The term "Apple Romaine" refers to a specific variety of romaine lettuce, not a hybrid of an apple and lettuce. This variety is known for its bright, apple-green color and specific leaf characteristics. 

Color: Bright, vibrant apple green.

Texture: Sturdy, crisp, and crunchy, providing a satisfying "high loft" when prepared.

Shape/Edges: The leaves have a smooth surface with distinctive serrated (toothed) edges and a slightly cupped shape.

Growth Habit: The plant has an upright growth habit, making harvesting easier.

Taste: Like other romaine varieties, it generally has a mild, subtly sweet and earthy flavor, with a slight hint of bitterness that adds depth. 

The robust texture and flavor of Apple Romaine make it highly versatile. 

Salads: It is ideal for salads, including the classic Caesar salad, as its sturdy leaves can hold up to thick and creamy dressings.

Wraps/Sandwiches: The leaves' shape and strength make them an excellent, low-carb replacement for tortillas, taco shells, or bread.

Cooking: Unlike some softer lettuces, Apple Romaine holds up well to heat and can be grilled, braised, or added to soups and stir-fries. 

Incredible yields of richly flavored tomatoes that are very meaty with few seeds and not much juice. Resists most diseases.

Roma VF Tomato Seeds: 76 days. Vigorous vines. Excellent yields of bright red, medium-small, pear shaped fruits. Popular for cooking, canning, and paste.

History: A highly desirable heirloom tomato that has been available since the 1960s. Its primarily used for cooking because it is meaty with few seeds and not juicy. It is great for tomato puree, soup or ketchup. This plant fruits heavily, so get ready for a big harvest.

Highly recommended if you want to can or make your own BBQ sauce, or spicy ketchup.   

Plant Habit: Semi-determinate  Plant Size: 3’. Fruit Color: Red. Shape: Plum Size: 2-3 oz.

Buttercrunch, oakleaf, arugula, endive, chervil, verona red, mizuna, fennel, thai basil and peppercress. 

A vibrant garden medley bursting with flavor and color! Enjoy the crisp, buttery crunch of Buttercrunch, the tender, lobed leaves of Oakleaf, and the peppery zing of Arugula. Add slightly bitter Endive, delicate Chervil, bold Verona Red, and spicy Mizuna, balanced by aromatic Fennel, fragrant Thai Basil, and the sharp bite of Peppercress. Perfect for salads, garnishes, and culinary creations that pop with freshness.

Cubanelle - An heirloom sweet Italian frying pepper with a sweet mild flavor. The cubanelle is growing in popularity and these bright green thin-walled peppers add a pretty color for frying and cooking. Chefs and home cooks often prefer them to bell peppers because of their excellent flavor and their low moisture content, which makes them perfect for quick cooking in lots of recipes.

Peppers can grow to 5" long on productive 30” plants. It is best to cut them from the stem when they are yellowish-green, but they can also be left on the plant to mature to bright red. Capsicum annuum (75 days) Heirloom - Open-pollinated

Heat Level: None - Sweet Pepper

In early spring, start seeds indoors 8 weeks prior to warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4” deep. Provide 85°F bottom heat, bright light, and keep moist at all times. Seeds will germinate in 7 - 21 days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant them directly into rich soil, 30” apart, or into large 5-gallon containers. Easy to grow in containers.

Lollo Bionda lettuce forms a beautiful round mound of pale green, crisp frilled edged leaves. Appreciated for its unique shape and refreshing taste, it holds well in summer heat and in the cold. It makes an attractive complement to Lollo Rossa.

Lollo Bionda, for which you pay premium prices for in the supermarket, is one of the easiest, trouble free lettuces you can grow. It's a cut-and-come-again, that is, if you pick the outer leaves, the plant will continue to grow. Given the right conditions, this type of lettuce will produce leaves for three months or more.

Lettuce is by far the most popular of the leaf salad vegetables, and belongs to the same family as chicory and endive. It has a long history in the kitchen with images on ancient Egyptian tombstones dating from 4500 BC. Definitely a "Heritage Variety" ! The Romans also ate a lot of lettuce and by the 1st century AD, nine varieties were described, perhaps one was Lollo Bionda

Germination: 4-10 days This Italian sister lettuce of Lollo Rossa is refreshingly crisp with a perfect round head of frilly leaves. Harvest the singular leaves as you need them or the entire mounded, fluffy sphere. Holds well in the heat and the cold.

PLANTING: Indoors - 3-4 weeks before planting outside. Sow 1/4" deep in cells with soil temps 55-70 degrees. Transplant out 8-12" apart.

PLANTING: Outdoors - Sow 1/4" deep, 1" apart. Thin to 6-12", depending on the size of lettuce you want from baby to full heads. Keep moist during germination.

Harvest - Cut whole head at base or individual leaves before lettuce starts to bolts and becomes bitter in the heat and long days of summer.

Tips - Plant into fertile soil with lots of organic matter and adequate water for optimum growth. Sow heavy seeded rows every 10-14 days for baby greens using the 1 oz. Pinetree Lettuce Mix for a season long supply of lettuce.

Iceberg lettuce grows in small, dense heads. Commonly used in salads and sandwiches, they are prized more for their texture and crispiness than for the flavor of the leaves themselves. Iceberg was first cultivated in the Salinas Valley of California, then packed in ice and distributed across the US on trains, earning its namesake. Space plants 12" apart with 18" between rows.

These are the family favourite lettuce variety for salads and sandwiches. Make sure to give steady watering throughout the year to allow for these to properly shape into round, firm heads.  Your kids will thank you!

78 Days to Harvest!

Danish heirloom variety. Small heads 6-8". Harvest in summer.

Copenhagen Market Cabbage is a classic early-maturing variety known for its compact, round heads and dense, tightly packed leaves. The heads are medium-sized, typically 1.5–2.5 kg, with smooth, light green outer leaves and a crisp, pale interior. It’s prized for its reliability, uniform growth, and sweet, mild flavor.

Excellent raw in coleslaw and fresh salads due to its crisp texture

Great for steaming or boiling as a simple side dish

Ideal for stir-fries and sautéing with garlic or butter

Can be used for light fermentation (though better suited for fresh use than storage types)

Works well in soups, cabbage rolls, and braised dishes

Its tender leaves and mild taste make it especially versatile for everyday cooking.

Teaa is a day neutral high yielding bitter gourd. Cultivable around the year except winter. Light green shiny fruits are 30 cm long, mild bitter and super tasty. First harvest is done is 45 days after transplanting. Single fruit weighs 20 0 grams. Yield is 10-12 tons/acre. 

This is a very popular vegetable growing on a vine which goes about 5m tall. A high yielding variety producing 35cm long slender dark green fruit up to 400-450 grams.. It’s cultivated around the world for its edible fruit, which is considered a staple in many types of Asian and Indian cuisine.

Best time to sow seeds after frost, seeds need min 20oC to germinate. For better germination rate, soak the seeds in water for a few hours before planting and sow them in 20mm deep in a sunny, well-drained position. They germinate between 10-14 days. Sow them 90 apart. Enjoy your harvest approx. 65-70 days from transplanting.

Bitter Melon / Bitter Gourd / Pinyin / Pare / Paakharkaai / Kaakarakaya / Karela / Balsam Pear – MALABAR LONG F1 - LONG DARK GREEN INDIAN