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A colourful addition to your veggie garden. Bright lights chard has a mix of different coloured stems- from deep red and orange to white and yellow.
Chard is excellent in scrambled eggs, omelets, sauteed with garlic, or added to spaghetti sauce.
This is a larger broccoli plant which is very resistant to hot and dry weather. It will still produce heads while others bold. Plant in full sun in fertile, well drained soil.
Beans are a rewarding, and easy to grow vegetable. Bush beans do not take much space, so they are perfect for containers or smaller gardens. No trellising required. Plant in full sun, in fertile, well drained soil.
Medium sized upright plants can be grown in containers. This variety is one of the best long oriental types tested by William Dam seeds. The fruits can get up to 11 inches long!
Eggplants thrive in hot conditions. Plant them in fertile, well drained soil in full sun.
Be sure to protect from frost.
This hardy perennial has strongly flavoured leaves perfect for seasoning meats, soups and sauces. It’s a good candidate for your kichen herb garden! And once established, thyme requires little watering and fertilizing. Plant in full sun. Grows to 8-12 inches tall.
These plants grow to about 2′ tall and can be planted in large containers. The peppers are moderately hot, and are great for adding a bit of spice to salsas, dips, and sauces.
Peppers start out green, then turn red.
Plant in full sun, in fertile, well drained soil.
(Replaces Red Volantes, as we were unable to get seed this season). Red russian is a siberian-type kale, and has very pretty flat, serrated leaves with red veins. More tender than regular curly kales, red russian is excellent in salads.
A stunning mixture of yellow, orange, red and variegated marigolds. Plant them around the garden to kill nematodes and repel white flies, but avoid planting near beans. These grow well in pots, window boxes, and other containers. Will bloom right until frost if deadheaded.
(large 6 packs)
A very drought tolerant variety with enormous, edible, flat blooms. Technically pansies are a perennial, but they are mostly grown in our climate as a cold hardy annual. Grow them in pots, window boxes, hanging baskets, or as mass plantings in the garden.
This is a biennial herb grown as an annual, although it is quite cold hardy. It’s large flat leaves are reputed to have a better flavour than many of the curly varieties. Can be grown in pots on the kitchen windowsill, as well as out in your garden. Easy to grow from a transplant (but more challenging from seed because of long germination period).
If your tomatoes keep getting wiped out by late blight, here’s a variety for you! Mountain merit is a late blight resistant variety that produces medium to large beefsteak type tomatoes. And it’s also a compact plant, so you’ll be able to grow it in smaller spaces or in containers! Expect to harvest around 75 days from transplant. (3-1/2 in pot)
This is the best heirloom tomato we know of for growing in pots! The plants only grow up to about 1-2 ft tall (hence ‘tiny’), and are just loaded with bright red mini cherry tomatoes about 1in in diameter. They also ripen earlier than most other heirloom varieties at around 55 days from transplanting. No trellising/ staking required- although they can still benefit from cages. Expect alot of the fruit to ripen at the same time.
Here’s a variety perfect for container gardens or other confined spaces. Even though the plants require little space, they still produce a plentiful crop of large, flavourful tomatoes.
A stunning mix of beautiful, edible flowers! The blooms have a very delicate wintergreen flavour, and are a colourful addition to salads or a garnish for deserts. Unlike many annual flowers, violas thrive in partial shade as well as full sun. They are also a perrennial, so they can overwinter and bloom again next year. While older varieties bloom only in the spring/early summer, Corina blooms all summer long. . .almost right up until frost!