Fruition Seeds

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As Downy mildew becomes more and more prevalent, this cucumber will become more and more known, grown and beloved. With impressive resistance to Downy mildew, Organic NY Slicing 264 Cucumber has become our go-to for our July cucumber successions, deliciously abundant and undaunted in the height of late summer disease, powering on ’til frost.

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HEIRLOOM We love Organic Cocozelle Zucchini’s light green stripes on the classic Italian green zucchini, evidence of Costata Romanesco in her parentage. As a result, Cocozelle’s flavor soars above average and Friends, we’ve been saving seeds for nearly a decade of the plants that have the fewest spines and the most open architecture, making her abundant harvest that much more joyful for everyone involved!

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This is likely the easiest raised bed in the world 🙂 Years ago a friend gifted us one of these six-foot fabric raised beds. We’ve grown hundreds of pounds of fresh vegetables, herbs in flowers in them each year since and we’d love to surround you with this abundance, too!

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Starting your own seeds can be intimidating, so here are the foundational tools to keep seed starting simple to surround yourself with abundance for seasons to come! Fruition’s Seed Starting 101 Kit includes: ~ one seedling heat mat (perfectly sized for one tray) ~ Fruition’s DIY potting mix minerals (makes 80 quarts of high-quality potting mix) ~ Rise & Shine: Starting Seeds with Ease (our 40-page seed starting book) ~ 3 draining top trays (10″ wide, 20″ long plastic) ~ 3 solid bottom trays (10″ wide, 20″ long plastic) ~ 50 1.25″ biodegradable peat pots (that perfectly fit in one tray, see below) ~ 12 6-pack containers (that perfectly fit in one tray, see below) ~ 18 plastic 4″ pots (that perfectly fit in one tray, see below) Without a grow light, our Seed Starting Kit is ideal for transplants less than four weeks old, which includes most seeds, though notably not tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, ground cherry and tomatillo.

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Starting your own seeds can be intimidating. ​Cultivating thriving seedlings is both art and science. ​Here are the tools to keep it simple and surround you with abundance for seasons to come!

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Large soil blocks are optimal for many varieties, especially larger, quick-growing seeds. We sow everything from broccoli to lettuce, basil to zinnias in our large soil blocks! If you’re going to get just one soil blocker, this is the one. And Friends, soil blocks make seed starting easier and grow such healthier transplants. We have made soil blocks for nearly 20 years as professional growers and don’t worry, it is straightforward for the novice gardener, as well. Every seed you sow will be grateful for growing in a soil block rather than a cell or pot and here’s why: soil blocks have more soil (and thus nutrients) per volume, so each plant is bigger and healthier in impressively little time. Being constricted by plastic sides causes plants to become root-bound, but plants in soil blocks are surrounded instead by air, so the roots naturally “prune’ themselves and never become root-bound, dramatically reducing transplant shock. Not to mention, soil blocks are so fun to use and you’re reducing single-use plastics, too! If you’re a visual learner like so many of us (myself, included!), hop on over to our Soil Blocks in 5 Easy Steps blog for step-by-step written and video tutorials; there’s also the super short story below.

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Large Soil Blocker + Mini Soil Blocker + Mini Inserts to integrate the two = soil blocking heaven! Large soil blocks are optimal for many varieties, especially larger, quick-growing seeds. Small, slow to germinate seeds are best sown in mini-blocks on a tray on a heat mat, often germinating in a fraction of the time. The mini-inserts tucked in our large soil blocker allow the mini-blocks to seamlessly pot up into the large soil blocks = brilliant! Soil blocks make seed starting easier and grow such healthier transplants. We have made soil blocks for nearly 20 years as professional growers and don’t worry, it is straightforward for the novice gardener, as well. Every seed you sow will be grateful for growing in a soil block rather than a cell or pot and here’s why: soil blocks have more soil (and thus nutrients) per volume, so each plant is bigger and healthier in impressively little time. Being constricted by plastic sides causes plants to become root-bound, but plants in soil blocks are surrounded instead by air, so the roots naturally “prune’ themselves and never become root-bound, dramatically reducing transplant shock. Not to mention, soil blocks are so fun to use and you’re reducing single-use plastics, too!

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Desiccant packets dramatically increase the storage life of your seeds! Simply tuck them in an airtight container with your seeds to keep them optimally dry for years to come. Particularly if you’re interested in freezing your seeds for long-term storage, desiccant packets are invaluable. To freeze seeds, tuck one desiccant packet in a closed plastic bag with your seeds for three days, letting the desiccant wick away any excess moisture. After the third day, into the freezer they go!

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Whether you’re extending the season on your lettuce, protecting your arugula from flea beetles or getting faster germination on your carrots, floating row cover makes all the difference. These are the sandbags we use at Fruition to weight the edges of our indispensable row cover . We’ve used these same bags for years and years and suspect we always will. They’re the ideal size and easy to use, keeping your row cover in great condition when rocks, soil and other weights will wear and tear your row cover quickly. Our bags also have drawstrings, making them even more versatile and easy to use. Pro Tip: You can fill these bags with sand, gravel, soil or any other weight you may have in abundance. The more surface area and weight it has, the better these bags will work with your row cover.

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Container gardening made easy! We love these fabric containers for their durability, ease of handling and extraordinary capacity to grow abundant plants. Made in the US, these containers come in two sizes and two colors to grow herbs, tomatoes, raspberries and everything in between. Sold in sets of two. Here’s what we grow in each size: ~ 10 Gallons ~ bush and pole beans, dwarf tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, broccoli, bush cucumbers, eggplant, bush sunflowers, dwarf dahlias, culinary herbs, microgreens, calendula, dwarf marigolds, nasturtium! Footprint: 16″ base X 11.5″ height. ~ 15 Gallons ~ tomatoes, zucchini, ginger, winter squash, melons, cucumbers, potatoes, semi-dwarf and full-size dahlias, sunflowers, culinary herbs, microgreens, calendula, dwarf marigolds, nasturtium! Footprint: 18″ base X 13.5″ height. And did you see we share 6′ fabric raised beds , as well? They’re awesome & easy to use, you’ll enjoy them for years!

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You will love your mini soil blocker if you want to start seeds more successfully, optimizing every square inch of your heat mat and full-spectrum LED grow light capacity! Mini-blockers are especially excellent for starting small and slow-to-germinate seeds as well as those that crave heat (like tomatoes, peppers and eggplant), so they can cozy up close to your heat mat. Easy to use, professional growers and novice gardeners alike rhapsodize about their mini-blockers. They brilliantly fit into Larger Soil Blocks, making potting-up a dream. Tip: It’s tempting to pack your soil into mini-blocks so they won’t fall apart, but too dense they won’t pop out with ease and can break the spring mechanism, so be gentle as you explore and don’t force your mini-blocks to pop out! Also, when soil blocking, make sure your potting mix is more moist than you may think necessary to help them form fully. Warm water is more comfortable than cold for you & seeds about to germinate.

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Seed balls are as easy and fun to make as they are to throw! Our collection includes organic compost and powdered clay ready to create ~30 half-inch seed balls, plus three packets of organic seeds with step-by-step instructions on how to make them. Making seed balls is fun for kids ages 3 to 103! True or false: We drive with a tupperware full of seed balls of sunflowers to throw out our car window along the roadside in May and June. (Now you know!)

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For years, Matthew has blended diverse amendments to feed both our soil and our garlic and Friends, this is it! In 2020 we grew over 12,000 bulbs of garlic and shallots; over 95% of them were seed-stock size. It’s true, there are a lot of variables and we’re confident this blend tips the balance. ~ 1 pound feeds 1 pound (35 to 40 cloves) of garlic or shallots for the entire season ~ ~ comprehensive nutrients for robust plant health & impressive bulb development ~ Directions: Mix our Organic Garlic and Shallot Fertilizer into a bed prepped with compost before planting, 1 pound per 1 pound of garlic and/or shallot seed. All ingredients are organic: Alfalfa meal, kelp meal, feather meal, compost crumbles

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Our DIY Potting Mix Minerals are an easy and economical way to make 80 quarts of perfect for starting seeds and potting up transplants in spring as well as growing greens indoors all winter. A rich diversity of micro- and macro-nutrients, simply add our mix to compost, peat moss and perlite for an economical abundance of potting soil! Our mix is also ideal for soil blocking, growing the healthiest seedlings we’ve ever seen. Check out our recipe below!

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Large Soil Blocker + Mini Soil Blocker + Mini Inserts to integrate the two = soil blocking heaven We love these inserts! They are easy to use as well as essential for soil blocking, allowing our large blockers to integrate seamlessly with our mini-blockers . The dimples in the large soil blockers easily pop out and these inserts are simple to pop in and out by hand. If you’re a visual learner like so many of us (myself, included!), hop on over to our Soil Blocks in 5 Easy Steps blog for step-by-step written and video tutorials. Here’s the super short version:

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Remarkably made of corn, we’ve used biotella as simple, biodegradable and impressively effective weed control for years. Easy to use, it’s black color also warms soil faster in spring and generates more heat for plants all summer. As a result of this increased heat, many fruiting crops like tomatoes, peppers and melon have increased abundance and flavor. To use, prepare your seedbed as you typically do, laying your biotella down in a long row. Shovel both edges with enough soil to hold your biotella down, creating a flat and taught bed ready to plant into. When you’re ready to plant, simply poke your finger through your biotella at your desired spacing. We mostly transplant into biotella though we’ve had success direct seeding beans, peas, squash and cucumbers. The benefit of transplanting into biotella is that your plants leap out of the ground, immediately out-competing any weed seeds ready to germinate. If you direct sow, plan on weeding once to ensure the only plant growing in your hole is in fact the plant you want. Either way, weeding is exceptionally simple. Biotella also maintains moisture in dry seasons and keeps excess moisture away from roots in wet seasons.

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Floating row cover is easy to use and invaluably versatile. Paired with easy-to-use spring steel hoops , use row cover to: ~ extend your season in spring and fall, moderating temperatures & increasing the growth of anything underneath, so you’ll easily enjoy weeks of additional fresh herbs and greens in both spring and fall as a result. ~ brilliantly excludes insects, so we cover all our cucurbits (cucumbers, zucchini, winter squash, melons) with floating row cover to protect from Cucumber Beetles until they flower. Without the beetles eating the plants and diseases being vectored by the wounds, all these crops are much more healthy and thus productive. ~ help carrots and parsnips germinate more quickly and consistently! Simply place floating row cover over freshly sown beds of carrots, beets & parsnips, watering the fabric when it gets dry, allowing the cover to provide the ideal warm, humid environment to germinate the carrots (so they outcompete the weeds!) with impressive quickness. ~ increase the heat units beneath it in any season, so in cool summers we cover peppers, sweet potatoes (and other self-pollinating crops) to significantly increase our harvest.

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~ 25 empty packets ready for you to tuck seeds into! ~ Enjoy tucking your homegrown seed into these gorgeous packets and sharing them with people you love… …each one is unique and extraordinary and we look so forward to sharing them with you!

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HEIRLOOM Extraordinary flavor is why we love Organic Piracicaba Broccoli. (Okay, we love to say the name pee-ree-see-kah-bah, too!) Growing large heads of broccoli is consistently a challenge in our climate and over time we’ve realized that outstanding broccoli flavor is what we’re after more than the huge head of broccoli itself. Enter, Piracicaba: Her head production is minimal but her abundant, succulent side-shoots are sweet and tender enough for enjoying raw. Perfect for the home garden, the entire plant is absolutely delicious from stem to leaf to floret and it continues to produce delicious side-shoots all season long. In fact, we are still enjoying them just before New Years 2016 as I write. If you want to harvest heads of broccoli, grow Calabrese. If you want to eat the most delicious broccoli-like vegetable we know of, grow Piracicaba.

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Let’s be honest: Harvesting a head of broccoli larger than a grapefruit is quite a feat here in the Northeast. The quick heat of summer is challenging for many varieties to head up consistently, especially among open-pollinated heirloom varieties. We’ve found Organic Calabrese Broccoli to buck the trends, producing a generous head.

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Sweet and buttery, this is the most flavorful edamame we’ve found. And so easy to grow! Marvelously abundant, each plant is loaded with 3-bean pods with over a week of prime edibility, a longer window than most varieties. If you’ve always wondered if home-grown edamame is better than at stores or restaurants, know this: Each year we grow several hundred plants just for ourselves. We enjoy edamame salted & steamed on summer evenings and fill our (three!) freezers with edamame to enjoy all winter long.

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HEIRLOOM Hummingbirds love the crimson flowers of Organic Scarlet Emperor Runner Pole Bean. The heart-shaped foliage grows 10’ tall and higher, quickly becoming a tower of gorgeous scarlet flowers. The pods are massive and super sweet as well, often growing over a foot long before becoming fibrous.

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HEIRLOOM We love the walls of vivid green, heart-shaped leaves studded with deep violet flowers turning into cascades of long, luscious romano beans, wide and sweet. Organic Supermarconi Pole Romano Bean’s green pods stay tender and sweet longer than most as they lengthen to six inches, eight inches often more. And if you miss them as a green bean, their marble-sized black beans are delectable all winter, as well.

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HEIRLOOM We’ve loved this heirloom for decades though the French have loved it for centuries, saving the seeds of these exquisitely sweet and nutty, juicy-crisp beans for all generations to come. Her long, slender pods are vivid burgundy and thinner than a pencil, almost always the first pole bean we savor each season! Organic Trionfo Violetto Snap Pole Bean’s deep purple stems, leaf veins and rich lavender flowers, often accompanied by hummingbirds, contrast gorgeously with her heart-shaped and deep green foliage, as well.

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HEIRLOOM We hope we’re never on a desert island with a handful of seeds, but if we are, we’re bringing Black Coco. Most beans have been selected to excel in one of three stages: snap, shell or dry. And we all know how to finish the phrase, ‘a jack of all trades…’ but truly, Organic Black Coco Bush Snap & Dry Bean marvelously masters all three. First, you’ll harvest a lusciously satisfying green Italian flat bean. Ten days later you’ve got fat, easy to peel shelling beans and finally your green pods turn gold, bursting with huge marbles of delicious black beans ready to feed you all winter.

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HEIRLOOM We’ve never seen or tasted a bean quite like this: Organic Sequoia Bush Romano Bean is velvety smooth and luminescent purple, tender yet meaty, savory yet sweet. She’s well adapted to cool, short seasons after many years of being selected by our dear friend Owen of Annapolis Seeds, in the heart of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. Owen gifted Matthew and I these seeds in 2013 and we were instantly smitten at first sight and bite!

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HEIRLOOM Exquisite and unusual, we first fell in love with this Organic Chocolate Runner Pole Bean as a handsome handful of gorgeous, glossy seeds. Her tall, vigorous vines have huge heart-shaped leaves and when they bloom we again swoon: each flower is both scarlet and rose, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to their cascades of blooms. The small snap beans (4 inches or less) are tender and sweet but quickly turn fibrous as they swell to 8+ inch pods full of beautiful dry beans.

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HEIRLOOM If exquisite flavor is why you garden, Organic Pink-Tip Greasy Pole Snap Bean will not disappoint you. We first fell in love with this bean before we even ate them, their petite pods borne two at a time so each laden vine is covered in leaping green lederhosen! And then we ate them. These pods are so small (the length of a little finger) and so tender, their fresh nuttiness full of a rich, sweet flavor that we’ve never tasted so dramatically in a bean. They are our favorite snap beans for salads, without question, and though they are two weeks later than our other pole beans they are oh so worth the wait and endlessly productive, to boot.

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Organic Provider Bush Snap Bean is perhaps the most dependable green bean you’re likely to find, as early as she is abundant. Aptly named, we appreciate Provider’s ability to germinate in cold soils, often planted and thriving up to two weeks earlier than most varieties. If you’re canning, freezing and pickling and beyond, Provider’s concentrated production and disease resistance are a dream. She’s our go-to for Dilly Beans, without doubt.

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Bronco is our favorite classic green bean. Prolific and glossy with a concentrated harvest, Bronco has more refined flavor and texture than Provider and is a more handsome bean, as well. Bronco also offers disease resistance

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There is a sweetness in this bean that brings me to my knees. And, they’re purple! Also, they’re so satisfyingly tender yet crunchy even as they lengthen six inches, eight inches and often more. Organic Dragon Tongue Bush Snap Bean are so easy to grow and their vivid purple makes them easy to harvest in their sea of green. If you crave the nutty succulence of romano-style beans and love the crisp snap of a wax bean, Dragon Tongue will quickly become one your favorite beans, too.

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Gorgeous and delicious, we love to harvest each long slender pod savoring rich flavor both fresh and cooked. And great news! Organic Royal Burgundy Bush Snap Bean germinates better than most in cool soils and is one of our most abundant bush beans with a wider harvest window compared to Provider. I do have sad news for you, though: Royal Burgundy’s glorious color fades to green when cooked longer than thirty seconds. Which is so fun to watch! Enjoy every moment of witnessing this remarkable plant’s life.

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Had we but one bean to eat all summer, this surely is the one. Exceptionally tender, stringless and nutty-sweet, Organic Tavera Bush Filet Bean is simply luscious. (This style bean is especially popular in France where it has been selected for centuries, known fondly as French Filet or ‘haricot vert.’) Beyond simply delectable, Tavera is a very compact and high-yielding variety as well as resistant to Anthracnose and Bean Common Mosaic Virus. Truly, she’s exceptional.

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If you haven’t fallen in love with wax beans, you likely haven’t grown Gold Rush. With a sweet tenderness unusual in a string bean, Gold Rush has been one of our favorites for over a decade. We’ve been saving the seeds of the plants holding their flavor and tenderness longer the garden, widening her harvest window across the seasons. Plus resistance to Bean Common Mosaic Virus: Organic Gold Rush Bush Wax Bean will be one of our favorites always!

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The classic red beet, yet notably sweeter! These round roots are remarkably low in oxalic acid, causing even the beet-averse to come back for seconds. Growing vigorously with abundant, mild greens and excellent disease resistance, we love Organic Shiraz Beet’s especially in summer slaw, dipped in hummus and other raw summer snacks.

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Sweeter and more tender than red beets, Touchstone’s brilliant yellow root holds their color when cooked with delectable yellow-stemmed greens. Yellow beets tend to germinate less, especially in cool soils, compared to red beets. At Fruition, we plant ours in late May/early June and again every few weeks for successions of roots all summer long with our final succession for winter storage sown in early August. Organic Touchstone Gold Beet roots can get over 2 pounds and still remain tender when thinned and watered well!

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HEIRLOOM These round, dark red roots are delicious at any size & perfect for fresh eating, canning or cold storage. At Fruition, we sow them all season from snow melt to late summer, savoring their mild & abundant greens along with their delectable roots.

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A modern selection of an Italian heirloom, Chioggia’s concentric rings of red and white are sweeter than classic red beets and maintain their fabulous colors when cooked. We love to eat these Organic Chioggia Guardsmark Beets roasted as thin slices drizzled with butternut squash seed oil, salt and sumac.

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If you’re looking for those lovely smooth cucumbers with thin skin and barely any seeds when they’re small, you’ll love Organic Green Finger Cucumber! She’s early and deliciously abundant, the genius of millennia of indigenous seedkeepers plus Cornell’s public plant breeding program weaving in Powdery Mildew resistance to surround us with abundance here in our short seasons.

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With compact 30-inch vines, Organic Spacemaster 80 Cucumber is ideal for small gardens and containers. Her fruits are classic American slicers plus impressive resistance to Powdery Mildew to surround you with abundance all season long. The genius of millennia of indigenous seedkeepers plus Cornell’s public plant breeding, Spacemaster was released, you guessed it, in 1980! And with her delectable disease resistance, she’s more relevant than ever.

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Ideal for containers and small gardens, Organic Bush Pickle Cucumber’s compact vines only spread 24 to 30 inches instead of the 5′ sprawl of classic cucumbers! Her perfect pickling cucumbers are early and abundant; indeed, in early July 2014 we counted 66 fruits on a single plant! We prefer the flavor of the fruits under 5 inches for both fresh eating and pickling.

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HEIRLOOM These adorable tiny cukes are also called cucamelons as well as mouse melons and indeed their delicious 1-inch fruits look exactly like miniature watermelons! Their 4′ vines abound with super crunchy fruits that sport a bright tang that grows stronger as they age. Children love to harvest and eat these marvelous fruits and their tiny, ornate leaves make harvesting easy for everyone. Organic Mexican Gherkin Cucumbers are resistant to traditional cucumber diseases (especially Powdery and Downy Mildews) so we often enjoy our first planting all the way to frost.

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Friends! What an extraordinary cucumber! Organic Shintokiwa Cucumber’s smooth-skinned fruit, long & slender, has an impressively small seed cavity & a sweet flavor we’ve never tasted in another cucumber. She’s outrageously crunchy with plenty of juice, resisting becoming bitter even as she lengthens past 12 inches. Wow! We’ve found between 6 and 8 inches long to be the magic length of optimum sweetness. If you’d love Shintokiwa straight, train her up a trellis; if you love to let cucumbers spiral as we do, along the ground you’ll be delighted.

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Such crunch, such sweetness, such creaminess, such abundance! It is difficult to describe the joy it brings us to share this seed with you; truly, we love this cucumber more than words. The sweeter, smoother little sister of Silver Slicer, Organic Salt and Pepper Cucumber thrives with her Powdery Mildew as well as Angular Leaf Spot resistance, the genius of millennia of indigenous seedkeepers plus Cornell’s public plant breeding from the era of Molly Jahn and Jason Cavatorta. And the taste is sincerely spectacular. A classic pickling cucumber size, Salt & Pepper is our favorite cucumber for fresh eating, without question. We fill our 20-gallon crock with her for pickles each season, as well! Salt & Pepper is named for the miniature black spines that dot the white & pale lemon fruits, but don’t be fooled: they’re tiny and you’ll barely notice them. If you come to visit the farm anytime in July or August, we’ll likely hand you one as you open your car door!

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The perfect pickle! Impressively prolific, these gorgeously blunt-ended pickling cukes average six inches, though we often harvest them smaller. Whether you’re snacking in the garden, tossing on salads or pickling a pint or filling your pantry, National Pickling will not disappoint you.

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After millennia of indigenous co-adaptation, collaborations at Cornell inspired the brilliance of many delectably disease-resistant cucumbers brilliantly adapted for short seasons. Organic Marketmore 76 Cucumber is the consummate slicer, crunchy and abundant even in less than ideal conditions. Multiple disease resistances surround you with abundance even into the late season. In 2013 we direct-seeded Marketmore 76 in early June and were still eating delicious Marketmore’s in early October, from the same planting!

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After millennia of indigenous co-adaptation, collaborations at Cornell inspired the brilliance of many delectably disease-resistant cucumbers brilliantly adapted for short seasons. Organic Silver Slicer Cucumber is a shining example! We adore Silver Slicer for her depth of flavor, thin smooth skin and juicy-crisp texture. With resistance to Powdery Mildew, plan for abundance even in the late season.

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Tangy, sweet and gloriously crunchy, we love Jamaican Gherkins as juicy 1 to 2-inch fruits. Delectable raw, pickled or cooked like summer squash, Organic Jamaican Burr Gherkin are extremely productive as well as pest and disease resistant, being an entirely separate species from most cucumbers. If you love their tang, go ahead and harvest them larger than 1 inch; if you love a more traditional cucumber flavor, go small.

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HEIRLOOM Kalibos, simply, is the most stunning cabbage we have ever seen. Her heads are deep purple and conical with wide, round hips. Organic Kalibos Red Cabbage is exceptionally sweet, tender and long storing, as well. We first tasted Kalibos grown by Blue Heron Farm (Lodi, New York) in March 2013 and were swept off our feet never having tasted such sweet, fresh cabbage so late in the season. It has been a privilege to collaborate with Blue Heron to select Kalibos for early maturity, excellent head shape, density and flavor and excellent storability, as well. Though longer to mature than many cabbages, trust us friends: Kalibos is more than worth the wait. We enjoy Kalibos as slaw, braised, roasted, turned into kraut and in borcht and are so grateful to be able to share this seed with you. Kalibos is best as a fall cabbage; sow in early or mid-July for best results. Lou at Blue Heron seeds them in early July and transplants them in early August at two-foot spacing; he waits until October and November to harvest heads of optimal size and sweetness.

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Friends! We made a 40-page calendar to help plan, record & celebrate the happenings in your garden! A perpetual calendar, Across the Season shares dates but not days of the week, making it relevant beyond a single calendar year. You’ll find growing charts at the beginning plus garden tips with each month to surround you with abundance, as well as a section specifically for you to take notes by crop. The heart of the calendar is ample space for you to record the planting, harvest & all other happenings of your garden, as you see fit. Across the seasons, patterns will emerge as you amplify your successes, learn from your mistakes and share what you learn with the rest of us! Our perpetual calendar also includes planting and planning charts relevant in all growing zones to surround you with that much more abundance. See more photos & videos below!

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Organic Dragon carrot is as delicious as she is beautiful! So many purple carrots are not tough and notably less sweet than their orange cousins, making Dragon all the more exceptional. She’s purple on the outside with a sweet orange core and occasional rings of yellow, the genius selection of our friend and mentor Dr. John Navazio sharing his iteration of the work of countless generations of brilliant indigenous seedkeepers.

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Don’t judge a book by its cover……or a carrot, either! Friends, Fruition has collaborated to create a new carrot we fondly call Dulcinea, though I must warn you: She is long, orange and tapered and at first glance, she is simply a carrot. But she is so much more. And if we’ve done our work well, Dulcinea will outlast us by countless generations. Organic Dulcinea Carrot is one of the sweetest carrots we’ve ever tasted, growing sweeter in storage. She manages to grow straight regardless of the multitudes of stones in our gravelly loam soil and she grows abundant leaves quickly, making her more competitive with weeds than most. We love her in the height of summer and she feeds us through the winter ’til spring in our root cellar, as well.

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HEIRLOOM Hooray! A classic Italian bell, brilliantly adapted for short seasons! Grilled, eggplant parmesan, ratatouille: all summer long we lift glistening 1 to 3-pound fruits and swoop into the kitchen. Her satin-smooth skin is a deep, rich purple with a medium thickness ideal for grilling as well as baba ganoush. At her peak delectability, Organic Black Beauty Eggplant becomes glossy. With healthy transplants, ample heat and abundant water, expect 8 to 12 gorgeous fruits per plant.

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HEIRLOOM Earlier and often more abundant than classic Italian bells, we adore these slender, flavorful eggplant abounding on stunning purple-stemmed plants. We love Organic Ping Tung Long Eggplant whole or halved on the grill as well as broiled in the oven, dipped in a fresh peanut sauce and sprinkled with cilantro ! Pickled eggplant is delicious as well and young Ping Tung Long are the perfect size and firmness to tuck in quart jars.

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Abundant and tender, we love these delectable Italian Organic Listada di Gandia Eggplants for their exceptionally thin skin with gorgeous maroon stripes. Our favorites are the fruits harvested between 4 and 7 inches long and perfect for roasting and grilling. Straight off the grill, whole on a skewer, our young and dear friend Nola exclaimed, ‘eggplant is so much better than lollipops!’ and we quite agree.

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NATIVE Like extraordinary lace, Phacelia’s fern-like leaves unfurl dramatic lavender blossoms like fiddleheads, her bright purple pollen attracting flocks of beneficial pollinators. Easy to grow in gardens and raised beds as well as containers, phacelia is one of our favorite native flowers and the bees quite agree! For consistent nectar throughout the season, sow each month until 2 months before first frost. Phacelia is remarkably frost tolerant!

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HEIRLOOM Easy to grow and exquisitely delicious, the soft & fern-like foliage extraordinary flowers of black cumin are short, often under 2 feet, thriving in gardens as well as raised beds and containers, even with partial sun. Each gorgeous seedhead is borne on a long, strong stem perfect for cutting and, as the seeds mature, we love to shake the seeds on top of our plates with dramatic flourish. Black Cumin seeds are a Mid-East as well as Indian delicacy, where they are known as kalonji. Distinctly different from brown cumin with her own characteristic flavor reminiscent of toasted onion flake, black pepper plus oregano, black cumin is commonly toasted for curries, bread and steamed rice. We often toss 20 seeds or so in a pot of rice and savor the exquisite flavor and heavenly aroma she imparts!

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If you’re looking for a packet to scatter easy-to-grow gorgeousness, look no further! Fruition’s easy-to-grow mix of flowers and herbs bursts with color, nectar and abundant habitat for a myriad of beneficial pollinators, from monarchs to ladybugs to lacewings to hummingbirds. Blossoming all the way from early summer to well past frost, our mix includes phacelia, calendula, dill, tulsi basil, sunflowers, and cosmos. At Fruition, we sow insectary mix in open soil just after final frost.

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HEIRLOOM We love nasturtium’s long, trailing vines with luminescent edible blooms! Easy to grow, nasturtiums thrive in gardens as well as raised beds and containers, including hanging pots so their ten-foot vines sway in the breeze. Ours is a classic mix of red, rose, orange and yellow blossoms like peppery gems to toss on salads, soups and sandwiches.

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Gorgeously massive heads with huge seeds, Standfast is perfect for growing your own sunflower seeds for snacking, oil and birdseed. Her stocky 5-foot sunflowers ‘stand fast’ as each impressive head (often 16″ across!) mature hundreds of delectable seeds. Standfast was selected by our friend and mentor Will Bonsall in Maine for years, building on the foundation of thousands of years of indigenous plant breeding. Will generously offered us a handful of seeds in 2012 to share with the world and here we are!

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Glorious dahlia-like double blooms with extravagantly layered petals and strong, long stems perfect for cutting. Robust 2 to 3 foot plants are covered in captivating 4 to 6 inch blossoms that hold 3 weeks in bouquets before beginning to fade.

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Edible, medicinal & beautiful! Each edible petal is cantaloupe-pink grapefruit fading to yellow at the tip on the front, burgundy on the back. We are grateful for the wide and wizard eyes of Frank Morton who selected and shared this seed with us. Perhaps the easiest to grow and most prolific edible flower of all time, we toss calendula petals on salads, cakes and gazpacho all summer long! Calendula is also remarkably drought-tolerant, making her perfect for containers and exceedingly cold-tolerant, so we consistently have a few calendula flowers to tuck on our holiday salads. Calendula is a relatively compact plant, not exceeding 2′ tall and wide. Calendula is a relatively compact plant, not exceeding 2′ tall and wide, so she’s lovely for companion planting, as well.

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We just adore the vivid, delicious cheer that Sunshine Flashback brings to our gardens! Perhaps the easiest to grow and most prolific edible flower of all time, we toss calendula petals on salads, cakes and gazpacho all summer long. Calendula is also remarkably drought-tolerant, making her perfect for containers and exceedingly cold-tolerant, so we consistently have a few calendula flowers to tuck on our holiday salads. Calendula is a relatively compact plant, not exceeding 2′ tall and wide. Calendula is a relatively compact plant, not exceeding 2′ tall and wide, so she’s lovely for companion planting, as well.

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HEIRLOOM Deep purple, luminescent petals on tall, elegant flower stalks with contrasting silver-green foliage, Gwen’s blooms are longer lasting than many poppies, abundant from July well into fall, even resisting the first heavy freezes. As she flowers, bees love to swim in the small ocean of pollen-laden anthers inside each flower. Our original seed came from Gwen Fellows here in Naples, who has been letting this poppy naturalize in her gorgeous gardens for nearly a decade. It is truly spectacular. Thank you, Gwen! We love you!

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HEIRLOOM Easy to grow and endlessly ebullient, Pinwheel is a French heirloom from the 17th century, a fragrant 3′ tower of flowers attracting countless beneficial pollinators to her boisterous fanfare. Marigolds are remarkably drought-tolerant, thriving remarkably well in less than optimal soil, as long as there is full sun.

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Queen Sophia is our go-to for companion planting, barely one foot tall and covered in dozens of gorgeous blooms. We tuck Queen Sophia between cabbages, at the ends of beds and along fences for a bright border. She also thrives in containers! You’ll find Queen Sophia throughout our fields attracting butterflies and other beneficial insects among all our vegetables and herbs while her roots exude compounds detracting pesky nematodes.

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If you haven’t noticed, we have a thing for purple! And edible flowers, too. Since 2013 we’ve been saving the seeds of a vivid spectrum of burgundy, violet and lavender blooms with the occasional dusty rose blossom in both solid and bi-color. Her silver-green stalks rise 3′ tall, perfect for cutting and easily thrive in most garden conditions including drought, low fertility and partial shade. We love toss the petals of Burgundy Beauties on salads, cakes and gazpacho all summer long.

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Van Gogh would swoon. Or at least, we do. Stunning and so easy to grow, each magenta-lined ivory blossom sways in even the slightest breeze. The plants themselves are elegant as well, their fern-like lime-green foliage often reaching four feet tall, blossoming from July all the way to frost. Her long stems make Double Take an ideal cut flower, as well! Butterflies float over the flowers all day as goldfinches lunch on her seeds. Cosmos seeds are easy to collect with plenty to share, so you’ll enjoy her for years if not generations to come!

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Perhaps the easiest to grow and most prolific edible flower of all time, calendula is always beautiful but Remembrance Mix is gorgeous. We love to toss these petals on salads, cakes and gazpacho all summer! What’s in a name? For years we’ve been collaborating with Nathaniel of Remembrance Farm in Trumansburg, increasing the color and petal abundance in his calendula so he can add vivid, delicious diversity to his signature “Flower Power” salad mix,.

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Delectable diversity! Sunflower petals are delicious in salads and we just love the vivid hues Evening Colors brings to the garden, vase and table. Evening Colors blossoms midsummer to frost, her largest heads bobbing at the top with dozens of smaller flowers on long, strong secondaries perfect for cutting. If you want the tallest sunflowers you’ve ever seen, sow Evening Colors with a shovel or three of compost! In average soil, she’ll rise eight feet tall; at Fruition Seeds she averages fifteen feet tall.

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Fruition’s shortest sunflower, often just 3 feet tall! Each bloom is about 4 inches wide rich gold petals and dark centers. Sonja is ideal for cutting, selected for 8 or more strong side-branches on each plant and a long vase-life. Sonja will also thrive in containers as well as small spaces in your garden. And did you know sunflowers are edible? Just imagine your salads next summer!

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Simply extraordinary! We love these vivid dahlia-like blooms, each one 4 to 6 inches across on a long, strong stem perfect for cutting. Benary’s Wine has an incredibly long vase life, often lasting 3 weeks or more before even a hint of fading. Her vigorous 4-foot plants hold up well in both heat and rain and we also appreciate her intermediate resistance to Powdery Mildew. Like any flower, the more you harvest the more flowers there are to harvest but Benary’s Wine is a hedgerow of color even if you don’t dead-head religiously. It simply isn’t summer without her.

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HEIRLOOM Vibrant cascades of deep magenta seedheads topple six feet to the ground below and friends, don’t be daunted, Love Lies Bleeding is just so easy to grow. She seems to thrive in any soil and needs no trellis. If you’re looking for any easy flower to grow that blossoms for a long time, amaranths and cosmos are a dream come true. She’s glorious both fresh and dry in bouquets as well as for our friend’s chickens to enjoy when she sets seed! Amaranth is also a delectably quick-growing microgreen. If you’re growing amaranth as a cut flower, sow several successions through early July for consistent harvest through frost.

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HEIRLOOM We always look forward to these swaying clouds of white, pink, magenta and lavender blossoms floating on 4-foot feathers of lime green foliage. Cosmos require little fertility, undaunted by drought or downpour. Butterflies flock to her flowers, goldfinches gather the seeds and we spend as much time picnicking as close to them as we can. Cosmos are one of the easiest seeds to collect and share, as well!

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Bursting with gold, saffron and crimson blooms, we adore this vividly vivacious zinnia! Shorter than the classic zinnia, each robust 2 to 3-foot plant is covered in extraordinary 2-inch pom-pom style double blooms on long, strong stems that hold up well in summer heat and rain, making Persian Carpet perfect for cut flowers. These photos are from my sister’s wedding bouquets! Zinnias thrive in gardens as well as raised beds and containers & the more you harvest, the more they bloom.

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We love the strong, stout stems of Soraya that easily sport 20-25 flower heads per plant. Each 4-6″ bloom is held on long, sturdy stalks perfect for bouquets. We love to sow Soraya along fences, feeding abundant butterflies (including Monarchs!) and other beneficial pollinators. And did you know sunflowers are edible? Just imagine your salads next summer!

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HEIRLOOM We are quite fond of edible flowers and we’re also quite fond of resilient plants that take care of themselves in less than optimal conditions. Borage is both, so beautifully! Most of her delectable star-shaped blossoms are sky blue with a handful of rose and occasionally both. Your gazpacho may feel it’s missing something if there isn’t a bright borage blossom on top!

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NATIVE Perennial, resilient and simply gorgeous, milkweed is critical food for Monarch caterpillars and so many other beneficial pollinators. Each year we gratefully lose count of the many gorgeous Monarch butterflies that feast as they float over our farm; indeed, our fields are surrounded by milkweed that smell of honey when they blossom, attracting countless butterflies and beneficial insects to their sticky sweet flower clusters.

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HEIRLOOM Strawflowers are absolute magic, blooming like jewel-colored fireworks from early July and well past frost in fall. Easy to grow in any soil, strawflowers quickly grow 4+ feet with dozens of vivid blossoms per plant by season’s end. Cut and dried, strawflowers bring you joy for years, retaining their color & shape with astonishing grace. For the longest-lasting strawflowers, harvest young blossoms when they are only 20% open. Strawflowers continue to open after harvest and if you harvest when they’re more open, they’ll dry into their less vivid seed-setting stage. Dry them in a warm place out of the direct sun, most of their leaves removed and upside down for straight stems before tucking them into inkwells, old mason jars, garlic braids and wreaths. We also dry them as individual heads to add delight to wrapped gifts like confetti, as our dear friend Kira taught us.

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We’re not usually fond of drama. Or hyperbole. Drama Queen poppy nonetheless deserves its name as well as respect. Love it or hate it, this Pollack-approved poppy has unfailing character & charisma. The bees were on their knees & so were we: As she flowers, bees love to swim in the small ocean of pollen-laden anthers inside each flower. It’s magic. Drama Queen will rise 3′ high, blossoming madly throughout July & August. They will gently re-seed themselves without becoming a nuisance, popping up here & there in both sun & part shade for many years to come. Once they re-seed themselves you’ll have blossoms more evenly distributed throughout the seasons. We love their seedheads dried in arrangements, too.

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These splendidly huge 5″ flowers are deep, rich scarlet with fully double blooms. Stunning as a single or breathtaking en masse, we found ourselves coming up with all manner of reasons why we needed to spend time with these poppies. Poppies thrive in gardens as well as raised beds and containers, even in partial sun and marginal soil. A gently re-seeding annual, poppies often have a perennial presence in your garden, though establishing poppies from seed is often challenging. Enjoy our Secrets to Growing Poppies blog!

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Easy to grow and utterly etheric, nigella’s exquisite fern-like foliage and extraordinary flowers are captivating in bouquets as well as their breath-taking seed pods. Nigella is short, often under 2 feet, thriving in gardens as well as raised beds and containers, even with partial sun. Subtle at first, Persian Jewels explode into the most exquisitely intricate blossoms of mesmerizing indigo, lilac, mauve & cream. And as her petals fall away, seed heads form with wild spires, lime green and burgundy with feathery plumes of foliage, effortlessly elegant. Persian Jewels makes an extraordinary cut flower both fresh and dry. Her remarkable seedpod turns from burgundy/green to burgundy/gold as she dries, holding her color for years to come.

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HEIRLOOM Luscious, endless petals! These seeds came to America in the pocket of a Turkish immigrant-become-professor who moved next door to Sallie, who fancied her neighbor’s elegantly ebullient poppies. He offered her seeds which she grew for years, passing seeds on to her son (our dear friend Alaric) who, in turn, has been growing them for years. We fancied them ourselves, I suppose! Give your neighbors something to swoon over and be generous with her abundant seeds for years to come.

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HEIRLOOM Deliciously medicinal with timeless beauty, lavender is a hardy perennial you’ll enjoy for years and generations to come. Beneficial pollinators revel in lavender as much as humans! Full sun and well-drained soil will surround you with lavender abundance. Lavender may be propagated by seed, cutting and root and be forewarned: lavender is challenging to start, often taking 20+ days to germinate. Once established, lavender will carry on for years with relatively little effort. At Fruition, we sow lavender indoors in mini soil blocks on heat mats two months before final frost, transplanting out after final frost with one foot between plants.

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Bursting with medicinal resins, Resina is easy to grow from Alaska to Florida as well as in any soil & any sun, even partial shade. All calendula varieties have these resins, but Resina is off the charts. You’ll know it as soon as you go to harvest her gorgeous flowers and your fingers are sticky with all those medicinal resins. Calendula is also remarkably drought-tolerant, making her perfect for containers and exceedingly cold-tolerant, so we consistently have a few calendula flowers to tuck on our holiday salads. Calendula is a relatively compact plant, not exceeding 2′ tall and wide, so she’s lovely for companion planting, as well.

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A gorgeous native to Eastern North America, Coreopsis tinctoria is easy to grow anywhere with full sun or partial shade. Even in poor soil each plant bears hundreds of ornate flowers in robust 2 to 3 foot tall and wide tufts. Indigenous people have dyed textiles yellow and red with these abundant blossoms for millennia, as well as enjoying the plant as both food and medicine. An annual, Coreopsis tinctoria readily self-sows without becoming a nuisance. It is popular in ornamental gardens and native gardens as well as low-maintenance perennial beds, where it pleasantly pops up here and there. Though it is remarkably drought-tolerant, well-watered plants offer the most abundant blooms. We have heard that two dozen plants will yield enough blossoms to dye one pound of wool or silk. Fresh or dry flowers are equally effective as dye.

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HEIRLOOM Also called cornflower, we love this mix of edible blue, lavender and rose petals on silver-green stalks often 3′ tall. Bachelor buttons are easy to grow in gardens and raised beds as well as containers, thriving in short seasons even with average soil, minimal care and even drought. Beneficial pollinators flock to their bright petals, which we also love to toss on our salads, cupcakes and spring rolls!

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HEIRLOOM Exquisitely fragrant and easy to grow, Painted Lady loves to climb 5+ feet, surrounding you with nostalgic abundance of rose, salmon, cream & fleeting plum blossoms from early July to late September. For optimum vase life, harvest stems with at least 2 unopened blossoms. The more sun she receives, the more flowers she sends.

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NATIVE We love these raucously radiant, unapologetically autumnal blooms! Chim Chiminee thrives even in poor soil and drought, prolific in gardens as well as raised beds and containers. With long, strong stems perfect for cutting, each 3-foot plant blossoms mid-July reaching her peak by late August, remaining unrelentingly abundant well into autumn, especially if you harvest her flowers consistently. A tenacious perennial, your rudbeckia will slowly expand her diameter and blossom all the more with each year, easy to divide when you’re ready to share her with friends! Harvest as blossoms open for optimum vase life; full sun grows the most abundant rudbeckia flowers.

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NATIVE Butterflies love these brilliant blossoms! Prairie Sun thrives even in poor soil and drought, prolific in gardens as well as raised beds and containers. With long, strong stems perfect for cutting, each 3-foot plant blossoms mid-July reaching her peak by late August, remaining unrelentingly abundant well into autumn, especially if you harvest her flowers consistently. A tenacious perennial, your rudbeckia will slowly expand her diameter and blossom all the more with each year, easy to divide when you’re ready to share her with friends! Harvest as blossoms open for optimum vase life; full sun grows the most abundant rudbeckia flowers.

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HEIRLOOM Impossibly blue blossoms unfurl on glorious 18” stems perfect for bouquets. Chinese Forget-Me-Not is easy to grow and massively abundant, quickly filling out & attracting a spectacular diversity of beneficial insects mid-June through August. Harvest as blossoms open for optimum vase life.

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HEIRLOOM Impressively beautiful and easy to grow, tobacco attracts hummingbirds, butterflies & countless other beneficial pollinators! Her dramatic six-foot stalks lift dozens of coral-rose flowers with sweet jasmine scent blooming from the height of summer to early autumn. A stunning cut flower, tobacco lasts one week in a vase and often longer.

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This cockscomb-style celosia is like vivid red velvet with bright burgundy leaves that wow us all summer. Her long, strong 16+ inch stems are ideal for both fresh and dry arrangements. Like so many flowers, the more you harvest, the more you’ll continue to harvest. The first flush of Red Flame is the largest, often dwarfing our hands; her heads gradually getting smaller with each successive harvest. From boutonnieres and garlic braids to autumn wreaths and winter bouquets, we can’t wait to see how you weave celosia into all season! For bouquets, harvest celosia at peak blossom. For straight stems in dry arrangements, hang celosia upside down to dry for two weeks.

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Equally unlikely and charming, we love that Craspedia is celebrated by both Dr. Seuss and Martha Stewart. She goes by many marvelous names, from drumstick flower to billy balls to sun ball. Craspedia is easy to grow, producing a bustling skyline of inch-wide golden blossoms on long 20+ inch silver stems perfect for both fresh and dry bouquets. With a 2′ silvery tuft of gorgeous foliage, Craspedia makes very few demands, thriving in poor soil and even in drought. Indeed, she is native to Australia and perennial in Zones 9 through 12, though Craspedia is very easy to grow as an annual here in the Northeast. Harvest for bouquets at full bloom, when spheres are uniformly golden. For straight stems in dry arrangements, hang Craspedia upside down to dry two weeks before arranging.

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HEIRLOOM Exquisitely elegant and impressively tenacious, we swoon all summer over larkspur’s ivory double-blooms with glorious chartreuse margins. Often 3+ feet tall, spires of blossoms stack on strong stems perfect for cutting as hummingbirds and butterflies flock to our larkspur. For fresh arrangements, harvest when one-third of the flowers on the stem are open, starting at the bottom. For dry arrangements, harvest stems when three-quarters of the flowers are open and before petals begin to drop. Hang out of direct sunlight for two weeks to maintain its best, longest color.

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Sweet Annie makes the most fabulously fragrant and easy flower crowns! She’s also an exquisite filler in both fresh and dry arrangements. Her deep green, fern-like foliage quickly grows 4 to 6 feet tall, even in poor soil and partial sun. She is sweetly fragrant, like so many of her cousins in the sage family, remaining so for years in dry arrangements and wreaths. Enjoy our blog with the crown tutorial! We harvest her branches for such things from late July through September and harvest her just before flower for optimum fragrance in dry arrangements.

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HEIRLOOM If you’re looking for a ridiculously easy flower to grow, you’ve found it! Diablo practically thrives on neglect, growing stately and self-sufficient in virtually any soil. Her neon tangerine blooms attract multitudes of beneficial pollinators, including Monarchs and hummingbirds. Cosmos seeds are easy to collect with plenty to share, so you’ll enjoy her for years if not generations to come! Watching her ocean of orange sway in the summer breeze never gets old. Also a fabulous dye plant, her brilliant petals are also delicious tossed on salads, cakes & sushi.

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Ruby Parfait is a gloriously whimsical plant and such a joy to grow! Dozens of iridescent rose spires rise on strong 16+ inch stems ideal for both fresh and dry bouquets. Like so many flowers, the more you harvest, the more you’ll continue to harvest. The first flush of Ruby Parfait are often over three inches tall, gradually getting smaller with each successive harvest. From boutonnieres and garlic braids to autumn wreaths and winter bouquets, we can’t wait to see how you weave celosia into all season! For bouquets, harvest celosia at peak blossom. For straight stems in dry arrangements, hang celosia upside down to dry for two weeks.

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A Seussian zinnia, this Zinderella! We confess we fell in love with this flower, but only come August. We had been warned and Friends, it’s true: her first flush was interesting, though solidly uninspiring. We cut them back (as so many flowers love) and sure enough, her blossoms ‘til frost were an absolutely stunning array of single, double and fully double blossoms in a dreamy peach palette, perfect for cutting. Enjoy every moment of this unusual beauty! To see if a zinnia is at peak harvest for cutting, gently shake the stem from about eight inches below the bloom. If the stem bends even slightly, it’s not quite ready. Once the stem is stiff, harvest! We find zinnias last well over one week in a vase and often two, if kept out of direct sun.