Park Seed Garden Journal

As a follow-up to the Park Seed Blog Question of the Day! about heirloom seeds I’ve pasted this email below from the senior staff horticulturist to Park Seed’s customer service department. If you’ve got the Park Seed catalog, he gives you page numbers and everything.

FYI- Here are the heirloom vegetable seeds in the current Park Seed Catalog.

5843 Hales Best Melon, p 104
5016 Mountaineer White Half Runner Bean ,p107
5043 Yin Yang Shell Bean,  p109
5193 Silver Queen Okra, p119
5411 Heirloom Rain Blend Tomatoes , p130
          Aunt Ruby’s
          German Green
          Big Rainbow
          Tomato Black
          Cherokee Purple
          Dixie Golden Giant
5420 Pineapple Tomato, p 130
5481 Moon & Stars Melon,  p 133

In Addition, the following seeds are open pollinated varieties that are considered by other companies to be heirloom- Park Seed does not market these as heirloom .

Nantes Carrot,  p 104
Virginia Jumbo Peanut,  p125
California Wonder Pepper, p105
Howden Pumpkin, p125
Marketmore Cucumber, p104
Big Moon Pumpkin, p125
Black Beauty Eggplant,  p104
Ky Wonder 125 Bush Bean, p108
Venture Bush Bean, p109
Shironomai Soybean, p110
Jade Bush Bean, p108
Early Hakucho Soybean, p110
Derby Bush Bean,  p108
Shironomai Soybean, p110                                                                  
Money Maker Tomato,  p105
Early Hakucho Soybean, p110
Howden Pumpkin,  p105
Early Summer Crookneck Squash,p105
Amazing Cauliflower, p110
Red Sails Lettuce, p117
Green Ice Lettuce, p117
Georgia Collards, p118    
Clemson Spineless Okra,  p105
Sparkler Radish, p105

You can also do a search for any of these in Park Seed’s online catalog.

Cheers,
Thomas

tandrews@parkseed.com