Seed Packets

Tokyo Long White is a Japanese heirloom bunching onion producing slim white shafts with upright blue-green tops that quickly grow up to 12 inches a...

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...

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...

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

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

Amish Paste is one of the largest sauce tomatoes available, with indeterminate, tall plants producing heavy yields of coreless, top-shaped fruits t...

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

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...

Golden Acre produces compact 5 to 7 inch heads weighing 3 to 4 pounds, and its small size allows for closer spacing in the garden. The variety is r...

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-...

Mizuna Mustard is a light, feathery Japanese green with deeply serrated, delicate leaves and a mild, subtly sweet flavor with just a hint of mustar...

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

Stone Mountain is a Southern heirloom from 1923 that was a commercial bestseller through the 1930s and 1940s, producing slightly oval fruits averag...

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

Kansas Muskmelon is celebrated for its remarkable combination of sweet flavor, fine texture, prolific production, and robust hardiness. The ridged,...

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...

Cherokee Purple is a pre-1890 Tennessee heirloom reportedly of Cherokee origin, introduced by SESE in 1993, and included in Slow Food USA's Ark of ...

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...

Introduced in 1928, this widely adapted variety is well-known and preferred by many market growers and gardeners. A smooth, blocky, mostly four-lob...

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...

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...

Brought to the Americas from Africa during the slave trade and grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Whippoorwill was once the standard variety ...

A cherished heirloom that has maintained enduring popularity since its introduction, Kentucky Wonder pole beans produce 8-inch pods that are string...

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...

This variety produces attractive 6–12 inch light green, banana-shaped fruits on spineless plants that average 4 feet tall. Its mild flavor and appe...

Principe Borghese (Solanum lycopersicum) is an Italian heirloom specifically bred for sun-drying, retaining more flavor when dried than most other ...

Cuostralee Tomato is a vigorous French heirloom with impressive, 1–3 pound fruits and a deeply satisfying, full-bodied tomato flavor that balances ...

Mushroom Red Pepper is a beautifully unusual heirloom with a distinctively flattened, mushroom-like shape and vibrant red color — thick walls, abun...

Japanese Black Trifle Tomato is a stunning pear-shaped Russian heirloom — small 3–5 oz fruits with dramatic coloring that shifts from deep mahogany...

Bull's Blood is best known for its mild, dark leaves, typically harvested young for vibrant salad mixes even before the roots fully mature. The lea...

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

A visually stunning heirloom beefsteak with gold and red striped fruits that are as beautiful to look at as they are to eat — rich, complex flavor ...

Bold, spicy radish sprouts from the Triton variety with deep pink color and crisp texture. Among the most flavorful sprouting radishes available. R...

Mixed Cactus is a fascinating and uniquely beautiful collection of cactus varieties that brings sculptural, low-maintenance elegance to any sunny i...

Sugar Drip is one of the earliest-maturing sorghum varieties for the South and one of the most widely grown in the southern mountains. Growing 6–8 ...

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...

Yellow Pear is an heirloom dating to before 1800, producing pear-shaped yellow tomatoes about 1½ by ¾ inches with a mild flavor. Plants are very pr...

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

An heirloom fava bean well suited to the Mid-Atlantic and further south, Broad Windsor grows on 2 to 3 foot tall plants that yield 6 to 8 inch pods...