Where To Buy Organic Herb Plants

A beautiful spinach with succulent oval dark green leaves that stand upright, ready for easy harvest. Adapts well to different growing situations and does well in spring or autumn.

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

Thistlelike flowerheads colour silk, wool, rouge and are used as a saffron substitute in rice dishes. (False saffron) Important source of good quality cooking oil, and yellow or red dyes.

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

Royal Horticultural Society Award Winner in 2010. Colour persists at any temperature or age. 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...

Korean mint is a warming herb known to help clear fevers and also aid in digestion, chest ailments and many other conditions. Consists of tall deep-purple flower spikes and mint-like leaves.

Grow like garden peas. 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.

(Shamrock squash; Triangle squash) An old Australian variety with a deeply lobed shape like a shamrock. The skin is blue-green and shiny, and the flesh is deep orange, succulent and sweet.

Beautiful yellow-orange beefsteak tomato with a tangerine shape, meaty flesh and a sweet tart flavour. Introduced to the American market by Burpee in the 1930s. Excellent slicer, up to 10cm/4" across.

An heirloom variety believed to be over a hundred years old, a legacy of the Cherokee Indians. Resembling a beefsteak tomato in size and shape, with dramatic, dusky pink-purple fruit.

(White Bell) Sweet bell pepper with 3 or 4 lobes and crisp, medium-thick flesh. Fruits mature from a beautiful translucent white to pale yellow to scarlet red, and are delicious in any colour.

Good eaten fresh out of hand, or boiled, steamed or stir-fried. Sugar Snap is an exceptional variety that produces sweet, succulent pods that can be allowed to mature to produce peas.

Medicinally, the plant contains mucilage and is used for its soothing, anti-inflammatory and laxative properties. (Ye kui) Edible plant with traditional use as a medicinal herb. Compared to lettuce, a plant like this with abundant leaves for the taking...

(Chinese mustard; Indian mustard) A splash in the salad bowl and in the garden! Brilliant maroon leaves with light green midribs are both delicious and strikingly ornamental. Can even be grown in containers.

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.

Grows to 120-150cm/4-5ft, so some staking is required... Excellent for stir frys, steaming, freezing and fresh in salads. Thick, succulent light green edible pods with a distinct, sweet flavour.

Suited for greenhouse and field production. Excellent for pesto and other typical basil uses. Ht. 75-80cm/30-32". Good uniformity. A large leaf basil has high oil content and hence a stronger aroma and flavour than other varieties.

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.

5cm/2” fruits are good pickled or dried for seasoning. This is a good one! Mushroom shaped, thin walled, green to bright yellow, fiery hot taste similar to Habanero types. Heat: 100,000-300,000 Scoville units.

Delicious when steamed slightly and served drizzled with plain or herb and garlic seasoned butter. Holds its crisp, mild flavour long after maturing, never becoming hollow at the heart.

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

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

Striking plant. Its glossy leaves are painted with veins of creamy white which, according to tradition, originated from the milk of the Virgin which once fell upon a plant. Important tonic herb for the liver.

Bright red fruit of over 2.5cm/1” in diameter are unusually sweet and flavourful with a high vitamin C content. Plants grow tall, so staking is recommended as the vine bears fruit in long clusters of 12 to 20 fruits.

Slower to bolt than roquette. (Wild arugula) Wild relative of the ever popular roquette or arugula salad green. Leaves can be used fresh or added to pasta dishes. Described as spicy and pungent, this has become very popular in Europe, particularly in...

A loose type with a striking bronze burgundy oak-shaped leaves. Very popular for all season use. For baby leaf use in 28 days or full-size use in 51-58 days. Stays bitter-free and is heat tolerant.