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: Peach Melba Nasturtium Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here Also called "Strawberries and Cream." Bright, peachy cream blooms with four big strawberry blotches at the base of e...
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Bulk: Corno di Toro Red Pepper Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packets, click here Classic Italian heirloom “Horn of the Bull” from Naples, with a special sweet taste and great versatility, fresh or ...
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Bulk: Golden Greek Pepperoncini Pepper Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here The rare and prized Greek strain found pickled in gourmet produce departments. Huge yields of thin, golden-green fr...
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Bulk: Chef's™ Choice Orange Hybrid Tomato Seeds
from $9.50| /For single packets, click here 2014 AAS Honors. Bright, glowing orange skin on a big, beefsteak-size fruit with old-timey flavor! New hybrid bred f...
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Bulk: Parris Island Lettuce Seeds
from $5.75| /For single packets, click here Noted for its crisp leaves and sweet flavor. Attractive, large heads have deep-green outer leaves to protect the whi...
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Bulk: Thumbelina Carrot Seeds
from $8.50| /For single packet-size, click here 1992 AAS Winner. A 100-year-old heirloom that recently won the prestigious AAS Award for its sweet, crunchy text...
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Bulk: Copenhagen Market Cabbage Seeds
from $6.50| /For single packets, click here European heirloom that withstands bursting better than any other variety. Prolific yields of light green, uniform, s...
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Bulk: De Cicco Broccoli Seeds
from $7.25| /For single packets, click here Classic Italian heirloom introduced to America in the 1890s. One of the best for multiple cuts. Slice the main head ...
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Bulk: Buckbee's™ Abraham Lincoln Tomato Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Introduced in 1923 by H.W. Buckbee Seeds of Rockford, Illinois to honor its greatest son. Huge, meaty fruits, descri...
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Bulk: American Purple Top Rutabaga Seeds
from $5.50| /For single packets, click here Round roots are yellow with a purple top and are early and sweet. Creamy-yellow flesh turns orange when cooked. Good...
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Bulk: Snowball Self-Blanching Cauliflower Seeds
from $7.50| /For single packet size, click here Old heirloom with curling, self-wrapping leaves to protect the brilliant white curds from summer’s sunlight and ...
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Bulk: Yellow Pear Tomato Seeds
from $11.25| /For single packet-size, click here Extremely popular heirloom features clear yellow, pear shaped fruits with a “garden candy” sweet taste and few s...
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Bulk: Catskill Brussels Sprouts Seeds
from $6.25| /For single packets, click here Another heirloom to appreciate! Prolific producer of easy to pick, deep green, extra-large heads on sturdy tall plan...
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Bulk: Mammoth Melting Sugar Pea Seeds
from $10.50| /For single packets, click here Sweet, plump, stringless, flavorful pods hold their peak quality on the vine even with a delayed harvest. Heirloom w...
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Bulk: Watermelon Radish Seeds
from $8.75| /For single packet-size, click here Also called "Red Meat." Features a watermelon-rose interior that looks like a watermelon when sliced! Roots are...
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Bulk: Wisconsin SMR 58 Cucumber Seeds
from $6.50| /For single packet-size, click here Popular old heirloom continuously produces huge yields of deep green, crisp, sweet cukes as long as they are kep...
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Bulk: Pink Beauty Radish Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Ancient heirloom that becomes our only rosy-pink radish, with a mild taste and crisp white flesh. Roots are round, ...
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Bulk: Mild Mesclun Mix Seeds
from $7.75| /For single packets, click here Colorful blend of lettuces and other greens like mild endives for that special gourmet salad. Cut every 2 wk. for an...
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Bulk: Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage Seeds
from $6.50| /For single packets, click here Still one of the best early varieties, with pale green, pointed heads with a great sweet flavor. Smaller size allows...
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Bulk: Mrs. Maxwell's Big Italian Heirloom Tomato Seeds
from $12.25| /For single packets, click here One of the earliest of the beefsteak types, producing one pound, reddish-pink fruits with remarkable flavor. Seed fr...
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Bulk: Ozark Giant Pepper Seeds
from $6.75| /For single packets, click here Beautiful heirloom sweet peppers are prolific and tasty and larger than California Wonder, Smooth skins with thick,...
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Bulk: Box Car Willie Tomato Seeds
from $9.75| /For single packets, click here Consider this favorite for main-cropping due to its outstanding quality and exceptional yields. Meaty, crack-resista...
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Bulk: Golden Helios Radish Seeds
from $8.25| /For single packets, click here Named after the Greek sun god, this easy to grow, uniquely colored heirloom is equally as attractive as it is tasty!...
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Bulk: Jade Cross Hybrid Brussels Sprout Seeds
from $5.75| /For single packets, click here Hybrid vigor means heavy yields of glossy, deep green sprouts spaced closely on a medium-sized plant. Sprouts are fi...
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Bulk: Italian Tree or Climbing Trip-L-Crop Tomato Seeds
from $9.25| /For single packets, click here Fast-growing plants may reach 15 to 25 ft. and yield 2 to 3 bushels per plant. Extra-large, meaty, bright-red fruits...
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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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