Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Maryland

Not an heirloom, but deserving a place with them, it produces 3-4 oz fruits over a long season. A delicious addition to the summer salad bowl, green striped fruits with golden blush are full of tart, luscious flavour.

Much loved by bees, it is an excellent choice for meadow gardens. A hardy perennial, it prefers open, sunny locations, and loamy soil. John Gerard´s (1633) says "the decoction of Prunell made with wine or water doth joine together and make whole and...

Flat leaved variety from Japan. Has become popular wherever regular chives are used. Irresistable combination of garlic and chives. Showy white flowers.

Dense dark green doubly curled leaves. Suitable for home gardens and commercial production. Excellent for flavouring and garnishes.

(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.

Matures in 50 days and keeps producing for an extended time. Fruits are ready to eat when 15-20cm/6-8" long. Excellent for cooking and for freezing. A zucchini squash with greenish-black skin and tender creamy-white flesh.

Grows as a vine but can bear big crops in small spaces. Fruits are 20-30cm/8-10" long, 10cm/4" across, and weigh 1.5kg/3lbs. Delicious steamed, roasted and toasted, stuffed, or even raw in salads.

Keeps its buttery sweetness well even in the heat of summer and is more bolt-resistant than other butterhead varieties. A long time favourite of gardeners with crisp, dark green, reddish-tinged leaves and a yellowish-white heart.

It has a very fine corn flavour which is why it remains a favourite today. It is good on the cob too when young, and can be fried or roasted. Appalachian favourite from at least 1845 with beautiful maroon and dark red ears.

Try adding chopped young leaves and flowers to salads or summer drinks. Known as the Herb of Gladness for its exhilarating effect. On those sweltering summer days, cool off with iced borage tea, adding honey and lemon juice to taste.

Stands heat well and does not become bitter. Lovely oakleaf-shaped leaves in hues of burgundy, maroon and crimson.

The visual effect is like an abstract expressionist painting, mesmerizing if you let yourself get drawn into the detail. (Japanese mustard) The deeply frilled foliage has beautiful red streaks set against a green background.

It has anti-inflammatory effects and is used to treat swelling. It can reach 2-3m (6-10ft) in height. There is strong evidence that it has direct immunomodulating effects by controlling the cytokines that mediate immune response.

Leaves can be used fresh or added to pasta dishes. Extremely cold hardy and a very quick and easy crop. (Wild arugula) Wild relative of the ever popular roquette or arugula salad green.

Good for freezing and canning. High yielding, with tender, meaty flat pods, slow to develop fibre and seeds.

Dark green, glossy leaves, strong flavour. Adds true European character to soups and stews. Our favourite type because flavour is extra rich. Taller, has larger leaves than standard strain.

They also make a most decorative container at the dinner table for other foods when scooped out. The flavour is pleasantly nutty. They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across.

A tall Mexican heirloom vegetable with impressive large deep red flower spikes and bronze-green foliage. The young leaves are tender and can be steamed or cooked in soups and the seeds can be ground into flour.

Real show stoppers in the garden and for flower arrangements. Very tender, delicious flavour and crunch. Beautiful technicolour ornamental edible Swiss chard with big bright green leaves and stems in shades of either red, orange, purple, yellow or white.

Heirloom variety from the 1800s. Early summer variety. Curved, club shaped fruit grows to 22cm/9” long with golden-yellow skin and creamy texture with a nutty sweet flavour, that can be eaten raw with dips, steamed, grilled, or poached in broth and...

Heirloom variety producing 3”/8cm oval fruits on vigorous vines. Adds colour to salads, good for slicing and pickling. Very prolific, delicate flavour with slight lemony fragrance in late stages of development.

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

A very nice white radish with strong vigour and good resistance to cracking. A nice change from ordinary red radishes!

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

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

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