Quality seeds for kitchen, cottage and native gardeners
Vegetable Seeds Catalogue
This white-stemmed silverbeet is a prolific and tasty vegetable that is easy to grow and thrives year round, ensuring that you get your winter greens. A local favourite as it is dependable throughout the coldest months. A vigorous vegie that needs good drainage, fertile soil and plenty of space. Use in pies, steamed, stocks or stir fries. 150 seeds.
An ornamental for the potager garden that is a reliable supplier of kitchen greens. The crinkly leaves are dark green with tones of red. The leaf stems and veins are red, helping provide an eye-catching appearance. Use in pies, stock or steamed. Can be frozen for later use. Young leaves can be eaten raw. Grow extra to feed your chooks for golden egg yolks. Harvest year round. 100 seeds.
A bright yellow stemmed silverbeet to keep the daisies in the garden company. A favourite of Steve Solomon’s due to the superior taste. Super hardy, surviving very cold winters. Use in pies, stock or steamed. Can be frozen for later use. Young leaves can be eaten raw. Grow extra to feed your chooks for golden egg yolks. Harvest year round. Seed grown by Steve Solomon. 100 seeds.
An unusual heirloom snow pea, originally from India. A high yielding snow pea with yellow pods and striking bi-coloured plum and pink flowers. The pods are crisp and tasty, they can be eaten fresh and raw in salads or with dips or added to stir fries. Beast eaten young before the peas inside the pod fully form. As it is a strong climber (up to 200cm) it will need a trellis. Prefers well-drained, limy soil. 20 seeds.
This early sweet, large-podded snow pea is a shorter, bush (90 cm) variety with delicious flat pods. A high-yielding type with white flowers, it is ideal for small areas and children’s vegetable gardens. They grow successfully in cooler climates and will improve your garden soil. Use in stir-fries or raw in salads. 100 seeds.
This perennial, frost-hardy sorrel makes dense clumps of soft light green, arrow-shaped leaves and tall red pink flowers.
A half evergreen herb with sour, lemon-flavoured foliage is delicious fresh in salads, in soups or cooked like spinach.
Easily grown in fertile, moist, acid soil. 500 seeds. Not to WA.
An attractive plant that is at home in the vegetable and ornamental garden. A tough, hardy perennial that grows to 40 cm high, making it an ideal border plant. The bright green leaves have deep red ribbing and a sour, lemon-flavour. For the kitchen the tender young leaves can be used raw. As the plants mature use cook like spinach or stir fry. Cut back to encourage young growth.100 seeds.
A soybean of excellent quality that can be used for green ‘edamame’, dried or for making soy milk and tofu. A high yielding variety that matures over a week earlier than other varieties. The Japanese dish of edamame consists of immature soybeans in the pod steamed or boiled and served with salt. Soy beans also make an excellent summer green manure. 30 seeds. Not to WA.
This hot and spicy salad mix will provide plenty of tasty salad greens over the cooler months of the year (autumn through to early spring). A frost-hardy selection that makes a refreshing change to any salad, use this mix on its own or mix with lettuce leaves. 400 seeds.
An annual vegetable mainly grown in spring and autumn, rapidly running to seed in hot weather. It needs fertile, rich, limy soil in a sunny or half shady position. Raw or cooked spinach is high in iron and an excellent source of vitamins in spring and autumn. Bulk seed available about 80 sds/gram. 250 seeds/pkt.
Not to WA.
New Zealand spinach also called Warrigal Greens is a good summer variety, but needs a more protected position being frost tender. In deep fertile soil this long stemmed type of leaf vegetable will produce high yields, and it will tolerate warm and coastal conditions. Salt tolerant. 25 seeds
Not to WA.
A tall, long stemmed dark green spinach. The leaves are heavy, relatively smooth and flat. An excellent tasting and productive variety that can be harvested at all stages of growth – from baby leaf to mature. Best grown in the cooler months, autumn through to early spring. High resistance to downy mildew. 250 seeds.