Rooted vegetables
Our root vegetables have proven themselves here in our heavier soils and some varieties have overwintered well with a little mulch for protection. We recommend pulling the harvest and overwintering in a cool root cellar.
Many root vegetables such as beets, parsnips or carrots can stay in the ground until freeze up extending the growing and harvest season. Plants must be mulched with straw to extend the season further in freezing weather. This method has enabled us to pull carrots in late December. Most root vegetables get sweeter with cooler weather and light frosts.
Tip: We start most of our root crops in cell packs with the exception of pelleted carrot seed. Once the seedlings are 2 inches high, we then plant out in the cool moist soil in early spring. Planting root crop seedlings in dry hot weather can stunt them. Early spring and end of August are best when the sun is not so intense and there is plenty of moisture in the soil. Timing is everything.
Arrowroot (5 corms)
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Fresh arrowroot corms are used in Asian cooking. The mature corms that you see here will be sent at similar...
Beet -Yellow Giant
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This variety was originally developed as a forage beet for livestock and can get very large. We have grown it...
Beet-Chioggia Candy Stripe
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Chioggia candy striped beets are medium to large in size with colored flesh that has concentric rings of white and...
Beet-Cylindra
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This variety is long rooted like a huge carrot and easier to process than rounded varieties. Good tasting and the...
Beet-Purple Leaf
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This is certainly a dual purpose beet. Lovely round roots for pickling and brilliant dark purple leaves to cut for...
Beets-Golden
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Golden beet has sweet yellow flesh that can be baked, pickled or fermented like Kimchi.....without the bloody MESS! It has...
Beets-Mangold
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This heirloom beet grows humongous and can reach 40 lbs. Surprise your friends. Fun for kids. Mostly grown as a...
Burdock-Gobo
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The root is a common vegetable in Japan called "Gobo". The plant is a biennial and will set seed in...
Carrot- Nandy Nantes -pelleted seed
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A 2019 Canadian National Exhibition FIRST place winner! This Nantes carrot is early maturing with strong tops and great for...
Carrot-Captain Peacock's Crazy Carrot Mix-pelleted seed
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This award winning carrot seed mix includes red, yellow, orange and purple that can be used fresh or cooked. We...
Carrot-Golden (pelleted)
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Golden carrots are a Nantes type of carrot that are more forgiving on many types of soils. Flavourful and vigorous...
Carrot-Goldie (Pelleted)
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Deep yellow carrot which is flavourful with a small core. Matures 68 days from sowing. Roots are Nantes type with...
Carrot-Purple Peacock (Pelleted seed)
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Very deep purple 7-8" roots. Great for bunching or juicing. Choked full of carotene and anti-oxidants. Attractive color on a...
Carrot-Red Juicing (Pelleted)
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WOW! The darkest orange carrot for juicing, very dark juice and lots of anti-oxidants for healthy smoothies. 7"inches long, Nantes...
Carrot-Red Tabby (Pelleted)
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Top red carrot for bunching or juicing. Very high in carotene! Healthy tops, 7-8" long semi-blunted roots with bright deep...
Chicory-Catalogna
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Catalogna is an heirloom Italian Dandelion. The leaves are used in mixed salads and the roots are used medicinally to...
Dahlia-Edible Oddyssey
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YES! Flowers and roots are edible! This is definitely a fun project. Over a period of 10 years, the genetics...
Elephant garlic-organic cloves
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This species is related to the "leek". Sort of between a leek and garlic. The cloves are huge, and the...
French Shallot-Eschalion (Organic)
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An open pollinated variety. Sweet and mild for French Gourmet cooking. Great value. Shallots can be dug once the tops...
Garlic- Caesar (organic)
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Caesar won first place in the purple stripe division at the Canadian National Exhibition 2018 and is the most flavourful...
Horse radish
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Garden root variety. Very hardy perennial stock. For more information on horse radish : Horseradish - Wikipedia 1 root $14.95
Jerusalem Artichoke-Ruby (Organic)
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First come, first served. Great for lazy or inexperienced gardeners because it takes care of itself without any gardening experience.....
Jerusalem Artichoke-white Roots (Organic)
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First come, first served. Great for lazy or inexperienced gardeners because it takes care of itself without any gardening experience....
Onion-Ailsa Craig Exhibition
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Humongous mild onions, can grow very large in a short time, 110 days to maturity. Use fresh or for short...
Onion-Cooking-1 pound (bulb starts)
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The perfect solution to not having a greenhouse to start onion seedlings which take a very long time, almost 6...
Onion-Hardy Scallion (Organic)
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Most winter hardy Scallion leaf onion and will overwinter to produce seed the following year as onions are a "biennial"...
Onion-Large Sweet Spanish-bulb starts- 1 pound
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The salad solution to not having a greenhouse to start onion seedlings which take a very long time, almost...
Onion-Mini Purple Specialty (Organic)
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This purple onion is indeed a "Specialty" because it can be used both for an early green leaf onion or...
Onion-Monastery Storage (Pelleted)
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Beautiful Red onion that can grow to large to jumbo size. Red rings are lovely in raw salads, fermented recipes...
Onion-Red (bulb starts)-1 pound
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The perfect solution to not having a greenhouse to start onion seedlings which take a very long time, almost 6...
Onion-Spanish Improved (Organic)
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This is a jumbo sized SWEET onion with improved disease resistance for organic gardens. It is 120 days from seed...
Onion-Tuff (Organic)
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Long term storage onion with yellow skins. Strong root system that helps this variety to perform better than most in...
Parsnip-Hardy Canuck-Pelleted seed
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Hardy Canuck, just like our Northern cousins. A wonderful hardy variety that is pelleted with clay for easy handling, sowing...
Platycodon-Doranji Balloon Flower Root
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Exciting beautiful perennial edible. The bell flowers are blue and can be used as a cut flower, the roots are...
Potato-Amarosa (Organic)
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Amarosa is a wonderful little gem. The skin is red with novelty bright rose coloured flesh and TASTY. A wonderful...
Potato-Austrian Crescent (Organic)
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Austrian Crescent sometimes referred to as Kipler the German name for croissant. It has a nutty buttery taste with a...
Potato-Bellaneta
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EARLY! Gourmet fingerling potato with a buttery flavour. It is productive and has some scab and late blight tolerance that...
Potato-Caribe
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Medium to large size potatoes with purple skin and white flesh. Great for mashing. Matures EARLY to mid for short seasons. Superior...
Potato-Fingerling Mix (Organic)
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This is a wonderful heirloom mixture of fingerlings for those of you who have never tried them before. The mix...
Potato-Gold Rush Russet
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A new and improved Russet potato called Gold Rush with yellow flesh and resistant to many soil diseases that affect...
Potato-Kennabec (Organic)
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Fast growing heirloom potato introduced in 1940s. Tubers can get very large. All-purpose variety and can be used for French...
Potato-Prince
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Prince is a DEEP yellow flesh ,red skin and great gourmet flavour. A late fingerling that is really worth the...
Potato-Red Norland (Organic)
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Another popular heirloom potato for the organic garden. Medium size potatoes with red skin and white flesh. Great for mashing...
Radish-Asian Purple (Organic)
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This Asian variety has pink-purplish roots, early & productive. Can be diced for raw salads, used in sauerkraut, Kimchi or...
Radish-Daikon Mooli
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This is a very versatile variety and can be used in a raw radish salad, Kimchi or sauerkraut. It is a...
Radish-Watermelon
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Watermelon Radish is also known as Chinese Red Meat Radish has a green outer skin and pink to red flesh....
Salsify
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Salsify, Tragopogon porrifolius, is a hardy root crop and wild vegetable. Grow like carrots and matures in the fall from...
Scorzonera
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Scorzonera is an edible perennial root crop which was popular in Victorian gardens. The dark root is considered to be...