Seed Packets

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

A fast-growing salad green, Tokyo Bekana produces enormous loose heads of light green, ruffled leaves that are very mild — almost lettuce-like in f...

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...

Bouquet Dill (Anethum graveolens) is a delightful variety similar to Long Island Mammoth but with shorter plants that produce larger flower and see...

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

Sugar Baby, introduced in 1959, is a reliable icebox-type watermelon producing 6–10 pound fruits with a hard rind that turns green-black when ripe ...

South Anna Butternut was developed through a 2011 cross between Seminole Pumpkin and Waltham Butternut, resulting in a variety with outstanding dow...

Table Queen Bush is a space-saving 1948 bush-type version of the classic Table Queen acorn squash, averaging five fruits per plant in a more compac...

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

Dating to 1947, Danvers 126 is a widely adapted, productive, and heat-tolerant variety with dark-orange roots 6 to 7 inches long and about 2 inches...

A colorful mix of purple, red, and white round radishes, Easter Egg offers a longer harvesting period thanks to the variety of types included in th...

An All-America Selections winner from 1949, Cherry Belle produces round roots with bright red skin and firm white flesh. It is somewhat less suscep...

This pak choi (also known as bok choy) produces tender, light green, spoon-shaped leaves with thick white ribs on plants 14 to 18 inches tall. It i...

One of the earliest broccoli raab varieties to mature, Sorrento produces uniform 3 to 4 inch florets with flavorful leaves and stems that can be ha...

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...

Mammoth Sunflower lives up to its name with stalks averaging 9 feet tall and sometimes exceeding 10 feet, bearing impressive heads that average 11 ...

Strawflower Tall Mix produces papery, everlasting blooms in a range of rich colors that are ideal for drying. Harvested when flowers are about two-...

Cosmos Sea Shells Mix (Cosmos bipinnatus) is distinguished by its uniquely rolled and ruffled petals in mixed shades of red, pink, and white that g...

Sandwich Island Mammoth Salsify is a pre-1900 heirloom root vegetable with easy-to-grow roots reaching about 8 inches long, and a uniquely deliciou...

Salad Bowl is a 1952 All-America Selections winner producing large looseleaf heads with long, frilly leaves arranged in a rosette — one head makes ...

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...

On their way to deep red, Purple Beauty peppers stop and linger at a dark purple color with lime green flesh inside — a lovely combination for sala...

An All-America Selections winner, this variety produces sweet, crisp, and tender 7 to 9 inch orange-red roots that are coreless, with semi-blunt en...

Selma Suns produces sturdy 7 to 8 foot plants supporting 6 to 30 heads per plant in a striking range of earth-tone colors including red, orange, br...

Scarlet Sage (Salvia coccinea) is native to the southern United States and produces striking spikes of red flowers that attract hummingbirds and bu...

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

Aster Powder Puff Mixed Colors (Callistephus chinensis) bears fully double blooms in seven colors — white, pink, rose, peach, crimson red, sky blue...

Polka Dot bachelor's button produces compact plants just 16 inches tall that flower more profusely than taller varieties, making it an excellent ch...

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...

Elephant Head Amaranth is an heirloom variety producing giant, deep red blossoms topped by massive 16-inch trunks that brighten the late summer gar...

West Virginia 63 (Centennial) was released in 1963 by West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station and produces 6–8 oz red fruits with ...

A beautiful mustard from Japan, Red Giant has well-savoyed leaves that are predominantly reddish-purple with an undercoat of deep green. It has goo...

Autumn Beauty Sunflower bears 3–5 inch blooms in soft fall colors on poly-headed stalks reaching 5–7 feet tall. It makes an excellent tall screen a...

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...

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

Tropic VFN was developed by the University of Florida and is exceptionally well suited to hot, humid, disease-prone areas, particularly where bligh...

Beautiful plants grow 2 feet tall with mild, tender leaves featuring purple-pink veins lightly tinged with purple on the margins. In cold weather t...

A Vates-type collard developed by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Champion features increased bolt-resistance, darker blue-green foli...

Brussels Winter Chervil loses its flavor when dried, but that flavor can be preserved in chervil butter. Best quality comes from plants grown in pa...

The Burgess strain of Buttercup, dating to 1932, is noted for its thick, fine-grained flesh and excellent flavor, producing flattened turban-shaped...

Long Purple produces long, slender fruits about 2 by 10 inches that are slightly bulbous on the blossom end. The dark-purple fruits are best harves...