For a versatile, all-around superb beet for eating fresh or canning, it's hard to top Detroit Dark Red Short Top. Ever since its 1892 introduction, this versatile variety has been delighting gardeners and cooks!

Early ripening variety. Vegetation period to technical ripeness is 70-95 days. Roots are round-flat, dark red in color, up to 160-380 grams, excellent taste qualities. The flesh is dark red with a burgundy tinge and black rings, very juicy and tender.

Medium early variety, rounded roots, weighing 100-400 grams, excellent taste, the variety is valued for its resistance to diseases and good yields.

Beetroot ‘Opolski’ is a fertile plant with a nicely coloured carmine flesh, while its skin is a brownish-purple. This variety is suitable for direct consumption, as well as for storing and processing.

The early maturing variety. The period from sowing to harvesting is 80-100 days. Similar to beetroot Egyptian flat. It is characterized by a more intense coloration of the leaves, which remain dark green until the autumn.

Early ripening variety. Vegetation period is 100-110 days. The root crop is large, roundish, up to 400-700 grams, smooth, dark red. The flesh is dark purple, tender, juicy and sugary, with slightly pronounced rings.

High-yielding mid-ripening variety, the period from shoots to mass harvesting is 100-110 days. The yield is high, 4-5 kg/m². Roots are rounded, smooth, weighing 150-240 grams, aligned. Flesh is dark red, dense, without ringing, excellent taste qualities.

This variety grows excellent edible luffa, 8-12 inches long, 3-4 inches across, around 350 grams in weight, with relatively light green skin and white flesh. Young fruits are very delicious, excellent for soup and stir-fry cooking.

Canton Pride is a new variety which has quickly become a very popular choice in the markets in Asia. Attractive green fruits with end-to-end stripes are 5 x 70 cm in size and 450 gram in weight. Plants are very vigorous.

This oblong shape wax gourd can reach 20 pounds. The light green skin is covered with very fine hair and will form a white waxy powder when mature. The waxy layer that forms over the ripe fruit protects the melon and allows for long storage periods.

This variety produces small size fruits, 4-7" in diameter - a size suitable for family cooking uses. Plants are vigorous in warm climates and produce many fruits per vine. White flesh is very delicious, excellent for stir-fry and winter melon soup.

This variety produces large size Winter Melons, up to 40 pounds. Large fruit has green skin with wax and pure white flesh inside for vegetable uses. This is one of the most popular Winter Melon varieties in southern China and subtropical Asia.

One of the best hulling varieties, climbing plant, strong, early ripening, beans 10-30 cm long, straight, well filled, has a wonderful taste and is very often used in cooking as a side dish.

Pleurotus Eryngii originated from the shores of Mediterranean Sea. It is therefore found in the Middle East and areas in the northern part of Africa. Other names used to refer to this mushroom include French Horn and King Trumpet Royale.

Slippery Jack Mushrooms are wild mushrooms that grow in symbiotic relationship with pine and spruce trees. They grow from mid-summer to early autumn. The caps are saffron coloured or yellowish-brown, though they can be a dark chestnut brown.

A couple of weeks ago it seemed that the mushroom year would be a lost one but bolete hunters could put their mushroom-searching urge to good use last week already. The first ceps, or king boletes.

Pulp dense, strong, white, with very characteristic smell reminding a smell of fruit. Lacteal juice white, on taste caustic, on air becomes sulfur-yellow. Plates are quite frequent, wide, poorly descending on a leg, white with a yellowish shade.

This mushroom has long been a favorite of mushroom hunters. Indoor cultivation is exceptionally easy as this species will grow on a very wide variety of substrates including straw, hardwood sawdust, paper by-products, soybean waste and much more.

Porcini mushrooms are a famous, and delicious, addition in Italian cuisine. Due to their strong nutty flavor, this is an incredibly popular gourmet mushroom. Like so many other good edible mushrooms, porcini are mycorrhizal.

Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Best in full sun. An adaptable plant that is tolerant of drought, heat, humidity and poor soil. Divide clumps when they become overcrowded (about every 4 years).

Introduced, perennial, nitrogen-fixing legume with stout, erect to nearly-erect, hollow, succulent stems, up to 4 ft. in height. Sainfoin is quickly gaining popularity in the U.S. and Canada as a non-bloat forage alternative to alfalfa.

They are attractive trees with deciduous glossy pinnate leaves. Develops a smooth gray bark that resembles that of a beech tree and grows to a height of 20 metres. The leaves resemble the foliage of an ash tree and are a glossy dark green in summer.

Marrubium Vulgare Horehound can be established from herb seeds and harvested the first year. This woody perennial has hairy stems covered with 2-inch, toothed, downy, gray-green leaves. The leaves have a wooly crinkled appearance.

Mid-ripening (74-96 days) high-yielding variety. The plant is a short, medium-length whip. Fruits are oval-rounded, yellow, with weighing 2-3 kg. The flesh is deliciously tender, light cream, with a wonderful aroma and honey taste.

Greater celandine has an erect habit, and may reach 30 to 120 cm high. The leaves are lobed and crenate, 30 cm long. The sap is yellow to orange. The flowers consist of four yellow petals, each about 1 cm long, with two sepals.

Houndstongue is a distinctive, greyish and downy biennial with broad lanceolate leaves and clusters of maroon red flowers. In bloom from May to August. Houndstongue is a biennial of dry, base rich soils on ground that is subject to regular disturbance.

Fragrant, delicious, and so attractive in garden and container, this winter-hardy thyme is irresistible in any partly shaded setting. It is a premier seed variety originally developed for professional growers and guaranteed to bring you big healthy crops.

This perennial flower can be grown from Polemonium seeds and has the common name of Jacob's Ladder. The name was inspired by the leaves on the plant which are in successive pairs opposite each other resembling a ladder.

A perennial herb, unpretentious to soils, does not overgrow with weeds, is not damaged by pests and diseases, in medicine it is used to restore intestinal microflora. Has a high honey productivity.

Motherwort has a squarish stem which is clad in short hairs and is often purplish, especially near the nodes. Motherwort is probably native to the southeastern part of Europe and central Asia where it has been cultivated since ancient times.

Thistles belong to the Thistle Subfamily of the Aster Family, along with artichokes. Compare an artichoke and a thistle, and notice that they are very similar, except in size. Like other members of the Aster Family, these are composite flowers.

The young leaves can be used raw or cooked, they have a slightly bitter taste, and they can be added to salads or cooked like spinach. The leaves are rich in mineral salts and vitamin C.

Called "Queen of the Herbs" in Ireland, where its tendency to grow under elder trees imbued it with elder’s magical reputation. In England it became a common treatment for "king’s evil," or scrofula (tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands).

Purple foxglove is a perennial plant reaching a height of 1.2–2 m, has large flowers-bells collected in a brush, the main color is purple, the spots inside the corolla are dark red with a white border, very unpretentious. Blooms in June-July.

Echinops is a hardy perennial and a non demanding plant for the border. This robust, upright herbaceous perennial has jaggedy-divided, prickly dark green leaves which are whitish beneath.

Burdock, or also called Great Burdock, is a robust biennial herb plant grown from herb seeds with long-stalked leaves. The Great Burdock herb is a nutritious vegetable and medicinal herb used as a remedy for measles, arthritis, tonsillitis and viruses.

Not just for cats! Tall pink and white flower spikes are great in fresh and dried arrangements. Use the leaves in salads, sauces, teas, and soups – and of course fresh or dried for the cats! Catnip seeds are a good choice for a bee attractor.

Galega orientalis, commonly known as Goat's Rue is an ancient ornamental plant that, throughout history has been extensively cultivated as a forage crop, a bee plant, as a green manure, a medicinal herb and as an ornamental.

Wild Red Clover - grows best in well drained grassland and is well suited to poor soils on sites where there is plenty of sunlight. In the wild, plants occur on roadsides and in old meadows.

Ladino clover is very winter hardy and prefers well drained silt loam and clay soils with a pH of 6-7. It will not thrive in saline or alkaline soils. It spreads by surface runners with roots growing down from each node.