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Chard Five Color Silverbeet
$2.75 Add to cartStriking rainbow-colored stalks in orange, purple, yellow and white. This Australian heirloom mix is tender and tasty, though somewhat less frost tolerant than other chards. Baby greens are ready in 28 days.
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Chard Fordhook Giant
$2.75 Add to cartTruly superior green chard for farm and garden, used since the 1750s. Heavily crumpled, very dark glossy green leaves contrast nicely with broad white succulent stems. Receives top marks for fine flavor and texture, also makes a nice poultry feed.
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Collard Greens Champion
$2.75 Add to cartCollards tolerate more heat and frost than any other member of the cabbage family. Champion collards are a trusty, widely adapted variety. The dark green leaves a have a delicious cabbage flavor. This is a great variety for over-wintering and holds up to two weeks longer than many other collards. The leaves have a waxy coating that is a natural protection from cabbage worms.
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Collard Greens Vates
$2.75 Add to cartCollards tolerate more heat and frost than any other member of the cabbage family. Vates collards are a trusty, widely adapted variety. The dark green leaves a have a delicious cabbage flavor. This is a great variety for over-wintering and holds up to two weeks longer than many other collards. The leaves have a waxy coating that is a natural protection from cabbage worms.
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Greens – Tatsoi Mustard
$2.75 Add to cartTatsoi is a Chinese non-heading mustard, a great green to add to salad or stir-fry. Dark, round spoon-shaped leaves grow on broad, tender, crisp white stalks, with a large celery-like base. They have a tangy, mild mustard flavor.
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Kale Lacinato
$2.75 Add to cartThis kale is heavily savoyed (bumpy) with dark green, almost black, leaves. The strap-shaped leaves are not curly like regular kale, and add an interesting texture and color to salads. If using in soup, add kale at the end to avoid overcooking. This variety is a primitive, open kale traced to Tuscan origins.
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Kale Red Russian
$2.75 Add to cartBiennial Heirloom. This rare, gourmet variety has red-purple veins on slate-green, wavy-margined leaves. Cool weather intensifies its color. Steamed lightly, the frilly leaves make an attractive garnish. If using in soup, add kale at the end to avoid overcooking.
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Lettuce Gourmet Mix
$2.75 Add to cartThis gourmet lettuce mix includes Red Salad Bowl (leaf), Henderson’s Black Seeded Simpson (leaf), Buttercrunch (head), and Paris Island Cos (romaine).
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Lettuce Little Gem
$2.75 Add to cartThis romaine lettuce grows 6″ high with a thick, sweet heart. It’s perfect for individual salads and sandwiches. This popular variety is easy to grow and holds well for a prolonged harvest.
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Lettuce Mereveille Des Quatre Saisons
$2.75 Add to cartThis head lettuce is an unusual French Bibb variety. It is a ruby-red butter lettuce with tightly folded, green hearts. It has excellent flavor in hot weather with crisp yet tender leaves, but tends to bolt. This variety was introduced in 1885.
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Lettuce Tom Thumb
$2.75 Add to cartAn heirloom lettuce that dates to the 1850’s. It makes small cabbage-like green heads, only 3-4″ across. Very tasty!
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Lettuce Tricolor Romaine Mix
$2.75 Add to cartThis Romaine Lettuce mix is a tri-color blend of equal parts of the heirloom lettuces Silvia, Vivian, and Freckles. Silvia has sweet tender hearts and striking burgundy leaves. Vivian is a medium green romaine noted for its texture which is similar to a Bibb type lettuce. Freckles is a tender, long-standing bi-color romaine. The seeds are not color coded.
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Mixed Greens Seed Pack
$18.00 Add to cartThis is a great variety of healthy greens you can grow outdoors or indoors, in pots, or in even a greenhouse or cold frame. Use most as fresh greens in salads, and cook the collards, kale, chard, and spinach for tasty cooked greens.
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Pea Oregon Sugar Pod
$2.75 Add to cartOregon Sugar Pod is the most popular snow pea. Its productive, dwarf vines have stringless, edible pods which keeps producing after three pickings! It’s tolerant of short hot spells. This pea is great for freezing, for eating fresh, or for adding to stir-fries and salads.
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Pea Sugar Ann
$2.75 Add to cartSugar Ann is an early, edible-pod pea ideal for small gardens. With short, bushy vines that don’t need support, it can produce peas about 10 days earlier than other snap peas.
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Pea Sugar Snap
$2.75 Add to cartSnap pea. Sweet and crunchy edible pods and peas grow on tall vines. Pods are 2″-3″ long and bear over a long picking period. Yields well in both hot and cold weather.
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Spinach Bloomsdale
$3.00 Add to cartThis large, spreading spinach has deep-green, curled leaves. It’s a good yielding, dependable home garden variety that is fairly resistant to bolting. Spinach is delicious steamed, fresh in salads, and in soups and casseroles.
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Winter Garden Seed Pack
$18.00 Add to cartKeep growing through the winter with these cool weather crops you can grow indoors, in pots, or in a greenhouse or cold frame. Use most as fresh greens in salads, and cook the collards, kale, chard, and spinach for tasty cooked greens.
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