Vegetables

Too bad about the name. People who try this wonderful lettuce rave about it but the trick is to get them to try it in the first place. Lettuce breeder...

A stunning and rare variety! The 6 to 8 cm peppers mature from violet purple through orange, tan, orange to red and have beautiful purple stems. The flavour changes with...

An heirloom beet that is grown predominantly for its tasty, burgundy coloured leaves. Provides salad greens even when light conditions are low. The small sweet roots with pink and red zoning ...

The standard buttercup squash. Dark green, blocky with a gray button on the blossom end. The medium-small, 3-5 lb fruits have deep orange, fiberless flesh with a rich, sweet flavour....

Another great gene pool of early ripening butternuts. This one was developed by our friends at Adaptive Seeds who, in an attempt to improve storability and flavour, grew all the early butternut varieties they...

Shaped like a flattened ball on top and bottom, this canteen gourd is fun and super easy to grow.  Save and dry the gourds and get creative by turning them...

Developed by Dr. Jim Baggett, these tasty and productive plants reach 80 cm. and need very little support. This main-season snap can be eaten when the pods are flat but...

Our favourite red cherry. This juicy cherry tomato was selected by the late horticultural genius, Alan Chadwick. The 3.5 cm fruits are borne in clusters of 6, have a sweet...

Brassica oleracea (acephala group). Tender, warm season greens with great taste. Champion was selected from the popular Vates strain for darker colour, high yield and the ability to stand in...

A contender for one of the tastiest tomatoes. These large, dusky-pink tomatoes have a complex sweet, smoky taste. They are said to have been grown by the Cherokee people of...

The classic fat, round, red radish of my childhood. Cherry belle has moderate heat and nice crispy white flesh, perfect for snacks, salads and slaws of all types. Holds well...

Beautiful pink and cream heads top these nutritionally dense plants. Protein packed white seeds are easily hand harvested then dried to be used like grain. Thick juicy leaves are perfect...

Bright green crinkly, leaves which are, in the words of Barbara Damrosh, seemingly designed to hold butter more luxuriously. This is one of the sweetest, best tasting varieties we have...

Caspium annuum. Beautiful little hot peppers start out purple then turn cream, yellow, orange and finally red with all colours present at the same time. Thumbnail sized fruits are 3.5...

Brilliant, bubblegum pink stems with rich celery flavour. This easy to grow celery hails from Northern China where it is known as cutting celery. Stems are much smaller than store...

Improved version of the colourful candy-striped heirloom beet from Italy. Concentric rings of pink and white in a round, slightly flattened beet. This selection by the Alf Christianson Seed Company...

Okra picked fresh from the garden is a tasty treat you rarely find in the grocery store. Clemson Spineless okra was introduced in 1939 and it is still popular today....