Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Inglewood

Few know that the leaves are edible. The tea has been used for coughs, colds and fever. Leaves can also be cooked like spinach. The young flowers can be used in salads too. Like red clover, the dried flowers can be used for tea.

Ht. 15-30cm/6-12" It attacks cancer cells without damaging healthy cells, quite unlike most chemotherapy drugs in use today. It is also commonly used to reduce inflammation. (Ban zhi lian; Barbat scullcap) An important restorative remedy for the nervous...

Freezes well, retaining the full, sweet flavour and colour. Sets double pods, very productive vines over a long period of time. Light green, smooth edible pods 10cm/4” long by 2cm/3/4”diameter with a mild flavour good for eating raw, in stir fries...

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

Surprisingly sweet, they are great in salads or pickled. Plants are compact and bushy and will do well in containers and in the garden. (Christmas tree pepper) As the small (5cm/2") peppers mature they "turn on" like Christmas lights -- in a riot of red,...

Can be used for popcorn. An attractive Indian heirloom corn with kernels that come in a medley of red, brown, gold and cream colours. But what's really striking about this corn are the unique red and white stalks and husks that make great displays in...

Can be pureed or mashed for soups, casseroles, breads, and muffins. Fruits are 20-30cm/8-10" long, 10cm/4" across, and weigh 1.5kg/3lbs. Butternut type with smooth light-tan skin, orange flesh and nutty taste.

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

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. Sow in early spring.

Very tender and mild tasting, good raw in salads and with dips, or lightly steamed, drizzled with herb butter. Seeds are used as sprouts, similar to alfalfa, for a nutritious addition to sandwiches or salads.

Main ingredient in chili sauces, curries and exotic dishes. Variety grown for its seeds. Seeds add fresh, spicy flavour to soups and stews.

Sometimes has green “shoulders.” Indeterminate. An heirloom variety believed to be over a hundred years old, a legacy of the Cherokee Indians. Resembling a beefsteak tomato in size and shape, with dramatic, dusky pink-purple fruit.

Resistant to downy mildew. Low in geosmin, the substance that gives other beetroot varieties an unpleasant earthy taste. Roots are globular, 6-8cm/2.5-3" across with smooth skin. Prolific variety with blood red roots and red-tinged green tops.

How this escaped wider attention we don't know, but we are sure that it will become a staple in home gardens in the coming years. Our good friend Karen O'Brien, owner of Green Woman's Garden near Boston, treated us to a summer lunch in which she served...

Source of an excellent quality cooking oil. Familiar large yellow sunflowers are a favourite of children. Large seeded variety well filled with meat. Valued for its highly nutritious seeds eaten roasted or raw.

His beefsteak-like variety was in such demand because it produced so well. 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...

Also used as a vaginal wash against trichomoniasis, and to treat scabies and fungal diseases. (She chuang) Chinese stimulant and aphrodisiac used to treat impotency.

Laserworts roots are thick (1in/2cm). Treatments are thought to harmonize spleen and liver meridians, treat “wind-moist” conditions as well as combat migraines and rheumatism. Now researched for its analgesic, antipyretic, and antibacterial qualities.

Regardless of its origin, this is one great tasting, hearty tomato with sweet dense flesh and relatively few seeds. The variety name was badly translated and should really be "Japanese Black Truffle".

Sown in early spring for harvest before hot weather or in mid-to-late summer for fall harvest. Flowering stems and leaves have pleasant bitter flavour when cooked, steamed or sauteed.

Red clover is also efficacious for bronchial troubles, whooping cough, gastric troubles and ulcers. Many herbalists assert that the flowers taken as an infusion help prevent and even cure cancer.

Rich reddish-purple daisies appear from July to September. (Coneflower) Highly regarded blood purifier used in the treatment of diseases caused by impurities. Said to increase bodily resistance to infection by strengthening the immune system.

A potent 'adaptogen' that helps athletes increases endurance, reflexes an concentration, and helps them to recover faster from exertion. Seeds are said to respond to outdoor exposure in seed flats over winter, but we find that seeds germinate in flats...

Rose Gold is a very attractive and rich-tasting variety with red skin and yellow flesh. Yukon Gold is a yellow-fleshed potato renowned for its outstanding flavor and texture. Elba potatoes are a great beginners' variety with outstanding resistance to...

Heirloom variety of rose-coloured with white radish with crisp, tender mildly pungent flavour that is wonderful in salads, sliced thin on buttered bread, as a garnish or appetizer.

Ht. 30-38cm/12-15". Called in Persian, the fresh mixture is eaten on flat bread with tomato, green onions and cheese. Its strong hints of anise and lemon are woven into a delicious spicy flavour.