Seedling List
FLOWERS
Calendula, Maya Orange Beautiful striking orange blossoms! Will hold well in a bouquet. Fresh petals are a colorful addition to salads, and dried petals are an old-fashioned substitute for saffron. Useful as a medicinal herb and in hand crafted skin care products.
Lemon Drop Marigolds, (Edible) small tidy plants topped with lemon yellow blooms One of our favorite border plant AND a great companion in the vegetable garden.
Lemon Gem Marigolds have feathery, fragrant foliage. The blossoms are clear orange or yellow, and have single petals. The blossoms are beautiful floating above the foliage in a border - and wonderful snipped into salad.
Tangerine Gem Marigolds have feathery, fragrant foliage. The blossoms are clear orange or yellow, and have single petals. The blossoms are beautiful floating above the foliage in a border - and wonderful snipped into salad.
HERBS
Basil
Mammoth Milder than Sweet Basil, with large leaves that are great snipped into salad. Will need to be covered if you have Japanese beetles - they make a mess of every leaf.
Red: Mild basil flavor, but a gorgeous red-purple that is beautiful in salads and vinegars. Sweet: The classic Genovese basil, great to use fresh, dry, frozen, or infused in vinegar. Makes divine pesto!
Parsley
Flat Italian The classic Italian parsley. The fresh flavor is strong, but it retains the flavor when dried. Our choice for parsley pesto.
Forest Curled The ubiquitous garnish... and frequently the garnish has more nutrition than the dinner (in restaurants...)!
VEGETABLES
BROCCOLI, mixed early and late season Mix of full season varieties
CABBAGE, full season mix, green and red Mix of full season varieties
CHARD Swiss chard mix The Swiss Chard selection will sport many colors and at least one Fordhook
EGGPLANT
Galine Classic Italian tear-droped glossy black 3" by 6"-8" long. Mild and sweet with a melt-in-your-mouth texture when cooked.
Little Fingers (60) OP
Melanzana Violetta Lunga "Long Purple" (65-70) OP "Vibrantly purple", slim, and cylindrical 8" fruits, grown all over Italy. Plants are tall and strong.
Nadia Hybrid (70) Classic Italian shape with rich dark purple-black skin. Will set fruit even in cool weather. This may be the substitute for Dusky.
Pingtung Long (60) OP Tall and sturdy plants profit by staking. Beautiful 11" long lavender fruits are slender and tender. A chef pleaser.
Rosa Bianca (88) OP One of the oldest favorites from Italy... beautiful 4 to 6" round purple and white striped fruits. In the 2000 raised bed gardens at Cascade Brook School, Rosa produced stunning fruits!
Kale mix Mix of varieties
LEEKS
Bleu de Solaize late Late leek that is perfect for storing in the ground through December ...an excellent keeper.
King Richard, "spring" leek King Richard is a tall, early leek. Will hold for quite a while in the fall but needs to come in before really cold weather.
PEPPERS - HOT
Anaheim Chili (78) OP One of the most popular chili peppers. Fruits have medium to thick dark green flesh and ripen to bright red. Plants are tall and vigorous.
Ancho (78) OP Heart-shaped fruits are called "poblano" when fresh. Dark green, almost black, ripening eventually to a rusty red. Mild and perfect for roasting.
Ancho Magnifico, hybrid poblano/ancho pepper Large fruits that ripen from green to red. Reliable and nicely not ...perfect for chile rellenos.
Arledge (75) One of my personal favorites... and difficult-to-find seed. In 2007, we isolated the variety and saved the seed ourselves. One of the original Tabasco-type peppers, bright red, slim cones with a great flavor and serious heat! Our own seed. Common Ground Fair blue ribbon winner for us year after year.
Bolivian Rainbow Chili (75) OP Very decorative plant with purple-veined foliage. Bears small pointed multicolored, spicy fruits. Bears continuously ripening one by one, creating the "rainbow" of colors.
Bulgarian Carrot Chili (68) OP Seed for the Carrot Chili was smuggled through the Iron Curtain 25 years ago. 3 1/2" fruits are quite hot and a brilliant orange. Nice hot pepper for color contrast in salsa!
Czechoslovakian Black Chili (65) OP Mildly hot, fruits are so dark a green that they appear to be black! Stubby 2" fruits are shaped like jalapenos and ripen to a dark red. One of our favorites for fresh use.
Early Jalapeno Hybrid (75) 2 to 3 1/2" long sausage-shaped dark green fruits. This is a hot one... ideal for Mexican dishes. Compact and sturdy plants.
Fish (80) OP Delightful colors! Both the foliage and the fruits are mottled green and white. Grandpa (70 OP) Brilliant red fruits are small, thimble shaped, medium hot! We grow them outside in pots, bring them in for the winter, and take them out again to go round a second time. Our own seed. Common Ground Fair blue ribbon winner for us in 2008 & 2009.
Habanero (85) OP The hottest, comparable to Scotch Bonnet! Needs warm, protected spot and will produce lots of small lovely orange wrinkled lantern-shaped fruits. 1,000 times hotter than jalapeno!
Hungarian Hot Wax (68) OP Medium-hot peppers, especially good for pickling and slicing fresh into stir fries. Canary yellow, ripening to red, 6 to 8" long fruit.
Long Red Narrow Cayenne (72) OP Bountiful harvest of wrinkled pencil-slim 5" long and 1/2" thick fruits. Dark green, ripening to bright red. Flavor is red hot! Dries well and makes a great powder.
Matchbox (75) OP Roberta Bailey, longtime seed saver and seed grower for FEDCO, has done the work to grow out, select, and stabilize Super Chili Hybrid (owned by Monsanto). She found some unlikely parentage (Hungarian Hot Wax and Hot Banana) but succeeded! A perfect substitute for Super Chili. Common Ground Fair blue ribbon winner for us year after year.
Maya Habanero, uniques, easier to grow, and H O T !!!!! This text is all true! "Not your typical habanero look but you'll definitely taste the heat! Fruits are very attractive and have the same fruity/hot combination, but with slightly lower Scoville ratings than their red habanero cousins. Plants are tall, 36" uniform, high yielding and provide good cover for fruits. Performs well in cooler climates."
Poblano (when green) Ancho (when dried!) Poblano is a mild chili pepper that is called an ancho chili when it is dried. The ripened red peppers are much hotter and flavorful than the green peppers. They measure 3-6 inches long by 2-3 inches wide. Traditional for chile rellenos.
Thai Hot (75) OP Extremely hot and originally from Thailand. There are two types of peppers currently called "Thai". This is the classic type that produces very small conical fruits on small compact plants. Tasty and ornamental!
PEPPERS - ITALIAN
Jimmy Nardello (75-90) OP Prolific producer of large 6-8" long thin-walled green fruits ripen further to be bright red and sweet. Great for using fresh, frying, freezing, pickling, or drying.
Quadrato d'Asti Giallo (orange) (70) OP Large blocky, 4-lobed Italian bell peppers. The name literally means "four-sided from Asti" These thick and sweet fruits turn from green to a brilliant yellow-orange. From Franchi Sementi in Italy.
Pepperoncini (72) OP This is a great pickling pepper. Small plants bear lots of long, slender, slightly wrinkled 4-6 inch fruits, ripening from green to red. Originally from southern Italy.
PEPPERS - PIMIENTO & PAPRIKA
Boldog Hungarian Paprika (71) OP Sweet and slightly spicy paprika pepper good enough to eat fresh, use for cooking, and to dry for paprika powder. Bears lots of 6x4" tapered, 2-lobed bright red fruits. Blue Ribbon winner at the 2008 Common Ground Fair!
PEPPERS - SWEET
Ace Hybrid (55) Great for northern areas. Sets fruit even in poor conditions. Fruits are green and eventually mature to red.
Apple (57 green-82 red) OP 3-4" top-shaped peppers are mild, juicy, and sweetly fruity. Medium-sized plants do well in a variety of weather conditions. Peppers - Sweet California Wonder (75) OP Long a favorite of home gardeners. Produces chubby 4-lobed crisp, sweet bells. A good midseason basic green pepper.
Carmen Hybrid (75) 2006 All-America Selections Winner. Beautiful bright red fruits are 6" long and 2 to 2 1/2" wide at the shoulders. Italian "bull horn" type.
Corbaci, Turkish heirloom sweet pepper. Slender, up to 12" long! Uniquely slender, sweet, 10 to 12 inch fruits change from light green to yellow and finally to bright red. A perfect choice for fresh eating, pickling or frying, this rare heirloom is from Turkey and has a very rich, sweet flavor. A serious favorite at Whitehill Farm!
Corona (68) OP Another early golden bell, a Dutch variety introduced in 1991. Blocky 3 or 4-lobed have thick sweet flesh. Considered to be "fancy". A perfect choice for salads or crudit Peppers - Sweet Golden Star Bell Another early golden bell …blocky 4" x 4" bells ripen from a light green to yellow. Crisp and thick walled.
Orange Bell, a new to us blocky gold sweet pepper. Super sweet, brilliant orange fruit is blocky and good-sized with thick flesh that is flavorful and among the best tasting of all peppers. Plants produce large yields of this most magnificent pepper. Very sweet and crunchy.
Orange Sun Bell Pepper (orange) 75-80 days. This is a new one for us. It promises to be a good mid-season pepper. Bright orange, blocky 4" to 5" long, matures from green to orange. Tall sturdy plants.
Purple Beauty Hybrid (70) Special purple color for gourmet chefs. Fruits are blocky, thick walled, and dark purple, although the interior stays bright green. Compact plants.
Red Ruffle! Actually a pimiento ...thick and juicy "run down your chin" and sweet! Love these, and the seed is from Turkey! Red ruffled pepper with sweet thick flesh. Very early and also productive late into the season. Deeply lobed, flattened sheepnose/cheese type pimento. Fruit develop fewer blemishes during ripening compared to bell-shaped peppers.
TOMATOES - BEEFSTEAK
Black Brandywine (80-I) OP Large, oval, well-formed fruits are DARK, almost black, and full-flavored. Regular foliage. Usually one of the first of the large tomatoes to ripen for us. In 2010 we will trial the True Black Brandywine, recently rescued by William Woys Weaver.
Black From Tula (80-I) OP Good yields of brownish-red slightly flattened globes weighing up to 14 ounces. Rich full flavor, great for slicing and canning. Indeterminate, 75-85 days from transplant. The interior is neon red and green!
Brandywine - OTV Strain (78-I) OP Dr. Carolyn Male, tomato specialist, researcher, and editor of Off the Vine, has obtained seed from an old strain of Brandywine that she believes to be the sweetest and creamiest of all. The fruits are a rich red with an orange undertone. Fruits are 12-16 oz. Very productive and more heat tolerant than other strains.
Cherokee Purple (80-I) OP Cherokee Indian origin, introduced in Tennessee. Bears 10-12 oz dusky rose/purple fruits that are delicate and a true taste treat. Vines should not be pruned as the delicate fruits sunburn easily
Delicious (77-I) OP An early standard setter, Delicious was selected from Red Ponderosa and introduced by Burpee. Deep red, meaty fruits can easily average 1 1/2 to 2#. Old-fashioned flavor.
Mortgage Lifter (90-I) OP "Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter" is legendary. Apparently Charlie was a real guy AND when he found a sport in his tomato patch, saved seeds, and then sold seedlings ...he really did pay off his mortgage!
Paul Robeson (black!) (74-I) OP This Russian tomato was named after the vocalist Paul Robeson. Although trained in the USA, his fame spread mainly in Europe and the Soviet Union. The flesh is firm, sweet, juicy, and a rich mahogany brown!
Pruden's Purple (75-I) OP 10-12 oz dark pink, almost purple fruits. Great mellow flavor. Potato-leaved foliage. Another contender for the "best beefsteak" nomination.
Weisnicht's Ukrainian (85 days) Open-pollinated. Compact Ind. with potato-leaf foliage. Firm lobed pink fruits are scrumptious and have a good harvest period in late August and early September.
TOMATOES- CHERRY
Black Cherry (65-I) OP The typical rich "black" tomato flavor in firm and juicy two-bite cherries. Tall plants produce until frost. Common Ground Fair Blue Ribbon for us in 2006!
Gardener's Delight (65-I) OP a.k.a. Sugar Lump This bright red, crack-resistant, sweet cherry yields 3/4-1" fruits that come in clusters of 6-12 right till frost. Common Ground Fair Blue Ribbon for us in 2008!
Green Grape (70-D) OP One of our favorites. Large cherries, about 1 1/2 bites, are a bright green with dusty yellow shoulders and positively explode with flavor. Bred the old-fashioned way by Tom Wagner, who also developed Green Zebra. Common Ground Fair Blue Ribbon winner for us in 2006!
Matt's Wild (60-I) OP Incredibly high sugar content gives this tiny bright red cherry tomato a wallop of flavor! From the Hidalgo region in Mexico, where they are found growing wild. Self seeds! Common Ground Fair Blue Ribbon for us in 2008! Tomatoes - Cherry Peacevine (78-I) OP BACK! It
Sweet Orange II (65-I) Sun Gold Hybrid "unwound"! As sweet as Sun Gold, less prone to split, delicious.
Yellow Pear (70-I) OP Very old variety, introduced before 1835! Petite and definitely pear shaped, distinctively bright yellow, mild salad tomatoes.
TOMATOES - CONTAINER
Red Robin Cherry (55-D) OP Ideal for windowsills, patio containers, or hanging baskets. 8-12" plants produce lots of round 1 1/4" bright red extra-sweet fruits.
Teeny Tom (60-D/I) OP Incredibly compact little plant bears bright red 1" cherries that pack a LOT of flavor. And when the first flush of fruit is ripe and gone, a second crop will ripen. In 2010 Teeny Tom ripened fruit right up till frost.
TOMATOES - ITALIAN
Dix Doights de Napoli, "Ten Fingers of Naples" (75-I) OP This bright red paste tomato has great taste and bears over a long season The fruits come in clusters, hence the "fingers"! Great producer! Definitely has San Marzano heritage.
Milano Hybrid (63-D) Italian hybrid plum-type tomato with very compact bushes. These are good for sauce as they produce all at once and cook down quickly. Try drying them too!
TOMATOES - OXHEART
Amish Paste (74-I) OP This one has been handed down for generations in Amish families. It is recommended as a perfect paste tomato! Good tasting too, so it can double as a slicer. 7-8 oz.
Gaccetta Paste (mid-I) OP Beautiful pink oxheart type fruit, heavy, with few seeds. Incredibly sweet flavor
Russian No 117 (85-I) OP Oxheart type heirloom has wispy foliage and produces unusual double heart-shaped fruit. Fruits can be really large - up to 2#. The flavor is delicious, rich, and complex.
Upstate Pink Oxheart (midseason -I) OP A gorgeous heirloom oxheart. Heavy, deep pink-red and delicious either fresh or for sauce and salsa.
TOMATOES - SLICING
Ace 55, a mid-season red slicer that is lower in acid for folks who appreciate a really sweet tomato This is a bright red beauty, lower in acid, and a manageable mid-season plant.
Black Krim (80-I) OP This is a medium-sized slicer, with dark maroon to black flesh and distinctive green-black shoulders! Originally from Krymsk, on the Black Sea. Seed was originally smuggled to the USA before the breakup of the Soviet Union, the first of the tasty black tomatoes. Tomatoes - Slicing
Black Prince (70-I) OP An old-fashioned slicer saved in Irkutsk, Siberia. Garnet red outside and red to chestnut brown on the inside. Oval fruits sometimes crack in rings on the top, but they are so tender and sweet that it doesn't matter a bit. One of our favorite salad tomatoes.
Bloody Butcher (55-I) OP Very early and high-yielding tomato. Bright red inside and out, these 4 oz fruits are great for fresh eating and canning. Potato-leaved plants. Common Ground Fair Blue Ribbon for us in 2008!
Box Car Willie (80-I) OP Abundant crop of medium to large-size globes. Named after the country singer, Box Car Willie, who regrettably passed away in 1999. He sang railroad songs... this might be the hobo fave tomato!
Cosmonaut Volkov (72-I) OP Round, slightly flattened red fruits. Prize-winning fruits can weigh up to 2#. Named for a famous Russian cosmonaut who was killed on reentry to the earth
Earl of Edgecombe (golden) (73-I) OP This tomato came from New Zealand with the sheep farmer who went to England to claim his title as the 7th Earl of Edgecombe! Round fruits are firm, smooth, and defect free, with a well-balanced sweet/tart flavor. One of our favorites. Frequently a Common Ground Fair Blue Ribbon for us ...AND they are a favorite for salads!
Fourth of July Hybrid (44-I)
Golden Jubilee, a gorgeous golden yellow slicer, mid-season, tasty. Bright golden orange, a mild flavor and low acidity. Nice size, 2 ½-3 inches, makes this a perfect salad slicer.
Jet Star Hybrid (70-I) Manageable indeterminate plants produce a lot of bright red globes. Good taste and a hint of acidity. This is also a great market tomato!
Valencia Slicer (76-I) Round, smooth fruits average 8-10 oz. Their meaty interiors have few seeds. This midseason tomato is among the best for flavor and texture. Our own selection of a Maine family heirloom with a Spanish accent.
TOMATOES - UNIQUE
Garden Peach (75-I) OP Clusters of small to medium mild yellow fruits with a pink blush. Skin is fuzzy! Good keeper. Even though this is the mildest, least acidic tomato in our catalog, we were surprised by its sweet intensity when dried.
