Vegetable Seeds Catalogue

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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Allium fistulosum

This is your classic great tasting spring/bunching onion with a red twist! The foot of this spring onion has a red tinge, helping add some colour and interest to salads, stir fries and omelettes. Very hardy & easily grown in fertile, limy soils in full sun. 1 Pkt = 300 seeds.

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Botanical Name
Allium fistulosum

Spring onions give flavour and colour to any dish. Easily grown in fertile, limy soils in full sun. The first sowing can be made in late winter in three week intervals until the end of autumn. Do not use fresh manures. Keep moist and rotate vegetable beds every year. 300 seeds





 

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Botanical Name
Cucurbita pepo

A South African favourite!! These bushes are hugely productive, yielding up to over 20 cricket ball sized fruit. A versatile squash in the sense that it can be harvested in summer and used like a zucchini (sweet and tender); or harvest in autumn when the skin toughens to store through winter & use like a pumpkin (roasted or stuffed). Boil, bake or steam – delicious with butter. 20 seeds.

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Sunlight
Full
Frost Resilience
Tender
Lifespan
Annual
Climate
Cold
Temperate
Hot Arid
Tropics/SubTropics
Sow Method
Direct or Transplant
Spacing/Spread
2 m
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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Cucurbita pepo

A great eating green squash with smooth, firm texture. It is a fun flying saucer shape with scalloped edges, making it irresistible for kids to try, especially when they help grow it themselves. Delicious raw, steamed, sautéed, grilled, roasted, fried or baked. Harvest young with flower still attached or at tennis ball size. 10 seeds.

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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Cucurbita pepo

A great eating yellow squash. It is a fun flying saucer shape with scalloped edges, making it irresistible for kids to try, especially when they help grow it themselves. Delicious raw, steamed, sautéed, grilled, roasted, fried or baked. Harvest young with flower still attached or at tennis ball size. Treated Seed. 10 seeds.

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Botanical Name
Fragaria vesca var.

The Alpine strawberry belongs to wild strawberries and grows profusely in cooler regions with plenty of ground moisture over summer. The up to 1.5cm long fruit are very sweet with an intense strawberry perfume. Great for drying. A prolific groundcover and easily grown in shady, moist areas with acid to neutral ph levels. 100 seeds

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Botanical Name
Brassica napus

A productive swede with a fine grained, firm flesh. A mighty fine eating variety with a creamy root and bright purple top. Easy to grow provided plants are thinned to a spacing of at least 20 cm. A rich flavour that is ideal in soups, stews and roasted. Best sown in late summer or early autumn as frost sweetens up the roots and enhances the flavour. Roots mature in about 90 days, they can be harvested earlier. Stores well in the ground through winter, so just harvest when needed. 500 seeds.

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Botanical Name
Brassica napus

At last a swede that is sweet and rich in flavour without any trace of the turnip flavour found in many other swedes. Swedes are easy to grow, store in the ground through winter and produce remarkable yields. These are a great fresh substitute for the potato. Beautiful braised or baked as a gratin. Originally derived from NZ butter swede this variety has been grown/bred for eating and seed for many, many years in Tasmania, we now claim it as our own variety :  )  Locally Grown Without Chemicals. 300 seeds.
 

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Botanical Name
Zea mays

An old variety dating back to 1880’s and maintained by the Dutch in Pennsylvania. A creamy kernel variety that makes exceptional popcorn- large, fluffy & full of flavour. It can also be used ground (coarse or fine) for grits, flour or hominy masa to be used in polenta, tamales, breads, cookies adding great flavour. A.k.a Pennsylvania Dutch Butter. 50 seeds.

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Botanical Name
Zea mays

Super Sweet Variety
One of the sweetest varieties of corn around. This variety is a strong grower and normally produces 2 cobs per plant. The cobs are well filled and grow to 19-20 cm in length. Eat freshly picked (steamed, boiled or BBQ’d) or freeze to eat over an extended period. Treated Seed. 6-8 sds/gram. Treated seed.1 pkt = 40 seeds.
 

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Botanical Name
Zea mays

A tough and unique heirloom variety. Not only does it have a dazzling array of kernel colours (oranges, golds, reds and purples) it is cold tolerant, early and uses less water than other corn! Grows to about 1.5 m and produces 2 cobs (20+ cm long) per plant. This nutritious corn can be eaten fresh, roasted or ground for flour to make flat bread, muffins, cakes. Also very ornamental.

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Hierloom
Sunlight
Full
Lifespan
Annual
Harvest
80 Days
Climate
Cold
Temperate
Hot Arid
GermType
Warm germinating seeds
Sow Method
Direct or Transplant
Height
1.5 m
Spacing/Spread
40 cm
Row Space
60 cm
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Botanical Name
Zea mays

A bi-coloured variety of super sweet corn. Produces super sweet cobs with yellow and white kernals. Cobs are 20-22 cm long and the plant can grow upto 2m in height. Eat freshly picked (steamed, boiled or BBQ’d) or freeze to eat over an extended period. 40 seeds.