Melons - Heirloom

Availability: Available Fall

Black Mountain watermelon: a black, red-fleshed watermelon. Sweet Siberian watermelon: an elongated, yellow-fleshed watermelon. Santo Domingo deep ribbed: a large, heavy, orange-fleshed melon, green to light yellow coloring, excellent rich melon flavour and aromatic. Oka melon: a Canadian heirloom from the Montreal area. Deep-ribbed, netted skin with orange, very sweet flesh and very aromatic. Banana melon: elongated, orange-fleshed melon with a green skin, on trial this year. Emerald gem melon: light-green, slightly netted skin with orange flesh, on trial this year. Prescot Fond Blanc melon: a deep-ribbed, warty-surfaced melon with orange flesh, on trial this year. Charentais melons.

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Apples

Availability: Available Fall

Mackintosh, Gravenstein, Transparent, Gala, Kings, Bramley, Empire, Wealthy, Sunrise, Belle de Boscoop, Spartan, Roxbury Russet, Newtown Pippin

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Beans

Availability: Available Summer

Green and Yellow Beans

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Beets

Availability: Available Fall,Available Summer

Firnabiva Beets (cylindrical beet, very sweet flavour and a good keeper)

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Butter Lettuce

Availability: Available Spring,Available Summer

Butter Lettuce

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Carrots

Availability: Available Fall,Available Summer

Nantes and Touchon Deluxe Carrots

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Corn

Availability: Available Fall

Golden Jubilee corn

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Cucumber

Availability: Available Fall

Armenian Cucumber: a long, thin, lime-green cucumber having an edible skin and mild flavour.

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Fruits

Availability: Available Fall,Available Spring,Available Summer

Raspberries, Red and Black Currants, Nanking Cherries (a small red or white, semi-sweet cherry). Make excellent jams and sauces, whites look like large pearls. Bing and Van cherries, Apricots, Peaches, Green Gage Plums, Japanese Plums (small red plum with an orange flesh), Bartlett Pears.

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Garlic

Availability: Available Fall

Italian Red garlic, hard necked; Chesnook garlic, hard necked; Georgian Fire garlic, hard necked; Russian Red garlic, hard necked; Lorz Italian garlic, soft necked; German red garlic, hard necked (in development, available in 2006).

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Onions

Availability: Available Fall

Utah White onion (large, sweet white onion that is also used as a green onion when young), Utah Yellow onion (large, sweet yellow onion), Red Whitherspoon onion (flattened sweet red onion), Egyptian onion (a top setting onion, small in size, used as a shallot, pink colour when peeled, pungent when raw.) All onion varieties are good keepers.

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Peas

Availability: Available Summer

Sugar and Standard Peas

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Peppers

Availability: Available Fall

Buran (a medium sized pepper with a tender skin and sweet flesh); Napoleon Sweet (a larger sweet pepper); Lemon Drop (a hot, small yellow pepper); Cyklon (an elongated, hot red pepper).

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Potatoes

Availability: Available Fall,Available Summer

White Rose potato (fine textured potato having an elongated shape, much favoured by European customers in the West End farm market). Victoria yellow potato.

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Spinach

Availability: Available Summer

Spinach

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Squashes - Heirloom

Availability: Available Fall

Early Canadian Crook Necked Squash: a yellow, warty-surfaced, summer squash that doesn’t cook down to mush. Penasco: a flattened, white to bluish, hard skinned Hubbard-like squash, fine textured and sweet. Average weight 15 lbs (heirloom). Mayo Blusher: a bluish, elongated squash with pinkish or orange colouring washing over the undercolour. Fine-textured with a flavour similar to sweet potato. Average weight 15-20 lbs (heirloom). Fordhook Acorn: a buff-coloured acorn-type squash. Guatemalan Blue Banana squash: an elongated, bluish-coloured squash (heirloom). Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato squash: a teardrop-shaped squash (heirloom). Kobacha: a buttercup-style squash with dense flesh and small seed cavity. True Pie Pumpkin, 4-7 lb: pumpkin that has a dense flesh that makes superior pumpkin purees (heirloom). Guatamala Blue Banana Squash: a large, dark orange-fleshed sqash having a cylindrical shape (heirloom). Spaghetti squash.

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Tomatoes

Availability: Available Fall

Black from Tula (a greenish, black to purple tomato having a fantastic flavour); Cherokee Purple (a greenish, purple tomato with great flavour); Brandywine (a large-sized red tomato with great flavour).

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