Marble Vine Native Bryonia Diplocyclos Palmatus Red Striped Cucumber Seeds Packet of 10+ organically grown seeds! Very rarely seen local native, commonly assumed to be an introduced weed. The thinking being that nothing this cool looking could possibly be native and by default it is a “weed” by most folks, when infact it isn’t at…
Exploding Cucumber Achocha Cyclanthera Explodens Seeds Packet of 10+ fresh homegrown seeds! Another very rarely seen plant that really should have a lot more recognition. It is grown mostly in its native range, which is Southern Mexico, right through Colombia and Ecuador, but gaining popularity due to its natural resistance to fungal diseases like powdery mildew,…
South African Spiky Cucumber Cucumis Zeyheri Seeds You won’t see this one for sale very often. Packet of 20+seeds, so there is plenty there to get you started! It’s a rare cucumber from Southern Africa that’s mostly grown as an ornamental, and for the edible leaves. It does not get powdery mildew and other fungal…
Siberian Cucumber Cucumis Sativus Seeds Packet of 50+ seeds! This produces a fruit just like the original style standards and it tastes just like the shop ones. This is a really hardy variety, that was originally drought over from Russia, or so the story goes… It has excellent disease, pest and frost resistance, yet can…
Spiky Indian Cucumber Cucumis Anguria Seeds Packet of 50+ freshly harvested home grown seeds! Really beauty this fella, every home should have a couple. Super prolific, non-acidic cucumber. This is often called Indian Cumber, despite being African, and I think the reason is to separate it from the other well known spiky cucumber the Kiwano.…
Long Winter Melon Wax Gourd Benincasa Hispida Seeds Packet of 10+ organically grown seeds! I love these guys. They are just a really big melon on a vine like a cucumber, but I reckon they need to be much more common here in Australia than they currently are. Very common in Asia and Europe where…
Shark Fin Melon Chilacoyote Cucurbita Ficifolia Seeds Packet of 10+ home grown seeds! This fella is grown just like you would with any other pumpkin or melon vine. It’s a vegetable that is grown in heaps of places on a huge scale since back in the 1500’s and because of this it has a heap…
PC Trichocereus Pachanoi Echinopsis San Pedro Cactus 1x very well-rooted ~chunky little PC San Pedro pup! It will be similar size to the red background example images in the picture gallery and sent bare-rooted wrapped well in recycled materials to avoid transit damage and rot. On arrival just remove them from the packaging and stand…
There is nothing that we do here that you can’t do yourself at home, but there are a couple of rules if you want a quality product that will store and germinate well. This may sound obvious but folks get impatient or greedy and stuff it up all the time! Select your best fruit from…
Sesbania Benthamiana Javanica Sesban Pea Seeds Packet of 50+ home grown organic seeds! Apparently Australia calls this species Sesbania benthamiana now, but the rest of the world has stuck with Sesbania javanica, or the common names of canicha, danchi, dhaincha, dien dienn gai, dien dien phai, dien thanh gai, dien thanh hat thron, dunchi,…
Citrullus Amarus Jam Melon Citron Olive Seeds Packet of 10+ home grown seeds of this very handy species! While many folks would say this is Citrullus lanantus, I have it on very good authority these are actually Citrullus amarus, a species that is hardly ever even mentioned here in Australia. I am also told that…
Tinda Gourd Round Melon Praecitrullus Fistulosus Seeds Packet of 10+ seeds from this prolific little vine! This very uncommon Indian and SE Asian vegetable is a great option for those in dry areas like mine. It grows on a small vine like a melon or cucumber, it produces heaps of fruit, and once established it’s…
Chichinda Trichosanthes Cucumerina Snake Gourd Seeds Packet of 5+ seeds from this organically grown Australian native vine! This is a very underutilised Aussie bush tucker species. It is a common food crop all throughout the Pacific islands, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Africa and it is a native to Western Australia,…
Anethum Graveolens Dill Weed Seeds Packet of 100+ organically grown seeds! Commonly known around the world as abezon domestico, adas china, adas manis, adas pudus, adas sowa, aedtill, ain jaradeh, anega, anella, anetaverón, aneth, anetho, aneth odorant, anethon, aneto, aneto odoroso, anet pudent, anis aleman, anisillo dill, avezón doméstico, bisbas, chatakuppa, chathakuppa, dille, dill weed,…
Benincasa Hispida Wax Gourd Winter Melon Seeds Packet of 10+ organically grown seeds! These are the shorter stockier form of melon, and they grow on a vine just like a large cucumber. Said to be a medicinal species they are super popular pretty much everywhere except here where they are a rarely seen novelty. I…
Headache Bryony Vine Mukia Maderaspatana Seeds Packet of 10+ freshly harvested viable seeds Really cool looking little native vine. Has fruit that look like a little watermelon, and was apparently used as a medicinal, not just here in Australia, but in Asia, Africa, Melanesia, the Philippines and India. Not exactly rare, but definitely not a…
Marigold Aztec Mix Tagetes Patula Seeds Packet of 100+ seeds! Hardy edible bought years and years ago. Self seeds prolifically. Just sprinkle the seed in the right spot and let nature take over. That is exactly what we did! Edible and colorful addition to salads. Also, great for an aromatic tea that is anti-fungal, anti-bacterial,…
Panda Ying Yang Orca Frost Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris Seeds Packet of 10+ bean seeds! Another great great heirloom variety that is well worth adding to the collection. Seen them called panda beans, ying yang beans, orca(killer whale) bean, frost bean, and they are actually a Phaseolus vulgaris, just a much rarer, cool looking relative of…
Borage Starflower Beebread Borago Officinalis Seeds Packet of 25+ freshly harvested seeds! Fantastic little plant this one, quite similar in appearance to comfrey. Great for repelling pest insects like caterpillars and cutworms, attracting the good pollinators, and said to increase the vigour of nearby plants and increasing resistance to disease. It adds trace elements to…
Loofa Sponge Gourd Luffa Aegyptiaca Vine Seeds It’s a packet of 10+ seeds for you to grow your own vine! As the name suggests, it’s the vine that grows the “Loofa” or “Luffa” or “Lufa” of “Loofah” or whatever you want to call it! You know the one, that great organic exfoliator used for millennia…
Kiwano Horned Melon Cucumis Metuliferus Seeds This one is a real beauty and you get a big packet of 25+ seeds! Great taste and just about indestructible. We just chuck a seedling in whatever gap or missing plant that a hungry kangaroo has eaten in our rows and walk away. They seriously don’t need any…
Fat Baby Achocha Cyclanthera Brachystachya Seeds Packet of 10+ fresh homegrown seeds! These guys are really cool. Think of them as a crisp, crunchy, juicy capsicum, with the taste of a mild cucumber. Massive crops like the relative the Exploding Cucumber, just this guy is much more civilized and domesticated. Similar shaped fruits, just twice…
Mouse Melon Cucamelon Melothria Scabra Packet of 20+seeds per pack of this fantastic little vine! I am growing hundreds of the little buggers just in three polystyrene boxes in the picture. I got a $1 roll of cotton thread and hung it from the awning, then I tied it to a stick. I then sat…