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55 days. This curly green kale is the result of years of selection by Oregon’s Don Tipping of Seven Seeds Farm, and we just love it! Leaves are tender and frilly. Plants are taller than Blue Curled Vates, which is good if you can’t keep up with the weeds. We love how easy kale is to grow - plan...

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Arugula

Baby salad greens (25 days); mature (45 days). Originating from the Mediterranean region, Arugula is a cool weather loving plant – grow it outdoors in spring and fall or in a hoophouse over the winter (see Growing Instructions tab). This versatile plant can be grown as an edible cover crop/grou...

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Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry

70 days. If you have never eaten a ground cherry, do yourself a favor and try these small, delectable fruits. These juicy, golden morsels are packed with sweet, tropical flavors reminiscent of pineapples. Scrumptious raw or added to smoothies, our customers have also enjoyed ground cherries in ...

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Butterbush Winter Squash

87 days. Didn’t think you could grow butternut squash? Think again! This excellent flavored butternut type squash is perfect for space-constrained gardeners because vines are dwarf. Early ripening makes them a great choice for northern gardeners with a short growing season. Butterbush squash ar...

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Chives

90 days. Chive is an easy-to-grow, perennial green onion. Leaves are round like a green onion but narrower. Leaves grow to 12" tall; flower heads reach a height of 20". This is a cold hardy plant, so it can be harvested early in spring and late into fall. It's also a great permaculture plant be...

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Dark Star Zucchini

55 days. For those who love green zucchini, Dark Star is a top pick. Bred through a collaboration of the Organic Seed Alliance and Eel River Farms, with a goal to create an open-pollinated zucchini that is reliably uniform and dark green. This one gives the corporate-owned hybrid zucchini seeds...

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Dazzling Blue Kale

60 days. Dazzling Blue is a lacinato (aka dinosaur) type kale with blue-green savoyed (wavy) leaves that turn under at the edges, and a bright pink stem in the middle. Hank Keogh tapped into the gene pool that his boss, Frank Morton, used to develop the Rainbow Lacinato at Wild Garden Seed in P...

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Doe Hill Sweet Pepper

70 days. A most unusual heirloom pepper that is early, prolific, and has standout flavor. We love these fruits because they remind us of Sheepnose Pimento, one of our all-time favorites. Orange, thick crisp walls are oh-so-sweet, fruity, and scrumptious! Fruits are a bit smaller than Sheepnose ...

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Easy Cut Flat Parsley

A German flat leaved parsley similar to Italian Flat. Its name means “easy cut” because its upright habit makes it easy to harvest. These parsley seeds are from our friends at Adaptive Seeds in Oregon who have been growing this variety for many years. Dark green leaves are cold hardy which mean...

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Genovese Basil

68 days. Traditional Italian basil used for classic pesto. Fabulous, highly fragrant, sweet, pure "basil" flavor. Compact plants produce lots of leaves for harvest. The name comes from the Italian word "Genoese" (or that which comes from the region of Genoa) where Genovese Basil is still grown ...

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Isbell's Big Dwarf Tomato

90 days. Big tomatoes on a dwarf plant! High yielding, dwarf plant perfect for containers and small gardens. Bushy plants have thick stems loaded with medium sized, pink beefsteak fruits. Flavor is meaty with a delicate balance of sweet and acid. Bred by Isbell’s & Co of Jackson, Michigan i...

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Melrose Sweet Pepper

65-70 days. Celebrate Chicago and Italian-American heritage with this delectable, sweet pepper! We are blown away with Melrose’s earliness and high yield – so many peppers that we were giving them away! This heirloom was brought to Melrose Park, IL by the Napolitano family (later renamed Naples...

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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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Mizuna Mustard Greens

25 days for baby greens, 40 days mature. We have been growing this Japanese mustard green since 1999 because of its fast growth and versatility. Grow it whenever: spring, summer, fall or winter. Cold hardy to about 15 °F inside a hoophouse (cover it when temps dip below 15 °F). Unlike most fall...

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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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Osaka Hardy Mustard Greens

20 days baby, 40 days full size. Osaka Hardy is a Nature & Nurture Farm original. It began with Purple Osaka mustard growing in our hoophouse through 2 polar vortex winters 2014 & 2015 where outdoor temps reached -20°. We saved seeds from the survivors and we are very pleased with the r...

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Pink Passion Chard

67 days. Vivacious fuchsia stems contrast with forest green leaves to add a fabulous flash of color to your garden! While we chose to test this variety because of its stunning appearance, we knew we had to offer this seed when we tasted the smooth, tender leaves. We think that chard is underapp...

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Pokey Joe Cilantro

55 days. Think all cilantros taste the same? Think again. Pokey Joe has won several taste trials on the West Coast. It's mild, yet cilantro-y flavor lends it versatility in the kitchen. With Pokey Joe, slow and steady wins the race: bushy, leafy growth means lots of leaves for harvest. Slower g...

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Rosella Purple Tomato

74 days. For those trying to grow heirloom beefsteak tomatoes in containers or small gardens Rosella Purple is a top choice. The Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project has been releasing an abundance of new dwarf varieties and Rosella Purple was one of the original releases in 2010. 6-10 oz fruits with ...

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Russian Hunger Gap Kale

An extremely tender kale, Russian Hunger Gap is great for baby-salad-greens and also has delectable mature leaves. It is a Red Russian type of kale known for mild flavor and tenderness. Dazzling blue-green leaves have red-purple veins and moderate frills that are pretty enough for your front ya...

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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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Siber Frill Kale

65 days. Breathtakingly gorgeous, lacy and curled, blue-green leaved Siberian kale. Stays tender and increases frill with age, making it suitable for salads that ordinarily call for baby kale. Stems become fairly thick and have a juicy sweetness and satisfying crunch. Bred by Jonathan Spero of ...

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Sweet Thai Basil

65 days. Basil originated in Southeast Asia and later spread throughout the world leading to the subsequent development of many varieties. Thai Basil is unique from other basils—purple stemmed and distinct in flavor. Even if it flowers, just keep harvesting; it doesn't turn bitter! More cold to...

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Tiny Chinese Hot Pepper

85-95 days. This beautiful pepper is a compact bushy plant that produces hundreds of tiny red chili peppers pointing up towards the sky. Exquisitely small fruit are ½” long by ¼” wide, the smallest peppers that we have ever seen. The unusual leaves are tiny too. Plants are very ornamental and g...

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Fatalii Hot Pepper

95 days. This very hot pepper originated in Central Africa, but performs well at our farm in southeast Michigan. 2” long pointed yellow pods with thin flesh. Fatalii has high concentrations of dihydrocapsaicin, which provides a slow release heat that hits you about 30 seconds after biting. A fa...

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Feurio Chard

60 days. Gorgeous red-stemmed chard with tender, succulent leaves and thick crunchy stems. A rhubarb type chard with curly “savoy” leaves range in color from bright green to red to burgundy. Upright plants are easy to harvest and regrow quickly for cut-and-come-again chard. Red-stemmed chards a...

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Garlic Chives

90 days. Garlic Chive is a perennial plant similar to common chives, but distinguishable by their flat, broader leaves and fragrant white flowers. This is an all-around great plant for gardeners! Resistant to common animal pests (deer, groundhogs, rabbits). Cold hardy and tolerant of deep shade...

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Grand Rapids Lettuce

28 days baby, 50 days mature. In our never-ending pursuit to recover the long-lost history of agriculture in the Great Lakes region, we fortunately stumbled upon “Grand Rapids” lettuce, which tells a story of the region that began over 100 years ago. Bred in the late 1800’s by Eugene Davis, kno...

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Jazzy Leaf Lettuce Mix

30 days baby. A fabulous mix of wine red, neon green, and colors in-between! This is a seed mix from one of Erica’s lettuce breeding adventures. Loose leaf lettuces make a great cut-and-come-again salad mix. Will form loose heads if left to mature. This mix is particularly cold hardy and resist...

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Krausa Curly Parsley

70-85 days. This is our 2019 substitute for Moss Curled Parsley. Extra-ruffled green parsley with flavorful, robust stems that stay more upright and colorful into the fall. Grows to nearly one foot tall. Usually grown as an annual, parsley is actually a biennial. This means that in its first ye...

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Little Gem Lettuce

30 days baby, 55 days head. Little Gem is a cross between butterhead and romaine, giving it the unique trait of having romaine’s crunch with the sweetness and small size of a butterhead. Can be grown for baby greens or for heads. Baby leaves can be grown as cut-and-come-again (they grow upright...

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Lunchbox Orange Sweet Pepper

80 days. Fruity, snacking pepper that is sweet as candy entices kids of all ages into the garden – no one can resist eating these straight off the plant! Bright orange mini peppers (W 3” x 1½” H) are convenient healthy snacks that you can pack in your lunch. Satisfying crunch on salads and sand...

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Moss Curled Parsley

UNAVAILABLE FOR 2019. Try our substitute, Krausa Curly Parsley. 70-85 days. This is standard curly parsley. Fast-growing, high-yielding and can be squeezed into any garden. Cold hardy. Harvest it into the fall when other crops are done. Grows to 10” tall. Usually grown as an annual, parsley is...

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Parisian Carrot

60 days. This early, "French Forcing" type carrot is easy to grow. Introduced to the US around 1861, it was widely cultivated by the turn of the century (this was your Great Grandparents' carrot). Round-shaped, root length is 1¼ - 1¾". Due to its short root, Parisian grows well in clay and rock...

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Perennial Arugula

50 days. Also known as Wild Roquette or Perennial Wall-Rocket, this biennial (or short-lived perennial) produces edible greens that taste similar to annual arugula. Perennial Arugula is a great addition to permaculture gardens because it re-seeds, filling in bare spaces with a wonderful edible ...

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Wisconsin Lakes Sweet Bell Pepper

75-85 days. Classic sweet bell pepper great for northern growers. Medium sized (4-5” long), fire engine red, all-purpose bell pepper with very sweet and crunchy walls. This pepper is productive and early maturing. Fruit can be picked green or red. Another great Midwest variety out of the Univer...

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Container Garden Collection

If your gardening space is a bit tight, check out this mix of herbs and veggies that grow great in pots. Place pots in a sunny spot outdoors and watch these varieties fill your containers with scrumptious produce for spring, summer, and fall. The seed collection comes wrapped with decorative, nat...

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