Fortex Filet
This stringless French pole bean is exceptionally long, medium-green pods and is extra slender “filet” beans. The delicate, sweet flavour is wonderful served fresh or frozen.
Calabrese
Dark green, heads on this heirloom, open pollinated broccoli variety. Calabrese is the original broccoli, developed in Italy hundreds of years ago. Great flavour and texture.
Scarlet Nantes
Our Scarlte Nantes are hand-harvested with care and attention. This heirloom variety has been grown in norhtAmerica for the last 50 years. great sweet flavour
Golden Bantum
This old-fashioned heritage variety has large, yellow kernels on 12-18cm (5-7") cobs. Golden Bantam's has old-fashioned corn taste and is fantastic for fresh eating or freezing on the day it is picked
Early Jersey Wakefield
These summer harvest heritage, unique, pointed heads are medium size, tender, dark-green, fine-tasting,and loose leaves are great raw or sautéed. Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage seeds were in W.H. Steve Seed Catalogue published in Steveston, B.C. in 1890.
Continuity
Butterhead Lettuce
An old French heirloom that has been available since 1885, has very attractive, bronze/red outer foliage on wide heads.
Touchstone Gold
The beautiful bright colours of Touchstone gold are a table delight! The strong tops are green with green stems and pale golden petioles, while roots are a vibrant orange, uniformly globe-shaped, and very smooth; making a stunning display on the table.
Ronde de Nice
A round French heirloom zucchini, grown for generations. Has succulent, tender flesh and is at its peak while the fruits are still less than 7.5cm (3") in diameter. The flesh of this zucchini is so tender that the fruits are prone to bruising, which is why it doesn't turn up in grocery stores.
Minnesota Midget Cantaloupe
This cute little heirloom melon is about 10cm (4") across and weigh about a pound each. These early sweet melons have thick, golden yellow flesh and, like other cantaloupes.
Peron
tomato grows large, slightly flattened fruits with small seed cavities and no core. Ripens to a deep red colour with juicy, meaty tomatoes that balance fine flavour with slight acidity. Wonderful fresh or for your cooking.
Taxi
Taxi is an attractive heirloom bright-yellow tomato that is early. The round, medium yellow fruit have a distinctive sweet flavour and are less acidic than red tomatoes. They are good for fresh eating and make a sweet spicey salsa with a unique look.
Green Zebra
An medium-sized tomato that forms golf ball-sized fruits that are mottled lime green streaked with yellow. The flavour is intense, and slightly tart - perfect for use in salsas or sandwiches. Green Zebra's unique flavour and colour is highly regarded by gourmet chefs. Try this unusual tomato this year.
Varna
Varna is a summer leek. It’s white stalks are very slender 35cm (14") long with lighter green leaves and is very tender. Makes a wonderful potatoe leek soup or sauteed with peppers for a omelette!
Drunken Woman
This Italian Heirloom butterhead lettuce has large heads with the appearance of wild hair - ruffled savoyed leaves in bright green with a hint of pink at the leaf margins. Crisp, sweet, and makes a lovely salad with a olive oil balsamic dressing.
La Roma
This heirloom variety gives exceptionally good flavoured 85-113 g,(3-4oz.) Roma tomatoes on a vigorous and uniform plant. Perfect for sauces or home made tomato paste
Polish Linguisa
tomatoes are delicious heirloom Romas which date back to the 1800s, and grow large, sausage-shaped fruits. The tomatoes are sweet, and bear 3-4 inch pointed red fruits 1-2 inches in diameter, meaty enough for saucing or drying, but good enough to eat sliced for salads or on sandwiches.
Yellow Pear
Yellow Pear Tomato are a wonderful heirloom variety. The pale-yellow, soft, mild tomatoes look just like miniature pears. Colourful in salads, sliced or in preserves. Fruit is sweetest when it just turns from yellow to light organge.
Oregon Spring
These large slicing tomatoes have a mild tomato flavour which make them great for slicing and eating fresh or a very mild flavour when cooked.
Lemon Cucumber
These attractive heritage cucumbers are small and round with lemon-coloured skin. The lime-green flesh is very mild, sweet, and never bitter. This is a popular older variety developed before disease-resistant strains.
Santo Long Standing Cilantro
The parsley-like leaves are used in Latin American and Asian cooking. This is a must for salsa. The mature seeds, known as coriander, are also used in many dishes.
Tomatillos
Tomatillos are harvested green, and the sweet sour flavour is perfect for making salsa verde. When ripe, the texture is good fresh or cooked.
White Satin
With its consistent, uniform shape and crisp, ivory white flesh, White Satin is an excellent choice for white carrots, sweet and early, Wonderful cylindrical carrots 20cm (8") long.