Bitter Melon Gohya Momordica Charantia Seeds Packet of 10+ freshly harvested seeds! Interesting shaped fruits on a small climbing vine that has edible leaves and shoots and leaves that look like an ornamental grape. The bitter sour pulp is great when fully ripe especially when paired with pickles or yoghurt, and the smaller green/white fruits…
Hairy Melon New Guinea Bean Lagenaria Siceraria Seeds Pack of 10+ seeds from this awesome addition to any garden! They look really cool, so cool in fact, that I would grow them just as a gourd even if they were not bloody delicious! If you let them get huge and hard, then slice them down…
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…
Egusi Melon Citrullus Lanatus subsp lanatus Seeds Packet of 5+ super rare seeds! I had a few dramas with roos and wallabies while we were on a recent seed collecting road trip so this harvest was only small. Make sure you wack your email on the notify list if sold out by the time…
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…
Pepino Melon Pear Solanum Muricatum Seeds Packet of 25+ seeds from another real beauty! Fruits nearly constantly if I keep the water up to it. Unfortunately I generally can’t so most of the fruit I eat happen during the wetseason. During the dry time it doesn’t do much and sits pretty much dormant waiting for…
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…
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…
Jam Melon Citrullus Lanantus Watermelon Seeds Packet of 10+ freshly harvested, bright red, organically grown seeds! This is the cool looking, light skinned, heirloom variety, which quite surprisingly and unlike the rest of it’s family, has bright red seeds! Nice sized fruits, similar to a small seedless watermelon in size and shape. Same family and…
Mini Midget Melon Cucumis Melo Seeds Packet of 20+ home grown seeds! Fantastic heirloom variety of mini rockmelon. Sweet fragrant and delicious, small seed cavity (so lots of flesh), on a very small vine that does great in pots or tubs or just in the ground. Perfect for city folk with not much room and…
Black Eggplant Aubergine Solanum Melongena Seeds Big packet of 50+ seeds! These guys are one of the most popular Eggplants on the market at the moment and they are a real must for all Mediterranean, Indian and Asian cuisine. Great for pizza, pasta, stir-fry, moussaka, ratatouille, baba ghanoush, dips, pickles, chutneys, antipasto and the list…
Watermelon Mini Cubban Dixie Queen Citrullus Lanatus Seeds Packet of 15+ seeds from this rare variety of watermelon, grown here in Queensland Australia! The seeds of this variety are large and white not black. Don’t worry, that is exactly how they are meant to be. This one is a real beauty, the famous “Mini Cubban”…
Rockmelon Cucumis Melo Rock Melon Seeds Packet of 12+ seeds of this awesome tasting, easy to grow fruit. Plenty to get you stared! These rockmelon absolutely do rock! There is nothing I do not like about them. Small vine with lots of huge aromatic juicy sweet fruit. So much tastier, than the under-ripe supermarket rubbish!…
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…
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…
Shona Cabbage Cleome Gynandra African Spider Plant Seeds Packet of 75+ home grown organic seeds! This guy is an awesome little annual pot herb. Known as shona cabbage, African cabbage, spiderwisp, cat’s whiskers, chinsaga, African spider plant, cat’s whisker’s, spider flower, feuilles caya, mozambe, volatin, masambey, jasmin de rio, wild spinach, vaminta, vayinta, marathi, chinsaga,…
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,…
Red Fruit Passionfruit Passiflora Foetida Seeds Packet of 12+ home grown red fruited passionfruit seeds! This selection was originally sourced from two different forms and while the fruit is always bright red there is still variation in the plants. Like the standard Passiflora foetida , it is a native to the USA, Mexico, Central America…
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,…
Cucumeropsis Mannii Egusi-itoo Gourd Seeds Packet of 5+ home grown very rarely available seeds! It’s native to the Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago, Guyana, Venezuela, Merida, Amazonas, Barinas, Cojedes, Portuguesa, Sucre, Carabobo, Lara, Yaracuy, Delta Amacuro, Brazil, Pará, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador where it is an uncultivated wild species often known botanically as Melothria sphaerocarpa. It…
Lagenaria Siceraria Gooseneck Gourd Calabash Seeds Packet of 10+ organically grown seeds! This unusual looking gourd species is very cool and super productive. I got these in barter from a customer years ago which is the main way I get cool new species for the collection, but unfortunately I can’t remember who it was or…
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,…
Pigface Coastal Angular Carpobrotus Glaucescens Seeds Packet of 100+ teeny tiny seeds of this well known Australian bushtucker! Grows everywhere in pretty much any soils except heavy soggy clay. The fruit looks quite similar to Dragon fruit but its snack sized at a little bigger than your thumb. Really tasty fruit, some say it tastes…
Sugar Plum American Persimmon Diospyros Virginiana Seeds Packet of 6+ freshly harvested seeds! Originally from America, and closely related to the Asian Kaki or Persimmon, this fella is well worth having in the collection. I’ve planted heaps myself but this is the first time growing it so I can’t can’t offer advice based on experience.…
Smilax Australis Barbwire Lawyer Vine Seeds Packet of 10+ home grown or freshly wild harvested seeds! If you are keen on providing habitat for the critters then this guy is worth a look. It has large leathery leaves that are very variable, and it has long incredibly strong spiny hooked stems. Apparently the leaves are…
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…
Yellow Mangosteen Atractocarpus Fitzalanii Randia Gardenia Seeds Packet of 30+ fresh wild harvested seeds! I picked up these guys on a recent road trip up north and I’m very happy to have them in the collection. It seems they are a bit of a controversial bush tucker species with folks describing the taste as anything…
Gilo Eggplant Solanum Aethiopicum Ruffled Red Hmong Seeds Packet of 50+ homegrown seeds! Another cool variety of eggplant, this one is a little bit different. It is a Solanum aethiopicum, not Solanum melongena the traditional supermarket ones. These are what folks call a “bitter” type, and if you have ever cooked them up ripe and…
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…
Giant Worlds Biggest Tree Tomato Delicious Seeds Packet of 15+ legit, homegrown seeds! Yep, this is the one, the one on eBay that regularly goes for $30.00+ for 10seeds at auction. I have even seen a packet go for $98.00, seriously, for a packet of these same seeds. The amazing plant that grows four meters round, lives…
Noni Fruit Cheese Tree Morinda Citrifolia Seeds Packet of 20+ freshly harvested tropical seeds! This Aussie native has a real reputation for being hard to grow. Most folks(including me) that have had trouble germinating them just gave up far too soon, or just didn’t understand how this fella works. These are not lettuce, and germination…
Strawberry Indian Mock False Berry Potentilla Duchesnea Indica Seeds Packet of 50+ tiny little red seeds! This fella is great, really prolific fruiting and fast growing. Grows just like a normal strawberry, just quite a bit hardier with smaller fruit. The fruit themselves are not sweet and acidic like a traditional strawberry, much more mild…
Naranjilla Lulo Fruit Solanum Quitoense Seeds Packet of 100+ seeds of this rare fruit! Well, when I say rare I mean rarely grown or seen here in Australia. It is super common and popular all through Brazil, Columbia, Ecudor, Chile, all through South America. I got these guys from a Brazilian friend of ours and…
Strawberry Pinto Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris Seeds Packet of 10+ cool looking bean seeds! It is generally a hard to find variety, and here is plenty to get you started. Delicious cooked in so many different ways! I like the immature pods and mature dry beans boiled in soups, stews and chilli based meals. A Mexican,…
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.…
Cotton Levant Gossypium Herbaceum Seeds Packet of 10+ seeds, still in its protective layer of soft white Non-GMO, homegrown Cotton! This is the stuff used for everything, even in today’s modern plastic obsessed era. It is in your t-shirt, couch, jeans, books, coffee filters, cigarettes(some paper and filters), its used to make fishing nets, explosives,…
Datura Stramonium var Tatula Jimson Weed Seeds Packet of 100+ seeds of another angry plant! This one is the “Tatula” variant of Datura stramonium, or the violet/lavender form, depending who you speak too. (Datura stramonium “tatula”) Its just as toxic as the standard, the only difference being the purple in the flower and the stems, making…