Favorite Heirloom Veggies?

[Caver Dave]

With the new place WILL come a garden... doing some preemptive planning on the varieties for the usual home garden.

What are your favorite HEIRLOOM varieties for :

• Tomatoes
• Cucumbers
• Squash (yellow & Zucchini)
• Sweet peppers
• Okra
• Green Beans

CliffNotes for Dummies: Heirloom plant species are vegetables, flowers, and fruits grown from seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Heirloom seeds are open-pollinated, meaning they rely on natural pollination from insects or the wind.

 

[Fabrik8]

Going to go on a bender with the Seed Savers catalog?

I actually really like some of the heirloom melon varieties. I can't remember which ones, it's been a while since we grew any. Someone bought the property behind us where our garden was, so we had to... umm... dismantle it.

 

[obullfish]

Matter= Cherokee Purple
Beans = Greasy Cutshorts & White Halfrunners
Peppers = hot and sweet banana peppers

 

[Andy J.]

X2 on the Cherokee purple maters. Man, what I wouldn’t give for a mater sammich right now...

 

[Caver Dave]

Matter= Cherokee Purple

X2 on the Cherokee purple maters

Tell me about them... aside from the purple/black color, hows the taste?

 

[obullfish]

Cherokee purple - Wikipedia

I am from Haywood county that is considered as producing the best maters around and these have always been my favorite since I was a kid. The taste, texture, and size is better than any other I’ve found. I should be able to find you some seed if you want to try growing starters.

 

[Loganwayne]

I’ll see if my cabinet guy has any that he’d be willing to give or sale. He has about a 2 acre garden and it’s all heirloom stuff


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[Caver Dave]

I should be able to find you some seed if you want to try growing starters.

Absolutely! If you run across them, will send you a self-addressed stamped envelope?

 

[Caver Dave]

I’ll see if my cabinet guy has any that he’d be willing to give or sale. He has about a 2 acre garden and it’s all heirloom stuff

Thank you!

 

[obullfish]

Absolutely! If you run across them, will send you a self-addressed stamped envelope?

I’ll see what I can come up with.

 

[Kamel]

This is what the wifey says:

• Tomatoes------- Amish Paste and Cherokee Purple and Speckled Roman
  
• Cucumbers------ Marketmore and Russian pickling
  
• Squash (yellow & Zucchini)----- Crooked Neck and Pattypan (yellow) and Black Beauty (zucchini)
  
• Sweet peppers------- California Wonder
  
• Okra------- Clemson Spineless
  
• Green Bean-------- Contender

Baker Creek (rareseeds.com) is another source like Seed Savers. If you're on the book of faces there is a group called the "great seed vault" that would be of interest to you.