Organic Seeds Seeds Plants For Sale In Elgin

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

Small, plum shaped bright red fruit that is thick walled with meaty interior and few seeds. Fine tomato flavour that is excellent for paste, sauce, canning or freezing whole.

The leaves can be used like any other sweet basil, but you can also pick the red flower bracts and sprinkle them over salads, egg dishes, soup, etc. With its colour, strong fragrance, and long deep purple stems, this also makes an excellent cutflower.

The meaty tomatoes are not the prettiest around but they get up to 1-2 pounds in size. Called the "Mortgage Lifter" because, in the 1920s, William Estler in Virginia was able to avert bankruptcy by selling enough plants to pay off his mortgage.

Good eaten fresh out of hand, or boiled, steamed or stir-fried. Fusarium resistant. Sugar snap peas are also known as “mangetout” peas, meaning that both the pod and the peas can be eaten.

When the glossy green pods are 10-18cm/4-7in long they are ready to shell. Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in long, can be eaten like snap beans.

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

The wrinkled peppers are prized for pickling when still immature at about 6-8cm/2.5-3" long. But if you make your own pickles using this light golden variety you will not need any chemicals.

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.

Secure the seedsheet with the included stakes, and water! When it's time to harvest, you'll be ready to bring fresh flavors to any dish! The kit also includes a fabric growing container and planting mix.

Low in geosmin, the substance that gives other beetroot varieties an unpleasant earthy taste. Resistant to downy mildew. Roots are globular, 6-8cm/2.5-3" across with smooth skin. Prolific variety with blood red roots and red-tinged green tops.

5cm/2” fruits are good pickled or dried for seasoning. 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.

Dark green, glossy leaves, strong flavour. Taller, has larger leaves than standard strain. Our favourite type because flavour is extra rich. Adds true European character to soups and stews.

Serve this grain warm as it tastes best fresh. Nutrition-wise, organic millet grain gives you notable amounts of: You also get a little bit of calcium and selenium. It will taste great in baked goods and make them more crunchy.

Heat: 5,000-30,000 Scoville units. They turn from white with green stripes to orange with brown stripes to solid red when mature. This pepper has been grown by the African-American community around Philadelphia and Baltimore for years, where its heat...

The flavour is pleasantly nutty. They can be steamed whole, or hollowed out, stuffed and baked, or they can be sliced, sauteed in butter until golden brown. They also make a most decorative container at the dinner table for other foods when scooped out.

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.

Red clover blossoms are considered a women's herb because they contain phytoestrogens. They aren't dangerous, don't bite, and don't deal any damage to a building. Even in the unlikely occurrence of the seeds freezing on the way to your home, they can...

Beans are firm, plump and delicious, about 10-12cm/4-5in long. Ht. 90-120cm/36-48in. It is a cross between a purple snap bean and a pinto bean, developed by American bean breeder Robert Lobitz.

Highly productive bush bean producing deep green, stringless, fleshy tender pods of excellent quality, terrific for eating raw with dips or lightly steamed and served whole.

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

Our good friend Karen O'Brien, owner of Green Woman's Garden near Boston, treated us to a summer lunch in which she served fresh seed pods gathered from plants growing in her garden.

Heirloom kale from the 1860s. Exceptionally hardy, surviving harsh winters without protection. Normally kale is planted in fall for winter growing but this variety does well in hot summer weather too.

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

Royal Horticultural Society Award Winner in 2010. A salad onion that adds an unmistakeable splash of colour and flavour to any dish. (Onion green; Bunching onion) Attractive green stalks look like they have been dipped in wine! Bulbs are stained a deep...

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

Heat: 350,000 Scoville units. If you have had little luck with habaneros in the past, try this one. It also a heavier yielder than the traditional habaneros. Ht. 60-90cm/2-3ft. It is earlier and more tolerant of the cooler temperatures.