variety with an abundance of large, dark green fruit that is great for pickling.
Cucumber, Whopper
Great big, top quality bush cucumbers are produced on long-lasting vines throughout summer. Tender, sweet, crisp, and virtually seedless. Perfect for salads and superb on sandwiches! Water well in warm weather.
Early Girl
Extremely early to produce fruit and continues longer than most varieties. Bright red and meaty with a lot of flavor and aroma.
Early Girl Bush
One of the earliest tomatoes available. Yields a prolific crop of globular fruit all summer. Use in salads, sandwiches, hot dishes, soups and sauces.
Eggplant, Black Beauty
A great variety for those who prefer a dependable, larger-fruited and traditional purple eggplant. Black Beauty produces very attractive 1-3 pound fruit that keeps well and has excellent flavor. This variety has been a popular favorite for 100 years. Start harvesting when the eggplants are 4-5″ long. The skin should be shiny; dull skin is a sign that the eggplant is overripe. Chef Jeff’s Tip: Use a sharp knife and cut the eggplant from the plant, leaving at least 1″ of stem attached to the fruit.
Fourth of July
The earliness of this tomato makes this the home gardener’s first and best choice for the most excellent early slicing tomato. It is also very delicious, which makes it even more tempting.
Fresh Salsa
Pico de gallo lovers, your tomato is here! You can dice this tomato into tiny cubes that remain perfectly firm and solid yet also sweet. Large, plum-shaped, and dripless, Fresh Salsa is ideal for tasty salsas, bruschettas and light Italian sauces.
Husky Cherry Red
The same good looks and flavor of an Heirloom only with better yields and earlier maturity. Best in organic, well-drained soil. Water freely in dry weather.
Jet Star
This popular home garden variety has large, firm, meaty fruit with sweet flavor and good disease resistance. Perfect on hamburgers and sandwiches, in salads, hot dishes, soups, sauces for canning, or just eating a plate of fresh, sliced tomatoes. Bite into a taste of summer with this high yielding fresh garden tomato! Low acidity.
Juliet
The wonderfully sweet fruit are crack resistant and remain in good condition on the vine longer than most cherry tomatoes. The fruit are as soft and juicy as cherry tomatoes, and they have a longer shelf life so you can keep them on hand without picking every day.
Kale
The plant is upright and compact, great for indoor garden or container planting. For earlier harvest, sow seeds indoors in a sunny spot or under plant lights 6-8 weeks before outdoor planting date–this works for both the spring and fall! If purchasing plants in the fall, plant upon arrival and harvest before heavy frost hits. Avoid planting in garden area where cabbage family was grown the year before. Withstands light frost.
Kale, Giant
One of the most tender kale varieties, it’s ideal for raw kale salads and soups. Leaves are very dark blue-green and heavily savoyed, sweetening with each frost. Also known as Dinosaur or Tuscan kale. Exceptionally large, vigorous and cold-tolerant.
Kohlrabi
Light green, very smooth skin. Flesh has a very mild, turnip-like flavor. Delicious raw with dip or cooked.
La Roma III Red
An excellent Roma tomato known for its vigor and uniformity. Bright red, meaty fruits are large and full of flavor.
Large Cherry
Vigorous vines produce loads of deliciously sweet 1-1/2″ round tomatoes borne in clusters. Use in salads, hot dishes, soups and sauces. Try the green fruits as a pickle!
Lemon Boy
A lemon yellow, not golden, tomato variety. Extremely vigorous plants produce large harvests of attractive fruit. Flavor is outstanding–mild and sweet, yet tangy.
Lettuce, Bibb
Bibb lettuce is a smaller butterhead lettuce with soft leaves used primarily as a salad green but also works well as a wrapper for foods. This lettuce is easy to grow at home. Soft heads are creamy yellow inside. Best grown in cooler regions. The tender, dark green outer leaves are tinged with brown. Slow-bolting.
Lettuce, Butter Crunch
A heat-tolerant, Bibb-type lettuce. Its rich green leaves, sometimes tinged with red, form a beautiful rosette in the garden. Holds well under stress and has good bolt resistance.
Lettuce, Head
Known for its mild flavor and firm, crunchy texture, head lettuce is great for salads, shredded in snacks, as a garnish and on sandwiches.
Lettuce, Romaine
This is the classic romaine. Its compact, dark green rosette of tall, upright leaves is slightly curly with white hearts and has a crisp, sweet flavor. Slow to bolt. Grows best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade and even appreciates it in hot climates.
Lettuce, Snip N’ Grow Salad Bowl
Enjoy delicious, nutritious greens as close as your back door or patio table! Easily grow Snip N’ Grow Lettuce right in this very container and simply set it on your patio or deck as an attractive, edible centerpiece. Lettuce thrives in full sun in spring and part shade in the heat of summer. Water your lettuce every day and more often in hot and dry conditions. Harvest leaf lettuce as soon as it begins producing leaves longer than 5-6″. Cut the leaves from the outside of the plant so the main part of the lettuce continues to produce new foliage. This will provide a “Cut and Come Again” harvest. We recommend harvesting your lettuce in the morning after the plants have had all night to become plump with water. Before using, rinse lettuce thoroughly with cool water, shake or pat dry with paper towels to remove excess moisture and store in plastic bags in the refrigerator. Use fresh in salads and on sandwiches or burgers.
Manitoba
Developed in the 1950s for the short growing season of the Canadian prairie in Manitoba. An open pollinated early producer with excellent yield, these non-vining bushy plants produce lots of round, medium size, bright red tomatoes.
Mr. Stripey
This delicious, savory heirloom tomato is generally red with gold stripes emanating in a starburst pattern from the blossom end.
Okra
An incredible improvement over older varieties, pods stay tender much longer, allowing you more time to harvest. Dark green pods are excellent roasted, grilled, tossed into stir-fries, and of course, used in gumbo and jambalaya. Pick this spineless variety from midsummer till frost.
Old German
Generations of gardeners have delighted in the flavorful fruit and unique color of heirloom tomatoes!! Old German is medium-large with yellow and red marbled flesh, fruity flavor and smooth texture.
Onion, Red
This onion is popular for its large size and incredible sweetness. It is at its most flavorful when used raw. It is most commonly used on hamburgers.
Onion, Sweet Spanish
A globe-shaped yellow onion with a crisp, firm white flesh that keeps well. A long day onion, it develops late in the season in the North. Make sure the thick, heavy neck dries well, and it will store for several months in a cool, dry place.