Heirloom Seeds
It’s amusing that Heirloom Vegetables are a current craze in home gardening, yet no one knows what heirloom vegetables are! One of the truest definitions is that an heirloom is a variety that has been selected, re-selected and handed down from one family member to another for many generations. Another definition places a date point on the variety. Some purists say a variety must be at least a hundred years old to be a true heirloom, while less strict experts state that an heirloom must have originated before 1951, the year that marked the widespread introduction of hybrid varieties to home gardeners.
While heirloom tomatoes are our most popular, virtually any vegetable we sell, from “A” to “Z,” contains at least one or two heirloom varieties. Our “Ping Tung Long” Aubergine hails from Taiwan; our “Black Beauty” Zucchini is just another of the numerous heirlooms we offer.
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Bulk: Corno di Toro Red Pepper Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packets, click here Classic Italian heirloom “Horn of the Bull” from Naples, with a special sweet taste and great versatility, fresh or ...
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Bulk: Thumbelina Carrot Seeds
from $8.50| /For single packet-size, click here 1992 AAS Winner. A 100-year-old heirloom that recently won the prestigious AAS Award for its sweet, crunchy text...
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Bulk: Crosby's Egyptian Beet Seeds
from $6.25| /For single packets, click here German heirloom with large, dark red, flattened beets that are early and super-sweet. Beets grow mostly above the s...
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Bulk: Parris Island Lettuce Seeds
from $5.75| /For single packets, click here Noted for its crisp leaves and sweet flavor. Attractive, large heads have deep-green outer leaves to protect the whi...
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Bulk: Buckbee's™ Abraham Lincoln Tomato Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Introduced in 1923 by H.W. Buckbee Seeds of Rockford, Illinois to honor its greatest son. Huge, meaty fruits, descr...
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Bulk: Snowball Self-Blanching Cauliflower Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packet size, click here Old heirloom with curling, self-wrapping leaves to protect the brilliant white curds from summer’s sunlight and ...
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Bulk: Yellow Pear Tomato Seeds
from $11.25| /For single packet-size, click here Extremely popular heirloom features clear yellow, pear shaped fruits with a “garden candy” sweet taste and few s...
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Bulk: De Cicco Broccoli Seeds
from $7.25| /For single packets, click here Classic Italian heirloom introduced to America in the 1890s. One of the best for multiple cuts. Slice the main head ...
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Bulk: American Purple Top Rutabaga Seeds
from $5.50| /For single packets, click here Round roots are yellow with a purple top and are early and sweet. Creamy-yellow flesh turns orange when cooked. Good...
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Bulk: Watermelon Radish Seeds
from $8.75| /For single packet-size, click here Also called "Red Meat." Features a watermelon-rose interior that looks like a watermelon when sliced! Roots are...
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Bulk: Mammoth Melting Sugar Pea Seeds
from $10.50| /For single packets, click here Sweet, plump, stringless, flavorful pods hold their peak quality on the vine even with a delayed harvest. Heirloom w...
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Bulk: Mild Mesclun Mix Seeds
from $7.75| /For single packets, click here Colorful blend of lettuces and other greens like mild endives for that special gourmet salad. Cut every 2 wk. for an...
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Bulk: Wisconsin SMR 58 Cucumber Seeds
from $6.50| /For single packet-size, click here Popular old heirloom continuously produces huge yields of deep green, crisp, sweet cukes as long as they are kep...
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Bulk: Mrs. Maxwell's Big Italian Heirloom Tomato Seeds
from $12.25| /For single packets, click here One of the earliest of the beefsteak types, producing one pound, reddish-pink fruits with remarkable flavor. Seed fr...
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Bulk: Pink Beauty Radish Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Ancient heirloom that becomes our only rosy-pink radish, with a mild taste and crisp white flesh. Roots are round, ...
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Bulk: Box Car Willie Tomato Seeds
from $9.75| /For single packets, click here Consider this favorite for main-cropping due to its outstanding quality and exceptional yields. Meaty, crack-resista...
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Bulk: Italian Tree or Climbing Trip-L-Crop Tomato Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Fast-growing plants may reach 15 to 25 ft. and yield 2 to 3 bushels per plant. Extra-large, meaty, bright-red fruits...
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Bulk: Ozark Giant Pepper Seeds
from $6.75| /For single packets, click here Beautiful heirloom sweet peppers are prolific and tasty and larger than California Wonder, Smooth skins with thick,...
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Bulk: Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds
from $8.75| /For single packets, click here The classic morning glory, with its exceptionally popular ‘true blue’ flowers, one of Nature’s rarest colors. Intens...
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Bulk: German Johnson Pink Tomato Seeds
from $12.50| /For single packets, click here The most highly treasured heirloom pink in the Carolinas and Virginia, where its mild tomato flavor and superior yie...
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Bulk: Pink Brandywine, Sudduth's Strain Tomato Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packets, click here The Amish, long considered authorities on heirlooms, first grew Brandywine in 1885. Now, 135 years later, these priz...
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Bulk: Hillbilly Tomato Seeds
from $12.50| /For single packets, click here A West Virginian bi-colored, large beefsteak. Showing an unusual yellow-orange color with red streaks, fruits are ro...
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Bulk: Golden Self-Blanching Celery Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packets, click here An old yellow heirloom that remains unbeatable for both home-gardener and market-grower use. Husky plants grow tall ...
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Bulk: Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage Seeds
from $6.50| /For single packets, click here Still one of the best early varieties, with pale green, pointed heads with a great sweet flavor. Smaller size allows...
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Bulk: Mexican Sour Cucumber Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packets, click here Rare heirloom, just rediscovered, that yields heavy crops of fruits looking like tiny water-melons that fall off the...
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Bulk: Chioggia Beet Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packets, click here A breathtaking Italian heirloom featuring alternating bright pink and white rings. Its round, candy-red, sweet roots...
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Bulk: Jenny Lind Cantaloupe Seeds
from $8.75| /For single packets, click here 150-year-old heirloom features unusual, juicy, delightfully sweet, lime-green flesh in a turban-shaped fruit. Vigoro...
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Bulk: Moon & Stars Watermelon Seeds
from $9.50| /For single packets, click here The legendary Van Doren strain that’s reasonably early with medium-large fruits and very sweet, flavorful, bright r...
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Bulk: Bull's Blood Beet Seeds
from $6.75| /For single packets, click here Deep burgundy leaves are harvested early. Sweet leaves grow a foot long with a clean, crisp flavor. Scarlet roots wi...
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Bulk: Kellogg's™ Breakfast Tomato Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packets, click here Striking deep orange fruits that are meaty, solid and weigh up to a pound. Flesh has a marvelous rich flavor with ju...
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Bulk: Blue Hubbard Winter Squash Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here Also called "New England Hubbard." Old heirloom features long vines with excellent yields of powdery blue-gray, oval...
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Bulk: White Wonder Cucumber
from $6.25| /For single packet-size, click here SKU: 393 58 days. Old heirloom that remains popular for both slicing and pickling, especially whole and chunk p...
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Bulk: Lacinato Kale Seeds
from $10.25| /For single packets, click here Also called "Nero di Toscana" or Dinosaur Kale." Italian heirloom with dark, sweet, succulent, heavily crinkled, blu...
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Bulk: Jimmy Nardellos Non-Bell Pepper Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here One of the sweetest heirlooms from the Balsilicata region of Italy. Superb for frying, these bright red fruits taper...
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Bulk: Zebrune Shallot Seeds
from $8.50| /For single packets, click here Banana type shallot sporting a pinkish brown coat that protects the fine white flesh carrying a delicate gourmet fla...
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Bulk: Bush Crop Cucumber Seeds
from $10.25| /For single packets, click here Our only heirloom bush pickler has been used for containers and small gardens for years. Sweet, crisp cucumbers are ...
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