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Korean Gold- A delicious sweet potato that is popular in Korea. We consider this the most delicious sweet potato that we have ever tried. The flavor is sweet and floral, with a texture that is perfectly balanced. Asian sweet potatoes are known to be dense and dry in texture; this variety has a perfect creamy/dry texture. From topping pizzas to serving whole roasted as a snack at street markets, the sweet potato is ubiquitous in Korean cuisine, and much beloved. It is perfect for making goguma mattang, a Korean side dish where the sweet potato is caramelized. It is also an excellent general-purpose sweet potato for making your favorite muffins and breads, or eating straight up. Please consider these terms before ordering live plants: Most plants will be 3”-7” in height. All plants will ship prompt as available. Please make sure you are ready for your order in your zone as these young, tender plants generally have no resistance to cold.
(Ipomoea batatas) Delicious! Early production of stunning magenta skinned tubers that have flavorful, butter-yellow flesh that is blushed with pretty pink streaks. You will adore this wonderful heirloom from beautiful Myanmar. This variety makes a stunning addition to any sweet potato dish! Please consider these terms before ordering live plants: Most plants will be 3”-7” in height. All plants will ship prompt as available. Please make sure you are ready for your order in your zone as these young, tender plants generally have no resistance to cold.
A delicious old-fashioned sweet potato that has golden-red skin and moist, flavorful flesh that is bright orange in color. The short bush-like vines produce good sized “clusters” of these earthly jewels. Easy to dig and grows well in our gardens. This variety was common for about 75 years and the first known mention was in 1868, but in modern times it has disappeared. So we are happy to bring it back into circulation and back to America’s dinner tables. A tasty treat that is part of our country’s history, although it may have been introduced here from Brazil. Very rare and hard to find! Please consider these terms before ordering live plants: Most plants will be 3”-7” in height. All plants will ship prompt as available. Please make sure you are ready for your order in your zone as these young, tender plants generally have no resistance to cold.
This pretty, waxy, yellow-cream colored potato has tender skin and is perfect served with the skins on. Wonderful for both baby and regular potatoes. A famous German heirloom variety that was developed in the 1960s.
A wonderful deep cherry skinned potato that has pure white flesh of the best quality. A great producer of the highest quality. Certified seed potatoes.
This butter-yellow fleshed potato is famous for it's sweet, rich flavor. The prefered variety for many chefs and home cooks alike. A great all-purpose variety from Europe. Certified seed potatoes.
Descended from the first sweet potatoes to reach Japan prior to 1500. The purple coloration is connected with the high anthocyanin content. This one is documented to contain more of the potent antioxidant than even blueberries! Ivory-colored skin, brilliant purple flesh. Our favorite, but it takes a long season. Recommended for Zone 6b or warmer. Please consider these terms before ordering live plants: Most plants will be 3”-7” in height. All plants will ship prompt as available. Please make sure you are ready for your order in your zone as these young, tender plants generally have no resistance to cold. No orders shipped outside of the USA.
This crisp and delectable potato is the top choice for making potato chips! This widely adapted variety has a mid-season maturity and its creamy, white flesh is excellent for processing.
We offer micro potato tubers, which is a more reliably disease-free option for growing your potato crop! The micro tubers are propagated in a state-of-the-art tissue culture lab. They are grown much like standard potato tubers, but they are extra small and rigorously examined for high quality. Don’t let the small size of these precious, pea-sized tubers fool you, though. They are capable of growing into a massive yield of tasty taters. Please note that they will take a bit longer to mature than a standard tuber-grown potato, but the yields are comparable.
A red-skinned, white-fleshed potato excellent for baking and boiling. This mid season maturing, round variety is high yielding and easy to grow.
Plump, drier-fleshed type is medium creamy-golden skinned with cream-colored flesh. Remains firm and solid even when cooked. A delicious type for curries, stews and perfect as sweet potato fries, an old fashioned favorite that has appeared on the tables of the New Jersey families since 1780. Please consider these terms before ordering live plants: Most plants will be 3”-7” in height. All plants will ship prompt as available. Please make sure you are ready for your order in your zone as these young, tender plants generally have no resistance to cold.
This improved Russet type potato makes superior french fries! The plants are highly disease resistant and easy to grow. It is a reliable and rugged garden staple with delicious creamy texture and phenomenal flavor. A mid-to late-maturing variety.
Lilac - A gorgeous lilac purple sweet potato with gourmet flavor. This Asian-type sweet potato has a dry, firm texture that we love. Like most Asian types, the flesh is medium low in sweetness, but does not skimp in flavor -- it is one of the best purple varieties we’ve found. While it is similar in color to the Okinawan purple sweet potato, it is noted to be more productive in northern climates. Please consider these terms before ordering live plants: Most plants will be 3”-7” in height. All plants will ship prompt as available. Please make sure you are ready for your order in your zone as these young, tender plants generally have no resistance to cold.
95 days. The satiny soft texture and unmistakable chestnut flavor of this turban squash is reminiscent of the famous ancient Japanese bred kabochas. In reality, this exceptional variety was bred at North Dakota State University in the 1920s as a replacement for sweet potatoes. Northern researchers found a chance cross between the Essex and Quality varieties and they named their happy accident Buttercup. The rugged plants thrived in the notoriously brief N.D. growing season. Early maturity and natural insect resistance were appreciated by researchers, and exhaustive taste tests were conducted. Selection resulted in dusty aquamarine-colored fruit of perfect family serving size with bright orange flesh, of exceptional mild sweet flavor and creamy texture. University of North Dakota researchers exclaimed “Each squash weighs 3- 3.5 pounds just enough to serve 5-6 people in one meal with no leftovers”. The nutritious starchy flesh made a perfect substitute for those northern growers yearning for the elusive semi-tropical sweet potatoes of the South. A shining example of pre-industrialized breeding, where flavor and texture are considered equally important as yield and vigor.
Growing Tips: Direct seed, or set out transplants after last frost date. Don’t let transplants become rootbound; don't disturb roots while transplanting. Needs rich soil. Harvest when rinds become very hard.
80 days. The most popular heirloom vegetable! A favorite of many gardeners, large fruit with superb flavor. A great potato-leafed variety from 1885! Beautiful pink fruit up to 1½ lbs each!
Growing Tips: Start indoors 6-10 weeks before last frost. Heat mat helps to warm soil and speed germination.
100-120 days. Midseason. This Western European heirloom leek is celebrated for its fine culinary qualities as well as its reliable, uniform growing ability. An exemplary variety, it was given an Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. The RHS noted its uniform stems with resistance to bolting and bulbiness. Try this traditional European heirloom in Vichyssoise, potato and leek pie, gratins and more! Leaves are medium green with a thick white shank that is medium in length, about 18 inches long.
Growing Tips: Sow indoors in late winter. Set outdoors 6-8 weeks before last frost of spring into rich, finely-worked garden soil. Hill up plants for long white shanks.
85-90 days. One of the tomatoes that originally ignited the heirloom movement in America, this variety originated in Bavaria. It made its U.S. debut in 1883, brought here by Michael Ott, a great-grandfather of Seed Savers Exchange co-founder Diane Ott Whealy. The luxuriant potato-leaf plants give high yields of 1- to 2-lb, nearly seedless meaty fruit. The prestigious Slow Foods USA Ark of Taste enthused: “a full sweet flavor, even floral, and...tender skinned.” This gorgeous pink fruit is extremely versatile, excellent for canning and freezing but also for slicing and juicing. This one is sure to become a favorite in your garden!
AMAZING FLAVOR AND PRODUCTION! 95 days. The legendary pumpkin of the South and famously favored by Abraham Lincoln’s family! Also known as White Crookneck Pumpkin, the custardy, dry flesh is outstanding in pies and other traditional squash recipes. The flavor is rich and buttery and subtly sweet but not overly saccharine, which makes it widely versatile. Many old timers prepare the flesh just like potatoes, which is how we like them, just sautéed with a bit of garlic and olive oil. Southerners consider it the standard for pumpkin pie. This big, white fruit is oblong with a few faint small, green stripes, a crooked neck and bulbous bottom. The large vines are vigorous and especially well suited to the south and central U.S. Popular in southern Illinois, often cultivated in cornfields. A Native American squash that has an ancient history. Our foundation seed came from collector Kevin McCarty, who writes that the variety was grown continuously on a particular Illinois farm from 1830 to 1980, the original seed having been provided by Abraham Lincoln’s parents! Indeed, according to historical record, Thomas Lincoln purchased seeds for Cushaw squash at the trading post in Lexington, Ky, took it home and grew it on his farm in Hodgenville, KY. When the Lincolns moved to Indiana and finally, Illinois, their beloved family heirloom Cushaw joined them. Grow this most delectable piece of American history!
80-90 days. Potato leaf. This fine variety was sent to us by our friend, famed seed collector and food writer, William Woys Weaver, of Pennsylvania. It was passed down to him from his Quaker grandfather’s collection dating back to the 1920s. As to its history, Will states “The ‘true’ Black Brandywine was bred sometime in the late 1920s by Dr. Harold E. Martin (1888-1959), a dentist turned plant breeder who is best remembered today for his famous pole lima with huge seeds. Dr. Martin lived in Westtown, Penn., only a few miles from my grandfather’s place in West Chester, and the two were gardening buddies. It was through that connection that his grandfather managed to wheedle seed out of the good doctor, as well as the details on how he created it. Dr. Martin always had a high opinion of his plant creations and did not like to share them. He charged 25 cents a seed for his lima, unheard of in those days. And he never released his Black Brandywine to a seed company, nor did he share it with many people, so I am fairly certain it never circulated among growers like his popular lima bean. According to my grandfather, Black Brandywine was a controlled cross between Brandywine and the original brown Beefsteak tomato otherwise known as Fejee Improved. Fejee Improved is probably extinct.” We thank Will for entrusting us with this great-tasting tomato that is extra large in size and full of the deep, earthy and sweet flavor that has made blackish-purple tomatoes so popular. Some fruit tended to crack, but the yield was heavy, and the plants were vigorous and did well in our hot Missouri summer. Superior for salsa and cooking. We enjoyed these all summer, both fresh and in countless recipes. A great home garden variety that will surely become a favorite.
90 days. Superbly rich and delicious-tasting large fruit, the golden variety gives good yields and, in our opinion, the fruit is better tasting than Pink Brandywine. Large potato-leaf plants are very sturdy and deep green. This heirloom is delicious any way you eat it!
85 days. Potato leaf. The most productive and best tasting tomato in our trials! Large emerald-green fruit is over one pound in weight, uniform, very smooth and blemish-free. Color stays pure green even when dead ripe! Plants are very robust and require staking. Very few seeds; outstanding, complex flavor—very sweet and juicy.
75-85 days. Big, pink fruit are very rich-tasting, certainly a favorite pink tomato. This potato-leaf variety has a long history in the “Show Me” state. It was grown since the Civil War by the Barnes family, who grew it as an ornamental, believing (as many people did at the time) that tomatoes or “love apples” were poisonous. We are grateful the Barnes family kept this variety going so we can enjoy the wonderful fruit today.
60 days. This creamy, light green fruit has delicious, crisp, and juicy flesh. A sweet and mild Indian variety, it hails from the city of Poonah, or Pune, the cultural capital of the state of Maharashtra, India. There, it is popular in salads or juiced, and Pune street vendors sell these as a snack to beat the intense heat. They are simply divine when sliced and sprinkled with a bit of salt and pepper. Potato-shaped with yellow skin, it turns a handsome brown as it ripens. Disease resistant and very hardy, it is one of our best varieties. Vines produce early and the yield is very heavy.
Growing Tips: Needs abundant soil moisture and rich soil. Some afternoon shade is beneficial in hottest summer weather. Trellis growing saves space. Harvest frequently to maintain production.
