Organic Seeds Seeds Plants For Sale In Calgary

Yellow currant-sized fruits grow in clusters, and have intense sweet flavour, and are less acidic than the red variety. Indeterminate, vigorous vines with heavy foliage. Perfect for relish trays, salads and snacking.

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

Holds well and retains good color. Introduced by Burpee over 100 years ago this large-fruited variety is still popular today. Smooth black oval fruits are 16cm/6.5" long, 13cm/5" across, and average 1kg/2lb.

The leaves are also speckled. 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.

It is excellent raw, with a creamy, nutty flavour and makes a nice change when served as finger food with dips. "Roman cauliflower" might be a more apt name for this traditional Italian vegetable because its distinctive light-green heads resemble cauliflower...

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

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

Delicious eaten fresh by itself or added to salads. No heirloom tomato garden is complete without the addition of one green tomato, and this is the one. 70-80 days to maturity. Unmistakable green tomato flavour in a striking jewel-green fruit.

These store well for winter use and are delicious baked, steamed or grilled using your favourite herb blend. Unique, turban shaped fruit, deep dark green skin flecked and striped with grey.

Exceptionally hardy, surviving harsh winters without protection. Ht. 30-35cm/12-15". Heirloom kale from the 1860s. It survived weeks of 35C plus temperatures with no problems. Normally kale is planted in fall for winter growing but this variety does well...

Leaves can also be cooked like spinach. The tea has been used for coughs, colds and fever. The young flowers can be used in salads too. The young leaves picked before the flowers appear can be used raw in salads.

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

(Coneflower) Highly regarded blood purifier used in the treatment of diseases caused by impurities. Rich reddish-purple daisies appear from July to September. Said to increase bodily resistance to infection by strengthening the immune system.

Source of an excellent quality cooking oil. Familiar large yellow sunflowers are a favourite of children. Large seeded variety well filled with meat. Valued for its highly nutritious seeds eaten roasted or raw.

Pinch back to keep from going to seed. Since the time of the Aztecs it has been used to treat intestinal parasites and flatulence, and an early innovation may have been to add it to foods as a preventative measure.

Chile fans say this variety is better than the traditional jalapeno variety for smoked chipotles. Black fruits and large purple flowers create quite a nice ornamental effect. Heat: 2,500 Scoville units.

The whole plant can be used, and an infusion of leaves with mint is an excellent nutritious tea, rich in easily assimlated vitamins, minerals and trace elements, including protein, calcium and iron.

With its colour, strong fragrance, and long deep purple stems, this also makes an excellent cutflower. It tolerates heavy cutting well so multiple cuttings are possible. And it may be resistant to downy mildew according to one report.

Known as when dried by smoking. Best known hot chile, 5-7cm/2-3” long, 2-3cm/1-1.5” in diameter. Heat: 2,500-8,000 Scoville units. Used fresh either green or ripe red in salsa, stews, breads, sauces, dips, or just about anything that needs spicing...

Matures slightly later than standard Genovese basils and is slower to bolt. Popular variety with large medium dark green leaves from 2.5” to 4” long. Ht. 60-75cm (24-32”). It is similar to Genovese basil but the scent and taste are sweeter and milder.

(Roquette) Strong tasting spinach-like green common in Mediterranean markets. Popular in salads, or cooked and served like spinach.

A color or kernels may vary from marsh-green to brown depending on the type of pumpkin. Organic Sprouted Pumpkin Seeds contains a lot of vitamins and minerals, such as: Young shoots lose their healing properties after 20 minutes after cutting.

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

Also excellent as a microgreen. This is a "radish green" grown for its spicy leafy greens and not for bulbous stems typical of other radish varieties. Very easy to grow. The fresh greens, with their pink stems and smooth lobed leaves, are gorgeous when...

Heat: 30,000-50,000 Scoville units. Red hot chiles, 5-10cm/2-4” long and 1cm/0.5” in diameter, are indispensable in Mexican, Indonesian and Italian dishes. Ground pods and a little soap in water is a useful insect-repellent for the garden.