Edible Leaf Plant Seeds For Sale In Canada

Large, dark green glossy leaves on thick sturdy stems. Has intermediate resistance to fusarium. This is a nice compact Genovese basil well suited for pot production and for fresh cut use in the field.

Popular Italian appetizer served with garlic and olive oil. Flowering stems and leaves have pleasant bitter flavour when cooked, steamed or sauteed. Sown in early spring for harvest before hot weather or in mid-to-late summer for fall harvest.

Sow direct in the garden in spring. The “deer tongue” idea refers to the pointed shape of the leaves and not, we hope, to some special fondness deer may have for this unusual variety of leaf lettuce.

Sow direct in the garden in spring. Like the red deer tongue variety, this is a very nice leaf lettuce with tongue-shaped leaves. The flavour is pleasantly sharp and nutty and the texture is quite good for fresh salad use.

Deep-red “baby” pods make very attractive menu additions and older pods remain tender even at 20cm/8” length, and retain their red colour when cooked. The attractive red stems and branches, red-veined green leaves are ornamental as well as tasty!...

This is the true strain used in Vietnamese and Thai cooking. Similar to anise basil, but the flavour and fragrance is distinctively less licorice-like. Essential fresh cut accompaniment to many Vietnamese dishes, including pho, a famous beef or chicken...

Try bite-sized slices stir fried with tofu, meat and seasonings. (Bok choy) Popular standard ingredient in many Chinese dishes like chow mein and wonton soup. Leaves are thick and glossy with a hint of mustard flavour.

Open headed romaine with gorgeous pomegranate-red leaves. Highly resistant to common fungal diseases.

Excellent for seasoning, and for basil vinegar which turns a beautiful red colour. Dark purplish-bronze foliage. Former All-American award winner, famous for its pure dark purple foliage, but in recent years it has become about 25% green.

Helps to lower temperature and promote sweating. Chinese herbalists say this herb expels ‘wind' and promotes ‘eruption.' (Jing jie) Chinese herb used to treat the common cold and its symptoms, chills, sore throat, and headaches.

With a prominent display of bright crimson stalks and dark green crinkly leaves veined in red, this swiss chard is highly ornamental. Impressive in borders, cottage gardens, containers, and in vegetable gardens.

Excellent for stir fries. Tolerates hot weather well. The sweet and mild flavour is reminiscent of asparagus, mushrooms, and beans. Grow like pole beans or on a trellis and sow in June when the ground is warm.

With deep salmon coloured flesh that is thick, firm with a sweet, intense flavour Good for short season gardeners. Produces firm, round fruit weighing 1-2kg/3-4 lbs.

Regular onion chives. Besides using the leaves, try the pretty purple flowers, separated into florets, in salads for colour and flavour.

Some disease and drought tolerance. A rare family heirloom from Georgia with white seeds and yellow flesh of excellent flavour. Long, and can get up to over 10kg. Some think this is the melon that used to be shipped years ago from Bermuda to some Southern...

Height 60cm/24-30”. Light green, smooth edible pods 10cm/4” long by 2cm/3/4”diameter with a mild flavour good for eating raw, in stir fries or steamed. Freezes well, retaining the full, sweet flavour and colour.

Tops are used as cooked greens. Attractive, bright golden-orange roots, are best eaten when small, but retain their sweet flavour and do not become fibrous when larger. Excellent pickled, in salads, gourmet borscht or grilled.

Sharp-flavoured curly leaves are excellent in salads and sandwiches or cooked. Harvest when young and tender. Repeat sowings for a continuous crop.

Standard variety. Ripens to a fiery golden-orange.

They also make a most decorative container at the dinner table for other foods when scooped out. The flavour is pleasantly nutty. They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across.

They are gorgeous for fall decorations, and of course they are great for popping. (Strawberry popcorn) This little mahogany-red corn is so cute! Just 5-7cm/2-3" long, the ears actually look like strawberries.

Leaves are medium large to large with dark green colour. Fast growing Genovese type suited for year round pot production. Uniform, erect habit.

It tolerates heavy cutting well so multiple cuttings are possible. The leaves can be used like any other sweet basil, but you can also pick the red flower bracts and sprinkle them over salads, egg dishes, soup, etc.

Well adapted for the dryland farming of the American southwest, but also does surprisingly well in wetter eastern gardens. The beautiful dark blue kernels are ground and made into a traditional paper-thin piki bread and a dense cake called qomi.

Standard curled variety. Bright green, deeply cut and finely divided leaves.