Amarillo Carrot

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (heirloom)
Lovely, lemon-yellow roots have sweet, bright yellow flesh. Good for a summer to fall crop, large 8” roots and strong tops. Yellow carrots always taste the best to me, they are so crunchy and full of juice.

Kuroda Carrot

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (heirloom)
Popular variety for Oriental Markets; deep orange, stubby roots are mild and sweet. Excellent for juicing. This is a sub-tropical variety, a deep orange and sweet carrot that grows to approximately 6" long. Eat fresh, steam or make carrot juice. This carrot keeps well for use in winter. (75 days to maturity)

Atomic Red Carrot

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (heirloom)
The Atomic Red carrot lives up to its name with roots of a beautiful scarlet color that gets brighter when cooked. This variety gets its hue from healthful Lypocene, a precursor to beta carotene credited for helping prevent several types of cancer. Brilliant red carrots are so healthy and unique-looking, sure to add color to your table. Crisp roots are at their best when cooked, and this helps to make the lycopene more useable. These are very flavorful and a favorite of Jenny Watson, Baker Creek's inventory manager, who likes them in her wonderful potato salad. Draw out the Atomic Red’s remarkable color and flavor by steaming, roasting or baking these crispy roots. They’re very tasty in soups or stews.

Lunar White Carrot

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (heirloom)
Here is a vigorous producer that has creamy-white roots that are very mild, delicious, and have a fine flavor, and very small core. White carrots were grown in the Middle Ages, but now have become very rare. The tapered roots have a very mild carrot flavor. Crunchy and crisp, Lunar White carrots make a great addition to a green salad. They can be used in any recipe calling for standard orange carrots, but they are an especially nice addition to a dish whose presentation highlights their clean moon-white color.

Suyo Long Cucumber

Seeds of Change
Remarkable Chinese variety produces quantities of long, curvaceous fruits. Spiny skin protects the delicious, non-bitter flesh. Always one of the favorites in taste tests. Almost seedless, the fruits are burpless, crisp, and tender. (60-65 days to harvest)

Greek Amaranth

Native Seeds Search, Seeds of Change (heirloom, rare)
Origin: Mexico. Revered by the ancient Aztecs, the easily-threshed seeds of this grain species contain 14-18% protein and are rich in amino acids, especially lysine. With generous amounts of calcium, phosphorus, iron and fiber, they make a healthy and tasty addition to breads, hot breakfast cereals, and muffins. Young leaves are highly nutritious too, great in salads or lightly steamed. Along with their nutritional value, Amaranths are regal in the garden and make magnificent bouquets with sunflowers. Light green foliage gives way to beautiful, multiheaded flower plumes yielding dark purple edible seeds. An early maturing spices, Greek Amaranth is a unique, stoutly branched plant that produces delicious leaves, favored as a steamed vegetable in Greece.

White Serpent Melon- Armenian Cucumber

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (heirloom)
Very long fruit with dark green and pale green stripes, excellent flavor, a rare Armenian-type cucumber that is actually a melon, very unique and is a great selling item at farmers’ markets everywhere. This is hard to find, but one of the best-regarded slicing cucumbers. It's crisp, thin-skinned, and mild-flavored, and it has soft seeds. Like the English cucumber, it doesn't need to be peeled or seeded.