Shade Tolerant Plant Seeds For Sale In Canada

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

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

Sow direct in the garden in spring. The “deer tongue” idea refers to the pointed shape of the leaves and not, we hope, to some special fondness deer may have for this unusual variety of leaf lettuce.

The variety is described as rugged and a heavy producer perhaps befitting of its Amish heritage. Sow direct in the garden in spring. Like the red deer tongue variety, this is a very nice leaf lettuce with tongue-shaped leaves.

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. Similar to anise basil, but the flavour and fragrance is distinctively less licorice-like. Essential fresh cut accompaniment to many Vietnamese dishes, including pho, a famous beef or chicken...

Stalks are pure white, crisp and very tender. Try bite-sized slices stir fried with tofu, meat and seasonings. (Bok choy) Popular standard ingredient in many Chinese dishes like chow mein and wonton soup.

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. (Jing jie) Chinese herb used to treat the common cold and its symptoms, chills, sore throat, and headaches. Chinese herbalists say this herb expels ‘wind' and promotes ‘eruption.'

Leaves are delicious when young in salads, and larger leaves can be steamed, stir fried, or sauted. With a prominent display of bright crimson stalks and dark green crinkly leaves veined in red, this swiss chard is highly ornamental.

The long beans are like young string beans without the annoying string. Excellent for stir fries. Yields can be huge if pods are picked often to encourage more to come. Tolerates hot weather well.

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.

Some think this is the melon that used to be shipped years ago from Bermuda to some Southern states around Christmas time. The fruits are 45-60cm/18-24 in. Some disease and drought tolerance.

Sets double pods, very productive vines over a long period of time. Height 60cm/24-30”. Light green, smooth edible pods 10cm/4” long by 2cm/3/4”diameter with a mild flavour good for eating raw, in stir fries or steamed.

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

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

Standard variety. Ripens to a fiery golden-orange.

They can be steamed whole, or hollowed out, stuffed and baked, or they can be sliced and sauteed in butter until golden brown. (Sunburst squash) Distinctive small disk-like squash with scalloped edges, like a toy top or a flying saucer.

They are gorgeous for fall decorations, and of course they are great for popping. (Strawberry popcorn) This little mahogany-red corn is so cute! Just 5-7cm/2-3" long, the ears actually look like strawberries.

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

With its colour, strong fragrance, and long deep purple stems, this also makes an excellent cutflower. A stunning basil with large burgundy flower bracts. The leaves can be used like any other sweet basil, but you can also pick the red flower bracts and...

It has 20% more protein than white or yellow corn and has a lower glycemic index. Traditional crop of the Hopi Indians of Arizona, not only for food, but also for its spiritual and ritual significance.

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