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What are the fresh miscellanea in the 2025 SSE catalogue ? register on to find out !
Seed Savers Exchange marks 50 years in 2025 , and there ’s a lot to lionize — include 16 new semen varieties in our peculiar - edition catalogue ( seven only from the SSE collection).From gorgeous efflorescence to delicious and productive vegetable , there is really something for everyone among these introductions .
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These varieties — along with more than 600 other open - cross-pollinate , non - GMO smorgasbord — are usable on-line atshop.seedsavers.org .
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HEIRLOOM VARIETIES FROM THE SSE COLLECTION
A highly productive squash that delivers great gustatory modality whether used as a summer or wintertime variety , a deliciously sweet plum tomato plant that sincerely checks all the boxwood , and a beautiful crisphead lettuce that had been lovingly stewarded by three generations of one family prior to its donation to Seed Savers Exchange . These are just three of the seven “ From the Collection ” varieties that SSE is gallant to introduce in 2025 . We desire that you are as frantic to try them as we are to proffer them
The Royal Horticultural Society presented this midseason - mature romaine head lettuce with the honored laurels of merit in 1923 . Red - green leaves are thick , tender , and sweet , striking all the ripe notes in the garden and on the salad plate .
Donated to Seed Savers Exchange in the early 1980s by member and Exchange lister Stan Heymann , this variety was probably developed by Thomas Goldring and Sons , a pre - World War I company of seedman , fruiterers , and florists base in Sussex , England . 50 - 60 days . Organic .
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This Austrian crisphead variety produces tender , frosty , and exceptionally sapid parting on well - developed , uniform heads . yellowish - green leaves are light - purpleness along the head - take shape leaf gross profit margin , while the extinct farewell are highly toothed and blistered . Bolt - insubordinate plants pass on 6 - 7″ marvellous and 11 - 14″ in diam .
Seed Savers Exchange acquired this smorgasbord from the late Mary Schultz , an SSE penis and Exchange lister from Washington . 50 - 60 days .
This tumid , beautiful crisphead lettuce is really various , deliver very crispy , voluptuous , and tasty leaves that excel in everything from salad to ( yes ! ) soup . Plants get to 8 - 10″tall and 16 - 18″ wide and produce firm , uniform heads and unripened leaves with highly saw-toothed margins .
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Lettuce lovers can give thanks the Kovacs class for this noteworthy form , which has been stewarded by the class for at least 120 years and is the main ingredient in a soup recipe passed down through the generation . 50 - 60 sidereal day .
Looking for a lettuce with top - mountain pass texture and a fresh flavor with not a hint of rancour ? Then this Austrian crisphead is for you ! Heads vary from tenuous to well developed and have abstemious - green , obovate ( unspecific at the top ) leave with a highly undulating , toothed - leafage allowance .
Seed Savers Exchange acquired this mid - season - mature variety from the late Mary Schultz , an SSE member and Exchange lister from Washington . 50 - 60 Clarence Day . Organic .
Shop ‘Kovaks Family Heirloom’ lettuce.
This romaine lettuce gas full-grown , sweet , snappy , and slenderly crumple leave of absence that are sure to please any roof of the mouth . A French form , ‘ Verte Mar ’ forms a whole , ovate promontory on behind - bolting plants . This change remain firm out in the 2015 Seed Savers Exchange pelf evaluation for its bouquet and crispness .
SSE acquired it from the late Mary Schultz , an SSE member and Exchange lister from Washington . 50 - 60 day . Organic .
This miraculous Italian heirloom deliver both in the garden and on the plate ! Highly fat plants yield plenty of tenacious , slender , curving fruit . Squash beat 2 - 3″ in diam , and weigh from 5 - 8 pounds at maturity .
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‘ Zucchetta Rampicante ’ excels as a summertime squash — it ’s tender , mild , and sweet — but has also long been used in Italy as a winter crush in PIE , cappelletti , and gnocchi .
Seed Savers Exchange received this variety in the former 2000s from Jaime Poris , an Exchange lister . 70 days . Organic .
What makes this productive plum tomato so unique ? It has very little battery-acid , allowing its natural sweetness to upgrade the overall flavor of salads , sauces , and other dish .
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Seed Savers Exchange received this midseason - maturate tomato plant in 2016 from Dr. Jeff McCormack , founder of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange . He noted that the tomatoes hail from Coeburn , Virginia ; have been pass down for generations ; and are likely named for Willie Yates , whose grandfather also grow the variety .
Indeterminate . 65 days from transplanting . Organic .
MORE NEW VARIETIES FOR 2025
Seed Savers Exchange is also thrilled to offer the follow nine assailable - pollinated varieties for the first sentence .
If you ’ve not yet tried this versatile , hardy , and well-situated - to - grow root vegetable , you ’re missing out ! ‘ Giant Prague ’ render lite celery spirit equate with a thin peppery preference and the classic sweetness of many ancestor vegetables .
Edible raw or cooked , celeriac excels in soups andcasseroles and can be stored for up to eight calendar month in a cool , ironic place . 110 - 120 days .
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Flax is the flower you ’ve been missing in your garden border ! ‘ Linore ’ reliably farm beautiful , sky - disconsolate , pollinator - draw flowers and delicate , visionary leafage on stems that average about 2.5′ tall .
develop in 1962 at the University of Oregon , this cold - kind diverseness can also be grow for linseed oil colour and fiber production . Annual . 100 - 110 days .
Admire its peach … savor its savour … utilise its inner sponge . fertile , vigorous vining annualsproduce yellow blooms that pull pollinator and set yield that , when young , can be sautéed , pickle , or even eat cutting .
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By late summer , gourds become a mysterious special K and start to wrinkle , indicate it ’s time to harvest and discase them for their dense , tan inner parazoan .
After seminal fluid are removed and the calabash is cured , luffa sponger can be used for everything from scrubbing your back to wash dish and even clean the barbecue grillroom . Gourds grow 12 - 18″ in distance , 4 - 7″ in diameter . 100 - addition 24-hour interval .
Prepare to be wow ! This classic bungalow - garden industrial plant make ample , showy , immense double blossom in a rainbow of colors from summertime into fall . Sturdy works make up to 7′ marvelous and look specially telling when grown against a fence or bulwark .
Shop ‘Giant Prague’ celeriac.
This honest-to-god - fashioned favourite will draw an array of birds , butterflies , and other pollinators to your garden . It also makes an first-class cut flower . Biennial .
Gorgeous , long - survive blooms and typical , rust - immune , fig - shaped leaves define this lesser - known but just as proud althaea . Robust plant maturate 4 - 6′ tall and produce multiplestems from each base ; stems stay affluent with formal single blooms in a pallet of cream , gold , rose pink , copper , and violet from midsummer until Robert Frost .
These hollyhocks impress in the garden as tall borderline plants ; their long stems and lasting blooms make them an excellent cut - blossom choice . Perennial .
Shop “Linore’ flax flower.
Sweet , tender , blue - dark-green leave tolerate frost well and become even sweeter in cold conditions . Plants hand 24 - 30″ magniloquent and develop plentiful , moderately serrate , white-hot - ribbed parting that pair well with the equally flavorful ‘ Red Russian ’ kale .
Frank Morton at Wild Garden Seed developed this variety in 1994 ; it is protect by the Open Source Seed Initiative . 50 mean solar day . Organic .
This variety develop beautiful , prominent , wrinkled , dark-green farewell with a classic southerly leaf mustard gullible flavor and a delightfully spicy boot . Plants reach 16 - 24″ tall and produce plentiful leavesthat can be pick when small for pull in salad , or when big for cooking .
Shop ‘Luffa’ gourd.
present in 2017by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange , ‘ Carolina Broadleaf ’ is an adaptation of the long - popular‘Florida Broadleaf ’ mustard that offer resistor to bacterial blight . 42 daylight .
Distinctively spicy and sourish , ‘ Palla Rossa ’ radicchio makes a delicious summation to any sundry - greens salad . It loses bitterness ( and in reality becomes sweet ) when cooked ; Italianstypically grill it with a bit of olive oil , Citrus limon , salt , and pepper .
Gorgeous industrial plant develop striking ruby-red heads that reach up to 4″ in diameter and green out leave-taking ; the outer leaf are most typically eaten when untried as baby greens . 80 - 85 days .
Shop ‘Chater’s Double Mix’ hollyhock flower.
These huge , easy - to - grow pumpkins can tip the scale at well over 100 pounds while hold back a uniform , round shape ideal for cut up striking laborer - o’-lanterns .
Very thick , yellow - orangeness flesh makes delicious pumpkin pies and purée , unlike most other varieties of large pumpkins that are less suited for culinary use . The flesh has been described as beneficial for canning and freezing . less suitable for culinary enjoyment ; and , yes , there ’s plenty of it for canning or freezing , too ! 110 solar day .
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Shop ‘White Russian’ kale.
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Shop “Palla Rossa’ radicchio.
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