Heirloom Vegetable, Herb & Flower Seeds

Corn Salad/ Lambs Lettuce/Mache has long oval green leaves with a unique, nutty, delicate, buttery flavor and are a significant source of iron and vitamin C. Grown as a salad green in America, France and England since the 1700’s.

Quick growing, sow in early spring or late fall, grow like spinach for early-season gourmet greens. Harvest any time, even after plants go to seed. Never bitter.

45-60 days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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AAS winner, 1963. Buttercrunch Bibb Lettuce has thick, juicy leaves fold into crisp, tender heads. Wonderful, buttery flavor. Heat resistant, slow to bolt, remains sweet even after going to seed.

Head type but larger, more compact. One of the highest quality bibb varieties available. For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

50-75 days

Approx 300 seeds per pack

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Cimmarron Lettuce is an heirloom from the 18th century. Also called Little Leprechaun. Beautiful deep red romaine, 10”-12" tall with a crisp, creamy yellow-bronze center with a tender texture and great flavor.

Large, sturdy plants virtually impervious to bolting. Both cold and heat hardy. Excellent for home gardeners. For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

60 days

Approx 300 seeds per pack

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Glorious Greens Mix is a unique selection of 15 fast-maturing lettuces especially chosen to balance leaf shapes and colors.

Perfect choice for kitchen gardens and farm market sales as a gourmet lettuce mix. For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

For a longer harvest season, do a succession planting every 2-3 weeks. This will keep a fresh supply of greens growing for you!

45-65 days

Approx 300 seeds per pack

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Merlot Lettuce is absolutely gorgeous, frilled leaves of the richest, dark wine-red. Smooth, full bodied flavor. Loose leaves work well for “cut and come again” culture, as well as baby salad mix.

Dark-red lettuce is very high in flavonol, a compound that acts as an antioxidant. William Woys Weaver believes this is destined to become a classic. Finally getting more well known.

For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

Certified Organic

50-60 days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Our Mesclun Medley Lettuce is a blend of Arugula, Red Russian Kale, Mizuna Mustard, Tatsoi Mustard, Endive and Radicchio.

Fine for spring planting and especially good for late summer planting. Choice mesclun mix for market sales.

For a longer harvest season, do a succession planting every 2-3 weeks. This will keep a fresh supply of greens growing for you! For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

45-60 days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Green Salad Bowl Leaf Lettuce has large, fast-growing rosettes of sweet, bright-green, crisp leaves. A loosehead, cut and come again type.

Never bitter, slow to bolt, long harvest, recommended for organic growing. A staple for home and market growers. 1952 AAS winner.

For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

45-68 days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Tom Thumb Lettuce is a tennis ball sized Limestone Bibb type. Slightly savoyed, Bright green slightly crumpled leaves with a sweet, delicate flavor, on compact heads. One head makes a salad for two. Beautiful in small pots, window boxes, hanging baskets and planted under trees. Grows well planted close together in small spaces.

Dates to 1830's. - oldest American lettuce still grown. Very few offer this any more. From the 1888 RH Allen Seed Co- "Very dwarf, but an abundant yielder. Fine quality with heads about 9 inches."

For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

50-70 days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Miner's Lettuce is a wonderful wild green whose vitamin C content helped prevent scurvy for miners when no fruit was available.

Crisp, mild, sprouting green, somewhere between a butter lettuce and spinach that makes a wonderful addition to mesclun mixes, salads and sandwiches. Leaves are small yet abundant and easy to pick. Hardy, prefers moist soils.

40 days

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Oak Leaf Lettuce was first introduced in 1771 by Vilmorin. Firm rosettes of tender, sweet, light-green, deeply lobed leaves. As outer leaves are picked, plants produce more inner leaves.

Keeps quality late into summer, resists heat and bolting. An old standby with good reason. Ornamental, too.

For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

38-60 days

Approx 300 seeds per pack

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A rare short Romaine type with slightly crunchy light green leaves. It is best used as a cut and come again lettuce.

Slowest to bolt butterhead with a great taste, crispness and holding ability. Good heat tolerance with a field life of 4-5 weeks.

Certified Organic.

58 Days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Yugoslavian Red Lettuce is an excellent spring variety. Full, loose heads up to 10 in. across.

The outer leaves are ruffled and dark red, while the interior leaves are pale greenish-yellow with little or no red coloration. Sweet, crisp, excellent producer.

For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

Certified Organic

55-60 days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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A special blend of the following lettuces: Landis Winter, Sweet Valentine, Yugoslavian Red, Buttercrunch, Oak Leaf, Red & Green Salad Bowl, St. Anne, Tom Thumb and Cimmaron.

For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

45-65 days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Frisee Endive is rich in many vitamins and minerals, especially in folate and vitamins A and K, and is high in fiber. It has finely cut and narrow lacy leaves and is used extensively in gourmet salad blends for its texture, appearance and unique nutty flavor.

As part of the chicory family, endives and escaroles are grown in a similar manner. They love cool temperatures the best for planting, and do well planted in spring and again in the fall.

60 days

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Red Salad Bowl Leaf Lettuce has long deeply lobed bronze-red leaves, blanched inner leaves with a bronze glow, good keeper, decorative, just like Salad Bowl except for color, black seed, very slow bolting for long harvest.

For the longest shelf life, harvest greens late in the day.

45-50 days

Approx 300 seeds per pack

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Black-Seeded Simpson, Best of All, or Simpson lettuce has large loose frilly light-green lightly crumpled leaves on crisp textured loose heads with a delicate flavor.

A great cut and come again lettuce for the home gardener. Introduced around 1850.

40-65 Days

Approx 200 seeds per pack

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Green Leaf French Purslane has thick red succulent stems and fleshy leaves with small yellow flowers. Use whole young plants, young leaves and tender stem tips for a tasty potherb or raw in salads. Taste is very similar to watercress or spinach.

A related plant with similar culinary uses as the North American Miner's Lettuce. A cosmopolitan weed dating back to Roman times, it was commonly used for pickles in the Middle Ages.

45-60 Days

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Early Palla Rossa Raddichio is an Italian Chioggia type of chicory, Palla Rossa means "red ball" in Italian. Deep green outer leaves protect a tight, 4-7" diameter, round wine-red head with white ribs.

Best as a fall or cool season crop, develops flavor and color as the cooler season progresses.

Certified Organic.

65-85 days

Approx 250 seeds per pack

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Bianca Di Milano Chicory, or white Milano, is a classic Sugarloaf type chicory with Romaine-shaped heads.

A good producer with wonderful flavor and texture from tightly packed, upright dark green heads topped with tufts of creamy white leaves from Milan, Italy. Great chopped fresh, braised, or sliced length-wise and grilled.

Certified Organic.

71 days

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Little Gem Lettuce, or Sucrine, is a midget lettuce often described as 'a combination of Butter and Romaine'. A refined Dark Boston type with 4-5 in. tightly wrapped heads with bright green leaves, a pale yellow heart that is sweet and crunchy with a superb flavor described as nutty with a reserved sweetness.

Heat tolerant conical heads can be planted 6 inches apart for more production in smaller gardens. The perfect salad for 2- simply cut in half and drizzle with a vinaigrette of your choice.

45-50 days

Head lettuce

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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