Ridge Gourd: Hero is a high yielding photo insensitive hybrid variety of ridge gourd. Fruits are vigorous in growth and resistant to biotic and a biotic stresses. Fruit length is 40 – 45 cm and weight 250-300 g each. Plant harvesting starts around 40 – 45 days after sowing. Yield is 14 – 16 tons/acre.

Cuor Di Albenga is an heirloom oxheart tomato from Albenga, Italy, known for its large, meaty, pleated, teardrop-shaped fruits that are typically red or orangey-red. It has a sweet and savory flavor that makes it excellent for both fresh use, such as in salads, and for cooking, especially roasting, sauces, and canning. These plants are indeterminate, vigorous, and productive. 

Origin: From the Ligurian coast town of Albenga in Northern Italy.

Shape: Large, pleated, teardrop or ox-heart shaped.

Size: Fruits are large, often weighing 10–16 ounces (about 200–300g).

Color: Ranges from pinkish to red or orangey-red.

Flesh: Meaty with few seeds and little juice, with a firm and sweet pulp.

Growth: Indeterminate, vigorous, and productive plants that require staking or caging. 

Fresh: Excellent sliced and eaten raw in salads, or used in Caprese salads.

Sauces: Ideal for homemade sauces, pasta dishes, and stews due to its rich, meaty flesh.

Roasting: Roasting brings out its savory richness.

Other: Also suitable for canning and making fresh juice. 

Plant seeds in the garden two weeks before the last frost. Transplants grown indoors will need eight to 10 weeks of growing time before planting out. In areas with less than 120 growing days, the peppers can be started earlier and grown inside until transplant time.

Choose a location with full sunlight for at least six hours per day, as habaneros LOVE the sun. Dig your hole twice the width of your pot and as deep as you can so that the soil level will be as close to the leaves as possible.

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GREEN PEPPER HABANERO

Popular, mild heirloom chili pepper developed in the 1950s, renowned for its 6–12 inch long, thick-fleshed green-to-red pods.

It is ideal for roasting, stuffing, and making green chile, featuring a mild, savory flavor with 500–1,200 Scoville Heat Units. 

Heat Level: Very mild to mild (500–1,200 SHU).

Size & Shape: 6–8 inches long, ~2 inches wide, with thick, fleshy walls and a blunt tip.

Ripening: Matures from a uniform medium green to a bright red.

Flavor Profile: Savory, slightly sweet, and smoky, often described as having a crisp, earthy taste.

Usage: Excellent for roasting, stuffing (chile rellenos), canning, or drying.

Plant Structure: Compact, sturdy, and high-yielding (18–24 inches tall).

The "Grightmire's Pride" tomato is a large, pink, heart-shaped, heirloom paste tomato that is known for its meaty, low-acid, low-seed fruit with a sweet, flavorful taste. It is a prolific and early-maturing, indeterminate variety, originating from Yugoslavia, and is excellent for sandwiches, salads, and sauces. 

Appearance: Large, heart-shaped, pinkish-red fruit.

Flesh: Very meaty, dense, and juicy with few seeds.

Taste: Delicious, sweet, and fragrant.

Acidity: Low-acid, making it a good choice for those with sensitive stomachs.

Plant Type: Indeterminate, prolific grower that is early-maturing.

Uses: Ideal for slicing, salads, sandwiches, and making sauces.

Origin: A variety from Yugoslavia that came to North America via Yugoslavia. 

Diamond Eggplant is a high-yielding, Ukrainian heirloom variety known for its slender, dark purple, 6-8 inch long fruits that grow in clusters. It's an early-maturing, open-pollinated plant with excellent disease resistance, making it suitable for climates with short, cool, or northern growing seasons. The firm, non-bitter, and sweet flesh is versatile for grilling, roasting, and other culinary uses.  

Yield: High-yielding and prolific, producing a steady stream of fruits. 

Fruit: Slender, dark purple, and oblong, typically 6-8 inches long and smooth-skinned. 

Flavor: Firm flesh with a sweet flavor and no bitterness. 

Maturity: Early maturing, making it well-suited for regions with short growing seasons. 

Plant: Reaches about 2 feet in height and is known for good disease resistance and overall hardiness. 

Smokey (or Bronze) fennel is an ornamental herb known for its fine, feathery foliage that transitions from coppery rose to deep bronzy-purple, giving it a "smoky" appearance. It has an anise or licorice flavor, making its leaves and seeds valuable for seasoning seafood, salads, and vegetables, as well as for making tea. Growing up to five feet tall, it produces yellow flower umbels that attract butterflies and beneficial insects, adding both culinary and ecological value to gardens.  

Nocera Rosso sel. Giapponese is a delicious Italian pepper variety that is long and narrow with three lobes. It has thick sweet flesh and ripens from green to red. The plants are disease resistant. 85 days.

Medium–early variety, prism-shaped fruits with 3-4 lobes, very long, average weight of 300 gr. Thick, sweet flesh, dark green and bright red when ripe. Vigorous plant with excellent coverage of leaves, good cropper. Suitable variety for outdoors cultivation. SOWING:  Under glass in winter and in open seedbed in March-April. Transplant when young plants are about 15-20 cm high, at intervals of 40 cm along rows and 50 cm between rows

21-26 days, 72°F.

Start early indoors and transplant well after last frost. Grow seedlings at 62°F night temperature and 70°F day temperature. Lower temperatures permanently reduce plant productivity.

Scovilles are a measure of heat.

NOCERA ROSSO sel GIAPPONESE - sweet; Bell Elongated; 4.5 to 5 inches long by 2 to 3 inches wide; thick flesh; matures from green to red; pendant pods; green leaves; 18 to 24 inches tall; Late Season (80-90 days); Uses: Large Stuffing; from Italy; C.annuum.

One of the oldest Italian peppers, belongs to the `giant` due to the average weight of the fruit of 400 g. Used fresh, processed or for pickles. Resistant to most diseases.