Seed Packets

An English heirloom and longtime favorite for home gardeners, Green Arrow produces loads of 4 to 5 inch pods filled with plump, sweet, dark green p...

French Marigold Frances's Choice is named for plant pioneer Frances Huffman and features tidy 3–4 foot tall plants covered with dark red-purple sin...

Cosmos Memories of Mona is an extremely hardy, drought-resistant cosmos introduced in 1998 by SESE as a red selection of Mona's Orange, developed a...

This indeterminate tomato truly resembles a peach, with a peach-like fuzz on its 2–3 oz fruits that ripen to yellow, often with a hint of pink blus...

Tendral Verde Tardif Melon is a Spanish heirloom late-season melon with a distinctive pale green rind and cream-colored flesh that's mildly sweet, ...

Mizuna Red Streaks Mustard is a beautiful and versatile Asian green with jagged, deeply lobed leaves streaked in vivid red-purple against bright gr...

Crown of Thorns Shenot Gourd is an extraordinary ornamental with a remarkable appearance — earthy, marbled skin in dark and light tones forms a dra...

Sweet Marjoram resembles oregano in flavor but is milder, with subtle overtones of balsam. It is excellent added fresh to salads and tomatoes, and ...

Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is a perennial herb used for hot and refreshing cold teas and as a lemon substitute in cooking, though its essenti...

Sweet Thai Basil features lush green leaves approximately 2 inches in length, complemented by striking purple stems and flowers that add visual app...

Clemson Spineless is a classic All-America Selections winner producing 4–7 foot plants with few side-branches and ribbed pods up to 8 inches long. ...

Beaujolais is a beautiful and unique red-veined spinach developed by Uprising Seeds and released as an OSSI variety. Its smooth, tender leaves are ...

Texas Early Grano is a Vidalia-type onion and a good choice for the Mid-Atlantic and the South, best started in fall or winter and transplanted in ...

Strawberry Watermelon was selected from a Florida heirloom and introduced by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange in 1989, producing long 8 x 20 inch me...

Introduced around 1947, Snowball Y produces large, smooth, white heads that are uniform, solid, and well-shaped. This widely adapted variety is par...

Developed by Dr. Homna at Michigan State University, this self-blanching cauliflower has self-wrapping leaves that protect the white curds from hea...

Larkspur Galilee Mix offers a beautiful blend of blue, pink, lilac, white, and rose flowers on tall 3-foot plants that make graceful cut flowers an...

White Strawflower is a clean, timeless everlasting flower with papery white double blooms that hold their bright, pure color indefinitely after cut...

Black Tip Wheat is a fascinating dual-purpose grain crop valued as much for its striking ornamental beauty as its culinary utility — the tall, grac...

Epazote is the essential herb of Mexican and Central American cooking — an aromatic annual with pungent, complex leaves that are traditionally used...

Florence Fennel, known to Italian gardeners as Finocchio, has dill-shaped leaves with a distinctive licorice flavor and may produce bulbs that can ...

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) can be grown indoors or outdoors for year-round onion flavoring, and the chopped leaves and young flowers make a flav...

Pacific Beauty Calendula produces bright yellow-orange flowers about 3 inches across that are used as a food colorant, natural dye, and substitute ...

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...

Waltham Butternut is a 1970 All-America Selections winner prized for its vigorous, dependable production of 8–9 inch fruits averaging 3–4 pounds, w...

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

Hales Best is a classic muskmelon producing sweet, juicy, 3–5 lb oval fruits that were a favorite at the Twin Oaks 2012 Melon Trials. Skins are net...

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

Widely adapted and similar to California Wonder, Golden Calwonder produces thick-walled golden fruits averaging 3 by 3 inches at maturity. Plants g...

Introduced around 1870, Scarlet Nantes is a garden favorite appreciated for its fine texture, mild flavor, and very small core. Cylindrical roots g...

Red Acre produces round, 5 to 7 inch reddish-purple heads weighing approximately 3 pounds, adding a festive splash of color to coleslaw and fresh e...

A compact dwarf sunflower growing 4 to 4½ feet tall, Sunspot produces a single large flower head 8 to 12 inches in diameter with yellow petals surr...

Zinnia California Giants is an excellent cut flower variety prized by growers for its long stems, which make it well suited for bouquets and floral...

Celosia Tall Menagerie Mix was selected for an exceptional diversity of bloom color and shape, offering pastel pink, burgundy, peach, hot pink, cor...

Striped Cucumber is a beautiful heirloom with light and dark green stripes running the length of its slender fruits, giving it the look of a barber...

Garlic Chives feature leaves that are larger and flatter than common chives, with a pleasant garlic flavor well suited to salads and seasoning.

Mrs. Burns' Lemon Basil (Ocimum citriodora) is a New Mexico heirloom with larger leaves — reaching 2½ inches — and a stronger lemon flavor than mos...

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...

Rouge d'Hiver is a French heirloom romaine dating to around 1840, with red and green leaves tipped in deep red that form semi-open heads with good ...

Parris Island Cos, introduced in 1952 and named after Parris Island, South Carolina, has steadily grown in popularity thanks to its resistance to t...

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...

Crimson Sweet, released in 1964, is a medium-sized striped melon typically weighing 23–27 pounds with great-tasting flesh and notable tolerance to ...

Luffa gourds are doubly useful: the young fruits make an excellent zucchini substitute when harvested at one inch in diameter or less, while mature...

Spaghetti Squash produces 9-inch pale yellow fruits whose flesh breaks up into spaghetti-like strands when cooked — simply boil the whole fruit for...

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

Martian Giant is a semi-determinate juicy red beefsteak tomato developed for organic market gardeners by Seeds of Change and further selected by Bi...

Red Cherry (Old Fashioned Red) is a pre-1840 heirloom — specifically the small red cherry, not the large red cherry commonly used as a salad tomato...

Jaloro is a colorful yellow jalapeño developed at Texas A&M, and one of the best performers in the 2018 jalapeño trials. The 1½ by 2-inch fruit...