PVPL Seed Library

Arugula is a slightly spicy green that grows well in Yavapai County year-round. Leaves can be continually harvested until the plant bolts (shoots up to flower and make seeds). Astro is heat tolerant. Leaves are less deeply lobed and exhibit a more strap-leaf shape.

The choice of many connoisseurs for making pesto. Also called Perfumed Basil. Leaves are slightly smaller and finer than Sweet Basil with more aroma and potency.

Introduced by Henry Fields in the Ozark Mountains in the 1930s, this purple-podded heirloom is favored by old-timers in that region. The vigorous vines climb 6-7 feet, are graced by lilac-colored blossoms, and produce copious tender bright purple pods that turn green when cooked.

Beautiful when sliced, this heirloom home-garden type attracts attention in the kitchen with its alternating interior rings of pink and white. Noteworthy also for its light red exterior color, green tops and exceptional sweetness. It loses quality when it gets large. Also known as Bassano, for the Venetian hill town in which it originated.

Bright Lights bathes stems, midribs and secondary veins in a panoply of gold, yellow, orange, pink, intermediate pastels and dazzling stripes. The tenderness of its dark green to bronze leaves and the mildness of its chard flavor impresses all who try it.

Also known as Armenian Cucumber or Snake Melon, native to Armenia and brought to Italy in the 15th century. Its flavor surpasses that of cucumbers, excelling in salads and stir-fries without bitterness or burps. Slender slightly fuzzy flexuous fruits delicately coil like a serpent with alternate light and dark green stripes. Culture like the melon it is, starting indoors in individual pots and transplanting into a low tunnel. Will grow up to 30 inches...

Bushy variety holds its blooms above the foliage. Early free-flowering blend of orange, yellow, red and gold. Long one of our best-selling flower varieties. Edible flowers with spicy sweet fragrance lend a peppery-sweet taste to salads, with each color adding contrast and subtle variations in flavor. Round leaves also edible. 16 inches. Annual

Culture: Sow as early as ground can be worked for best yields. Minimum soil temperature for pea seed germination: 40 degrees. Optimal range 50-75 degrees. Peas are legumes with moderate fertility requirements. Avoid excess nitrogen: they can fix their own. Use Legume Inoculant at planting. They prefer cool, moist weather and dislike dry heat. All peas produce more when staked; varieties over 2 feet must be supported. Use either Trellis Netting or...

The standard crinkled-leaf spinach. Very good cold soil emergence. Much better in fall than in spring when it bolts in the heat. Recent hybrids surpass it in production and bolt resistance.

In this mix you?ll get different colors, sizes, shapes and flavors (no cherries).