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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.

Despite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one-and-a-half-foot-long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length. This plant is of a different genus than the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form just 60 days after sowing, hang in pairs. They are best if picked for vegetable use before they reach full maturity. The plant is subtropical/tropical and most widely grown in the warmer parts of Southeastern Asia, Thailand, and Southern China. Yardlong beans are quick-growing and daily checking/harvesting is often a necessity.

Slender, elongated eggplants are glossy with bright purple skin and white, tender, non-bitter flesh. Plants are upright and semi-spineless, so they are very easy and painless to harvest. Great in an in-ground garden or large container.

Medium size, very attractive, smooth ivory-white fruit with a mild mushroom-like flavour. Prolific plant. Fruit ripens early. An excellent variety for specialty growers and home gardeners.

Fairy Tale is a small plant with decorative miniature eggplants. The fruit appearance is as luscious as the taste. Fairy Tale eggplants are white with violet/purple stripes. The fruit is sweet, non-bitter, with a tender skin and few seeds. Another superior quality is the window for harvest. The elongated oval eggplants can be picked when quite small at 25-50 grams or they can be left on the plant until double the weight, and the flavour and tenderness remain. Fairy Tale eggplants are recommended for cooking whole. The harvest can begin in just 50 to 60 days from transplanting. The small plant reaches only 60cm tall and wide, perfect for container gardening.

The beautiful ears of corn come in various shades of green. The kernels are dented and have been used for centuries in Mexico for grinding into flour and making the famous green flour tamales. The ears are 15-25cm long. Plants reach up to 2m tall and are known to be drought-tolerant.