For the Historian

1957 AAS Winner. Dark green fruits maturing to near black, with firm, white, flavorful flesh that freezes well. Highly productive plants are semi-s...

Heirloom variety that’s most popular and most reliable. Dark green leaves with red veining and large, deep red, perfectly round roots. Remarkably s...

AAS Winner. Beloved heirloom variety prized for its smooth, coreless roots and exceptional sweetness. These deep orange carrots grow uniform, blunt...

Old heirloom variety that is early, extremely slow to bolt and very tolerant of hot weather. Stands 2 weeks longer than most. Thick, glossy, dark g...

1939 AAS Winner. Southern variety whose lack of spines gives easy picking! Produces plants with straight, grooved, light green pods. Edible flowers...

San Marzano Italian Paste Tomato Seeds produce the classic Italian paste tomato famous for its rich flavor, dense flesh, and exceptional cooking q...

The perfect stuffing pepper, setting the standard for open-pollinated peppers years ago. Its medium-sized, 3 to 4-lobed, blocky, smooth fruits ripe...

Also called "Parat." A German import that grows to the size of a baseball, yet stays sweet and crisp, never pithy! Start pulling when only the siz...

No one knows gourmet cuisine better than the Amish, who give us this terrific heirloom for sauces and canning. Meaty, flavorful, deep-red fruits in...

A Tennessee heirloom from the Cherokees. Strange, dusky rose-brown fruits with brick red interiors. Sweet, tangy flavor. Days to Maturity: 80 Sow...

Perfect for early green onions. An heirloom green onion variety that produces long, slender, white stalks in clusters used for green bunching onion...

Pale yellow flesh breaks up into spaghetti-like strands when boiled for 20 to 30-min. and removed with a fork. Top with spaghetti sauce for a low-c...

A miniature green romaine with a blanched thick heart that remains a single-serving treat! Heirloom favorite. Days to Maturity: 33 Sow Method: Sta...

National Pickling Heirloom Cucumber Seeds bring a time-tested classic to your garden, trusted by home growers and commercial producers since 1924. ...

A gigantic bicolor heirloom with orange and yellow fruits streaked with red both inside and out. Flesh is meaty, firm and almost seedless, with a r...

A dependable, reliable performer for most of a century. A favorite of home gardeners due to high yields of sweet, succulent, dark green sprouts tha...

Giant Belgium Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato Seeds produce the legendary jumbo tomatoes prized for sheer size and rich, old-fashioned flavor. Fruits com...

Delicious Beefsteak Tomato Seeds produce the legendary variety that once set the world record for largest tomato—over 7 pounds! Known for its massi...

Sugar Baby Watermelon Seeds produce the classic icebox watermelon that gardeners have grown and loved for generations. This early-maturing variety ...

This famous classic maintains its widespread popularity due to its large, meaty, smooth, globe-shaped, rosy-pink fruits. Unusual, mildly sweet flav...

Not for the prudish, the mature shape of this devilish heirloom always turns heads! Pods are blunt-ended, long, and ripen to deep red. Fruits have ...

Time tested, open-pollinated version of Mucho Nacho, but even earlier and better in cool conditions. Deep-green, sausage-shaped fruits ripen to red...

Heirloom with dark-green, deeply ribbed skin and fine-textured golden-yellow flesh that sweetens in storage. Dry, meaty orange flesh plants that ar...

Thick green leaves are strongly scented and are widely used to flavor tomato sauce, meat, fish, salads and Italian dishes. Days to Maturity: 85 S...