GRAINS AND LEGUMES 

See also Sorghum and Broom Corn and Rye. Grains and Legumes
We specialize in heirloom vegetable, flower, and herb seeds. Look here for vegetables bred in a day when taste was the primary selecting criteria. This is the place to go if you want to grow the best tomatoes you ever tasted!
	Golden Amaranth GRAIN 2g seed Check Latest Price (A. hypochondriacus) 80 days A high quality Aztec grain amaranth. Reselected by SESE in 1993 for uniform color and height. Stalks and leaves are golden yellow with bronze gold seed heads. Stalks average 6' tall. Can be used as a dry land/irrigated amaranth. In the far north areas long days ma ...
	Mayo Indian GRAIN 2g seed Check Latest Price (A. cruentus) 90 days. Beautiful maroon-flowered, black-seeded variety. [From Sonora, Mexico] This black-seeded amaranth is a very vigorous variety with sturdy stalks. Primarily used for grain or to make pinole and atole. The leaves may also be used like spinach. The stalks, leaf veins, and ...
	Hulless Oats (Pennuda) GRAIN 228g seed Check Latest Price Growing your own oats is easy with 'Pennuda'. Sow in early spring as soon as the ground can be worked. Harvest in mid to late summer, thresh, and winnow. 'Pennuda' lacks the indigestible husk of common oats. Grind into oat flour or crack in a grain mill to make oatmeal. One pound sows 350 to 50 ...
	Millet: Dragon's Claw 'Ragi' GRAIN 1.5g seed Check Latest Price 95 days. A highly productive variety that is very ornamental, especially as a border. Annual plants, 3' high, produce a seed head that resembles the five claws of a dragon's foot. Used as flour or cereal. Has a good flavor. Pkt. (1.5 g ...
Buckwheat COVER CROP 1816g seed, USDA Certified Organic	Buckwheat COVER CROP 1816g seed, USDA Certified Organic Check Latest Price Variety unspecified: 30 to 45 days as a green manure crop. 80 days for grain. Wait until grain heads form if you want the crop to re-seed itself. May also be used as a nutritious cereal grain or pancake flour. The deep root system of buckwheat is good at mining subsurface minerals and it is an e ...
	Red Clover COVER CROP 114g seed, USDA Certified Organic Check Latest Price (biennial): (Trifolium pratense) Rapid growing green manure crop sown in the spring or fall for turndown to incorporate organic nitrogen into the soil. If sown in summer use buckwheat as a nurse crop to aid germination of clover in summer heat. The clover will grow slowly under the buckwheat until ...
	White Dutch Clover COVER CROP 114g seed Check Latest Price (perennial): (Trifolium repens) A low growing clover sometimes used in grass seed mixtures. Can be sown between garden rows to add nitrogen and to smother out weeds. One-fourth pound sows 1000 sq. ft. Pkt. (1/4 lb. ...
	Hairy Vetch COVER CROP 228g seed, USDA Certified Organic Check Latest Price (annual) (Vicia villosa) Sow Aug. 1 to Nov. 1 as a winter cover crop. Highly efficient nitrogen fixer. Mow it in the Spring and transplant tomatoes or other large transplants directly into the vetch, or till under. Sow at rate of 1 lb. per 1000 sq. ft. Best sown with annual rye in a ratio ...