Vegetables

Nutty flavour and firm flesh distinguish this Italian heirloom zucchini. Fruit are prominently ribbed and ripen to a beautiful grey-green colour— so tasty you can eat them fresh or cooked....

Crisp, tasty lettuce stays bitter free even in the summer heat. This cross of a Batavian lettuce and Brown Goldring romaine comes to us via lettuce genius Frank Morton. The...

This tomato is a complete charmer. Big, fat, dark red and delicious fruit weigh in around 400g. The pleated, teardrop-shaped tomatoes are said to resemble the shape of an ox...

Lepidium sativum. Another farm-bred variety from breeder Frank Morton. These fast growing little plants pack a peppery punch in your salad while the curled, twisted leaves add loft. Multiple cuttings...

Elongated reddish/purple beets are easy to slice into uniform pieces for cooking or canning. A favourite of many chefs. Leafy tops can be cooked and make beautiful bunches for market....

The best tasting of the indigo group of tomatoes in our opinion. Indeterminate plants pump out loads of purple-black cherry tomatoes with their own built in ripeness indicator. Just look...

This lacinato kale really lives up to its name with vibrant purple-pink midribs that pop against the beautiful blue-green puckered leaves. Very cold hardy for an extended harvest window. Tender...

Productive, multi-cut broccoli provides a long harvest window of 48-85 days. Compact plants produce a tasty 7-10 cm central head. Harvest it and enjoy the flush of smaller, tender side...

Sweet potatoes for the north. This little squash was bred to provide sweet, smooth, orange flesh for baking, roasting or stuffing. Productive plants average 5 - 7 fruit per plant...

The heirloom cantaloupe Delicious 51 has set the standard for flavour and early ripening for over 50 years. Now Cornell's breeders have given us a powdery mildew resistant (PMR) selection...

This dark red, round beet is our best storage beet. Roots are sweet, uniform and reach 8 cm when mature. Tops are green, streaked with red and are good in...

Here is the eggplant to grow if you have a cool, short growing season and just can’t live without eggplant. Brought to North America in 1993 from Ukraine, productive plants...

For ten years in a row, this heirloom was the first place winner at the Chicago World Fair in the 1930s. Medium-large golden orange fruit have that perfect balance of...

One of the best peppers for short season gardens. This family heirloom hails from the Doe Hill area of Highland County Virginia. Productive, disease resistant plants produce buckets of very...

Bulgarian heirloom has exquisite taste and is an easy to grow main crop tomato. 10 cm. juicy fruits are deep red, uniformly round and blemish free. Market gardeners will appreciate...

Early maturing heirloom snow pea is grown for pea shoots (32 days) and blossoms (39 days) as well as small crunchy pods. The pods reach about 6.5 cm. in length...

This heirloom from New Zealand is one of the best tasting full size orange tomatoes we've grown. The flavour is rich, sweet and tart all at once. The texture is...

A medium-hot early Jalapeno which is flavourful when green or red. Upright plants produce high yields of 6 cm long, 2.5 cm wide blunt-nosed peppers. Capsicum annuum Days to Maturity: 65...

Crisp, scrumptious and early this open-pollinated selection out of the hybrid Yellow Doll by Dr. Alan Kapuler is bliss. Vigorous vines reveal dark and light green tiger striped skin stretched...

Often called frisee, this leafy green is considered by some to be a culinary treasure. This classic French frisee endive forms a heart of finely cut and frilly leaves. Unlike...