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Sacred Earth Open Pollinated and Heirloom Seeds Naturally grown in our Permaculture gardens with love Please email your order to: [email protected] 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 Your order: No’ of packets 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