Vegetable Seeds

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

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

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...

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

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...

Anaheim Chile is a versatile mild pepper with 6–8 inch pendant fruits borne abundantly on tall, productive, vigorous plants. The fruits ripen from ...

Introduced in 1902, Black Beauty is a dependable variety well adapted to the Mid-Atlantic and the South, producing dark purple fruits of high quali...

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...

Dating to before 1880, Seven Top is a popular Southern variety grown for winter greens rather than its roots, which are woody. Leaves grow 18 to 22...

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...

Azoychka is a prolific Russian heirloom tomato celebrated for its ability to produce an astonishing 40–50 fruits per plant — the medium-sized yello...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 improved strain introduced before 1920, this variety has long been the standard for home and market use. The flesh is mild, yellow, fine-grained...

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

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

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

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

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...

This 1934 All-America Selections winner is a classic escarole with large, broad, dark-green outer leaves enclosing round, deep 12–16 inch heads tha...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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 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...

This striking orach variety offers the deepest, darkest red leaves available, adding lively color to any salad. When picked young, the tender leave...

Dark Orange Muscat Tomato is a striking heirloom cherry variety with deep, richly pigmented orange-to-amber fruits and a complex, slightly floral f...

Developed in 1917 from a cross between Marvel and Globe and released by the USDA in 1925, Marglobe has remained in demand for generations while oth...

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...

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...

Eden Gem (Rocky Ford) is a classic muskmelon derived from the old 'Netted Gem' variety, which itself came from a chance seedling of 'Nutmeg.' The 4...

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...