Second Season Vegetable Seeds

Now is the time to start broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower indoors for your second season garden. Also try direct sowing beans, carrots, salad greens, cucumbers, beets, and radish seeds for a healthy fall harvest.

Choose a Type of Vegetable:

Salad Greens
Spinach
Bush Cucumbers
Beets
Radish
Carrots
Bush Beans
Broccoli
Cabbages
Cauliflower

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Salad Greens

With a mix of distinct, rich flavors and cold-hardy varieties, salad greens make perfect cool-season crops for your garden. Choose from our fast-growing lettuce, increasingly popular microgreens, appetizing mesclun and many other flavorful salad greens.

Lettuce, Heatwave Blend

Lettuce that keeps its cool in the heat, remaining productive and tasty longer.

Lettuce, Buttercrunch

All-America Winner. Extremely popular lettuce with luscious, buttery texture.

Lettuce, Black-Seeded Simpson

HEIRLOOM. Even after 150 years it's one of the most tender leaf lettuces.

Lettuce, Green Ice

A customer favorite since it was introduced 41 years ago and still the sweetest lettuce in our trials

Lettuce, Gourmet Blend

Our popular looseleaf blend, selected for a long harvest.

Lettuce, Braveheart

Extra-large romaine with solid full hearts rich green to the core.

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Spinach

Garden-fresh young leaves make wonderfully tasty salads; mature leaves are deliciously tangy fresh or cooked. Grow cool, as a spring or fall crop. Plan sowings for continuous harvest. Thin to 5-6" apart.

Spinach, Baby's Leaf Hybrid

The flat green leaves are sweet tender and very easy to clean.

Spinach, Salad Fresh

Withstands harsh weather.

Spinach, Melody Hybrid

Dark green ruffled leaves. Large upright plants.

Spinach, Harmony Hybrid

A classic ruffle-leafed type, with important new advantages.

Spinach, Giant 157 Hybrid

Extra-large easy to clean

Spinach, New Zealand

Heat-resistant, best for summer use.

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Bush Cucumbers

Direct sow bush cucumber seeds now for a bonus second season harvest. These cucumber plants bear fruit earlier than vining types, and they are easy to care for and harvest into the fall season. Perfect for containers.

Cucumber, Bush Champion

You won't believe the large number of crisp, bright green slicers you'll get.

Cucumber, Picklebush

White-spined fruits have classic pickle look, deep green with paler stripes.

Cucumber, Salad Bush Hybrid

Full-sized, full-flavored 8" slicers on tiny plants.

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Beets

Beets are a favorite direct sow vegetable for spring or fall. With their earthy sweetness and rich color, beets are delicious pickled, roasted, steamed or baked. Tasty greens are a special treat. Very easy to grow.

Beet, Detroit Dark Red Med Top

Unbeatable beets: dark red, extremely sweet flesh.

Beet, Burpee's Golden

Sweeter, milder flavor, with inviting gold color.

Beet, Chioggia

HEIRLOOM. The most beautiful of all beets and very sweet flavored.

Beet, Chicago Red Hybrid

The deliciously sweet roots are slightly elongated and smooth.

Beet, Bull's Blood

HEIRLOOM. Wonderful and amazing looking dual purpose beet.

Beet, Early Wonder

A deliciously sweet beet with scrumptious tops that can be harvested as greens.

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Radish

Refreshingly crisp as well as peppery, radishes are easy to grow in the spring and fall. Direct sow radish seeds as soon as the ground can be worked in early spring. Repeat every 10 days until summer. Sow again in fall a month before frost for quick fall

Radish, Cherry Belle

All-America Winner. Extra-early, retains fine eating quality all season.

Radish, Perfecto

Grows to a perfect shape no matter what size.

Radish, Rover Hybrid

Rare radish that can take the heat.

Radish, Fire 'N Ice

Delicate and mild sweet flavor.

Radish, Watermelon

Heirloom treasure from China.

Radish, Crimson Giant

Solid white flesh is firm, crisp and mild.

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Carrots

Direct sow carrot seeds every 2 weeks during the second season and mulch to keep the ground from freezing to pull sweet carrots all winter.

Carrot, Sweet Treat Hybrid

Carrots with outstanding flavor and delicious crunch.

Carrot, Nantes Half Long

Slim, cylindrical, orange roots.

Carrot, Touchon

HEIRLOOM. Sweet and tender, quick to mature.

Carrot, Danvers Half Long

HEIRLOOM. Developed in 1886 by market gardeners in Danvers, Mass.

Carrot, Sugarsnax Hybrid

High in flavor and beta carotene. The ultimate snack.

Carrot, Purple Dragon

Gloriously sweet with the richest, most intense purple color.

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Bush Beans

Bush bean plants mature quickly and are an ideal second season crop. Direct sow bean seeds all summer long and enjoy fresh beans for months.

Bean, Blue Lake 47 Bush

We took the best qualities from Blue Lake 274, added more flavor and made it stringless.

Bean, Bush, Big Kahuna

An unstoppable harvest of crisp, flavorful, giant beans up to 11 inches.

Bean, Gold Mine (Wax)

Ultra-sweet wax beans.

Bean, Tenderpick Bush

Great flavor, similar to Tenderpod, with improved germination.

Bean, Lima Fordhook 242 Bush

Heat-resistant plants thrive in adverse conditions.

Bean, Bush Heavyweight II

Delicious and productive.

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Broccoli

Start broccoli seeds indoors now for planting in just a few weeks. Broccoli plants grow best during the cooler months of fall and gets tastier as the weather chills down.

Broccoli, Bonanza Hybrid

Excellent mild flavor. Big, tight-budded 9" central heads.

Broccoli, Flash Hybrid

Super fast with unique flavor!

Broccoli, Romanesco

With beautiful, apple-green whorled heads, this variety has been a culinary delight since the 16th century.

Broccoli, Green Sprouting Calabrese Organic

Delicious early and late season favorite. Certified Organic.

Broccoli, De Cicco

Traditional Italian variety especially good for freezing.

Broccoli, Di Ciccio Organic

Productive, Italian heirloom broccoli.

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Cabbages

Grow cabbage plants for fresh leaves that are crisp, tasty and nutritious. Start cabbage seeds indoors now for a steady second season supply.

Chinese Cabbage, Pak Choi, Toy Choi Hybrid

Dwarf Chinese cabbage is quick to grow and prepare.

Cabbage, Earliana

One of the earliest maturing varieties.

Cabbage, King Slaw Hybrid

Extra-huge cabbage

Chinese Cabbage, Pak Choi, Joi Choi

Easy to grow and fast to mature.

Cabbage, Salad Delight (Red)

Delicious, early maturing red cabbage with 3 lb. heads.

Cabbage, Early Jersey Wakefield

Longtime favorite with a distinctly sweet flavor: great for salads and slaws.

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Cauliflower

Start cauliflower seed indoor now for transplating in the garden in late summer. Grows best in the cooler weather of fall and develops its best flavor as the weather chills.

Cauliflower, First White Hybrid

A prizewinning cauliflower.

Cauliflower, Colored Mix

A sweet, nutritious, colorful mix for salads.

Cauliflower, Early White Hybrid

The tastiest early cauliflower!

Cauliflower, Snowball Hybrid (Cau8 )

French variety that matures early. For both spring and fall planting.

Cauliflower, Snowball Y Organic

High quality hybrid from France.

Cauliflower, Healthy Mix

Sweet, nutritious, colorful mix for salads.