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Tomato - Ailsa Craig - 14RG83
Details An old variety, very popular in the UK originating from Scotland in 1908. Named after the island Ailsa Craig near the mouth of the Clyde river.A vigorous grower with good disease resistance, medium size and good flavour.Botanical name Solanum lycopersicumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Cherokee Purple - 148RG90
Details A red/ purple skin fruit that can weigh up to 400grams that has a balance of sweet, acid and savory with form skin and flesh, fruit should ripen in about 80 days during the summer months on a indeterminate bush. Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentumPrice per packet $4.00Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Marmande - 58RG79A
Details A French Heirloom very popular in Northern Italy with great pest and disease resistance. Fast growing producing early season fruit . Harvest 12-14 weeks from sowBotanical name Solanum lycopersicumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Green Grape - 147RG83A
Details Green Grape is a compact semi-bush variety that grow as high as 1.3m tall. The fruit average two to four centimeters in diameter and are rounded with a slightly oblong shape, like that of a grape. Their juicy interior flesh is lime green in colour, the taste is a rich combination of sweet and spicy flavours with minimal acidity.Botanical name Solanum lycopersicumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick GindersCourgette - Cocozelle Bush - 105RG6A
Details A stripped green skin Italian zucchini that is a strong and productive variety, originally from the Southern seed collectionBotanical name Cucurbita pepoPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 15Grower name Ric Ginders
Onion - Walsh - 37RG51
Details The true bunching onion is a perennial that does not form a bulb. Bunching onions are strong and enduring once established, they can supply a sharp and delicious punch of flavour to your cooking, year after year.Botanical name Allium fistulosumPrice per packet $4.00
St Mary's Thistle - 146RG89A
Details St Mary’s Thistle is a highly regarded liver protectant that also restores the liver’s ability to detoxify harmful substances. Can be grown as a decorative plant but can be regarded as a pest,Botanical name Silybum marianumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Corn - Blue Hopi - 162RG101
DetailsBlue corn also known as Hopi maize, Yoeme Blue, Tarahumara Maiz Azul, and Rio Grande Blue, ground it's used to make blue tortilla chips, tortillas, corn soup and cornbread. Hopi Blue grows 1.7m tall
Can be eaten as sweet corn when picked young.
Miners Lettuce - 163RG101A
Details Miner lettuce has small heart-shaped leaves have a mild but succulent taste, rich in calcium and vitamin C makes miners lettuce is ideal to add to salads. Scatter seed in out of the way corners where it can then maintain itself.Botanical name Claytonia perfoliataPrice per packet $5.00Packet contents 40 seedsGrower name Rick Ginders
Chives - Standard - 31RG23
Details Perennial growing to 50cm. Grows in slowly spreading clumps. Plant has green, hollow, tubular leaves that have a mild onion flavour; used as a garnish, in sauces, dips, stews, casseroles, salads and soups. Can be grown in containers.Botanical name Allium schoenoprasumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 50 seedsGrower name Richard Ginders
Onion - Rossa Lunga - 141RG85A
Details These onions can grow quite large and will swell up into a long torpedo shape, known for its superb flavour and texture. Best sown in spring in the South Island, those in the far north might be able to autumn sow.Botanical name Allium fistulosumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 50Grower name Rick Ginders
Pepper - Marconi Red - 142RG82A
Details Marconi Red pappers are sweet and mild with a heat rating of 1-1000 Scoville Units. The fruits start out dark green, change to red, and then mature to a solid bright red. Maturation is 62-80 days. They can be eaten at any stage but are the sweetest when fully red. If you keep the peppers picked, the plants will continue producing until frost.Botanical name Capsicum annuumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 30Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Yellow Pear 143RG86A
Details This variety dates back to the 1800s and is a vigorous indeterminate tomato producing generously with an abundance of small yellow pear-shaped tomatoes that are sweet and mild in flavour.Price per packet $4.00Grower name Rick Ginders
Chard - Multi coloured silver beet 111RG12A
Details A collection of different coloured chardBotanical name Beta vulgarisPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 40Grower name Ric Gingers
Matricaria chamomilla - 144RG88A
Details Chamomilla has a branched, erect and smooth stem, which grows to a height of 15–60 cm The flowers bloom in early to midsummer, and have a strong, aromatic smell. Botanical name Asteraceae. M. chamomillaPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 40Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Early Girl - 145RG87A
Details Determinate regular leaf type.Bears heavy crop very early of medium-sized globe fruit. Bright red fruit with lots of flavour and aroma. known as a short season variety used as a slicing tomato. These tomatoes require supportive staking when they are planted, and they need to be grown in a sunny area out of the wind in well-conditioned soil.Botanical name Solanum lycopersicumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Russian Red - 45RG87
Details A reliable mid size cool-climate type with good flavour,Botanical name Solanum lycopersicumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick GindersLeek - Purau - 91RG39
Details Bred at Purau Gardens for many years and had adapted well to the coastal climate, this strain of leek may well suit warmer areas of NZ. Its a cross between three well known NZ varieties including Musselburgh.Suggested growing method is to aim for a long length white stem of up to 40cm, sow seed late winter/ early spring close enough together aiming for a spacing of 2cm apart, by mid summer the plants should be up to 30cm tall, dig them up trying not to damage the roots too much and place in a bucket with enough water in it to cover the roots. The soil these plants go into needs to be deeply dug over then using a rake or shovel handle poke it down into the soil as deep as 40cm, wriggle it around to make a shaft to which a leek plant is dropped down, then pour a small amount of water down, its just then a matter of insuring that the growth tip can grow up and out of the shaft Botanical name Allium porrumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 50Grower name Rick Ginders
Catnip - 132RG78A
Details A cat best pet plant, caring is needed though as cats have been known to damage even full sized plants.Botanical name terpenoid nepetalactonePrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 100+Grower name Rick GindersParsnip - Hollow Crown - 63RG56
Details The Hollow Crown dates back to the early 1820s, a long tapered white root that has been grown and selected by Rick for over twenty years, if you wish to grow this long rooted parsnip, you will need deep soil that is stone free. If parsnips hit a stone while growing they tend to fork.They grow best in a light, rich soil. A generous amount of compost or humus in some other form.
To insure good germination all parsnip seed that has been out of frozen storage more than 12 months is removed from sale and is gifted out to customers. Botanical name Pastinaca sativaPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents approx 60Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Sweet 100 98RG88
Details An indeterminate that has been stabilized over a few years by Rick Ginders. Long clusters can carry up to 100 small sized fruits eachBotanical name Solanum lycopersicumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Bean - Scarlet Runner - 43RG4
Details It's fast growing perennial climbing up to 3 metres in a season. Plants will produce a profusion of pretty red and white flowers, amidst a heavy cover of leaves, in colder climates it pays to cover root crown with mulch so as to stop frost penetrating the soil killing the crown .Botanical name Phaseolus coccineusPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 30Grower name Rick GindersGlobe Artchoke - 89RG32
Details The immature flower is eaten as a vegetable. The medicinal properties of Globe Artichoke have been known for many years. The leaves were very popular between the 16th and 19th centuries when they were used to stimulate bile flow and for a variety of digestive disorders.Botanical name Cynara scolymusPrice per packet $5.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Kale - Red Russian - 51RG35
Details Red Russian kale leaves are tender, sweet and mild when picked young. The red tinged leaves are a bluish blush making them quite attractive. The leaves are flat with toothed edges. Usually grows to about half a metre tall but can reach up to 1m tall with a long stalk if left in the ground with enough time to grow.Botanical name Brassica oleracea var. sabellicaPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 50 seedsGrower name Rick Ginders
Edible Chrysanthemum - 90RG28
Details All chrysanthemum flowers are edible, but the flavour varies widely from plant to plant, from sweet to tangy to bitter or peppery. It may take some experimentation to find flavours you like. The mild flavour that lends itself well to stir-fries.Botanical name Chrysanthemum coronariumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents approx 30Grower name Rick GindersTomato - Purau Sweet Cherry - 99RG81
Details A productive taste cherry very sweet red tomato, early to produce fruit. Vigorous grower. Has been a favorite of Ricks for over 30 years.Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Teasel - 7RG70
Details Teasel - spikey flower heads were used for carding wool in the old days .Botanical name Dipsacus fullonumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 20Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Duncan Wilson - 12RG82
DetailsA great tomato with history. This tomato is a large fleshy one (up to 600 grams ) ,low in acid with very few seeds. Of the 50 plus tomatoes I grow this is number one.
It was given to Duncan by an Italian sailor sometime in the 50's and grown by him for many years and eventually was forgotten. I attained a few old seeds of which only two grew and have a good inventory of seeds now.
Orach - 29RG69 - Red
Details This red spinach is rich in Vitamin C ,vitamin A, iron, calcium,folic acid and antioxidants,commonly grown vegetable during the Middle Ages. Eaten raw in salads or cooked like spinach.Botanical name Spinacia oleraceaPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 40Grower name Rick GindersPea - Giant Alderman - 57RG62
Details A tall climber that can get as high as 3m, has large pods and peas, The Alderman pea variety is known to date back to 1893 and was a common site in Victorian kitchen gardens. Its long-cropping time made it ideal for using fresh and any excess crops were dried, stored and used later in the year for soups, stews and other dishes. The Americans have their own version of the Alderman variety which they call the Tall Telephone in honour of Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone.Botanical name Pisum sativumPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 40Grower name Rick Ginders
Bean - Broad bean Red Seeded - 150RG1B
Details Rick received this bean from the Southern Seed Exchange many years ago and has become his favorite Broad bean for his own personal supply.Botanical name Vicia FabaPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 30Grower name Ric GindersBean - Dalmation - 108RG7A
Details Believed to have arrived to New Zealand with the Dalmation gum diggers. A long string-less bean with green skin and purple streaks. Excellent raw or cooked. A vigorous climber to 2 metres.Another crop will be grown this summer and seed should be available by March 2020 Botanical name Phaseolus vulgarisPrice per packet $4.00Packet contents 30Grower name Rick Ginders