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The calabash is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a decoration. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh.

A type of Escarole Endive that has jagged and light green curly leaves. The main feature is that its leaves are especially fine and have a slight bitter taste.

This old Mexican heirloom variety produces 18cm ears on approximately 180cm plants. When the kernels are still light coloured, the ears can be picked and used as sweet corn. Allowing the ears to mature, the kernels turn black, grey-black, or bluish-black in colour. Harvested at that mature stage, it can be dried and ground for corn meal.

This semi-climbing variety produces lilac flowers followed by a plentiful crop of green pods. These can be a little stringy; however, the shiny black seeds are perfect as a drying bean.

A dark green tatsoi with spoon shaped thick and compact leaves. The leaves have a high vitamin content and can be enjoyed raw or cooked.

Lacinato kale grows 60 to 90 centimetres and has dark blue-green leaves with an "embossed texture". Its taste is described as "slightly sweeter and more delicate ... than curly kale." The Lacinato variety is sometimes called "dinosaur kale" because its bumpy leaves may resemble what dinosaur skin looked like. It has a slightly bitter and earthy taste. Lacinato kale, like most other kale varieties, is usually blanched first, and then sautéed with other ingredients. It is commonly used in pastas and soups, but can also be eaten raw, in a salad.

Sweet Corn Bloody Butcher is truly a fabulous heirloom corn with blood-red kernels in gorgeous wine-red husks. This is a long season corn, and bears 20-30cm ears on tall over 2m stalks. The immature ears can be eaten like sweet corn, but the mature corn can be ground for an exquisite red corn flour or used for decoration. Drought resistant.

Brunswick is a large drumhead-type, winter cabbage originating from Germany. It is a solid white globe shaped cabbage that produces good, hard heads that can grow to around 25cm in diameter and average 5 kg in weight. It can be used in soups or stews or fresh in salads.

More heat tolerant than other kales, for a longer harvest period in spring and autumn. Leaves are large, flat, rounded, similar to collards, but very large and with very prominent white veins. The leaves are more succulent, and the flavour is more cabbage-like than other kales. The fleshy stems or petioles are enjoyed as well.

The oblong Crenshaw fruits are a pale, creamy yellow. The flesh is orange, creamy, sweet, and very aromatic, among the very best of all melons types.

Frilly, dark green leaves form a cold-tolerant, 50cm rosette at maturity. Excellent steamed and in stir-fries.

A fleshy, tender climbing bean that produces good quantities of up to 18cm beans.

A pre 1880 heirloom that has a good resistance to heat and cold. A strong producer with a large yield that is very tasty and flavourful.

Stunning glossy colours! Translucent kernels shine like glass and resemble glass beads on the cob. The 8-16cm ears are not only decorative, but edible and delicious as well. Can be used as popping corn and for grinding into flour or when young the cobs can be cooked. Sturdy plants reach up to 2.5m tall.

Helios is a round, regular flavoured spring type radish that has a golden brown skin with crisp white flesh. It is a Polish heirloom. It has a mild to medium pungency without being overly peppery and a moist juicy texture.

These are beautiful melons with luscious deep-orange golden flesh that is sweet, juicy and fragrant. Rinds are thin, heavily netted and medium ribbed. Vigorous, prolific plants bear nearly round, medium-sized, 1kg fruits that are ready to pick 90 days from sowing. An heirloom introduced around 1900.

A melon with a delicious sweet and tender salmon coloured flesh. The fruits are almost round. They are of medium size.