Heirloom Vegetable, Herb & Flower Seeds

Cucamelon is also known as Mexican Sour Gherkin. Tiny, 1 x 1/2 in. light-green fruits with darker mottling look like watermelons for a doll house. The flesh is white, crisp, crunchy with a slight lemony tartness. The flavor is closer to a cucumber than a melon. One person described them as,"Cucumber with a bit of watermelon rind and a squeeze of lemon juice." It is said that the missing crunch can make people go off diets.

This tiny treasure can match the crunch of pretzels and chips. A conversation piece in the garden, or as an edible centerpiece at the table. The vine is attractive and productive enough for hanging baskets. They are terrific in stir-fries; can be pickled just like French gherkins, eaten raw in salads or put up like Polish dill pickles. They also can be chopped and added to salsas for extra texture and flavor.

80 days

Approx 35 seeds per pack

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Pride of Wisconsin Melon has 4-8 lb very hard gray skinned melons that are round-oval with faint ribs, course netting and a thick orange flesh with fabulous flavor. Grows well in heavy soils, keeps well when fully ripe.

An old Midwest heirloom. If you can only grow one melon, grow Pride of Wisconsin - you won't be disappointed! Great old-fashioned flavor.

90-110 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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The Honey Rock Musk Melon or Sugar Rock Melon was the 1933 AAS winner. Superior, 3-4 lb. melons with thick, sweet, salmon-colored flesh.

Vigorous, disease resistant plants set large numbers of fruits, 5 - 7 melons per plant or more. Does well in northern U.S. and southern Canada.

80 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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The Vine Peach or Mango Melon is a drought-tolerant, native-American annual whose fruits are peach-sized and colored, and mango-like in flavor and texture.

While tasty raw, they excel canned or cooked into pies, preserves, conserves and pickles (for pickles, pick while still green). Easy to grow, very productive, vigorous, pest-resistant vines.

80-90 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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The Katanya Watermelon is a small-sized 10-20 Lb “ice-box" melon with greenish black skin and sweet, salmon-pink flesh. The vines are sturdy and prolific - producing melons well into fall and cooler weather.

Russian heirloom seed from "Katanya," a woman in northern Illinois. One of the best tasting smaller watermelons.

60-70 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Sweet, pinkish red flesh with that old-time watermelon flavor. Large silver dollar to pea-sized moons on dark green and yellow speckled slightly ridged, thick skin show numerous stars. Leaves have yellow spots as well.

Fruits are oblong, up to 2 ft. long and larger melons weigh 35 lbs. One of the extraordinarily sweet and flavorful moon-and-stars melons.

95-100 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Sugar Baby Watermelon is the standard for small watermelons since the 1870s. Early, productive, space saver.

6-10 lbs. of exceptionally sweet, deep-red flesh, small seeds, good texture and mouth-watering flavor. Smaller size is easy to fit in the refrigerator.

68-86 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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The Green Machine Musk Melon is a truly succulent melon that stands out in today's market of crisp, unsweet, bland melons. Reliably sweet, this green-fleshed, stabilized cross of Kansas and Jenny Lind weighs 3 - 4 lbs. and does well in cool as well as warm areas.

Much easier to grow than a honeydew, the plants are very compact, making it an excellent choice for all, even small, gardens.

80-85 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Golden Jenny Melon is more vigourous and compact than Jenny Lind with better insect resistance, sweet orange flesh, fruits weigh up to 3/4 Lbs. Developed by Merlyn Niedens.

85 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Casaba Golden Beauty Melon was introduced in the 1920s. It has a tough wrinkled rind maturing to a golden color. Fruits are 7-8 lbs., crown blight resistant with a thick white aromatic faintly spicy flesh.

Great for home gardeners and small markets, an excellent shipper and will keep for months. Specifically adapted to hot dry climates of the Southwest.

104-120 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Piel de Sapo is a rare Spanish melon from the Valencia region. 7-9 lbs. with oval fruit having mottled green and yellow skin. Sweet pale green to white flesh, very hard rind, excellent keeper.

Well known and valued in European and Spanish markets, while unknown here.

90-110 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Golden Midget Watermelon or Early Golden Midget is a beautiful 3 lb miniature watermelon that's widely adapted with very sweet and refreshing rich-red flesh and dark-colored seeds. The thin tough green rind turns golden-orange when ready for harvest.

7-8” oval melons grow on compact vines and only need a small space, great for small or urban gardens. So early maturing that it’s excellent for succession planting.

65-82 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Banana Melon is a long tapering banana or torpedo-shaped muskmelon, 16-24" long and about 4" in diameter. Yields 5-8 lb smooth yellow skin, salmon-pink flesh, sweet spicy flavor with a pineapple scent, good late-maturing variety that can stand the sun, dates back to the late 1800s.

80-100 days

Muskmelon

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Collective Farm Woman Melon or Kolkhoznitsa Melon has a yellow-gold rind flecked with dark green with extra sweet, fragrant, crisp, white flesh, 7-10". Flavor is described as,"particularly rich, floral and sweet." Flavor goes all the way to the rind. This uniquely named variety is from the Island of Krim in the Black Sea. Rind turns from light green to yellow-orange as it ripens. Best flavor when picked 1-2 days after yellow-orange rind appears.

A very good early-ripening melon for warm climates that lack hot days, very tolerant and productive in cooler weather. Bred for cooler climates by Russian plant breeder V. Balyasnyi in the early 1930s. Sturdy, productive and resists powdery mildew well. Sets fruit throughout the growing season.

80-85 days

Muskmelon

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Minnesota Midget Melon is a very early maturing, unique sweetly flavored muskmelon that can produce two crops in a season- excellent for Northern gardeners, or melon lovers.

Perfect for smaller gardens or containers with compact 3 ft vines and large crops of 4 in melons with thick meaty gold-yellow flesh having a high sugar content that is edible to the rind. Melons slip from vine when ripe. Very high quality melon with fine dense netting. Developed by the U of Minn in 1948. Resistant to fusarium wilt.

Muskmelon

60-75 days

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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