Brandywine Tomato (Sudduth's Strain)
90 days. This Brandywine strain is THE quintessential heirloom tomato that brought heirlooms to fame. Large, pink, juicy beefsteak with exquisite flavor and many folks will agree that, hands down, it is the best tasting tomato around. We love it so much we've been growing it since 1999! In the ...
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Brandywine Tomato (Turtle Tree Strain)
90 days. For many years we have been in search of a Brandywine that is vigorous and prolific and we found it! This Pink Brandywine yields large quantities of large, pink beefsteak tomatoes with very good flavor. This strain was re-selected by Turtle Tree Seed in 2007 and we thank them for their...
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Brûlée Butternut Winter Squash
93 days. Sweet and creamy, this mini-butternut matures early making it ideal for northern growers. Aptly named for the French dessert Crème Brûlée it is a delightful and healthy comfort food on a cold winter day! Bred by Michael Mazourek’s innovative breeding program at Cornell, it is productiv...
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Burgess Buttercup Winter Squash
95 days. In pursuit of a great tasting buttercup squash, we decided to try Burgess because of its Great Lakes roots and we were definitely pleased with our choice. Buttercup squashes belong to the species Cucurbita maxima, originating in South America and domesticated by Native Americans. Butte...
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Cañoncito Field 7 Landrace Hot Pepper
65 days. An unusually vigorous plant with very fast germination, growth, and flower set. It produces 3-6” long green-to-red hot peppers with thin skins and a variety of shapes, flavors and heat ranging from mild to medium. Good for drying, roasting and general kitchen use. This is a landrace f...
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Chocolate Cake Sweet Bell Pepper
85-90 days. Our favorite chocolate-brown bell pepper with standout sweetness and a bold color that contrasts beautifully in a fresh salad or veggie tray. This variety was introduced by prolific pepper breeder, Doug Jones, who selected for earliness, productivity, and deliciousness. Pepper shape...
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Corona Orange Sweet Bell Pepper
65 days green, 85 orange ripe. Top-notch orange sweet bell peppers. Blocky, uniform deep orange fruit are 3½” wide with 3-4 lobes that are flavorful and sweet and win taste tests over orange supermarket peppers any day. Plants are vigorous and productive, reaching 4’ tall, so the plants benefit...
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Growing-In-Place Cherry Tomato
60 days. This juicy, currant type, deep red, round tomato is the size of a small cherry sporting mouth-popping, bold flavor. It was a real hit at our local HomeGrown Festival 2014. Perfect in salads and kids love them! Plants are vigorous and yield large quantities of clustered fruits all summe...
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Hori-Hori Japanese Weeding Knife
This Japanese tool is top-notch quality and has been our favorite hand weeding tool for more than 20 years. It is an all-purpose tool for digging, transplanting and weeding. The strong carbon-steel blade is nearly non-bendable and perfect for removing stubborn weeds like dandelions in clay so...
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Isbell's Golden Colossal Tomato
85 days. Lemon-yellow fruits blush red on the bottom and boast a robust flavor with a perfect combo of sweet and tart. A winner of our 2017 Harvest Festival heirloom tasting - Mike says this is his favorite yellow tomato! Listed in the 1915 catalog of Isbell’s & Co of Jackson, Michigan just...
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Livingston's Golden Queen Tomato
80 days. This tomato was introduced in 1882 by pioneering seedsman Alexander W. Livingston of Columbus, Ohio. A.W. Livingston is best known for introducing a large number of tomatoes to the Great Lakes region around the turn of the 20th century. Vigorous plants produce round, medium sized (3½” ...
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Maule's Philadelphia Butter Lettuce
50-60 days. A classic heirloom lettuce with documented history tracing back to the 1800’s. This is a tender, green butterhead lettuce that may have very slight tinges of brownish red at the outer edge of the leaves. Reliable and cold hardy, it grows well in protected culture, and outdoors in th...
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Mega Marconi Tall Sweet Pepper
95 days. This gigantic sweet pepper is a show stopper! Italian-type sweet peppers are 6-8 inches long, 3 inches wide and are blocky shaped with a blunt tip. Fruits have thick walls that ripen to red with a sweet, almost smoky taste. Great raw or cooked – grilling or roasting enhances their incr...
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Michigan Wonder Sweet Bell Pepper
65 days green, 90 red. If you like green bell peppers, you will love Michigan Wonder – a beautiful pepper with a satisfying crunch! Peppers are blocky and medium sized (4-5” long), with thick walls. Fruits will event eventually ripen red, but take advantage of this variety’s earliness by harves...
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Miss Jekyll Blue Love-in-a-Mist
65-70 days. Popping, true-blue flowers bring bounding color to every garden. Erica first fell in love with Miss Jekyll Blue in 1998 as a farm apprentice at the University of California and this love affair still flourishes. Up-close the blue flowers are elaborately delightful, and with time, tr...
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Orange Zinger Calendula Flowers
90 days. Eye-popping edible flowers make this variety both attractive and useful. Stunning orange flower petals brighten salads or can be used to make skin-healing oils and salves. Long stems (18-24”) make this calendula good for cut flowers. Calendula is versatile, easy to grow from seed and a...
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Seed Heating Mat for Starting Seeds
Start your seeds off right with heating mats! Most seeds like warm temperatures during germination. Heating mats will warm the soil from below creating perfect conditions for good seed germination. Heating mats are especially helpful for starting tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, melons, basi...
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Sheepnose Pimento Sweet Pepper
75 days. This is sweet pepper perfection! Peppers are 3 - 4" in diameter. Pimento peppers were widely grown before bell peppers came to dominate the sweet pepper scene. Pimento peppers are round and squat-shaped and are known for their sweet, fruity, aromatic flavor and early ripening. Erica ha...
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Wisconsin Lakes Sweet Bell Pepper
75-85 days. Classic sweet bell pepper great for northern growers. Eat it green or red ripe. Medium sized (4-5” long), all-purpose bell pepper with very sweet and crunchy walls. This pepper is productive and early maturing. Another great Midwest variety out of the University of Wisconsin, Madiso...
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Painter's Palette Blanket Flower
One of Erica’s longtime favorites, Painter’s Palette Blanket Flower is bright, whimsical, and adds bursts of bright color to gardens. This perennial is native to prairies west of the Rocky Mountains and grows in poor, dry soils. Blooms all summer from July – September, supporting many bee speci...
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