Earliest Eastern variety. Be the first to market with Halona. Fruits mature extra early, avg. 4-5 lb., and have an excellent flavor. Intermediate resistance to fusarium wilt races 0-2 and powdery mildew.
These are beautiful melons with luscious deep-orange golden flesh that is sweet, juicy and fragrant. Rinds are thin, heavily netted and medium ribbed. Vigorous, prolific plants bear nearly round, medium-sized, 2-3 lb. fruits that are ready to pick 90 days from sowing. An heirloom introduced around 1900 and once the most popular commercial cantaloupe in the Midwest.
A pretty, light green melon with dark stripes, Crimson Sweet is famous for its high sugar content and great flavor. Seeds are small and dark. The vines are resistant to anthracnose and fusarium wilt. Give vines plenty of room to run. Released by Kansas State University in 1963, it has become a classic favorite. High in lycopene.
This everbearing variety produces high yields of large, very sweet fruit from late spring until frost, with concentrated fruiting in summer and again in fall. Ideal for jam, preserves, or desserts. Plants are cold-hardy and send out long runners. Great for containers.
This excellent home garden variety yields exceptionally large, dark red fruit from late spring through autumn. Although it is officially considered Junebearing, Sequoia strawberry plants produce like an everbearing strawberry in mild climates, putting on berries throughout the warm season.
Legendary Heirloom Variety rediscovered in Macon, Missouri. Can grow over 40 lbs. The dark green rind has bright yellow spots on it! Spots range in size from tiny to several inches across. Leaves are also specked in yellow. It has very sweet brilliant, red flesh. This is becoming one of the most popular Heirloom varieties, a winner! Originally introduced by Peter Henderson & Co. in 1926, it was called "SUN, MOON AND STARS."
A popular heirloom developed around 1920 by a Japanese market grower in California. Sweet, smooth orange flesh. A good flavored muskmelon.
'Victoria' is an old standard crop variety of rhubarb. It has proven to be one of the largest and most productive varieties. The stalks are a deep crimson red with a touch of green on the inside. The hint of a wine flavor makes it a good variety to use for pies and cobblers. First recorded in 1837 in England.