Organic Seeds Herbs For Sale In Canada

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

Flowering stems and leaves have pleasant bitter flavour when cooked, steamed or sauteed. Popular Italian appetizer served with garlic and olive oil. 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 variety is described as rugged and a heavy producer perhaps befitting of its Amish heritage.

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!...

Similar to anise basil, but the flavour and fragrance is distinctively less licorice-like. This is the true strain used in Vietnamese and Thai cooking. 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. Stalks are pure white, crisp and very tender.

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

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. Excellent for seasoning, and for basil vinegar which turns a beautiful red colour.

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

With a prominent display of bright crimson stalks and dark green crinkly leaves veined in red, this swiss chard is highly ornamental. Leaves are delicious when young in salads, and larger leaves can be steamed, stir fried, or sauted.

The sweet and mild flavour is reminiscent of asparagus, mushrooms, and beans. Yields can be huge if pods are picked often to encourage more to come. The long beans are like young string beans without the annoying string.

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

Regular onion chives. Besides using the leaves, try the pretty purple flowers, separated into florets, in salads for colour and 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 states around Christmas time. The fruits are 45-60cm/18-24 in.

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. Sets double pods, very productive vines over a long period of time.

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

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

Standard variety. Ripens to a fiery golden-orange.

They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across. They also make a most decorative container at the dinner table for other foods when scooped out. (Sunburst squash) Distinctive small disk-like squash with scalloped edges, like a toy top or a flying...

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

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

For flavour and for colour. It tolerates heavy cutting well so multiple cuttings are possible. A stunning basil with large burgundy flower bracts. With its colour, strong fragrance, and long deep purple stems, this also makes an excellent cutflower.

It makes delicious tortillas, sweet and nutty, as well as cornbread, corn chips and pancake mixes. Well adapted for the dryland farming of the American southwest, but also does surprisingly well in wetter eastern gardens.

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