Plant For Summer Color Seeds For Sale In Canada

Large, dark green glossy leaves on thick sturdy stems. High yields and slow to bolt. Has intermediate resistance to fusarium. This is a nice compact Genovese basil well suited for pot production and for fresh cut use in the field.

Popular Italian appetizer served with garlic and olive oil. Sown in early spring for harvest before hot weather or in mid-to-late summer for fall harvest. Flowering stems and leaves have pleasant bitter flavour when cooked, steamed or sauteed.

Still you'll need to guard it from marauders, deer or human, because the rich, nutty taste of the red hued leaves is irresistible. Sow direct in the garden in spring. The “deer tongue” idea refers to the pointed shape of the leaves and not, we hope,...

The variety is described as rugged and a heavy producer perhaps befitting of its Amish heritage. The flavour is pleasantly sharp and nutty and the texture is quite good for fresh salad use.

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!...

This is the true strain used in Vietnamese and Thai cooking. Essential fresh cut accompaniment to many Vietnamese dishes, including pho, a famous beef or chicken noodle soup. Similar to anise basil, but the flavour and fragrance is distinctively less...

Stalks are pure white, crisp and very tender. Leaves are thick and glossy with a hint of mustard flavour. Try bite-sized slices stir fried with tofu, meat and seasonings. (Bok choy) Popular standard ingredient in many Chinese dishes like chow mein and...

Open headed romaine with gorgeous pomegranate-red leaves. Highly resistant to common fungal diseases.

Excellent for seasoning, and for basil vinegar which turns a beautiful red colour. Dark purplish-bronze foliage. Former All-American award winner, famous for its pure dark purple foliage, but in recent years it has become about 25% green.

Helps to lower temperature and promote sweating. It also has an antibacterial action. Chinese herbalists say this herb expels ‘wind' and promotes ‘eruption.' (Jing jie) Chinese herb used to treat the common cold and its symptoms, chills, sore throat,...

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...

The sweet and mild flavour is reminiscent of asparagus, mushrooms, and beans. The deep magenta colour persists with cooking. Yields can be huge if pods are picked often to encourage more to come.

With deep salmon coloured flesh that is thick, firm with a sweet, intense flavour Good for short season gardeners. Produces firm, round fruit weighing 1-2kg/3-4 lbs.

Regular onion chives. Besides using the leaves, try the pretty purple flowers, separated into florets, in salads for colour and flavour.

A rare family heirloom from Georgia with white seeds and yellow flesh of excellent flavour. Long, and can get up to over 10kg. Some think this is the melon that used to be shipped years ago from Bermuda to some Southern states around Christmas time.

Sets double pods, very productive vines over a long period of time. Freezes well, retaining the full, sweet flavour and colour. Height 60cm/24-30”. Light green, smooth edible pods 10cm/4” long by 2cm/3/4”diameter with a mild flavour good for eating...

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.

Repeat sowings for a continuous crop. Harvest when young and tender. Sharp-flavoured curly leaves are excellent in salads and sandwiches or cooked.

Standard variety. Ripens to a fiery golden-orange.

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. The flavour is pleasantly nutty.

They are gorgeous for fall decorations, and of course they are great for popping. The stalks get only 120-150cm/4-5ft tall, so the plants blend in well with ornamental grasses or at the back of the garden.

Leaves are medium large to large with dark green colour. Fast growing Genovese type suited for year round pot production. Uniform, erect habit.

For flavour and for colour. It tolerates heavy cutting well so multiple cuttings are possible. 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.

It makes delicious tortillas, sweet and nutty, as well as cornbread, corn chips and pancake mixes. Well adapted for the dryland farming of the American southwest, but also does surprisingly well in wetter eastern gardens.

Standard curled variety. Bright green, deeply cut and finely divided leaves.