Quality seeds for kitchen, cottage and native gardeners
Vegetable Seeds Catalogue
A classic slicing cucumber. The dark green fruit have crisp, white flesh with a mild and sweet flavour. The ‘straight’, narrow fruit grow to ‘eight’ inches (20 cm). An abundant variety that flowers and fruits early in the season. Can grow on a trellis or on the ground on top of straw to keep clean in appearance and flavour. 20 seeds.
A sweet tasting, bitter free cucumber from China. The tender, crisp fruit grow up to 35cm long. An unusual variety that is adapted to a wide range of conditions, high yielding and maintains a fine flavour even under poor growing conditions. Use fresh or pickled. Young fruit are spiney and become smoother at peak maturity. 25 seeds.
A tasty creamy-white skinned Australian heirloom. It has a firm, sweet, juicy flesh that is best used fresh in salads or added to a smoothie for a cooling drink. A high yielding cucumber that grows to 18 cm x 6 cm. Matures in 8-10 weeks. A vigorous vine that can be grown on a trellis to save space. For the best tasting cucs feed and water well. 35 seeds.
A tender, burpless Lebanese style cucumber. Excellent flavour with a thin skin and crisp flesh that is never bitter. Grows to 15-20 cm long and 2-4 cm wide. Can be used fresh or pickled. If pickling harvest cucumbers 8-15 cm long. A productive vine with cucumbers ready to harvest relatively early when compared to the larger varieties. 15 seeds.
A fine leafed variety of the aromatic edible chrysanthemum. The green leaves can be added to salads, pickles, sushi or soups and stews where it is added at the last moment so it retains some structure. The small orange and yellow flowers are also edible and add colour to salads or as a garnish. Runs to seed in hot weather. 300 seeds
The classic black/dark purple egg shaped fruits, with firm tasty flesh. Large fruits (16-18 cm x 8 cm) hang from a tall, strong plant. Can handle a range of climates and sets fruit under cooler conditions enabling an earlier crop in most areas. Provide a sunny sheltered spot for best results. 20 seeds.
Beautiful oval shaped purple fruit with gorgeous white streaks. The fruit can be harvest as ‘baby’ eggplants when 5-6 cm long and 3 cm wide or left on the plant to mature at 8-10 cm long by 6 cm wide. A high yielding variety even in the cooler southern states if planted in a sheltered sunny position. The plants & calyxes are spineless. 20 seeds.
A good looking and tasting eggplant. Lavender with white streaks and grows to 10 cm long. Great yield with a creamy sweet flavour (no bitterness). Great for grilling or in middle-eastern dishes. Good for areas with shorter summers, plant in a sheltered sunny position for best results. 15 seeds.
Your classic long deep purple oriental eggplant. A robust variety that can set fruit in cooler weather and handle heat stress. Fruit is 18-25 cm in length, tender and quick cooking. An early variety that allows those with short summers have a eggplant crop. 15 seeds.
Make your Thai curries authentic with these small, round fruit averaging 5 cm across. A deep green eggplant with white stripes, with firm flesh that holds up well in curries. A compact bush with a high yield (warmer climate = more fruit). An early variety suitable for areas with a short summer. 15 seeds.