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Certified organic mini spring salad seed starter kit
$30.00
Get your green thumb on with this mini spring seed starter kit.
Garden Kit will contain:
- 1 non-perforated tray and greenhouse dome
- 20 3” round peat pots
- organic potting soi;
- labeling tickets
- planting instructions
- seeds for the following varieties:
- 3 Vulcan lettuce: early, red lettuce; crisp and milk with slightly frilled leaves; maturity 52 days
- 3 Waldmann’s lettuce: dark green with good flavor; maturity 49 days
- 3 Buttercrunch lettuce: green, compact head; maturity 50 days
- 3 Coastal Star lettuce: large, dark green romaine; maturity 66 days
- 1 Ruby Red chard: dark green, crumpled leaves with crimson stalks and veins; sweet flavor
- 1 Elderado chard: dark green leaves with bright orange stalks and veins
- 1 Sweetie cherry tomato: super sweet, red cherry tomato; very prolific; maturity 65 days
- 1 Sun Sugar cherry tomato: hybrid, golden yellow colour with a very sweet flavour; indeterminate; maturity 62 days
- 1 Diva English cucumber: sweet tasting with few seeds; high yields of 4 inch fruit; maturity 52 days
- 1 Ace pepper: early 3 lobed green sweet pepper that turns red; tends not to drop blossoms due to cooler nights in early summer as other varieties do; maturity 50 days to green, 70 days to red
- 1 Darkibor kale: uniform, tall plants with dark blue/green leaves
- 1 Polyvit chives: improved, high yield variety; dark green leaves with mild flavour
- Bulls Blood beet greens: dark red leaves and stems to add colour to salads; maturity 60 days
- Raxe radish: round red radish, crack resistant
- Abundant Bloomsdale spinach: dark green, savoyed leaves; maturity 45 days
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Plants need full sun or light shade since it bolts quickly in hot weather. It grows best in a well-drained, moist soil.
Get your green thumb on with this mini spring seed starter kit.
Garden Kit will contain:
$30.00
Add to cart - 1 non-perforated tray and greenhouse dome
- 20 3” round peat pots
- organic potting soi;
- labeling tickets
- planting instructions
- seeds for the following varieties:
- 2 Chief broccoli: early hybrid variety producing large green/blue heads; maturity 52 days
- 1 Diva English cucumber: sweet tasting with few seeds; high yields of 4 inch fruit; maturity 52 days
- 1 Stonehead cabbage: solid; sweet tasting; 3-4lbs; maturity 50 days
- 1 Vulcan lettuce: early, red lettuce; crisp and milk with slightly frilled leaves; maturity 52 days
- 1 Green Star lettuce: bright green with good flavour; maturity 53 days
- 1 Darkibor kale: uniform, tall plants with dark blue/green leaves
- 1 Redbor kale: deep reddish-purple frilly leaves
- 1 Jedi pepper: large jalepeno hot pepper; 4 - 4½ inch fruit; maturity 72 days to green, 82 days to red
- 1 Ace pepper: early 3 lobed green sweet pepper that turns red; tends not to drop blossoms due to cooler nights in early summer as other varieties do; maturity 50 days to green, 70 days to red
- 1 Bright Star pepper: hybrid; orange sweet bell pepper; starts dark green and matures to bright orange; maturity 73 days to orange
- 1 Sugar Cube muskmelon: hybrid; personal-sized round melons; very sweet orange flesh
- 1 Partenon zucchini: hybrid; produces medium green, 7-8 inch long fruit; maturity 48 days
- 1 Sun Stripe zucchini: hybrid; light and dark yellow striped 7 inch dark yellow fruit on spineless plants; maturity 47 days
- 1 Manitoba tomato: heirloom; determinate type plant; red, early maturing tomato; very productive; maturity 58-80 days
- 2 Celebrity tomato: beefsteak variety; determinate type plant; maturity 70 days; hybrid; disease resistant; medium sized fruit
- 1 Sweetie cherry tomato: indeterminate type plant; maturity 65 days; super sweet cherry tomatoes with high sugar content; prolific
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