Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Dec 02

Processing tomato seeds at Baker Creek.

Beautiful assorted radishes grown here at Baker Creek.

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Albino Bullnose Sweet Pepper

Beautiful, blocky 3-4” peppers are a lovely cream color. They have a nice mild, sweet flavor and ripen to a beautiful redish-orange. It produces loads of fruit from early summer until frost on very compact, dwarf plants. It is very popular here at Baker Creek and much used in our restaurant. This is one of the first varieties I read about when I first became interested in heirloom seeds.

Bianca di Maggio Onion

Flat, Italian cipollini” variety. These delicious, small white onions command a high price at specialty markets. Very sweet and mild, used in Italy for pickling, grilling and in salads.

Bedfordshire Prize Cucumber grown here at Baker Creek

A High Yielding Jade Green cucumber. This old time English favorite will produce loads of 10” fruit perfect for fresh eating or pickling.

Dec 01

Tiger Eye Sunflower

This mix is a stunning assortment of bronze, red, brown and yellow, and many are multicolored with an “eye” look. Medium to large flowers come in both double and single. Many blooms per plant make these some of the showiest flowers in the garden.

Planting the garden last Spring

Heirloom tomatoes from our gardens.

African Melons grown at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company.

Plum Granny Melons from our garden

Beautiful, ornamental fruit are yellow with deep orange stripes, and only 2”-3” long! They are grown for their wonderful fragrance! These melons were very popular in Victorian gardens, and have been our most requested melon.

A melon cornucopia from our garden.

A Kohlrabi producing a living floral arrangement! The bulbs can go to “seed” without any water, as this bulb did in the middle of winter.

At the Petaluma Seed Bank, Petaluma, CA

Paul from our Petaluma Store holding a Chioggia Squash at Comstock Ferri CO.

Pepino Melon from our garden

This eggplant relative produces fruit that are the size of a large goose egg, with a cream-colored rind that usually has beautiful purple stripes. It has a sweet, mild flesh that is somewhat melon-like. Used fresh in salads or cooked. Beautiful, glossy ornamental plants require a very long season and are grown like eggplants. This fun plant can be grown indoors. Pepinos are popular in New Zealand, and have just recently started to become common in US markets. This plant is native to the Andes Mountain region.