Seed Packets

Black-Seeded Simpson is an old standard dating to around 1850 and one of the earliest loose-leaf lettuce types, well suited to early spring plantin...

Yellow Crookneck is an heirloom dating to around 1700, producing yellow, bulb-shaped fruits with a narrow, curved neck; skin becomes bumpy and wart...

Straight Eight is a highly dependable, high-yielding slicer that won an All-America Selections award in 1935. Fruits are very uniform, deep green, ...

Evergreen Hardy White is a highly freeze-resistant bunching onion that can be left in the ground year-round, with resistance to thrips, smut, and p...

Tom Thumb is a pre-1850 miniature butterhead lettuce whose apple-sized heads are perfect for individual salads and make excellent use of limited ga...

Arkansas Little Leaf is a popular and reliable white-spined pickler developed at the University of Arkansas, featuring compact vines with multiple ...

Early Wonder Tall Top features tall tops ideal for harvesting as nutrient-rich greens, along with small to medium-sized dark red roots excellent in...

Selected from Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch kale by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Vates is well suited for spring or fall planting and o...

An abundantly productive variety, Blue Lake Bush features compact 15 to 18 inch plants with mostly stringless 6 to 8 inch pods and strong resistanc...

Introduced in 1957, this bean variety has a natural blanching indicator — its purple pods turn green after 2 minutes of boiling, making it perfect ...

A local favorite in Cajun country since the 1950s and introduced in 1989 by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, this dwarf-type variety grows 2-1/2 to...

Winter Density is an English buttercos variety producing compact, dense, upright 8-inch heads with excellent cold tolerance. A high-quality lettuce...

Homemade Pickles was specially developed for home gardeners and features vigorous plants with good disease resistance, including resistance to down...

Fish Pepper is an African-American heirloom from Maryland with striking white and green mottled leaves and fruits that display variegated colors be...

An Italian heirloom selected by Italian gardeners and introduced to the seed trade between 1914 and 1918, Calabrese Green Sprouting broccoli produc...

Robust bush plants yield an abundance of dark green, pencil-thin, flavorful 7-inch pods in a concentrated set for effortless picking. These stringl...

Carefully selected by Merlyn and Mary Ann Niedens of Illinois, Short Stuff produces 5 to 7 inch golden yellow flowers on tidy 30-inch plants, makin...

Dark Green Zucchini is a vigorous, productive bush variety bearing mottled dark green fruits with pale green flesh, offering early concentrated yie...

Marketmore 76 is a high-yielding, bitter-resistant slicing cucumber producing dark green, white-spined fruits about 8 inches long. It grows well in...

Spacemaster is a bush-type cucumber developed by Dr. Munger at Cornell, with compact 2–3 foot vines producing 7½-inch fruits suitable for salads or...

Ashley was developed at Clemson in 1956 and is recommended for hot, humid areas where disease resistance is important, with notably good downy mild...

This Danish heirloom produces rich red beets celebrated for their tender sweetness in a distinctive 6 by 2 inch carrot-shaped form. Their unique cy...

Black Spanish Round is a very hardy fall and winter radish with firm white flesh and thin, nearly black skin. The flesh is crisp and pungent, and t...

Cosmos Mona's Orange, introduced in 1990 by SESE from a family heirloom originating in southern California, produces radiant orange, mostly single-...

Abundant Bloomsdale is an OSSI variety bred for sweetness, tenderness, and bolt resistance specifically for organic farmers, with savoyed dark gree...

Burgundy Okra is an All-America Selections winner with deep red-maroon stems, leaf veins, and pods on 4–6 foot plants. The spineless pods grow up t...

An heirloom variety introduced before 1860, Early Purple Vienna is more flavorful and slightly larger than White Vienna kohlrabi. Garden trials hav...

Tithonia Red Torch (Mexican Sunflower; Tithonia rotundifolia), an All-America Selections winner in 1951, is a member of the sunflower family bearin...

Bowling Red Okra has been grown by the Bowling family of Virginia since the 1920s and was rated one of the best varieties in the Kerr Center's tria...

Gold Rush Yellow Wax bush beans are easy to pick and hold well on the plants, offering excellent disease resistance alongside fine flavor and garde...

Red Salad Bowl produces big, beautiful wine-red leaves in the same open rosette form as Salad Bowl, making it an excellent fall variety for a color...

A beautiful addition to any garden, Ruby Red is worth growing for its color alone — dark green foliage on striking ruby-red stalks. It is more fros...

Dating to before 1880, this classic round white turnip grows to about 5 inches in diameter with bright purple coloring around the top where it is e...

Velvet Queen Sunflower produces 4–6 inch flowers in a rich palette of gold, brown, cream, orange, muted reds, and violets, including bicolor blooms...