Organic Seeds Seeds Plants For Sale In Stamford

Heirloom variety of rose-coloured with white radish with crisp, tender mildly pungent flavour that is wonderful in salads, sliced thin on buttered bread, as a garnish or appetizer.

Compact, narrow foliage; flowers lavender-blue.

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.

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

Deep-red “baby” pods make very attractive menu additions and older pods remain tender even at 20cm/8” length, and retain their red colour when cooked. The attractive red stems and branches, red-veined green leaves are ornamental as well as tasty!...

Delicious steamed, roasted and toasted, stuffed, or even raw in salads. Can be pureed or mashed for soups, casseroles, breads, and muffins. Fruits are 20-30cm/8-10" long, 10cm/4" across, and weigh 1.5kg/3lbs.

Holds its crisp, mild flavour long after maturing, never becoming hollow at the heart. Lovely for salads, garnish and appetizers. Globe shaped root of deep scarlet and pure-white tips.

They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across. They can be steamed whole, or hollowed out, stuffed and baked, or they can be sliced, sauteed in butter until golden brown. The flavour is pleasantly nutty.

An attractive Indian heirloom corn with kernels that come in a medley of red, brown, gold and cream colours. But what's really striking about this corn are the unique red and white stalks and husks that make great displays in autumn.

Unusual violet-streaked green bell-shaped flowers. (Dang shen) Important Chinese medicinal herb similar in action to ginseng. Sweet tasting roots have been shown to boost red cell and hemoglobin counts in rabbits.

White skinned pumpkin with dark orange flesh, suitable for jack-o-lanterns and pies! Great halloween novelty, as outer skin can be painted on mature fruits of 30cm/8-10”, weighing about 10-16lbs/5kg.

Excellent for pot production or for field production. A commercial Italian variety bred for compactness and uniformity. Leaves are dark green, somewhat smaller than standard sweet varieties.

Main ingredient in chili sauces, curries and exotic dishes. Seeds add fresh, spicy flavour to soups and stews. Variety grown for its seeds.

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

Reduces blood pressure, improves circulation by dilating the blood vessels, and reduces blood cholesterol. (Tan shen; Chinese sage; Red-rooted sage) A most important herb in Chinese medicine.

In Persia the leaves of and other herbs mixed together are served fresh with main meals. Called in Persian, the fresh mixture is eaten on flat bread with tomato, green onions and cheese.

Possibly a natural hybrid between and . Recently it has been sold incorrectly in America under the name . Interesting form of basil with strong spicy fragrance and flavour. Although recognized as sacred by Hindus, this variety is often confused with sacred...

Rubbing with fresh leaves before roasting improves all strong meats. A must in German potato soup. Leaves add strong, spicy flavour to soups, sauces, stuffings, stews. Adds special flavour to sausages and meatloaf.

Long time popular variety.

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

Broccoli sprouts are packed with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. In 1998 Johns Hopkins University declared broccoli sprouts and other crucifer sprouts to be particularly high in sulforaphane, a glucosinolate shown to have a variety of health benefits.

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 from the Orient where it is not grown for roots like regular radish but for the seed pods only.

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.

Each pod contains 5-7 flat oblong beans for fresh or dry use. Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in long, can be eaten like snap beans. When the glossy green pods are 10-18cm/4-7in long they are ready to shell.

Annual (reseeds itself). The most prolific producer of flowers.