Spring Crops

Here is a great collection of seeds to start this Spring! These cool loving crops are the perfect addition to your spring garden.

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Carrot Seeds - Scarlet Nantes, ORGANIC

Daucus carota HEIRLOOM. This classy and refined French heirloom is known for its cylindrical, blunt-tipped shape, as well as its fine-grained, nearly coreless texture and mild, sweet flavor. It has...

Carrot Seeds - Shin Kuroda

Daucus carota Described as "stump-rooted" for their short but thick roots, this carrot is nonetheless a tender, sweet, deeply orange-colored delight. Performs well in heavier soils, sizes up early, easy...

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...

Carrot Seeds - Tendersweet, ORGANIC

Daucus carota HEIRLOOM. A lucky variety to be so well named! One of the sweetest carrots available, with a tender yet crisp texture, and impressive looks too, with 8- to...

Cauliflower Seeds - Snowball Self-Blanching, ORGANIC

Brassica oleracea Self-wrapping leaves protect the delicious 6-8" white heads from heat and sunlight. Best when grown as a fall crop, since the leaves curl inward and wrap the heads...

Chinese Cabbage Seeds - Michihili

Brassica rapa The most popular open-pollinated Chinese cabbage (aka Napa cabbage) available! Sweet and crunchy, this all-purpose cabbage is excellent for fermenting, stir-frying, steaming, roasting, wrapping, oh the list goes...

Claytonia - Miner's Lettuce

Claytonia perfoliata This delightful green, also known as Winter Purslane or Spring Beauty, is native to the western mountain regions of North America. It got the name Miner's Lettuce because...

Collard Seeds - Champion, ORGANIC

Brassica oleracea ORGANIC. This Vates-type collard with dark blue-green foliage was selected for increased bolt resistance, giving you a longer harvest window in summer. It’s still very winter-hardy too! This...

Collard Seeds - Georgia Southern

Brassica oleracea HEIRLOOM. Georgia Southern, aka True Southern or Creole, collards were introduced around 1880. These 2- to 3-foot tall plants have blue-green, slightly savoyed leaves with a tender texture...

Collard Seeds - Morris Heading

Brassica oleracea HEIRLOOM Morris Heading, aka Carolina Cabbage, collards are an old-time favorite known for forming a very loose, cabbage-like head of smooth, dark green leaves. They are prized for...

Collard Seeds - White Cabbage Collards

Brassica oleracea HEIRLOOM. Marvin Foster of Fairmont, NC says these collards were saved by his grandfather in Pender County, NC for at least 60 years, and notes that they turn...

Crop Stories: Collards

Crop Stories is an annual magazine series where each issue surrounds one single crop. For the seventh in the series, that crop is collards! This is the inaugural issue since...

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...

Hot Pepper Seeds - Carrot Bomb, ORGANIC

Capsicum annuum These bright orange, round, 1-2 inch fruits make a fun addition to salsas, and are great for pickling too! About the same heat as a jalapeno. Plants grow...

Kale Seeds - Dazzling Blue

Unavailable for 2024 Brassica oleracea Dazzling Blue kale’s smoky-blue-green, Lacinato-type leaves with purple midribs and veins really are dazzling! This showier version of everyone’s all-time-favorite “dino” kale was bred by...

Kale Seeds - Dwarf Siberian

Brassica napus Easy-to-grow by direct seed or transplant. Frost-tolerant and winter hardy. Wants evenly moist soil and will grow in full sun or with partial shade. Can be planted in...

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...

Kale Seeds - Lacinato, ORGANIC

Brassica oleracea ORGANIC. HEIRLOOM. The Italian darling of gourmands the world over! Also popular with kids for its nickname: Dinosaur Kale. Dark green, deeply savoyed leaves conjure images of prehistoric...

Kale Seeds - Red Russian

Brassica napus HEIRLOOM -From Russia, by way of Canada, with love. With reddish purple petioles and veins, these delicately lobed leaves change from grey to purple as the weather cools....

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...

Kale Seeds - Scarlet

Brassica oleracea Large leaves are almost a shocking, deep-purple color, and grow to almost 3” in height. Leaves become even more vibrant when the frosts start coming! Because of its...

Kale Seeds - Vates, Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch

Brassica oleracea Heavily crinkled leaves make fine kale chips and hold up well after harvest. 12-14" high plants with a wide spread of plumage. Slow to bolt, cold hardy &...

Lettuce Seeds - Amish Deer Tongue

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. Amish Deer Tongue lettuce has been grown since the 1840s, and is still prized for its heat and cold tolerance, and robust flavor. Its name comes from...

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...