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Beet - Early Wonder
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This is a beet for beet green enthusiasts. The beets are delicious...and the greens are sublime. Early vigorous producer of tall shiny green leaves with red veins. The beets themselves are red, slightly flattened and very sweet.
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Chard - Golden
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A beautiful heirloom strain originally curated by the Abundant Life Seed Foundation. Emerald green baby leaves with yellow stems are especially mild and sweet. Stem color intensifies with age to a rich gold at maturity. Wonderful in salads and soups. Grows to about 20-24 inches tall.
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Chard - Rhubarb
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A beautiful old world vegetable closely related to the beet. Treasured for its juicy red stems and flavorful, nutritious dark green leaves. One sowing can provide greens all season, even in the heat of summer. Also known as Ruby Chard.
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Green - Shungiku, Edible Chrysanthemum
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Also called Edible Chrysanthemum, Garland Chrysanthemum. Chinese heirloom, known for its edible crunchy, textured young green leaves, delicious raw or cooked. Nutritious, fast growing early green; wonderful leafy green alternative in early spring when lettuces are just getting going. Bright yellow and white daisy-like edible flowers.
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Greens - Arugula - Roquette
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A wonderful variety for arugula lovers. Native to the Mediterranean, arugula has been cultivated since Roman times, both for its flavor and its health and medicinal value. Sharp, spicy and peppery tasting leaves add flavor to any dish. One of the earliest to appear in the spring, this plant also tolerates hot weather.
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Greens - Cress - Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled
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Ridiculously easy, fast-growing, bolt-resistant salad green for the garden or a flat on your window sill. Grow it all year-round. Pretty leaves on easy to harvest erect stems, with delightful delicate flavor. Released through Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI). Bred by Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seeds.
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Greens - Mustard - Mizuna
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This mustard is a very fast growing, mild-flavored, slightly spicy, attractive Japanese green. It produces a rosette of deeply lobed, tender greens. Vigorous and cold-tolerant, you can start it in the very early cool days of spring.
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Greens - Mustard - Red
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Mild, purple-veined bright green baby leaves that turn a gorgeous burgundy as they grow. Spicy mustard flavor increases with maturity. Excellent kimchi/pickling/vegetable fermenting ingredient. Cold-tolerant, you can start it in the early cool days of spring.
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Greens - Pak Choi
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This delicious, highly nutritious and mild-tasting vegetable comes to us from Asia where it is a classic, treasured heirloom. Thick succulent white stems and emerald green leaves. Harvest the whole plant or just the outer leaves for a continual harvest.
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Greens - Purple Orach
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Purple Orach is a favorite here at Good Seed. Also known as Mountain Spinach, this nutritious, easy-to-grow heirloom is an amaranth family member and, once established, will reseed itself. It is up before the spinach in the spring and provides a colorful and vitamin-rich addition to spring salads and soups. Does not bolt readily and does not get bitter with age. Valued medicinal and dye plant. A favorite for permaculture, polyculture and homestead gardens.
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Greens - Tatsoi
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A wonderful early, frost-hardy Asian green. Lots of greens on small sweet, flavorful white stalks. It does well in our cool springs; or plant it in the fall for a really early spring green. Harvest whole or cut leaves like a "cut and come again" green.
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Kale - Blue Scotch Curled
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Extremely hardy and productive heirloom dating back to at least 1860’s. Delicious curly blue-green leaves on a compact, frost-resistant plant. Plant in fall for early spring crop.
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Kale - Red Russian
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This frost-hardy, vigorous heirloom came from Siberia via Russian traders in the late 1800’s. It thrives in all kinds of weather and the red and purple tones of its deeply lobed leaves deepen with the first frost. Sweet and tender, the leaves pack a vitamin and mineral-rich punch.
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Kale - Wild Garden Lacinato
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A reinvigorated strain of the traditional lacinato, selected by Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seeds for its hardiness, vigor and flavor. Possibly the best flavored kale for light cooking. Released through Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI).This is an OSSI-pledged seed, see below.
OSSI-Pledged Seed: A portion of sales from this variety goes back to the breeder. By purchasing this seed you agree to the OSSI pledge:
You have the freedom to use these OSSI-Pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others’ use of these seeds or their derivatives by patents or other means, and to include this pledge with any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives.
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