Organic Carambola Seeds / Averrhoa carambola

As one of the world’s most popular commodities, it is grown commercially throughout South America. Commercial growth focuses on quick production and larger beans and so plants are placed in full sun and watered extensively.

A large shrub, originally native to montane forests in the Andes of South America, but now widely cultivated for its delicious fruits, which, under a thin, green peel, has very sweet, soft, white, custard-like flesh that can be scooped out with a spoon.

Much grown in the tropics for its delicious fruits. In this country it is grown for interest and as a foliage plant as it has large, handsome leaves. The leaves can be used for wrapping round pieces of tough meat with the object of tenderising them.

This is a perennial plant of the pumpkin family, which is why it is also called ivy pumpkin, but the fruits are more like cucumbers, grows very quickly, begins to bloom and bear fruit in the second year.

Mid-ripening, medium-growing, high-yielding variety with wrinkled potato leaves, fruits are round-flat, medium-sized, weighing 100 - 200 grams, variegated green with red and orange.

A late variety of carrots, the growing season from germination to technical ripeness is 135 days, the shape of the fruit is conical, the weight of the fruit is 140-170 grams, the variety is well stored, used fresh and for processing.

A charming garden perennial variety. Golden inflorescences, like sunbeams, peek out here and there among the emerald foliage. Abundant long flowering, ease of care and frost resistance are the main advantages of this crop.

An herbaceous annual with a powerful tap root, young 3-4-day-old ovaries weighing about 10 grams with unripe seeds are used for food; the fruits are a dietary, low-calorie product with a large amount of pectin.