Vegetables Organic For Sale In Canada

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

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

(Onion green; Bunching onion) Attractive green stalks look like they have been dipped in wine! Bulbs are stained a deep purple. Royal Horticultural Society Award Winner in 2010. A salad onion that adds an unmistakeable splash of colour and flavour to...

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

Ht. 90-120cm/3-4ft. An English heirloom grown since at least the 1800s. Each pod contains 5-7 flat oblong beans for fresh or dry use. Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in long, can be eaten like snap beans.

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

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

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

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

Sugar snap peas are also known as “mangetout” peas, meaning that both the pod and the peas can be eaten. Good eaten fresh out of hand, or boiled, steamed or stir-fried. Fusarium resistant.

The flavour is mild and very pleasant. The seeds too are edible; when green and immature they have a nice nutty taste and can be cooked or eaten raw though they are a bit of a chore to harvest.

Sow in early spring. Can even be grown in containers. Spicy leaves are excellent in mixed salads or alone, and they are delicious steamed and tossed with sesame oil and soy sauce or stir fried with ginger and bok choy and chicken.

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.

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

A large leaf basil has high oil content and hence a stronger aroma and flavour than other varieties. Suited for greenhouse and field production. Good uniformity. Excellent for pesto and other typical basil uses.

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.

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

Globe shaped root of deep scarlet and pure-white tips. Delicious when steamed slightly and served drizzled with plain or herb and garlic seasoned butter. Lovely for salads, garnish and appetizers.

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

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

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.

One of our favourite cherry tomatoes! 65 days. Plants grow tall, so staking is recommended as the vine bears fruit in long clusters of 12 to 20 fruits. Bright red fruit of over 2.5cm/1” in diameter are unusually sweet and flavourful with a high vitamin...

Extremely cold hardy and a very quick and easy crop. Grows to 30-38cm/12-15in in any good well-drained soil in full sun. Leaves can be used fresh or added to pasta dishes. Described as spicy and pungent, this has become very popular in Europe, particularly...

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

70-80 days to maturity. Unmistakable green tomato flavour in a striking jewel-green fruit. No heirloom tomato garden is complete without the addition of one green tomato, and this is the one.