Bush Beans

Bean Bush Cannellini

A real kitchen garden favorite, heirloom Cannellini beans are the classic variety to use in making a delectable minestrone soup. The plump white beans have a real “melt in your mouth” texture that can’t be beat for rich, meaty flavor in satisfying soups, stews, salads or in tasty standalone bean dishes.

The vigorous plants always produce heavy pod sets and the handsome dry beans shell out easily. Cannellini beans are an excellent source of dietary protein and fiber.

Bush Bean Castandel

Bean Bush Castandel Weekend

EXCLUSIVE – French-bred especially for kitchen gardeners, Castandel beans keep their juicy texture and sweet flavor longer on the plants, leaving you more time to pick them before they become tough or fibrous. In France, Castandel is nicknamed “The Weekend Bean” because this fine variety allows you more time and leisure between pickings. These versatile plants produce bountiful harvests of succulent beans for fresh garden to table eating. Perfect for garden beds, patio containers or tidy small space gardens.

Bush Beans

Bean Bush Classic Slenderette

Container Bush Beans

Bean Bush French Mascotte

Mascotte is the first true container green bean variety, perfect for patio pots and small space gardens. Developed by expert French breeders, these fast-growing compact, sturdy plants are extremely disease-resistant and produce heavy yields. You’ll enjoy their pretty cream colored blossoms, followed by super abundant, slender, crispy, delicious green beans. Beans are borne at the tops of the plants, so they are both ornamental and easy to harvest over a long period for garden to table eating.

French Baby Bush Beans

Bean Bush Nickel Fillet

These first-quality mini beans were originally developed for upscale European markets and sold for top prices to fine restaurants. Nickel beans are produced in abundance on sturdy compact plants and mature at just 3 to 4 inches long and 1/4 inch in diameter. The tender pods need only brief cooking and little extra adornment. They will grace your plate and palate steamed and tossed with a little butter and fresh herbs or sautéed and sauced.

Heirloom Bush Beans

Bean Bush Provider Organic

Heirlooms whose long, rounded, crispy green pods have rich meaty flavor. Pods are born in abundance on vigorous plants. Great tasting, highly productive and reliable variety.

French Bush Bean

Bean Bush Roc d'Or Organic

French variety produces the best tasting yellow beans available: long, rounded, sunny-yellow pods with a delicate and buttery flavor. Plants are vigorous bearers with good resistance to bean viruses.

Bush French Filet Beans

Bean Bush Rolande French

Italian Bush Beans

Bean Bush Roma Improved

This early-bearing, bush Roma variety is an old Italian favorite, reselected for great taste and improved yields. The vigorous 2 foot plants bear heavy harvests of flat, wide, 5 inch long green stringless pods with a distinctively rich “beany” flavor. They are scrumptious just steamed with a little butter or use them in your own freshly made minestrone soup, marinated for antipasto or in any green bean recipe. You’ll find their full meaty flavor is special and satisfying.

Heirloom Bush Bean

Bean Bush Royalty Purple Pod Organic

Long time favorite whose dark purple pods stand out against green foliage, making picking easy. Productive in a wide range of climates & soils. Tops for flavor, versatility and easy harvesting.

Heirloom Dry Beans

Bean Bush Soup Mix Blend

Our blend of colorful, tasty, heirloom bush beans specially selected to grow and harvest as a colorful mix from one garden bed. Expect big yields of plump dry beans that taste nutty, creamy and meaty when cooked, much superior to older, tougher store-bought beans. Make delicious, hearty, nutritious soups, stews, chili and casseroles throughout the colder months with just the addition of onion garlic and a few dried herbs. True garden treasure!

Contains: Burgundy Jacob's Cattle, Golden Jacob's Cattle, Yellow Indian Woman, Hidatsa Red Indian Bush Beans

Tricolor Bush Beans

Bean Bush Tricolor

EXCLUSIVE - For a space saving rainbow of flavor and color in the garden and at the table, plant this seed mix of 3 different colored bush beans. The sturdy, vigorous plants are ornamental in the garden, and as a bonus, the pretty colors of their succulent pods stand out against the foliage for easier harvesting. Tender, stringless and juicy, the gold, royal purple and deep green crunchy pods will cook up sweet and tender to highlight summer meals.

Equal parts: Golden Roc d'Or, Purple Queen, Green Slenderette

Seed Packets

Bean Pole Emerite Filet Organic

Pole Filet Beans

Bean Pole Emerite Filet

Emerite is a long, elegant filet pole bean from one of the oldest French breeders. The pods of these classic “haricot verts” beans are slim, rounded, and grow 7 to 9 inches long. Emerite’s flavor is sweet, delicate, and the long pods have a crispy snap that makes them especially delicious when just briefly steamed or quickly stir-fried. Emerite’s tall vines are vigorous and productive with high yields of extra-fancy pods sure to please and reward the gourmet gardener and cook.

Pole Filet Beans

Bean Pole French Gold Filet Organic

Pole Filet Beans

Bean Pole French Gold Filet

These hard-to-find, handsome yellow filet pole beans were originally bred by our favorite French seedmen for their domestic market. French Gold are true “haricot verts” beans: classically slim, round 7 to 9 inch pods with delicate, sweet flavor and a crispy snap that makes them especially choice eating. The heavy bearing, vigorous vines yield extra-fancy, juicy pods to enjoy in colorful summer meals over a long season of harvest.

Heirloom Pole Beans

Bean Pole Kentucky Wonder Organic

The classic variety for heavy crops of meaty, tender, 6 inch long pods with delicious flavor. Easy to grow & productive over a long harvest period. Vines are vigorous with heavy yields.

Heirloom Pole Beans

Bean Pole Purple Pod Organic

Treasured purple pole beans renowned for flavor, yield and reliability. These crunchy deep purple pods stand out against the green leafy vines, making them fun and easy to pick. Antioxidant rich.

Heirloom Pole Beans

Bean Pole Rattlesnake & Purple

The pretty patterned pods of Rattlesnake pole beans make delicious fresh snap beans. Or let the seeds mature and
dry in the pods, then shell them for nutty-tasting and nutritious dried bean dishes. Distinctive purple pole beans are renowned for flavor and reliability, offering long, tender, crunchy pods whose rich color stands out from the vines so they are fun and easy to harvest. Both of these treasured heirloom beans have been passed down among generations of gardeners.

Pole Beans

Bean Pole Spanish Musica Organic

Early Pole Beans

Bean Pole Spanish Musica

Tricolor Pole Beans

Bean Pole Tricolor

EXCLUSIVE – Cascading from their tall supports, our tricolor pole beans are sentinels of the abundant summer garden. Vigorous pole beans twine up effortlessly and their vertical habit makes good use of limited garden space. These heavy bearing climbers reliably produce extended heavy harvests of delicious long gold, green and burgundy pods. The generous bounty of juicy tender pods has that sweet and meaty bean flavor every cook loves in the summer kitchen.

Equal parts: Blue Lake, Yellow Pole Wax, Purple Peacock

Pole Beans

Bean Pole Yard Long Noodle King

Our tendercrisp, flavorful Noodle King selection is easy to grow and yields earlier than other Yard Long varieties, with more weather flexibility, allowing gardeners all over the country to grow them successfully. These amazingly long, slender green pods can easily reach 12-18 inches!

Prepare crispy Noodle King beans quickly: sauté, stir-fry or deep fry tempura-style. Their crisp, juicy texture and fine flavor makes these delicious beans a real gourmet treat to grow and enjoy in abundance fresh from the garden.

Fresh Soy Beans

Bean Soy Edamame

Edamame soybeans’ flavor is nutty, buttery and truly irresistible fresh from the garden and they pack top nutritional value. Cook them quickly, right in their pods for appetizers and snacks or use like fresh beans in any recipe. We import our seed from Japan, where edamame are a long-standing favorite. These widely adapted 2 foot tall bush plants offer consistently high yields of large 3 to 3-1/2 inch green pods with 3 to 4 plump and tasty beans per pod.

Dutch Beets

Beet Baby Ball

We import seed for these true mini beets directly from Holland where baby beets are a kitchen staple. Perfectly rounded Baby Balls size up quickly to produce sweet, tender, petite sized beets to harvest early, at just 1 to 11⁄ 2 inches in diameter. Vitamin rich and delicious, the little globes cook up fast and are just the right size for whole pickled beets. Plant again for a fall crop of smooth skinned and uniform pretty babies to steam or bake to perfection.

Heirloom Beets

Beet Chioggia Organic

Italian heirloom with bright, candy-red exteriors and interior flesh beautifully marked in alternating rings of cherry red and white. Delicious sweet flavor and fine texture. Great tasting leafy tops.

Gourmet Beets

Beet Five Color Rainbow

This wonderful five color beet blend is a knockout in both in the garden and kitchen. The kaleidoscope colors of roots, stems and leaves make a visually stunning mix and all have fine sweet flavor. Enjoy as baby beets and then let the rest size up. Includes beets with deep purple skin and flesh, orange skin with yellow interiors, rose with candystriped interiors, a glowing cerise-pink and an heirloom satin white that really sets off the other colors.

Gourmet Beets

Beet Golden

Golden beets are a beautiful golden-orange color throughout. They stay tender-fleshed and are particularly sweet and mild in taste, whether pulled very young or allowed to size up. Their tops also make great tasting greens. Golden beets do not “bleed” color when cooked or pickled. Whether steamed or baked, they make a handsome color accent in salads or simply served by themselves. These specialty beets are popular with both chefs and home cooks for their delicate flavor and color.

Jewel-Toned Beets

Beet Jewel-Toned Blend

EXCLUSIVE – Our mixture of burgundy, golden and candy-striped beets yields big harvests with glowing rich colors, succulent texture and sweet earthy flavor. These beets will become an easy to grow, long keeping staple in your garden and kitchen. The smooth roots can be harvested at any size to bake, boil or steam and enjoy hot and buttered or chilled in an herb vinaigrette. The nutritious young tops are unrivaled as melt-in-your-mouth steamed greens.

Red Sangria, Golden Beets, Striped Chioggia

Roasting Beets

Beet Merlin

Specially selected by beet breeders for roasting to sweet perfection, Merlin grows quickly to produce tender-fleshed, dark ruby-red, globe-shaped beets with an especially high sugar content. Harvest at any stage of maturity; either as babies or fully sized up, because Merlin beets hold their fine flavor and don’t get woody or tough. Plant another crop at the end of summer for fall harvesting and cook to perfection for beet salads, main dishes or pickled beets.

Dutch Beets

Beet Red Baron Organic

Long Harvest Broccoli

Broccoli All Season Blend

We’ve mixed equal amounts of seed for these great-tasting, high-yielding hybrid varieties with early and later season maturities for the longest possible harvests. Plant and grow them together and you’ll be enjoying their sweet blue-green spears for weeks as they ripen in succession. We’ve chosen cultivars for flavorful, extra-fancy, tightly beaded main heads and abundant side shoots. All three have excellent disease resistance and weather tolerance.

Early Heading Broccoli

Broccoli Batavia Organic

Main Crop Broccoli

Broccoli Bravado

Count on this top-quality, high-yielding hybrid variety to reliably produce flavorful, tightly beaded, big, blue-green domed heads, followed by abundant crops of delicious side shoots to enjoy over a long extended season. Best of all, strong growing and disease-resistant new Bravado has excellent flavor and a crunchy texture that makes it perfect for a wide variety of cooking options: quick stirfries, steaming, roasting or cut up for healthy snacks with hummus or onion dip.

Gai Lan/Chinese Broccoli

Broccoli Chinese Early Jade

Great tasting “superfood” Gai Lan is a cool season crop, ready to start harvesting in just 6 to 7 weeks. Its flavor is similar to fresh broccoli, but more mild and sweet and just delicious simply stirfried or quickly sautéed. Once you cut its thick, juicy stalks topped with edible buds and creamy blossoms, they will regrow for a second harvest. Besides flavor, Gai Lan is packed with vitamins and antioxidants. Grow your own; it’s hard to find in most markets!

Heirloom Broccoli Raab

Broccoli Raab Rapini Organic

Cool season Italian heirloom whose delicious dark green shoots, buds and leaves taste like broccoli with a real flavor punch. Vitamin-rich and very productive.

Heirloom Broccoli Raab

Broccoli Raab Super Rapini

Brussels Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts Hestia

Extra-fancy variety bred for flavor and productivity offers heavy yields of solid, crunchy, bright green sprouts. Plants are burst and rot resistant and easily withstand early frosts for extended harvesting.

Pointed Sweetheart Cabbage

Cabbage Conehead

Napa/Chinese Cabbage

Cabbage Napa Emiko

Big, dense, full-sized 12 inch heads with tightly wrapped, blemish-free outer leaves and light green to creamy white interiors. These crisp, juicy, heavy heads have a delicious mild, sweet flavor. Enjoy in quick stirfries, weeknight sautés, everyday salad making, or shredded for slaws and tacos. Perfect for Kimchi! Heads stand well in the garden to harvest over time. With its unbeatable disease resistance package, Emiko grows well in a wide range of climates and weather conditions.

Baby Napa Cabbage

Cabbage Napa Little Jade

Napa Cabbage

Cabbage Napa Purple Express

Baby Cabbage

Cabbage Pixie

Our space-saving, early maturing baby cabbage variety quickly forms compact, dense little 5 inch heads, a perfect size for everyday meals. The tightly packed, crispy green heads have a delicious sweet flavor. Enjoy out of hand or chopped for salads or tacos, sautéed with ginger and soy sauce or a bit of butter and a pinch of caraway or cumin seed. Strong growing Pixie can take both heat or frosty weather so you can plant several times each season.

French Baby Carrots

Carrot Babette

These French true baby carrots with sweet flavor and uniformly bright orange color offer gardeners top quality treats that are great for snacking! They germinate and grow quickly with a smooth cylindrical shape and blunt tips. Pull Babette carrots carefully by their compact tufts for mini carrots at 3 to 4 inches long. These fine fleshed crunchy carrots retain their mini size even at maturity and make for delicious, healthy eating raw or quickly cooked.

Crispy French Carrots

Carrot Bolero

These well-bred new Nantes carrots have a slender, 6 to 7 inch long, perfectly cylindrical shape with blunt tips. Boleros are a beautiful deep orange with consistently sweet flavor and juicy brittle texture, perfect to harvest either full sized or as slim elegant baby carrots. They mature quickly with smooth skins that need little peeling and fine textured crispy flesh. Bolero is a fine French delicacy to savor fresh from your garden.

Tricolor Carrots

Carrot Circus Circus Tricolor Mix

EXCLUSIVE – Our trio of colored carrots are creamy white, bright orange and a deep, dark purple with orange centers. All three are crisp, smooth and evenly cylindrical, growing to 8 inches long for a colorful harvest of festive roots. Their flavor is reliably sweet with a nice crunchy texture and you’ll enjoy this mix over a long season. Cut all three into carrot sticks or slice/shred into salads for a good tasting party of colors.

Equal parts: White Satin F1, Mokum F1, Purple Rain F1

Long Sweet Carrots

Carrot King Midas

Top Flavor Carrots

Carrot Napoli Organic

Highly productive, glowing orange carrots with crisp flesh and especially well-rounded, sweet flavor. Napoli is a strong producer of heavy carrots with sturdy tops; grows well in all climate zones.

Rainbow Carrots

Carrot Purple Sun

Whether you eat them raw or cooked, what we love about these great-looking, big dark purple carrots from Holland is that they grow vigorously and combine wonderful color, excellent sweet flavor and a crisp texture. These plump, conical carrots size up nicely and taper evenly from rounded shoulders to pointed tips. At the core is a little yellow sun. Purple Sun carrots are loaded with antioxidant flavonoids, so they taste great and offer real health benefits.

Rainbow Carrots

Carrot Rainbow Harlequin Mix

Snacking Carrots

Carrot Rotild Organic

Round Baby Carrots

Carrot Round Romeo

Chantenay Carrots

Carrot Short Stuff Organic

Great-tasting, sweet and crunchy Chantenay carrot with fat, husky, tapering triangular roots that grow just 4 inches long. These plump beauties are fine-fleshed, juicy & bright orange to the core. They are wonderful fresh eating carrots. Because of their shorter length and impressive vigor, Short Stuff carrots are great for areas with heavy soils. Also perfect for planting in container gardens; use pots at least 12-15 inches deep and feed and water regularly for sweet roots.

Yellow & Orange Carrots

Carrot Sunshine Orange & Yellow Mix

Our novelty mix offers gardeners the fun of growing both sunny yellow and bright orange carrots. You’ll have eye-catching rich harvests of crisp, smooth, evenly cylindrical roots that reach a full 8 inches in length. Both of these premium European varieties taste sweet and crispy with no soapy off-flavors and you can enjoy them over a long harvest period. Whether fresh sliced into carrot sticks, or quickly cooked, their sunshine bright colors are a kitchen gardener’s delight!

Equal parts: Yellowstone & Nantes Forto

Nantes Carrots

Carrot Yaya Organic

Cauliflower

Cauliflower Amazing Taste

Floret Cauliflower

Cauliflower Fioretto

This unique and delicious new cauliflower forms loose cream-colored heads, specially bred to divide into perfect individual florets without waste or mess when sliced in the kitchen. Fioretto cauliflower is also more heat tolerant than other cauliflowers, extending the season for this popular and delicious vegetable. Fioretto’s flavor is mild, sweet and nutty, whether you enjoy these tasty florets in salads, with dips, or quickly steamed, sautéed or oven roasted to delectable perfection.

Cauliflower

Cauliflower Purple Crush

This top-quality new cauliflower grows smoothly into big domed heads with a beautiful rich purple color and superb mild, nutty, sweet flavor. Purple Crush really looks sensational in the garden, and in the kitchen, the purple florets offer both extra antioxidants and great taste.

This vigorous new variety can be planted in both early spring and midsummer for abundant fall harvests. Enjoy the crisp florets cut up raw, lightly steamed with butter, or toss with olive oil and roast to nutty perfection.

Celeriac/Celery Root

Celeriac (Celery Root) Prinz

Stalk Celery

Celery Merlin

Merlin is a wonderful European variety developed especially for home gardens. These early producing, vigorous plants reliably yield tall 12 inch tender stalks. Enjoy Merlin right from the garden as an easy, cooling treat, and harvest the juicy stalks for fresh salads or crunchy sweet snacks. Add them to soups, stews and many other dishes. Air dry the leaves to use in winter cooking. Celery is an excellent source of vitamin K as well as folate and potassium.

Heirloom Chard

Chard Garden Rainbow Organic

Heirloom Chard

Chard Italian Silver Rib

Rainbow Chard

Chard Neon Glow Mix

Gourmet Chard

Chard Peppermint Stick

Container Chard

Chard Pot of Gold Container

Our Pot of Gold is tasty, showy and easy to grow, with brilliant golden stems and contrasting, deep green savoyed leaves. Delicious, reliable and highly ornamental, it is a perfect choice for container growing. These vigorous plants thrive in all climate zones to grace patio or small space gardens. They are also a striking addition to mixed beds and borders. You will enjoy mild- flavored, crunchy chard in the kitchen from spring through late fall.

Rainbow Chard

Chard Rainbow Bright Lights

Our unique All America award winning chard dons a coat of many colors! The green leaves and crunchy stalks come in a vivid rainbow of yellow, crimson, gold, pink and white with an occasional gorgeous stem of orange. Originally from New Zealand heirloom stock, Bright Lights chard has a sweeter and milder flavor than ordinary varieties. Grow this tasty, nutritious and highly ornamental variety for delicious eating over a long season of productive harvests.

Gourmet Ruby Chard

Chard Scarlet Charlotte Red

Our newer selection of this American classic will delight both your eye and appetite. The wide crunchy stalks and leaf veins are a gorgeous magenta red that contrasts perfectly with the deep green savoyed leaves. This highly ornamental and weather tolerant chard’s vibrant color lights up the garden and will be equally at home in both your vegetable and flower beds. In the kitchen, the pretty leaves and stalks are versatile, succulent and good tasting.

Tender Chard

Chard Special Baby Leaf

EXCLUSIVE – Our crispy, nutty-flavored Baby Leaf chard is the fastest growing and best tasting, whether you use it in salads or steam, stirfry or braise its handsome green leaves. Easily grown by the “cut and come again” method, seeds are sown thickly, then cut as needed at 4-5 inches tall, leaving crowns to regrow for multiple additional harvests. With its tender texture and milder flavor, baby leaf chard makes wonderful garden- fresh salads.

Gourmet Collards

Collards Green Flash

Easy to grow Green Flash forms dense, 18 inch tall rosettes of thick, tender, big paddle-shaped leaves. This top-notch variety offers uniformity, vigor, high yields and bolt resistance for rapid regrowth and longer, more dependable harvests. Cut the handsome leaves often to enjoy their flavorful, sweet taste as succulent cooked greens. Mild, nutty-tasting collards are one of the most fiber and vitamin-rich vegetables you can grow in your home garden.

Early Bicolor Corn

Corn Bon Jour Early Bicolor

Sweet Early Corn

Corn Casino Yellow

Bicolor Corn

Corn Luscious Bicolor Organic

Early and productive bicolor corn known for its great eating quality and high yields of plump ears whose sweet, tender kernels hold their succulent sweetness after harvest.

Bicolor Corn

Corn My Fair Lady Bicolor Organic

Easy to grow, vigorous and early maturing, My Fair Lady’s big, well filled ears have tender golden kernels and exceptional full sweet flavor. Widely adapted, very productive variety.

Heirloom Popcorn

Corn Pink Pearls Mini Popcorn

White Corn

Corn Sugar Pearls White

Heirloom Cucumbers

Cucumber Armenian Sweet

Distinctive Armenian heirloom cucumbers are creamy, pale-green with long, ridged fruits that have a wonderfully crisp, juicy texture. These traditional home garden favorites are also called “Yard-long Cucumbers.” Bitter-free and crunchy with very thin skins, they have few seeds and never get pithy or hollow-hearted. Armenians cut up into decorative scalloped slices, so they are both ornamental and delicious. Plants are heavy yielders and thrive in hot summer areas. Monoecious.

Container Cucumber

Cucumber Bush Slicer

EXCLUSIVE - Bush Slicer offers juicy slicing cucumbers in record time on dwarf bushes, perfect for small space or container gardens. The straight, 6 to 8 inch-long fruits have smooth, tender skin with small seed cavities and sweet, crisp flesh. These sturdy indeterminate hybrid vines yield strong crops in both cool conditions and real summer heat. Bush Slicer is resistant to powdery mildew, cucumber mosaic virus and scab. Enjoy this space-saving cucumber in delicious salads from your own patio this season. Monoecious.

English Cucumber

Cucumber Chelsea Prize

EXCLUSIVE - Our cucumber lovers’ reward, 12 to 15 inch Chelsea Prize is the same long, elegantly slender English cucumber found at a premium price in upscale markets. These thin skinned, bitter-free cucumbers are always easy to digest with absolutely delicious crispy sweet flesh and few seeds. The handsome glossy fruits are produced in abundance from every node of the vigorous, self-pollinating vines. Enjoy them all summer in wafer-thin juicy slices for salads or cut into refreshing crisp wedges. (Scab resistant). Parthenocarpic.

Pickling Cucumber

Cucumber Endeavor Pickling

EXCLUSIVE - This early bearing pickling or “Kirby” cucumber is a kitchen garden dynamo that produces an extended harvest of dark green, crispy, curved fruits with the traditional knobby “pickle” skin. Hybrid Endeavor is great tasting and high yielding. Vines will keep you well supplied for putting up many jars of your favorite treats like kosher dills, bread-and-butter slices, relish and traditional sweet pickles. Endeavor is also a fine crunchy, fresh-eating cucumber right from the vine. Plants are resistant to mosaic viruses and downy mildew. Monoecious.

Mediterranean Cucumber

Cucumber Garden Oasis

Garden Oasis is a deluxe Beit-Alpha style hybrid, renowned for quality throughout the Mediterranean basin but not often offered commercially here because its delicate flesh doesn’t permit easy shipping. The medium green fruits are smooth and glossy, about 5 to 8 inches long, with very thin and tender skins and pale, juicy crisp flesh—the ultimate in cool and crunchy refreshment. Strong and early bearing Oasis plants are resistant to mosaic viruses and powdery and downy mildew. Parthenocarpic.

Persian Baby Cucumbers

Cucumber Green Fingers Persian

EXCLUSIVE - Appetizing little Green Fingers are cute mini cucumbers that are smooth, thin-skinned, crispy, and ready to pick when just 3 to 5 inches long. The vigorous, powdery mildew tolerant vines are self-pollinating, early-bearing, and set fruits reliably even in difficult conditions. Enjoy these quality baby cucumbers all season long. It took us a long time to find a good seed source for these exceptional little baby cucumbers usually found only in Middle Eastern markets. Parthenocarpic.

Heirloom Cucumbers

Cucumber Lemon

An American favorite for over a hundred years, lemon cucumbers effortlessly produce loads of pastel yellow fruit just the color, size and shape of pale lemons. They have a mild, sweet flavor, crisp texture and non-bitter, thin skins. Cool and refreshing, very young Lemon cukes are delicious eaten right from the garden like a fresh crispy apple. You can also use them for crunchy pickles. Vigorous Lemon cucumber vines can easily be trained up a trellis or strings for easy harvesting. Monoecious.

Heirloom Slicing Cucumber

Cucumber Patty's Marketmore Organic

Our own selection of this classic high yielding heirloom that produces long, dark green fruits with crunchy texture and mild sweet flavor. Weather tolerant and resistant to viruses and disease. Monoecious.

Petite Pickles

Cucumber Petite Pickles Cornichon

EXCLUSIVE – Cornichons are tiny, European style “mini” pickles. Traditionally they are made into the tiny, tangy pickles often served with cocktails and pâtés. Our imported French Cornichons are both early and vigorous with vines that produce high yields of refined, firm-fleshed little pickles to harvest when well-filled and just a few inches long. They are super easy to make into delicious baby pickles or tiny, sweet, crunchy gherkins. Our disease-resistant, imported variety produces extra early. Parthenocarpic.

Heirloom Slicing Cucumber

Cucumber Straight Eight Organic

Classic American heirloom whose vigorous leafy vines bear good crops of juicy slicing cucumbers with a crunchy texture and mild, sweet flavor. Monoecious.

Heirloom Chinese Cucumber

Cucumber Suyo Long Chinese Organic

Asian heirloom cucumber producing lots of long, slender and ribbed, burpless deep green cukes with a fine delicate flavor and crispy texture that cucumber lovers will treasure. Monoecious.

Japanese Cucumber

Cucumber Tasty Green Japanese

Crunchy, juicy and thin-skinned, long "burpless" Tasty Green Japanese cucumbers combine vigor and productivity with fine sweet flavor and especially refreshing crispy texture. The vigorous vines bear early, yielding abundant slender 10 to 12 inch fruits that never need peeling. Tasty Green cukes are perfect in any kind of salad and equally delicious sliced and eaten out of hand with a sprinkle of salt. A classic that is easy to grow and tops for flavor and quality. Monoecious.

Japanese Cucumber

Cucumber Tasty Treat Organic

Thin-skinned with crisp, mild, juicy flesh, these burpless cucumbers never need peeling. Long, perfectly straight fruits on vigorous vines that produce right until frost. Monoecious.

Heirloom Eggplants

Eggplant Asian Mix Organic

Our blend of 3 early-bearing varieties with heavy clusters of purple, green or white fruits shaped like chubby fat fingers. Flavor is truly luscious, with mild and nutty-tasting flesh.

Equal Parts: Purple, Green and White Fingers

Specialty Eggplants

Eggplant Asian Trio

EXCLUSIVE - Our mixed seed packet offers an easy way to grow the three best varieties of hybrid Asian eggplants. Their glossy, tender skins enclose succulent, creamy-smooth flesh, that is never bitter and easy to quickly slice and cook. These beauties are borne in abundance with multiple clusters of slender, elongated fruits on well-branched, extra-early plants.

Seeds are color coded with USDA food grade stain to distinguish varieties; make sure to plant some of each.

Undyed seed: Asian Bride = lavender & white eggplant
Green seed: Charming = magenta eggplant
Pink seed: Farmer's Long = dark purple eggplant

Specialty Eggplants

Eggplant Italian Trio

EXCLUSIVE - Our trio of delicious Italian eggplants combines teardrop-shaped, purple-black “Nadia,” gorgeous, oval-shaped magenta “Beatrice” and heirloom rose and white, globe-shaped “Rosa Bianca.” The strong plants with velvety leaves and lavender blossoms bear abundant crops of curvaceous glossy fruits with tender skins and succulent flesh that is never bitter or seedy. Enjoy in recipes from all Mediterranean cuisines.

Seeds are color coded with USDA food grade stain to distinguish varieties.

Undyed seed = Rosa Bianca eggplant
Green seed = Beatrice eggplant
Pink seed = Nadia eggplant

Heirloom Italian Eggplant

Eggplant Italian Violetta Lunga Organic

Early bearing and prolific Italian favorite whose elongated dark purple fruits are almost seedless with flesh that is especially mild, nutty flavored and sweet. Wonderful grilled, baked or sautéed.

Container Eggplant

Eggplant Little Prince Container

Heirloom Bulbing Fennel

Fennel Romanesco Bulbing Organic

Italian heirloom grows easily and reliably produces plump green oval bulbs with feathery tops. The crispy, sweet anise flesh is perfect for versatile salads, dips, or to roast, sauté or grill.

Bulbing Fennel

Fennel Solaris Bulbing

EXCLUSIVE – This delicately flavored vegetable is also known as finocchio or Florence fennel. Plants form pale green flattened oval to round bulbs at soil level with feathery dark green tops. Premium Solaris is a fast-growing Dutch variety suited for spring, early summer and fall cultivation. Its refined, juicy-crisp flesh is marvelous sliced in salads and its wonderful nutty anise flavor softens and mellows when cooked. Grill Solaris over glowing coals or sauté to succulent melting sweetness.

Compact Vining Gourds

Gourds Bath Loofah

Loofahs are members of the gourd family, originally from China. These handsome trailing vines can be grown on a fence or trellis or allowed to ramble at garden edges. Growing loofahs look like wrinkly big cucumbers. At seasons end, when dry and mature, the rinds are simply peeled, revealing their sponge-like fibrous interior. Loofahs make marvelous skin scrubbers for stimulating circulation and improving skin tone in the bath or shower. Home grown Loofahs make wonderful holiday gifts!

Harvest & Prepare Homegrown Loofah Sponges

Giant Harvest Gourds

Gourds Giant Lunch Lady Mix

EXCLUSIVE - These are wild! Lunch Lady produces absolutely huge warted, oblong gourds that easily reach 18 to 22 inches tall and 10 to 12 inches in diameter at the base. The vigorous climbing vines bear multiple wonderful gourds that color up bright orange, red-gold and with an occasional stunning dark green or bicolor.

Amazingly, these strong vines support their heavy fruits happily, decorating any garden trellis or fence! Lunch Lady gourds are unique, fun and make truly awesome seasonal decorations.