Although now commonly referred to simply as 'Navy' beans, into the middle part of the twentieth century they were more commonly known as "Navy Peas." This name is in reference to it being a staple food stock for the American Navy in the early years.

Top-quality Napa or "Chinese" cabbage has juicy, tangy-sweet flesh and a delicious cool and crispy texture. Extremely vigorous, with excellent disease resistance, Little Jade plants form dense, wineglass-shaped 8" - 10" heads.

This is a mid-early variety. Vegetation period from shoots to technical ripeness 90-110 days. Roots of round shape, weight of 100-400 g, excellent taste. The pulp is sugary, juicy, dark red with a purple hue, the rings are slightly pronounced.

Noir Long Maraicher black radish seeds are also listed in some sources as Noir Gros Long d’Hiver. This old French heirloom translates as black, large, long, of winter. The roots are long, black-skinned, and excellent for fall and winter harvests.

Mid early variety. The vegetation period from germination to technical ripeness 110-115 days. Determinate plant, 50-80 cm high. Fruit plum-shaped, orange-red, weighing 80-110 grams, very dense.

Variety Brad Gates. Tall, mid-season, high-yielding, with very powerful plants and very large fruits. Bush height up to 1.8 meters. All fruits are one-dimensional and large, weighing from 400 grams to 1 kg. The average weight is 500-800 grams.

Late-ripening variety. The plant is 60-70 cm high, the fruits are flat-round, resistant to cracking, weighing 120-150 grams. Long-stored, this variety will be the decoration of the New Year's table.

This is an early, determinant variety of tomato. The plant is 50-60 cm. Fruit - beefsteak shape, red color, weighing up to 150 grams. Grow seedlings or sow seeds in the soil.

Very productive yellow cherry with an pearlescentness to them. Great looking with a very good flavor that is sweet rich. Everyone who trialed it was pleased. Another variety that has exceptional hang on the vine quality and can be harvested by cutting.

Medium-ripening variety. Vegetation period from shoots to ripening of fruits is 110-120 days. Fertility period 55-70 days. The shrub is small, compact, and has a height of 40-80 cm. Fruits are cylindrical, smooth, weighing 40-60 g.

Mid-ripening, vegetation is 105-109 days, plant is determinant. Fruits egg-shaped, 60-75 grams, red, without green spot near the stems, fleshy, dense, transportable. The content of soluble solids in fruits is 5.57-6.15%, sugars - 3.36-4.00%.

Mid-ripening variety. Before ripeness - 100-110 days. The root is cylindrical, with an obtuse end, 10-18 in length, 2.5-4.5 cm in diameter, weighing 142-150 grams, completely immersed in the soil. The rind is intensely orange. The roots are rounded.

It has maintained these culinary virtues and qualities and continues to be a Gold standard for medium sized carrots. Its most unique characteristic is that is is both rounded at the tip of the root and at the bottom.

Early (38-44 days) heirloom variety for outdoor growing . Elliptical, short, green cucumbers with light stripes and an excellent taste. Resistant to all main cucumber diseases. Excellent, crispy and juicy taste, recommended for salads and canning.

Medium late variety. The period from germination to start fruiting 45-60 days. Fruits are oblong-oval, coarsely tuberculate, black chipie, green in color, weighing 70-100 g, length 9-13 cm, diameter 3.5-5 cm. Characterized by high taste qualities.

Medium sized pumpkin are uniform on productive, semi-bush plants. Each fruit has a small seed cavity in dark orange sweet flesh with a tender, smooth skin that is thin, but very hard. Nova is the best choice of butternut squash for gardeners.

Morning Glory flowers, aptly named, because they are at their best in the early mornings, each last for just one day - but is replaced the following day by others. So, there is a continual supply of the startling blue flowers on the plant in the season.

Needle Aster is an annual plant which grows 50 to 80 centimetres in height. This variety is truly outstanding due to its lovely multi-coloured inflorescences, whose single flowers look like needles, hence the name of this plant.

A much-loved fan palm that has been popular since Victorian times and makes a superb potted palm for the home or terrace. In warmer climates and over a period of years, it grows into a handsome, medium-sized tree with a slender trunk.

The Heart Nut tree is named for the shape of the nut - a flattened heart-shaped nut that easily splits into two halves, like two sides of a locket. Native to Japan, it is also known as Japanese Walnut, but it is well suited to our Northern climates.

A vigorous plant with handsome, wavy-toothed leaves and attractive pale blue, bell-shaped flowers followed by ornamental papery Chinese lanterns. Branches of these can be dried and used for winter decoration indoors.