Organic Seeds Seeds Plants For Sale In Durham

Ht. 25-60cm/10-24". Excellent for Asian stir-fries or fresh-chopped in salads, omelettes or anywhere regular chives are used. Plants are taller, more vigorous and higher yielding. Award-winning variety with bigger, broader leaves than regular garlic chives.

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

Rich flavour without the strong metallic overtone as some heat tolerant varieties have. Long standing variety with thick, textured, dark green leaves very rich in iron and perfect for salads, soup or lightly steamed.

Leaves are delicious when young in salads, and larger leaves can be steamed, stir fried, or sauted. Impressive in borders, cottage gardens, containers, and in vegetable gardens. With a prominent display of bright crimson stalks and dark green crinkly...

72 days to maturity. 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.

Introduced prior to 1864. Very productive pole bean with meaty pods of distinctive flavour, rich in vitamins A and C, iron and calcium with very good keeping qualities.

A dent corn, it is mainly dried and ground into cornmeal for making cornbread and the southern specialty, cornpone, a type of cornbread made in a skillet. Plants are tall, up to 4m/12ft, and each stalk produces two large ears with about half a pound of...

Like red clover, the dried flowers can be used for tea. The young flowers can be used in salads too. A nitrogen-fixing legume, it is an excellent green manure plant that will improve soil fertility and boost organic content.

Useful as a stimulating, tonic herb, it is contraindicated in autoimmune conditions. Young leaves and sprouts are added to sandwiches and salads. Sending its roots down 20 feet, it aerates and enriches the soil by fixing nitrogen.

Treatments are thought to harmonize spleen and liver meridians, treat “wind-moist” conditions as well as combat migraines and rheumatism. Laserworts roots are thick (1in/2cm). Now researched for its analgesic, antipyretic, and antibacterial qualities.

Imagine tossing these tasty peppery leaves into your next salad. The visual effect is like an abstract expressionist painting, mesmerizing if you let yourself get drawn into the detail.

Club-shaped fruits are best eaten when 10-15cm/4-6" long. Prolific yellow squash with excellent firm, fine-grained flesh. Bushy plants are heavy yielders, starting in 45-60 days. Delicious sliced and sauteed with zucchini, onion, garlic and herbs in olive...

Young blossoms are edible as well! 55 days. Used sliced fresh at all stages in salads or as crudite, steamed or sauteed with herbs and garlic, grilled on the barbeque or in tantalizing zucchini bread.

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.

The skin is blue-green and shiny, and the flesh is deep orange, succulent and sweet. (Shamrock squash; Triangle squash) An old Australian variety with a deeply lobed shape like a shamrock.

Leaves applied with honey soothe external sores and ulcers. (Wild carrot) Infusion is used in the treatment of dropsy, chronic kidney disease and bladder afflictions.

True is camphor basil, a completely different plant. Although recognized as sacred by Hindus, this variety is often confused with sacred or holy basil ( ). Possibly a natural hybrid between and .

The heat is mildly hot, about 2,000-4,000 Scoville units. It is not uncommon to get 25-30 of these from a single plant. Anaheim type with huge peppers that get up to 20cm/8" long and 5cm/2" wide and weigh up to 4oz each.

Grows in deep, well-drained fertile soil in full sun. Violet flowers appear in the second year, reaching 80-160cm/30-60in in height. Has been studied by Russian scientists used in the Russian athletic training program for decades.

Delicious raw or stewed, and in salsa verde. Considered by many to be the best flavoured tomatillo. A traditional variety that produces deep, wine-stained fruit, sweeter than other varieties.

The seeds are gluten-free, so they are safe to use for everyone. Eat 2 tablespoons per day and you should be safe as well as able to enjoy all nutritious benefits of chia seeds. Consuming some chia seed pudding, drink, or other dishes with this food every...

An heirloom seed that produces a pear-shaped rosy-red fruit, resistant to splitting and cracking.

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