Chef's Choice Green Tomatoes are a delightful and unique variety of tomatoes known for their vibrant green color and exceptional flavor. These tomatoes have a fascinating history rooted in the world of culinary innovation. Developed by renowned tomato breeder Brad Gates, the Chef's Choice series was created to provide chefs and home gardeners with a range of exceptional tomato varieties. The green version, Chef's Choice Green, stands out for its outstanding qualities. Chef's Choice Green Tomatoes typically grow to a medium to large size, with fruit that can reach diameters of 3 to 4 inches (7.5 to 10 centimeters). They have a slightly flattened, beefsteak-like shape, which is ideal for slicing and adding to salads or sandwiches. The tomatoes are known for their rich, complex flavor, balancing a sweet and tangy taste with a hint of earthiness, making them a versatile choice for culinary creations. The plants that produce Chef's Choice Green Tomatoes are indeterminate, meaning they continue to grow and produce fruit throughout the growing season. They are known for their vigorous growth, often reaching heights of 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters) or more, depending on growing conditions. These plants thrive in warm climates with plenty of sunlight and well-drained soil. Adequate support and pruning may be necessary to manage their size and ensure healthy fruit production. Overall, Chef's Choice Green Tomatoes are a fantastic addition to any garden, offering a unique and delicious twist on traditional tomato varieties.
The Golden Sweet Pea is really the gold standard for yellow shelling peas! This yellow pod snow pea grows to be around 3 inches long. This pea has a wonderful sweet taste and can be eaten raw in salads or steamed as a side dish. The large 5-6 foot vines need to be trellised and will grow beautiful purple flowers. Certified Organic. Learn more about our organic seeds.
The Jubilee corn variety is an old-time favorite corn. Jubilee is one of the most popular varieties we sell and is excellent for late summer enjoyment. Its stalks reach 6 feet tall, and the 9 inch ears have deep, tender yellow kernels. You can pick it right off the stalk and cook for dinner. Jubilee is sure to make you happy as it is one of the great tasting corns on the market!
SPRING SHIPPING - Certified - The Pinto Gold is a unique two colored potato! This potato variety has a purple skin with its gold flesh showing a bit on the outside. The Zebra or Pinto Gold is a beautiful gourmet style potato. This unique potato looks great when baked and served whole. The Pinto Gold has a great flavor with a high starchiness. The Pinto Gold is a favorite for fresh markets!
The Merlot is a looseleaf type of lettuce with intense deep burgundy colored leaves. This variety is slow bolting and ideal for cut and come again culture. Enjoy this beautifully colored lettuce in a baby salad mix!
This Eastern-type melon stands out for its extended post-harvest storage compared to other varieties in its class, without sacrificing the rich flavor and smooth texture growers and consumers expect. Fruits average 5–7 pounds and develop excellent sweetness, reaching about 13% Brix. At maturity, melons show full color change and slip cleanly from the vine, signaling peak harvest readiness. The variety also offers dependable field performance with intermediate resistance to Fusarium wilt (races 0, 1, and 2) and powdery mildew (races 1 and 2), making it a reliable choice for quality and shelf life.
Afterglow is a distinctive Eastern-type melon that blends the durability and appearance of Eastern shippers with the exceptional eating quality of Tuscan genetics. It produces uniform, refined fruit averaging 5–7 pounds, with very firm, thick orange flesh and excellent flavor balanced by high sugar levels of 12–14% Brix. The rind closely resembles a classic Eastern melon, though the pronounced sutures retain a touch of green at maturity. Fruits slip cleanly from the vine when ripe and offer improved field holding ability compared to traditional sutured types. Afterglow delivers a reliable, uniform harvest of attractive melons with outstanding sweetness and rich, classic melon flavor.
Sugar Rush is an outstanding melon choice for home gardeners, combining strong natural disease resistance with exceptionally sweet, richly flavored fruit. Vigorous, productive vines yield generous harvests of cantaloupes averaging around 4 pounds, each with a small seed cavity and deep orange, juicy flesh that reaches an impressive 15% Brix. In trials, this variety consistently stood out for its balance of sweetness, flavor, and satisfying size—larger than typical personal melons but still easy to handle. Ready to harvest in about 75 days, Sugar Rush delivers reliable performance and premium eating quality, making it a standout option for both backyard gardens and market growers. High disease resistance especially to Powdery Mildew (races 1,2) and Fusarium Wilt (races 0,1,2).
Sweet Sunset banana pepper seeds produce a sweet banana–type pepper (Capsicum annuum) developed as a modern hybrid for dependable performance and early harvests. Bred for uniformity and productivity, Sweet Sunset plants typically grow 20–24 inches tall and begin producing in about 65–70 days, making them well suited for short growing seasons. The smooth, tapered fruits are 5–7 inches long and ripen from pale yellow to orange and finally a rich sunset red, offering a mild, sweet flavor with crisp, tender flesh. Known for high yields, attractive color progression, and versatility, Sweet Sunset peppers are excellent for fresh eating, frying, pickling, and adding color to garden beds and containers.
The Large Leaf Italian Basil Microgreen will add a tangy aromatic basil flavor to any salad, dip, sandwich and entree. When harvested young, the Italian Basil microgreen has a strong sweet basil flavor. Ready to harvest in 20-30 days.
The Tasty Evergreen Tomato is a green fleshed heirloom with a tasty, strong sweet flavor. This tomato was introduced by Glecklers Seedmen of Metamora, Ohio in 1956. This delicious large heirloom ripens to grapefruit yellow with a lime-green flesh, giving it a very sweet flavor. This very productive, medium-sized beefsteak grows well throughout the United States. The Tasty Evergreen produces a continual harvest throughout the season.
The Banana Melon gets its name for being a banana-shaped fruit with smooth yellow skin and even a mouth-watering banana smell! This melon variety has a sweet, spicy salmon flesh that is delicious. This heirloom is an all time favorite for being very sweet and perfect for specialty markets.
Biscayne pepper seeds produce a sweet, Cuban-type pepper variety known for its thick-walled, tapered fruits that mature from light green to a rich red. Typically growing 6–8 inches long, Biscayne peppers offer a mild, sweet flavor with no heat, making them ideal for fresh eating, roasting, or stuffing. This variety thrives in full sun and well-drained, fertile soil, and should be started indoors 6–8 weeks before the last frost, then transplanted outdoors once temperatures consistently stay above 60°F. Plants reach about 18–24 inches tall and benefit from regular watering, mulching, and staking to support heavy yields. With a maturity time of around 65–80 days from transplant, Biscayne peppers are perfect for gardeners seeking flavorful, versatile sweet peppers with excellent productivity.
The Red Velvet Lettuce produces very dark maroon to greenish-bronze tinged colored leaves that have a nice chewy texture. This beautifully unique variety is a great choice for mixed salad greens. This lettuce is slow to bolt and will become bitter in the heat.
A widely adapted white corn with multiple disease resistances. Great ear size and appearance combined with high yield potential make Freedom MXR an excellent for home gardens and market growers.
Sparky XSL F1 tomatoes are a modern hybrid variety prized for their exceptional quality and performance in the garden. Developed through advanced breeding techniques, this variety is known for its high yield and robust disease resistance, making it a favorite among commercial growers and home gardeners alike. Originating from the United States, Sparky XSL F1 is characterized by its medium to large, round fruits that exhibit a bright red color and a smooth, glossy finish. The flavor is a well-balanced mix of sweetness and acidity, providing a classic tomato taste that enhances a variety of dishes, from salads to sauces. The plant is indeterminate, meaning it continues to grow and produce fruit throughout the growing season, typically reaching about 5 to 7 feet in height. It has a strong, vigorous growth habit, often requiring staking or cages for support. Sparky XSL F1 tomatoes are typically harvested in mid to late summer when they reach their full red color and firm texture. With their reliable productivity, excellent flavor, and resilient growth, Sparky XSL F1 tomatoes are a standout choice for those seeking a high-performing tomato variety.
China Express is a chinese cabbage that is a widely-adapted and can be grown throughout. This is a very uniform cabbage with tightly wrapped heads. Medium-sized that are fast maturing.
The Tuscany Melon is a cantaloupe that has beauty and taste! This melon's flesh is one of the most flavorful muskmelons available. Originating in Italy, the deeply ribbed 3-5 lb. Tuscany has a small seed cavity and fine rind. This variety is very high in vitamin C and vitamin A, making it very nutritious! Tuscany is also a great storing cantaloupe that will keep up to 2 weeks if refrigerated.
