Spring Direct Seed Varieties

Direct sowing in spring can save you time and energy. So many wonderful crops will flourish if planted outside now! Gather your quick pre-summer harvest of lettuce, spinach, and peas. Steward your plantings of carrots, beets, and radishes. Tend your kale, chard, and culinary herbs. Take full advantage of the cool weather and plant these seeds outside. 

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Lettuce Seeds - Kagraner Sommer

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. A very special, tender and succulent butterhead-type lettuce that we fell in love with here at Sow True. Stayed sweeter for longer into the summer and maintained...

Lettuce Seeds - Green Oakleaf

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. Rightfully famous for over 242 years! Bright green, deeply lobed leaves are never bitter, even in the summertime heat.

Snow Pea Seeds - Dwarf Grey Sugar

Pisum sativum HEIRLOOM. A very old heirloom currently enjoying fame for tasty, tender pea shoots. Attractive purple blossoms produce 3" sweet slender pods. 24-36" tall plants may need support.

Carrot Seeds - Red Core Chantenay

Daucus carota HEIRLOOM. This carrot gets sweeter with age - can the same be said for all of us? One only hopes. Regardless, this old favorite variety has a wide-shouldered,...

Lettuce Seeds - Speckled Amish Butterhead, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa   HEIRLOOM. An old heirloom with a most unique pigment pattern of bright red speckles on lime green buttery leaves. Heads are dense with pink patterned hearts that...

Lettuce Seeds - Rouge d'Hiver, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. ORGANIC. Cool season romaine type with sweet, buttery texture. Semi-open heads with deep-red outer leaves and green-bronze tipped inner leaves.

Turnip Seeds - Seven Top

Brassica rapa HEIRLOOM. Seven Top has been the standard by which turnip greens have been measured in the American South for almost 200 years, earning them a spot on the...

Radicchio Seeds - Rossa Di Verona

Cichorium intybus HEIRLOOM. A fine deep-red, tight-balled radicchio from Verona, Italy. Gourmet quality, perfect for both the home gardener or market grower. Cool weather enhances flavor and deepens color. Direct...

Mustard Greens Seeds - Florida Broadleaf

Brassica juncea HEIRLOOM. A traditional Southern favorite with rich flavor, good yields, and vigorous growth. Large plants grow 16-22" with round leaves. Try the succulent white ribs for a crunchy...

Cress Seeds - Watercress

Nasturtium officinale HEIRLOOM. One of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans, for good reason! A member of the mustard family (and not closely related to Nasturtiums, the edible...

Mustard Greens Seeds - Giant Red

Brassica juncea HEIRLOOM -Dreamy deep purple-ish red leaves make this variety as ornamental as it is delicious! Eye-watering spiciness when summer comes around, although heat mellows with cooking. Slow to...

Beet Seeds - Cylindra

Beta vulgaris HEIRLOOM. The best beet for pickles! This heirloom from Denmark is also known as “Butter Slicer” because of its tender, smooth texture. Long, uniform, carrot-like roots make for...

Mustard Greens Seeds - Cherokee Blue, ORGANIC

Brassica juncea ORGANIC. Heirloom. Cherokee Blue Mustard gets its name because it is a lovely deep purple-blue color when it is young. When the mustard is about a month old,...

Endive Seeds - Green Curled Ruffec

Cichorium endivia HEIRLOOM. This old French heirloom, sometimes known as frisée, is a cold-hardy green with heavily serrated, frilly leaves, and white-blanching hearts when grown to full size. It can...

Lettuce Seeds - Key Lime, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa ORGANIC. HEIRLOOM – How can you resist such a delicious sounding name? We admit that’s what attracted us initially when we first read about this lettuce, but growing...

Turnip Seeds - Golden Ball

Brassica rapa HEIRLOOM. Lovely round, golden-yellow roots grow to 3-4". Delicately grained with a sweet, mellow flavor. Tastes more like a rutabaga than a turnip. A good keeper.

Shelling Pea Seeds - Lincoln

Pisum sativum HEIRLOOM. Lincoln peas, also known as Homesteader, are an old favorite introduced in 1908. They are known for their sweet flavor and unmatched heat tolerance, producing high yields...

Carrot Seeds - Parisian

Daucus carota HEIRLOOM. This 19th-century French heirloom, also known as Paris Market, is packed with flavor and cute as a button! These unusual carrots are about the size and shape...