Direct Sow Varieties

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

An improvement on the English Long Sweet Crunch cuke that’s earlier, sweeter, but just as long and slender! These English Greenhouse cucumbers are ...

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...

1963 AAS Winner. Compact heads with luscious, buttery texture. Mid green, thick, juicy, crisp, sweet leaves with unique Bibb flavor! Sow either spr...

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...

1938 AAS Winner. Produces straight, lemon yellow, slightly club-shaped fruits that are best harvested when only 3 to 7-in. long. Semi-open growth h...

Most popular with both home gardeners and market growers for its distinctive beany flavor and season-long production. Upright plants produce meaty ...

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

Colorful, flavorful blend of 7 to 10 looseleaf types in shades ranging from lime green to medium green to red and textures from smooth to an open o...

The classic thin-skinned, extra-long, slender, Japanese cuke with a sweet, mild flavor and crisp texture. Needs no peeling. Heavy yields of burples...

One of the best cucumbers on the market for its delicious taste and high yields! Japanese bred, completely burpless, long, dark green, thin-skinned...

1998 AAS Winner. Rainbow of bright, vibrant colors, with stems of gold, pink, orange, purple, red and white. Leaves are green or bronze, slightly s...

2002 AAS Winner. Huge yields of sweet, thin-skinned fruits that are burpless and virtually seedless. Spineless, shiny, smooth-skinned, bright green...

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...

An old-timer that remains tops for canning. Half-long type. Rich orange color with a tiny core free of any pithy fiber. Matures quickly for early u...

The perfect pickler – ideal shape and size, with crisp texture and wonderful flavor. Harvest at suggested length for small sweet pickles or grow th...

Original strain once voted America’s #1 all-time vegetable. Now it’s been improved with plumper pods, much heavier yields, far better disease resis...

Our first yellow hybrid straightneck is widely adaptable anywhere, although particularly suited for market growers in the Southeast. Straight, slen...

Our best yielder. Medium-green, rich glossy skin, flecked with gold, is smooth and uniform. Flesh is crisp and white. Open plant for ease of pickin...

A remarkably crisp and flavorful series of carrots, in four bright colors (but nary an orange!), that will brighten any gourmet kitchen or dipping ...

Long-time favorite and still one of the best for sauces, pastes and canning. Pear-shaped fruits feature thick walls, meaty flesh and few seeds, mak...

Fantastic taste in a jumbo size! Carrot is early, bright orange, long and cylindrical with blunt tips. Extra-sweet flavor and huge yields – even in...

1935 AAS Winner. Produces smooth, dark green, mild, white-spined, perfectly straight fruits with sweet, crisp, fine-grained flesh and a small seed ...