The catalog

Heirloom seed, variety by variety

Each listing tells you how deep to sow it, how far apart, and roughly how long to wait.

22 varieties

Vegetables

Lemon Cucumber

Round, pale yellow, never bitter, and the one kids will actually pick and eat.

$3.5030 seeds

Vegetables

Black Beauty Eggplant

Glossy near-black globes, heavy in the hand, on compact upright plants.

$3.7525 seeds

Herbs

Bouquet Dill

Heavy seed heads for pickling, feathery fronds for everything else.

$3.00250 seeds

Vegetables

Brandywine Tomato

The old Amish beefsteak that every heirloom tomato is still measured against.

$3.9525 seeds

Flowers

Calendula, Resina

Golden petals for salve and salad, blooming from early summer to hard frost.

$3.2550 seeds

Vegetables

Chioggia Beet

Cut one open and it is a candy-striped bullseye of pink and white.

$3.2575 seeds

Herbs

Common Garden Sage

A woody perennial that will outlive most of the garden around it.

$3.0050 seeds

Vegetables

Golden Bantam Sweet Corn

The corn that convinced America yellow sweet corn was worth eating.

$3.75100 seeds

Vegetables

Jimmy Nardello Sweet Pepper

Long, curling, crimson, and sweeter fried than any pepper has any business being.

$3.9525 seeds

Vegetables

Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean

The climbing bean that fed a century of porch-shelling evenings.

$3.5050 seeds

Collections

Pollinator Patch Collection

Four flowers that keep something in bloom from June until the first hard frost.

$12.504 full packets

Vegetables

Rainbow Swiss Chard

Neon stems in gold, pink, crimson and white. Cut it and it grows back.

$3.25100 seeds

Vegetables

Scarlet Nantes Carrot

Blunt-tipped, coreless, and sweet enough to pull and eat standing in the row.

$3.25500 seeds

Vegetables

Waltham Butternut Squash

Dense orange flesh, a small seed cavity, and it keeps until spring.

$3.7520 seeds

Flowers

Zinnia, State Fair Mix

Dinner-plate blooms on long stems. Cut them and you get more.

$3.2550 seeds