Bright orange, fine-grained roots with a crisp, juicy texture and sweet flavor make Scarlet Nantes a favorite carrot for snacking and lunch boxes. The nearly coreless, 6 in. carrots are orange throughout and grow straight and smooth with blunt ends—in just nine weeks.

Nantes carrots are small to medium in size, averaging 15-20 centimeters in length and 2-5 centimeters in diameter, and are cylindrical in shape with blunt, rounded ends on both the stem and non-stem end. The straight roots have smooth, firm skin that ranges from bright orange to orange-red and are connected to long, edible, leafy greens that bear a grassy, vegetal flavor. Underneath the surface, the flesh is also orange, fine-grained, crisp, and juicy with little to no core. Nantes carrots are crunchy and tender with a mild, sweet taste.

Applications

Nantes carrots are best suited for both raw and cooked applications such as roasting, steaming, baking, grilling, and boiling. When raw, the root does not need to be peeled before consumption and can be used on appetizer plates with dips, sliced and tossed into salads, juiced, or blended into sauces. In cooked preparations, Nantes carrots are used as a base for soups and stews, lightly sautéed in stir-fries, or roasted to enhance their sweet flavor and coated in brown butter. The roots can also be smoked as a vegetarian hot dog or shredded and baked into carrot cakes and carrot puddings. Nantes carrots pair well with orange juice, honey, herbs such as cilantro, parsley, tarragon, thyme, rosemary, coriander, and dill, spices such as cardamom, cumin, ginger, fennel, curry, and cinnamon, dried apricots, onions, celery, tomatoes, and meats such as poultry, beef, and pork. The roots will keep up to one month when stored in a plastic bag in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator.

Straightneck squash is a cultivated variety of Cucurbita pepo grown as a type of summer squash that is usually yellow-colored. It is also known as yellow squash, though other squashes, such as crookneck squash, may also be known by that name.

This yellow squash has been the standard for squash for generations.

Uses

Tastes great served raw with dips or fresh in salads. Delicious when steamed or stir-fried. Wonderful when wrapped in foil and roasted on the grill. Wash fruits, vegetables and herbs thoroughly before eating.

Early prolific squash highly adaptable to many areas. Tastiest harvested when squash are 7" long or smaller

Origins from 1500 BC.

Cipolline flat onion.

Sweet flavor and white skin.

Suited for raw and cooked foods. 

Shape: Distinctively flattened and disk-like, resembling a button.

Size: Compact, usually around 2 to 3 inches in diameter.

Color: Delicate pale golden-yellow outer skin.

Flavor: Mild and naturally sweet, intensifying with cooking.

Skin: Thin and almost translucent, which can make peeling a bit tricky.

Origin: Native to Boretto, a town near Parma in northern Italy.

Culinary Uses: Ideal for pickling, roasting, braising, or caramelizing due to their rich, sweet flavor.

Native to the Mediterranean region, Roman Coriander is also known as Black Seed, Black Cumin, and Nutmeg Flower. Seeds have been used medicinally for millennia and were found in King Tut’s tomb. Ground seeds have a peppery flavor with a hint of oregano and are used as a spice throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Most/full sun. 12-18 inches. 

The Principe Borghese tomato is an Italian heirloom famous for sun drying.

They have a thin skin and a thick, very meaty flesh that houses few seeds and little juice, with a rich classic tomato flavor.

Small 1-to 2-oz, grape-shaped fruit is very dry and has few seeds. It has a rich tomato taste that is wonderful for sauces.

An old Italian variety, very suitable for drying and storing over winter. Very productive and healthy plants, that do not need support for growing. Produces intensely red tomatoes that weigh between 30 to 60 g each.

Quick to grow; great for salads. 

Spring to fall crop. All season ability too.

23 days. Red bunching radish. Excels in summer growing. 1" round globe.

Birdhouse gourd is a hard-shelled gourd, a type of tropical squash (cucumber family, Cucurbitaceae) native to northern Africa. 

These gourds display curvy, hourglass shaped fruits that are often dried out and used for bottles and birdhouses.

Bok choy, pak choi or pok choi is a type of Chinese cabbage. Chinensis varieties do not form heads and have green leaf blades with lighter bulbous bottoms instead, forming a cluster reminiscent of mustard greens. It has a flavor between spinach and water chestnuts but slightly sweeter with a mildly peppery undertone.

Sow bok choy in spring and again in late summer for harvest in fall. Sow in double rows, with rows spaced 10 inches (25 cm) apart. Plant seeds 2 inches (5 cm) apart and barely cover them with soil. Gradually thin to 8 inches (20 cm) apart.

Chinese cabbage is a cool-weather plant that will bolt and go to seed quickly in warm weather and long days; grow Chinese cabbage in spring or autumn in temperatures ranging from 45° to 75°F (7-24°C). Sow seed 4 to 6 weeks before the average date of the last frost in spring.