Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Aurora

Spicy leaves are excellent in mixed salads or alone, and they are delicious steamed and tossed with sesame oil and soy sauce or stir fried with ginger and bok choy and chicken. Can even be grown in containers.

(False saffron) Important source of good quality cooking oil, and yellow or red dyes. Thistlelike flowerheads colour silk, wool, rouge and are used as a saffron substitute in rice dishes.

(Wild carrot) Infusion is used in the treatment of dropsy, chronic kidney disease and bladder afflictions. Leaves applied with honey soothe external sores and ulcers.

(Sunburst squash) Distinctive small disk-like squash with scalloped edges, like a toy top or a flying saucer. The flavour is pleasantly nutty. They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across.

It is used as an emmenagogue (increases milk flow) and helps to relieve PMS. A tall annual or biennial, easy to grow from seeds. It is also considered the number one herb in Chinese medicine for the treatment of infertility.

The taste is agreeably bitter with an underlying base of sweetness. Good tolerance to both warm and cool weather. Sow direct in spring like leaf lettuce. It looks like a dandelion but it is actually a type of chicory popular in Italy for salads.

The stalks get only 120-150cm/4-5ft tall, so the plants blend in well with ornamental grasses or at the back of the garden. They are gorgeous for fall decorations, and of course they are great for popping.

The demand for fresh wheatgrass juice is growing, and businesses have emerged to supply frozen cubes of wheatgrass juice to the many people who have decided to do something about their health.

The leaves are also speckled. The bright red flesh is very sweet. An heirloom variety with large 40-pound dark-green oval fruits speckled with bright-yellow star and moon-shaped splashes.

Rich in vitamin A, this early maturing, brilliant orange colour, coreless crispy variety is of exceptional sweet flavour! Great for juicing, freezing or fresh use.

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

Suitable for container gardens where adequate watering can be ensured. Taller and more tolerant of heat than other varieties. 80 days to maturity. A tender, sweet celery, not as fibrous as other varieties, but with a nice crisp snap that makes it perfect...

Royal Horticultural Society Award Winner in 2010. A salad onion that adds an unmistakeable splash of colour and flavour to any dish. (Onion green; Bunching onion) Attractive green stalks look like they have been dipped in wine! Bulbs are stained a deep...

Mildly hot at 6,000 Scoville units. A good dependable choice for cooler areas where other hot peppers do not do well. Versatile hot banana pepper that can be served stuffed, fried, pickled, or just added fresh to salads.

Indeterminate habit; needs support. The flavour is rich and deeply satisfying, with -- well -- a hint of plum! The fruits are dark because they accumulate anthocyanins which have potent antioxidant properties.

Its seeds, which do not contain alkaloids, are widely used on breads, cakes, bagels and in Middle Eastern delicacies. A beautiful cool season annual with a mixture of single and double flowers in a riot of colours from pink to purple but most are blood...

It also has an antibacterial action. 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,...

Compact, narrow foliage; flowers lavender-blue.

Spread 18in (45cm). Easy to grow and blooms from July to September. Bees love the vibrant coloured flowers! Leaf infusion makes an uplifting tea. Height 40in (100cm). Prefers well-drained, moist, loam in full sun.

Plants are compact and bushy and will do well in containers and in the garden. Only 30-38cm/12-15" tall. (Christmas tree pepper) As the small (5cm/2") peppers mature they "turn on" like Christmas lights -- in a riot of red, orange, yellow and purple.

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.

Give your salads a kick! Add a little tang flavor to our meals with our Spicy Sprouts Mix. Of seed per ounce. Spicy Salad Mix includes clover and radish. Great for topping sandwiches or adding to salads.

Peppery leaves and fragrant flowers are delicious added fresh to salads. Double flowers of light yellow, orange and deep red. Or for fun freeze the flowers in ice cubes for drinks.

Needs some winter protection. Preferred by the French. (Summer thyme) Narrow leaves, distinctly greyer and sweeter than English.

Like the yellow variety, this is a distinctive small disk-like squash with scalloped edges, like a toy top or a flying saucer. The flavour is pleasantly nutty. They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across.