Prepper Garden
A garden designed with self-sustainability and emergency preparedness in mind, often including crops that provide high yield, are nutrient-dense and can be preserved for long-term storage. This type of garden is typically cultivated with practices that enhance resilience, such as rainwater harvesting, composting, and maintaining a variety of heirloom seeds.
Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade (depending on crop requirements)
Seeds: Beans, squash, tomatoes, corn, kale, onions, sunflowers
Squash - Amish Pie
Amish Pie Squash plants grow to about 45-60 cm (18-24”) tall with long trailing vines that can reach 1.8 m (6’) long. You can expect to grow 3-8 squash per plant that can weigh 13-36...
Bean - Broad Windsor Fava
(Phaseolus vulgaris) The Broad Windsor is a classic English variety and it is perhaps one of the world’s oldest and most widespread food crop. It is prized for its large succulent seeds. The plant produces...
Squash - Pink Banana Jumbo
The Pink Banana Jumbo Squash is an aggressive grower, producing an abundant amount of pinkish banana shaped squashes that have been known to get as big as 32.8 kg (70) pounds. On average, ours weighed...
Squash - Early Prolific Str...
The Early Prolific Straightneck is as the name suggests, ‘prolific’. A bush type variety of squash that has become the standard yellow, straight-necked type, early summer squash. Easy to grow and early to harvest. The...
Bean - Dark Red Kidney
(Phaseolus vulgaris) Dark Red Kidney is a sturdy bush plant that grows between 45-51 cm (18-20” high) with a spread of 40 cm (16”) wide. This bush variety produces heavy yields of dried beans in...
Bean - Tendergreen
(Phaseolus vulgaris)Lot#BD23039A longtime favorite, this bean’s round pods are on average, 15cm (6”) long, straight and nearly stringless. Yield is heavy and prolonged. Bush type habit growing 50-70cm (20-28”) tall with spread of 51-61cm (20-24”)...
Bean - Blue Jay
(Phaseolus vulgaris) Blue Jay beans are an early producing plant, with green pods. The beans are excellent as snap beans and as dry beans. The beans themselves are a mottled blue with beige color. On average,...
Onion-Sturon
Sturon is a reliable, long-day onion with white flesh and straw coloured skin that can be used for green onions or storage onions. It is a mid to early (ready in 80-100 days), thin-necked, long-keeper, which...
Squash - Turks Turban
The Turks Turban is an heirloom squash that predates 1820. Today it remains a much talked about squash because of its shape and mixture of colours. Turks Turban produces excellent yields of 20-30cm (8-12”) mostly...
Bean - Painted Pony
Approximately 2-3 seeds per gram.Phaseolus vulgarisLOT#BB23045The Painted Pony is also known as the Mare Brown bean. An heirloom bean type that is a multi-purpose bean. It can be picked for a green snap bean at about...
Squash - Blue Ballet
The Blue Ballet Squash is a much smaller version of the Blue Hubbard. The Blue Ballet produces tear drop shaped squashes that can weigh between 1-2.7kg (2½-6 lbs) each. You can expect to get 3-4...
Bean - Magpie
Approximately 3 seeds per gram.Phaseolus vulgarisLOT#BB23115A sturdy bush bean that grows 38-45 cm (15-18”) tall with a 30-36 cm (12-14”) spread. Introduced by Sutton’s in 1909, this heirloom produces 12-17 cm (5-7”) long, thin, green pods...
Bean - Kentucky Wonder Bush
(Phaseolus vulgaris) The Kentucky Wonder ‘bush’ bean is an early maturing bean variety (45-55 days). It grows on a sturdy bush habit between 45-51 cm (18-20”) high and 41-46 cm (16-18”) wide. Beans are produced...
Bean - Jacobs Cattle
Approximately 1-2 seeds per gram. Phaseolus vulgaris LOT#BB23114 An old-time bean from the New England state. Jacob Cattle beans are slightly kidney-shaped and have a distinctive, white and maroon-mottled color. These beans have long been a staple for...
Squash - Triamble
The Triamble or ‘Shamrock’ Squash (C. maxima) is an unusual open pollinated squash. It is a unique heirloom variety that originated from Australia in 1932. This light blue, sea-green squash is lobed like a three...
Bean - Oceanis
Approximately 3 - 5 seeds per gram.Phaseolus vulgarisLot#BD23027Oceanis bean is a European fillet type bean that averages between 11-12 cm (4-5”) long and around 5 - 6 mm (¼”) thick with a smooth skin. Produces medium...
Squash - New Zealand Blue
New Zealand Blue (Cucurbita maxima) is a winter squash type that can produce 4-6 squash per plant on vines that can achieve 8-10' long. The flesh is deep orange, fine grained and sweet. The striking...
Bean - Canadian Wonder
(Phaseolus vulgaris)Lot#BD23057The Canadian Wonder bean is an heirloom bean type dating back to 1873. It is primarily grown for the red 'dry' beans it produces which have both the color and shape similar to the...
Bean - Bingo Pole
Bingo Pole Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is a classic in Italian beans. It is a highly sought after Borlotto-type pole bean. They will need a fence to climb as they can easily reach up to 1.8-2.4m...
Bean - Scarlet Runner Celeb...
19-22 seeds per 25 grams(Phaseolus coccineus)Lot#BR23302Scarlet Runner Bean - Celebration Runner Bean seeds "Celebration" produce attractive salmon-pink coloured flowers, with straight, smooth good quality fleshy pods. Harvest pods at 20-25cm (8- 10") long for fresh...
Squash - Marina Di Chioggia
Marina Di Chioggia (Cucurbita maxima) is an old heirloom variety from Italy and they are fantastic to grow. The sprawing vines reach up to 18-25 feet long in some cases, so you will need some...
Bean - Mrocumiere (Bush)
(Phaseolus vulgaris)Lot#BB23055 The Mrocumiere bean is an heirloom bush bean variety from the Kenya region of Africa. Plants are prolific growers reaching 45-60 cm (18-24") tall with a bushy habit that is approximately around 30-40...