Open-pollinated heirloom  (75 days) Organic

Ripens from bright purple to dark purple and almost black. 

Sweet fruity flavor.

Indeterminate.

Generates clusters of fruit.

Fruit Color: Purple. Shape: Round. Size: 1-2 oz. Plant Habit: Indeterminate  Plant Size: 3’

EXCELLENT FOR SALADS

The first truly purple skinned tomato with clusters of round 2" fruits. The undersides turn from green to a rosy red as it ripens.

The Oroma tomato is a paste variety developed in the United States by Oregon State University and released in 1993. Bred specifically for processing, it is an open-pollinated, determinate tomato that produces elongated, Roma-style red fruits with a firm, meaty texture and very few seeds. These qualities make Oroma especially well suited for sauces, paste, and canning, as the fruits are easy to peel, hold their shape well, and have good keeping qualities. While primarily valued for processing, Oroma can also be used for fresh eating, particularly in the Pacific Northwest where it performs reliably.

This must-have variety is a heavy and consistent producer all season long, perfect for any vegetable garden. Its plum-shaped, 5cm fruit are a uniquely beautiful, deep mahogany with subtle dusky-green shoulders. They offer a great sweet and tangy flavor, making them ideal for eating fresh or cooking in your favorite dishes.

Appearance: Plum-shaped, mahogany-red fruit with dusky-green shoulders 

Flavor: Sweet and tangy with a complex flavor, best when cooked or dried 

Growth: Indeterminate vines that are productive and can grow well even in cooler temperatures 

Uses: Ideal for making rich, dark-colored sauces, salads, and for snacking 

Their name means "little beaks" and it's easy to see why. This diminutive and sharply-tapered variety of chili pepper is one of the stars of the Spanish table. Have you ever tried them?

These peppers are simultaneously sweet, spicy, and smoky thanks to some time spent over wood fires after harvesting. The slow-roasting also cooks away much of the water in the pepper, concentrating and intensifying the natural flavors. 

The Spanish Piquillo pepper (a.k.a. the little beak pepper) is usually seen coming out of a jar. This sweet pepper with modest heat –nearly imperceptible– has both smoky and tart undertones. It received a European PDO (Protected Denomination of Origin) and cannot be commercially grown outside its Navarra, Spain region, but we have home garden seeds available for you to grow them in your own garden.

For a delicious treat, make our Marinated Piquillo Peppers Recipe. 

A rare heirloom from Northern Spain with a real surprising and delicious flavor. The 3”-4” peppers ripen from olive-green to fre-red. They grow on productive 3’ tall open-pollinated plants. Capsicum annuum  (85) Days

Heat Level: Very Mild  Scoville 0-500

~ Packet contains 10 seeds. 

New Yorker tomato seeds produce an early-maturing, determinate, heirloom variety of tomato excellent for short-season and cool-climate gardening. These plants yield 4-6 ounce, globe-shaped tomatoes with smooth, crack-resistant skin and meaty red flesh, perfect for canning, sauces, salads, and fresh eating. To grow them, start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost, transplant seedlings into pots after true leaves appear, and then move them outdoors to a sunny location after the last frost.  

Heirloom Variety:

A well-established, open-pollinated variety known for its historical development in 1912 for northern climates. 

Determinate Growth:

Plants grow to a compact size, making them suitable for small gardens and containers. 

Early Maturing:

An extra-early variety that produces fruit ready for harvest in about 65-70 days. 

Fruit Quality:

Features 4-6 ounce, flattened globe-shaped tomatoes that are smooth, meaty, and crack-resistant. 

Best Uses:

Ideal for fresh eating, salads, sandwiches, and for canning, cooking, and sauces

A purple variant of the popular cayenne pepper with a little more flavor than the red variety. They are very spicy and quite hot for salsas! Dried cayenne peppers are made into powder and flakes and used to spice up any dish. Used fresh and pickled too.

These rare peppers reach 4-6” long with thin walls. They change color from light green to dark purple and finally deep red when fully mature. The beautiful 18-20” tall plants produce many peppers and grow well in containers.  

Capsicum annuum (85 days)  - Heirloom, Open-pollinated

Heat Level: Very Hot  Scoville 30,000 - 50,000

~ Packet contains 10 seeds. 

In early spring, start seeds indoors 8 weeks prior to warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4” deep. Provide 85°F bottom heat, bright light, and keep moist at all times. Seeds will germinate in 7-21 days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant them directly into rich soil, 30” apart or into large 5-gallon containers. Harvest chiles when they are yellowish-orange. 

Open-pollinated heirloom  (67 days)

Fruit Color: Bi-color Yellow and Red. Size: 1-1/2" Round Cherry. Plant Habit: Indeterminate  Plant Size: 6’

This variety produces precious little 1-1/2" morsels of red and gold garden candy. They have a starburst pattern on the blossom end when ripe. This small early producing tomato is also heat and drought tolerant.

History: Sweet and fruity, Isis Candy has become a consistent winner at cherry tomato tasting contests. It rivals the Sun Gold flavor as a best-of-show cherry.  Kids really like this rich and fruity candy treat.

"Super Chili" Hybrid Pepper

Prolific Yield: Produces over 200 peppers per plant.

Color-Changing Fruit: Ripens from green to orange to red.

Heat Level: Moderate to high, 40,000-50,000 Scoville Heat Units.

Flavor Profile: Slightly floral.

Versatile Uses: Can be used in cooking, dried for seasonings, or grown for its ornamental appeal.

Mexico Midget

This south of the border favorite continues to always prove its value as a salad tomato.  These tiny red cherry type fruits have big heirloom flavor and are sure to surprise your taste buds. The plant gets overloaded with trusses of 1/2" fruit that weigh it down. Needs staking.

The original seeds were collected in Mexico by Barney Laman in the 1990s. He brought them home to North America and grew the plants and found them to be the same addictive luscious flavor he had found in the wild.

Open-pollinated heirloom (65-70 days) 

Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Plant Size: 4 ft’.  Fruit Color: Red. Shape: Round. Size: 1/2”. 

Japanese carrots, are heirloom varieties known for their deep scarlet color, long, slender shape, and exceptional sweetness with caramel notes, often harvested in cool weather, offering rich nutrients and a tender, crisp texture ideal for raw, cooked, or juiced uses. They thrive in loose, well-draining soil and are highly valued as specialty vegetables (dento yasai) in Japanese cuisine. 

Color & Appearance: Deep, vibrant scarlet red skin and flesh.

Shape: Long, tapered, and cylindrical, sometimes growing quite large.

Flavor: Exceptionally sweet, often with a distinct caramel undertone and pleasant aftertaste.

Texture: Smooth, tender, and crisp.

Nutrients: Rich in lycopene, potassium, fiber, calcium, and Vitamins C & E. 

Popular Varieties:

A classic heirloom, known for intense sweetness and deep color when young. A popular, high-performing variety with a crisp, sweet taste, great for juicing and storage. A legendary, very long variety that can grow significantly large, drawing deep nutrients from the soil. 

Excellent for salads, stir-fries, steaming, boiling, and tempura.

High water content makes them great for juicing.

Used in traditional Japanese dishes and even carved for New Year celebrations.