Heirloom Selections
Old Varieties with Exceptional Beauty and Flavor
Our heirloom selections have been preserved and kept true to their beloved local history, often exhibiting unusual colors, shapes or flavors.
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Heirloom Cherry Tomato Little Red Pear
STARTING SEEDLINGS
In early spring, start indoors about 6 to 8 weeks before outdoor night temperatures are reliably in the 50-55°F (10-13°C). Sow seeds 1/4 inch deep and 1 inch apart in a container of seed starting mix. Keep moist but not soggy, and very warm, 80°F (27°C). Provide a strong light source until seedlings are ready to plant outside. When seedlings are 2 inches tall, transplant into individual 4 inch pots. Maintain at 70°F (21°C). Feed with half-strength fertilizer every 2 weeks until ready to plant. When nights reach 55°F (13°C), gradually acclimate to outdoor conditions. Plant these vigorous indeterminate climbers 3 feet apart into rich soil in full sun.GROWING NOTES
Prepare soil well with compost and fertilizer. Plant tomatoes several inches deeper than they were growing in containers. Provide strong stakes or tall wire cages at planting time as these plants grow tall with heavy fruit loads. Mulch to provide the even moisture tomato plants need to prevent cracking. Don’t overwater once fruit begins to ripen.
HARVEST AND USE
Pick the pear-shaped fruits when fully colored for best flavor. Enjoy for sweet snacks any time. Sprinkle liberally in salads where their pretty shape and bright color add wonderful eye and taste appeal.Regular price $4.89Sale price $4.89Unit price / per -
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‘Hamburg Rooted’ Parsley
This traditional heirloom vegetable is grown for its 8-to-10 inch roots that are shaped like parsnips or carrots. Hamburg rooted parsley adds a wonderful mellow parsley flavor to soups and stews.Regular price $1.99Sale price $1.99Unit price / per -
Scented Geranium Trio IV: Fruit Cocktail
Three separate 3 1/2 inch pots with well-rooted, established starts for Apricot, Orange Fizz and Strawberry scented geraniums, ready to plant. All orders include our carefully written, comprehensive Planting and Growing Guide for success when planted in the garden, in pots/window boxes, or indoors as houseplants.
Sold as a set of 3 plants, individually potted, carefully packed and shipped to you at the right time for planting in your climate zone, March through May. Plant orders ship directly from our grower.
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Scented Geranium Trio V: Rose Garden
Three separate 3 1/2 inch pots with well-rooted, established starts for Old-Fashioned Rose, Attar of Roses, and Skeleton Rose scented geraniums, ready to plant. All orders include our carefully written, comprehensive Planting and Growing Guide for success when planted in the garden, in pots/window boxes, or indoors as houseplants.
Sold as a set of 3 plants, individually potted, carefully packed and shipped this trio will be shipped the week of 5/13 or 5/27. Plant orders ship directly from our grower. Sorry, we cannot ship to Alaska, Hawaii or Canada.
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Scented Geranium Trio I: Chocolate and Roses
Three separate 3 1/2 inch pots with well-rooted, established starts for Chocolate Mint, Old-Fashioned Rose and Attar of Roses scented geraniums, ready to plant. All orders include our carefully written, comprehensive Planting and Growing Guide for success when planted in the garden, in pots/window boxes, or indoors as houseplants.
Sold as a set of 3 plants, individually potted, carefully packed and shipped to you at the right time for planting in your climate zone, March through May. Plant orders ship directly from our grower.
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Scented Geranium Trio III: Spice
Three separate 3 1/2 inch pots with well-rooted, established starts for Ginger, Cinnamon and Nutmeg scented geraniums, ready to plant. All orders include our carefully written, comprehensive Planting and Growing Guide for success when planted in the garden, in pots/window boxes, or indoors as houseplants.
Sold as a set of 3 plants, individually potted, carefully packed and shipped to you at the right time for planting in your climate zone, March through May. Plant orders ship directly from our grower.
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Scented Geranium Trio II: Citrus
Three separate 3 1/2 inch pots with well-rooted, established starts for Orange Fizz, Rober’s Lemon Rose and Lime scented geraniums, ready to plant. All orders include our carefully written, comprehensive Planting and Growing Guide for success when planted in the garden, in pots/window boxes, or indoors as houseplants.
Sold as a set of 3 plants, individually potted, carefully packed and shipped to you at the right time for planting in your climate zone, March through May. Plant orders ship directly from our grower.
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French Fingerling
This delicious heirloom, first imported from France in the 1950s, is a longtime favorite of restaurant chefs. French Fingerlings have attractive rosy-red smooth and tender skin, rich yellow flesh streaked with red and exquisite flavor. The flesh of this gourmet fingerling looks already buttered and its fine flavor is sweet and nutty, with a dense texture. Their thin skin is very edible and needn’t be removed before eating. The elongated oval tubers size up from 3 to 4 in. long.
These prized fingerlings cook quickly when boiled or roasted whole and they hold their shape, which makes them an excellent casserole or salad potato. Enjoy simply prepared as their superb flavor stands on its own. French Fingerling tubers often set near the surface, so hill plants up well and you’ll be rewarded with abundance.
Late: 95-125 days / Type: Indeterminate
1 lb. bag (plants a 10 foot row)
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Heirloom Viking
These are truly beautiful potatoes: large, round in shape, with a rich, dark purple skin lightly dappled with pink splashes and stripes. Inside, the fine-textured, firm flesh is creamy white, smooth, and truly delicious. Heirloom Viking was first introduced almost 60 years ago by the potato improvement program at North Dakota State University.
Viking tubers always cook up meaty and moist with a rich, sweet, buttery flavor. In taste tests, our potato loving family rated them better tasting than “Yukon” types! They are great eating, whether you bake, mash or cut them up to roast up crisp in the oven. This high-yielding and reliable variety has good scab resistance. You'll want to grow this tasty all-purpose potato every season. Viking is an excellent keeper in storage.
Early: 64-78 days / Type: Determinate
1 lb. bag (plants a 10 foot row)
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Sold outAmarosa Fingerling
NEW THIS SEASON! These unique fingerling potatoes have smooth, ruby colored thin skins and marbled rose and pink flesh that keeps its pretty coloration when cooked. Amarosa’s interior texture is creamy smooth and nutty tasting, and they don’t fall apart when you cook them. Enjoy them in colorful potato salads, cooked and cut up into small cubes as a tasty accent for green salads, or simply steam and serve with butter and chopped parsley or chives.
Because of their rich interior color, these slender oblong fingerlings are particularly high in antioxidants. Amarosa fingerlings have demonstrated good scab resistance, moderate keeping ability and produce well across different climate zones. Their firm texture, excellent flavor and vivid color – both inside and out – makes them a wonderful home garden choice. If you have an air fryer – think pink potato chips!
Midseason: 85-95 days / Type: Determinate
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Sold outUmatilla Russet
NEW THIS SEASON! This fine Russet potato, named for the Native American Umatilla tribe, was developed 25 years ago by the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho, Washington and Oregon. This variety reliably produces big, oval tubers with lightly russeted golden skin, shallow eyes and fine-grained white flesh. They are perfect for making delicious thick-cut oven fries or terrific baked potatoes with temptingly fluffy interiors – the best kind of nourishing comfort food! Heavy for their size, Umatilla tubers grate easily for making delectable potato pancakes or hashbrowns.
Umatilla is also more productive than other Russet varieties, reliably producing bumper crops of good-sized, uniform tubers on strong growing plants. They also store well for a long season of eating pleasure.
Late season: 95-125 days / Type: Indeterminate
1 lb. bag (plants a 10 foot row)
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Terra Rosa
Terra Rosa is a full-sized, oblong variety with smooth, deep magenta skin and pink-red sweet, creamy flesh that ranks high for flavor. This high nutrient specialty potato is really handsome, but its good looks are not just skin deep, because Terra Rosa’s rich color means higher levels of bioactive antioxidants and protective carotenoids. They retain their rosy color and resist fading when cooked.
Great tasting Terra Rosa tubers are ideal for microwaving, frying and we love them as oven-baked fries. You’ll find them perfect to harvest early, at 1 1/2 to 2 inches, and quickly steam for a baby potato feast. Harvesting, some as new potatoes early won’t mean fewer big ones later either, because Terra Rosa offers strong yields. Stores well for later use.
Early to Midseason: 80-95 days / Type: Indeterminate
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Heirloom Russian Banana Fingerlings
These oblong fingerling potatoes originally came from the Baltic region of Northeastern Europe. Tender Russian Banana potatoes have thin skins with firm, buttercream colored delicious flesh. They range in size from 3 to 4 inches long, with dense flesh that cooks up solid, keeps its shape well and slices neatly.
These gourmet fingerlings have a rich, chestnuty flavor and waxy texture perfect in potato salads. You'll love them slowly roasted with whole garlic cloves, steamed to serve hot and fragrant with butter and rosemary or parboiled to skewer for the barbecue. Russian Bananas are heavy producers, good keepers, widely adapted and drought tolerant.
Late: 95-125 days / Type: Indeterminate
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Heirloom and Specialty Onions Italian Torpedo Tropea
This wonderful old Italian specialty onion is originally from Tropea, the Calabrian town in Italy known for its superb cuisine. Italian torpedo onions can be used in any stage. When pulled as baby onions, just as the stems start to swell, their beautiful, bright magenta color, mild flavor and crunchy texture shines in salads.
When they bulb up, they have an elongated torpedo shape and develop deep pungent flavor, delicious sautéed as a colorful base for any dish, roasted whole, barbecued on skewers or adding color and punch to sandwiches. These uniquely shaped, old-fashioned onions belong in everyone's kitchen garden. Stores well for about 3 months after harvest.
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Heirloom and Specialty Onions Borettana Cipollini
These pretty little Italian heirlooms have a flattened spherical shape and look just like rosy-bronze glossy buttons, each about 2 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. They have firm, fine-grained flesh, well-developed flavor and satiny skins. Cipollinis are traditionally served whole, braised in a sweet and sour sauce or marinated in a balsamic vinaigrette.
You'll also find them delicious roasted whole in butter or olive oil, threaded on skewers for kebabs or used as pretty little boiling onions. When cooked, they really sweeten up and caramelize to a beautiful color. These intermediate/long day little onions will store well for about five months.
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Heirloom Purple Majesty
Purple Majesty potatoes are oval with purple/blue flesh. They have much better flavor than other blue varieties and keep their rich color when cooked. The natural deep purple/blue pigment is due to very high levels of anthocyanin and carotenoids, potent bioactive antioxidants that help reduce the risk of heart disease. Pigmented potatoes like Purple Majesty have been linked to decreased oxidative stress, inflammation, and improved immune status.
Besides real health benefits, Purple Majesty potatoes offer excellent table quality with firm moist flesh and great flavor whether baked, boiled or fried. Use them for a show stopping potato salad decorated with colorful herb blossoms. For a real stunner, serve a plate of steamed potato slices alternating deep colored Purple Majesty with beautiful Terra Rosa, our red-fleshed variety.Midseason: 85-95 days / Type: Indeterminate
1 lb. bag (plants a 10 foot row)
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Heirloom German Butterball
Always a customer favorite! Heirloom German Butterball potatoes have slightly flaky, but never dry, butter-yellow flesh and golden, netted smooth skin. They are our first choice for potato salads; when cooked till tender, they hold together and don’t fall apart like many other potatoes. They are also perfect for making hashbrowns, simple steaming or mouthwatering baked potatoes.
These great tasting medium oval-shaped potatoes are the most versatile for every kind of preparation. It is no surprise that Heirloom German Butterball won first place in Rodale’s Organic Gardening magazine’s “Taste Off.” The strong growing plants have high tuber set, with good disease resistance. You’ll have an abundant harvest of tubers that store very well.
Late-season: 95-120 days / Type: Indeterminate
1 lb. bag (plants a 10 foot row)
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