Seeds
This mini-butterhead has a delicious and creamy yellow center, while sporting a light green exterior. Can be served whole as a salad or cut up in a salad mix. You can plant Tom Thumb in the garden but it will also do well in containers. Popular in the 1860's, this type of lettuce is a treat you won't find at the supermarket today. 57 days.
While this variety may not be able to withstand a glacier, it does set fruit well even in cold weather. In fact, it becomes loaded early in the season with very flavorful, 2 to 3 oz. red tomatoes. The taste is sweet yet rich, a combination found more commonly in larger and later-maturing tomatoes. Potato-leaved foliage helps support the large harvest of these very tasty tomatoes. Determinate. 58 days.
This is one of those varieties to grow when you want a really big, impressive red tomato to show off to your friends. This fruit is huge, at least a pound or two, and borne abundantly on large, vigorous plants. Its flavor is as big as its size, bursting with a great blend of sugars and acids- a full old-fashioned tomato taste. Heirloom variety from Australia. Indeterminate. 85 days.
For a compact plant, Big Tasty produces plenty of 8 to 10 inch long cucumbers that are dark green in color. They are crisp and delicious, and perfect for salads or a refreshing cucumber sandwich. Because the vine is smaller, you can plant closer together, maximizing your use of garden space. Excellent disease resistance package. 62 days.
Medium-hot peppers with a distinctive flavor are 4 to 6 inches long and deep orange-red with brown tones. The name means “little gourd” for the rattling sound the seeds make in the dried pods, which are good for adding to salsas and sauces. 90 days.
Also known as the Ghost Pepper, this is one of the hottest peppers in the world, bearing extremely hot, red fruit about 2½ inches long. In 2007, Guiness World Book of Records named it the hottest pepper and listed it as 1,002,304 Scoville units. It has since been surpassed, but it’s still plenty hot and should be handled with great care. Germination may take up to one month. 100 days.
This cross between Brandywine and Rutgers produces good yields of 6 to 10 oz. delicious dark pink fruit. Disease and crack-resistance are inherited from Rutgers, and the tomato's taste and texture is more like that of Brandywine. Indeterminate. 85 days.
Named appropriately, this variety has fruit with 50% more lycopene than other common tomatoes. Lycopene is an antioxidant that is proving helpful in preventing cancers and other diseases. Besides being good for you, these plum-shaped tomatoes are extra-large, 4 to 6 ozs., making them excellent to use in salads or in cooking. Another important attribute is their resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus and bacterial speck, which are a real problem in some areas. Plants become about 4 feet tall and bear abundantly. Determinate. 74 days.
Lovely pale-orange color on 1 lb. beefsteak type fruit. Tomatoes have very good flavor and are quite meaty with few seeds. Juice has the same bright color as orange juice and is delicious. Heirloom variety. Indeterminate. 80 days.
Named for the high levels of natural sugars contained in every bite, these super-sweet fruit are elongated and weigh up to 1 ounce. They measure ¾ of an inch to 1 ¼ inches in length. Early maturity will make this one of the first tomatoes you can harvest in your garden, and likely the sweetest. Indeterminate 50 – 55 days.
Yellow-green, frying-type pepper. 6 inch long fruits have thin walls and waxy flesh. Excellent split and fried in olive oil but also a sweet and crisp addition to salads. 65 days.
Both a home garden favorite and a commercially preferred cantaloupe for those who pick and ship fruit. The thick netting, and a strong rind provides good shelf life. The 5 to 6 pound fruit are delicious and aromatic with beautiful bright orange flesh. Disease resistance to fusarium (0-2) and powdery mildew, gives Athena an ability to perform well in many environments. Harvest when the melon easily slips from the vine with a light pull. 75 days.