Blueberry Packing Equipment

Heirloom paste tomato with very large, heart shaped fruit, meaty interior with very little juice or seeds. Excellent flavour for sauces, catsup, purees, bruschetta and soups.

A must-have for the heirloom afficionado. Excellent for sauces and canning. Black Prince is native to Irkutsk in Siberia, making it well suited to cooler, shorter seasons. A prolific and early producer, it bears masses of stunning dark red tomatoes with...

(Black cabbage; Cavolo nero) Large, dark green, serrated leaves growing to a height of 60cm/2', are useful for culinary purposes as well as ornamental. Wonderful raw, in soups, stews, steamed or stir-fried, especially blended with fresh, chopped chives...

Try baking them like potatoes in their own skin! 110 days. Old fashioned variety from France, and although not a long- keeper, these are one of the sweetest onions to grow. Large globes with light brown skin are ultra-mild and the crunchy, white flesh...

70 days to maturity. Hugely prolific, the plant produces clusters of purple-black mini tomatoes that are so sweet and delicious, they may not make it from the garden into the house! Plants are very tall, early producers.

Soft, silky, shimmering silver foliage, in neat 30cm/12in mounds.

How dark they get depends on where it is grown: the hotter the climate the darker the fruit. Its fruits are large and very juicy. The vines are indeterminate and need to be staked or caged.

Early maturing, old fashioned variety of bright red pepper with thick walls of juicy, sweet and tender fruits. Can be harvested at green stage for use in salads, stir fries, as a crudite or stuffed! Resistant to tobacco mosaic virus, a common disease...

The famous hot pepper of the Caribbean with more or less spherical fruits about 4cm/1.5” in diameter. Has a fiery, apple-cherry tomato flavour. Great for salsas and sauces. Heat: 150,000-325,000 Scoville units.

Old fashioned variety that matures to a golden-yellow at maturity. Resistant to tobacco mosaic virus, a common disease in peppers. Sweet, thick walled fruits add splash of colour to salads, vegetable trays, and stir fries.

Heat: 50,000-100,000 Scoville units. (Chile de arbol Coreano; Bird´s eye pepper) One of the hottest chillis popular throughout Asia and Mexico. Baby finger-sized chilli peppers, 4cm/1.5" long.

Mild, sweet flavour. Heat: 1,000-2,000 Scoville units. The most commonly used dried chile of Mexico; essential for sauces and moles. Brickred to black-purple when dry; 10cm/4in long by 7cm/3” wide.

Tender sweet leaves of excellent flavour are highly nutritious and the attractive blue-green/red frilly leaves are cold hardy, making it possible to harvest during the winter. Tasty steamed, stir-fried or in salads.

Does best in cool weather: sow direct in July to mature by fall or start early indoors and plant out in spring. (Finocchio) Unlike sweet fennel, this produces a bulbous base of delicate anise flavour and crisp texture.

Heirloom variety from the 1800s producing medium-large fruits of dark reddish pink with an extremely fine distinctive flavour, of gourmet quality. Good for slicing, in salads and sandwiches.

Hang dried bunches in closets to repel moths. Dried flowers are used in floral arrangements. (Lavender cotton) Attractive low bushy herb with aromatic grey-green leaves. Leaf oils are used in perfume.

Yields of 40-50 fruits per plant are not unusual. Slender fruits are excellent for frying, cooking and pickling. Plants are highly productive and disease resistant.

Compact bushes 60-90cm/24-36” high can bear as much as 100 chiles each. Heat: 30,000-50,000 Scoville units. The chile pepper used to make the famous hot sauce of the same name. Attractive: fruits point upright, changing from yellow to orange and finally...

Delicious eaten fresh and excellent for jams and pies. Not a true tomatillo as one would find in Mexico but a close relative grown in the Ukraine, the land of the tough Cossacks. The yellow marble-sized fruits have a sweet pineapple-like flavour.

Formerly used for diarrhea and hemorrhages. Known as Violet of the Sorcerers in France where it was once hung at entrances to ward off evil spirits and witches. Excellent ground cover for shaded areas.

A cornerstone of French cuisine. Very hardy - may be gathered even after light snow, or left in the ground until spring. Start early indoors in March. Sweeter, milder and more delicate than the mildest onion.

Prolific producer of very large, brilliant crimson scarlet fruit that has solid, meaty, deep red flesh, and nearly seedless. Good old fashioned “real” tomato flavour is excellent for slicing, soups, sauces, baked and more.

Prolific plant, tolerant of cool nights bearing medium-small, tapered fruit of dark glossy green, ripening to a rich chocolate brown. The sweet, crisp fruit is wonderful in salads, stir fries and vegetable trays.

It is a late season variety, very winter hardy and productive. We are proud to offer this extra-special blueberry to you. Herbert is a large, very sweet, dark blueberry of excellent quality.

One of the best mid-season pickers around! Blueray is a very popular mid-season ripening cultivars for u-pick growers. Old favorite with great flavor and bright red wood in the winter.

Dried Blueberry Nutrition One serving of dried blueberries has 140 calories and half a gram of fat. Antioxidants help the body protect itself against diseases. We'll do whatever it takes to make it right.

Soluble fiber also helps the body regulate blood sugar levels so snacking on blueberries may be a healthy option for diabetics. Juice infused blueberries are an excellent source of immune-boosting nutrients like vitamin C.