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Nepeta cataria. Not just for cats! Tall pink and white flower spikes are great in fresh and dried arrangements. Use the leaves in salads, sauces, teas, and soups - and of course fresh or dried for the cats! Catnip seeds are a good choice for a bee attractor that works well in containers on cat-free balconies. Protect seedlings from cats.

Catnip (and a few of its close relatives) contain the compound nepetalactone, which is extremely attractive to domestic and wild cats. It has the same effect on leopards, lynxes, and tigers as it does on house cats. Roughly 33% of all cats do not respond to catnip, and the response is believed to be hereditary.

This is a favorite for many. Comfortable glove with Nitrite

Detroit Dark Red is the perfect all-purpose beet variety. This medium-early variety produces round, dark red roots. These beets are very enjoyable, growing tender and fine-grained throughout. Ideal for use fresh, canned, pickled and frozen. Tops are great for salads too!

Please Note: Seed tapes require consistent moisture to ensure best germination.

Days to Germination: 10 to 12 days

Days to Maturity: 50 to 60 days

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Well know for comfort and durability, these gloves can take a beating. Wash as needed in cold water. Lay flat to dry.

Russian Sage is extremely valuable for its long season of bloom in the summer garden. Plant forms a bushy upright clump of greyish leaves that are lacy and fragrant. Spikes of rich violet-blue flowers appear in high summer, continuing into late fall. An extremely versatile garden plant, Russian Sage loves hot, sunny sites and will fit right into the perennial border, also good to use among shrubs, and even in containers or tubs. Attractive to butterflies. Prune back to no less than 6 inches in the spring, and never in the fall. Exceptionally drought tolerant. Selected as Perennial Plant of the Year in 1995.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 34 - 60"

• Width: 22 - 36"

This delicious carrot shrugs aside heavy soil, and forms beautiful 15-20cm (6-8") long, fine-grained roots that are bright orange throughout and as coreless as the name suggests. Nantes Coreless carrot seeds develop cylindrical and sweet roots, with relatively small tops. They have excellent flavour, and are very tender. Sow these lovely carrots in raised beds or in deeply cultivated garden soil, and be sure to thin the seedlings to 4-10cm (1.5 - 4") apart in the row so that each has room to develop on its own. In the home garden, sow short rows of carrot seeds at two to three week intervals, and enjoy a much longer harvest window.

Matures in 75 days. (Open-pollinated seeds)

Romaine Lettuce develops elongated heads with long, ribbed leaves. The coarse outer leaves of this cool weather crop are a dark green, while the inner leaves are a lighter green. This Romaine variety is of splendid quality for Caesar salad.

Please Note: Seed tapes require consistent moisture to ensure best germination.

Days to Germination: 7 to 10 days

Days to Maturity: 65 to 85 days

Red Cored Chantenay produces crunchy, sweet carrots that are excellent for dicing. Roots grow to be a reddish-orange with an indistinct core. This variety produces shorter and thicker carrots that grow to about 14 cm (5 1/2") long when mature. A healthy choice, carrots contain more vitamin A than any other vegetable and when raw, they provide important dietary fibre.

Please Note: Seed Tapes require consistent moisture to ensure best germination.

Days to Germination: 10 to 14 days

Days to Maturity: 70 days

Versatile for garden beds and containers. Available in popular colors. Shorter plants look neat in the garden. Longer blooming both in the ground and in containers.

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 6 - 10"

Width: 8 - 12"

Double crested flowers are the largest of any in this type – a huge, 2 to 3 in./5 to 8 cm across – and show off pure, intense colors. Excellent garden performer under a wide range of conditions.

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 10 - 12"

Width: 6 - 8" 

Kent produces large size, conical sweet berries in June. This is a standard for field production.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 6"

• Width: 10 - 12"

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This early maturing popcorn has tall plants with two ears each, that average 13-15cm (5-6") long. Pink Popcorn corn seeds produce excellent popping corn that yields lots of fluffy white kernels with a great rich flavour. The beautiful pink to mauve kernels are attractive for decoration. This is not a variety for eating corn on the cob, but rather for drying and popping. The stately tall plants are attractive in the summer garden.

To harvest popcorn, allow the plants to turn brown and the ears to dry for as long as possible in the field. When harvested, the husks should be completely brown and the kernels hard. Harvest the ears and remove the husks. Hang the ears in mesh bags in a warm, dry, airy room, and let dry for several weeks. The ideal moisture content for popcorn is 13 to 14%. Once a week, extract a few kernels and try popping them. If the popcorn is jagged or chewy, it still has too much moisture. If the flavour and texture are good, remove all the remaining kernels and store them in airtight containers. They should remain in good popping form for several years.

Matures in 85 days. (Open-pollinated seeds)

Beta vulgaris. Can't choose which beet to grow? Try this multicoloured beet blend. It represents the best and brightest of our beet varieties for high performance and great flavour. Get the most variety out of this colourful, tasty, dynamic blend of beet seeds. This easy to grow vegetable may be eaten from foliage to root. Beets can grow in cool months and can take some frost. Beets are high in Vitamin C, folic acid, antioxidants, minerals, fibre, and potassium. They also contain betaine, a compound that is essential for cardiovascular health.

Matures in 50 to 65 days. (Open-pollinated seeds)

Requires a uniform moisture supply and long growing season to produce maximum quality tubers and to prevent knobbiness and second growth. Excellent for boiling, baking, and storage.

Harvest: Late

Potato Size: Large

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa. 

Quality water soluble fertilizers for indoor and outdoor plants. An excellent all purpose plant food. GardenPro is a complete fertilizer with micro nutrients.

We love the flavour and delicate texture of the leaves for lettuce wraps! Buttercrunch butterhead lettuce seeds are a Bibb type lettuce that forms a tight little rosette of soft, dark-green, upward-facing leaves surrounding a tender, pale centre. The small hearts don't become bitter in hot weather. Later plantings stand well into fall and make good growth in spring cold frames. Buttercrunch lettuce is a good candidate for growing all winter if you can provide cloche or greenhouse protection, or even a simple cold frame. Sow some extra early indoors in February for transplanting to the cold frame in March.

Matures in 67 days. (Open-pollinated seeds)

Light Requirement: Peperomia thrives in bright, indirect light. It can tolerate lower light conditions but may exhibit slower growth.

Watering Requirement: Keep the soil lightly moist, allowing the top inch to dry out between waterings. Overwatering can lead to root rot, so it's essential to avoid waterlogged conditions. 

The 'Manitoba' Tomato is a very dependable and early tomato variety that is excellent for the Prairies. Enjoy the bright red, juicy fruit earlier in the season than other varieties.

Suggestions: Keep tomatoes away from all members of the Brassica family: cabbage, cauliflower, etc. Eliminate blossom end rot problems by deep watering the plants so that the root system will be less affected by fluctuations in soil moisture.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 60" + (Indeterminate)

• Width: 8 - 12"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 40"
• Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa. 

Tomato Food 5-10-5 with added granular kelp and calcium, an important nutrient required by tomatoes to aid in photosynthesis, enhance fruit firmness and reduce blossom-end rot.

Blossom End Rot is a common problem with tomatoes. Calcium is a key factor along with keeping the soil moist. If your tomatoes are consistently dry they cannot properly absorb much needed calcium. Use this guide: If the soil below your tomato plant is dry within an inch of the surface your tomatoes need to be watered.

National Pickling is a proven cucumber variety that produces an abundance of 15 cm (6") long fruits. The high quality cucumbers are cylindrical in shape with black spines lining their dark green skin. 

Days to Germination: 8 to 10 days

Days to Maturity: 55 days

• Suitable for use in gardens and houseplants.
• Mix fresh solution. Made of selected soaps that have contact insecticidal properties.
• Insects must be sprayed directly to achieve proper control. Mix one part concentrate to 25 parts water, or 5mL per 250mL.
• For aphids, mealybugs, spider mites and whitefly, apply weekly for 2-3 weeks and thereafter repeat as required. For other insects, apply when they occur and repeat as needed.