Organic Seeds Plants For Sale In Tampa

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.

It also has an antibacterial action. Helps to lower temperature and promote sweating. Chinese herbalists say this herb expels ‘wind' and promotes ‘eruption.' (Jing jie) Chinese herb used to treat the common cold and its symptoms, chills, sore throat,...

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.

Good for freezing and canning. High yielding, with tender, meaty flat pods, slow to develop fibre and seeds.

Also effective against hepatitis, infections, and many skin diseases such as shingles, dermatitis and psoriasis. Clinical experience shows that the roots are effective against angina pectoris, cerebral atherosclerosis, intravascular clotting and phlebitis.

An heirloom favourite with a truly delicious, buttery, rich flavour. Large 20cm/8" ears with golden-yellow kernels and long-lasting sweetness. Excellent for chicos. Productive plants resist lodging.

Interesting form of basil with strong spicy fragrance and flavour. Possibly a natural hybrid between and . True is camphor basil, a completely different plant. Recently it has been sold incorrectly in America under the name .

Used in China for 2000 years. It spreads by underground rhizome like grasses, but unlike grasses it has fragrant yellow-white or light purple flowers that open in the evening late summer and autumn.

Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat. Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes. Grey-green pebbly leaves, pale blue flowers The most commonly grown culinary variety.

Highly resistant to common fungal diseases. Open headed romaine with gorgeous pomegranate-red leaves.

Refreshing hot or iced. Tea made with the fleshy calyces has a lemony flavour and beautiful ruby colour. Requires a long hot growing season. (Hibiscus) Lovely flowers known throughout the tropics for their flavouring qualities.

Globe shaped root of deep scarlet and pure-white tips. Holds its crisp, mild flavour long after maturing, never becoming hollow at the heart. Lovely for salads, garnish and appetizers.

(Huang-qin) Important Chinese medicinal herb: prescribed for fevers, colds, hypertension, insomnia, headaches, hepatitis, diphtheria, shingles, and other ailments. Many of its traditional uses are supported by clinical studies.

Sow in early spring. Can even be grown in containers. (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.

Also excellent as a microgreen. The fresh greens, with their pink stems and smooth lobed leaves, are gorgeous when added to salads or used as a garnish. Very easy to grow. This is a "radish green" grown for its spicy leafy greens and not for bulbous stems...

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

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. Bushy plants take minimum space, perfect for crowded city gardens.

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

The flavour is mild and nutty and the texture is incredible. Good keeper for winter storage. Turnip-haters often find that they actually like this variety. An heirloom variety from the 1850s with yellow skin and golden-yellow flesh.

The young leaves are tender and can be steamed or cooked in soups and the seeds can be ground into flour. The ornamental effect is so stunning it belies the fact that this is first and foremost a food plant.

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

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

(Wild oregano) Medicinal variety of oregano lacking true oregano's familar aroma and flavour. Used for upset stomach, headache, cough, and diarrhea. Handsome purple or pink flowers attract honeybees.

A treat for the eye and for the palette, this uniquely beautiful Dragon carrot variety has a complex flavor that combines sweetness with a hint of subtle spice. Improved from a USDA specimen by Dr. John Navazio, Dragon looks smashing sliced on a relish...

Excellent slicer, up to 10cm/4" across. Indeterminate vines. 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.

A traditional variety that produces deep, wine-stained fruit, sweeter than other varieties. Considered by many to be the best flavoured tomatillo. Fruits are large, up to 5cm/2" across.