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Sacred Earth
Open Pollinated and Heirloom Seeds
Naturally grown in our Permaculture gardens
with love
Please email your order to:
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All varieties are R15 per packet. Postage is R25.
Quantity of seeds is subject to change according to availability and seed security.
Larger quantities for market gardens are available on request.
We are growing new varieties in our gardens all the time! so expect the list to expand!
Feel free to ask any questions and requests for seed you are interested in as our bank of seeds is diverse.
Name
Postal Address
Variety
Description
Average
number of
seeds per
packet
Herbs
Ashwaganda
Withania somniferum
A perennial medicinal plant. Indigenous in Africa and Asia and Europe and well used
in Auvedic medicine.
25
Sweet Basil
Ocimum basilicum
Well loved traditional annual basil.
400
Sweet Chen Basil
Ocimum basilicum
Italian large-leaf annual basil. Bolt resistant and productive
60
Greek Basil
Ocimum basilicum min
A compact, small leaved annual basil, with strongly scented, sweet leaves. Good for
borders, kitchen gardens, window boxes, container gardens.
60
Purple Basil
Ocimum basilicum
Beautiful purple leaf annual basil,
60
Tarahumara Chia
Salvia tiliafolia
This annual plant is a traditional food crop of the Chumash people indigenous to
Southern California, as well as for the Tarahumara people of Mexico. Still used for
long distance running by the Tarahumarans, it is said that if the seed is mixed with
water to make a gel, one tablespoon can sustain a person’s energy level for 24 hours.
In Mexico, seeds are roasted, ground and added to water, forming a gel
250
Now promoted as a super food for stamina, endurance, and omega 3 fatty acids
It is an attractive garden plant, with tall and vibrant blue flower spikes.
Do not plant it in your vegetable garden! It readily self seeds itself!
Corriander – slow bolt
cilantro
Coriandrum sativum
An annual herb with aromatic leaves. This variety of coriander is slower to bolt as
the season warms.
Edible leaf and seed as a spice.
100
Soup Celery
Apium Graveolens
A thin stemmed pungent, biennial celery, good for soups and stews.
400
Clary Sage –
medicinal
Salvia sclarea
A beautiful perennial herb, aromatic with pale-purple flower spikes.
Seeds soaked in water were once used to make an eye bath and hence its name
“clary” or “clear eye”. Reaches full potential in the second year.
40
Heirloom
Kablouna Calendula
Calendula officinalis
A mixture of gold, orange and lemon poly-petalled blooms, some with radiant, dark
centers. An easy to grow edible and cut flowers. Frost hardy.
35
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Flashback Calendula
Calendula officinalis
Named for the unusual rusty red colour on backside of semi doubled petals
35
Orange Zinger
Calendula
Calendula officinalis
Bearing beautiful bright-orange doubled flowers, this is a long stemmed and large
flower variety. Frost tolerant. Extremely high resin content also makes this variety
a good choice for tinctures and salves.
25
Mammoth Dill
Anethum graveolens
Fern like, blue green herb. Leaves and flowers are edible, and mature seeds are used
as a pickling spice. An easy to grow annual, and will reseed easily.
250
Florence fennel –
Zefa Fino
A sweet liquorice/anise flavoured herb, with fern like leaves. This variety has a
bulbous stem which is eaten cooked or raw.
140
Heirloom
Used as a herb or bulb
Flowers are also delicious in salads! And seeds used as a spice.
Flowers attract beneficial insects.
Sweet fennel
Hardy perennial fennel. Easily self seeds.
French Lavender
Beautiful lilac flowers, blooming in their peak in late winter and spring. Hardy and
drought resilient.
Nasturtium
Edible leaves, seeds and flowers! Excellent, companion plant, ground cover,
medicine,
25
Rocket – Sputnik
Arugula
A quick growing and hardy annual herb. Re-seeds itself easily. Spicy leaves are well
loved as salad and garnish.
100
Edible chrysanthemum
All parts of the plant can be used! Leaves, flower petals and stems! The leaves have
a lovely aromatic/fragrant flavour. A lovely addition to salads and as a garnish
25
Flat, broad leaf Italian variety. Very giving. Easily self seeds.
200
Speckled Cos Lettuce
A green coz lettuce, with sturdy leaves and scattered red markings.
225
Green Cos Lettuce
A sturdy light green cos lettuce.
250
Red Butter Lettuce
A beautiful buttery red leaf with green centres. Can be leafed or left to head.
225
Green Oak Lettuce
Loose leaf lettuce with oak edged leaves
125
Sucrine Lettuce
This is a French buttercos variety of lettuce, with “Sucrine” meaning sugar. It is a
compact, semi-romaine head, crisp and sweet and buttery.
A beautiful iceberg with coppery red outer leaves. Heat tolerant
125
.
Italian Parsley
400
Lettuces
Lactuca sativa
Red Iceberg Lettuce
125
Rare
Emerald oak lettuce
Bronze arrow Lettuce
Bronze/green arrow shaped leaves forming a beautiful rosette head.
125
250
Nevada Lettuce
Crisp, crinkly, green leaves that form an upright spiral and head. Said to be to be
able to resist tip burn, bottom rot and bolting.
250
Mix pack lettuce
A mixture of the above lettuces!
250
Tomatoes
Lycopersicon
esculentum
Mexican yellow
Cherry Tomato
Delight filled Orange
Tomato
Big Yellow Tomato
Delicious and prolific, big yellow cherry tomatoes,
35/40
Beautiful medium sized tomato, golden orange and filled with delight!
35/40
Large yellow tomatoes with a gentle flavour
indeterminate
Bright yellow, pear shaped tomatoes, which give a bountiful harvest and continue
late in the season. Lovely for garden snacking and salads!
indeterminate
Like the yellow pear tomatoes, but red and sweet!
Scrambling indeterminate vines.
35/40
Mini Roma Cherry
Tomato
Roma Tomato
A cherry tomato, the size and shape of a sultana grape! Firm and delicious!
25
Well known Italian paste tomato, with good yields throughout the season. Good for
sauces.
Compact, determinate vines.
30
Big Red Cherry
Tomato
Brandywine Tomato
Big red cherry tomatoes, heavy bearers on a scrambling vine.
Indeterminate
A very large, voluptuous, thin-skinned, pink/lilac tomato!
Indeterminate, potato-leaved vine.
35/40
Delicious, thin skinned, ruffled fruits, looking like little ribbed pumpkins with yellow
stripes.
A productive bearer.
35/40
Yellow Pear Tomato
Heirloom
Red Pear Tomato
Heirloom
Heirloom
Red Calabash Tomato
Heirloom
35/40
35/40
35/40
Documented by William Woys Weaver as appearing in a 1793 painting by Raphael
Paele of Philadelphia. Indeterminate
Black Plum Paste
Tomato
A Russian tomato, with elongated fruits, similar in shape to a Roma tomato, but
smaller, with a deep mahogany colour. Firm and delicious for fresh eating. Good for
drying and saucing.
35/40
Burbank Red Slicing
Tomato
Great White Tomato
A high yielding red slicing tomato, stocky bushes that do not require trellising and
do well in dry climates.
Giant, creamy white tomatoes!
Fruity and high yielding!
25
Sized fruit, lovely for salads and snacking
25
Long Sweet Pepper
Long, thin walled, mild sweet pepper.
35/40
Lantern Pepper
A small pepper, which bells out at the base like a lantern. Sweet fruit with spicy
seeds
Traditional pepperdew, sweet fruit with very spicy seeds. Lovely to eat fresh and
excelling to pickle.
35/40
A beautiful dark purple stemmed plant, with green leaves with a purple tint and
purple flowers. Fruits grow upright and ripen from green to dark purple to red.
Hot peppers! Which yield well.
Suitable for growing in containers
25
heirloom
Tiny red cherry
Tomato
25
Peppers
Capsicum
frutescent
Pepperdew
Peruvian Purple
Pepper
.
35/40
Veg
Broccoli
Yellow Finger Brinjal
Elongated, bright yellow brinjals.
70
30/40
Black Beauty Brinjal
Beautiful, shiny, purple/black, plump fruits!
30
25
African Horned
Cucumber
Beautiful flowers yield tender green pods. Fruits must be picked very immature.
Pick daily for best quality and yield.
Heirloom African cucumbers, also known as Jelly Melon. Spiny oblong out of this
world fruits!
heirloom
Lemon cucumber
Golden round cucumbers, gently lemon flavoured cucumbers, with large seeds
25
Easy self seeder in the garden. Very deep rooting.
250
Heirloom
Okra
25
Heirloom
Roots
Parsnip – White King
Carrots
300
Yellowstone Carrot
Light yellow carrots, sweet and delicious flavour! Vigorous and hardy.
150
Radish cherry belle
Tasty, round, bright red radish with crisp white flesh. Radishes are very satisfying
fast growing from seed to harvest.
100
Asian China Choi
Thick succulent stalks and large green leaves.
Great for stir fries.
100
Peruvian Amaranth
Amaranthus
A beautiful variety of amaranth. Bushy and tall growing with green leaves, bearing a
beautiful plume of masses of small pink flowers.
1400
Greens
Amaranth is a highly nutritious food plant.
The amaranth seed is high in protein, and contains respectable amounts of lysine and
methionine, and essential amino acids that are not frequently found in grains. It is
high in fibre and contains calcium, iron, potassium, phosphorus and vitamin A and C.
This variety of amaranth has both edible grain and leaves.
The grain can be cooked as a cereal, ground into flour, popped like popcorn, sprouted
or toasted!
The seeds can be cooked with other whole grains, added to stir=fry or to soups and
stews.
Swiss Chard
Traditional large leaf chard “spinach”
120
Mangold Witerbi
Chard
A dark green chard with medium sized savoyed leaves with broad white stems and
white veins.
120
Ruby Chard
A Swiss chard with beautiful red stems and veins
120
Golden Chard
A Swiss chard with beautiful golden stems and veins!
60
Bronze Mustard
New Zealand Spinach
True Siberian Kale
Chinese mustard with beautiful large bronzed purple crinkly leaves with a spicy
mustardy bite! Frost tolerant.
A sprawling groundcover spinach, with small succulent leaves. A hardy plant that is
frost resistant and drought tolerant.
Leaves and young tips can be eaten in salads and steamed or added to cooked meals.
350/400
Large, frilly blue/green leaves. Fast growing and prolific. Frost resistant and slow
to bolt.
70
20
Kale is the most nutritious of the brassica family.
High in antioxidants. Can be eaten finely sliced in salads, or in soups, stews and stir
fries.
Stinging Nettle
.
Mizuna and Namenia
mix –
oriental salad green
mix
A cool season annual herb with stinging green scalloped leaves.
Highly nutritious. Add it to soups or stews just before eating. Add to spinach. It
has a bounty of uses as a food, medicine, drink and excellent for the compost and
plant teas
Mizuna: An oriental non-heading salad plant, with deeply cut spicy flavoured leaves.
Vigorous and frost resistant.
120
100
Namenia: Oriental rosette forming lobed leaves, similar to Mizuna but earlier and
less serrated leaves. Early and productive.
Good for salads and stir-fries.
Mealies
Zea mays
Rainbow Inca Sweet
corn
Beautiful rainbow coloured kernels. Can be eaten young as a sweet corn, or allowed
to dry and ground down into a meal.
40
Small salad corns, that can be used whole in salads, sir fried, or the cobs can be left
to dry on the plant and the seeds used for popcorn.
40
Heirloom
Mini Corn Spears
.
Beautiful ornamental cobs when dry.
Each plant will bear up to 20 spears on a multi-stalked plant.
Harvest very soon after the silks emerge, for good eating, else the cores will too
quickly go woody, and to stimulate more ears forming
Dakota black popcorn
Beautiful black pointed seeds, on a medium sized cob.
Makes delicious white popcorn with black centres
40
Hardy and giving is the Cape Gooseberry. A plant full of gifts! Lantern flowers with
golden orange delicious fruits inside!
Lovely fresh, in jams and baking.
Grows happily in most parts of the country.
Bears bountifully. Easy re-seeder.
The chocolate tree! A large multi-branched tree, bearing bountiful brown pods. The
pods are edible fresh, sticky and sweet, but watch out for the shiny hard seeds
inside!
Or the pods are processed to produce carob powder.
30
Other lovely
edibles!
Cape Gooseberry
Carob
15
Indigenous
trees
Paperbark Acacia
20