Seeds

Originating in temperate regions, the 'Reine des Glaces' head lettuce is distinguished by its vibrant freshness and mild flavor. Following the tradition of lettuce-based varieties, it embodies an admirable balance between crisp texture and delicate taste, making it ideal for organic gardens and diverse vegetable patches.

In the garden, it stands out for its relative heat resistance and rapid growth, producing tightly packed, bright, almost translucent heads. It integrates perfectly into a leafy vegetable arrangement, bringing vitality and freshness to summer and autumn harvests.

Native to Europe, the Sucrine head lettuce is a prized variety for its delicately sweet taste and crisp texture. Its dense heart and thin leaves give it a mild flavor that makes it a favorite in fresh salads.

In the garden, Sucrine produces small, compact, robust, and resistant heads, perfect for early or late harvests. With its tender green foliage and compact habit, it blends harmoniously into vegetable gardens, bringing freshness and vitality.

This lettuce stands out for its ease of cultivation and its delicious contribution which delights gardeners and gourmets, embodying sweetness at the heart of the vegetable garden.

Originating in the Balkans, the Yugoslavian Red head lettuce is distinguished by its spectacular purplish-red foliage, which catches the eye and visually enriches vegetable gardens. Traditionally grown in family gardens in the Yugoslav region, it has won over modern gardeners thanks to its hardiness and mild flavor.

In the garden, this variety forms a beautiful, dense head with crisp leaves, ideal for adding a colorful and nutritious touch to salads. Its hardiness makes it a preferred choice for organic gardeners looking for vegetables that are both decorative and flavorful.

Native to North America, Parris Island Cos romaine lettuce is known for its hardiness and its ability to add crispness and freshness to salads. This variety has become a staple in organic vegetable gardens thanks to its majestic appearance and dense foliage, offering excellent resilience to the vagaries of the climate.

In the garden, it stands out with its upright habit and elongated, light green leaves with pronounced veins, promising a firm texture and a mild, slightly sweet flavor. Versatile and prolific, it integrates harmoniously into a vegetable garden where it adds a touch of verticality and a constant source of flavor.

Native to Europe, the Winter Red romaine lettuce is prized for its reddish leaves and slightly robust flavor, adding a touch of color and character to winter salads. Traditionally valued for its cold hardiness, this variety is a welcome addition to organic vegetable gardens, extending harvests beyond the first frosts.

In the garden, it stands out for its hardiness and its ability to retain its crispness despite the frosts. Its upright habit and toothed leaves, tinged with deep purple hues, make it a valuable companion that withstands low temperatures well while providing visual and gustatory diversity.

Cultivated primarily for its crisp and juicy stem, Cracoviensis asparagus lettuce is a striking variety originating from Central Europe. Its upright silhouette, supported by a thick, erect stem, evokes both the elegance of asparagus and the freshness of lettuce.

Its sparse foliage, sometimes tinged with purple, adds a graphic touch to the vegetable garden while still allowing light to filter through. Hardy, it adapts well to spring and autumn crops, tolerating temperature fluctuations. Ideal for gardens seeking edible diversity, it offers a unique and productive presence, both decorative and nutritious.

Common lavender is an iconic perennial plant, renowned for its intense fragrance, elegant flowers, and high aromatic value. It forms a small, compact shrub with finely cut, evergreen grey-green foliage that provides structure to the garden year-round.

In summer, long flower stalks rise above the foliage, adorned with highly fragrant, bluish-purple spikes. This bloom attracts a multitude of pollinators and transforms the garden into a vibrant, buzzing space. Lavender brings color, fragrance, and movement.

In the garden, Lavandula angustifolia thrives in very well-drained soil and sunny locations. Successful lavender cultivation relies primarily on alkaline soil , an essential condition for healthy growth, plant longevity, and abundant flowering.

It is more susceptible to excessive moisture than cold, which explains the importance of effective drainage and a suitable pH, particularly in northern climates. Once well established in light, alkaline soil, it proves drought-resistant and requires very little maintenance.

In the ecumene, lavender is perceived as a plant of clarity and balance. It embodies the meeting between the ornamental garden, the aromatic and the medicinal, reminding us that some plants heal the senses as much as the landscapes.

Native to the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia, mountain lovage, often called common lovage or mountain celeriac, is a large umbellifer that naturally finds its place in a living garden. Its glossy green, deeply cut, and fragrant foliage is reminiscent of celery, while its upright stems bear, in summer, large umbels of small greenish-yellow flowers.

Planted in welcoming, cool, and well-drained soil, this robust perennial faithfully returns year after year, offering both a welcoming presence and a generous harvest of aromatic leaves. Its tall stature structures the edges of a vegetable garden or a quiet corner of the garden, where it participates in the cycle of seasons with admirable consistency. In a deeply rooted approach to respectful cultivation, lovage is a reliable plant, discreet yet essential in the garden.

Wild lupin is one of those unassuming presences that transforms a dry bank or depleted soil into a vibrant and colorful corner. With its finely cut palmate leaves and upright spikes of bluish-purple to whitish flowers, it evokes natural meadows and roadsides where the garden still leaves ample room for spontaneity.

In a garden in harmony with the cycle of the seasons, wild lupin establishes itself slowly, extending its deep roots and connecting with the soil. As a true legume, it contributes to fertility by associating nitrogen-fixing bacteria with its roots. Its flowers, growing in vertical clusters, offer a valuable resource for bees and other pollinating insects, making it a trusted companion in a diverse and nourishing environment.

Hardy and undemanding, it prefers poor soils to overly rich ones. It readily complements naturalistic flowerbeds, wildflower meadows, and areas slightly removed from the vegetable garden, where its benevolent presence contributes to biodiversity as much as to the daily pleasure of the observant gardener.

Lamb's lettuce, also known as corn salad or lamb's lettuce, is a small salad green native to Europe and Western Asia. It grows wild in fields and wastelands before becoming a common vegetable in gardens. The term " Green Lamb 's Lettuce" refers to varieties with compact rosettes and tender green leaves, well-suited to late summer and autumn sowing in gardens with cooler climates.

Its low-growing rosettes easily weave their way between other crops, carpeting the ground with a perennial ground cover for the cooler months. Its modest and steady growth makes it an ideal companion for kitchen gardens that prioritize continuous harvests. Mild in flavor and cold-hardy, it consistently accompanies the cycle of the seasons, offering gardeners a comforting salad green as the days grow shorter.

Originating from the agricultural traditions of the Abenaki people and adapted to the cooler regions of the Northeast, Abenaki Calais corn is an ancient flour corn variety selected to mature quickly in short summers. Its colorful ears, with predominantly white to cream-colored kernels that sometimes show subtle variations, evoke the long-standing connection between these peoples and this staple of the kitchen garden.

In a harmonious garden , its straight, regular silhouette structures the space. Its rapid growth and good adaptation to cooler climates make it a reliable plant for vegetable gardens in Quebec and temperate regions. Grown in full sun, in warm , welcoming soil , it offers a generous harvest for semolina, cakes, or cornbread, perpetuating an age-old tradition at the heart of the kitchen.

Combined with classic organic gardening plants – climbing beans and vining squash – it integrates naturally into a rooted approach and a cultivation method that respects the cycles of life. A solid presence in the vegetable garden, it invites us to reconnect with the rhythm of the seasons and the patient transformation of grain into food.

Art Verrell's corn is an old line of sweet corn, passed down through North American family gardens before being preserved by seed artisans. Its ears with yellow and white kernels evoke traditional fields and farmers' markets, where the age-old act of harvesting is still part of daily life.

In the garden, this corn forms a sturdy, upright clump that structures the vegetable patch and creates a protective green wall in a vibrant garden . In addition to providing sweet ears for cooking, it contributes to a welcoming habitat for small wildlife. Integrated into a holistic approach and respectful cultivation , it naturally finds its place in the cycle of the seasons, alongside squash and beans.

Developed through Prairie Road Organic Seed's heritage breeding program in North Dakota, this black corn is an heirloom variety specially adapted to cooler climates. Robust and vigorous, it grows to between 1.2 and 1.8 meters tall, bearing beautiful ears 13 to 20 cm long. Its round, glossy black kernels contrast elegantly with the slender foliage, adding a graphic touch to the vegetable garden.

Grown in a sunny spot with rich soil, Black Dakota Corn follows the natural cycle of the seasons and reaches maturity in 95 to 105 days. The ears must be left in the field to dry completely before harvest to ensure optimal cracking quality. A valuable companion for self-sufficient gardens, it evokes the profound relationship between the farmer and the grain.

Fisher's Earliest corn is an iconic variety of northern vegetable gardens, selected over 60 years ago in Montana by seed producer Ken Fisher. Designed to meet the demands of short growing seasons, this very early corn quickly established itself as a benchmark for its reliability and the exceptional quality of its ears.

It produces beautiful, succulent yellow ears of plump, perfectly aligned kernels, typically arranged in 10 to 12 rows. The ears are about 15 cm long and offer a sweet, pleasant flavor when harvested at the milky stage. This open-pollinated sweet corn variety has proven, through trials, to be one of the best in its class for cooler climates.

The plants are vigorous and well-structured, recognizable by their stems that blend red and green hues. They reach a height of 1.5 to 1.8 m, with the first ear positioned approximately 45 cm from the ground, which facilitates observation and harvesting. This structure gives the plant good stability and consistent growth.

In the garden, Fisher's Earliest thrives in warm, sunny locations and rich soils, but its greatest strength lies in its ability to produce quickly, even in short summers. Sown in blocks to encourage pollination, it offers an early and reliable harvest, ensuring sweet corn production in areas where this vegetable is sometimes considered risky.

Golden Bantam is an old, yellow sweet corn variety, long cultivated in North American home gardens. More of a "sweet corn" type than a field corn, it offers golden ears that add a beautiful presence to the vegetable garden, standing upright above bright green foliage.

In the garden, its plants reach a moderate height for a corn variety, making it well-suited to small-scale vegetable gardens. Its full ears of yellow kernels are harvested for milk and eaten immediately after picking. In a vibrant and productive garden, it thrives in strips or small squares, contributing to the garden's vertical structure and naturally fitting into the seasonal cycle, from sowing to the decline of the stalks in late summer.

Orchard Baby is a dwarf sweet corn variety designed for gardens where summer is short and every sunny day counts. Its low, stocky plants produce small, uniform ears that mature quickly, providing a sweet corn harvest even where larger varieties struggle to reach maturity.

In a kitchen garden , its compact size makes it easy to plant in combination with other plants and allows light to circulate. It participates in the cycle of the seasons as a discreet yet reliable presence: sown when the soil warms up, it quickly grows, flowers, and forms its seed heads in a short time. It is a variety prized for its ability to offer, in a quiet corner of the vegetable garden, the simple pleasure of picking tender young seed heads straight from the living garden.

Small in stature but big on presence, Tom Thumb Popcorn is a dwarf popcorn variety that naturally finds its place in compact vegetable gardens and allotments. Its short plants, topped with small golden ears, evoke the age-old practice of corn cultivation while adapting to the limited spaces and sometimes unpredictable seasons of northern gardens.

In the garden, Tom Thumb forms a small, vibrant thicket , a tranquil corner where the ears of corn soak up the summer sun. Its modest size makes it easy to care for and harvest, allowing it to be integrated harmoniously into a garden, whether planted along a border or mixed with other crops. Dried at the end of the season, it yields golden popcorn with a crunchy texture, transforming the garden harvest into a daily culinary delight.

Companion to a diverse food space, this popcorn corn participates in the cycle of the seasons: sown in spring in welcoming soil, it stands up in summer, then lets itself dry in autumn to offer its grains and seeds to attentive gardeners who wish to continue the rooted approach of preserving varieties.

The Queen Pink malope is a flowering annual with an elegant habit, known for its large, bright to deep pink, cup-shaped flowers that open wide. Each flower stands out clearly against the bright green, slightly lobed foliage, creating a simple yet effective contrast in the garden.

The plant develops upright, branching stems, bearing a generous and continuous bloom throughout the summer. The large, showy flowers attract attention from afar and make a strong statement in flower beds, borders, and cut flower gardens.

In the garden, Queen Pink is easy to grow and undemanding. It appreciates sunny locations and well-drained, but not overly rich, soil. Once established, it tolerates heat and short periods of drought quite well, while maintaining regular flowering.

Garden marjoram, Origanum vulgare , is that unassuming little clump that, once established, becomes a permanent fixture in the garden. Native to Eurasia, it has naturalized in many open landscapes, where its aromatic foliage and delicate flowers accompany the changing seasons. In a supportive vegetable garden, it easily finds its place along the edge, in a quiet, well-drained corner.

Its upright, branching stems bear green to greyish-green foliage that, when crushed, releases a warm, herbaceous fragrance. In summer, its small, pinkish-purple or whitish flowers form panicles that attract a wide variety of pollinators. A welcome presence, it integrates naturally into an approach to respectful cultivation: a reliable, robust plant that returns year after year and accompanies the gardener in the daily pleasure of fresh harvests.

Native to the Near East, Za'atar marjoram ( Origanum syriacum ) is one of those aromatic plants that embodies an entire landscape: bright sunshine, stony soil, hearty cuisine, and time-honored traditions. In the organic garden, it brings the characteristic fragrance of the za'atar blend—warm, slightly camphoraceous, and lemony—that immediately evokes flatbread, olive oil, and shared meals.

Its grey-green, slightly downy foliage forms compact clumps that establish themselves beautifully in well-drained soil. In summer, small, whitish to cream-colored flowers appear in discreet spikes, much appreciated by pollinating insects. A warm-climate plant, but adaptable, it thrives in pots or flowerbeds in cooler climates, provided it is given a sunny spot and fertile, never waterlogged soil.

In a garden in harmony with nature, Za'atar marjoram becomes a faithful companion in the vegetable patch: undemanding and fragrant, it complements the harvests of Mediterranean vegetables and finds its way into the kitchen every day. Its benevolent presence reminds us of the profound relationship between aromatic plants, culinary traditions, and the diversity of ecosystems.