Organic Seeds Seeds Plants For Sale In Manchester

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

Long time popular variety.

They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across. They also make a most decorative container at the dinner table for other foods when scooped out. They can be steamed whole, or hollowed out, stuffed and baked, or they can be sliced, sauteed in butter...

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. Young blossoms are edible as well! 55 days.

The roots can reach 10cm/4" in diameter but for best flavour and sweetness dig them when they are 8cm/3". Turnip-haters often find that they actually like this variety. Good keeper for winter storage.

Said to possess superior medicinal action. (Pot marigold) Commercial strain used for medicinal flower production in Europe.

Curved, club shaped fruit grows to 22cm/9” long with golden-yellow skin and creamy texture with a nutty sweet flavour, that can be eaten raw with dips, steamed, grilled, or poached in broth and served with herb butters and seasonings.

The bright red flesh is very sweet. 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.

Pick continuously to encourage more fruits. For expediency manufacturers of commercial Greek pepperoncini products treat peppers with harsh chemicals to produce a desired light colour.

Of seed per ounce. Great for topping sandwiches or adding to salads. Approximately 2 TBS. Radish sprouts taste just like their full grown versions, while the clover adds a little sweetness to the mix.

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

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

Some think this is the melon that used to be shipped years ago from Bermuda to some Southern states around Christmas time. Long, and can get up to over 10kg. Some disease and drought tolerance.

Excellent for the fresh, processing, and potplant markets. It is uniform, upright, and very vigorous. Highly resistant to diseases and is tolerant of thrips and leaf tip burn. Leaves are fine to medium in thickness and dark blue-green in colour.

Easy to grow and blooms from July to September. Consists of tall deep-purple flower spikes and mint-like leaves. Leaves provide a unique seasoning for meats and dressings. Cousin of anise-hyssop, has a familiar, sweet anise scent and flavour.

As the name suggests this is a giant spinach that will tower up to 2m/6ft if you let it, but the young shoots are best gathered when plants are just 20cm/8in tall. Native to India, cultivated in China, and introduced to America by heirloom guru Alan Kapuler.

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

Excellent canned, frozen, or eaten fresh. Vines reach a vigorous 5-6ft. Mosaic resistant. Seeds are white. Pole bean with terrific flavour and high yields.

Of seed per ounce. Mung bean sprouts have been cultivated in the orient for thousands of years. They are a good source of protein, fiber and vitamins. Approximately 2 TBS. Low calorie and high in fiber, Mung Beans have a crisp nutty flavor that can be...

They turn from white with green stripes to orange with brown stripes to solid red when mature. The curving fruits look a little like swimming fish. Heat: 5,000-30,000 Scoville units.

Tea is a popular nightcap, as it induces a good night's sleep. Remedy for colds and fevers. Favourite of cat lovers, for cats relish the intoxicating leaves.

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

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. Ht. 25-60cm/10-24". All-America Selection for 2015.

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.

Unlike other varieties, the flesh stays firm and white even when the bulbs get large. A first-class German variety with light-coloured bulbs and creamy-white flesh.