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Asian Greens

Radishes - Leaf & Pod

Rat-tail - ECOunavailable, crop failure
2264  (50 days) Open-pollinated. Asian heirloom, Specialty. Grown for its immature purple-green pungent seed pods. Harvest young for best quality. read more

Beans

Dry Beans

Dry Bean
Agate Pinto - ECO
366 (92 days) Mostly bush prolific pinto with medium-sized slightly flattened mottled beans of rich spicy flavor and creamy texture. Does well in the... read more
Dry Bean
Jacob’s Cattle - ECO
343  (88 days) Open-pollinated. Kidney-shaped bean with dark red speckles on white background. Popular New England heirloom. read more
Maine Sunset - ECOsold out, substitute 353.
337  (85 days) Open-pollinated. Maine heirloom. Beautiful plump ivory beans with brownish-maroon splashes around the hilum. Wonderful baking bean: creamy texture and rich flavor. read more
Marfax - ECOsold out, substitute 339.
338  (86 days) Open-pollinated. Golden tan seed. High yielding. Adapted to cool climates. read more
Dry Bean
Mitla - ECO
320 (85 days) Though this variety first came to us as a tepary bean, it is not. Acting on a tip from Tim Springston of Oxbow Farm in Erin, NY, we grew... read more
Dry Bean
Monos Negros - ECO
358 (90 days) Open-pollinated. The name means ‘black monkeys’ in Spanish. Marina Davis brought this small heirloom black bean to our attention. Plant... read more
Dry Bean
Saturday Night Special - ECO
388 (105 days) Legendary plant breeder Elwyn Meader was hired by famous Maine baked bean company B&M (founded 1867) to breed a pea bean that would... read more
Dry Bean
Soldier - ECO
349  (89 days) Open-pollinated. Large white kidney bean with red-brown solider-like figures on the eye. Popular New England bean. read more

Lima Beans

Packers - ECOunavailable, poor germination
323 (100 days) Last offered in 2016, the opening sentence of our description was written in 1999: “With global warming apparently bringing later fall... read more

Pole Beans

Pole Bean
Dolloff - ECO
362 (70 days shell, 90 days dry) The first time I cooked up a mess of Dolloff beans I was hooked: rich, substantial, meaty—everything I want in a... read more

Shell & Dry Beans

Shell & Dry Bean
Fast Lady Northern - ECO
321  (65 days) Open-pollinated. Southern pea for the North! Small white bean matures quickly. Easy-to-pick yellow pods. Beautiful yellow flowers on bushy semi-erect plants. read more
Shell & Dry Bean
Tiger’s Eye - ECO
335 (65 days shell, 85 days dry) Also called Pepa de Zapallo, originally from Argentina and Chile. Among the most beautiful of all beans, bright... read more

Grains

Barley

Barley
Burbank Hulless - ECO
4303 Hordeum vulgare An historic 6-rowed barley selected by Luther Burbank from California hulless barley. In his final seed catalog he called it "one... read more

Greens

Perennial Greens

Perennial Green
Caucasian Mountain Spinach - ECO
2590 Hablitzia tamnoides Open-pollinated. Perennial spinach-like green. Hardy vine from the Caucasus grows 6-9' long for 2-3 months beginning very early spring. Heart-shaped attractive leaves. read more
Perennial Green
Turkish Rocket - ECO
3195 Bunias orientalis Perennial, Zones 4-8. A few years ago, defeated by the resident flea beetle population. I gave up on growing brassicas in my... read more

Kale and Collards

Collards

Cascade Glaze - ECOsold out, substitute 3444.
3442 (60 days) A re-selection of the 1820 heirloom Green Glaze, by Alan Kapuler, Jeff McCormack and Carol Deppe. Endeared to southerners as “creasy” or... read more
Collard
Variegated - ECO
3444  (61 days) Open-pollinated. Florida heirloom. Develops beautiful white ribs that contrast with yellow-green leaves at maturity. read more

Lettuce

Looseleaf Lettuce

De Morges Braun - ECOsold out, substitute 2766.
2787 (64 days) This bronze beauty is noteworthy among the hundreds of lettuces we’ve grown for its shimmery color and smooth buttery texture. Grows... read more

Peppers

Elongated Sweet Peppers

Elongated Sweet Pepper
Mega Marconi - ECO
3736  (90 days) Open-pollinated. Heavy early fruit set of 2½x8" tender-skinned Italian-style Lamuyo peppers. read more
Elongated Sweet Pepper
Odessa Market - ECO
3772  (87 days) Open-pollinated. Heirloom from Ukraine. Dark leaves form a protective canopy. 2¼x4½" tapered peppers ripen from lime to orange to red. read more

Sweet Bells

Sweet Bell
Chocolate Cake - ECO
3737  (90 days) Open-pollinated. Rich reddish-brown 3½x3½" blocky thick-walled pepper. Meaty, sweet, delicious and flavorful even when green. read more

Physalis

Cape Gooseberries

Cape Gooseberry
Ambrosia - ECO
4009 (115 days) Open-pollinated. Physalis peruviana The grower calls this his heart-plant and we can see why, if only because we fell instantly in love... read more

Tomatoes

Paste Tomatoes

Paste Tomato
Vilms - ECO
4136 (82 days) Open-pollinated. Indeterminate. What struck me first were the plants: so green, so healthy, without the frilly fern-leaf foliage of most... read more

Slicing Tomatoes

Mary Reynolds - ECOsold out, substitute 4065.
4078 (85 days) Open-pollinated. Indeterminate. In last year’s taste trials the rich pumpkin-orange color of these 1 lb beefsteaks were a marvel on the... read more

Small-Fruited Tomatoes

Honeydrop - ECOsold out, substitute 4112.
4106 (62 days) Open-pollinated. Rampant Indeterminate. From a selection of F-1 Sunsugar, Rachel and Tevis Robertson-Goldberg of Crabapple Farm in... read more
Small-Fruited Tomato
Pocket Star - ECO
4113 (74 days) Open-pollinated. Indeterminate. Two years ago after giving one of my Grow-for-Fedco talks at Common Ground Fair, a young farmer newly... read more

Watermelons

Red & Pink Flesh

Red & Pink Flesh
Sunsweet - ECO
1046 (85 days) Open-pollinated. Though it loves warm locales, Sunsweet is adapted almost anywhere. Our melon trialers in central Maine have harvested... read more
Red & Pink Flesh
Verona - ECO
1047 (86 days) We found this rare large red oblong watermelon through Seeds of Change. Verona was introduced in 1965 in Mississippi. One of its parents... read more