Heirloom Seeds for Indiana

45 days. Looking for dark leafy greens? Look no further. This spinach is deep green with glossy, savoy (wavy) leaves full of healthy carotenoids like beta-carotene. Leaves are sweet and succulent and great raw or cooked. Plants are bolt-resistant and slow-growing, so it is better for spring gro...

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Detroit Dark Red Beet

60 days. Erica first came across the Detroit Dark Red beet in 1997 as a farm apprentice in Santa Cruz, CA and thought, "why is this beet named after Detroit?" A Michigan native herself, Erica could not believe this sweet beet hailed from the Motor City. Apparently, it's relatively unknown that ...

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Chicago Pickling Cucumber

58 days. This is a great slicing cucumber! We first grew Chicago Pickling as a part of Slow Food’s Great Lakes Heirloom Seed project in 2011 and we were hooked. Even though it is a "pickling" type cucumber it is crisp, light and refreshing as a slicing cucumber with a sublime sweetness not foun...

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De Cicco Broccoli

50-60 days. We have been growing De Cicco for 13 years because it is one of the best open-pollinated varieties of heading broccoli. Italian in origin, De Cicco was brought to the US in 1890. It's perfect for gardeners because after producing the main broccoli head, it will produce a continuous ...

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Early Detroit Tomato

74 days. Early Detroit is a medium sized, round, pink, slicing tomato with excellent flavor. We first learned of the Early Detroit tomato in 2011 and have been working diligently ever since to bring it back to Michigan! Early Detroit was released by D.M. Ferry seed company of Detroit, Michigan...

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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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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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Clear Dawn Onion

105 days. For many years we grew and depended on Copra hybrid as a reliable storage onion … then we found Clear Dawn! It is the result of 36 years of breeding work by a group of Biodynamic market gardeners who dehybridized Copra to get open-pollinated Clear Dawn. Similar to Copra, it is a mediu...

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Alive Vates Kale

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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Dottenfelder Cabbage

90 days. Green, storage cabbage with nice and sweet flavor. We are so excited to offer this great, open-pollinated storage/kraut cabbage especially in light of the domination of hybrid cabbage in the seed industry! Dottenfelder was bred by German Biodynamic Seed breeder Dieter Bauer and was mad...

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Black Cherry Tomato

65-75 days. Cherry tomato with delicious, complex flavor that is sweet, juicy, rich, and savory. Black Cherry was the winner of our 2017 trial of dark colored, cherry tomatoes. We were searching for a cherry tomato with the flavor of a full-size heirloom beefsteak, and we found it! Our strain i...

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Amish Paste Tomato

85 days. Amish Paste is a delightfully juicy, full-flavored salad tomato. In fact, it's listed on Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste (see Resources) because it's so darn good! An Amish variety from Lancaster, PA, these tomatoes offer a perfect combination of salty and sweet. It's Erica's mom's favori...

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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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Cupidon Bean

55 days. High-yielding French filet bean with narrow and round, 7-inch long green pods. Bush type plants produce high yields of crisp yet tender pods. Pleasant mellow flavor. Great eaten raw in salads. Called Haricot Verts in French, these beans are traditionally prepared lightly steamed and se...

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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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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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Champion Collard

70 days. We think collards are underutilized in the garden and kitchen. It’s just about the easiest vegetable to grow. Started in the early spring, collards will produce copious amounts of greens from spring through late fall. Champion is quite cold hardy and with luck (and perhaps some protect...

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Candystick Delicata Squash

90 days. For those who think no meal is complete without something sweet, we offer you Candystick Delicata! Released by master breeder and author Carol Deppe, who first inspired us to start breeding tomatoes over 15 years ago. She selected this squash for thick flesh, luscious texture, top-notc...

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Beaver Dam Hot Pepper

90 days. This pepper was brought to the Great Lakes Region (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) in 1912 by a Hungarian family. Listed in the Slow Food Ark of Taste, this gorgeous pepper is quite unique. Beaver Dam offers the complex, sugary flavor and eating qualities of a sweet pepper, but it pairs these q...

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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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Early Moonbeam Watermelon

75 days. Capture the glow of the summer sunshine in a convenient sized watermelon that will fit into your refrigerator and picnic basket! This is a yellow-fleshed, “icebox” sized watermelon that grows to 5-8 lbs. This variety was bred for northern growers by genius plant breeder Dr. Alan Kapule...

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Bouquet Dill

50 days (leaf harvest), 100 days (seed). Bouquet dill has edible leaves, flowers, and seeds. It is easy to start from seed and grows quickly, making it an easy choice for an herb garden. It can be grown tucked away in any corner and also works well in a pot. Use the fresh leaves (aka “dill weed...

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Blush Tomato

84 days. Blush is a perfect example of needed innovation in the breeding of open-pollinated crops. Introduced in 2011 by farmer/breeder Fred Hempel of Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, CA. Blush is vigorous, productive and boy is it tasty! Fruits are oval, 2- 2½" long, exhibiting a light gold skin wi...

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Castelfranco Chicory

70 days. Chicory is coveted by top-end chefs, especially in the Pacific Northwest, where its cold hardiness lends itself to wintertime local production. We have been experimenting with hoophouse production here in Michigan and have found Castelfranco to be extremely hardy. This variety survived...

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Bronze Fennel

55 days. Bronze Fennel is a shade tolerant, edible, reseeding perennial. Green, purple and bronze-tinged leaves add a welcomed visual texture to any garden. Plant height at flowering is 4 - 5’. Bronze fennel’s leaves are edible and have a flavor that is delicate and milder than common fennel. S...

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Earl's Red Beefsteak

95 days. A classic American, red tomato. One taste of Earl’s Red Beefsteak instantly transports me back to my enchanted garden of childhood. Excellent, classic tomato flavor with a perfect balance of sweet and tart. Fruit are 3” diameter, fairly uniform and meaty but never mushy. Fruit are more...

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Blue Star Gai Lan

45 days. Gai Lan is an essential and beloved vegetable in Chinese and Thai culinary traditions. It’s easy to grow and tastes great! Plants are harvested whole, similar to but larger than broccoli raab/rapini, with thick edible stems, leaves and flower buds. Being from tropical Asia, most Gai L...

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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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Curly Roja Kale

55 days. A perfect companion to Blue Curled or Alive Vates and other curly green kales, Curly Roja was the best red kale in our 2017 kale trial. We grew this variety as part of the University of Wisconsin’s Seed-to-Kitchen organic seed trials. Deeply ruffled, tender leaves with impressive purpl...

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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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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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Badger Flame Beet

55 days baby, 80 days full size. Gorgeous fire orange beet with concentric rings similar to Chioggia - it is as tasty as it looks! Badger Flame lacks the “dirt” flavor that some eaters dislike in beets. In our trial these beets, when harvested young, remained sweet and tender even during the he...

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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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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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Amaura Upland Rice

100 days. This landrace variety from Uzbekistan was the most productive and early upland rice in our 2018 trial. Classified as a short-grain brown rice, Amaura grows well when watered with drip irrigation like corn. We originally received these seeds from Indiana farmer John Sherck, who genero...

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Dragon Carrot

85 days. We have been growing Dragon since 2005 because we love it so much! Bred by master organic plant breeder John Navazio, founder of the Organic Seed Alliance. This carrot exhibits a unique purple exterior, orange flesh and yellow core. How cool is that? But more importantly, it tastes sw...

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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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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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Easy Cut Flat Parsley

A German flat-leaved parsley similar to Italian Flat. It is named “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 means t...

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Early Fortune Cucumber

OUT-OF-STOCK FOR 2021. 60 days. This slicing cucumber originated in Royal Oak, MI right around the turn of the 20th century, back when our public universities worked on breeding open-pollinated, non-GMO and public domain seeds. It was selected by George Starr, a Michigan State University extens...

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Diamond Eggplant

70 days. We think that eggplants are underutilized on American plates – it is all about how you cook it! So, we are bringing you Diamond, which when cooked right will turn any eggplant skeptic into an eggplant lover. Classic eggplant shape with very dark purple skin and creamy flesh on short, p...

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Ancho Poblano Hot Pepper

68 days green. Poblanos are 3-6” long, dark green and mild to medium heat. From Puebla, Mexico, sweet and spicy poblanos are popular in chile rellenos (stuffed peppers). They are also good for salsa, mole poblano, grilling, stir frying, or roasting. These chiles are often roasted and peeled bef...

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Children's Choice Collection

This collection is perfectly designed for kids. The seeds are easy to grow and the plants are full of interesting colors, shapes, flavors and smells! The collection comes wrapped with decorative, natural string. Growing instructions found on each seed packet. Contains 9 varieties of crops that ar...

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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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