Herb Seeds
Heirloom Salad Leaf Basil
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Heirloom Salad Leaf Basil
(Ocimum basilicum) We call our selected lettuce leaf strain Salad Leaf Basil because its broad 4 inch leaves are perfect to shred into green salads or add aromatic flavor to sandwiches in place of lettuce. The big tender green leaves are mild and sweetly fragrant, and their crinkled texture holds dressings or sauces well. Try them as wrappers around slivers of ham or cheese for delicious fresh appetizers, or anywhere you crave a buttery, mild basil accent. Seed Count: Approx. 500 / Weight: 1 gm Packet $2.79 |
Italian Pesto Basil
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Italian Pesto Basil (Ocimum basilicum) EXCLUSIVE – Our imported Italian basil with its glossy dark green leaves and full-bodied zesty flavor is the classic strain for making pesto. Combine the delicious leaves with garlic, olive oil, grated cheese and toasted nuts to make homemade pesto sauce for pasta, baked potatoes or to accent fish or poultry, season soups and stews, or enhance salad dressings. You’ll have luscious leafy harvests all summer with plenty to freeze for winter feasting too! Seed Count: 30-35 / Weight: 0.03 gms Packet $2.99 |
Flowering Herbs
Bodegold Chamomile
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Bodegold Chamomile
(Matricaria recutita) Our improved chamomile variety is imported from Germany where herbal teas and remedies have been used for centuries. Bodegold begins blooming several weeks earlier than other strains and produces abundant flowers. Pick the little blossoms with their dainty white petals and gold centers and simply air dry for making fragrant pineapple-scented tea. Serve with a little honey to settle the stomach and soothe the nervous system before retiring. Seed Count: Approx. 1000 / Weight: 0.15 gms Packet $2.79 |
Heirloom
Culinary Chives
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Heirloom Culinary Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) Easy to grow heirloom. Mounding strappy leaves with mild onion flavor that adds pizzazz to green salads & complements vegetables & eggs. Pretty lilac blossoms attract butterflies. Perennial. Seed Count: Approx. 1362 / Weight: 1.5 gms Packet $3.79 |
Heirloom Garlic Chives
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Heirloom Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) Garlic chives, also called Chinese chives, have slim flat grass-like leaves that taste like a perfect combination of sweet garlic and chives. Just snip them over salads, fresh vegetables, or any savory dish to add a subtle and delicious garlic accent without any of the fuss. The green strappy leaves form neat mounding plants with pretty white edible blossoms. This a joy to have ready at hand – a gardening cook’s secret! Seed Count: Approx. 225 / Weight: 1.25 gms Packet $2.79 |
Heirloom Dill
Leafy Diana
French Perfume Lavender
Sweet Marjoram
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Heirloom Dill
Leafy Diana (Anethum graveolens) Heirloom dill's feathery blue-green leaves have a fine aromatic scent that is delicious in green salads, eggs & with potatoes or rice. Blossoms bring butterflies to the garden. Seed Count: Approx. 1323 / Weight: 1.5 gms Packet $3.79
French Perfume Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) EXCLUSIVE - Award-winning perennial French Perfume is a compact, deliciously fragrant, hardy Lavender, bred by our most respected Dutch seed producers. This new cultivar produces lovely, uniform, softly vase-shaped plants 12 to 18 inches tall that actually begin blooming the first year from seed. Their rich flushes of plump, deep purple, velvety flowers are intensely fragrant with an unusually sweet, clean lavender scent that’s truly memorable and hard to resist. A brand-new garden treasure to enjoy. Seed Count: 30-35 / Weight: 0.03 gms Packet $2.99 Sweet Marjoram (Origanum majorana) This perfumed Mediterranean herb is at its best when harvested fresh from the garden, with a complex, sweeter pungency than its more assertive cousin, oregano. Marjoram is easy to grow from seed and forms an attractive mound of small-leaved green sprigs. This versatile kitchen companion combines well with garlic, onions, thyme, basil, and bay leaves. It is the herb of choice for flavoring cheese and egg dishes, herb breads and stuffings, mushrooms, poultry or beans and adds bright flavor to a wide range of everyday cooking. Seed Count: Approx. 1650 / Weight: 0.5 gms Packet $2.79 |
Heirloom Italian Oregano
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Heirloom Italian Oregano
(Origanum heracleoticum) EXCLUSIVE - This aromatic oregano comes from our best traditional Italian grower near Bologna. The leaves are slightly milder and sweeter than Greek oregano. They are perfect in marinara sauce, pizza, pasta, soups, casseroles and salads. An ornamental as well as a tasty kitchen garden essential, this hardy perennial forms cascading mounds of little leaves with purple flowers appearing the second season. Use it lavishly fresh or hang bunches of the leafy sprigs to dry for year-round enjoyment. Seed Count: Approx. 1000 / Weight: 0.1 gms Packet $2.79 |
Sweet Curly Parsley
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Sweet Curly Parsley
(Petroselinum crispum) EXCLUSIVE - This sweet and nutty-tasting curly parsley from our best French supplier has none of the harsh texture or metallic flavor that often characterize ordinary commercial varieties. It germinates readily and grows vigorously to form graceful plumes of beautifully green, double curled leaves. These ornamental plants provide handfuls of pretty leafy sprigs for edible garnishes and decorations throughout the season or you can cut and add them with abandon to every savory dish you cook. Seed Count: Approx. 600 / Weight: 1 gm Packet $2.79 |
French Rosemary
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French Rosemary
(Rosmarinus officinalis) EXCLUSIVE - The strong but subtle piney mint flavor of rosemary is a perfume no good cook should be without, and you can afford to be lavish when you grow your own plants from seed! Evergreen rosemary grows into a deliciously scented shrub whose needlelike, gray-green leaves are a classic aromatic seasoning. We have long sought and are delighted to offer you reliable seeds for this herb that is an essential part of every good kitchen garden. Seed Count: Approx. 150 / Weight: 0.175 gms Packet $2.99 |
Heirloom
Culinary Sage
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Heirloom Culinary Sage (Salvia officinalis) Handsome heirloom plants with pretty, soft, blue-green leaves and flowers that butterflies love to visit. Traditional herb for holiday cooking and great with winter squash and pork dishes. Perennial. Seed Count: Approx. 138 / Weight: 1 gm Packet $3.79 |
Heirloom English Watercress
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Heirloom English Watercress
(Nasturtium officinale) Add a crunchy, zesty flavor like no other to green salads, omelets, ripe tomatoes, sliced cucumbers and sandwiches with your own patch of fresh watercress. Once savored fresh from the garden, you won’t want to be without its sharp clean flavor. This healthy (high in Vitamins A & C), sprightly herb usually grows near running water, but its pretty rosettes of leafy stems will grow handily if you use our vigorous Dutch seed and keep plants very moist. Seed Count: Approx. 3000 / Weight: 1 gm Packet $2.99 |