Heirloom Database
Explore the world's most comprehensive database of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties, with detailed histories, growing information, and seed-saving guides.
Featured Varieties
8 varieties found
Brandywine Pink
Tomatoes
Large, pink beefsteak tomato with exceptional flavor. Often considered the gold standard of heirloom tomatoes with complex, rich taste and creamy texture.
Cherokee Purple
Tomatoes
Dusky purple-pink beefsteak with complex, sweet flavor and smoky undertones. One of the most popular dark-colored heirlooms.
Glass Gem
Corn
Stunningly beautiful flint corn with translucent, jewel-toned kernels in every color of the rainbow. Primarily ornamental but can be ground for flour or popped.
Moon and Stars
Melons
Large watermelon with dark green rind spotted with bright yellow dots of varying sizes, like a night sky. Sweet, crisp red flesh.
Dragon Tongue
Beans
Stunning cream-colored bean pod streaked with purple. Can be eaten as a snap bean (purple fades when cooked) or dried for shelling.
Fish Pepper
Peppers
Variegated ornamental and culinary pepper with green and white striped leaves and fruit that ripens from white-striped to orange-striped to red.
Mortgage Lifter
Tomatoes
Enormous pink beefsteak tomato, often weighing 2-4 pounds. Mild, sweet flavor with meaty flesh and few seeds.
Scarlet Runner
Beans
Multi-purpose bean grown for its ornamental red flowers, edible young pods, and large purple-black beans. Perennial in mild climates.
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