Ananas Melon. Ananas means pineapple in Italian and this netted melon has the aroma of pineapple. Large fruit on a vigorous and productive plant. Netted melon with yellow sweet flesh. 90-95 days. 5 gram pack.

Melon. Charentais. Classic European melon. 90 days. Sweet orange flesh, thin skin. Fairly easy to grow. Ripe when small pointed leaf on stem where attached to fruit becomes pale in color. 5 gram packet.

Climbing Sugar Melon - Rampicante Zuccherino. 2-2 1/2 pound melon with very sweet salmon-orange flesh. Early: 65-70 days from transplants, 80 days from direct seed. Will grow on the ground but also climbs a trellis very well. In italy, this melon is...

Netted melon. Sweet orange flesh. Some netting like a canteloupe, but not a canteloupe. Said to be the melon to eat with Parma ham. 80 or so days. 5 gram packet.

New for 2016! A netted melon with sweet orange flesh. This is a favorite for eating with Parma ham. 80 days to maturity. 2.5 gram pack. 

Melon Valencia. Oval fruit. Dark green skin, sweet white flesh. 4-4 1/2 pounds. Fairly late at 105 days from direct seed; 10 days less from transplants. 5 gram packet.

Not the most beautiful, but one of the tastiest. Italians call it brutto ma buono - ugly but good. Orange and green skin with scales, but great tasting orange flesh. One large grower in California says the fine dining restaurant in San Francisco can't...

Melone Giallo da Inverno. Yellow winter melon. Late, vigorous plant. Very consistent and productive. Round fruit with smooth skin. White, sweet, perfumed flesh. Considered a good storage melon. 5 gram packet. 35-40 seeds.

Rhubarb. What could be better than some sweet stewed Rhubarb with fresh cream. An Italian variety. 1g. Sow mid Jul-end Sep. Perennial suitable for areas with cooler springs. Divide every four years or so in early spring when leaves are 6-8 inches. Easy...

Alpine Strawberry. Fragola Quattro Stagioni - 4 seasons. Delicious, intense-tasting aromatic small red strawberries of the European type. Not 4 seasons in the north, but maybe three seasons since they produce throughout the growing season. Set out 9-10...

European wild strawberry. Produces small, fragile intense tasting berries. Produces fruit in early summer (July usually). No runners. Full sun if possible.  Prefer acid soils with plenty of water. These are a real taste treat. Approx. 1,200 seeds, 0...

This Japanese melon is so great that we had to carry it. A California melon grower reports it is one of the sweetest and best melons he has grown. These seeds are hard to get and very expensive. This is a hybrid seed. 75-85 days depending on your climate...

Very sweet, bright red flesh, dark green skin with stripes. Oval fruits, 15-25 pounds. 2.5 gram pack. 

 Yellow baby watermelon from Poland, said to be a favorite there. Very sweet. A Franchi special selection.