You can scroll down through all the greens or go directly to one by clicking just below. Please note that we have more than one variety of several of the greens : these links take you to the first variety of each type and from there you scroll down to the see the other varieties.

Amaranth	Chard	Collards	Kale
Mustard	Orach	Spinach	Vitamin Green

Amaranth, Red Leaf - Item #A101 Amaranthus tricolor. Red leaf amaranth, a green leafy vegetable eaten cooked or in salads (the very young leaves are suitable for salads), looks very much like coleus: the heart-shaped leaves are green, overlaid with red. Very decorative. It is also called "calaloo" in the Caribbean, "tampala," "Chinese spinach," and other names. Unlike most of the greens, amaranth likes hot weather and will produce lots of edible greens throughout a hot summer. You can harvest young succulent leaves about 5-6 weeks after sowing the seeds. It can be used very much like spinach, but cooks faster, so don't overcook it. Very good lightly steamed or stir-fried, and often used in soup in China. Young tender stems can be cooked with the leaves: otherwise chop up the stems and put them in a few minutes before the leaves. Recommended container size - This is difficult to say because the different strains of amaranth vary, but basically it's a tall plant. I recommend a 12" deep and 12" diameter container (or larger). Seeds In A Pack - 20 Price - $1.85

Chard, Bright Lights - Item #CS101 Beta vulgaris var. cicla Bright Lights has dark green leaves with ribs and broad stalks in jewel tones of yellow, gold, orange, pink, violet, red, and white. Recommended container size - Chard is a deep-rooted plant: a container for chard should be at least one foot deep. It's a large plant too, and will be from two to three feet tall. I grow three chard plants together in a container that is about 12" deep and 12" in diameter. Bright Lights will probably be most used as part of a larger planting, either in its own container, or potted together with other plants - and rightly so: it's very colorful and ornamental. Growing Directions (Our article - will open in new window: close window to return here.) Also see Growing directions (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website - will open in new window: close window to return here). Quantity - 50 seeds Price - $1.80

Chard, Perpetual Spinach - Item #CS103 Beta vulgaris var. cicla This is the chard for people who like spinach but think they don't like chard. Perpetual Spinach (which is neither perpetual nor spinach) is less savoyed (less crinkled) than other chards and has a milder taste, quite a bit more like spinach. Growing Directions (Our article - will open in new window: close window to return here.) Also see Growing directions (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website - will open in new window: close window to return here). Recommended container size: 12" deep, 12" diameter or larger. Quantity - 50 seeds. Price - $1.80

Collards, Champion OP - Item #COL101 Brassica oleracea Selected from the popular Vates variety, to be more compact, and more long-standing. Champion has a rich dark green color, with large and long, wavy leaves. Very tender and good to eat. Recommended container size: I have grown collards in a 12" deep, 12" diameter container. If I remember correctly, I had three plants in that container. A larger container would be even better. Growing directions. (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website - will open in new window: close window to return here). Also, refer to my brassica article for easy and effective ways to protect this plant from damage caused by the larvae of cabbage butterflies and cabbage moths. Quantity - 50 seeds Price - $ 1.50

Kale, Red Russian (also called Ragged Jack), Organic - Item # KAL101 Brassica napus Red Russian is a very beautiful, heirloom kale, suitable for decorative containers. Its oak-leaf-shaped leaves are light green with purple veins and stems. Red Russian is extremely frost hardy and can be overwintered in most areas. It takes 25 days for baby leaves, and 52 days for mature leaves. It's also very tender and delicious. Frost improves the texture and flavor. You can use young leaves in salad, and cook the older leaves as you would any kale. I like kale just plain steamed, as a side vegetable. It's good in soups too. Steamed kale on brown rice, with a little soy sauce sprinkled on top, makes a tasty (and very nutritious) lunch. Growing directions. (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website - will open in new window: close window to return here). Also, refer to my brassica article for easy and effective ways to protect this plant from damage caused by the larvae of cabbage butterflies and cabbage moths. Recommended container size: 12" deep, 12" in diameter, or larger. Quantity - 40 seeds Price - $ 1.50

Kale, Tuscan (also called Black Kale, Lacinato Kale, Nero di Toscana, Black Palm Tree Kale, and Dinosaur Kale), Organic Seed - Item # KAL102 Brassica oleracea var. acephala This is a gorgeous, very striking heirloom kale. Dinosaur Kale is a good name for it, it appears very primitive. If you want a large ornamental container in the autumn - for fall growing - you really should include this kale. The leaves are blistered in appearance, and are a very dark green (almost black). They are arranged like a palm tree's fronds: that is, they arch and spray outwards. It is also very tasty, delicious kale. But it's so stunning, you may not want to pick it! 62 days to maturity. Growing directions. (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website - will open in new window: close window to return here). Also, refer to my brassica article for easy and effective ways to protect this plant from damage caused by the larvae of cabbage butterflies and cabbage moths. Recommended container size: 12" deep, 12" in diameter, or larger. Quantity - 30 seeds Price - $ 1.50

Kale,Red Flowering,' Nogoy Red' - Item # KAL103 Frilly and colorfull fan shaped leaves make each plant look like a gaint flower. The colors are most intense when the cool weather arrive. A wonderful addtion to any garden these plants are beautiful and edible. Recommended container size: I would use at least a 2 gallon container for each plant. Quantity - 20 seeds Price - $ 1.50

Mustard, Purple Osaka - Item # MUS101 - Organic Seeds Brassica juncea var. crispifolia A really beautiful mustard. Young leaves are mild and ornamental in salads. Older leaves are mustardy, and have some mustary-y "bite", better eaten cooked. Leaves become more purple as they mature. This one is a must for ornamental container plantings. Prefers cool weather - plant in early spring and again in late summer for fall growing. Young leaves ready in about 20 days after transplanting out, mature leaves in about 40 days after transplanting. Growing directions. (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website - will open in new window: close window to return here). These are the growing directions for collards: but basically, mustard can be treated in the same manner. Mustard is, if anything, more cold-hardy than collards. Also, refer to my brassica article for easy and effective ways to protect this plant from damage caused by the larvae of cabbage butterflies and cabbage moths. Recommended container size - 10" in diameter, 10" high (at least), unless you're planning to cut them as baby leaves, and then most any container will do. Quantity - 40 seeds Price - $1.70

Orach, Double Purple - Item #ORA101 Atriplex hortensis. Orach, sometimes called "mountain spinach", is a spinach-like vegetable, with a mild and spinach-y taste. It was grown by the ancient Romans, grown in England since the 1500s, and in American gardens since at least 1805. It is slower to bolt to bolt in hot weather than spinach. Expect your container-grown plants to become from 2-3 feet tall, although orach in the ground can become as high as six feet. In autumn, orach will flower and the flowers are pink "sprays". When it goes to seed in the fall, save the decorative seed sprays for use in dried flower arrangements, wreaths or other door or table decorations. This variety has red/purple leaves and stems and is particularly good looking. The leaves are cooked like spinach, or used in salads. Direct-seed outside in spring 2-4 weeks before average last spring frost. When sprouts are about 1-2" tall, thin them to stand about 10" apart (it's a sizeable plant). You should have harvestable leaves somewhere between 37 and 60 days after planting (this is a large range, but you can start cutting leaves when it is quite young). Recommended container size - at least 12" high and 12" in diameter (unless you intend to harvest the leaves as baby leaves, in which case a much smaller container will do). Quantity - 40 seeds. Price - $1.80

Spinach, Bloomsdale - Item #SP101 Spinacia oleracea I think chard is a better container-choice than spinach, on the grounds that it's much easier to grow a significant (useful) quantity of chard than it is of spinach; nevertheless I know some people really, really want spinach, so I am carrying it. And it's true, fresh homegrown spinach is just lovely. Enjoy your lovely fresh spinach, trust me, that sad stuff in supermarkets bears no resemblance whatsoever to home-grown chard. (See above for several varieties of chard.) If you have tasted chard and did not like it, please consider trying Perpetual Spinach - it's milder than other chards, more like spinach. You might like to try orach too. Bloomsdale is a long-time favorite, with heavily crinkled (savoyed) leaves. Bloomsdale will withstand hot weather better than most other spinaches (although spinach is definitely a cool-weather plant), and it bears for a long time. Growing directions. (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website - will open in new window: close window to return here). Also, see my chard article for a discussion of how to control beet-leaf miners (just in case you have problems with them: they also affect spinach). Recommended container size: Spinach is not a very large plant. 6 " to 8" of depth will be enough, and then the area will be determined by how many spinach plants you want to grow. Spinach is direct-seeded outdoors and the plants should be about 4" apart from each other, so plant the seeds about 2" apart from each other, and thin the little plants later, using the thinnings for salad. Quantity - 60 seeds Price - $ 1.60

Vitamin Green (also called Vitaminna) - Item #VG101 Brassica rapa var. chinensis Vitamin green is a distinct variety of non-heading Chinese cabbage. It looks very like (a somewhat smaller) Swiss chard. The leaves are dark green, and grow in an upright bunch. Leaves are tender and flavorful: definitely not mustardy. Vitamin green can be used in stir-fries and salads, or steamed. They are excellent if stir-fried with garlic and onion. This is a really nice Asian green - one of the best - in spite of its silly name. Growing directions. (From Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Website. Will open in new window: close window to return here). Also, refer to my brassica article for easy and effective ways to protect this plant from damage caused by the larvae of cabbage butterflies and cabbage moths. Recommended container size: 10" of depth should be enough, and the area is up to you. Quantity - 40 seeds Price - $ 1.40