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…
Cows Udder Titty Fruit Solanum Mammosum Seeds Packet of 15+ home grown organic seeds! I get asked for this guy all the time, for several years actually, and I am very happy to finally have some seeds available. Considered a lucky plant that will either bring prosperity or fertility or both, it really is unique…
Transylvanian Porcupine Zombie Tomato Solanum Pyracathum Seeds Packet of 20+ seeds of this very spiky angry looking bastard! I’m a big fan of Solanum, and a very big fan of this one in particular. If you like the look of spiny spiky plants, are a fan of cacti, or just want something very rare, then…
Red Eggplant Solanum Melogena Seeds Packet of 50+ seeds from this little beauty! It’s a largish bushy plant of about 1.5meters high and 50cm wide that just gets covered with avocado sized red fruit. Bright red, really shiny and they look super cool. Not only that they taste really good! There are a couple red/orange…
Kangaroo Apple Rainforest Type Solanum Aviculare Seeds Packet of 200+ home grown seeds! Famous all over the world this fella is normally found all up the southern and eastern sides of Australia, Papua New Guinea, SE Asia, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Kermadecs and New Zealand. It has been introduced commercially cultivated…
African Nightshade Solanum Scabrum CF Seeds Packet of 50+ home grown seeds! Pay attention to this bit folks, it’s very important. I am selling this species as an ornamental with an interesting history only. I do not suggest or recommend you eat it, and if you do anyway despite me strongly suggesting you don’t, then…
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…
Turkey Berry Pea Eggplant Solanum Torvum Seeds Packet of 100+ home grown organic seeds! Excellent little eggplant in its own right, with small bunches of fruit selling for $3-10 each (300-500gms) in the Asian supermarkets I saw in Melbourne and Brisbane. Great in just about all Asian dishes, soups, curries, stew you name it, it…
Hairy Fruity Leaved Nightshade Solanum Sarrachoides Seeds Packet of 40+ very rarely available seeds! I have a bit of thing for Solanum species, such an interesting, variable and beautiful bunch of plants. The most commonly talked about relatives are the tomatoes and potatoes, but there are also a bunch of mildly to deadly toxic relatives…
Litchi Tomato Solanum Sisymbriifolium Morelle De Balbis Seeds Packet of 25+ seeds of this fantastic little fruit! On of my latest favourite plants, and one I highly recommend for a heap of different reasons! I was originally concerned that the taste wouldn’t be up to scratch. Thought it might be more eggplant than tomato if…
Cannibal Tomato Solanum Viride Uporo Seeds Packet of 10+ super rare seeds! Just had to have this just from the history alone! It’s a “cannibal tomato” as in, it was traditionally eaten by Fijian cannibals along with people meat. Seriously! Originally they wrapped the meat of slain enemies in the leaves and roasted on stones…
Blackberry Nightshade Solanum Nigrum Seeds Packet of 25+ seeds for this potentially poisonous ornamental herb. This form is a little different in growth than the common weedy one I normally see, and the seeds of it were originally swapped with a friend of mine. It has a much larger fruit and more bushy, slower growth,…
Devils Apple Fruit of Sodom Poison Eggplant Solanum Linnaeanum Seeds Packet of 10+ seeds of this interesting yet poisonous weed species! It used to be called Solanum astrophorum, Solanum hermannii, Solanum mccannii, Solanum sodomeum, Solanum sodomeum var. hermannii, Solanum sodomeum var. mediterraneum, Solanum undatum, Solanum hermanii, apple of sodom, Afgan thistle, bitter apple, black-spined nightshade,…
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…
Green Berry Nightshade Solanum Opacum Morelle Verte Seeds Packet of 10+ organically grown seeds. This fella is awesome and I will have it in my collection forever I hope. Beautiful little plant with a really delicious fruit. Related to the common Solanum nigrum(Blackberry nightshade), a weedy species found in most parks and gardens and first…
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…
Jerusalem Madeira Cherry Solanum Pseudocapsicum Seeds Packet of 40+ freshly harvested seeds! I originally got this fella from the local markets and was told it was an edible cherry cross capsicum. It tasted great and I ate a heap on the way home and proudly repotted it. Several weeks later I saw the same plants…
Tomato Worlds Smallest Solanum Pimpinellifolium Seeds Packet of 75+ seeds from this awesome little wild tomato breed! It is actually Solanum pimpinellifolium not Solanum lycopersicum . Check out the tiny size of the seeds and fruit compared to a normal cherry and the narrow point of the seed. As this is the original wild type, it…
Tzimbalo African Pepino Solanum Caripense Seeds Packet of 15+ freshly harvested super small, organically grown seeds! These guys are awesome, and very rarely seen for sale anywhere, let alone here in Australia, despite it handling temperatures down to -2c. Despite the name suggesting otherwise, they are probably not an African native, but most likely from…
Let’s start with basic safety rules about handling and storing insecticides! Don’t ever store in drink bottles or food containers as some doofus may drink it by mistake. It happens so commonly that in most places it is actually illegal and considered negligence. As in “negligent homicide”, something well worth avoiding… A much safer option…
Datura Ferox Fierce Long Spined Thorn Apple Seeds Packet of 40+ poisonous home grown seeds! This is another interesting Datura species and just like all the others it is strictly ornamental, very poisonous and not a food, and it can be weedy if you don’t keep an eye on it. It produces beautiful white flowers…
Plectranthus Parviflorus Flea Bush Native Basil Seeds Packet of 100+ very rarely seen home grown seeds! While most of the Plectranthus parviflorus group is said to be odorless, this fella has a funky minty fragrance when crushed. It isn’t the small blue flowered Bath Salts Plectranthus or the variegated Cockspur flower and it isn’t the…
Australian Native Germination Accelerator Smoke Treatment Much bigger packet of more than 30teaspoons ~150mls ~50grams at least! Smoke infused vermiculite for use to decrease germination times of difficult to germinate plant species. Should last most folks a few years and it doesn’t go off. Not a big fan on using anything fancy to grow our…
GA3 Gibberellic Acid-3 Gibberella Fukikuroi Dormancy Germination Stimulant Nice big packet of ~500mg or 1/2 a gram of 90% Technical grade, fine mesh, top quality, high purity awesomeness! Not a big fan on using “chemicals” on anything, just don’t like the idea really? But I am a big fan of our awesome Aussie native species,…
Weeping Bottle Brush Callistemon Viminalis Melaleuca Seeds Packet of 200+ tiny dust like seeds! Super easy to grow, just sprinkle on sandy soil and keep nice and moist. Some folks put cling wrap or a clear plastic bag over the pots, some folks sit the pots in a dish of shallow water. I don’t bother…
