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Cool Climate and Short Season Vegetables - Northwest Meadowscapes

Cool Climate and Short Season Vegetables

Born of faithful efforts by prior generations of short growing season farmers, these humble seeds are a testament to resilience—crafted for those who dig and weed and harvest in the cool embrace of early spring and the fleeting warmth of short summers.

Tolerant of difficult soils and cool, starry nights, these varieties stand firm in the face of less-than-ideal conditions, drawing nourishment from the earth’s pure generosity and offering a quiet promise: that with patience and a bit of faith, even the most austere landscape can yield a harvest. 

  • Tiger Eye Bean Seed (UC – Disease Resistant – Organic)

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    An improved version of one of the world’s most beautiful South American bean varieties – Tiger Eye UC – was developed through methodical selection ...

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  • Appalachian Wild Creasy Greens Seeds (Barbarea verna)

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    Also known as early cress, creasy greens are a traditional foraged spring vegetable in the eastern and southeastern U.S., a peppery cool-season wil...

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  • Grande Oseille Seeds (Rumex acetosa)

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    Sometimes called garden oseille. This semi-wild, perennial peasant vegetable of mostly French origin (although it occurs across the Mediterranean),...

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  • 'Joan' Rutabaga Seeds (Organic/Disease Resistant/Cool-Wet Climate Adapted)

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    Not Joan Rivers...it's Joan Rutabaga. Joan isn’t the biggest rutabaga variety, but it is consistently remarked upon as one of the best-tasting root...

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  • Superschmelz Gigante Lagerkohlrabi Seeds

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    Probably hailing from Saarland Germany, this 1800s variety was bred for great winter storage – known as a lagerkohlrabi – or storage-type kohlrabi ...

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  • Elecampane Seeds (Inula helenium)

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    Elecampane, horse-heal, elf-dock – the glorious tall, broadleaved garden aster, with flowers that look like scaled-down versions of the sun – is a ...

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  • Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage Seeds

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    A sweet, reliable cabbage optimized for small spaces and short growing seasons…Early Jersey Wakefield is a pre-Civil War-era a mid-Atlantic adaptat...

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  • Ho Mi Zi Mustard Seeds - Organic

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    Few mustard greens are as beautiful as this. Mottled green and purple leaves, wavy and ruffled in texture, arise on crisp white-green stalks from a...

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