Organic Seeds Seeds For Sale In Madison

It can be cooked and eaten like cauliflower or broccoli but is less bland than cauliflower and less bitter than broccoli. For the math nerds in the kitchen, the heads are a stunning example of fractal-like design with repeating spirals of cones.

Big Italian type green bean with a flat pod, a cross between the Romano and Kentucky Wonder. Noticeably bigger than other beans, and very flavourful.

A zucchini squash with greenish-black skin and tender creamy-white flesh. Excellent for cooking and for freezing. Fruits are ready to eat when 15-20cm/6-8" long. Bushy plants take minimum space, perfect for crowded city gardens.

Harvest leaves before the plant flowers and sets seed for best flavour. The plant prefers a rich, well-drained soil in a sunny position, but will tolerate poor soil. Seed requires light and may take several weeks to germinate.

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

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

Many herbalists assert that the flowers taken as an infusion help prevent and even cure cancer. In his legendary book, Back to Eden (see book section of this catalogue), Jethro Kloss wrote, Red clover is an exceedingly good remedy for cancer on any part...

This onion-flavored chive is excellent fresh or cooked. Hardy perennial 12 in. This variety is pest and disease resistant. Vigorous, upright growth with fine, dark blue-green leaves.

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

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

Leaves possess excellent flavouring qualities for soups, stews and casseroles. Flavour is reminiscent of celery, and of the famous yeast extract, Maggi. Can replace meat and bone stock in soups.

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

Intensely fragrant of lemon. Ideal for tea and potpourri. Compact bush habit.

This variety includes a mix of all our favorite beets including deep red, golden, and candy striped roots topped by nutritious bright green, dark green with red ribs, and dark red foliage.

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

Long, and can get up to over 10kg. A rare family heirloom from Georgia with white seeds and yellow flesh of excellent flavour. Some think this is the melon that used to be shipped years ago from Bermuda to some Southern states around Christmas time.

(Dutch clover; Ladino clover) Excellent ground cover and lawn replacement suitable for sunny, well-drained locations. The young leaves picked before the flowers appear can be used raw in salads.

A large leaf basil has high oil content and hence a stronger aroma and flavour than other varieties. Excellent for pesto and other typical basil uses. Suited for greenhouse and field production.

All Season Cabbage Seed produces fine, large heads that are 10 in. This cabbage is both heat and drought tolerant. As the name states, this cabbage is good for fall or winter as well as it is for early market.

(Mexican chia; Chia sage; Spanish sage)

Grow like garden peas. 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. Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in long, can be eaten...

Interesting form of basil with strong spicy fragrance and flavour. Possibly a natural hybrid between and . Although recognized as sacred by Hindus, this variety is often confused with sacred or holy basil ( ).

Tops are used as cooked greens. Attractive, bright golden-orange roots, are best eaten when small, but retain their sweet flavour and do not become fibrous when larger. Excellent pickled, in salads, gourmet borscht or grilled.

Italian heirloom brought to America in the 1880's by the Nardello family from the Basilicata region. Super sweet and flavorful pepper, can be used green or red. Flesh is medium thick, excellent for slicing into salads or sauteing with onions or potatoes.

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

60 days from transplant. The exceptionally beautiful 1½” wide by 8” long mature fruit of this green to yellow pepper is both flavorful and sweet. Grow along with Belcanto F1 and Oranos F1 for a mix of early conical-shaped sweet peppers.