AMARANTH
Purple
A truly stunning ornamental edible. In hot summers amaranth will grow to 8-feet tall and is very showy with multiple spires of purple/red in late summer. The purple fades as it matures into light-brown edible grains, easy-to-harvest by threshing into a wheelbarrow. In cooler regions amaranth is best seeded indoors and transplanted out in rows into full sun. Click on image to view larger frame.

ARUGULA - Annual
'Rucola'
Italian Rocket Greens
Fast growing. Direct seed in spring for summer greens, and again in fall for winter greens. Use like lettuce in sandwiches, add a peppery note to salads and stir-fries. Self seeds. Click on image to view larger frame.

BEAN - BUSH
'Dragon Tongue'
(Dutch Heritage)
This is a bean good to eat at all stages of growth. Flat pods grow to 8 to 10" long, and are lime-green at first, when they are good to eat fresh as a snap bean. The pods will mature to yellow with purple stripes, when the seeds are ready for fresh eating or freezing; or they can be left to dry for use as dried beans in winter soups and stews. Click on image to view larger frame.

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BEAN - BUSH
'Sunbird Green'
Huge yields of tasty green snap beans, originally grown by Sunbird Farm in Saanich. 5" long stringless beans are adapted to growing in cooler conditions. Has black seeds. 55 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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BEAN
'Blue Jay' (Rare Heirloom)
Canadian bush bean of excellent flavour when picked young as fresh snap bean, or left as dried bean. Productive yields of green pods with blue flecks, 7 navy blue/beige seeds per pod. 95 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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BEAN
'Lazy Housewife' (1882)
Prolific yields of long green beans, set in clusters which make them easy to pick. A long harvest season of tasty stringless snap beans with rich flavour makes this heritage variety a Superstar! 70 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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BEAN - Pole
'Purple Peacock'
Ornamental pink flowers and high yields of tender, round dark-purple pods all summer/fall. The showy purple pods turn green when cooked. Grow well in cooler conditions. 75 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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BEAN - Pole
'Rattlesnake' (Heirloom)
A flavourful bean which can be eaten as a fresh snap bean or dried bean. Purple streaked bean pods 7-10" long when mature. Streaks fade when beans are cooked. Shelled dried beans are tan, speckled with 'rattlesnake' streaks. Vines can reach up to 10 feet. 65days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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BROAD BEANS
Crimson Flowered Favas (1778) - Rare
Three-foot tall stalks produce 6" long smooth pods with smaller fava beans inside. These succulent beans melt in your mouth if cooked at a rolling boil for ten minutes- exactly! Bright-crimson flowers along sturdy stalks in spring always catch admiring comments. Sow in February/March and harvest fresh beans in June/July/August, dried beans later. Beans freeze well too. You can sow in November, but may have to reseed many that rot. Favas are leguminous plants, which improve soil because they add nitrogen

This is a strain of fava bean originating from the UK, which dates back to 1778! This was before plant breeders bred for the black and white flowers we see today. Thanks to Mrs. Cutbush from Kent these seeds have survived by being handed down through many generations of gardeners. At age 90, Mrs. Cutbush gave some of these precious seeds to the Henry DoubleDay Research Association Seed Library, from where I received a packet. I have grown these beans ever since and am pleased to make them available to you. When we grow out these heirloom varieties we make sure they don't become extinct to future generations of gardeners. Click on image to view larger frame.

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CAPE GOOSEBERRIES
Physalis peruviana
Golden orange berries with tangy fruity flavour. Husked fruits on fast growing bushy plants are easy to grow. Use in fruit salads, sauces and jams and as a garnish on desserts. Height 30". 80-100 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

CHINESE ARTICHOKES
Stachys sieboldii
Crosnes - France (1882)
In the mint family, these small white edible tubers are eaten raw or cooked like potatoes. Use in salads, pickled, steamed or stir-fried. Tubers can also be dipped in tempura batter and fried. Crosnes are never peeled. Multiply rapidly, so watch where you plant them! $3.30 for 2 tubers. (Cannot be shipped outside of Canada). Click on image to view larger frame.

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CRESS
Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled
Distinctive peppery taste to sandwiches & salads. Sow every 3 weeks in cool weather for continuous harvests. Mix with mustard seed; grow on windowsill for mustard and cress. Height 6". 35 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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ENDIVE
'Tres Fine Marche'
Fine-cut and frilly ornamental leaves, with cream-coloured hearts. Leaves add zing to salads. Attractive rosettes can be harvested over long periods. 65 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Plant close together to stimulate blanching.

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GOOD KING HENRY
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Perennial vegetable with leaves eaten like spinach. Shoots, boiled in water until tender, are also a delicacy. Abundant shoots grow when the soil is fed around plants. Height 24". Click on image to view larger frame.

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KALE
Red Russian (1885)
This attractive leafy kale, with frilly leaves with purple veins and stems, provides year round nutritious greens. It is tender enough to eat in salads. It is sweet when steamed as a side vegetable, and makes delicious vegetarian lasagna. For a scrummy green smoothie, blend a handful of kale with a frozen apple and banana and some fruit juice. One of the most reliable, disease-resistant, hardy varieties, which will over winter to -10 F. Height 24-in. 60 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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LEEKS
'Durabel'
125 days. One of the best overwintering leeks for flavour and tender texture. Late to bolt, so you can harvest through to April. (Hard to find this seed commercially now.) Click on image to view larger frame.

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LETTUCE
'Silvia' Red Romaine
Large deep-red crispy leaves and tender hearts are held upright and make a good splash in the garden. With some protection may hold through winter. 35 days baby greens - 70 days mature. Click on image to view larger frame.

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LETTUCE
'Ears of the Devil'
Gorgeous lettuces with large, glossy, tapered green and burgundy leaves. Great eating flavour. Slow to bolt in the warmth of the summer sun. One of our most popular lettuce varieties, but maybe it's just the name? 65 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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LETTUCE
Summer Lettuces Mix
Sow every 3 weeks, as soon as ground can be worked, for a patchwork quilt of colourful lettuce 'greens'. Contents: Red Romaine, Ears of the Devil, Crisp Mint, Merlot, Speckled butterhead. Click on image to view larger frame.

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MAGENTA SPREAN
SALAD GREENS
Iridescent magenta leaf tips make a beautiful garnish and addition to salads and sandwiches. Young tender greens with delicate flavour are prolific. Self seeds readily. Click on image to view larger frame.

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MESCLUN MIX
Summer Blend
A mix of lettuces, arugula, spinach, coriander, orach & kales for tasty greens. Seed in blocks and harvest as 'cut-and-come-again' greens. Continuous sowings for long harvests. Click on image to view larger frame.

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MESCLUN MIX
Winter Blend
Cold-hardy lettuces, arugula, coriander, corn salad, spinach & kales offer nutritious winter greens. Seed in blocks, for 'cut-and-come-again' salad greens. Continuous sowings for long harvests. Click on image to view larger frame.

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Mouse Melons
Melothria scabra (1866)
This vining plant is native to Mexico and Central America, has been a staple of the diet there since pre-Columbian times. Fruits resemble miniaturized watermelons, hence the name Mouse melons are terrific in stir-fries; they can be pickled like dill pickles or eaten raw in salads, chopped and added to salsas. Kids cannot resist them. This tiny melon with its unique flavor, (hint of cucumber and green fava bean) has been creating a buzz in farmer's markets. Its pest-free and rampant habit of growth, not to mention huge productivity, recommend this vine to home gardeners looking for something new to add to the menu. They produce late summer to fall and can easily be grown in a one-gallon pot. Click on image to view larger frame.

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ONION
'Superior Bunching'

Cold hardy perennial bunching onions offer juicy scallions and pungent small white bulb onions. A single onion multiplies into a large bunch in one season. Click on image to view larger frame.

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ORACH-GREEN
Atriplex hortensis
This is an ancient, super nourishing vegetable from the quinoa family. Orach is a hardy annual leafy green, suitable for full sun to part shade. It is fast growing and self seeds easily. Sow seeds early in spring, as soon as the soil can be worked. Harvest young leaves to eat like spinach, and pinch out the growing tips to encourage the most leaf production. Eat raw when young, and steamed when larger. It grows to three feet tall. Click on image to view larger frame.

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ORACH-PURPLE
Atriplex hortensis
'Mountain Spinach'
Fast growing purple leaves for salad pickings or steamed as spinach. Keeps purple colour when cooked. Easy-to-grow. Self seeds. Sun or part shade. Pinch tips for bushier plants. Height 30 inches. Click on image to view larger frame.

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PEAS
'Brazilian Snow'
Huge yields of tender snow peas on 5' robust vines adorned with pretty pink flowers. Good dried soup pea if left to mature in pod. Perfect for stir fries, side dishes and fresh eating. 100 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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PEAS
'Sugar Snap'
This All American Selection (AAS) winner sets a new standard for snap peas. Huge yields of sweet tender 3-in. pods can be harvested over a long period. This 'mangetout' variety means you can eat the whole pod (no shelling) fresh or lightly steamed. Perfect for stir fries and can be frozen for winter eating. Vines grow to 8 feet tall and need good support. 65 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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PEPPERS
'Cayenne'
Sturdy upright plants produce lots of large tapered peppers, 6" long that turn scarlet-red when ripe. Heat range from 1 to 10 is an 8. Produce best in hot summers. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow peppers in 2-gallon pots in hot spots, one pepper per pot, and feed them weekly with liquid seaweed or compost tea. 70 - 80 days.

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PEPPERS
'Corno Giallo'
High yields of 8-10 inch long fruits, thin-skinned and bright orange when mature. Slightly curved and tapered peppers of sweet eating flavour. Produce best in hot summers. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow peppers in 2-gallon pots in hot spots, one pepper per pot, and feed them weekly with liquid seaweed or compost tea. 85 days.

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PEPPERS
'Hungarian Black'
(Heirloom)
Early peppers. Lots of purple/black 4" peppers on sturdy 18" plants. Medium hot flavour. Great dried pepper. 60-70days. Ht. 24". Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow one plant per 2-gallon pot in a hot spot; feed with liquid seaweed through the summer for best results.

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PEPPERS
'Jingle Bells'
Sweet mini- bell peppers ripen to red. Highly ornamental, productive and early ripening. Height 30" 70 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow one plant per 2-gallon pot in a hot spot; feed with liquid seaweed through the summer for best results.

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PEPPERS
'Klari Baby Cheese'
Baby Gouda cheeses ripen from yellow to red. Sweet thick-walled peppers for fresh eating. High yields for long harvests. 65 days. Ht. 30". Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow one plant per 2-gallon pot in a hot spot; feed with liquid seaweed through the summer for best results.

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PEPPERS
'Lipstick'
High yields of thin skinned, tapered bright-red sweet peppers. Good fresh eating flavour, and also perfect for stuffing and baking. Our favourites in 2010. 75 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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PEPPERS
'Pepperoncini'
Italian Heirloom
Bushy plants with slender 5" peppers, sweet as they ripen to red. For fresh eating or pickling. 70 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow one plant per 2-gallon pot in a hot spot; feed with liquid seaweed through the summer for best results.

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PEPPERS
'Scotch Bonnet'
Number 10 for heat! Compact 12" plants yield thin-walled 3" rumpled peppers that start green and ripen to orange. Need heat to germinate. 90 days. Open -pollinated. Height 18"-24". Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow one plant per 2-gallon pot in a hot spot; feed with liquid seaweed through the summer for best results.

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PEPPERS
'Swallow' (Sweet)
3" slightly tapered, thin-walled, sweet eating peppers that start green and ripen to red. Height 30". (Russian seed) 75 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow in 2- gallon pot, & feed with liquid seaweed.

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PEPPERS
'Tequila Sunrise'
Carrot-shaped, 5"-long peppers ripen to golden orange. Thin-walled, and crunchy with a bit of a kick. 70-80 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Grow one plant per 2-gallon pot in a hot spot; feed with liquid seaweed through the summer for best results.

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QUINOA MULTIHUED
Vibrant seed heads ranging from deep red to yellow to mauve, on tall bushy plants in sun or part shade. Generous yields of edible seeds from one plant. Space 12" apart. Harvest young leaves. Ht to 6'.Click on image to view larger frame.

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RADICCHIO
'Rossa di Treviso'
Italian chicory with elongated pointy leaves, changing colour throughout the growing season to magenta-red and white. Tight hearts offer tangy greens for salads, sandwiches & garnishes. An ornamental edible for sure! Perfect for hardy bitter greens throughout spring, summer, fall and winter. Enjoy bright-blue chicory flowers, and allow the best plants to set seed. Click on image to view larger frame.

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RADISHES
'White Icicle'
Smooth white 3" long radishes with tapered roots. Mild flavour and crunchy bite. Medium-size tops can be used as salad greens. Direct seed in spring and again in fall. 27days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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Scorzonera
'Oyster Root' (Rare)
Distinctly flavored roots can reach 12" in length, and need little care. Culture same as parsnips- sow in deep soil late spring, harvest in fall, before ground freezes. Cut tops off the remaining roots in the ground and mulch heavily against a harsh winter. Biennial roots produce yellow flowers the second summer.

Best dug only as needed, as they discolor and lose flavor fast. Cover fresh roots with lemon juice or vinegar to avoid discoloration. Scrub the roots before cooking, but do not peel; the skin contributes flavor and vitamins. A good source of calcium, iron, and phosphorus.

Scorzonera is used to make mock oyster soup or chowder. Also good steamed and served with butter or special sauces, fried, baked or braised and in stews, soups, soufflés and quiches. Can dig what you need for winter and store in damp sand in a root cellar. They do not can or freeze well.

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SILVERBEET FIVE COLOUR
Leaves and succulent midribs in colour range of red, pink, white, yellow and orange. Perfect for nutritious steamed greens for soups, casseroles and stirfries. Height 30". Click on image to view larger frame.

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SPINACH - PERPETUAL
50 - 60 days. .Slow-to-bolt greens for year round spinach. Lighter-textured leaf eaten raw in salads or lightly steamed. Sweeter after hard frosts. Sow in spring or fall for long harvests of 'spinach' throughout the year. Click on image to view larger frame.

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SPINACH
'Senger Farm'
Deep green tasty leaves with a long season of harvest. A unique strain with superior performance in trials. Slow to bolt and productive. Cool weather crop for spring/fall. 50 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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SPINACH STRAWBERRY
Chenopodium capitatum
(16th Century)
An ornamental edible with shiny red strawberry-like fruits on compact annual plants. Use to decorate salads and garnish summer dishes. Nutritious leaves and shoots are used in salads or steamed. Self seeds. Height 18 inches. Click on image to view larger frame.

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SQUASH
'Costata Romanesco'
By no means your average zucchini this Italian heirloom has flavour and texture that surpasses other green zucchinis. Large bushy plants produce high yields of ribbed fruits 12-16" long all summer long. 55 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

TIP: Harvest when 6" long and the flower is still attached and fry or BBQ the whole thing.

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WATERCRESS
Nasturtium officinale
Delicious tasty greens in salads, sandwiches & garnishes. Dark-green leaves grow on crisp stems. Direct seed in cool weather, in full sun and moist soils. 60 days. Click on image to view larger frame.

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YAMS
Oxalis tuberosa
OCA - New Zealand
3" long flesh-coloured wrinkly tubers multiply rapidly. Grow best in well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Foliage makes attractive groundcover. Harvest after frost when foliage dies down. Good storage tubers, kept cool and dark will not shrivel. Replant in spring when soil warms, and tubers sprout. Use roasted for 25 minutes with olive oil as a side dish; or bake in casseroles. 4 to 6 months for tubers to form. Click on image to view larger frame.