Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Cambridge

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

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...

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.

It attacks cancer cells without damaging healthy cells, quite unlike most chemotherapy drugs in use today. It is also commonly used to reduce inflammation. The American company, Bionova, is developing a drug derived from this herb for the treatment of...

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

Slow to burst, forms a tight, dense head with small core. Crisp and tender, adds colour to salads and fine flavour to cooked dishes. Good mid season variety with solid deep red head weighing about 2kg/5lb.

Flesh is deep orange with moist and very fine texture and sweet flavour that is high in fibre and beta carotene. These store well for winter use and are delicious baked, steamed or grilled using your favourite herb blend.

But if you make your own pickles using this light golden variety you will not need any chemicals. The wrinkled peppers are prized for pickling when still immature at about 6-8cm/2.5-3" long.

Sow in fall for spring harvest or in spring for early summer harvest. Texture is crisp and tender and flavour is pungent. (Chinese radish) A large radish with white carrot-shaped roots 30-40cm/6-8” long.

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.

Fruits are large, up to 6 lbs, with a pale-green rind that ripens to light gold. The sweet flesh is a luscious lime-green with high sugar content, and seed cavities are small so you get plenty of flesh per fruit.

Adds true European character to soups and stews. Standard variety for flavouring, slightly earlier maturing than above. Deeply cut, bright green leaves with excellent flavour. Our favourite type because flavour is extra rich.

The interior flesh, when sliced, is beautifully marked in alternating rings of cherry red and creamy white, making it very attractive sliced raw. Very mellow flavour when cooked with mild tasting bright green tops.

Great for slicing, in fruit salads and juicing...the rind is quite thick and lends itself to being its own tureen or punch bowl for soups and summer libation. Produces 10kg/25lb fruits with juicy flesh that is bright red with old fashioned sweet flavour...

Pods, about 12cm/5" long, turn yellow, then orange, and then bright red. Versatile hot banana pepper that can be served stuffed, fried, pickled, or just added fresh to salads. A good dependable choice for cooler areas where other hot peppers do not do...

Plants are taller, more vigorous and higher yielding. Award-winning variety with bigger, broader leaves than regular garlic chives. Ht. 25-60cm/10-24". All-America Selection for 2015.

Excellent for both pickling and slicing. The distinctive flat bulbs, about 8-10cm/3-4in across, have a bright red colour and semi-sweet flavour. A good keeper for winter storage. Where winters are mild it can be planted in the fall for early harvest next...

The foliage is glossy and medium green with good flavour. (Chinese parsley) An outstanding Israeli variety developed to resist bolting (early flowering) in hot summer weather. Although this variety was meant for commercial growers, it does equally well...

A reliable, heavy producing bush bean with excellent flavour and keeping qualities. Performs better in areas of cooler daytime temperature. Purple pods turn green when cooked.

The dried and powdered root strengthens and stimulates the immune system, and is a powerful antioxidant. Ashwagandha is highly regarded in ayurvedic medicine, where the root is used as a dietary supplement.

Rich reddish-purple daisies appear from July to September. Said to increase bodily resistance to infection by strengthening the immune system. (Coneflower) Highly regarded blood purifier used in the treatment of diseases caused by impurities.

The Gleckler catalogue described it as a "strange tomato that refuses to change colour" and only turns a pale yellowish green when ripe. Old variety introduced by Gleckler Seedsmen in 1956.

A truly delightful tea made from the dried leaves is our favourite anytime tea as it both stimulates the heart and calms the nerves. Fresh leaves burst of lemon when squeezed. Proven effective against herpes.

Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in long, can be eaten like snap beans. When the glossy green pods are 10-18cm/4-7in long they are ready to shell.

It is good on the cob too when young, and can be fried or roasted. A dent corn, it is mainly dried and ground into cornmeal for making cornbread and the southern specialty, cornpone, a type of cornbread made in a skillet.

It is similar to our purple and green 'Emerald Wine' variety introduced in 2013 with the added advantage that it can be raised from seed. We cannot confirm any connection to the island of Corsica, but we like its look anyway.

The reliable annual grows happily with little attention or fertility, making it a rewarding choice for beginning gardeners or those with challenging growing conditions. This summer garden staple rewards minimal effort with a sunset-hued profusion of cheery...