Organic Seeds Herbs For Sale In Chicago

Bees love the vibrant coloured flowers! Leaf infusion makes an uplifting tea. Leaves provide a unique seasoning for meats and dressings. Easy to grow and blooms from July to September.

Stringless, tender yellow pods with a light and delicate buttery flavour, good fresh, canned or frozen.

Introduced around 1910, this popular variety has rich flavored fruits that hold up well. Diameter fruits are a beautiful, shiny purple-black. Plump, slightly lobed, 4-5 in.

(Wild oregano) Medicinal variety of oregano lacking true oregano's familar aroma and flavour. Used for upset stomach, headache, cough, and diarrhea. Also as gargle for mouth and throat inflammations.

Low in geosmin, the substance that gives other beetroot varieties an unpleasant earthy taste. Prolific variety with blood red roots and red-tinged green tops. Roots are globular, 6-8cm/2.5-3" across with smooth skin.

Red currant-sized fruits grow in clusters, and have intense sweet flavour, perfect for relish trays, salads and snacking. Indeterminate, vigorous vines with heavy foliage, Some staking required.

The interior flesh, when sliced, is beautifully marked in alternating rings of cherry red and creamy white, making it very attractive sliced raw. An heirloom Italian cultivar with sweet flavour, bright red nicely rounded shape.

Essential to every herb garden, this small, upright shrub (is the classic culinary variety. Assertions have been made supporting its efficacy in combating asthma and hypertension. As a strong aromatic herb, it can attract a multitude of honeybees.

Anaheim Chili Pepper is a long, tapered, mildly pungent, slender green peppers turn deep scarlet at maturity. Before transplanting, move to a sheltered area outside for week. Start indoors in a warm, well-lighted area about 8-weeks before planting outdoors.

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

Here are our best tips on How to Grow Dill , too! Each packet contains approximately 300 seeds. Begin harvesting the fern-like leaves 8 to 10 weeks after planting. Choose this late-season variety of Elephant Dill ( Anethum graveolens ) for its productivity...

The flesh is sweet, meaty and firm, with few seeds. A sleek oblong medium-sized tomato with wavy orange-yellow streaks. It was an accidental cross between two heirlooms, Antique Roman and Banana Legs, discovered by American home gardener John Swenson...

The highly productive, bushy plants of Genovese Sweet are slow to bolt to seed, extending the harvest period. This classic pesto basil concentrates flavor with fragrance and graces sunny windowsills across America.

Throughout the Middle East it gives life to hummus, dips, and soups. The attractive greyish-green foliage has a spicy aroma and flavour that is truly divine. Easy to grow from seeds.

If you like heat and flavour... This is a good one! Mushroom shaped, thin walled, green to bright yellow, fiery hot taste similar to Habanero types. 5cm/2” fruits are good pickled or dried for seasoning.

These medium-large white onions have a nice mild flavor for making great onion rings. The onions will store for a couple of months in the root cellar, requires intermediate day length.

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

First fusarium-resistant variety of sweet basil. This is an important development for commercial growers and for basil lovers who have lived through the frustration of watching fusarium infected plants wilt and die almost overnight.

A zucchini squash with greenish-black skin and tender creamy-white flesh. Excellent for cooking and for freezing. Matures in 50 days and keeps producing for an extended time. Fruits are ready to eat when 15-20cm/6-8" long.

Leaves add strong, spicy flavour to soups, sauces, stuffings, stews. Rubbing with fresh leaves before roasting improves all strong meats. Use plant tops to dye wool in shades of yellow, orange, brown and grey.

This traditional paste variety is used in most Italian recipes and thought to make the world's finest sauce. Tender annual 2 oz. This indeterminate heirloom variety yields large plants with a heavy crop of richly flavored fruit.

Often added to meat during grilling, stuffing at Thanksgiving, eggs and more. Each packet contains approximately 250 seeds. Remove leaves from stems and store whole in airtight jars.

Continue your garden into the cooler weather with our Organic Fall Season Planting Collection. Enjoy the harvest. Contains 1-Pack each of Italian flat leaf Parsley, Red Acre cabbage, Early Green broccoli, Red Russian Kale, Cherry Radish, and Colorful...

For expediency manufacturers of commercial Greek pepperoncini products treat peppers with harsh chemicals to produce a desired light colour. Not to be confused with hot Italian peperoncini, this traditional Greek variety is much milder.

Heirloom Italian variety producing small, deep blue-green central heads with numerous side shoots throughout the season. Very tender and mild tasting, good raw in salads and with dips, or lightly steamed, drizzled with herb butter.

This variety includes a mix of all our favorite beets including deep red, golden, and candy striped roots topped by nutritious bright green, dark green with red ribs, and dark red foliage.

In Chinese herbal medicine it removes "damp heat." It thrives along water edges or in shallow water up to 25cm/10" deep, in full or partial sun. Creamy white, pale rose flowers appear July-Sept.