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Our best winter keeper – holds its quality for months! Huge, flattened, solid heads, blue-green outer leaves with creamy white interior are crisp a...

An unusual Russian heirloom featuring beefsteak sized fruits with unique colors of violet, brown and purple-red that turns almost black with sun an...

Reliable, dependable heirloom known for high yields of large fruits with a deep purplish-black color. Tall, upright plants produce 6 to 8 fruits pe...

An old yellow heirloom that remains unbeatable for both home-gardener and market-grower use. Husky plants grow tall with stalks that are heavy and ...

Chef's™ Choice Orange Hybrid T Tomato Seeds deliver glowing orange, beefsteak-size fruits with the rich, old-timey flavor gardeners love. Bred from...

Also called "Hot Banana." Banana-shaped, light yellow, 6 to 8-in., medium hot fruits are perfect for pickling. Compact plants bear loads of fruits ...

A long, cylindrical, dark red beet yielding four times more slices than the typical round beet. Grows uniform, smooth skin, yet never loses its ten...

Developed at Rutgers in the 1920s and still famous for its remarkable flavor and large yields of solid, meaty, deep-red fruits, perfect for canning...

Ideal for cooking specialty chili dishes. These mildly hot, 2-celled fruits have thick, dark-green flesh that ripens to a bright red. Bountiful. D...

Our earliest beet has choice tall tops – one of the best for greens, but its deep red roots are also ideal for pickling. The best variety for the P...

Giant Oxheart Tomato is the original 100-year-old heirloom strain treasured for its extremely thick flesh, mild sweetness, and old-fashioned flavor...

The country’s most popular variety due to its crisp, sweetly mild white flesh. Roots are nearly round, smooth, purplish-red above the soil line and...

Heirloom favorite that tolerates drought better than most. Fruits are heavily netted, ribbed and solid with a small seed cavity, slightly oval-shap...

Old reliable main-crop heirloom unbeatable for kraut. Round, solid, blue-green heads with mild, sweet flavor that still remains a storage favorite....

Heirloom with light-green, crinkled, fringed outer leaves and crisp, near-white inner leaves. Medium to large heads on this classic “head lettuce.”...

Old heirloom dating to 1924 featuring unrivaled yields of delectable, uniform, smooth, crisp, lime green fruits with black spines. Mostly used to m...

Old heirloom capable of extremely long storage. Bulbs have straw-colored skin and white, mild, sweet-flavored flesh. Days to Maturity: 110 Sow Me...

Strange Middle Eastern heirloom also called ‘Serpent Cucumber’ or ‘Snake Melon” that looks and tastes like a cucumber but is actually a melon. Cris...

Marketmore 76 Cucumber Seeds grow one of the most trusted and productive slicing cucumbers ever introduced. A long-time favorite among home gardene...

Classic Italian heirloom introduced to America in the 1890s. One of the best for multiple cuts. Slice the main head at 3 to 4-in. across to encoura...

Rare heirloom, just rediscovered, that yields heavy crops of fruits looking like tiny water-melons that fall off the vine when ripe. Sweet flavor i...

Old heirloom with tapered, bright red fruits shaped like a banana pepper. Exceptionally productive plants yield solid, very meaty, sweet fruits tha...

Heirloom favorite with large, broad-shouldered, stump-rooted carrots. Color is red-orange throughout with a tender, sweet, delicate flavor. Ideal f...

Extremely popular heirloom features clear yellow, pear shaped fruits with a “garden candy” sweet taste and few seeds. Days to Maturity: 78 Sow Met...