Greens

All seeds are sustainably grown & chemical free.

Mesclun Mixes

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.


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


Arugula

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.


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.


Bok Choy

Prize Choy – 50 days. Classy pac choy with celery-like white stems & vase shaped, 15-18” tall heads, like 2 veg in one with succulent stems & tender greens. Vigorous, slow to bolt. Good for kimchi & stir-fries. 150 seeds per packet.


Collards

Champion  – 65 days.  Compact handsome non-heading plants with thick blue-green juicy leaves on 2-3’ plants with a mild cabbage-like flavour for steaming, boiling & stir-frying.


Groninger Blue   50 days. Heirloom ‘Old Blue Leaf Cabbage’ from Holland. It has been cooked like kale or collards for centuries. Gorgeous, wide soft green leaves with stand-out purple mid-ribs. When braised tastes like sweet spinach. Use as baby green, micro green or bunched. Frost hardy, great for over wintering in the greenhouse. 150 seeds per packet.


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

Belle Isle 50 days. (Barbarea verna) 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.


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.


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.


Kale

Blue Curled Scotch  – [Certified Organic] 50 days. (also called Canada Dwarf Curled, Labrador Kale). Mentioned in many documents from the 19th C. Old heirloom variety has curled blue green frilly leaves on compact 12-15” plant. Very productive leaf growth & cold hardy. 150 seeds per packet.


Colourful Kale Mix – Selection of our favourite frilly & flat kale varieties. All hardy, tasty & delicious. 150 seeds per packet.


Dazzling Blue – 30 days baby, 60 days full size. Fast growing tall vigorous plants produce smoky blue Lacinato (dinosaur) type leaves with vibrant purple stems.Bred for organic production, it has unparalleled cold tolerance producing even deeper blues.  Overwinters.                               


Frilly 60 days. Beautiful blue & burgundy finely serrated leaves reminiscent of lace. Delicate flavour & colourful addition to mesclun mixes. Produces until freezing temps, then overwinters to produce in spring in greenhouse. 150 seeds per packet.


Mustard

Golden Frills – 21 days baby, 45 full leaf. Lacy-looking leaves are vibrant light green, finely cut & frilly.        Bunch at full size for braising greens or use as garnish. The spiciest of mustard flavours. Very slow to bolt. 


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.


Red Giant Mustard – 21 days baby, 45 full. Popular red mustard from Japan with a mild- spicy flavour. Large purple-tinted savoyed leaves for baby mesclun mix or large leaf on 18″ decorative plants. Color intensifies in cooler temperatures, as spiciness wanes. 150 seeds per packet.


Spinach

Bloomsdale Dark Green – 50 days. Heirloom from early 19th C. Heavy yielder of dark green blistered leaves. Plant spring or fall. Can over winter with minimum of cover.