Sesame Seeds

Crocus sativus. Perennial. Open Pollinated. The plant produces high yields of saffron, the world's most expensive spice. The plant has violet-purple flowers with brilliant orange-red stigmas that are the source of the aromatic culinary spice. Each flower yields three red stigmas (the saffron threads). It takes 150,000 orange-red stigmas to make one pound of the spice, which is why it's so expensive. Gourmet Chefs around the world use it. You don't need to purchase this expensive spice again! Grow your own plants for home use or for restaurant use. The lovely lavender blossoms in fall are an added bonus to your garden. Planted in the fall, it bears lovely lavender flowers the following autumn. Order at least 5 to 10 bulbs to produce enough spice for one recipe. Plant 100 bulbs to produce enough spice for the entire year. Suitable for containers, patios, borders/ rock gardens, window boxes, square-foot gardening, and small gardens. A variety from Greece.

110 days. Sorghum bicolor. Open Pollinated. Rox Orange Sugar Cane. The plant produces excellent yields of 8 ft tall sugar cane. It is a popular sugar cane variety prized for its sweet stalks, grain, forage, and ornamental value. The plant is high in sugar content. Perfect for making molasses syrup and an Asian alcoholic beverage called Maotai. Also grown and used as a biofuel and livestock feed. It yields about 100 gallons of syrup per acre. It does well in warm, well-drained, sandy loam. Also known as Waconia Sugar Cane. This variety was developed for syrup production by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, Wisconsin. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 641836. A variety from the USA.

160 days. Oryza sativa. Open Pollinated. The plant produces high yields of premium-quality long-grain rice. This variety has a sweet flavor and grows well in the United States. Try growing your quality rice. Also great for school projects. A variety from the USA.

Piper nigrum. Perennial. Open Pollinated. Peppercorns. The plant produces excellent yields of black peppercorns. Peppercorns are dried and used to make black pepper. You can grow this tropical tree in containers and bring it indoors in the fall. Try growing your own black pepper plant. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 190223. A variety from India.

70 days. Solanum Lycopersicum. (F1) SuperSauce Tomato. This early maturing plant produces high yields of 1 to 2 ½ lb red tomatoes. They are very sweet, meaty, juicy, and flavorful. Perfect for making sauce, puree, paste, and canning. It is also great for sandwiches, burgers, salads, and slicing. It is so large, 5 ½" long by 5" wide, one tomato fills an entire sauce jar. The World’s Largest Paste Tomato. It is super easy to peel, making homemade sauce quick and easy. Excellent choice for home gardens. A variety from the USA. Diseases Resistant. Indeterminate.

100 days. Hordeum vulgare. Open Pollinated. Barley. The plant produces high yields of barley. This is a good quality cereal grain for milling and cooking. Also great for grazing in pastures. This is an improved disease-resistant variety. Sow seeds in spring for a late summer harvest for seed production and sow in spring or summer for cover crop planting. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: Ccu.