Organic Seeds Organic Vegetable Herb Seeds For Sale In Chicago

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.

Taller, has larger leaves than standard strain. Our favourite type because flavour is extra rich. Dark green, glossy leaves, strong flavour. Adds true European character to soups and stews.

Beets are a great vegetable for the freezer. A fine all-purpose table beet high in vitamins A, B2, B6 and C. Extra benefits are its round, red, slightly flattened roots mature early and can be harvested for eating.

(Sweet annie; Qing-guo)

White skinned pumpkin with dark orange flesh, suitable for jack-o-lanterns and pies! Great halloween novelty, as outer skin can be painted on mature fruits of 30cm/8-10”, weighing about 10-16lbs/5kg.

A delicious addition to the summer salad bowl, green striped fruits with golden blush are full of tart, luscious flavour. 72 days to maturity. Not an heirloom, but deserving a place with them, it produces 3-4 oz fruits over a long season.

The Pioneer Shell Pea is all organic and has a rich a vibrant taste. They are easy to grow. These Shell peas are very tasty.

Quick crop: matures in 40 days, but baby leaves can be harvested in as few as 20 days. Mibuna is regarded as a cold-season vegetable but is also heat-tolerant and doesn't bolt during the warm season.

120 days to maturity. Heavy-yielding, resistant to yellow stripe virus. Indispensable in soups, casserole and salads, Bandit is an excellent selection for the garden. A reliable leek with attractive dark green-blue leaves and firm white shaft.

This traditional variety is a mixture of two distinct forms: an upright branching form and a lower, more compact form. For salsas, tomatillos are often used to tone down the hotness of chillies.

They can been eaten raw at any stage, though they are best when they are just starting to turn brown. Will climb 2m/6ft up a trellis. Indian heirloom that is really, really delicious! The fruits start off white and turn golden-yellow and then to a russet...

A diverse mix of lettuces with contrasting colors and textures for tender, tasty salads fresh from your garden. The lettuces will re-grow for 2-3 harvests from the same planting. Includes several different varieties of frilly green and red leaf varieties,...

The flavour is mild and nutty and the texture is incredible. An heirloom variety from the 1850s with yellow skin and golden-yellow flesh. Good keeper for winter storage. The roots can reach 10cm/4" in diameter but for best flavour and sweetness dig them...

(Chinese parsley) The piquant flavour of fresh coriander leaves, so essential in authentic Chinese and Latin American cuisines, has become very popular in recent years. ‘Longstanding' is the strain commonly grown in North America for fresh leaves.

Essential to every herb garden, this small, upright shrub (is the classic culinary variety. Assertions have been made supporting its efficacy in combating asthma and hypertension. As a strong aromatic herb, it can attract a multitude of honeybees.

Each pod contains 5-7 flat oblong beans for fresh or dry use. Grow like garden peas. An English heirloom grown since at least the 1800s. Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in long, can be eaten like snap beans.

A long time favourite of gardeners with crisp, dark green, reddish-tinged leaves and a yellowish-white heart. Keeps its buttery sweetness well even in the heat of summer and is more bolt-resistant than other butterhead varieties.

It was an accidental cross between two heirlooms, Antique Roman and Banana Legs, discovered by American home gardener John Swenson in the 1990s. A sleek oblong medium-sized tomato with wavy orange-yellow streaks.

Fresh chopped leaves are also interesting in salads, soups and stews. Proven effective against herpes. Fresh leaves burst of lemon when squeezed. We urge everyone to try it. A truly delightful tea made from the dried leaves is our favourite anytime tea...

It is also considered the number one herb in Chinese medicine for the treatment of infertility. A tall annual or biennial, easy to grow from seeds. (Yi mu cao) One of the 50 fundamental herbs in Chinese medicine.

This scallion has beautiful dark green foliage and long, straight, white shanks with a mild, pleasing onion flavor perfect for salads and garnishes. A very uniform variety, it grows vigorously, with little to no bulbing, and can be grown anywhere.

The rhizomes are noted for their antidiabetic and antibacterial properties, and are used for pneumonia, bronchitis, high fever, irritability and insomnia. Used in China for 2000 years.

An attractive green bell pepper with large 4-lobed fruits great for stuffing, pizza or salad. This disease resistant plant yield a lot of fruit. The vigorous plants have plenty of foliage for sunburn protection.

Pods are most tender when 7cm/3" long or less. Vigorous 1m/4ft high plants produce straight spineless pods that are excellent in soups, stews and relishes. First introduced in 1939 this variety is now the most popular on the market.

Ht. 60-75cm (24-32”). Matures slightly later than standard Genovese basils and is slower to bolt. It is similar to Genovese basil but the scent and taste are sweeter and milder. Popular variety with large medium dark green leaves from 2.5” to 4”...

First fusarium-resistant variety of sweet basil. This is an important development for commercial growers and for basil lovers who have lived through the frustration of watching fusarium infected plants wilt and die almost overnight.

Ht. 2m/70-80in. The young leaves are tender and can be steamed or cooked in soups and the seeds can be ground into flour. The ornamental effect is so stunning it belies the fact that this is first and foremost a food plant.