Burdock, Watanabe Early (100 days)  Arctium lappa - Burdock, also called gobo, is highly prized as a nutritious delicacy in Japan and is a traditional Asian vegetable. Watanabe early generally matures faster than Takinogawa and has the same rich flavor, however the roots tend to be a bit shorter. Plants can grow up to 3' tall. A spring sowing guarantees summer and fall harvests. Packet (.7 g. ≈ 40 seeds) ...

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Corn, Papa’s Blue (80-90 days) Zea Mays We are grateful to Wayne Marshall of Banbury Farm in Buhl, Idaho for this gem that were bred out of Painted Mountain by seedsman Ed Schultz, also in Montana. Dave Christensen (breeder of Painted Mountain Corn) spoke very highly of this variety, describing them as very uniform and a brilliantly colored blue. Much like it’s Painted Mountain origins, Papa’s Blue is a short stature (4-5’), very early maturing flour corn with great culinary qualities. Packet:  One Ounce (≈ 110 seeds) ...

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Gerkin, Mexican Sour (75 days) Melothria scabra AKA Cucamelon or Mouse melon. A unique relative of cucumbers that produces a plethora of small (1-1 ½ “) fruits that resemble tiny watermelons and have a unique mildly sour cucumber flavor that are delicious to pop in your mouth and eat raw, serve on salads or pickled. Vines grow vigorously up to 10’ and benefit from a trellis. HEIRLOOM. SSF PACKET – 1/2 g. (~150 seeds)...

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Lettuce, Carmona (55 days) Latuca sativa It must show that we really love our red butter lettuce varieties here at Siskiyou Seeds, because we have 5 different ones! Eating a fresh, tender, buttery, well blanched head right out of the field ranks very high on the gardener bliss spectrum. A red and green swirled butterhead classic that is truck farm worthy in its adaptable growth and dependability. Fairly bolt resistant so it can be grown in the heat of summer. HEIRLOOM. SRF Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) 1/2 Ounce (12,500 seeds)...

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Lettuce, Four Seasons (60 days) Latuca sativa Also known by its French name, Merveille des Quatre Saisons, this is a fabulous butterhead variety that hails, as you may have guessed, from France. An heirloom that was listed in Vilmorin’s 1815 book, The Vegetable Garden”, it clearly has stood the test of time on account of its tasty red and green well-wrapped, large tender buttery heads. Simply gorgeous.     Packet -1 g  (~800 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Sweet Valentine (55 days) Latuca sativa A quick growing, smaller stature romaine with green and red splashed leaves. Very sweet flavor has endeared this darling to growers for many years. Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) ...

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Melon, Kansas (85 days)  Cucumis melo This nice heirloom melon has heavy netting over an oblong fruit that conceals, sweet, fine textured orange flesh. Vigorous, adaptable plants produce ample amounts of fruits with an average weight is 3-4 pounds per fruits. Packet (1/2 g ≈ 25 seeds) Half Ounce (≈600 seeds) Ounce ...

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Purple de Milpa Physalis philadelphica  (75 days) A Milpa is a family corn field in Meso-America that typically has quite a bit of plant diversity of food crops growing in it, one of which is these pretty purple green tomatillos. 1-2” fruit is delicious roasted, stewed, in salsa or many other dishes. A gorgeous easy to grow plant that typically begins to volunteer once established. Packet (1/2 g ≈ 100 seeds) ...

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 Black Krim Solanum esculentum (85 days) This is a wonderful medium large heirloom slicer hailing from the isle of Krim in the Black Sea in Russia.  The large flattened fruit have dark green shoulders over a dark purple, red skin.  The juicy flesh is marbled with green, brown, red and pink and is other-worldly in flavors! One of the best. (1/4 g. ≈ 50 seeds) 1 gram...

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