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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Swiss Chard Seeds - Fordhook Giant, ORGANIC

Beta vulgaris ORGANIC. HEIRLOOM. Huge, thick, tender leaves with heavy yields, even in hot weather. Very easy to grow by direct seed or transplant. Eat like spinach or beet greens....

Kale Seeds - Red Ursa, ORGANIC

Brassica napus ORGANIC. The award-winning child of Red Russian and Siberian kales, masterminded by the eminent Frank Morton. Thick, slightly frilled leaves like Siberian with the reddish purple veins of...

Lettuce Seeds - Freckles, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa ORGANIC. Freckles is a green romaine lettuce that looks like it's been playfully splattered with red paint. A beautiful and delicious addition to your salad. Harvest as baby leaf...

Lettuce Seeds - New Red Fire, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa ORGANIC. This lettuce has it all! Uniformity, color, and excellent resistance to bolting and disease! A Batavian-type that is non-heading with exceptionally large leaves that are delightfully crinkly...

Kale Seeds - Ethiopian Blue, ORGANIC

Brassica carinata ORGANIC. HEIRLOOM. Also known as  Amara, Gomenzer, Abyssinian mustard, Texsel greens and Habesha Gomen. Whatever you call it, this kale has a smooth, full flavor, which is also sweet...

Lettuce Seeds - Gourmet Lettuce Blend, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa ORGANIC. A delicious mix of nine lettuce varieties featuring different colors and leaf shapes! Includes Sandy, Green Star, Green Salad Bowl, Red Salad Bowl, Lolla Rossa Dark, Outredgeous,...

Lambsquarters Seeds - Magenta Spreen, ORGANIC

Chenopodium gigantium ORGANIC. A beautiful wild edible plant related to spinach. Selected over the years to have a brilliant magenta heart within green leaves. Has a delicate nutty mineral flavor...

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 - Arianna, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa ORGANIC. Crispy, mint-green leaves from tall and somewhat open heads. Delicious nutty flavor as baby greens, all the way up to full sized heads. Bolt and tip burn...

Asian Greens Seeds - Mizuna, ORGANIC

Brassica rapa Mizuna, also known as Japanese Mustard, has deep green, serrated leaves with a mildly spicy kick. Most people describe it as a little milder than arugula, with more...

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.

Carrot Seeds - Solar Yellow, ORGANIC

Daucus carota A burst of sunshine right from your garden! Juicy and crisp, these Danvers-type carrots grow to 6 to 7 inches long and are quite a bit sweeter than...

Lettuce Seeds - Chrystal, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa Chrystal boasts beautiful, broad leaves that are bright green at the heart and gradually transition to purple along the tips. Tender and sweet, through and through!

Mustard Greens Seeds - Komatsuna, ORGANIC

Brassica juncea ORGANIC. Sure to be your new favorite leafy green, Komatsuna is sweet and tender, and very nutritious! Leaves are bright green and spoon-shaped, and hold up to frost quite...

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,...

Lettuce Seeds - Italienischer, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa Extremely vigorous with big outer leaves, Italienischer can take some heat and slow to bolt. Even at its most mature size, this lettuce is sweet and crisp when...

Orach Seeds - Aurora, ORGANIC

Atriplex hortensis ORGANIC. Orach, also called Mountain Spinach, is an annual leaf vegetable with a spinach-like taste. The shimmery leaves in vivid colors of red, gold, pink, purple, carmine and...

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...