Direct Sow Vegetable Seeds

Sow these vegetable seeds directly into your garden for a bountiful harvest of Lettuce, Beans, Cucumbers, Squash and more.

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Lettuce

Our lettuce selection guarantees that your salads are endlessly appetizing and varied. There are four main kinds of lettuce to choose from: Butterhead (Bibb), Crisphead (Iceberg), Looseleaf (Cutting) and Romaine. Fast-growing & delicious, garden 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, Healing Hands Mix

Highly nutritious mix of greens—great for containers.

Lettuce, Black-Seeded Simpson

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

Lettuce, Baby Leaf Mix

4 tasty gourmet baby lettuces.

Lettuce, Looseleaf Blend

Five favorites in one pack.

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Mesclun

The French approach to salad greens--"mesclun" means "mixture." Early sweet lettuces and tangy, tender greens are pre-mixed to grow together for easy cutting. They're as pretty in the garden as they are in the bowl. Harvest most mixes in 30 days.

Mesclun, Classic Mix

Sweet lettuces and tangy, tender greens are pre-mixed in just the right proportions.

Mesclun, Salad Fresh Cutting Mix

Our favorite gourmet mixture of delicious greens

Mesclun,Salad Mix

Our gourmet blend of 6 varieties.

Mesclun, Spicy Mix

Spicy and tangy salad mixture.

Mesclun, Classic Mix Organic

Classic gourmet mix. Certified Organic.

Mesclun, Green Party Mix

The sweetest and tangiest greens in our garden in a wide spectrum of tastes, textures and colors.

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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, Bloomsdale Long Standing

HEIRLOOM. Heavy, continuous yield of thick-textured, crinkled, glossy, dark green leaves.

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

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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, Kaleidoscope Mix

Our exclusive blend of wild colors!

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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Squash

Burpee's squash seeds grow in any home garden. Shop our zucchini, butternut, scallop, winter and summer squash at Burpee Seeds.

Squash, Summer, Golden Egg Hybrid

The best-tasting squash in Burpee’s taste trials for two years in a row.

Squash, Summer, Burpee Hybrid Zucchini

Our best-selling zucchini for over 40 years.

Squash, Summer, Saffron

Perfect straightnecks grow on sturdy, open, yet compact plants.

Squash, Winter, Burpee's Butterbush

Space-saving plants. Delicious flavor.

Squash, Summer, Sweet Zuke Zucchini Hybrid

Sweet Zuke's nutty flavor is tasty both cooked and fresh.

Squash, Summer, Butterstick Zucchini Hybrid

Bright yellow zucchini with firm texture and sweet, nutty flavor.

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Cucumbers

Burpless' cucumbers, both American and Asian types, contain low or no cucurbitacin, the compound that causes bitterness and increases one's susceptibility to 'burping' after eating the fruits. Frequent watering will also decrease fruit bitterness.

Cucumber, Sweet Success Hybrid

By far the sweetest flavor you'll find in any burpless cucumber.

Cucumber, Burpless Beauty

Stays crisp longer than any cucumber we've tried.

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, Burpee Pickler Hybrid

Early-maturing, black-spined pickles, on full-sized vines.

Cucumber, Sweeter Yet Hybrid

Cucumbers don't come any sweeter than this. A Burpee exclusive.

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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, Detroit Dark Red Organic

Dark red, extremely sweet flesh. Certified Organic.

Beet, Bull's Blood

HEIRLOOM. Wonderful and amazing looking dual purpose beet.