For the Historian
Our gift guides are here to make holiday shopping for gardeners personal and thoughtful. The 'Historian' collection is perfect for those who savor timeless flavors and heirloom varieties, with each seed offering a taste of tradition!
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Bulk: Mexican Sour Cucumber Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packets, click here Rare heirloom, just rediscovered, that yields heavy crops of fruits looking like tiny water-melons that fall off the...
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Bulk: Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds
from $8.75| /For single packets, click here The classic morning glory, with its exceptionally popular ‘true blue’ flowers, one of Nature’s rarest colors. Intens...
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Bulk: German Johnson Pink Tomato Seeds
from $12.50| /For single packets, click here The most highly treasured heirloom pink in the Carolinas and Virginia, where its mild tomato flavor and superior yie...
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Bulk: Chioggia Beet Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packets, click here A breathtaking Italian heirloom featuring alternating bright pink and white rings. Its round, candy-red, sweet roots...
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Bulk: Pink Brandywine, Sudduth's Strain Tomato Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packets, click here The Amish, long considered authorities on heirlooms, first grew Brandywine in 1885. Now, 135 years later, these priz...
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Bulk: Hillbilly Tomato Seeds
from $12.50| /For single packets, click here A West Virginian bi-colored, large beefsteak. Showing an unusual yellow-orange color with red streaks, fruits are ro...
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Bulk: Golden Self-Blanching Celery Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packets, click here An old yellow heirloom that remains unbeatable for both home-gardener and market-grower use. Husky plants grow tall ...
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Bulk: Bull's Blood Beet Seeds
from $6.75| /For single packets, click here Deep burgundy leaves are harvested early. Sweet leaves grow a foot long with a clean, crisp flavor. Scarlet roots wi...
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Bulk: Jenny Lind Cantaloupe Seeds
from $8.75| /For single packets, click here 150-year-old heirloom features unusual, juicy, delightfully sweet, lime-green flesh in a turban-shaped fruit. Vigoro...
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Bulk: Blue Hubbard Winter Squash Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here Also called "New England Hubbard." Old heirloom features long vines with excellent yields of powdery blue-gray, oval...
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Bulk: Kellogg's™ Breakfast Tomato Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packets, click here Striking deep orange fruits that are meaty, solid and weigh up to a pound. Flesh has a marvelous rich flavor with ju...
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Bulk: Moon & Stars Watermelon Seeds
from $9.50| /For single packets, click here The legendary Van Doren strain that’s reasonably early with medium-large fruits and very sweet, flavorful, bright ro...
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Bulk: White Wonder Cucumber
from $6.25| /For single packet-size, click here SKU: 393 58 days. Old heirloom that remains popular for both slicing and pickling, especially whole and chunk p...
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Bulk: Lacinato Kale Seeds
from $10.25| /For single packets, click here Also called "Nero di Toscana" or Dinosaur Kale." Italian heirloom with dark, sweet, succulent, heavily crinkled, blu...
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Bulk: Zebrune Shallot Seeds
from $8.50| /For single packets, click here Banana type shallot sporting a pinkish brown coat that protects the fine white flesh carrying a delicate gourmet fla...
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Bulk: Jimmy Nardellos Non-Bell Pepper Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here One of the sweetest heirlooms from the Balsilicata region of Italy. Superb for frying, these bright red fruits taper...
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Bulk: Chinese Giant Bell Pepper Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Perhaps our mildest sweet bell. Chinese heirloom with huge, thick-walled, tapered fruits that ripen from green to br...
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Bulk: Zesty Mesclun Mix Seeds
from $7.75| /PakPlus (250 seeds) | Propak (500 seeds) For single packets, click here Tangy mix of lettuces and pungent greens like arugula to add spiciness to s...
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Bulk: Lemon Drop Hot Pepper Seeds
from $8.75| /For single packets, click here Intensely hot, lemon-flavored heirloom used as a seasoning in its native Peru. Bright yellow fruits are nearly seed...
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Bulk: Bush Crop Cucumber Seeds
from $10.25| /For single packets, click here Our only heirloom bush pickler has been used for containers and small gardens for years. Sweet, crisp cucumbers are ...
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Bulk: Hollow Crown Parsnip Seeds
from $6.75| /For single packets, click here Heirloom that’s the earliest and best flavored, producing mature roots. Fine-grained white flesh is mild and sweet. ...
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Bulk: Calico Indian Corn Seeds
from $12.75| /For single packets, click here Highly decorative heirloom variety with kernels in shades of red, yellow, orange, blue, white and purple. Ears make...
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Bulk: Jersey Devil Tomato Seeds
from $17.50| /For single packets, click here Old heirloom with tapered, bright red fruits shaped like a banana pepper. Exceptionally productive plants yield soli...
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Bulk: Carbon Tomato Seeds
from $12.50| /For single packets, click here Certainly one of the “blackest” varieties we offer and it's nearly as large as “Cherokee Purple,” the standard of e...
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Bulk: Old German Tomato Seeds
from $11.25| /For single packets, click here Perfect as a slicer, these huge, orange-red, boat-shaped, meaty fruits. First grown by the Mennonites in Va., this h...
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Bulk: Boston Pickling Cucumber Seeds
from $6.25| /For single packets, click here Prized heirloom for its perfect pickling size, thin bumpy skin, and slightly sweet flavor. They're ideal for making ...
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Bulk: Polish Paste Tomato Seeds
from $10.50| /For single packets, click here A remarkably versatile Polish heirloom that produces mild, sweet fruits, which are ideal in sandwiches, salads, even...
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Bulk: Amish Deer Tongue Lettuce Seeds
from $7.25| /For single packets, click here An ages-old, classic heirloom variety that has been around for over 100 years! Popular amongst gardeners in the Penn...
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Bulk: Mr. Stripey or Tigerella Tomato Seeds
from $12.50| /For single packets, click here The favorite bi-colored heirloom along the Atlantic Seaboard, from Baltimore to Savannah. Long cherished for its lar...
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Bulk: Ailsa Craig Exhibition Onion Seeds
from $6.95| /For single packets, click here Blue-ribbon size giant onions! Pale yellow skin with mild, very sweet flesh from globes. Perfect for fresh uses like...
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Bulk: Ping Tung Long Eggplant Seeds
from $9.50| /For single packets, click here Taiwanese heirloom that is our most disease resistant variety, producing glossy, dark lavender fruits. Flavor is mil...
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Bulk: Black Brandywine Tomato Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packets, click here The Amish, long considered authorities on heirlooms, first grew Brandywine in 1885. Now, 135 years later, these priz...
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Bulk: Red Pear Tomato Seeds
from $11.25| /For single packets, click here A bright red, earlier version of Yellow Pear, pear shaped fruits with a “garden candy” sweet taste and few seeds. ...
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Bulk: Alma Paprika Pepper Seeds
from $7.75| /For single packets, click here Thick-walled, mildly peppery, sweet, cherry-type peppers are unbeatable eaten fresh or for drying and grinding for p...
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Bulk: Banana Cantaloupe Seeds
from $6.75| /For single packets, click here An old heirloom novelty tapering at the ends like a banana. Flesh is creamy white to salmon, spicy, super-sweet and ...
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Bulk: Grandma's Pick Hybrid Tomato Seeds
from $13.25| /For single packets, click here Top seller at farmers’ markets due to its old-timey, heirloom flavor and huge, beefsteak-like, deeply lobed fruits!...
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Bulk: Early Fortune Cucumber Seeds
from $7.25| /For packet sizes, click here An heirloom garden favorite renowned for its quick growth and abundant harvests. This white-spined variety produces cr...
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Bulk: Savoy Perfection Cabbage Seeds
from $4.65| /SKU: 259 For single packets, click here 92 days. Flattened, large, blue-green leaves densely crumpled in the savoy manner. Round heads weigh 6 to 8...
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Bulk: Opalka Tomato Seeds
from $8.50| /For single packets, click here SKU: 788 85 days. A Polish heirloom with flavor so sweet that many cooks add no seasoning to its sauce. A season-lo...
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Bulk: Golden Ball Turnip
from $3.95| /For single packets, click here 60 days. 150-year-old heirloom with globe shaped golden-amber roots. Yellow flesh is sweet, tender and mild and cook...
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Bulk: Bird House Gourd Seeds
from $11.75| /For single packets, click here Long, tapering toward the stem end. Tan, smooth and hard-shelled at maturity. Days to Maturity: 120 Sow Method: S...
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Bulk: Purple Russian Tomato Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Plum-shaped Ukrainian heirloom. Sweet-flavored, solid, meaty fruits are ideal for sauces and pastes. Days to Maturi...
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Bulk: Beauty King Tomato
from $10.75| /For single packets, click here Wild Boar Series Brad Gates, owner of Wild Boar Farms hand picks his varieties based on exceptional flavor and stunn...
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Bulk: Early Scarlet Globe Radish Seeds
from $5.50| /For single packets, click here The well-known heirloom in both the home garden and commercial market that is prized for its vibrant, brilliant red ...
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Bulk: Yellow Brandywine Tomato Seeds
from $11.50| /For single packet-size, click here The Amish, long considered authorities on heirlooms, first grew Brandywine in 1885. Now, 135 years later, these ...
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Bulk: Aunt Ruby's German Green Tomato Seeds
from $12.25| /For single packets, click here Huge fruits begin bright green and mature light green blushed with yellow. Sweet, juicy, spicy flavor. Excellent fo...
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Bulk: Parisian or Paris Market Carrot Seeds
from $4.85| /SKU: 315 For single packets, click here 57 days. French heirloom that is bright orange, almost perfectly round, and about as big as a ping-pong bal...
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Bulk: Jarrahdale Pumpkin Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here A distinctive heirloom variety celebrated for its unique appearance and superb culinary qualities. The slate-gray, r...
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