Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Rockford

(Hibiscus) Lovely flowers known throughout the tropics for their flavouring qualities. Tea made with the fleshy calyces has a lemony flavour and beautiful ruby colour. Requires a long hot growing season.

Excellent for seasoning, and for basil vinegar which turns a beautiful red colour. Dark purplish-bronze foliage. Former All-American award winner, famous for its pure dark purple foliage, but in recent years it has become about 25% green.

(Asian water plantain; Ze xie) Aquatic herb found growing throughout the marshlands of Asia. Can be grown indoors in a pot with in muddy soil. Creamy white, pale rose flowers appear July-Sept.

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.

Important herb of the Orient: cough remedy is prepared from the roots; wholesome young foliage added to salads. Interesting profuse blue flowers resemble balloons just before opening.

(Dalmatian sage) The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like pork or duck. Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes.

Indian heirloom that is really, really delicious! The fruits start off white and turn golden-yellow and then to a russet brown. Will climb 2m/6ft up a trellis. The crunchy texture works well in stir fries and Asian noodle dishes.

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.

(Huang-qin) Important Chinese medicinal herb: prescribed for fevers, colds, hypertension, insomnia, headaches, hepatitis, diphtheria, shingles, and other ailments. Must have good drainage, and does not transplant well; otherwise easy to grow and very...

Appalachian favourite from at least 1845 with beautiful maroon and dark red ears. Plants are tall, up to 4m/12ft, and each stalk produces two large ears with about half a pound of kernels each.

Piping hot white habanero chile. Wrinkled lantern-shaped pods are used fresh or dried in salsas, chutneys, marinades. Heat: 100,000-350,000 Scoville units. Thrives in hot sunny spots, a little on the dry side.

Rich tasting old Italian cultivar with small heads projected well above the foliage. For spring or fall crops. Long harvesting period. Ideal for dips, stir fries, or steamed.

An heirloom variety with large 40-pound dark-green oval fruits speckled with bright-yellow star and moon-shaped splashes. The bright red flesh is very sweet. The leaves are also speckled.

Flowers all summer in full sun or partial shade. Or for fun freeze the flowers in ice cubes for drinks. Peppery leaves and fragrant flowers are delicious added fresh to salads. Double flowers of light yellow, orange and deep red.

Heirloom Italian variety producing small, deep blue-green central heads with numerous side shoots throughout the season. Very tender and mild tasting, good raw in salads and with dips, or lightly steamed, drizzled with herb butter.

Adapts well to different growing situations and does well in spring or autumn. A beautiful spinach with succulent oval dark green leaves that stand upright, ready for easy harvest.

Good flavour and resistant to powdery mildew. Pickling cucumber developed at Cornell University with white skin and black spines, 8-12cm/3-5" long.

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. Useful as a stimulating, tonic herb, it is contraindicated in autoimmune conditions.

Although this variety was meant for commercial growers, it does equally well in home gardens. (Chinese parsley) An outstanding Israeli variety developed to resist bolting (early flowering) in hot summer weather.

Plant seeds in early spring for fall harvest. Heritage variety from the 1800s with compact growth of medium size pure white heads, mild flavour, excellent keeper and suitable cooked, raw or frozen.

Broad tapered roots with red core, light orange flesh. Heirloom variety, good for heavier soils. Keeps well in storage, retaining its ‘real' carrot flavour, sweet and smooth! 65 days

Liven up tacos with freshly harvested fixings. This weed-blocking fabric Seedsheet is embedded with seed-filled pods that dissolve upon contact with water, "planting" the seeds in the planting mix below.

Heat: 100,000-300,000 Scoville units. If you like heat and flavour... This is a good one! Mushroom shaped, thin walled, green to bright yellow, fiery hot taste similar to Habanero types.

No heirloom tomato garden is complete without the addition of one green tomato, and this is the one. Unmistakable green tomato flavour in a striking jewel-green fruit. 70-80 days to maturity.

A beautiful heritage onion variety from Italy where it is often seen braided like garlic and hung in kitchens. Where winters are mild it can be planted in the fall for early harvest next summer.

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.

The fruits will be ready to harvest in 105 days. Averaging 4-6 lbs. 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.