Are you looking for plants or seeds? Do you live near OKC or Tulsa? Are you looking for veggies? If so, what kind? I'm sure we can help if we have a little more info. Welcome to the forum. Carol

Welcome Lori,

It worked ok for me. Check link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Search on threads for heirloom tomatoes

Thank you for the quick response! Sorry I didn't give much information, did I? Plants or seeds - either way. I have room to start them indoors. I'm most interested in Tomatoes, Peppers, Squash, Melons, Beans, Broccoli, okay, so - I'm interested in almost anything you can tell me about. :) I'm in Choctaw - so closer to OKC. I'm from Louisiana, so still learning how to garden in dirt that isn't black. Thank you SO much just for what's already written here!

Lori

Hi Lori,

Welcome to the forum.

Most heirlooms grow just fine here.

Since Randy's search undoubtedly pulled up hundreds of 'heirloom tomato' threads, I'll list some other types of heirloom vegetables that perform well here. I'll throw in a few tomatoes, but not many since there's oodles of them on the threads Randy's search pulled up:

BEANS: Cherokee Trail of Tears, Tendergreen, Rattlesnake, Lazy Housewife, McCaslan, Old Homestead (aka Kentucky Wonder), Louisiana Purple Pod, Royalty Purple Pod, Dixie Speckled Butterpea Lima, Henderson's Bush Lima, Christmas Lima

BEETS: Chioggia, Bull's Blood, Burpee's Golden Wonder, Detroit Dark Red, Cylindra

BROCCOLI: Waltham 29, Calabrese, Early Purple Sprouting, Romanesco

BRUSSELS SPROUTS: Long Island Improved

CABBAGE: Early Jersey Wakefield, Late Flat Dutch, Mammoth Red Rock

CANTALOUPE/MUSKMELONS: Hale's Best Jumbo, Pike, Canoe Creek Colossal, Collective Farm Woman, Schoon's Hard Shell, Jenny Lind, Eden's Gem, Petit Gris de Rennes, Charentais, Prescott Fond Blanc, Delice de la Table

CARROTS: Tonda di Parigi, Tom Thumb, Danvers 126 Half-Long, Chantenay Red Core, Little Fingers

CAULIFLOWER: Snowball, Purple of Sicily

COLLARDS: Georgia Southern

CUCUMBERS: National Pickling, Lemon Cucumber, Mexican Sour Gherkin, Boston Pickling

EGGPLANT: Black Beauty, Ping Tung Long, Rosa Bianca, Casper

LETTUCE: Oakleaf, Deertongue, Parris Island Cos, Little Gem, Henderson's Black-Seeded Simpson, Rouge d'Hiver, Lollo Rosa, Tom Thumb

MUSTARD GREENS: Southern Curled, Red Giant

OKRA: Hill Country Red, Cowhorn, Burgundy, Longhorn, Clemson Spineless, Emerald

ONIONS: any short-daylength or intermediate-daylength types grow just fine here. Some heirlooms: Early Texas Grano, Red Torpedo, Spanish Sweet Yellow,

PEAS: Wando, Little Marvel

PEPPERS, HOT: Fish Pepper, Hungarian Hot Wax, Tabasco, Long Purple Cayenne,

PEPPERS, SWEET: Golden Marconi, Jimmy Nardello's Italian, California Wonder, Red Marconi, Red Mini Bell, Chocolate Bell

POTATOES, IRISH: All-Blue, Adirondack Blue, German Butterball, French Fingerling

RADISHES: Early Scarlet Globe, Cherry Belle, Hailstone, French Breakfast, Purple Plum, Rat's Tail, Pink Beauty

SOUTHERN PEAS (Crowder, Zipper, Cream, Blackeye, Pinkeye Purplehull types): Pinkeye Purple Hull, Whipporwill, Penny Rile,

SPINACH: Bloomsdale Longstanding, Giant Noble, America. (Hot-weather spinach substitutes are New Zealand Spinach and Red Malabar Spinach, but neither one are true spinaches.)

SQUASH, SUMMER: Early Prolific Straightneck, Cocozelle di Napoli, Costata Romanesco, Early Summer Yellow Crookneck, Bennings Green Scallop

SQUASH, WINTER/PUMPKINS: Seminole, Amish Pie Pumpkin, Long Island Cheese, Lakota, Turk's Turban, Connecticut Field Pumpkin, Galeux d'Eysines, Rouge Vif d'Etamps, Tennessee Sweet Potato, Sweet Meat, Table Queen, Sucrine du Berry, Musquee de Provence, Delicata, New England Sugar Pie

SWEET CORN: Country Gentleman (aka Shoepeg), Texas Honey June, Black Aztec, Golden Bantam, Bloody Butcher

SWEET POTATOES: Vardaman, Porto Rico,

SWISS CHARD: Five-color Silverbeet, Fordhook Giant

TOMATOES: Riesentraube, Neve's Azorean Red, Indian Stripe, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Ildi, Nebraska Wedding, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Dr. Wyche's Yellow,
Estler's Mortgage Lifter, Royal Hillbilly, Mountain Princess, Bradley Pink, Sioux, Rutgers, Principe Borghese

TURNIPS: Purple Top White Globe, Gold Ball

WATERMELONS: Blacktail Mountain, Orange Flesh Tendersweet, Rattlesnake, Black Diamond Yellow Belly, Moon and Stars

Those are my best-performing heirlooms. I'm sure other folks will list their faves too.

Dawn

heehee, dirt that isn't black. Yep, that's us! Black dirt is like black gold here. Amend, amend, amend, that'o!the only solution in Oklahoma.

Welcome to the forum, too!

Susan

Hmmm, I thought I replied to this. Well, I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of the information!!! I have so much to learn! thanks for the warm welcomes.

Lori

Lori,

You might have replied to it previously. We've had a lot of trouble with some posts disappearing in recent months. (On some forums entire pages have disappeared.) GW has been working on fixing it for months but apparently it is a very complicated issue because I don't think they have it all fixed yet.

Dawn