Vegetable Seeds Catalogue

1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Brassica rapa (pekinensis grp)

An easy to grow green leafed, open head variety of Chinese cabbage with a creamy yellow blanched interior. It has a delicious sweet, tangy, juicy flavour that can be used in stir fries, steamed, pickled or raw. Can be sown over a long period. The best flavours and it is slower to bolt when grown through the cooler months. Heads will store up to 6 weeks in the fridge. 250 seeds.

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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Brassica oleraceae

Do not waste any of this plant!! Use the leaves, flower buds and thick succulent stems in stir fries, steamed, raw..... Used extensively in Asian cooking. Grows like broccoli but with smaller heads and much faster growing. After the first harvest many side shoots form allowing for an extended harvest period. 1 Pkt = 300 seeds.

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Botanical Name
Brassica rapa

A Chinese specialty, also known as a flowering green Tsai-Hsin. A quick and easy-to-grow Asian green producing lots of long, pencil-thin, green flower stems. A pleasing, mild mustard taste to use raw in salads or lightly cooked in stir-fries. Cold hardy and fast growing. Likes any fertile soil with added organic matter. Pick stems before flowering for continuous use. 200 seeds.

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Botanical Name
Phaseolus vulgaris

An heirloom (early 1800’s) that shows its age with the moniker it carries, which comes about due to the ease of harvest and was one of the first stringless beans. A climbing variety that is prolific, yielding delicious green beans over a long harvest period. Eat fresh or let mature on the plant to use as a dried white bean for a rich, creamy taste. Requires a trellis. 15 seeds.

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Sunlight
Full
Frost Resilience
Tender
Lifespan
Annual
Climate
Cold
Temperate
Hot Arid
Tropics/SubTropics
Sow Method
Direct
Sowing Instructions
Soak seeds overnight before sowing direct to garden. Make sure frosts have past and the soil has warmed up.
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Botanical Name
Brassica oleracea

Looking at these nutritiously rich, dark green wavy leaves makes you feel a bit healthier. A compact, slow bolting variety Tastes better after a frost. A close relative of kale and can be used in similar way. A popular Portugese dish is caldo verde (green broth) where sliced collard greens are the main ingredient. 500 seeds.

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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Brassica oleracea

Super-charged greens. Often overlooked for kale but studies have shown this dark green leafy vegetable has higher levels of cholesterol-lowering and unique anti colon cancer properties than other cruciferous green vegetables. A large plant with open leaves that is best sown and eaten through the cooler months as the flavour sweetens a little in cold weather. 90 seeds.

Sunlight
Full
Frost Resilience
Frost Hardy
Lifespan
Annual
Harvest
60 Days
Climate
Cold
Temperate
GermType
Fast germinating seeds
Sow Method
Direct or Transplant
Sowing Instructions
Sow in trays or directly into garden position. Cover seeds thinly, keep moist and warm. A biennial, frost hardy herb which needs good, fertile soil and plenty of water.
Spacing/Spread
40 cm
Row Space
60 cm
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A favourite heirloom of southern USA that is used in Creole cooking. Dating back to the1880’s it is a productive, tasty and nutritious vegetable. This variety tolerates heat better than most collards. The large dark blue-green leaves do improve in flavour in cooler weather, with frosts ‘sweetening’ them up. Can be grown through the cold months for winter greens. Use the large leaves steamed, in stir fries, as a large tortilla wrap…. Let your culinary imagination run wild   300 seeds.

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Sunlight
Full
Frost Resilience
Frost Hardy
Sowing Instructions
Sow in trays or directly into garden position. Cover seeds thinly, keep moist and warm. A biennial, frost hardy herb which needs good, fertile soil and plenty of water.
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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Valerianella locusta

Also called Lamb’s Lettuce these 15cm short, dark green leafy rosettes are a tasty autumn and winter salad. The leaves should be picked regularly after the first frost, when they have a delicious nutty flavour. Often selfseeds. Good around the base of fruit trees and also easily grown in pots. 200 seeds



 

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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Valerianella locusta

These 15cm short, dark-green leafy rosettes are a tasty autumn, winter and early spring salad. The leaves should be picked regularly after the first frost when they have a delicious, nutty flavour. Often self-seeding, they’re good around the base of fruit trees and are also easily grown in pots. 200 seeds.
 

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Botanical Name
Zea mays

An impressive popping corn with amazing steely-blue kernels. Traditionally grown by the Hopi of SW America, it’s a productive variety yielding 4-6 cobs per plant (to 12 cm long). Also used for fine or coarse grinding, where the flavour and blue speckles add interest when mixed with ingredients and used in cookies, polenta etc. A rustic decorator around the house. Not to WA. 40 seeds.

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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Physalis pruinosa

An unusual fruit with a sweet pineapple flavour that’s jam packed into a ground cherry. An annual ground cover producing large amounts of 3cm fruit encased in papery husks that kids love to unwrap & pop straight in their mouth. Use on cheese platters, pizza, in jams, pies & salsa. Harvest when ripe (brown husk & have fallen to the ground). Related to Cape Gooseberry and Tomatillo. 25 seeds.

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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Cucumis sativas

Ideal for slicing, this popular cucumber has a lovely, dark green skin. Bears later than most, but yields well, has a long picking time and is famously disease resistant. 20 seeds.

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