Greens

All seeds are sustainably grown & chemical free.

Mesclun Mixes

1) Deluxe Mesclun Mix – 28 days. Delicious mix of brassicas & some lettuce. Let arugula, cress, kale, mustard & more tickle your taste buds! 300 seeds per packet.

2) Spicy Mesclun Mix  – 28 days – additional spicier greens, such as hotter mustard & cress added to this mix. 300 seeds per packet.

Arugula

1) Astro Arugula 21 days baby, 40 full. Germinates quickly & tolerates cold & hot temps. Long green leaves are a mix of smooth-edged and lobed with mild to mildly spicy heat. Grows equally well during cool and hot seasons. Cut & come again. 250 seeds per packet.

2) Ice-Bred Arugula  44 days. Selected for cold hardiness and vigour. Mid-ribs and whole leaves develop a lovely purple hue in winter freezes. Recovers in spring even if plant goes dormant under very cold conditions. Seedlings can stand drought, compete against weeds and don’t require high soil fertility. This is arugula with more bite, vigorous with complex full flavours. 250 seeds per packet.

3) Runaway – 20-40 days. Unique dark-green serrated-leaf variety, similar looking to wild arugula, but grows extraordinarily fast & extremely productive. It has a zingy, peppery flavour but doesn’t taste bitter, even when mature. Its erect, compact plants are also bolt-resistant.

Chrysanthemum (Edible)

Shungiku’Garland Serrated – 40 days. Cold crop. Grown for its aromatic greens with an unusual taste. The 5” flowers (buttercup yellow, edged in white with serrated tips) are large for edible flower market. Also makes a great yellow dye. The Japanese use it in hearty one-pot winter stews known as oden. Also good in salads, soups & stir-fries. Plant thickly in early spring (or summer for fall crop) & harvest freen leaves when stems are 4-8” tall, before buds appear. 100 seeds per packet.

Cress

1) Belle Isle (Barbarea verna). 50 days. Spicy upland cress, like watercress. Cool weather crop for early spring/late fall crop with upright habit. Best in dark of winter. Very dark green, deeply lobed glossy leaves. Very nutritious – high Vitamin C, calcium, iron & high Vitamin A. Prevented scurvy in Colonial times. Named for an island on which shipwrecked 17th C Portuguese sailors survived the winter thanks to the cress. 150 seeds per packet.

2) Dutch Broadleaf – 45 days. Large and wavy spicy green leaves. Very different than regular garden cress, this one has been bred for extra large leaves and much sweeter flavour, especially in winter. Like candy wasabi! Among the hardiest of salad greens. Best grown in the cool months of the year.

3) Garden Cress – 45 days. Garden cress is similar to watercress, but is more potently flavored. It’s truly peppery; compared to arugula, it has more tang and less body. It really livens the palate, even when it’s used sparingly on salads and sandwiches. Easy and fast-growing; it bolts quite quickly so, if you enjoy it, plan succession sowings.

4) Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled Cress - 21 days. Broad leaves are extremely ruffled and wrinkled along the margins and savoyed in the middle. A fluffy spicy addition to your salad mix. Bolt resistant. 150 seeds per packet.

Mustard

1) Chinese Thick-Stem – 47 days mesclun, 62 full. Called Thick-Stem in honor of its enlarged midribs that give a heavier harvest for the farmer and better mass for the restaurant or home chef. Terrific for mesclun and an excellent cut-and-come-again performer with fast regrowth. 100% freeze tolerance. Needs good soil fertility.

2) Fun Jen Pai-Tsai -35 days. Sweet, mild Pai-Tsai with crisp tender leaves & stems., diverse in colour, texture & flavour. Heat & cold tolerant. Braise some or make a salad.

3) Mizspoona Salad Select Gene Pool Mustard – 40 days. Hits the palate just right, sweet, juicy with a bit of zing. Medium-dark green variable leaves, some rounded, some pointed, slightly ribbed white veins & all are tender & delicious in salads or braised.

4) Osaka Purple – 21 days to baby, 40 days to full size. Large, beautiful, savoyed, purple leaves are pungent and sharp. Use young in salads or bunch for steaming or stir-frying when mature. A cool-weather crop, but bolt-resistant in the heat.

5) Purple Rapa Gene Pool – 45 days.  Frank Morton gene pool creating huge vigour with nice tall frilly mild to medium-hot serrated green leaves with purple veins & shading. Lots of variation & best colour in the cold. Can plant in April & still going in early July, gaining heat with weather’s heat. 150 seeds per packet.