Seedlings for Students

2025 Seedlings Catalogue

Tomato - Gardener's Delight (Cherry)

Gardener's Delight cherry tomato has a wonderful, old-fashioned flavour and produces long trusses laden with clusters of 6-12 2.5cm (1"), crack-resistant, bright-red morsels. A mid-maturity variety that can be grown in many regions without protection.

Tomato - Sweet Million (Cherry)

Tall vigorous vines grow masses of gorgeous red cherry tomatoes on long trusses. This variety is the winner of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Award of Garden Merit. Sweet Million tomato plants mature early and deliver incredible yields of delicious sweet cherry tomatoes all season long. A terrific snacking tomato that's impossible to resist!

This extremely vigorous plant needs support for climbing habit, pruning may be required for containment in smaller areas. Uniform fruits are 2.5 cm (1") average 10-15 grams (~1/2 oz.). Sweet Million tomatoes are resistant to, or tolerant of, Fusarium Wilt (Race 1), Tomato (Tobacco) Mosaic Virus.

Indeterminate (vine)

Tomato - Sweet Gold (Cherry)

Indeterminate yellow cherry tomato that is easy to grow and early to mature. Sweet Gold produces heavy yields of small, 10-15g (.35-.5oz) fruit growing in single and double clusters. For optimal flavour, harvest when fruit is bright yellow. A good choice for gardens with a relatively short growing season.

Tomato - Sungold (Cherry)

Vibrant, plump, tangerine-coloured tomatoes droop in long trusses on vigorous vines that keep on producing all summer. First to bloom with early yields. Enjoy Sungold cherry tomatoes as a scrumptious garden snack or as a gorgeous complement to fresh salads.

Sungold tomato plants are resistant to, or tolerant of, the following tomato diseases: Verticillium Wilt, Fusarium Wilt races 1 and 2, Nematodes, and Tobacco Mosaic Virus.

Provide support for vigorous vines that easily reach 6-8 feet long. This variety requires more heat and time to mature completely. Allow fruit to fully ripen on the vine for optimum flavour; fruits should almost fall off the vine when ready.

Indeterminate (vine)

Tomato - Manitoba

A prairie favourite, Manitoba tomato plants bear medium-large fruits 170 grams (6 oz). The bright red fruits have smooth skin and firm, meaty flesh with a refreshing, tangy tomato taste. Well suited for slicing and preserving.

Tomato - Super Fantastic

These rich, meaty beefsteak tomatoes are very versatile - great for slicing, canning, drying and salsas.

enjoy prolific yields of delicious sweet, juicy beefsteak tomatoes all season long. Super Fantastic tomatoes have dark red, smooth blemish free, skin. Fruits are uniform in size: 8 -10 cm (3-4") diameter, weighing on average about 283 grams (10 oz.).

Vigorous vines grow 1.8-2.7 meters (6-9') tall and require good caging or staking.

Tomato - Beefsteak (Bush)

Beefsteak tomatoes produce large, meaty, solid fruit that is slightly flattened and globe-shaped. With a mild and flavorful taste, it is great for salads and table use.

Tomato - Early Girl

Choose Early Girl tomato seeds for a fast and early crop of delicious medium-sized red tomatoes. This is an early maturing variety for coastal grower. The plants keep bearing fruit heavily throughout the summer on manageable, disease resistant vines, producing baskets of tasty, 110-170g 4-6 oz) tomatoes.

Tomato - Rubee Goddess

High quality, adaptable slicer with incredible disease resistance, early maturity, and flavour! Rubee Goddess produces high yields of tasty 225g (8oz), deep red fruit on compact vines.

Tomato - Roma

A heavy-yielding variety with a wonderful mild flavor that is perfect for preserves, tomato paste, and puree. Very little juice.

Cucumber - Cucamelon

The plants are not quite as productive as cucumbers, but the fruits are amazingly cute and novel. They look like tiny watermelons, but have a very appealing cucumber flavour with slight citrus notes. Eat them fresh or pickle them for a crunchy treat. Harvest them at the 2cm (1") size, before the seeds develop

Cucumber - Mercury

The fruits are 20cm (8") long with thin, shiny, dark skins, and crisp, sweet, flavourful flesh. The seeds are small in a tight seed cavity. Plants are very productive both outdoors and in the greenhouse, but were bred with open field growing in mind. Lots of fruits develop on each plant in one relatively concentrated set. They are suitable for pickling when picked immature, but they make fine slicers at full size.

Cucumber - Vista

Long European salad cucumber with thin skin and crispy, bitter-free flesh. Vista’s vigorous, all-female flowering, parthenocarpic vines set an abundance of 35-40cm (13-16”) long, slender fruit.

Cucumber - Lebanese Beit Alpha

Smooth skin type with sweet flavour and nice crunch. Lebanese cucumbers are spineless and burpless with skin so tender it doesn’t need to be peeled. Parthenocarpic plants can be grown indoors and out. Best harvested at 10-13cm (4-5”).

Cucumber - Chicago Pickling

Heavy yielding plants are loaded with perfectly formed, deep green fruit with black spines. The thin skin allows for ready absorption of pickling solutions and while fruit can be allowed to reach up to 12.5 cm in length without sacrificing quality, they are most often picked at a much smaller size for the “best gherkins” this side of Chicago!

Cucumber - Socrates

Sweet and crunchy Socrates Organic is a thin-skinned Beit Alpha variety specially bred for cool conditions.

Eggplant - Black Beauty

Dark purple to almost black skinned, glossy, oblong, large fruits that form early on sturdy plants. Grown for over 100 years, this heirloom is a heavy producer with up to 12 fruits per plant, but needs lots of heat.

Eggplant - Rosa Bianca

This delectable Italian heirloom eggplant is known for its beauty as well as its culinary features. The plump, 10-15cm (4-6") fruits are globular and bi-coloured in a gradient. Like a work of art, their ivory canvases are covered in broad, violet/purple brushstrokes. The mildly sweet flesh is meaty, with no bitterness.

Eggplant - Snowy

This Italian-type eggplant produces 18cm (7") long fruits with glossy, snowy white skins that resists yellowing. The sweet, mild flesh is meaty and firm, holding up well in cooking. The sturdy plants are vigorous, and well adapted to a wide variety of conditions, including containers. This fast grower is a great choice for growers in short season areas.

Eggplant - Traviata

The fruits are large, very dark purple, and have shiny skins and an overall appealing look. The classic bell shaped fruits are quite abundant on each plant, and the plants keep producing over a long season. Harvest the fruits at 15cm (6") for the best flavour.

Zucchini - Eight Ball

Eight Ball is a novel, round zucchini with dark green skin and some yellow speckling, borne on an easy-to-pick, bushy plant that only grows to about 1m (3') wide.

Zucchini - Black Beauty

Large bush plants grow semi-upright and open, and are loaded with glossy dark green fruits with firm creamy white flesh and fine flavour. Plants are productive very early, and over a long period. Best eaten when under 20cm (8" long). Black Beauty zucchini seeds are the best variety for freezing.

Zucchini - Ronde De Nice

A round french heirloom zucchini from Provence, grown for generations. The succulent, tender flesh is at its peak while the fruits are still less than 7.5cm (3") in diameter, or grow the fruits on to be hollowed out and stuffed for an interesting summer side dish.

Zucchini - Goldy

Uniformly cylindrical along its whole length, and intensely yellow in colour. Goldy’s fruits average 20-25cm (8-10″) long.

Squash - Early White Scallop

Smooth, disc-shaped 12 cm squash with scalloped edges & white-speckled green rinds. Creamy texture and nutty flavour when not over cooked.