Vegetable Seeds - Grimes

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“See Our Widened
Vegetable Seed Selection”
FEATURING
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THE BEST
OF THE BEST
DEVELOPED FOR
FULLEST FLAVOR
Patio
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BETTER FLAVOR
FOR THE PATIO
THE BIGGEST
VEGETABLES
SEEDS: VEGETABLE
“VEGETABLE SEEDS”
“SEEDS FOR
VEGETABLES”
TASTY BRAND VEGETABLES
®
Better Flavor For The Home Garden
Other vegetables varieties are developed for yield,
size and early maturity, but not for flavor.
SEEDS: VEGETABLE
Tasty Brand Garden leader Vegetables are a complete series
from Broccoli to Watermelon
BEST OF
THE BEST
GARDEN LEADERS ARE THE
BEST GARDEN PERFORMERS
152 Vegetable Seeds
Patio
Vegetables
GARDEN LEADER TASTY PATIO
Patio
®
Better Flavor
For The Patio
Dwarf edibles perfect for container garden
on patios, balconies and decks. Tasty Brand
Garden Leader Patio vegetables are a complete
series from Bean to Tomato
NEW Patio Tasty Green Bell 8778
Featuring Tasty Patio Cherries 9102
Vegetable Seeds 153
Monsters
MONSTERS ARE THE BIGGEST
AND THE SCARIEST VEGETABLES
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Monsters grow BIG
Monsters grow FAST
Monsters win PRIZES
Monsters are baaaadd hombres
Beware of monsters
EZ Gro Monster Pumpkin 8918
Monster Tomato 9101
154 Vegetable Seeds
New Breeding, Old Fashioned Flavor
®
Garden Leader Basket Boy Red
Garden Leader Basket Boy Yellow
Garden Leader EZ Gro Patio Kabob
Garden Leader EZ Gro Patio Pan
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Sweet
Garden Leader Patio Zucchini
Garden Leader Patio Hot Wings
Garden Leader Patio Orange Bell
Garden Leader Patio Red Bell
Vegetable Seeds 155
LICK
YOUR
LIPS
TASTY GARDEN LEADER VEGETABLES
®
Tomato Garden Leader Patio Teacup Red
8998 Bean Garden Leader Patio Tasty Candy Bean
8001 Tomato Garden Leader Patio Teacup Yellow
8995
Mustard Garden Leader Tasty Oriental Leaf Mix
8710 Lettuce Garden Leader Tasty Zesty Salad Mix
8708 Lettuce Garden Leader Tasty Stir Fry Mix
8707
8885 Tomato Garden Leader Patio Tasty Cherries
9102
Squash Garden Leader Patio Tasty Climbing Zucchini 8929 Pak Choy Garden Leader Tasty Pagoda Purple
156 Vegetable Seeds
“VEGETABLE SEEDS”
Seeds from gourmet Apium to Watermelon. Garden
Leader Tasty Brand varieties are taste tested. Grow
vegetables in larger containers for higher margins.
Grimes offers a huge lineup of picture tags from
Master Tag and John Henry.
APIUM
Bush Derby
A. graveolens
70°, D, 14 days
CROP TIME: PACK: 6 weeks
Par-Cel
8393
DAYS TO HARVEST: 90 days
TYPE: Open Pollinated
USE: Curious combination of a parsley flavored plant
that grows in the form of celery. Thick stalks can be
blanched and served up fresh or used in soups and
stews to add a clean parsley flavor.
ASPARAGUS
Perennial Zones 4-8
A. officinalis
75°, D, 14 days
Mary Washington
6031
8013
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 55
FRUIT: Color: green; Size: 7”
TOLERANCE: Common Mosaic Virus
TYPE: green bush
USE: fresh market, home garden
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Candy Bean
BEANS, LIMA
DAYS TO HARVEST: 2 years
TOLERANCE: Rust, F1 & 2, Crown Rot
USE: home garden, fresh market
Phaseolus limensis
78° , D, 6 days
CROP TIME: 3 weeks
BEANS, SNAP, BUSH
Fordhook 242
Phaseolus vulgaris
78°, D, 4 days
CROP TIME: 2 weeks
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Size: 4 large beans per pod
TOLERANCE: Downy Mildew
TYPE: bush
French Astrel
8036
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color: dark green; size: 6 1/2” narrow and
straight crispy pods
TYPE: green bush type with small seeded pods
USE: fresh market
Bush Blue Lake 274
DAYS TO HARVEST: 58
FRUIT: Color: green; size: 6 1/2”
TYPE: green bush
USE: fresh market
8002
8001
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
TYPE: Compact bush
FRUIT: Attractive red and white bicolor flowers that
look like bits of peppermint candy. Produces masses
of succulent beans.
USE: The ornamental plants make decorative
containers. Finish in 10 to 14” pots.
8003
Scarlet Runner
8007
See Heirloom seed section.
BEANS, POLE
Phaseolus vulgaris
78°, D, 4 days
CROP TIME: packs 2 weeks
Pole beans are beans that are bred to grow in the form
of vines and cling to poles or trellises. Pole Beans
produce over a longer season than Snap Beans.
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Vegetable Seeds
Early Jersey Wakefield
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Yard Long Monster
8004
DAYS TO HARVEST: 81
FRUIT: Monster long pods up to 26"
TYPE: A type of pole bean with rich flavorful pods that
are best when cooked in soups and stews.. Yield is
better and flavor is tastier than other "yard long" pole
beans.
BROCCOLI
Brassica oleracea
60°-65°, 4 to 10 days
8010
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
FRUIT: Size: 7”, Also produces many side shoots
TOLERANCE: bacterial leaf spot, downy mildew
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
USE: home garden, extended season, very flavorful
and tender heads, fast seller in retail packs
Packman
8025
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
FRUIT: Size: 9”
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
USE: fresh market single harvest best suited for
commercial production
Premium Crop
8030
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 58
FRUIT: Size 8”
TOLERANCE: Downy Mildew
TYPE: F-1 Hybrid
USE: home garden, fresh market, mechanical harvest
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Brassica oleracea
60°-65°, 8 to 10 days
Jade Cross E
8055
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Size: 1”
TOLERANCE: bacterial spot
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
USE: home garden
Brassica oleracea
60°-65°, 4 to 10 days
Grow at 55° nights. Two crops per year can be grown;
one for Spring sales and again for Fall time packs to
sell in July North; October, South.
Copenhagen Market
8103
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: 3 to 4 lbs. round
USE: fresh market, keeps well
Early Flat Dutch
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Size:7” nearly round, 8 lbs.
USE: fresh market, storage
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Ambrosia Hybrid
GARDEN LEADER
GARDEN LEADER TASTY BRAND SERIES
8091
Tasty Early (50 days, 6 lb)
8092
Tasty Mid-season (65 days, 6 lb)
8093
Tasty Late (80 days, 12 lb)
8094
Tasty Red (75 days, 5 lb)
NEW Green Monster (105 days, 30 lb) 8005
8106
Burpee Hybrid
GARDEN LEADER
8096
8116
DAYS TO HARVEST: 63
FRUIT: 3 lbs. round, light green
TOLERANCE: yellows
USE: most widely grown home garden variety
OS Cross Flat Top
Early Delicious
Late Flat Dutch
CARROT
8143
8115
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Shape: savory foliage; Size: 6 lbs.
TOLERANCE: heat resistant
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
USE: home garden
Stonehead
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
FRUIT: Size: 4 lbs.
TOLERANCE: black rot, yellows
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
USE: home garden, fresh market, storage
NEW Sweet Delight
9201
Also see Heirloom seed section.
Dacus carota sativus
78°, D, 10 days
CROP TIME: 3 weeks
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: 3 lbs., round bright red
USE: home garden
Savoy Ace
8199
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Color: deep orange, small seed cavity; Size: 3 to
5 lb., thick netting, slightly oval
PLANT: Habit: trailing vine
TYPE: Open pollinated
USE: home garden, drought tolerant
DAYS TO HARVEST: 83
FRUIT: Color: green honeydew type; Size: 4 lb.
USE: home garden
8155
8198
DAYS TO HARVEST: 83
FRUIT: Color: orange; Size: 4 to 5 lb., medium net
USE: home garden
Hales Best
8137
8165
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color: light orange sherbet, firm and sweet;
Size: 6 lb., medium net, shallow rib
USE: home garden
AAS WINNER 1951
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Heads are 11” across, 6 1/2” deep and have a
small to medium, 8-10 lb. core.
Type: F-1 Short-stemmed plants, blue outer leaves and
light-green interior.
USE: In far northern gardens in the temperate north
west, the plant matures to a much larger size. Use
fresh in coleslaw, steamed, or stir-fried. Use for
making sauerkraut or for winter storage. Home
garden hybrid.
Red Acre
8174
DAYS TO HARVEST: 82
FRUIT: Shape: oval netted and ribbed; Size: 4 1/2 lbs.
Color: orange
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
USE: local fresh market, home garden
Garden Leader Tasty Hybrid
For the convenience of your home garden customers,
we blend a mixture of the best early, mid-season and
late hybrid cabbage varieties. Your customers can
purchase a dozen plants, and harvest a head of
cabbage once a week from June through August! Our
mixture also includes: Golden Cross, Stonehead,
Emerald Cross, Flattop (O-S Cross)
Golden Acre
8170
DAYS TO HARVEST: 86
FRUIT: Shape: netted no ribs: Size: 4 lbs. Color: salmon
TOLERANCE: downy mildew
TYPE: F-1 Hybrid
USE: local fresh market, home garden
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty
Summertime Mix
DAYS TO HARVEST: 95
FRUIT: Size:7” nearly round, 7 lbs., very solid
USE: fresh market, storage, kraut
CABBAGE
CANTALOUPE
Cucumis melo
MUSKMELON
80°, D, 10 days
TOLERANCE: yellows, black speck, black rot
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Broccoli
8130
DAYS TO HARVEST: 63
FRUIT: Size:7” deep, 3 lbs.
TOLERANCE: yellows
USE: fresh market
Discovery
Primo
8090
8156
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color; Dark orange; Shape: tapered cylinder;
Size 7” full size, 7”
TYPE: E-1 chantenay, wide shoulder with tapered end
USE: very sweet and versatile, good for juice
8159
DAYS TO HARVEST: 52
FRUIT: Color; good interior color even when young, no
green shoulders; Shape: slightly tapered cylinder; Size
7” full size, 3-4” for baby size; Season: recommend as
baby carrots in all areas, full size in short season areas.
TYPE: F-1 nantes, blunt end
USE: very sweet and versatile
Sweetness 2
9905
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Possibly the sweetest, best tasting, fresh carrot
Vegetable Seeds
of the new millennium. Roots grow 6 to 8 inches long
and are rich in vitamin A.
TYPE: F-1 chantenay, tapered end
USE: very sweet and versatile for fresh market stands
Brassica oleracea
70°, D, 10 days
8224
DAYS TO HARVEST: 52
FRUIT: 9 to 12” self wrapping heads
USE: Commercial
DAYS TO HARVEST: 55-70
FRUIT: Size: 7”, 1 1/2 lbs.
TOLERANCE: black rot, mildew, bolt resistant
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
USE: home garden
8222
8205
Rainbow Swiss
Brassica oleracea
72° , D, 10 days
GARDEN LEADER
Georgia
8235
Color: leaves are dark green
“ASK US”
8640
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
Miniature Celery plants with full Celery flavor. Plant
height to 9” to 12” with 5 to 9 leaf stalks. The stalks
can be wrapped and blanched the same as full size
Celery. Foliage is very ornamental in combination
plantings and suitable for a mild Parsley substitute as
a garnish or spice.
Beta vulgaris , Cicla group
70°, D, 10 days
8221
COLLARD
Apium graveolens
70°, D, 10 to 21 days
CHARD
DAYS TO HARVEST: 56
FRUIT: compact broad stem and fleshy leaf; Color:
pure white stem, green leaf; Size: 10” to 12”.
USE: Plants are very ornamental and look great in
patio containers. Outer leaves can be harvested
throughout the season and cooked like spinach or stir
fried in oriental dishes. Striking when planted with
Patio Ruby Chard.
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color: mixture of pink, yellow, red, white and
purple shade stalks, medium to deep green foliage
USE: decorative border, fresh market gourmet
CELERY
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Size; 24”, Color; golden when bleached
TOLERANCE: celery mosaic
USE: home garden
DAYS TO HARVEST: 56
deep ruby stem, green leaf with red veins; Size: 10” to
12”.
throughout the season and cooked like spinach.
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Silver 8645
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 53
FRUIT: Color: pure white; Size: 8”, 2 lbs.
TOLERANCE: frost resistant
TYPE: F-1 hybrid
Golden Self-Blanching
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Ruby 8644
GARDEN LEADER
DAYS TO HARVEST: 90
FRUIT: 9 to 12” self wrapping heads
USE: Commercial
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Celeryetta
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Gourmet Burgundy 8244
GARDEN LEADER
Snow Crown
8643
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
FRUIT: Color: red stalks, green leaf
USE: fresh market, ornamental border
Tasty White
8202
Tasty Green
8621
Tasty Orange
8622
Tasty Purple
8623
Tasty Colorflower Mix
8620
Self Blanche
NEW Garden Leader
Gourmet Chablis
DAYS TO HARVEST: 59
FRUIT: broad stem and fleshy leaf; Color: yellow stem,
green leaf; Size: 18” to 20”.
USE: Young leaves make good fresh salad greens.
Stems and leaves can be blanched like spinach.
CAULIFLOWER
Early Snowball
Vates
GARDEN LEADER
8250
Nonheading type, thick textured leaves with a high
ratio of blade to stalk, open pollinated, cold hardy.
Color: leaves are dark green
CUCUMBER
Also see Heirloom Seeds
Cucumis sativus
70°, D, 5 days
Monoecious: Plants with both male and female
flowers. These are self-pollinating. One plant can
produce fruit.
Dioecious: Plant that produces only male or only
female flowers. Two or more individuals must be
growing and flowering in close proximity in order to
produce fruit.
CUCUMBER, PICKLING
Bush Pickle
8290
FRUIT: Color: straight green; Size: 4” x 1”
PLANT: 30 to 36” diameter bush
TYPE: Open Pollinated monoecious compact pickle
USE: processing, home garden
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Pickle
CUCUMBER, SLICING
GARDEN LEADER
Burpee Burpless Hybrid
8298
DAYS TO HARVEST: 58
FRUIT: Color: medium green; Size: 10”
TOLERANCE: CMV, Powdery Mildew
TYPE: F-1 gynoecious vine
Bush Crop
8252
8288
DAYS TO HARVEST: 55
FRUIT: Color: dark green, white ribbed; Size: 3” x 1”
TOLERANCE: scab, leaf spot, downy mildew,
cucumber mosaic, anthracnose
TYPE: F-1 gynoecious, pickle
8260
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
TOLERANCE: scab
TYPE: F-1 monoecious compact
USE: small garden or containers
800-241-7333
Vegetable Seeds 159
Vegetable Seeds
Fanfare
8273
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 63
FRUIT: Color: dark green; Size: 9”
TOLERANCE: Downey and powdery mildew, scab,
mosaic virus, anthracnose, angular leaf spot
TYPE: F-1, monoecious
PLANT: Habit: compact vines 2-2 1/2’
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Bush
8916
8641
DAYS TO HARVEST: 59
This is one ‘kool cucumber’. Plants are very compact
and can be finished in 12” and larger containers.
Foliage is mildew resistant assuring a long season of
harvest. The fruit is dark green, tender skinned and
single serving in size, perfect to pick fresh and eat.
Simply the “Coolest Cucumber” on a deck or patio.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Brand Slicer
8262
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: Color: dark green; Size: 10” crisp, clean tasting
TOLERANCE: mildew, anthracnose, Cucumber mosaic,
leaf spot
TYPE: F-1 vine
USE: home garden
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Gourmet
Brand Burpless
8276
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
KEY FEATURE: Tender skinned burpless
FRUIT: Size: 18” x 1”, small seed cavity, thin skinned,
TOLERANCE: mildew, cucumber mosaic
TYPE: F-1 monoecious
USE: gourmet fresh market, home garden
Garden Leader Glass & Garden #58
8239
DAYS TO HARVEST: 58 in the greenhouse
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68 in the garden.
FRUIT: Standard table size with thin skin. Fruit is 7 1/2
to 8” long by 2 to 2 1/2” wide. Parthenocarpic
(without seeds).
TYPE: F-1 vine, Dioecious, Parthenocarpic
TOLERANCE: Cucumber mosaic virus, Angular Leaf
Spot and Snowy Mildew.
USE: The climbing vines require tying for support and
to keep the tender fruit off the ground. Use for
Greenhouse production and a late season garden
delicacy.
Marketmore 76
DAYS TO HARVEST: 66
FRUIT: Color: dark green; Size: 9” x 2 1/2””
TYPE: Open Pollinated, monoecious
USE: fresh market, U-Pick and Produce stands
Vegetable Seeds 160
8324
8314
DAYS TO HARVEST: 55
KEY FEATURE: Burpless
FRUIT: Color: dark green; Size: 10 to 12” x 1 1/2”, thin
skinned
TOLERANCE: Powdery Mildew, Downey Mildew, Cuc.
Mosaic Virus, Watermelon Mosaic Virus
TYPE: F-1 monoecious
USE: high yield local fresh market, home garden,
burpless
EGGPLANT
Solanum melongena
75°, D, 10 to 21 days
Grow on at 65°. Avoid over watering seedling trays.
Black Beauty
8365
DAYS TO HARVEST: 73
FRUIT: Size: 8” x 3 1/2; Color: deep purple
TOLERANCE: tobacco mosaic virus
TYPE : OP
Cloud Nine
GARDEN LEADER
8272
DAYS TO HARVEST: 55
FRUIT: Color: dark green; Size: 7 to 8” x 2 1/2””
TOLERANCE: Cuc. Mosaic Virus, Scab, Anthracnose
and Angular Leaf Spot
TYPE: F-1 gynoecious
USE: highest yield fresh market, U-Pick and Produce
stands
Sweet Slice
8350
DAYS TO HARVEST: 64
FRUIT: Color: white; Size: 6” x 2 1/2”; ovate cylinder,
firm flesh with a delicate taste; very early and
recommended for short season areas.
TYPE: F-1
USE: home garden
Dusky
Clusters of fruit are plentiful on each plant and the
size is 2 1/2” to 3”. Flavor is never bitter. Perfect
addition to your container vegetable offering.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty White
8355
DAYS TO HARVEST: 63
FRUIT: Size: 6 1/2 x 3”; Shape: oval; Color: purple
TYPE: F-1
USE: early market, home garden
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Purple 8650
DAYS TO HARVEST: 54
A true miniature Eggplant for compact garden and
container finishing. Plant height is a maximum of 30”.
8908
Very ornamental with a mild flavor. Plants are
compact, height 12”. Grow in 10 to 12” pot.
8300
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 57
FRUIT: Color: dark green; Size: 8”
TOLERANCE: mildew, target leaf spot, cucumber
mosaic virus, scab
TYPE: F-1, monoecious
USE: 2 to 3’ bush for home gardens
Slice Master
GARDEN LEADER
8307
DAYS TO HARVEST: 59
KEY FEATURES: Upgrade and replacement of Burpless
Hybrid.
FRUIT: Color: dark green; Size: 10-12” x 2”
TOLERANCE: Cuc. Mosaic Virus, Scab, Anthracnose
and Angular Leaf Spot
TYPE: F-1 gynoecious
USE: highest yield fresh market, U-Pick and Produce
stands
Salad Bush
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
TOLERANCE: scab and powdery mildew
TYPE: F-1 monoecious compact
USE: small garden or containers
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Very Kuhl
Orient Express Burpless
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Tasty Pastel Round
8651
Round, tennis ball size fruit, nearly seedless and mild
in flavor. This is selected from ancient Chinese cultivars
and is now produced in domestic fields. Plants are
compact in size and mature at 30”. Well adapted to a
wide range of garden conditions and also produces
well in containers
Ghostbuster
8345
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: Color: white; Size: 8” x 3”; very uniform with
long cylindrical shape, firm flesh with mild taste; early
and well suited for short season areas.
TYPE: F-1
USE: home garden
GARDEN LEADER
Gourmet Long Oriental
8342
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
FRUIT: Color: purple; Size: 10 x 1”
TYPE: F-1
USE: home garden, gourmet market
Hansel
8669
DAYS TO HARVEST: 55
AAS Winner. Smaller sized fruit in clusters. Plant
height is 36” Matures earlier than standard Eggplant.
Mild flavored novelty.
Ichiban
8358
DAYS TO HARVEST: 54
FRUIT: Size: 8” x 1 1/2; Color: deep purple
TYPE :F-1 oriental
FENNEL
See Herb Seed section
KALE
Also See Organic Seed Section
Brassica oleracea
70°, 7 days
Vates
8639
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
COLOR: blue green curled foliage
TOLERANCE: yellows
USE: Spring and early winter home garden and fresh
market. Not to be confused with Collard Vates.
KOHLRABI
Brassica oleracea
70°, 14 to 21 days
Vegetable Seeds
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Gourmet Brand White
8649
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
FRUIT: bulbs are tender and smooth skin; Size: 3”
TOLERANCE: black rot
USE: Spring and Fall home garden
LEEK
Allium ampelosporasum
70°, 10 to 14 days
Large American Flag
8670
LETTUCE
Also See Organic Seed Section
Lactuca sativa
70°, L, 7 days
In our worldwide search for excellence, we uncovered
some exceptional lettuce varieties for our Tasty Brand
and Gourmet Brand vegetable series. Here’s a brief
description of each class:
LEAF: Loose open leaves. Fastest to harvest. Leaves are
thin and flavorful.
BUTTERHEAD or BIBB: Forms a loose head of thick
textured leaves with a rounded margin. Very sweet
flavor.
CRISP HEAD: Traditional head lettuce or iceberg types
so popular in supermarkets simply because they ship
well. Our strains produce medium-sized heads with
good disease and tip burn tolerance.
ROMAINE or COS: Form long upright heads of sweet,
crisp leaves. For many people, romaine is the gourmet
lettuce.
8680
DAYS TO HARVEST: 21
FRUIT: Shape: very loose and open rosettes; Color:
yellow green leaves. Fast to bolt.
TYPE: Leaf
USE: home garden
Buttercrunch
GARDEN LEADER GOURMET BRAND SERIES
Gourmet Green Bibb
8681
Gourmet Green Head
8683
Gourmet Green Romaine
8686
The favorite lettuce varieties of gourmets and chefs
worldwide. Our selections originate with the finest
lettuce breeding companies in Europe. Each is fastproducing, flavorful and high-yielding.
Great Lakes 659
DAYS TO HARVEST: 100
FRUIT: stalks are thick, tender and smooth skin; Size:
3”, non-bulbing
USE: Fall harvest home garden or fresh market
Black Seeded Simpson
NASTURTIUM
GARDEN LEADER
8700
DAYS TO HARVEST: 49
FRUIT: Shape: small loose head surrounded by
spreading rays of leaves; Color: deep green leaves
with creamy white center heads.
TYPE: Boston, Bibb, Butterhead
USE: home garden or fresh market
GARDEN LEADER
Tasty Green Leaf
8698
Tasty Red Leaf
8671
Leaf Lettuce Mix
8685
NEW Tasty Gourmet Organic Mix 8705
NEW Tasty Stir Fry Mix
8707
NEW Tasty Zesty Salad Mix
8708
We select the best flavored leaf lettuce varieties from
around the world for our Tasty series. Grow Tasty and
provide your customers with exceptional quality and
productivity. Tasty Mix contains a several very fine red
leaf types.
8704
DAYS TO HARVEST: 82
FRUIT: Shape: iceberg crisp head
MUSTARD
GARDEN LEADER
GARDEN LEADER
8229
DAYS TO HARVEST: 44
FRUIT: Also called Gai Choy. Bold taste and bold
presentation
TYPE: Certified Organic seed. Plant height is 12 to
18”. Color is bright bronze-red.
USE: Our Red Giant mustard makes a great
ornamental addition to the vegetable or flower
garden. Grow in packs or combination containers.
Cajun Delight
8720
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 49
FRUIT: Size: 4”; Color: very dark green and rich in
nutrition; Texture: less fibrous, more tender
PLANT: very heavy, not too tall
TYPE: F-1
USE: pickle, fry, home garden
NEW Garden Leader
Tasty Billy Bob Red
8722
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60 to 65
FRUIT: 3 to 4” slender pods of deep burgundy red.
TYPE: Certified Organic Okra seeds. Plant height 28 to
48” with red stems and yellow flowers.
Garden Leader Tasty Gumbo
8748
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
Ornamental plants with bright yellow flowers produce
dark green tender pods, 4” long and full of flavor.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Betty Jo
8721
DAYS TO HARVEST: 59
FRUIT: Bright yellow flowers develop into sweet tender
pods.
Type: F-1. Compact plants 18 to 20"
USE: can be grown in containers. Beautiful patio Okra
plant.
ONION
More Onions in the Heirloom Seed Section.
Allium cepa
70°, 10 days
GARDEN LEADER
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader Tasty Tatsoi
Hibiscus esculentus
76° , D, 7 days
CROP TIME: 4 weeks
GARDEN LEADER
8710
DAYS TO HARVEST: 30
FRUIT: Contains Brassica Rapa, Mizuna, Pak Choy,
Tatsoi, Cress and others.
TYPE: A peppery fresh mustard mix
USE: Grow to add to salads. Produce in cell packs,
sow 5 to 7 seeds per cell. Sell when seedlings are 3
weeks old. Plant every 7 days to have plants ready for
sale each week.
NEW Garden Leader Tasty
Red Giant
OKRA
GARDEN LEADER
ORIENTAL GREENS, MUSTARD GREENS
Brassica juncea and others
60-65F., lightly cover seeds or place in darkness, 7-10
Days
CROP TIME: PACK OR BABY GREENS: 3-6 weeks
Oriental Leaf Mix
Edible Nasturtium see Heirloom Seeds
8711
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45 for mature heads.
DAYS TO HARVEST: 21 for fresh baby greens.
FRUIT: Dark green leaves on thick stems. Height 4 to 6”
USE: Stir fry mustard for fresh salad.
GARDEN LEADER
Banner denotes Garden Leaders which are the
top garden performers.
Scissors denote Strong stemmed plant that
makes good cut flower
Basket denotes Trailing plant habit suitable
for hanging baskets
Garden Leader Tasty Red
8736
FRUIT: Color: pink flesh, red scales; Shape: sphere;
Size: 5”
TYPE: long day
USE: fresh market, home garden, storage
Thermometer denotes Energy saving plant
that can be grown in cool greenhouses
Pot/Container denotes Vegetative cutting
type plant from seed
Foliage denotes Ornamental foliage plant
AAS All America Selections Winner
FLS Fleuroselect Winner
Vegetable Seeds 161
Vegetable Seeds
PEPPERS
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty White
8749
FRUIT: Color: white flesh; Size: 5”
TYPE: long day
USE: fresh market companion to Tasty Brand Red
Onion
Granex Hybrid
8723
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color: light yellow; Size: 5” globe: mild
pungency
TOLERANCE: pink root
TYPE: F-1 short day
COMPARISON: Vidalia, Florida Sweet
USE: Southern winter production, fresh market
Superstar
8744
AAS Winner
FRUIT: Color: sweet white flesh; Size: 12-16 oz”.
TYPE: day neutral
USE: can be grown in long or short day conditions
Utah Sweet Spanish
8752
FRUIT: Color: white flesh deep yellow skin: mild after
storage
TYPE: F-1 long day
USE: Northern production for winter storage
ORIENTAL GREENS
Pak Choi, Bok Choi
CHINESE CABBAGE, SNOW CABBAGE
Brassica rapa
60-65F., lightly cover seeds or place in darkness, 7-10
Days
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader Pak Choi
Tasty Pagoda Purple
8885
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45
FRUIT: An eye-catching reddish-purple top leaf and
contrasting bright green stems. Cooler nights
intensifies the purple tone of the leaf.
USE: Very ornamental in patio containers. Grow for
micro-greens by sowing 5 to 7 seeds per cell. Single
sow plugs or cell packs to sell for home garden
plantings.
NEW Garden Leader Tasty Tatsoi
8711
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45 for mature heads.
DAYS TO HARVEST: 21 for fresh baby greens.
FRUIT: Dark green leaves on thick stems. Height 4 to 6”
USE: Stir fry and fresh salad.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Big Bertha
8788
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT; Color: green to red; Shape: long 4 lobed block;
Size: 7”
TOLERANCE: tobacco mosaic
Blushing Beauty
8789
AAS Winner. “The bashful Bell” gracefully changes
from ivory to blush to a true red when fully mature.
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: ivory to red; Shape: 4 lobed bell, sweet
and tasty
TYPE: F-1, sweet bell
USE: fresh market, home garden, container culture
Carmen
8527
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: green matures red in just 75 days from
transplanting; Shape: tapered to a blunt point, 6”
TOLERANCE: tolerant of wide temperature range
TYPE: F-1 straight rams-horn type
USE: gourmet fresh market, patio containers urban
gardens
Chocolate Beauty
4402
DAYS TO HARVEST: 66
FRUIT: Color: dk green to rich brown; Shape: 4 lobed
TYPE: F-1 sweet bell
USE: fresh market, home garden Novelty
8816
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: Short block: Size:
3”
USE: short season peppers fresh market quality
8866
Pisum sativum
70°, D, 14 days
CROP TIME: 3 weeks
Pimento Elite
8934
8868
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Thick wall sweet fruit with blunt ended. Ripens
to bright red.
TYPE: F-1
USE: home garden, fresh market, pickling
8778
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: Medium size, 3 and 4 lobed green bells.
Matures in 72 days to deep red.
TYPE: F-1 Sweet green to red bell.
TOLERANCE: tobacco mosaic, powdery mildew,
bacterial brown spot
USE: Compact plants for production in 10 to 12”
containers.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Orange Bell
8905
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
Sweet orange bell peppers with a spreading habit.
Grow in containers or baskets. Fruit size 2 1/2 x 4”.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Red Bell
8901
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
Sweet red bell peppers with an upright, bushy habit.
Grow in container. Fruit size 2 1/2 x 4”.
Red Bell Girl
8781
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: dark green to red; Shape: 4 lobed bell;
Size: 3 1/2”
PLANT: Height: 20”; Habit; compact, large foliage
USE: home garden, container or basket
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Golden Bell
8774
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: green to gold to red; Shape: 4 lobed bell;
Size: 4”
TYPE: F-1 sweet thick walls
Garden Leader Tasty Green Bell
8772
DAYS TO HARVEST: 67
FRUIT: Color: deep green to red; Shape: 4 lobed bell;
Size: 4”
TYPE: F-1 early harvest short season
Garden Leader Tasty Orange Bell
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: green: Shape: 4 lobed bell; Size: 7 1/2”
COMPARISON: Big Bertha
TYPE: F-1 stuffing
USE: home garden, novelty fresh market
PEA
Vegetable Seeds 162
8780
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color: dk green to red; Shape: 4 lobed bell
TYPE: F-1; sweet bell
Garden Leader Monster Bell
Edible Pansy flowers see Heirloom Seeds
DAYS TO HARVEST: 64
FRUIT: Color: light green; Size: 4”
TOLERANCE: fusarium wilt
TYPE: OP, edible pod snow pea
USE: fresh gourmet market, home garden
Bell Boy
GARDEN LEADER
PANSY
Melting Sugar
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Green Bell
HYBRID SWEET PEPPER
Early Bell
GARDEN LEADER
GARDEN LEADER
Ornamental Pepper see flower seed section
Heirloom Peppers
Capsicum annuum
80°, 10 to 21 days
8833
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: bright orange; Shape: 4 lobed bell; Size:
4 1/2
TYPE: F-1
Garden Leader Tasty Pimento
8893
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Sweet and thick flesh keeps extremely well
when fresh picked. 3” in diameter and blunt ended.
Ripens to bright red.
TYPE: F-1 early harvest short season
USE: home garden, fresh market, pickling
Vegetable Seeds
8779
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: purple; Shape: 4 lobed bell; Size: 3 1/2
TYPE: F-1 novelty
Garden Leader Tasty Red Bell
8834
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: deep red; Shape: 4 lobed bell;
Size: 5”
TYPE: F-1
USE: home garden, fresh gourmet market
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: seed mixture of all the colors in the Tasty
Bell Series; Shape: 4 lobed bell;
Size: 5”
TYPE: F-1
USE: home garden, fresh gourmet market
8796
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: green matures red; Shape: 2-4 lobed
elongated bell; Size: 8 x 4 1/2”
TOLERANCE: tobacco mosaic, Potato Y
TYPE: F-1 similar in shape to true marconi types but
much larger
USE: gourmet fresh market
Golden Summer
8808
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
FRUIT: Color: yellow-green to red: Shape: 3 lobed with
slight taper: Size; 4’
TYPE: F-1 frying or salad
USE: home garden
USE: Frying, roasting and fresh salad or pickling
Large Red Cherry
8906
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Shape; flattened globe; Color: green to red;
Size: 2”
TYPE: F-1
USE: Pickling
Lilac
8777
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: purple; Shape: 4 lobed bell; Size 4”
TOLERANCE: Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Gray Leaf Spot
USE: gourmet market, home garden
Mexibell
8851
8836
DAYS TO HARVEST: 78
FRUIT: 3 lobed bell; Color: green to red; Size: 3” X 3
1/2”.
PLANT: Vigorous bush
TOLERANCE: Tobacco mosaic virus
TYPE: F-1 hybrid, 500 Scovilles
USE: fresh sliced, stuffing.
Golden Cal Wonder
8840
76 days
Popular home garden pepper bearing golden yellow
blocky fruit.
Italian Green Frying
8844
DAYS TO HARVEST: 78
FRUIT: Color: green to red: Shape: Ram’s Horn curled;
Size: 10” x 3”
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Shape; 4 lobed bell; Color: green to red; Size:
4” x 4”
TYPE: F-1, sweet bell
USE: short season home gardens
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: deep green: Shape: 4 lobed bell; Size: 4”
USE: home garden, non productive in cooler climates
Super Heavyweight
Keystone Resistant Giant
8848
Jupiter
8850
8852
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT; Color: green to red; Shape: long, broad 4 lobed
block:
Size: 8 to 9”
DAYS TO HARVEST: 74
6” x 4”
TYPE: Open Pollinated, sweet bell
USE: fresh market and U-Pick stands
Valencia
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: 4 lobed bell; Size 3
1/2”
USE: home garden
8817
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: rich orange; Shape: 4 lobed bell; Size: 4
1/2 x 4 1/2”
TYPE: F-1 gourmet
USE: gourmet fresh market
Staddon’s Select
Sweet Banana
8872
8880
NON-HYBRID SWEET PEPPER
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color; green to yellow to red; Shape: long
taper; Size: 6” x 2”
USE: home garden, frying, pickling
Antohi Romanian
Yolo Wonder
8804
DAYS TO HARVEST: 67
FRUIT: Color: light green to gold; Shape: 3-4 lobed
short bell
USE: fresh market, home garden more prolific than
most other golden bells
Gypsy
8814
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
4” x 4”
PLANT: Small bushes may be planted on very close
spacing
USE: short season home gardens and containers
Northstar
Garden Leader Tasty Colorbell Mix 8775
Giant Marconi
New Ace
8992
DAYS TO HARVEST: 78
FRUIT: Rounded shoulder to a tapered point; length
4”.
TYPE: OP heirloom
USE: Home garden, frying, roasting and stuffing
Garden Leader California Wonder
8824
76 days
Popular home garden pepper bearing dark green
blocky fruit.
Cubanelle
8884
DAYS TO HARVEST: 78
FRUIT: Color; dk green to red; Shape: large block; Size:
6 1/2” x 4 1/4”, thick walled
HYBRID HOT PEPPER
Apache
GARDEN LEADER
8832
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: yellow-green frying type; Shape:
elongated 6 x2”
“ASK US”
Garden Leader Tasty Purple Bell
9206
DAYS TO HARVEST: 74
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: taper; Size: 1 1/2”
x 3/4”
TYPE: 30000 scovilles, very hot, thin walled
USE: grow in containers or baskets, very ornamental
Cheyenne
9211
DAYS TO HARVEST: 73
FRUIT: Color: green to gold; Shape: taper; Size: 1 1/2”
x 3/4”
TYPE: 30000 scovilles, very hot, thin walled
USE: grow in containers or baskets, very ornamental
800-241-7333
Vegetable Seeds 163
Vegetable Seeds
Hole Mole
8860
AAS WINNER
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
An improved pasilla-type used in traditional mole
sauce. Produces 7 to 9”, slender peppers. Pungency is
a low 700 Scoville units, flavor is nutty and tangy.
Great when roasted. Resistant to Potato Virus Y and
Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty
Hot Wings
8642
DAYS TO HARVEST: 71
30,000 scovilles in heat. Abundance of fruit colors up
from deep green to bright red. Thin walled, wing
shaped with wide shoulders and tapered point. 1 1/2”
x 3/4”. Hot and flavorful. Very attractive grown in
containers on the patio where they can be freshly
harvested to spice up kabobs, salsas and wing sauces.
Garden Leader Tasty Hot
8889
Mucho Nacho
8886
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: tapered: Size: 4 x 1”
TYPE: 9,000 scovilles, hot, large size jalapeno
USE: home garden, fresh market, dried
Super Chili
8890
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST:75
FRUIT: Color: green, yellow, red; Shape; tapered; Size:
2 1/2” x 1/2”
TYPE: 40,000 scovilles very hot
USE: home garden, dried, processing
NON-HYBRID HOT PEPPER
Anaheim
8897
DAYS TO HARVEST: 77
FRUIT; Color: green to red; Shape: taper; Size: 4” x 1”;
medium thick flesh,
TYPE: 40,000 scovilles very hot thin walled chili
USE: suitable fresh or dried
Cayenne Large Red Thick
8888
DAYS TO HARVEST: 74
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: taper; Size: 7” x 1”
TYPE: 3000-3500 scovilles, medium hot, thin walled
USE: dried and canning, Albanian heirloom
DAYS TO HARVEST: 74
Thick flesh
TYPE: 10,000 scovilles very hot thick walled
USE: frying and pickling
Garden Leader Tasty Hot Cherry
Cayenne Long Red Thin
8835
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: round; Size: 1”
TYPE: 3000-3500 scovilles, medium hot, thin walled
USE: fresh and canning
Garden Leader Tasty Poblano
8841
DAYS TO HARVEST: 83
A mild chili pepper, just slightly spicier than a bell
pepper . One of the most popular pepper types grown
in Mexico. Multi-stemmed, garden height of 24”. Fruit
is 4 to 6” long and 1 to 2” wide. Immature fruit is dark
green in color, but eventually turns red, nearly black.
Garden Salsa
8050
DAYS TO HARVEST: 73
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: long thin: Size: 9 x
1”
TYPE: 1500-2500 scovilles, medium hot
Jalapa
8891
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color: green to red; Shape: blunt cylinder: Size:
3”
TYPE: 5000 scovilles medium hot
Jalapeno Lite
8895
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: deep green to red; Shape: blunt cylinder;
Size: 3 1/2”
TYPE: 500 scovilles mild
USE: home garden, fresh market, perfect for Mexican
flavor without the fire.
NEW Mexibell
Mexibell
8836
DAYS TO HARVEST: 78
FRUIT: 3 lobed bell; Color: green to red; Size: 3” X 3
1/2”.
TYPE: F-1 hybrid, 500 Scovilles
USE: fresh sliced, stuffing.
Vegetable Seeds 164
8892
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
flesh is very thin, dries to a paper-like texture
TYPE: 10,000 scovilles very hot thin walled
USE: dried
Caribbean Red Hot
8887
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: yellow to red; Shape: blunt twisted bell;
Size: 1 1/2”
TYPE: over 200,000+ scovilles 60 times hotter than
Jalapeno
USE: early home garden, fresh market
Early Jalapeno
8904
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: olive green; Shape: blunt cylinder;
Size: 3 1/2” x 1 1/2”
TYPE: 6000 scovilles very hot
USE: early home garden
Habanero
8898
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: light green to orange; Shape: blunt
twisted bell;
Size: 1 1/2”
TYPE: over 200,000 scovilles 50 times hotter than
Jalapeno
USE: early home garden, fresh market
Serrano Chili
8903
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: cylindrical taper; Color: deep green to red; Size:
3”.
TYPE: F-1 hybrid, 20,000 Scovilles
USE: drying, fresh spice.
Thai Hot
8900
DAYS TO HARVEST: 93
FRUIT: Color: olive to red; Shape: thin tube; Size: 1-2”.
TYPE: 60,000 scovilles, hot
USE: home garden containers, great for hanging
baskets
PERILLA
Perilla frutescence var. japonica
SHISO, BEEFSTEAK PLANT
60-65F., lightly cover seeds, 7-10 Days
USE: Its essential oils provide for a strong taste whose
intensity might be compared to that of mint or fennel.
It is considered rich in minerals and vitamins, has antiinflammatory properties and is thought to help
preserve and sterilize other foods.
GARDEN LEADER
Red Sushi
9271
DAYS TO HARVEST: 40
FRUIT: Deep burgundy leaves with a slightly spicy
flavor.
TYPE: Upright foliage habit. Plant height 10 to 12”.
USE: Superior addition to mesclun salad mixes. Great
garnish for sushi, sprinkle over cucumbers, cabbage
and fish. Chop and add to pesto. Deep burgundy
foliage is fabulous in containers and garden. Highly
prized in the gourmet markets.
PUMPKIN
See also Ornamental Pumpkins in flower
seed section
See Heirloom Seeds
Cucurbita maxima or C. pepo
80°, D, 7 days
Atlantic Giant Dill’s
8961
FRUIT: Color: yellow gray, deep grooved; Size: 200300 lbs. holds world record, over 700 lbs.
TYPE: OP, vine up to 30 ft.
USE: home garden display
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Pot
8912
DAYS TO HARVEST: 98
Fruit matures to the size of a large orange softball.
Plants do not vine. They stay mounded. Grow in 12”
to 3 gallon containers
Howden
8913
FRUIT: Color: orange rind with golden flesh; Size: 20
lbs.
TYPE: OP
USE: excellent for commercial field production
Monster
8918
FRUIT Color: bright orange; Size: 80+ lbs. Best of the
smooth rind carving pumpkins
USE: pies, canning, contests, carving
Orange Smoothie
8894
DAYS TO HARVEST: 95
AAS WINNER
FRUIT: Color: clear orange without deep cut ribs; Size:
5 to 8 lbs
TYPE: F-1
USE: carving, pies, painting
Sorcerer
8910
DAYS TO HARVEST: 95
FRUIT: Color: orange rind with golden flesh; Size: 22 lb
TYPE: F-1
USE: excellent for commercial field production
Vegetable Seeds
Spirit
8914
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 98
FRUIT: Color: orange; shape: 16x12” with strong stem
“handle”; Size 12 lbs.
PLANT: Habit: compact semi-bush
TYPE: F-1
USE: Compact garden, good carver
SQUASH
SQUASH, GREEN ZUCCHINI
8922
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 43
FRUIT: Color: glossy dk green; Shape: cylinder; Size: 7”
PLANT: habit: compact bush; Size: 2’
TYPE: F-1 zucchini
GARDEN LEADER
8929
8947
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
FRUIT: Color: green glossy; Shape: cylinder;
Size: 16” small seed cavity, tender rind
TYPE: F-1 zucchini
USE: home garden, novelty contests
8945
SQUASH, YELLOW
STRAIGHTNECK
Early Prolific
8962
DAYS TO HARVEST: 39
FRUIT: Color: smooth yellow rind; Size: 6”
TOLERANCE: mosaic virus
TYPE: F-1 straight neck bush
Garden Leader Tasty Brand Zucchini 8925
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45
FRUIT: Color: dp green; Shape: cylinder;
Size: 7”, heavy yield
TYPE: F-1, zucchini
USE: home garden, rich taste well suited for gourmet
raw market, good for frying
SQUASH, YELLOW ZUCCHINI
8926
AAS WINNER
DAYS TO HARVEST: 49
FRUIT: Color: yellow Zucchini; Shape: cylinder; Size: 6”
PLANT: habit: compact bush; Size: 2’
TYPE: F-1 zucchini
USE: home garden, containers
GARDEN LEADER
8915
Bright yellow fruit on compact mounded plants. Small
foliage, very attractive.
8919
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
No vines, plants are mounded. Patty Pan type fruit is
light colored and ornamental. Grow in 12” to 3 gallon
containers.
8938
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 52
FRUIT: Color: light green; Shape: flat globe with
scalloped margin; Size: 3”x1 1/2”
TYPE: F-1, medium sized bush
USE: home garden, fresh market novelty
8940
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
FRUIT: Color: light green to yellow; Shape: flat globe
with scalloped margin; Size: 3”x1 1/2”
TYPE: F-1, medium sized bush
USE: home garden, fresh market novelty
8939
DAYS TO HARVEST: 86
FRUIT: Color: white rind with green ribs, flesh is
yellow; Size: 8”
TYPE: Sweet Potato squash
USE: storage, baking
Early Butternut
8970
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Color: tan skin orange flesh; Shape: thick neck;
Size: 12”
TYPE: F-1 bush
USE: home garden, market, storage
GARDEN LEADER
DAYS TO HARVEST: 83
FRUIT: 5 to 7 fruit per plant averaging over 3 pounds
each.
Deep black rind and warm golden flesh with large
seed cavity for stuffing.
Flavor is great and the fruit is blue ribbon size.
TYPE: F-1 vigorous bush habit.
USE: Offer in 4” pots along with other Garden Leader
Monster vegetable varieties for a completely Monster
Garden.
Spaghetti
8987
FRUIT: Color: tan warted rind with pale spaghetti like
flesh; Shape: blunt ended cylinder; Size: 3-5lb
TYPE:OP vine
Table Ace
8980
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: black/green; Shape: blunt end acorn;
Size: 5”
TYPE: F-1 compact bush
SUNFLOWER
See Helianthus
STRAWBERRY
SQUASH, WINTER
Blue Hubbard
Bush Delicata
8928
NEW Garden Leader Monster Acorn 8927
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Pan
Sunburst
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Yellow Zucchini
8963
DAYS TO HARVEST: 55
FRUIT: Color: warted yellow rind; Shape: crookneck;
Size: 8”
PLANT: habit: bush; Size: 3’
TYPE: OP
USE: home garden, commercial fields
Peter Pan
GARDEN LEADER
Gold Rush
Early Summer
SQUASH, SCALLOPED
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: 8 to 12 zucchinis per vine
TYPE: F-1 short vine
USE: Grow in 10 to 12” containers with a 20 to 28”
trellis in place. Plants sell fast when in bloom..
Garden Leader Monster Brand
FRUIT: Color: orange; Size: 6 1/2”, 5 lbs.; flavor; sweet
potato like
TYPE: OP, storage
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45
FRUIT: Color: smooth yellow rind; Shape: crookneck;
Size: 5 1/2”
TYPE: F-1 crookneck bush
SQUASH, SUMMER
NEW Garden Leader Patio Tasty
Climbing Zucchini
Burgess Buttercup
Sundance
Cucurbita species
70°, 7 days
Aristocrat
SQUASH, YELLOW CROOKNECK
8959
FRUIT: Color: lime flesh; Size: 5 lbs.; flavor; hard
shelled
TYPE: OP, storage
GARDEN LEADER
for hanging baskets
Fragaria anannassas
65°, D, 14-28 days
Sow in February keep flats in total darkness and do
not allow seed to dry out. Temperature should not
exceed 70°. Germination is between 55 and 70°.
Vegetable Seeds 165
Vegetable Seeds
Fresca
8989
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
FRUIT: Color: red; Shape: tapered;
Size: 1”. ever bearing bush
USE: home garden, hanging basket use 4-5 PPP in
10” pot.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Sweet
8270
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45
Plentiful harvest of small sweet fruit. Everbearing.
USE: Grow in hanging baskets and use 4-5 PPP in 10”
pot.
Temptation
8986
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45
FRUIT: Color: red; Shape: broad shoulders tapered;
Size: 1 1/2”. ever bearing bush
USE: home garden, hanging basket use 5 – 7 PPP in
12” pot.
TOMATILLO
Physalis Ixocarpa
Ground Cherry, Mexican Husk
72°, 10 to 20 days
Crop Time: 7 weeks
Round fruit in a papery husk. Plants are vigorous and
grow to 4 ft.
Little Lanterns
8920
DAYS TO HARVEST: 56
USE: home garden, patio containers
Makes tart green sauces. Ripe fruit turns deep gold.
Size 2”.
Toma Verde
9118
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
USE: home garden
Harvest when green. Makes tart green sauces. Ripe
fruit turns yellow. Size 2”.
TOMATO
See Heirloom Seeds
Lycopersicon esculentum
= Lycopersicon Lycopersicum
72°, 7 to 14 days
Determinate: Varieties that grow to a fixed mature size
and ripen all their fruit in a short period, usually about
2 weeks. Once this first flush of fruit has ripened, the
plant will begin to diminish in vigor and will set few or
no new fruit.
Indeterminate: Vines that continue growing in length
throughout the growing season continuing to set and
ripen fruit until killed off by frost.
HYBRID RED SLICING TOMATO
Beefmaster VFN
9000
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Color: red; Size; 14 oz., crack resistant green
shoulder
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium, nematode, stem
canker, gray spot
TYPE: F-1, indeterminate slicing, not recommended
for commercial fruit production.
USE: home garden
Best Boy
9008
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: red with green shoulder; Size: 7 oz.
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium, nematode
Vegetable Seeds 166
TYPE: F-1, ISI indeterminate short internode, rugose
foliage
USE: container, compact home garden
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Better Boy VFN
9010
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: red, green shoulder; Size: 8 oz.
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium, nematode, stem
canker, gray spot
TYPE: F-1 indeterminate
USE: home garden
Big Beef
8999
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 9-12 oz, smooth skin good
tasting slicing tomato
PLANT: Height: 6’
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium 1 & 2, tobacco
mosaic virus,nematode, stemphylium, alternaria
canker
TYPE: F-1, indeterminate
USE: home garden
Big Boy
9015
DAYS TO HARVEST: 78
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 16 oz.
USE: home garden slicer
Carnival
9012
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 7 oz., best fruit set for areas of
high temperatures
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium 1 & 2, nematode,
tobacco mosaic, alternaria stem canker, Grey Leaf Spot
TYPE: F-1, determinate
USE: fresh, southern home garden
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Celebrity VFNT
9040
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: red green shoulder; Size: 10 oz.
tobacco mosaic, gray spot, stem canker
TYPE: F-1, determinate bush
Early Boy VFNT
9049
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
FRUIT: Color: red, crack resistant; Size: 7 oz.
USE: early harvest home garden, fresh market
First Ladies
A9018
DAYS TO HARVEST: 52
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 7 oz. high yield
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium 1 & 2, alternaria,
nematode
USE: Early Girl replacement renamed from First Lady II
with much improved flavor
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Glass & Garden #21 8990
DAYS TO HARVEST: 88
FRUIT: Table size round globes, 2 1/2 to 3” cluster type.
TYPE: F-1 Indeterminate vines require tying to support.
TOLERANCE: verticillium 1, fusarium.
USE: Greenhouse production and late season garden
delicacy.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Monster
9101
!! the whopper !!
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 17 oz. and larger, the biggest
ever in our trials
USE: home garden table slicer, blue ribbon sized fruit
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Early
9009
DAYS TO HARVEST: 54
FRUIT: Color: red, green shoulder; Size: 5 oz., crack
resistant, great tasting
tobacco mosaic, gray spot, stem canker
USE: early home garden
Garden Leader Tasty Merlot
9028
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
COMPARISON: Champion, Brandy Wine
FRUIT: Color: clear red; Size: 10 oz.
Flavor: perfect blend of acid and sugar, excellent flavor
TOLERANCE: verticillium 1, fusarium 1 & 2 ,
nematode, tobacco mosaic, leaf blight
USE: slicing
Garden Leader Tasty Table VFNT
9002
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
COMPARISON: Super Fantastic, Better Boy
FRUIT: Color: red, non-green shoulders; Size: 10 oz.,
productive throughout season;
Flavor: great taste combination of tangy and sweet.
TOLERANCE: verticillium 1, fusarium 1 & 2 ,
nematode, tobacco mosaic, leaf blight
USE: home garden, local market
Husky Red
9017
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Size: 6 oz
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium
TYPE: F-1, ISI, Indeterminate short internode
PLANT: Habit: stocky seedlings, compact at maturity;
Height: 36”.
FOLIAGE: dark green rugose
COMPARISON: Better Bush, Heartland, Super Bush
Jet Set
9092
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: red; Shape: round globe; Sets easy and
continuous till frost
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium 1 & 2, Tobacco
Mosaic, alternaria, Leaf Spot
COMPARISON: Jet Star, Better Boy, Early Girl
USE: fresh market extended harvest, home garden
Keepsake
9109
DAYS TO HARVEST: 78
Fruit: Color: red w/ green shoulders; Shape: round
globe; stores 6 to 12 weeks
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium 1 & 2, Tobacco
Mosaic
USE: extended storage, home garden
Vegetable Seeds
Mountain Fresh
9203
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: red, medium to large fruits, excellent
flavor and uniformity, widely adapted
TYPE: F-1 determinate
COMPARISON: Tasty Table, Terrific
USE: home garden
PLANT: Habit: tumbling mound; Height: 10-12”;
Spread 14”
COMPARISON: Large Cherry, Patio F
USE: home garden, containers, hanging baskets
GARDEN LEADER
Tomato Juliet
9125
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Kabob 8909
DAYS TO HARVEST: 76
FRUIT: Color: rosy red; Shape: pear; Size: 3 1/2” round
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium, nematode,
tobacco mosaic
USE: home garden canning and sauce
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: ping pong ball size
USE: 8 or 10” pot is all that’s needed. Plants only grow
to about 18 inches but are loaded with fruit. Great for
the skewer.
Supersteak
9173
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 12 oz. smoother skin than
other beefsteak types
USE: home garden slicer
HYBRID RED SAUCE TOMATO
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Rome
8647
DAYS TO HARVEST: 67
FRUIT: rounded oval shape, crack resistant; Color: red,
green leaf; Size: 3oz.
TOLERANCE: fusarium 1&2, verticillium, nematode,
tobacco mosaic, alternaria gray spot, stem canker,
TYPE F-1 hybrid, determinate
USE: Patio containers and compact gardens. Dozens
of fruit per plant.
Tasty Sauce
9003
DAYS TO HARVEST: 71
FRUIT: Color: red, firm rounded; Size: 3 oz., crack
resistant, great tasting
tobacco mosaic, alternaria gray spot, stem canker
USE: paste and whole canned
Window Box Roma
9038
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: red, juicy oval; Size: 3 oz., crack resistant,
luscious tasting
tobacco mosaic, alternaria gray spot,bacterial speck,
stem canker
USE: baskets and patio containers
Viva Italia
9272
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: red, firm oval; Size: 3 oz., crack resistant,
great tasting
tobacco mosaic, alternaria gray spot, stem canker
USE: paste and whole canned
HYBRID RED CHERRY TOMATO
GARDEN LEADER
GARDEN LEADER BASKET BOY SERIES
Red
9013
NEW Yellow
8646
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Size: 2 1/2”
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Cherries
9102
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Tasty Red Cherry
9181
DAYS TO HARVEST: 66
FRUIT: Hundreds of 3/4” fruit loaded with sweetness.
TYPE: F-1 indeterminate aggressive vines
TOLERANCE: verticillium 1, fusarium 1&2, nematode,
alternaria stem canker, powdery mildew.
USE: Home garden plants for cages or stakes.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Teacup Red
8998
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Size: 1”
9006
9250
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Standard large Red Cherry, medium round, red
and sweet.
TYPE: F-1 Indeterminate, regular leaf type
TOLERANCE: nematode, tobacco mosaic
USE: Great for salads or using in stir-fry and other
cooking. A great and prolific producer.
Patio F
9105
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 3”, 4 oz.
TOLERANCE: fusarium, gray spot
TYPE: F-1, determinate, dwarf
USE: container
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Super Sweet 100
9180
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 1 “ in grape like clusters of 15
to 20 fruit, very sweet
TYPE: F-1, indeterminate, rambling
USE: home garden, tall trellis
Sweet Baby Girl
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: red, large, sweet grape size
TOLERANCE: verticillium 1, fusarium
PLANT: compact and bushy grows 6 to 8”
USE: very small containers 4 to 8”pots on patio or
indoors in well lit window.
Husky Cherry Red
9229
AAS WINNER 1999
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60
FRUIT: one ounce, glossy red tomato produced in
clusters like grapes. 'Juliet' won the AAS Award for its
excellent, crack resistant, holding qualities.
TOLERANCE: fruit skin cracking
USE: 'Juliet' is a strong vining plant performing best in
full sun with a cage or stake for vertical support.
Large Red Cherry
DAYS TO HARVEST: 66
FRUIT: Fruit clusters are abundant and can be
harvested over a long season. Size 3/4” diameter,
about 3/4 ounce.
TYPE: F-1 compact determinate
TOLERANCE: tobacco mosaic, fusarium, verticillium
USE: Compact plants to finish in 10 to 14” pots. Plants
are self supporting but make an irresistible offering
when grown on a small trellis.
“ASK US”
Pink Girl
TYPE: F-1, ISI, Indeterminate short internode
PLANT: Habit: stocky seedlings, compact at maturity;
height: 36”.
FOLIAGE: dark green rugose
COMPARISON: Large Red Cherry
9039
DAYS TO HARVEST: 67
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 1”. Crack resistant, extra sweet
TOLERANCE: verticillium 1, fusarium1 & 2, nematode,
alternaria stem canker, stemphylium
TYPE: F-1, short indeterminate
USE: containers, home gardens, patio trellis
Sweet Million
9171
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: under 1 oz. Crack resistant and
extra sweet
TOLERANCE: verticillium1, fusarium1 & 2, nematode,
alternaria stem canker, stemphylium
TYPE: F-1, determinate compact vines
USE: containers, home gardens, salad type
800-241-7333
Vegetable Seeds 167
Vegetable Seeds
Sweet Olive
9174
DAYS TO HARVEST: 57
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 1/2 oz. Grape
TOLERANCE: verticillium1, fusarium1, nematode
TYPE: F-1, determinate compact plants
USE: containers, home gardens, salad type
HYBRID YELLOW SLICING
TOMATO
Lemon Boy
9096
GARDEN LEADER
9004
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: golden; Size: 6 oz., full flavor
tobacco mosaic
USE: home garden, table slicer
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Brand Yellow 9029
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Color: bright lemon yellow; Size: 4-6 oz.
tobacco mosaic
USE: roadside and gourmet markets, table slicer
YELLOW CHERRY TOMATO
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Yellow Cherry 9033
2009 Garden Leader of the Year
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: bright golden yellow; Size: 1 oz. Firm
skin with jucy flesh.
tobacco mosaic
TYPE: F-1, indeterminate,
USE: roadside and gourmet markets, salad bowl and
Kabobs. Best taste, best yield longest producing!
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Teacup Yellow
8995
Tumbling Tom Yellow
9276
DAYS TO HARVEST: 76
FRUIT: Color: deep yellow; Size: 2-3”, Shape: pear-like
Vegetable Seeds 168
Brandywine
9210
DAYS TO HARVEST: 77
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 22 oz, smooth, round crack
resistant
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium 1
TYPE: OP, indeterminate
USE: home garden, sandwich slicer
Homesweet F2
9031
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
KEY FEATURE: Improvement on Homestead24 and
Homestead500.
FRUIT: Color: UG no green shoulder; Size: 9 oz; Shape:
irregular
PLANT: weak, low yielding
TOLERANCE: V,F1, F2, St, ASC, 75% Root knot nematode
TYPE:F2, determinate
USE: home garden, heirloom
Marglobe VF
9235
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color: red; Shape: round; Size: 6 oz.
TYPE: OP, determinate
USE: home garden fresh, long time favorite for
flavorful bush type tomato, preserves well
Rutgers VF
9265
DAYS TO HARVEST: 82
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 5 oz.
USE: old home garden favorite, fresh or canned
9255
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 2 oz.; Shape: Pear
USE: home canning garden favorite
Citrullus vulgaris
70°, 7 days
We offer Watermelon seeds only for the home
gardener and gourmet fresh markets.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader Monster
9099
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color: red; Size: 3/8” to 1/2”
PLANT: tiny plants, fully mature when only 4” tall
USE: 4” pot novelty
9075
DAYS TO HARVEST: 75
FRUIT: Color: pearly red; Shape: oval; Size: under 1 oz.
9336
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Up to 1 foot wide and 20 to 30 pounds! Sweet
red flesh inside boldly striped rind.
USE: Largest yields are achieved in the warmer
southern zones. Produces one or two monster fruit
per vine.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Tasty Brand
9335
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color: red; Shape: ovate; Size: 8-10 lbs.
TOLERANCE: fusarium
TYPE: F-1, icebox
USE: fresh market or home garden, sweet and crisp
Golden Crown
9302
AAS Winner
DAYS TO HARVEST: 80
FRUIT: Color: yellow rind, red flesh; Shape: oblong;
Size: 12” x 7”
TOLERANCE: fusarium, anthracnose
TYPE: F-1 Hybrid
Sugar Baby
NON-HYBRID
RED CHERRY TOMATO
Pearl Plum
Roma VF
WATERMELON
See Heirloom Seeds
Delicious
NON-HYBRID
RED SAUCE TOMATO
9350
DAYS TO HARVEST: 83
FRUIT: Color: green rind, red flesh; Shape: round; Size:
8” x 8”
TOLERANCE: fusarium, anthracnose
TYPE: F-1 Hybrid
Yellow Baby
9325
DAYS TO HARVEST: 70
FRUIT: Color: green rind, yellow flesh; Shape: oblong;
Size: 8 lbs.
TYPE: F-1, icebox
8997
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
FRUIT: Size: 2 1/2”
PLANT: Habit: tumbling mound; Height: 10-12”;
Spread 14”
COMPARISON: Like size and habit of Basket Boy
USE: home garden, containers, hanging baskets
Yellow Pear
9200
DAYS TO HARVEST: 85
FRUIT: Color: red; Shape: flattened, rough looking
symmetry; Flavor: good; Size: 12 oz.
USE: home garden
Microtom
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: yellow, large, sweet grape size
COMPARISON: more agressive plant and sweeter fruit
than Large Red Cherry.
TYPE: OP, indeterminate vigorous
USE: home garden, commercial salad or garnish
NON-HYBRID
RED SLICING TOMATOES
Beefsteak
DAYS TO HARVEST: 72
FRUIT: Color: bright yellow; Size: 6 oz. high yield
TOLERANCE: verticillium, fusarium 1 & 2, alternaria,
stemphylium, nematode
USE: Southern fresh market, home garden
Garden Leader
Tasty Brand Golden VF
with narrow shoulder and bulbous end
TYPE: OP indeterminate
GARDEN LEADER
for hanging baskets
“CONTAINER
VEGETABLES”
Patio size vegetable plants are in demand by the
increasing number of container gardeners.
Sell fruited plants in 8" to 10" pots.
• More profit for your business by growing
container vegetables.
• Home owners are growing more novelty
container plants.
• Sales show that more vegetables are being
grown on the deck or patio than ever before.
• These selections are from our Vegetable
varieties that make the best patio and
container plants.
• Buy plugs or economical seeds.
• Offer them in finished containers in the 3 to 5
gallon size.
• Be sure to have a good supply of 4” plants.
• Price your 4” with Geraniums or Wave
Petunias.
BEANS, BUSH (SNAP)
stem, green leaf; Size: 18” to 20”.
USE: Young leaves make good fresh salad greens.
Stems and leaves can be blanched like spinach.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Candy Bean
GARDEN LEADER
8001
DAYS TO HARVEST: 65
TYPE: Compact bush
FRUIT: Attractive red and white bicolor flowers
that look like bits of peppermint candy. Produces
masses of succulent beans.
USE: The ornamental plants make decorative
containers. Finish in 10 to 14” pots.
GARDEN LEADER
8640
DAYS TO HARVEST: 50
Miniature Celery plants with full Celery flavor.
Plants height to 9” to 12” with 5 to 9 leaf stalks.
The stalks can be wrapped and blanched the
same as full size Celery. Foliage is very ornamental
in combination plantings and suitable for a mild
Parsley substitute as a garnish or spice.
CHARD
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Gourmet Chablis
8244
Deep red stalks make a dramatic companion plant
for mixed containers. Plants are tasty fresh or
cooked.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Ruby 8644
CELERY
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Celeryetta
Garden Leader
Gourmet Burgundy
8643
DAYS TO HARVEST: 59
FRUIT: broad stem and fleshy leaf; Color: yellow
DAYS TO HARVEST: 56
deep ruby stem, green leaf with red veins; Size: 10”
to 12”.
throughout the season and cooked like spinach.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Silver 8645
DAYS TO HARVEST: 56
pure white stem, green leaf; Size: 10” to 12”.
throughout the season and cooked like spinach or
stir fried in oriental dishes. Striking when planted
with Patio Ruby Chard.
Container Vegetable Seeds
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Rainbow Swiss
8221
Ornamental and edible. Grow a container full of
the colorful foliage plants in shades of red pink
yellow and gold. The mature outer leaves can be
constantly harvested for salad or for steaming.
CUCUMBER
Bush Pickle
8290
Allow the fruit to mature into tasty small size
cucumbers. Plant grows well in small trellis.
Bush Crop
8260
Larger container size 5 gallon or more. Plants will
cascade ofer the pot’s edge or climb on a short
trellis.
Fanfare
8273
AAS Winner. Larger container size with a medium
vigor vine. Good fruit set.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Bush 8916
Very ornamental and contained plant. Medium to
small foliage with medium size fruit. Short trellis
in 3 to 5 gallon container.
Gourmet Brand Burpless
8276
Best for larger containers and 3 or 4 ft trellis.
Fruit is very high quality and ornamental. Long
and narrow with a tender rind.
Salad Bush
8300
AAS Winner. Good salad quality fruit on compact
plants. Grow in 5 gallon or larger container.
EGGPLANT
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Purple 8650
DAYS TO HARVEST: 54
A true miniature Eggplant for compact garden
and container finishing. Plant height is a
maximum of 30”. Clusters of fruit are plentiful on
each plant and the size is 2 1/2” to 3”. Flavor is
never bitter. Perfect addition to your container
vegetable offering.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty White A8908
Very ornamental with a mild flavor. Plants are
compact, height 12”. Grow in 10 to 12” pot.
HERBS
GARDEN LEADER
Basil Garden Leader Green Goddess 8378
Basil Garden Leader Key Lime
8367
Basil Garden Leader Rascal
8443
Basil Garden Leader Sweet
8368
Cilantro (Coriander)
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Fiesta 6109
Container Vegetable Seeds 170
Cilantro Garden Leader Patio Fiesta
Dill Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Compact
Oregano Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Soprano
Parsley Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Flat Leaf
Parsley Garden Leader Tasty Curled
Sage Garden Leader Scarborough
Thyme Garden Leader Time
6109
8769
8768
8461
8499
Basil Purple Ruffles
Basil Siam Queen
Dill Fernleaf
Oregano Greek
Parsley Crispum
Rosemary
8385
8373
8425
8457
8770
8464
9005
8455
TASTY BRAND SERIES
Tasty Green Leaf
Tasty Red Leaf
Leaf Lettuce Mix
8698
8671
8685
GOURMET BRAND SERIES
Green Bibb
Green Romaine
8681
8686
Lettuce makes a very ornamental compliment
when planted with other vegetables or flowers.
OKRA
8905
Sweet orange tapered bell. Fruit 3” long. Plant
height is only 8” but spreads to 24” or more.
Grow in baskets or planters.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Red Bell
8901
GARDEN LEADER
Tasty Pimento
8721
DAYS TO HARVEST: 59
FRUIT: Bright yellow flowers develop into sweet
tender pods.
Type: F-1. Compact plants 18 to 20"
USE: can be grown in containers. Beautiful patio
Okra plant.
ORIENTAL GREENS
PEPPER HOT
Apache
NEW Pak Choi Tasty Pagoda Purple 8885
DAYS TO HARVEST: 45
FRUIT: An eye-catching reddish-purple top leaf
and contrasting bright green stems. Cooler nights
intensifies the purple tone of the leaf.
USE: Very ornamental in patio containers. Grow
for micro-greens by sowing 5 to 7 seeds per cell.
Single sow plugs or cell packs to sell for home
garden plantings.
PEPPER SWEET
9206
Small ornamental and hot fruit on compact 12”
bushy plants. Grow in 8 to 10” pots.
9211
Large bright orange fuit on spreading, cascading
plants. Medium hot. Grow in hanging baskets or
planters.
Jalapeno Lite
8895
Traditional mildly hot pepper. Grow in 3 gallon
containers. Keep them close to the barbeque
because these are terrific when roasted.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Hot Wings
GARDEN LEADER
8893
Sweet and thick flesh. Blunt bells are very
ornamental when allowed to mature to deep red.
Grow in 8 to 10” containers.
Cheyene
GARDEN LEADER
8642
DAYS TO HARVEST: 71
30,000 scovilles in heat. Abundance of fruit
colors up from deep green to bright red. Thin
walled, wing shaped with wide shoulders and
tapered point. 1 1/2” x 3/4”. Hot and flavorful.
Very attractive grown in containers on the patio
where they can be freshly harvested to spice up
kabobs, salsas and wing sauces.
Thai Hot
8900
Really hot! Very ornamental in baskets and
planters.
PERILLA
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Green Bell
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Orange Bell
Sweet red tapered bell on upright bushes. Plant
has an attractive open habit that displays the fruit
nicely. Plant height 12 - 14”.
LETTUCE
NEW Patio Tasty Betty Jo
Matures in 72 days to deep red.
TYPE: F-1 Sweet green to red bell.
TOLERANCE: tobacco mosaic, powdery mildew,
bacterial brown spot
USE: Compact plants for production in 10 to 12”
containers.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Tasty Red Sushi
8778
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: Medium size, 3 and 4 lobed green bells.
9271
DAYS TO HARVEST: 40
FRUIT: Deep burgundy leaves with a slightly spicy
flavor.
TYPE: Upright foliage habit. Plant height 10 to 12”.
USE: Superior addition to mesclun salad mixes.
Great garnish for sushi, sprinkle over cucumbers,
cabbage and fish. Chop and add to pesto. Deep
burgundy foliage is fabulous in containers and
garden. Highly prized in the gourmet markets.
PUMPKIN
GARDEN LEADER
8912
That’s right! Patio Pumpkins. Fruit matures to the
size of a large orange softball. Plants do not vine.
They stay mounded. Grow in 12” to 3 gallon
containers
SQUASH
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Pan
8919
No vines, plants are mounded. Fruit is light
colored and ornamental. Grow in 12” to 3 gallon
containers.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Tasty Zucchini
8915
Bright yellow fruit on compact mounded plants
with small foliage. Very attractive.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader Patio Tasty
Climbing Zucchini
8929
DAYS TO HARVEST: 68
FRUIT: 8 to 12 zucchinis per vine
TYPE: F-1 short vine
USE: Grow in 10 to 12” containers with a 20 to
28” trellis in place. Plants sell fast when in
bloom..
STRAWBERRY
Fresca
8989
Plentiful harvest of small sweet fruit. Grow in
hanging baskets and use 4-5 PPP in 10” pot.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader
Tasty Tasty Sweet
8986
A broad shouldered berry with sharp taper. In 12”
hanging basket use 5 – 7 PPP.
TOMATILLO
Little Lanterns
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Teacup Red
NEW GARDEN LEADER
BASKET BOY SERIES
Red
NEW Yellow
9013
8646
The best Tomato for hanging baskets and
planters. Grape size fruit is very sweet and the
plants are ornamental.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Kabob
8909
This is the plant that started the Patio craze. 8 or
10” pot is all that’s needed. Plants only grow to
about 18 inches but are loaded with ping pong
ball size fruit. Great for the skewer.
GARDEN LEADER
Garden Leader Patio Rome
DAYS TO HARVEST: 67
FRUIT: rounded oval shape, crack resistant; Color:
red, green leaf; Size: 3oz.
TOLERANCE: fusarium 1&2, verticillium,
nematode, tobacco mosaic, alternaria gray spot,
stem canker,
TYPE F-1 hybrid, determinate
USE: Patio containers and compact gardens.
Dozens of fruit per plant.
Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Teacup Yellow
8995
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: yellow, large, sweet grape size
9006
Larger containers and an abundant harvest of
cherry size tomatoes. Grow in 14 to 16”
containers with some plant support.
Husky Gold
9014
Beautiful golden yellow fruit is nice sized for
slicing. Grow in 5 gallon size containers. Plants
like to have some space so a large patio or deck
or patio is best.
Microtom
9099
Here is the container Tomato of all container
Tomatoes. They can finish in a 4” pot and yield
3/4” fruit.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Garden Leader
Patio Tasty Cherries
GARDEN LEADER
Husky Cherry Red
8647
8998
DAYS TO HARVEST: 62
FRUIT: red, large, sweet grape size
9102
DAYS TO HARVEST: 66
FRUIT: Fruit clusters are abundant and can be
harvested over a long season. Size 3/4” diameter,
about 3/4 ounce.
TYPE: F-1 compact determinate
TOLERANCE: tobacco mosaic, fusarium,
verticillium
USE: Compact plants to finish in 10 to 14” pots.
Plants are self supporting but make an irresistible
offering when grown on a small trellis.
Patio F
9105
Nice compact plant for 14” to 16” containers.
Fruit is abundant.
Tumbling Tom Yellow
8997
Great Hanging basket tomato with sweet yellow
fruit. Grow in 12” basket or planter.
Window Box Roma
9038
Nice compact plant for 12” pots and planters.
Keep these close to the barbeque and a skewer
handy.
8270
Pick strawberries on your patio or deck all season
long. Grow in baskets or planters. Very sweet
fruit.
Temptation
GARDEN LEADER
GARDEN LEADER
8920
Harvest these fruits just before they mature for
great salsa ingredient. Allow the hulls to mature
into very ornamental lanterns. Plant height 12”.
Grow in 8” to 10” pot.
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“HEIRLOOM
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172 Heirloom Vegetable Seeds
Many wonderful, unique, old-fashioned varieties
from yesteryear have returned to prominence.
Display them prominently on the retail bench.
Hand written wooden plant tags add to the
nostalgic feel. Sell these at a premium.
HEIRLOOM CUCUMBER
Straight 8
8280
65 days to maturity - Dark green slicer 10" x 2".
HEIRLOOM BEAN
Scarlet Runner Bean
8007
70 days to maturity - Beautiful ornamental vines grow
along fence, trellis or poles. Brilliant scarlet bloom
clusters yield very versatile, late season pods. They can
be eaten as small snap beans, sliced pods, shelled
fresh beans or dried. A very old strain that has been
grown for decades.
HEIRLOOM EDIBLE
FLOWERS
Salad Nasturtium
HEIRLOOM CARROT
Amish Prime
8161
65 days to maturity - Beautiful 'Scarlet Nantes' type
with sweet flavor and tender texture. Color is deep
and rich lending an attractive addition to soups, stews
or served boiled. This one has been enjoyed on rural
dinner tables for decades.
8667
Flower colors range from bright yellow through red.
Blooms are used to garnish salads, meat dishes and
cocktails. Leaves have a spicy taste and are used as
greens in mixed salads. Plant height is 8-9”, spread is
10 -12”.
Salad Pansy
8668
Assorted colors of medium sized Pansies. This is a
particularly appetizing mixture. Flowers are used to
garnish salads, desserts and cocktails.
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds
Round of Hungary
8993
78 days to maturity - 'Pimento'. Sweet round pepper
for frying and pickling. Used to color and mildly flavor
meat dishes. Good fresh in salads. Super thick flesh
makes it an ideal Pimento type.
Serrano Chili
8903
90 days to maturity - Dark olive skin matures to red.
Blunt cylinder with slight taper. Long tradition as main
spice in Mexican and western dishes. Hot, about 3000
scovilles.
HEIRLOOM ONIONS
White Bunching
HEIRLOOM TOMATOES
8732
Amish Paste
9207
50-65 days to maturity - Thick, cylindrical, white stems
will not bulb. Favorite in Baltic regions and maintained
for decades through divisions from wintered over
plantings.
74-85 days to maturity - Indeterminate, acorn shaped
deep red fruits, 8 oz. thick flesh, few seeds, needs
staking.
White Sweet Spanish
Amish Salad
8747
112 days to maturity - British heirloom grown for years
for its favorable response to long days when the bulb
plumps up nice and sweet. Best eaten as a summer
onion because storage time is short.
HEIRLOOM PUMPKIN
Connecticut Field
9208
Indeterminate, sprawling plants, pink, oval shaped
cherry tomatoes, excellent flavor.
8937
110 days to maturity - Old-fashioned, large Halloween
Pumpkin. Bright orange fruit are slightly ribbed and
mature in assorted sizes and shapes making them
ideal for a good carving selection. Fun to watch grow
and mature. Size is 15 pounds up to 40 pounds.
Arkansas Traveler
9209
80-90 days to maturity - Indeterminate, smooth rose
colored fruit, excellent shape, mild flavor, juicy,
tolerant to heat and humidity, crack and disease
resistant.
Black From Tula
9221
75-85 days to maturity - Indeterminate, largest of the
black tomatoes, 4-5 in. flattened fruit, 8-12 oz., dark
brown to purple with green shoulders, rich smoky
flavor, sets fruit well in hot weather.
Black Krim
9212
69-90 days to maturity - Plant must be staked or
caged, flattened, globe shaped, 8-12 oz., dark redpurple fruit with delicate skin, green shoulders, green
tinted flesh, full flavor with slight saltiness that
enhances the taste, very juicy.
Black Russian
HEIRLOOM PEPPERS
Antohi Romanian
8992
78 days to maturity - Romanian Sweet round shoulder
to tapered point. Fruit is 2” at the shoulder and 4”
long. Imported by Jan Antohi in 1991 direct from his
home in Romania where it had been grown for
generations. Sweet and full flavored matures from
yellow to bright red. Favored for frying with garlic
cloves and olive oil.
Hot Hungarian Yellow Wax
8902
60-68 days to maturity - Favorite in Baltic regions.
Wide shoulders with narrow taper. Matures to golden
yellow with pungent flavor. Favored for pickling and
frying with garlic cloves and olive oil. Medium hot,
1000 scovilles.
Romanian Sweet Wax
8845
65-70 days to maturity - From the Giurgiu region of
southern Romania. Wide shoulders with narrow taper.
Matures to golden yellow with sweet flavor. Seeds of
this variety has been hand harvested and passed down
for generations.
9213
75 days to maturity - Semi-determinate, thin brownish
skin, red-pink, purple flesh, meaty, juicy flavor
resembles that of Brandywine, dark purple stripes
radiate from blossom end to stem, green shoulders,
thrives under cool growing conditions.
GARDEN LEADER
HEIRLOOM SQUASH
Banana Jumbo
8950
50-55 days to maturity - 14-18" fruit with 3" girth.
Light green skin with pinkish highlights. Seed cavity is
small and flesh is thick.
Black Beauty
8960
45-50 days to maturity - 6-9" fruit with deep greenblack rind. Zucchini type that was one of the earliest
home and market grown varieties with a nation-wide
following. Still the most appealing zucchini in the
garden.
Yellow Crookneck
8957
50-60 days to maturity - 6 to 8 inch fruit with golden
yellow warted rind and distinctive crooked neck.
Garden Leader Brandywine
9036
78 days to maturity - Indeterminate, deep pink skin
with red flesh. Irregular shape fruit, 8-10 ounces with
split shoulders. Good tomato taste.
Brandywine Yellow
8882
76-100 days to maturity - Indeterminate, fuzzy potato
leaf vines, large fruit can weigh up to 16 ounces,
excellent flavor for a yellow variety, delicious creamy
texture, exceptional quality, heirloom.
Cherokee Purple
9214
72-90 days to maturity - Relatively short,
indeterminate vines, purple-pink-brown flesh color
with green gel when not fully ripe, flattened globes,
10-12 oz., flavorful.
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Heirloom Vegetable Seeds
Debaro
8870
70-72 days to maturity - Russian Plum Indeterminate, 34 oz. fruits with thin skin, red flesh and juicy flavor.
Oval and crack free, matures early. Seed carried to our
supplier from Irkutsk, Siberia.
Manitoba
9224
Martino's Roma
Plum Lemon
Mortgage Lifter
9226
9219
83-90 days to maturity - Old-timer still in demand,
indeterminate, large well shaped fruits, 1 lb., dark-pink
skin, very meaty, few seeds, much like Giant Belgium
but not quite as big.
Moskvich
8871
60-62 days to maturity - Early fruit due to cold tolerant
pollination, indeterminate, large well shaped fruits, 4-6
oz., deep red skin and flesh with a rich taste.
75-90 days to maturity - Determinate, yellow-green,
1.5 to 2.5 in. fruits with dark green vertical stripes,
emerald green flesh with mild but not bland flavor, very
productive.
Hillbilly
9241
85-86 days to maturity - Indeterminate. Potato Leaf
slicing variety originating from right here in Ohio. Sweet
and juicy 4-6” flattened fruits about 1 pound in weight.
Yellow fruit is streaked with beautiful red stripes.
Kellogg Breakfast
9223
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80-85 days to maturity - Indeterminate vines, large
orange beefsteak with outstanding flavor, 1-1.5 lb.
fruits.
8873
Prudens Purple
9227
8874
67-85 days to maturity - Indeterminate, potato-leaf
plants, 1 lb. fruits with distinctive ridges, dark-pink skin
color, firm meaty crimson flesh, no cracking, few seeds,
widely adapted.
Old German
Riesenstrabe
Olpaka
9216
Principe Borghese
90-105 days to maturity - Indeterminate vines,
attractive, 3-4 in. globes, orange skin and flesh,
wonderfully balanced sweet acid flavor, good for
commercial production.
Granny Smith
Green Zebra
9120
85-91 days to maturity - Indeterminate, huge, red,
sausage-shaped fruit weighs 8-10 ounces. Year 1800
heirloom from the state of New York. Yields are heavy
until frost.
Nebraska Wedding
9220
75 days to maturity - Indeterminate, yellow fruits with
a red center visible on the surface and throughout the
core, often weigh over a pound, outstanding flavor, few
seeds, not a heavy producer, not drought tolerant.
9030
Polish Linguisa
80 days to maturity - Highly productive heirloom.
English variety, indeterminate, low acid, yellow flesh
with pink stripes, pink heart, mild flavor.
76-80 days to maturity - Indeterminate large rough
fruits averaging .75-1.5 lbs., pink skin with yellow
shoulders, very mild, low acid, very meaty, few seeds,
heavy yields, good slicing or canning, fair disease
resistant.
75-90 days to maturity - Fruit is green when ripe, yet
has a rich tomato flavor. 6-8 oz. tomatoes can be used
in place of tomatillo in salsa.
9233
75-95 days to maturity - Indeterminate, 4-5 ft. plants,
bright yellow, 3 x 2 in. diameter fruits with two
distinct chambers, plum or lemon shaped with a point
on the tip.
70-75 days to maturity - Tomato used for sun drying in
Italy, 1-2 oz. plum shaped fruits with pointy ends borne
in clusters, very meaty with little juice and few seeds.
Determinate vine needs support. Good processing
variety. In dry areas branches of these tomatoes can be
hung up to dry until leathery.
Mr. Stripey
9222
9075
70-75 days to maturity - Old favorite plum type on
indeterminate vines. Pearly red color due to the thin,
crack resistant skin. High solid flesh is very flavorful.
75-90 days to maturity - Determinate plants, rugose
foliage, paste tomato, 1.5 x 2.5 in., dry meaty flesh.
German's Johnson
Pearl Plum
60-70 days to maturity - Non-staking bush type, medlarge smooth firm bright red fruits, 6 oz., very
productive.
9217
9231
85 days to maturity - Indeterminate, solid, meaty fruit,
9-11 oz., looks like a long red pepper, good for sauce.
Orange Banana
9232
85 days to maturity - Indeterminate, 2-4 in. long paste
tomatoes with pointed ends, unique orange color,
sweet flavor, excellent for drying.
Oxheart Orange
9218
80-90 days to maturity - Excellent orange version of
Pink Oxheart, large vines are best when caged to
protect fruit from sunscald, heart shaped fruit, firm
solid flesh, few seeds.
Oxheart Red
9240
80-95 days to maturity - Large open indeterminate
plants, fair color, deep red firm heart shaped shallowly
furrowed 7 oz. fruits, thick meaty mild walls, few seeds,
clusters of 2 to 7, old favorite with home gardeners,
Alternaria Stem Canker resistant.
9234
76-85 days to maturity - German heirloom, compact
indeterminate plant with good foliage cover, up to 350
flowers per cluster which produces bunches of 20-40
1.5 x 1.25 in. red fruits, flavor resembles a beefsteak
tomato.
Rose
8878
78 days to maturity - Indeterminate 'Pink Brandywine'.
Want to offer a tomato with better taste than
Brandywine?... This is the one. Deep pink and smoother
texture than Brandywine. 8 oz. fruit is born on normalleaf vines.
Soldacki
9236
80 days to maturity - Indeterminate, very dark pink,
flattened round fruits, 1 lb., thin skin, firm flesh, great
slicer, great flavor with low acid. Rugose foliage.
Imported from Poland to Cleveland, OH around 1900.
Striped German
8879
77-78 days to maturity - Indeterminate with bicolored
fruit of red and yellow. Flat, medium-to-large ribbedshoulder tomatoes are shaded yellow and red. The
marbled red & yellow interior looks beautiful when
sliced. Complex, fruity flavor and smooth texture.
Stupice
9237
52-55 days to maturity - Indeterminate potato leaf vines
to 4 ft., small to medium sized, 3-6 oz. fruits, very early,
exceptional flavor, good yielder, good in cool weather.
Super Sioux
9238
70 days to maturity - Rather open med-sized
indeterminate plant, fair cover, smooth thick walled
fleshly 4 oz. red globes, Alternaria Stem Canker
resistant, sets well during high temperatures, good for
hot dry areas, old time acid flavor.
Tommy Toe
9239
70 days to maturity - Indeterminate plants produce
hundreds of apricot size fruits over an extended period,
excellent flavor, resists early and late blight.
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Valencia
8881
76-78 days to maturity - Indeterminate. Round,
smooth fruits, 8-10 oz. and sunny orange in color.
Interior is meaty with few seeds.
“CERTIFIED ORGANIC”
Home gardeners and market growers are
using more certified organically grown
seeds. Grimes offers commercial packets
of certified organic seed. Grimes is a
certified 100% organic facility.
BROCCOLI
De Cicco
6407
prolific. Tolerant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus, Powdery
Mildew, Downey Mildew, Alternaria Leaf Spot,
Anthracnose and resistant to Cucumber Scab.
50 days from transplanting. An excellent Italian variety
with 3” – 4” main heads and numerous yields of side
shoots. Superior quality for freezing. Very early and
one of the best open pollinated broccoli varieties.
Introduced first in 1890.
55-75 days. In 1935 this was awarded the All America
Selections award for its superior yield of 8” long and
uniform fruit. Tolerant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus.
CHARD
KALE
Golden
6101
30 days for baby chard and 60 days for mature leaves.
This is an heirloom strain, very sweet and stunning in
appearance.
Rainbow
6102
30 days baby and 60 days for mature. Originated in
Australia, the mix contains colors of red, yellow,
orange, pink and white.
Ruby/Rhubarb Red
6104
30 days baby and 60 days mature. Shiny green leaves
with ruby red stalks. Tolerant of both cold and warm
weather. Can be over wintered with a protection of
mulch then harvested in the spring for early greens.
Leaves are deeply savoyed.
8023
65 to 70 days. First introduced in 1894, vines yield 3”
fruits shaped somewhat like lemons. Harvest when
color loses any hint of green. Easily digestible, never
bitter. Rust & drought resistant.
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2816
62 days. Italian Kale tracing back to the 18th century.
Also grown as Black Tuscan Palm Tree, Nero di Toscana
and Dinosaur Kale. Solid leaves are bumpy and deep
green.
Red Russian
2817
25 days baby and 50 days for mature leaves. This
vigorous and tasty strain of Red Russian is one of the
most beautiful kales in cultivation. Light green leaves
are especially selected for bright purple stems and
veins.
LETTUCE
Black Seeded Simpson
Freckles Romaine
8000
60 to 65 days. A unique, small cucumber with creamy
white tender skin and black spines. Strong flavor with
no bitter after taste.
Lemon
Lacinato
8027
7950
45 days. Early yields of light green leaves.
CUCUMBER
Boothby Blonde
Straight Eight
8024
58 – 70 days. The standard of slicing cucumbers for
the north east and mid western growing areas. Fruit is
8 to 9” long on vigorous vines. Fruit set is late but
7952
50-55 days. Green romaine with speckles of red dots
and splashes of maroon.
Green Deer Tongue
7953
50 days. Traces back to the pioneer days. Leaf lettuce
with buttery flavored, triangular leaves
Lolla Rossa
7954
50 to 70 days. Crimson colored leaf lettuce with
deeply curled foliage.
New Red Fire
7956
60 days. Heavy open heads of red ruffled leaves with
red bases. Very slow bolting yields a long harvest
season.
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60 days. Loose heads of 16” with a flavor that is nutty
& sweet.
large, blocky, thick-walled fruits that measure 4” x 3
1/2”. Glossy green color will turn to red when left on
the plant to continue maturing.
80 to 110 days. Winter squash. Bottle shaped with
deep orange, fine textured and sweet flesh.
Red Oak Leaf
Early Jalapeno Hot
Yellow Summer Crookneck
Oaky Red Splash
7957
7960
62 days. Loose heads of 12” with a sweet flavor.
Red Salad Bowl
7961
50 days. A prized lettuce for its decorative bronze
leaves which resemble Green Salad Bowl in all aspects
except color. First introduced in 1955.
Rouge De Hiver
7962
65 days. Bronze to deep red romaine variety from
Europe. The name means “red winter”, speaking to its
hardiness.
Salad Bowl
7963
50 days. This large, fast growing green lettuce
withstands the heat quite well without turning bitter.
GARDEN LEADER
NEW Tasty Organic Red Giant
8229
DAYS TO HARVEST: 44
FRUIT: Also called Gai Choy. Bold taste and bold
presentation
TYPE: Certified Organic seed. Plant height is 12 to
18”. Color is bright bronze-red.
USE: Our Red Giant mustard makes a great
ornamental addition to the vegetable or flower
garden. Grow in packs or combination containers.
OKRA
NEW Tasty Billy Bob Red
8722
DAYS TO HARVEST: 60 to 65
FRUIT: 3 to 4” slender pods of deep burgundy red.
TYPE: Certified Organic Okra seeds. Plant height 28 to
48” with red stems and yellow flowers.
ONION
Walla Walla
8574
Hungarian Hot Yellow Wax
TOMATO
8558
70 days. 6 to 7” fruit with medium to light heat.
Grows well in poor soils and adverse weather.
Sweet Chocolate
8572
58 days green, 78 days for ripe brown. Sweet and
flavorful block pepper with skin pigment the color of
rich chocolate. The flesh beneath the skin is brick red
in color.
PUMPKIN
8536
65 to 72 days. Determinate plant yields 8 to 10 ounce
high quality fruit. Color is deep red. Tomatoes are
slightly flattened.
8561
New England Pie
Peacevine
8029
8562
100 days. A very prolific and early pumpkin with thick
creamy flesh and yellow-orange in color. Cultivated
and used in pies since 1860.
45 to 55 days. Heavy yield of up to 18 fruit per cluster.
Indeterminate vines, cherry size, red fruit. Packed with
vitamin C and gamma-amino butyric acid – a natural
nervous system sedative (hence the name).
SQUASH
Principe Borghese
Black Beauty Zucchini
7973
50 to 60 days. Still the most appealing zucchini in the
garden with a nation wide following.
7974
8563
70-75 days. Tomato used for sun drying in Italy, 1-2
oz. plum shaped fruits with pointy ends borne in
clusters, very meaty with little juice and few seeds,
determinate vine needs support, good processing
variety.
Red Pear
8565
85 –110 days. Dark green skin and round, squat shape
with a button on the bottom. Fruits average 4 pounds.
Winter storage variety.
70 to 75 days. Long clusters of small pear shaped fruit
on indeterminate vines.
Dark Greeen Zucchini
Rutgers
7976
8567
45 to 65 days. Smooth deep green zucchini, large
plants.
70 to 80 days. A garden staple for decades. Bright red,
8 ounce globes.
Delicata
San Marzano
7977
95 to 100 days Winter squash. Cream colored skin
with stripes that turn from green to orange. Very
sweet flavor and modest size (1 LB).
PEPPER
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Cosmonaut Volkov
115 days. This is the standard in form and color of the
jack-o-lantern pumpkin. Fruit up to 35 pounds.
90 days. Winter squash. Bush type plant habit with
heavy yields of black 1 to 2 pound fruit.
8534
8532
74-85 days. Indeterminate, acorn shaped deep red
fruits, 8 oz. thick flesh, few seeds, needs staking.
45 to 50 days. Very early determinate vines yield nice
red slicers, 3” in diameter. A plant of West Virginian
origin.
PMR Bush Acorn
85 days. Prolific 24 to 30” upright plants produce
Amish Paste
Mountain Princess
8028
100 to 125 days. Famous for its sweet flavor. Best for
fresh eating. Long day. Does not store well.
California Wonder Sweet
7982
55 to 65 days. A standard summer variety with bright
lemon yellow to gold skin and creamy white interior.
Burgess Buttercup
GARDEN LEADER
7981
60 to 85 days. An early strain of this type of hot
pepper. Plants reach a garden height of 24”.
Howden
MUSTARD
8537
Waltham Butternut
Success Straightneck
7978
7980
60 to 65 days. Tender bright lemon yellow to gold skin
and creamy white interior.
8568
70 days. A newcomer to the certified organic
collection. This is a superior paste type because of its
high solids content, meaning less time spent cooking
down. Indeterminate vines, 3” fruit.
Scotia
8569
65 to 70 days. Determinate vines. Heavy yield of red 5
to 9 ounce fruit. Bred in Nova Scotia, Canada to take
advantage of their short seasons.
Yellow Pear
8575
70 to 75 days. A tall and vigorous indeterminate vine
that is very prolific. Small pear shape fruits.
Yellow Perfection
8576
70 to 75 days. An heirloom from England with low
acid content. Determinate vines produce firm fruit
about 2” in diameter.
WATERMELON
We offer our Watermelon varieties for home garden
bedding plant sales and market gardens.
Moon and Stars
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6467
100 days. This is an old legendary favorite from the
1930’s. Fruit grows to 40 pounds in mild climates and
up to 15 pounds in the north. Yellow spotted foliage
and deep green rind also marked with yellow spots.
Flesh is pink and sweet.
Sugar Baby
6468
80 day. An Oklahoma grower developed this delicious
variety in 1955 and has since become the standard in
northern grown icebox varieties. 7 pound fruit, light
red sweet flesh and a tough but thin rind.
ORGANIC HERB SEEDS
ARUGULA
Rocky
Roquette
8197
8196
8212
8201
8112
8200
8203
6251
8204
6252
8206
8207
8208
8214
8209
6253
8210
8211
6254
8213
6255
CATNIP
Catnip Common
8215
Garlic
Israeli Garlic
Thin
6258
8217
6259
CORIANDER
Cilantro
Bouquet
6262
6263
ECHINACEA
Purpurea
6264
ENDIVE
Olesh
8216
FENNEL
Israeli
8218
6265
8219
6256
Chinakol Granat
Green Sefiron
Mizuna
Osaka
8229
8231
6266
PARSLEY
Darki Triple Curled
Forest Green
Italian Flat Leaf
Moss Curled
6267
8232
6268
6269
RADICCHIO
Red
8233
RUMEX
Pink
8234
RUTA
Rue
8236
SAGE
6272
SALVIA
Clary Sage
8237
TARRAGON
MELISA
Lemon Balm
Greek Oregano
Garden Sage
MARJORAM
Common
Zaataar
Red Giant
Tatsoi
OREGANO
CHIVES
8220
Mexican
8223
THYME
MUSTARD
BORAGE
Borage Common
Chamomile German
DILL
BASIL
Aroma 1
Aromatto
Cardinal
Cinnamon
Fino Verde
Genovese
Greek
Lemon
Lemon Spreading
Lemon Tall
Lime
Nufar
Petra
Red Opal
Super Sweet Ashalim
Super Sweet Chen
Sweet
Sweet Mammoth
CHAMOMILE
8225
8226
8227
8228
German Thyme
6273
WATERCRESS
Cress
8238
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