Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Iowa

(Sweet annie; Qing-guo)

When seeded less thickly the leaves form a compact, thick rosette in 45 days, perfect for bunching. When seeded thickly the small dark green baby greens are ready to harvest in 21 days after sowing.

When sprouted in darkness for two or three days, wheat sprouts are tender and sweet, with a taste similar to watermelon. If allowed to grow for seven days, wheat reaches the "grass" stage when it can be juiced for a nutritious drink.

Mature fruits are attractive, smooth skinned, medium green in colour 18cm/6-7” long, 5cm/2” diameter. Harvest young fruits at 8cm/2-3” for making pickles. Bitter free cucumber at all slicing stages.

The sweet flesh is a luscious lime-green with high sugar content, and seed cavities are small so you get plenty of flesh per fruit. Fruits are large, up to 6 lbs, with a pale-green rind that ripens to light gold.

Delicious sliced and sauteed with zucchini, onion, garlic and herbs in olive oil and and butter. Club-shaped fruits are best eaten when 10-15cm/4-6" long. Bushy plants are heavy yielders, starting in 45-60 days.

For fresh use as “dillweed”, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Finely cut foliage.

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 and summer libation. Produces 10kg/25lb fruits with juicy flesh that is bright red with old fashioned sweet flavour...

(Magenta spreen; Purple goosefoot; Giant lambsquarters) With a splash of magenta at the stem tips this is a one hot new green for the garden, suited for salads, omelettes, frittatas, quiches, curries and soups.

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

Good eaten fresh out of hand, or boiled, steamed or stir-fried. Fusarium resistant. Sugar Snap is an exceptional variety that produces sweet, succulent pods that can be allowed to mature to produce peas.

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

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

And it may be resistant to downy mildew according to one report. A stunning basil with large burgundy flower bracts. The leaves can be used like any other sweet basil, but you can also pick the red flower bracts and sprinkle them over salads, egg dishes,...

These store well for winter use and are delicious baked, steamed or grilled using your favourite herb blend. Flesh is deep orange with moist and very fine texture and sweet flavour that is high in fibre and beta carotene.

Very resistant to bolting. Suited for both field production and yearround greenhouse production. Uniform, dark green variety for fresh market production.

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.

Excellent for slicing, in salads and also used for pickling when small. Vigorous productive vine produces straight, deep green fruit, 20cm/8” long, bright white flesh with bitter-free flavour.

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Invaluable in first-aid skin lotions and ointments. (Pot marigold) Flower petals give delicate flavour and strong colour to salads, omelettes and cheese, and is used as a saffron substitute for rice.

Long time popular variety.

Moderately thick flesh is yellow-orange, fine-grained, sweet and well flavoured. This is the standard pie pumpkin, also used for soups, grilling and mini- jack o lanterns. Fruit is small-22cm/9” diameter and weighing 2-3kg/5-6 lbs with deep orange,...

Old variety now popular once again. Compact rosettes of delicately thin, tender, light green oakleaf-shaped leaves that stand heat well and does not become bitter.

Heat: 5,000-30,000 Scoville units. They turn from white with green stripes to orange with brown stripes to solid red when mature. This pepper has been grown by the African-American community around Philadelphia and Baltimore for years, where its heat...

When you buy organic seed, you have the assurance that the seed was grown without synthetic chemicals and you are supporting farms and companies that are committed to organic agriculture.

Very mellow flavour when cooked with mild tasting bright green tops. The interior flesh, when sliced, is beautifully marked in alternating rings of cherry red and creamy white, making it very attractive sliced raw.