Seed Packets

Vera Lavender is the classic English lavender — a compact, well-branched variety producing an abundance of long, straight stems topped with intense...

The gold standard of culinary basils, Genovese produces large, intensely aromatic leaves with a rich, sweet flavor and subtle clove-like complexity...

Sweetie is a prolific cherry tomato variety producing enormous clusters of small, bright-red fruits with a notably high sugar content and a fresh, ...

Sugar Baby is the compact, icebox watermelon that made backyard watermelon growing accessible to gardeners everywhere — a perfectly round, dark-gre...

Paste Rosso Sicilian Tomato is a Sicilian heirloom paste variety producing large, blocky, deep-red fruits with exceptionally meaty flesh, minimal s...

A showstopper in the garden and at the table, this heirloom cherry tomato ripens to gorgeous flame-orange with a tell-tale blush of red at the blos...

One of the most beloved backyard watermelons ever developed, Crimson Sweet produces beautiful round fruits with classic light green rinds boldly st...

Black Beauty is the classic American heirloom eggplant — large, glossy, and deeply purple-black with broad, meaty fruit that has defined the variet...

Cal Wonder is the quintessential bell pepper — thick-walled, blocky, and brilliantly green ripening to a deep, sweet red, with a crisp texture and ...

Double Yield is a classic heirloom dual-purpose cucumber that earns its name by excelling as both a fresh slicing variety and a crisp, flavorful pi...

Gold Nugget is a cheerful, early cherry tomato producing clusters of bright golden-yellow fruits with a wonderfully sweet, mild flavor and low acid...

Black Beauty is a classic zucchini prized for its glossy, nearly black-green skin and excellent, mild flavor. Each fruit grows to the perfect harve...

Table Queen Acorn Winter Squash is a beloved heirloom with deeply ribbed, dark-green fruits that store beautifully and taste even better baked. Cut...

The Brandywine is perhaps the most celebrated heirloom tomato ever grown — an Amish heirloom from the 1880s with large, pink-red fruits and a flavo...

Cinderella Pumpkin — named for its uncanny resemblance to the fairy tale coach — is a spectacular French heirloom with a deeply ribbed, flattened s...

Royalty Purple Pod Bush Bean is one of the most visually useful beans in the garden — its brilliantly vivid purple pods make harvesting effortless,...

Matt's Wild Cherry is believed to be one of the most genetically pure forms of wild tomato available to home gardeners — tiny, pea-sized red fruits...

With seedstock courtesy of Hap Heilman, this variety begins producing pods when plants reach just 18 inches tall and continues until frost, with la...

Suyo Long is a Chinese heirloom cucumber producing extraordinarily long, ribbed, slightly curling fruits with thin, tender skin, nearly seedless fl...

Lemon Cucumber is a charming heirloom that looks unlike any other cucumber — small, round, and pale yellow at harvest, it really does resemble a le...

Shishito is the beloved Japanese finger pepper that has taken the culinary world by storm — small, thin-walled, wrinkled green peppers blistered in...

Dark Purple Opal Basil is a breathtaking variety with glossy, deep purple-burgundy leaves that add stunning color to both the garden and the kitche...

Sheepnose Sweet Pepper is a stocky, distinctive heirloom named for its unique blunt, rounded shape — resembling, unmistakably, the nose of a sheep....

Sweet Green Armenian Cucumber is a light, pale-green heirloom that is technically a muskmelon grown as a cucumber — long, slightly ribbed, and almo...

Brandywine Black is a luscious, complex heirloom revered for its large, burgundy-purple fruits with dark shoulders and a flavor unlike any other to...

This Texas heirloom stands out with striking visual appeal and delightful flavor, with plants growing to 6 feet tall showcasing vibrant red and gre...

A fiery, red-hot seasoning pepper, the Cayenne Long Red produces fruits that grow to about ½ x 3–5 inches and can be used fresh or dried, making th...

Mayo Indian Amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus), originating from Sonora, Mexico, is a robust variety known for its sturdy stalks and vigorous growth, r...

This popcorn variety produces white-kerneled ears averaging 2 per 8-foot stalk. The ears are 4–6 inches long with 26–28 rows of kernels, tapering f...

One of the most productive, disease-resistant, and widely adapted heirloom sweet peppers available, Jimmy Nardello's Italian Pepper bears tapered b...

Reintroduced in 1987 by SESE, this Amish heirloom is possibly a variant of the Sun, Moon, and Stars watermelon introduced in 1920. The variety prod...

Purslane is a surprisingly delicious and extraordinarily nutritious succulent green with thick, glossy, paddle-shaped leaves and a mild, slightly t...

Valencia Tomato is a brilliant, deep-orange heirloom with meaty, virtually seedless flesh and an unusually well-balanced flavor — fruity, rich, and...

Golden Bush Scallop is a golden-yellow, plump Patty Pan squash that grows on space-saving bush plants. Prolific and hardy, the plants bear continuo...

This popular northern heirloom, thought to have been developed by Jacob Trout in Virginia, features large, kidney-shaped beans with maroon markings...

Hailing from Naples, Bolloso Napoletano is a prized basil variety known for its robust flavor, with giant rumpled 6-inch leaves that are perfect fo...

Benning's Green Tint is considered one of the most beautiful and hardy varieties of Patty Pan squash. The saucer-shaped fruits have scalloped edges...

Love-Lies-Bleeding Amaranth produces showy plants with dramatic crimson tassels up to 24 inches long that appear to drip from the stems. The long f...

Also known as Big Tom or Yankee Cow Pumpkin, this pre-1700 cultivar of Native American origin remains one of the most popular varieties for large H...

A family heirloom given to Dustin Swanland by his Italian aunt and introduced in 2012 by SESE, this indeterminate variety produces delicious fruit ...

Developed before 1912 from a cross between Chinese Giant and Ruby King, this heirloom sweet pepper produces thick-fleshed, 3 by 4 inch bell peppers...

Early Straightneck is a classic smooth-skinned yellow summer squash with a mild, buttery flavor and straight, easy-to-slice shape that makes it a k...

This heirloom from Puerto Rico produces abundant yields of lavender-pink, teardrop-shaped fruits with distinctive white shoulders on 4-foot-tall pl...

Introduced in 1893 and improved by Gill Brothers Seeds by 1917, this heirloom Cucurbita pepo is prized for its deep orange, slightly netted skin an...

Large Red is an heirloom with roots documented before the Civil War, appearing in the 1843 Shaker seed catalog from New Lebanon, NY as one of the m...

Grown in Pennsylvania for many years, "Lanco" is thought to stand for Lancaster County and may have come from Asia in the early 1900s. The large gr...

A purslane relative, this native of parts of the South and the Caribbean produces elegant panicles of 3/8-inch pink flowers alongside mild, succule...

This early 1900s Georgia family heirloom, introduced in 1987 by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, is a sweet and flavorful Moon and Stars watermelon...