Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Richmond

Good keeper for winter storage. The roots can reach 10cm/4" in diameter but for best flavour and sweetness dig them when they are 8cm/3". Turnip-haters often find that they actually like this variety.

Sending its roots down 20 feet, it aerates and enriches the soil by fixing nitrogen. Well known fodder plant that allows that yields well even on poor land, alfalfa can be harvested multiple times in one season for hay or silage.

It is one of the best tasting edamame beans, with a sweet, buttery flavour. Ht. 60-90cm/2-3ft. It is not grown for the dry soybeans but rather for the tender green pods that are eaten like snap beans.

Can replace meat and bone stock in soups. Also gives the character to vegetable, meat and fish dishes. Vigorous tall growing herb; one of the first to return in spring. Flavour is reminiscent of celery, and of the famous yeast extract, Maggi.

It is slow to bolt so the harvest period can last months. Young leaves can be added raw to salads and larger leaves are steamed, stir-fried or sauteed with olive oil and garlic or onion.

Mibuna is regarded as a cold-season vegetable but is also heat-tolerant and doesn't bolt during the warm season. Quick crop: matures in 40 days, but baby leaves can be harvested in as few as 20 days.

Rich in vitamin A, this early maturing, brilliant orange colour, coreless crispy variety is of exceptional sweet flavour! Great for juicing, freezing or fresh use.

Tolerant to heat, drought and light frost. Still a huge favourite after more than 150 years, this leaf lettuce has crinkly light-green leaves that are tender and juicy.

But the green ripe tomatoes are delicious, fleshy, and "very fine for slicing and frying and especially for making delicious conserves." Fruits are medium-large, 10-16 ounces. Indeterminate vines.

Indeterminate habit; needs support. One of the darkest tomatoes known: it gets almost as dark as a plum when direct sunlight can reach the young fruits as they develop. The flavour is rich and deeply satisfying, with -- well -- a hint of plum! The fruits...

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

The variety is described as rugged and a heavy producer perhaps befitting of its Amish heritage. Sow direct in the garden in spring. The flavour is pleasantly sharp and nutty and the texture is quite good for fresh salad use.

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

Delicious steamed, roasted and toasted, stuffed, or even raw in salads. Can be pureed or mashed for soups, casseroles, breads, and muffins. Butternut type with smooth light-tan skin, orange flesh and nutty taste.

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. Long time standard honey dew variety for home gardens and farms.

The fruits mature from cream-white to orange to red, becoming mildly spicy. As many don't know, they are quite delicious as a fresh pepper for stuffing and salads. Like all peppers, they need to be started early indoors, 6-8 weeks before outdoor planting...

Its glossy leaves are painted with veins of creamy white which, according to tradition, originated from the milk of the Virgin which once fell upon a plant. Important tonic herb for the liver.

Of seed per ounce. Clover sprouts are very similar to alfalfa sprouts and are sweeter when they are yellow. Approximately 2.25 TBS. Clover sprouts contain the most significant dietary sources of isoflavons of any sprout variety.

Useful for palpitations, irritability and insomnia. Traditionally used to stabilize the heart and calm the nerves, and to lighten or to remove stagnant blood. Reduces blood pressure, improves circulation by dilating the blood vessels, and reduces blood...

Try them in homemade potato soup for a real treat. Easy to grow; can be picked anytime ground is not frozen. (Onion green; Bunching onion) A bulbless perennial onion green like chives, but has larger leaves and a stronger, zesty flavour.

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. Can even be grown in containers.

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.

Indeterminate; needs a tall, sturdy cage or other support. Begin harvesting in 78 days. You'll harvest loads of juicy, 1" cherry tomatoes all summer long. This variety has incredible flavor and good resistance to cracking.

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

Packet: 250 seeds.Carrots require well-drained soils, with a pH range of 6.0–6.8. Deep, loose, and fertile sandy loams and peat soils with good moisture-holding capacity grow the straightest and smoothest roots.

SANTO is the best variety for fresh herb production. Slowest to bolt, even in hot weather, very uniform, with good flavour and dark green colour. (Chinese parsley) The piquant flavour of fresh coriander leaves, so essential in authentic Chinese and Latin...