Brassica juncea (47 days mesclun, 62 full size) Open pollinated. Sweet succulent ribs and moderately pungent winter-hardy greens. Good for summer mesclun; excellent cut-and-come-again.
Brassica juncea (20 days baby; 45 days mature) Open pollinated. A favorite for cutting at the purple baby stage. Vibrant maroon slightly toothed leaves on lime-green stems. Good for salads or braising.
Brassica juncea (40 days) Open pollinated. Bold purple-blushed delicately serrated mizuna-type leaves with sweet and spicy flavor. For spring and fall plantings. Bolts in heat.
Brassica oleracea (alboglabra group) (45 days) Open pollinated. Dark green large tender leaves with just the right kind of mustardy bite. Prolific yields can be harvested at full size or as baby greens.
Brassica rapa (45 days full size; 21 baby) Open pollinated. Grows in rosettes like tatsoi, but bigger, more upright with leaves less shiny and more puckered. Harvest young for salad greens or mature for braising.
Brassica rapa (chinensis group) (50 days) Open pollinated. Classy pac choi with celery-like white stems and vase-shaped 15-18" tall heads. Succulent stems and tender greens.
Phaseolus vulgaris (50 days) Open pollinated. Concentrated sets of 5-5.5" pods. High yields even in adverse conditions. A popular favorite. Purple seed.
Phaseolus vulgaris (57 days) Open pollinated. A very refined haricot vert for home gardeners. Exquisitely tender, delicately flavored dark green pods are excellent raw with minimal bitterness.
Cicer arietinum (105 days dry) Open pollinated. A garbanzo developed to be tolerant of cold soils and light frosts. 2' plants with ornamental flowers bear abundant two-seeded pods with black medium-sized beans.
Phaseolus lunatus (95 days) Open pollinated. A pole lima that will actually ripen in the Northeast! Vigorous vines produce large pods of tender, sweet and delightfully beany limas.
Phaseolus vulgaris (72 days snap) Open pollinated. Bluish-purple pods and green leaves tinged with purple. Harvest at 3-5". Can serve as a snap, shell or dry bean. Chocolate-colored seed.
Phaseolus vulgaris (70 days shell, 90 days dry) Open pollinated. Consistently one of the earliest dry pole beans. Chestnut-brown dry beans are wide and flat like limas.
Phaseolus vulgaris (60 days) Open pollinated. Fortex begins producing early and keeps going into fall, long after others have quit. Its flavor and texture reign supreme, a distinctive nutty taste that can be enjoyed raw or cooked.
Phaseolus vulgaris (60 days shell, 85 days dry) Open pollinated. Plump shiny black beans! Can be harvested as a shell or dry bean. Dry pods resist shattering, yet are easy to shell.
Phaseolus vulgaris (90 days) Open pollinated. Produces 4-5 beautiful black-and-white beans per pod, with a texture similar to Yellow Eye. Doubles in size when cooked.
Vigna unguiculata (65 days shell, 90 days dry) Open pollinated. Cowpeas for the North! Small white bean matures quickly. Easy-to-pick yellow pods. Beautiful yellow flowers on bushy semi-erect plants.
Phaseolus vulgaris (60 days shell, 85 days dry) Open pollinated. Similar in shape, color and taste to baby limas, except much easier to grow in our climate and sweeter with a buttery texture. Excellent both as a shell and a dry bean.
Phaseolus vulgaris (85 days) Open pollinated. Dense foliage produces medium runners, lavender flowers and good yields of thin delicate pods each containing 5-6 lustrous black seeds.
Phaseolus vulgaris (60 days) Open pollinated. Dubbed “weirdo beans,” by the student seed keepers at Troy Howard Middle School, these glorious mutts spin out a ragtag rainbow of patterns, habits and ancestral forms.
Phaseolus vulgaris (106 days) Open pollinated. Large speckled tan beans with good yields, even in stressful conditions. Creamy texture for great comfort food.
Phaseolus vulgaris (106 days) Open pollinated. Large speckled tan beans with good yields, even in stressful conditions. Creamy texture for great comfort food.
