Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Lansing

Large, dark green glossy leaves on thick sturdy stems. This is a nice compact Genovese basil well suited for pot production and for fresh cut use in the field. Has intermediate resistance to fusarium.

Club-shaped fruits are best eaten when 10-15cm/4-6" long. Prolific yellow squash with excellent firm, fine-grained flesh. Bushy plants are heavy yielders, starting in 45-60 days. Delicious sliced and sauteed with zucchini, onion, garlic and herbs in olive...

This is the true strain used in Vietnamese and Thai cooking. Similar to anise basil, but the flavour and fragrance is distinctively less licorice-like. Essential fresh cut accompaniment to many Vietnamese dishes, including pho, a famous beef or chicken...

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

Black fruits and large purple flowers create quite a nice ornamental effect. Similar to jalapeno pepper in shape and size. Pods start off green, turn jet black, and slowly ripen to red.

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. The leaves are also speckled.

Ideal for cooked vegetables, soups, stews, casseroles and quiches. (Onion green; Bunching onion) A bulbless perennial onion green like chives, but has larger leaves and a stronger, zesty flavour.

An heirloom seed that produces a pear-shaped rosy-red fruit, resistant to splitting and cracking.

The ornamental effect is so stunning it belies the fact that this is first and foremost a food plant. A tall Mexican heirloom vegetable with impressive large deep red flower spikes and bronze-green foliage.

The name is pronounced "stoo-peetz-eh". Tomatoes are bright red, the size of golf balls, and come even in cool weather. It may have a funny name but it is a seriously good heirloom tomato from the old Czechoslovakia.

Stringless, tender yellow pods with a light and delicate buttery flavour, good fresh, canned or frozen.

Anaheim type with huge peppers that get up to 20cm/8" long and 5cm/2" wide and weigh up to 4oz each. The heat is mildly hot, about 2,000-4,000 Scoville units. It is not uncommon to get 25-30 of these from a single plant.

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

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

Large-leaf type from the Genoa area of Italy, the pesto capital of the world.

Fast growing Genovese type suited for year round pot production. Uniform, erect habit. Leaves are medium large to large with dark green colour.

Grows as a vine but can bear big crops in small spaces. 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.

Favourite of cat lovers, for cats relish the intoxicating leaves. Remedy for colds and fevers. Tea is a popular nightcap, as it induces a good night's sleep.

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

It spreads by underground rhizome like grasses, but unlike grasses it has fragrant yellow-white or light purple flowers that open in the evening late summer and autumn. Chinese medicinal herb that looks and grows like a tall grass but isn't.

Very productive pole bean with meaty pods of distinctive flavour, rich in vitamins A and C, iron and calcium with very good keeping qualities. Introduced prior to 1864.

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

Grow like garden peas. An English heirloom grown since at least the 1800s. When the glossy green pods are 10-18cm/4-7in long they are ready to shell. Each pod contains 5-7 flat oblong beans for fresh or dry use.

Heirloom Italian variety producing small, deep blue-green central heads with numerous side shoots throughout the season. Seeds are used as sprouts, similar to alfalfa, for a nutritious addition to sandwiches or salads.

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.