Organic Seeds Seeds Plants For Sale In Costa Mesa

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. Try adding chopped young leaves and flowers to salads or summer drinks.

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

Stores well, lasting up to 3-5 months. Slow to bolt, a feature that enhances its large size. A very attractive round onion with yellow-brown skin and large uniform shape, up to 3-4"/8-11cm across.

If allowed to grow for seven days, wheat reaches the "grass" stage when it can be juiced for a nutritious drink. Approximately 2 TBS. Great for sprouts or juiced! Wheat sprouts are amazingly sweet and easy to sprout.

(Chinese parsley) The piquant flavour of fresh coriander leaves, so essential in authentic Chinese and Latin American cuisines, has become very popular in recent years. Slowest to bolt, even in hot weather, very uniform, with good flavour and dark green...

Refreshing hot or iced. Requires a long hot growing season. (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.

Excellent for both pickling and slicing. A good keeper for winter storage. A beautiful heritage onion variety from Italy where it is often seen braided like garlic and hung in kitchens.

Sow direct in the garden in spring. The variety is described as rugged and a heavy producer perhaps befitting of its Amish heritage. Like the red deer tongue variety, this is a very nice leaf lettuce with tongue-shaped leaves.

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

Large pumpkin often weighing up to 45kg/100lb ripening to a pinkish orange with very thick flesh. Can be used as jack-o-lantern and is ideal for entering into fairs for competition on heaviest squash! 120 days.

(Summer thyme) Narrow leaves, distinctly greyer and sweeter than English. Needs some winter protection. Preferred by the French.

The fruits get up to 4kg/10lb in size and store well, keeping their flavour through the winter. (Shamrock squash; Triangle squash) An old Australian variety with a deeply lobed shape like a shamrock.

Ground pods and a little soap in water is a useful insect-repellent for the garden. Heat: 30,000-50,000 Scoville units. Valuable home remedy with stimulant, blood pressure-regulating, digestive and anti-flatulent properties.

The dark green leaves with attractive red midribs are picked young, when less than 25cm/10in high. Good tolerance to both warm and cool weather. It looks like a dandelion but it is actually a type of chicory popular in Italy for salads.

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.

It is also considered the number one herb in Chinese medicine for the treatment of infertility. A tall annual or biennial, easy to grow from seeds. It is used as an emmenagogue (increases milk flow) and helps to relieve PMS.

Sometimes has green “shoulders.” Indeterminate. 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.

The pods were absolutely incredible! They had a sharp but pleasant radishy taste, with a very nice crunchy texture. We couldn't get enough of them, finishing them off immediately before we got to anything else! It turns out this little known veggie is...

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.

A good dependable choice for cooler areas where other hot peppers do not do well. Mildly hot at 6,000 Scoville units. Versatile hot banana pepper that can be served stuffed, fried, pickled, or just added fresh to salads.

Root used in Chinese medicine to treat toothache and headache and externally for mastitis and infected wounds. Has antipyretic, analgesic and antibacterial action.

To prevent greening, cover exposed crowns.Blights can reduce yield and quality. We recommend using pelleted seed within one year of purchase. For minimum soil compaction, use raised beds with 2 or 3 rows 16–24" apart, beds 5–6' on center.

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

Ht. 30-38cm/12-15". (Reyhan) This is an award-winning basil that was developed from a traditional variety known as in Persia and Turkey. This basil is unique and will inspire creativity in the kitchen! Try it in salads, sandwiches, with fish, cheese or...

Succulent leaves used in salads, stir frys, sauteed or in casseroles. Real show stoppers in the garden and for flower arrangements. Beautiful technicolour ornamental edible Swiss chard with big bright green leaves and stems in shades of either red, orange,...

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