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This small-leaved dwarf basil is the ideal choice for growing in pots or planters on city balconies. However, it will also do well in the garden. Its fine and very aromatic foliage as well as its pretty compact ball habit gives it a very ornamental original aspect. Its flowering attracts pollinators.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Ocimum basilicum "Pluto"
Common name: Small-leaved basil
English: Pluto basil, Shrub basil
Family: Lamiaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Pinch the terminal shoots of the basil regularly to prevent early bolting.

***The vast majority of our seeds are produced on our farm. However, if the cultivation of a variety fails or if it is out of stock, we source from other seed companies to ensure an interesting selection. This is the case for this variety.

This bean, would have been found in the throat of a wild goose, then cultivated thereafter. It would be a heritage variety from Acadia, but was shared with us by a Native American. Gray speckled black beans, this bean is a landrace, so its patterns may vary.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Common name: Canadian Wild Goose Bean
English: Goose Bean
Family: Fabaceae

Stringless dwarf bean, purple in color. The plant is beautiful in the garden, with its small, dark, deep purple pods, but its extra-fine beans are delicious in the kitchen, and excellent for freezing. On the other hand, the rascal, he will play a trick on you when cooking, he will turn green again.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS.
When cooked, it turns green.

Heart of beef or cuor di bue is the name of several tomato cultivars of Italian origin. The original heart of beef is a variety of large tomato whose shape is reminiscent of a bovine heart, and can reach a weight of 500 to 600 grams. This tomato has dark red flesh and an irresistible flavor.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. Lay the plants horizontally, slightly arching the plant to bring the leaves out.

Delicious elongated beetroot. It is productive and resistant, in addition to being very tender and sweet! The abundant leaves can also be eaten, and the beet keeps well for the winter in cold storage. This variety originated in Germany, and was very popular in the Amish and Mennonite communities of the United States.

Sea bergamot is a native perennial with fragrant pink flowers that attract pollinators and hummingbirds. It is found in meadows and open places. Its leaves like its flowers are edible and make delicious herbal teas. Choosing native species is choosing biodiversity.

***The vast majority of our seeds are produced on our farm. However, if the cultivation of a variety fails or if it is out of stock, we source from other seed companies to ensure an interesting selection. This is the case for this variety.

One of our tastiest tomatoes! Perfect in taste, it is neither too sour nor too sweet. It will produce an abundance of firm fruit of a pretty dark pink. Ideal for your salads! Old variety from Switzerland.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum
Common name: Bern Rose Tomato
English: Rose from Bern Tomato
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, arching them slightly to bring out the leaves upwards.

Golden yellow bean with long, thin pods. Very good productivity and stability. Originally from France and previously from Algeria. The more you pick, the more it produces, over a long period of time. Its advantage lies in the ability of its pods to remain tender for several days on the plant. So advantageous for traveling gardeners or market gardeners too busy to pick their beans every day. The seeds are elongated, deep black. One of the tastiest in our collection. Beans of this type were introduced to France around the 1840s under the name Haricot d'Alger, because they supposedly originated in Algeria. From this genetic pool of black-seed beans, the French developed other varieties including butters from Rocquencourt, a town near Versailles.

Avoid handling or removing weeds when the beans are wet to avoid the proliferation of diseases. With us, it is very resistant to diseases and very little watered, since it is mulched throughout the summer. When the seedlings have started to sprout, ensure that the plants do not lack water until the first true leaves appear.

Plants of this variety bear many red, almost round fruits of 120 to 170 grams in clusters of 3 to 5 fruits. Their red, juicy, tasty flesh is very balanced in taste. Resistant to cracking and disease, the fruits keep very well once picked. Originally from Switzerland and grown in Sissoch since 1930 by Walter and Marie M?ller-Linder, the family took them with them to British Columbia when they immigrated in 1952. They were grown in greenhouses for a long time, then their daughter Christine Wiebe gave seeds to François Lebel, who displayed them in the catalog of the Seeds of Heritage. We tried them and were pleasantly surprised. Try them out yourself!

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum
Common name: Bishop Castle Tomato
English: Bishop Castle Tomato
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, arching them slightly to bring out the leaves upwards.

Climbing tomato with multiple wine-red fruits, each barely smaller than a golf ball. Very balanced at the sweet-acid level, this cherry tomato is one of our favorites when eaten fresh, directly from the garden. Its skin is thin and it is very juicy. We found this treasure one day, at a seed company (Antique Edibles), during a trip to Ontario.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
Gradually acclimate to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, slightly arching the plant to bring out the leaves upwards.

Semi-climbing plants giving small pods of 4 to 5 inches each containing 4 to 6 white beans speckled with black. Very prolific, these small beans are harvested dry after 100 days of cultivation and can be eaten as legumes. They can be grown without stakes, but still benefit from a support for easy picking. The origin is uncertain, but seeds were exchanged at the Common Ground Fair in Maine, USA in 2003, according to Fruitition Seeds. We got them from a seed exchange in Ontario.


MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
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Heirloom cherry type tomato, vigorous and productive. It has an oval shape 4 to 5 cm high and 2 cm wide, black in color, with dark red flesh. It is used for making dried tomatoes, sauces, or simply in salads. Originally from a Russian seed saver, Marina Danilenko, she was introduced to Seed Savers (USA) and later arrived in Quebec.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum
Common name: Cocktail tomato
English: Black PlumTomato
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, arching them slightly to bring out the leaves upwards.

This tomato is a cross between Black Crimean and Zapotec. It combines the qualities of these two ancestral varieties. Its flavor is exceptional and its fleshy dark red fruit is pleated like an accordion. It is a rare variety that deserves to be discovered.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimate to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. Lay the plants horizontally, slightly arching the plant to bring the leaves out.

This tobacco comes from Turkey, in the region of Samsun, very close to the Black Sea. Prized for its rich flavor and unique aroma, it is nonetheless smooth to smoke. For cigarettes or pipes. Very adapted to the Quebec climate, it approaches very pretty and slender pink flowers.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Nicotiana tabacum
Common names: Tobacco from the Samsun region, Tobacco from Turkey
English: Black Sea Tobacco
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
If you are planting tobacco for leaf harvest, remove the flowers. The leaves are picked when yellow or brown. If you want to collect seeds and leave food for pollinators, let the flowers bloom. You can also harvest the leaves, but there will be fewer of them.

Very productive dwarf yellow bean. Its taste is delicious and it does not pale in comparison with the Beurre de Rocquencourt bean. It is eaten young for its yellow and tender pods, or when ripe for its black seeds. It will ensure you a bountiful harvest over a long period of time. The more you pick, the more it will produce. This traditional variety comes to us from Sainte-Hélène de Kamouraska, in Bas-Saint-Laurent, where the family of Rollande Labrie (born in 1923) has always cultivated it. We are proud to make it accessible to the public and to ensure its safeguard.Originally, the butter bean comes from Algeria. It was introduced in France in the 1840s under the name Haricot d'Alger. Thereafter, the French developed several varieties of yellow beans with black seeds, including the famous Beurre de Rocquencourt, named after the city of the same name near Versailles.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS.
Avoid handling or removing weeds when the beans are wet to prevent the spread of disease. When the seedlings have started to sprout, ensure that the plants do not lack water until the first true leaves appear.

Sesame has been cultivated since the dawn of time, so much so that the wild plant is no longer found. Archaeological excavations have nevertheless revealed that sesame seeds and oil were part of the Chinese pharmacopoeia, there is 5,000 years old, and from India 7,500 years ago. Black sesame seeds are rich in iron, magnesium, manganese, copper and calcium. Rich in antioxidants, black sesame is also much rarer than white, plant it and harvest its seeds ... heated in a pan, a delight!
Its growth is indeterminate, in fact its seeds do not all ripen at the same time. Check the plants regularly between July and October to harvest, ripening from the bottom up like fava beans. Overall 90 to 120 days then 30 days of drying

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Sesamum indicum
Common name: Sesame
English: sesame
Family: Pedaliaceae

Very crunchy lettuce, which a friend from France sent me as a gift a few years ago. Very easy to grow, it seems to like the Quebec terroir. On the Internet, here is what we found about it "This lettuce has certainly been born in the Champagne region since the beginning of the 19th century. Then over the decades, like many varieties it lost its real name.However, it survived time thanks to its undeniable qualities and was kept by a woman named Angèle and continued on its merry way and its propagation under this last name.Luckily, Gilbert Vincent, great collector of beans, was able to carry out after many years of research to find the surname of this old variety, a joint culture with another very old variety also from the Champagne region, the Alphange à graine noire, and was able to observe that it it was the same variety. Angèle was thus able to find her surname." There is also a mention of the variety under its English names in an 1870s London publication, The Garden by William Robinson.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Lactuca sativa L. var. longifolia
Common names: Angela lettuce
English: Magnum Bonum or Florence black-seeded cos lettuce
Family: Asteraceae

The leaves of this small edible plant, which is often found in wasteland or meadows, are slightly sweet, with a taste reminiscent of peas. According to Brother Marie-Victorin, in his Flore Laurentienne, the leaves soap just like those of the saponaries. The flowers attract insects and are very melliferous. Its common names Pétard, Péteux and Pétarel come from the fact that the flower can be burst with a noise of explosion, by pinching its orifice, to trap the air, before hitting it sharply on the back of the other hand.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Silene vulgaris
Common names: Common silenus, Claquet, firecracker, peterole, pety, pétarel
English: Bladder Campion
Family: Caryophyllaceae

The verbena hastata, also known as blue vervain, is a plant traditionally used for its tonic properties. Native to the western and central regions of Quebec, as well as the northeastern United States, it is commonly found near lakes and rivers. This hardy perennial produces long spikes of blue flowers in the heart of summer, attracting a multitude of pollinating insects and seed-eating birds. Easy to cultivate, it prefers moist and cool soils and can self-seed readily. For production, direct sowing in the fall or pot seeding after stratification are recommended.

Steps for stratifying blue vervain seeds:

1- Place the blue vervain seeds in a moist substrate such as peat, soil, or sand.
2- Put the substrate with the seeds in a container with a lid slightly perforated to allow air to pass.
3- Store it in the refrigerator, where the temperature is generally around 4°C, for 2 to 4 weeks.
4- Check the moisture regularly.
5- After this period, plant the seeds according to the instructions.

Number of seeds per packet:

This Chinese broccoli, also called Kai lan, is perfectly adapted to Quebec summers, and tolerates light frosts in the fall.
The great advantage of this vegetable compared to traditional broccoli is its ease of cultivation. Instead of waiting for it to form a ball like the latter, which sometimes never happens, we harvest small, thin and delicate broccoli throughout its flowering. It is extremely prolific, and its taste resembles broccoli with a touch of mustard.