Seeds

Heirloom variety brought back to this country from Bulgaria yields an abundance of medium-sized, 5 to 6-ounce, round red tomatoes. The fruit may look ordinary, but its taste is not. It is delectable- a complex flavor that is both sweet and tangy at the same time and very juicy. Indeterminate. 78 days.

Slender Asian type eggplant are white with faint stripes of pale lavender, as if delicately colored with a paintbrush barely dipped in paint. Fruit become about 8 inches long with white flesh and an excellent, mild flavor. Plants are compact and well-branched, bearing 2 to 3 eggplant per cluster. 65 days.

When I first grew this variety, I was pleasantly surprised to find a delicious large orange beefsteak that was so fast to ripen and a very heavy producer. The tomatoes are a lovely pale orange color and weigh at least 12 ozs. and up to 2 lbs. with a truly wonderful flavor. Seed came to this country from tomatoes bought at a farmers' market in Minsk, Belarus. Indeterminate. 70 to 80 days.

Like the previous hybrid La Roma tomato, number IV will make your day. You can count on a productive plant with disease resistance and fruit that is perfect for canning, making sauces, or paste. The roma-shaped fruit weighs 4 to 6 ounces and has full flavor. Determinate. 70-75 days.

This heirloom strain offers large purplish-pink fruit that are sweetly flavored and almost all solid meat. The tomatoes are much like those of Giant Belgium, but a little flatter in shape. Indeterminate. 85 days.

The heirloom Black Brandywine was created before 1930 and has been delighting gardeners ever since. The skin is dark and bold, with succulent and delicious flesh within when you take a bite. Fruit can weigh up to 1 pound. This potato-leafed variety offers slightly better leaf cover than the regular leaf plants. Indeterminate. 80-85 days.

Yummy Snack Orange hybrid pepper produces deliciously sweet, and crunchy fruit that are fun to eat. The fruit mature from emerald green to brilliant orange on a plant that continues to produce over the growing season. Pick the ripe fruit each morning and take them with you to snack on during the day! The fruit are 3 ¼ to 3 ¾ inches long, and 1 ¼ inches in width. There are few seeds and plenty of flavor in each bite. Due to the continued fruiting in most environments, plants benefit from support stakes. Well-suited for growing in containers of at least 3 ½ gallons. 65-75 days.

Big tomato flavor wrapped up in a medium-sized round, red tomato is what this variety is all about. Tall, vigorous plants grow very plentiful harvests of these versatile and attractive fruits with an assertive yet delicious taste. Even beginning gardeners will find this one easy to grow. Indeterminate. 78 days.

Developed by the company that brought you the Momotaro tomato (we affectionately refer to this as Momotaro Gold at Tomato Growers). Heavy production of bright gold to golden orange, 7 to 8-ounce fruit that are super-sweet and that can set in colder temperatures. Produces over a long period. Works well in greenhouses, high tunnels, and home gardens. Resists blossom end rot and cracking. Great for roadside stands. Strong disease package ToMV, F 1+2, V, SB, and nematode. Indeterminate. 75 days.

This heirloom tomato was originally from the Livingston Collection and was offered for the first time about 1900. Potato-leaved plants yield plenty of dark pink, smooth round fruit weighing about 6 ozs. each. The fruit is sweet, juicy and very flavorful, just right for summertime salads or sandwiches. Indeterminate. 73 days.

A very popular home garden onion due to mild pungency, a sweet flavor, and wide adaptability. We would normally call it a mid-day onion, but with extremely wide adaptability we'll say it's day-neutral as well. That means it will produce almost everywhere, except most southern and northern parts of the US. The beautiful golden skin covers white flesh that is perfect for eating on a sandwich, in stir-fry, or in just about anything that requires an onion. You can transplant or direct seed. Bulbs hold after harvest for a few months. Early maturity. 85 days.

An ornamental piquin-type chile with purple foliage and flowers. Tiny peppers ripen from purple to yellow, orange, and finally to red. Compact plants are well suited to container growing. While the pungent fruit is edible, it is usually just used as an ornamental. 120 days.