Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Chicago

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

Great in soups, Crispy Salad Mix includes Green Pea, Green Lentils, and Red Lentils. They are great sprinkled over a salad, and can be mixed into soups and other dishes to add flavor and crunch.

(Sweet annie; Qing-guo)

First introduced in 1939 this variety is now the most popular on the market. Vigorous 1m/4ft high plants produce straight spineless pods that are excellent in soups, stews and relishes.

Height 60-90cm/2-3ft. (Asian water plantain; Ze xie) Aquatic herb found growing throughout the marshlands of Asia. The rhizomes are diuretic and antibacterial and are commonly used for urinary tract infections, cystitis, painful urination, and kidney...

(Chinese radish) A large radish with white carrot-shaped roots 30-40cm/6-8” long. Texture is crisp and tender and flavour is pungent. Sow in fall for spring harvest or in spring for early summer harvest.

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.

Abundant dark blue-green foliage is produced on late bolting plants. Use leaves in various dishes for flavoring. Use seeds for pickling. Certified Organic Seed.

Produces 10kg/25lb fruits with juicy flesh that is bright red with old fashioned sweet flavour and fine texture. Great for slicing, in fruit salads and juicing...the rind is quite thick and lends itself to being its own tureen or punch bowl for soups...

The meaty tomatoes are not the prettiest around but they get up to 1-2 pounds in size. Called the "Mortgage Lifter" because, in the 1920s, William Estler in Virginia was able to avert bankruptcy by selling enough plants to pay off his mortgage.

Vigorous tall growing herb; one of the first to return in spring. Can replace meat and bone stock in soups. Leaves possess excellent flavouring qualities for soups, stews and casseroles.

A commercial Italian variety bred for compactness and uniformity. Leaves are dark green, somewhat smaller than standard sweet varieties. Very attractive. Excellent for pot production or for field production.

This traditional Italian heirloom variety is renowned for its flavor — nutty and delicious with a crisp and tender texture. When you buy organic seed, you have the assurance that the seed was grown without synthetic chemicals and you are supporting...

Prolific yellow squash with excellent firm, fine-grained flesh. Club-shaped fruits are best eaten when 10-15cm/4-6" long. Delicious sliced and sauteed with zucchini, onion, garlic and herbs in olive oil and and butter.

Compact, narrow foliage; flowers lavender-blue.

A tall annual or biennial, easy to grow from seeds. It is used as an emmenagogue (increases milk flow) and helps to relieve PMS. (Yi mu cao) One of the 50 fundamental herbs in Chinese medicine.

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

Good mid season variety with solid deep red head weighing about 2kg/5lb. Slow to burst, forms a tight, dense head with small core. Crisp and tender, adds colour to salads and fine flavour to cooked dishes.

Simply place this Seedsheet on top of a container full of potting mix, secure with the included stakes, and water! When it's time to harvest, you'll be ready to bring fresh flavors to your salads! All Seedsheet components are sourced from within the US...

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

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

Mild flavour and early maturing round bright red with pure white, crisp interior is a garden favourite. Somewhat heat tolerant.

This weed-blocking fabric Seedsheet has four seed-filled pods that dissolve upon contact with water, "planting" the seeds in the soil below. Kit includes seed pods for three sweet basil plants, and one deliciously juicy Glacier tomato plant.

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.

Said to possess superior medicinal action. (Pot marigold) Commercial strain used for medicinal flower production in Europe.