Italian Leek Carentan Organic. A popular, reliable and refined Italian variety producing large thick and tender stems of excellent flavour with blue-green foliage. Vigorous and fast growing its is a consistent performer cropping from Oct to late January withstanding winter conditions well. (110 days)

Cultivation Advice Italian Leek Carentan 2 Organic

• Leek is extremely hardy, forgiving and can be planted as soon as the soil can be worked.
• Sow sparingly directly in drills in early-mid spring,
• the aim to produce pencil thick plants of around 8” tall for transplant to their final position.
• Can be planted in trays under cover and transplanted for an earlier crop.
• When pencil size (around Jun/Jul) lift carefully and remove the top third of the foliage and 1/3 of the roots.
• Transplant in pre-made holes of 4-6 inches deep,
• 8 inches between plants in a sunny position with rotted organic matter incorporated.
• If space is limited this can be reduced,
• provided you pull alternative plants when young to make space for the remainder to grow.
• When transplanting carefully poor water into the hole to wash soil around the roots,
• then leave and earth up as they grow to blanche the stems.
• (Do not get soil between the leaves).
• Harvest alternate plants when large enough for use.

One of the most vigorous and productive courgette varieties. We have grown for several years on our farm and this is excellent and recommended. This stunning slightly ribbed, courgette variety produces lots of classic long straight shaped zucchini, pale green almost white. Very productive and early perfect either cooked with olive oil or grated raw in salads. sliced for BBQ kebab vegetable. Italian Bush variety, easy to pick

Packet: 9-10 grams of seed

Improved yields in Canada, excellent for salads, sauces, and many other cooking dishes.

Bushy, hardy perennial. Grown as an annual. 

Aromatic leaves that never change color.

Lilac-pink flowers in summer.

Very robust grower for all conditions of weather.

Tetragon cabbage, also known as New Zealand spinach, is a leafy plant with triangular leaves, yellow flowers, and small, hard capsules that contain seeds. It's a trailing plant that can form a thick carpet on the ground or climb through other plants.Tetragon is usually grown for its leaves, which can be added in salads or cooked. Thanks to its ability to withstand difficult climates, this plant grows readily in the wild in China, Reunion Island, and New Zealand. It is also fairly easy to grow in Quebec, but it will behave as an annual since it cannot tolerate frost.

Held up by a round stem, tetragon has a really unique look with its thick leaves and quadrangular fruits. Good source of vitamin B1, B2 and C; the spinach is both delicious and nutritious!

Physical characteristics

Leaves: Thick, bright green, triangular leaves that are 3–15 cm long 

Flowers: Yellow or pale yellow-green flowers with four or five petals that grow at the leaf joints 

Fruit: Small, hard capsules with 4–10 horned seeds 

Stems: Long, trailing stems that are usually green or red 

Seed pods: Tough, four-cornered green seed pods that grow along the stems at the leaf joints 

Other names 

Botany Bay spinach

Cook's cabbage

Kōkihi (in Māori)

Sea spinach

Warrigal greens

Warrigal cabbage

Uses

The leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked 

It's a heat and drought-tolerant species that can be grown in home gardens 

Origin 

Native to Argentina, Australia, Chile, Japan, and New Zealand 

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.

Super Red forms a loose head with a spectacular magenta red colour. The open style heads are medium to larger in size with deeply lobed leaves. This makes a great baby leaf variety and makes any salad come alive! Slow to bolt in summer heat and keeps its mild, non-bitter flavour. Colour is best in cooler weather but stands up well in summer. Upright growth habit. CULTURE: Lettuce is a sun-loving cool weather crop that grows best in organic, well drained soil. Sow as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring, then every two weeks thereafter to ensure a continuous supply. Sow about 3 mm (1/8″) deep in rows 45 cm (18″) apart. An even supply of moisture during the entire growth period is imperative for success. Harvest leaf lettuce by either pulling the entire plant or by cutting leaves from the main stem at least 2.5 cm (1″) above the base – this will allow the plant to sprout new leaves. Harvest head lettuce by cutting the head off at the base just below the lower leaves. Once lettuce bolts (starts to produce a rapidly growing flower stem) leaves become bitter.

Full Sun to Partial Sun

Height: Low to Medium (7.5 to 30 cm)(3" to 12")

Open Pollinated variety

Maroon-red, deeply cut and finely divided leaves

leaves are crisp and delicious and make an eye-catching addition mixed with green lettuc

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.

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