Greens

Amaranth 'Polish'

50 days. This tall, heat-loving salad green is productive during the hot summer months when greens can be a challenge. Seedlings can be used as micro-greens. Breeder Frank Morton says there is a vocal contingent of salad growers who claim "Polish" is the best tasting variety of amaranth. approx. 200 seeds

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Amaranth 'Red Garnet'

50 days. Brilliant fushia from seedling to flowers. This amaranth can be used at multiple stages. As a seedling it makes colourful microgreens or sprouts, tender young leaves are great in salads, larger leaves can be cooked like spinach and the flowers provide grain for you or the birds. In addition to all this, it is beautiful in the ornamental kitchen garden or the flower garden. ~200 seeds

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Arugula

21 days baby / 40 days full size. Eruca vesicaris. Traditional, spicy salad green provides that bitter component that stimulates digestion. Leaves are long and dark green and deeply cut. Very productive plants can be used for cut-and-come-again harvests. approx. 200 seeds

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Endive 'Nina'

50 days. Fine curled leaves create loft in salads. The taste is satisfyingly bitter and is essential in French mesclun mixes. Blanch the centres by tying heads with an elastic band to exclude sunlight. approx. 200 seeds

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Epazote 'Glossy'

Chenopodium ambrosoides. Aromatic plant is used in Mexican cooking and is a key ingredient in our home made chili powder. Can be used in small quantities in salad as well. Attracts beneficial insects to the garden, especially aphid-eating syrphids.. Pkt ~ 200 seeds.

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Nasturtium 'Alaska'

Beautiful lilypad shaped leaves are marbled with creamy white markings. The colourful edible flowers have the same peppery taste as the leaves and both are welcome additions to salads or herb vinegars. Alaska has a well behaved growth habit so it does well in hanging baskets or containers as well as in the ground. We grow them as aphid trap plants in our greenhouses. Pkt = 40 seeds.

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Orach 'Golden'

28-45 days. Atriplex hortensis. An heirloom variety of this annual warm season salad green. Productive in the hottest days of summer and golden leaves can be used like spinach, raw or cooked. Cut young seedlings or pick individual leaves off young plants. Best eating quality comes from plants under 45 cm. Pkt: ~100 seeds

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Orach 'Triple Purple'

28-45 days. Atriplex hortensis. Bright, purple leaves retain their colour even in the heat of summer. Add the savoyed, thick leaves to salads. The flavour is delicious and a little salty. Direct seed for best results. Pkt: ~100 seeds

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Pak Choi

Pale green stems form a thick base topped by oval bright green leaves. Can be used at the baby leaf stage for salads or full size for braising and stir fries. Chock full of nutrients. Vase shaped plants grow to 20-25 cm in height.

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Sorrel

Rumex acetosa. Fresh, lemon flavoured greens on a perennial plant. Pick the 20 cm. leaves early in the spring and late in the fall. Use raw in salads and cooked in the classic French sorrel soup. Pollen provides food for beneficial insects when other food sources are scarce. Hardy to zone 4. Pkt. ~ 200 seeds

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