{"title":"Great for Juicing","description":"Grow your own juicing garden this year with dependable, productive varieties from our juicing collection.  This collection consists of some of our favorite flavorful heirlooms for juicing.  Using these varieties, you can create delicious, healthy juices of in every color of the rainbow.  Shop our heirloom seeds now and find something especially healthy for this year's garden.","products":[{"product_id":"eva-purple-ball","title":"Eva Purple Ball Tomato","description":"\u003cp\u003eEva Purple Ball is an heirloom tomato variety originating from the Black Forest region of Germany sometime in the late 1800s.  Durable plants produce heavy yields of perfectly round, blemish-free tomatoes that are marked by a deliciously sweet, rich flavor and a brilliant fuchsia pink coloring throughout.  Uniform in size and coreless, Eva Purple Ball makes an excellent canning tomato, but its flavor is so good, you'll want to try it on sandwiches as well.  Famed tomato collector Dr. Carolyn Male described the flavor as \"sweet, luscious and quite juicy,\" qualities which earned Eva Purple Ball a place in her book, \u003cem\u003e100 Tomatoes for the American Garden.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEva Purple Ball is an easy-to-grow variety that shows good resistance to foliar diseases and blossom end rot.  The widely adapted plants bear heavily and consistently through a variety of weather challenges, producing a steady crop of 3 to 4-ounce fruit right up until frost. In certain years, however, the tomatoes may exhibit a slight tendency to drop so you'll have to keep an eye on them.  Fortunately, we've found that the fallen tomatoes are rarely damaged.  Indeterminate.  Harvests begin approximately 75 days after transplanting.  Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Purple Ball","offers":[{"title":"Packet (50 Seeds)","offer_id":44071538721017,"sku":"TO-SL-005","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/files\/eva-purple-ball-tomato-seeds-39698990072057.jpg?v=1700364315"},{"product_id":"keystone-resistant-giant","title":"Keystone Resistant Giant Bell Pepper","description":"\u003cp\u003eKeystone Resistant Giant produces large, red bell peppers borne heavily on sturdy plants with thick stems and lots of healthy foliage.  Resistant to tobacco mosaic virus, the lush plants feature dense foliage that helps to protect the fruit from sunscald.  Keystone Giant bell peppers have a blocky shape, thick walls, and a delicious flavor that sweetens as the peppers ripen from green to red.  Keystone Resistant Giant produces reliably and consistently in our central Iowa garden, but reportedly does not do well in the extreme heat and humidity of the deep south.  For these climates, we would instead recommend Ozark Giant Peppers.  Sweet.  Harvests begin approximately 80 days from transplant.  Each packet contains a minimum of 25 seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keystone Resistant Giant","offers":[{"title":"Packet (25 Seeds)","offer_id":44071597211897,"sku":"PE-BE-001","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/files\/keystone-resistant-giant-bell-pepper-seeds-39705040814329.jpg?v=1700360342"},{"product_id":"golden-summer-crookneck","title":"Golden Summer Crookneck Squash","description":"\u003cp\u003eGolden Summer Crookneck is an heirloom variety that produces 5 to 6-inch-long, yellow squash with a bulbed blossom end and curved neck.  The beautiful, golden squash have a fine, buttery texture and thin skins.  Golden Summer Crookneck has long been a favorite for frying and sauteing.  Compact, bushy plants are very prolific producers, especially if kept well-picked.  Harvests begin 50 days after sowing.  Each packet contains a minimum of 25 seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Summer Crookneck","offers":[{"title":"Packet (25 Seeds)","offer_id":44071564935417,"sku":"SQ-SU-004","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/products\/golden-summer-crookneck-summer-squash-seeds-37848267030777.jpg?v=1700335682"},{"product_id":"bright-lights","title":"Bright Lights Swiss Chard","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of our must-grow varieties for the family garden, Bright Lights is a unique variety of chard that produces stems in a rainbow of colors including red, yellow, orange, pink and white. Compared to the standard Rainbow chard, this variety shows an improved range of colors and a higher proportion of striped stalks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBright Lights Swiss chard produces tender, deeply savoyed leaves that have excellent flavor and are perfect for both salads (baby leaves) and braising (full-size leaves).  An excellent choice for market growers as the bundled multicolored stems have eye-catching appeal.  Plants also have great cold tolerance and work well in tunnels and greenhouses.  60 days to harvest.  Approximately 100 seeds per packet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bright Lights","offers":[{"title":"Packet (100 Seeds)","offer_id":44070749274361,"sku":"CH-00-001","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/files\/bright-lights-swiss-chard-seeds-39366178341113.jpg?v=1700324172"},{"product_id":"nantes","title":"Nantes Carrot","description":"\u003cp\u003eNantes is an heirloom carrot dating back to 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Like its Calhoun counterparts, it was bred for both flavor and resilience and shows strong resistance to Fusarium wilt—making it especially dependable in hot, humid regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce thought to have been lost, Red-N-Sweet resurfaced in Louisiana and was grown out again in 2020 with remarkable results: vigorous vines, heavy yields, and melons typically weighing 18–22 pounds, with standout fruits reaching 30 to 46 pounds. Brix readings of 12–13% confirmed its reputation as a genuinely sweet watermelon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe gratefully credit LSU AgCenter agent Kerry Heafner for bringing this precious heirloom back into circulation. His work restoring Red-N-Sweet—along with the nearly lost \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Calhoun Sweet Watermelon Seeds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threshseed.com\/products\/calhoun-sweet\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCalhoun Sweet\u003c\/a\u003e—helped spark the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lsuagcenter.com\/portals\/our_offices\/research_stations\/northeast%20research%20station\/features\/seed-preservation-program\" title=\"North Louisiana Seed Preservation Program\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNorth Louisiana Seed Preservation Program\u003c\/a\u003e and ensured these watermelons weren’t lost to history.  Matures approximately 90 days after sowing.  Each packet contains a minimum of 10 seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red-N-Sweet","offers":[{"title":"Packet (10 Seeds)","offer_id":47400939323641,"sku":"WA-00-019","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/files\/red-n-sweet-watermelon-seeds-1219602298.jpg?v=1770395469"},{"product_id":"desert-king-watermelon","title":"Desert King Watermelon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Desert King Watermelon is a proven favorite in hot, dry climates where other varieties struggle. First introduced in the 1960s, this heirloom yellow watermelon produces round to slightly oblong fruits weighing 15–20 pounds each. The mottled light green rinds are naturally resistant to sunburn, helping protect developing fruit under intense summer sun. Inside, you’ll find crisp, sweet yellow flesh with a refreshing flavor that stands out at the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidely regarded as the most reliable drought tolerant melon available, the Desert King melon thrives in arid conditions and continues to perform when water is limited. An added advantage is its impressive field-holding ability—melons can remain on the vine for up to four weeks after maturity without sacrificing texture or sweetness. 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The plants form large rosettes of glossy, crinkled leaves that can be harvested young for salads or allowed to mature for cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike other chards, Rainbow Swiss Chard is highly productive and tolerant of both cool and warm conditions, often continuing to produce from early summer well into fall. In the kitchen, the mild, slightly earthy leaves can be sautéed, added to soups, or used much like spinach, while the crisp stems bring color and texture to stir-fries and vegetable dishes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rainbow Mix","offers":[{"title":"Packet (100 Seeds)","offer_id":47482949173497,"sku":"CH-00-005","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/files\/rainbow-swiss-chard-seeds-1226323775.jpg?v=1772843769"},{"product_id":"dixie-queen-watermelon","title":"Dixie Queen Watermelon","description":"\u003cp\u003eDixie Queen watermelon was introduced in the 1930s and quickly earned praise for combining excellent eating quality with a rind that was thin, yet surprisingly strong. 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