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Tagetes, or Marigold, is a very floriferous annual that is easy to grow. Its yellow, orange and red flowering embellishes gardens, balconies and terraces. In the vegetable garden, it is also famous for repelling insects such as nematodes. You can salvage the dried flowers, take the seeds and replant them next year! Marigolds are also used for natural dyeing, producing beautiful yellows, yellow-greens and oranges.

Old dwarf cultivar from Beauce in Quebec, this bean is eaten fresh or dried. Its green pods are streaked with purple. According to many, it makes the best baked beans, but proponents of the Famille Boucher bean disagree. The solution? Mix the two.;The Beauce was a territory formerly occupied by the St. Lawrence Iroquois Nation. It would therefore be possible that it is a descendant of the beans that these people cultivated. When the First Settlers arrived, many exchanges took place between the two populations, and the beans were passed on to the newcomers. They, on the other hand, subsequently selected several varieties over many years, which favored the appearance of new lines in the varieties. The Thibodeau bean from Beauce County was found by Mr. Marc Warsha. It was actually Mr. Martin Roy of St-Zacharie, in Beauce, who gave him seeds. the cultivation of this bean goes back 4 generations, to Mrs. Thibodeau, from Beauceville, the great-great…grandmother of Martin Roy. The name, Thibodeau from Beauce County, appears for the first time in the catalog heritage seeds in 2003.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Common names: Thibodeau bean, marbled bean, heritage bean
English: Bush Bean
Family: Fabaceae

The 42-day tomato is aptly named, it is early and ready in 42 days! Medium in size, very red and very round, it is perfectly suited to chilly climates or more northern latitudes. Its taste is very balanced. Its origin is not traced, but it is noted as being rare among seed companies. Does not crack and gives a multitude of fruits.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum
Common name: Tomato 42 days
English: 42 days tomato
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, arching them slightly to bring out the leaves upwards.

Beautiful red fruits, almost round, about 10 cm, but not very regular. Very good flavor. Its name comes from the fact that it had to endure hail. Cultivated by Mr. Guy Bourgeois, market gardener in Ste-Dorothée, Laval, in the 1950s and 60s, to be sold at Bonsecours Market, a former public market in Old Montreal. Thanks to his daughter Suzanne for transmitting seeds. They were given to us by René Paquet who got them from Antoine D'Avignon, one of the pioneers in Quebec of saving ancestral seeds.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum 'Ice Grow'
Common name(s): Tomato 'Ice Grow'
English: Ice grow tomato
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimate to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day.

It is dark like the streets of Montreal in the wee hours of the morning. Early, because winter comes quickly in Quebec, it grows just as well in a pot on a balcony on the Plateau as in the ground. Made from two varieties, the Noire de Crimee and the Téton de Vénus, it has kept the color dark of the first and shape and density of the second. On the other hand, she is much earlier than her two parents, and is very productive. Our team, during taste tests, detected a steak flavor in it! It is quite stable although it could sometimes have a little irregular shapes, but we continue our work of selection to create you a perfect tomato .Fruits a little smaller than a tennis ball, regular foliage, little disease.
Germination rate 100%

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimate to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. Lay the plants horizontally, slightly arching the plant to bring the leaves out.

In 2016, a lady approached me at a Seed Festival, telling me that her mother-in-law had a tomato called Mon Plaisir which had long since ceased to be available in the catalogues, but whose seeds she kept and cultivated years later. years. We exchange contact details, then I forget the discussion until a few months later, when I receive a letter in the mail. Inside, a beautiful card with a paper on which were pasted about fifteen seeds. Those of the Mon Plaisir lost tomato. Here is what Ms. Frappier told me when I contacted her following her letter: "We used to order our seeds through the catalogs of WHPerron, and another company. I believe it was called Norseco. We produced tomatoes in greenhouses in Abitibi, in Matamic, near Lasarre. It was the Frappier greenhouses, in 1976. We made a few plants to sell, but it was mostly market gardening. I really liked these tomatoes- there they were making long bunches of beautiful cherry tomatoes. We stopped production in the early 2000s, and I would say I had been saving my seeds for 20-25 years already, because the variety didn't appear. no longer in any catalogue. I couldn't find it anywhere. I think it was replaced by the Sweet 100 variety, or Sweet mignon. I tried it, but I much preferred the Mon Plaisir.";So we the pleasure of making it available in our turn. Thanks to the Frappier family for saving this variety. Thanks to René Paquet for providing us with a vintage photo from the 1987 Semences Laval catalogue.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum "My Pleasure"
Common name: Tomato Mon Plaisir
English: Tomato Mon Plaisir
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER COSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, arching them slightly to bring out the leaves upwards.

This tomato variety was developed in the early 1950s by geneticist Professor Joseph-O Vandal. He worked at Laval University for more than 30 years and he is the father of several horticultural varieties that are resistant in our climate. The vigorous plant produces very early, medium-sized dark red fruits. This exceptionally tasty tomato has far fewer seeds than the conventional tomato and has a very thin skin that peels well. It should be eaten within a few days of harvest because it does not keep as long as store-bought tomatoes.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Lycopersicon esculentum "Quebec #13"
Common name: Quebec Tomato #13
English: Quebec #13 Tomato
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, arching them slightly to bring out the leaves upwards.

Tomato developed at the St-Hyacinthe experimental station. Potato foliage and determined habit, which makes it a more compact plant but just as productive as its congeners.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. Lay the plants horizontally, slightly arching the plant to bring the leaves out.

Excellent variety for early production of uniform green and red fruits. Adapted to the short northern seasons, matures very early. It was created in 1928 by the Horticultural Research Institute of Ontario, then was very popular in the 1950s, until its near demise in the early 1990s. Rare, share.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Capsicum anuum
Common name: Sweet pepper
English: Vinedale pepper
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
love the heat

This variety of watercress has been growing since 1972 in the county of Portneuf thanks to Mrs. Nicole Groleau. The pungent leaves can be harvested throughout the summer. It is possible to make successive sowings every two weeks if you want to harvest young leaves continuously. This watercress will pleasantly spice up your salads and sandwiches. The plant is very vigorous and requires little maintenance apart from a regular supply of water.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Lepidium sativum
Common name: watercress
English: Groleau Cress
Family: Brassicaceae

This rare variety of corn was shared with us by Steve McCumber, founder of the Haudenosaunee Seed Savings Group. It comes from the Winnebago nation who cultivated it for generations on their lands, today Wisconsin and Illinois. With a beautiful cream color sprinkled with bluish spots, this corn is a flour variety. You can of course try the experiment of eating it fresh, but its taste is less sweet and its texture more fibrous than the varieties that we find on our stalls in summer. On the other hand, it will be excellent for cooking cornbread, polenta or hominy. Old and rare variety, please share!

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Zea mays
Common names: Flour corn, Indian corn (Quebec)
English: Corn, Winnebago Spotted
Family: Poaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Rare, share!

Perennial herb with small leathery green leaves resembling large needles. It produces small pink or white flowers that are very popular with pollinators. The winter savory has a slightly less pronounced taste than the summer savory but supports more thorough cooking than the latter. It has a subtly peppery flavor which makes it excellent for enhancing dishes of all kinds. Can be used fresh or dried. To dry the leaves, you can harvest them just before flowering and thus have a stronger taste.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Satureja montana
Common names: winter savory, mountain savory, perennial savory.
English: Winter savory, mountain savory
Family: Lamiaceae

Excellent variety for early production of uniform green and red fruits.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
love the heat

Heirloom cherry type tomato, vigorous and productive. It has a pretty pear shape 3cm high. Very versatile and low acid, use in salads, cherry tomato mixes and as a snack for the little ones!

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum
Common name: Cocktail tomato
English: Yellow Pear Tomato
Family: Solanaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Gradually acclimatize to outdoor conditions about 10 days before planting by taking them out during the day. When planting, lay the plants horizontally, arching them slightly to bring out the leaves upwards.

This variety of spinach is hardy and slow to bolt. Its large dark green triangular leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. The leaves are harvested as needed. It is best to consume the leaves soon after harvesting, otherwise, it supports freezing very well. Successive sowings can be carried out if you prefer to consume the quite young leaves.

The vast majority of our seeds are produced on our farm. However, if the cultivation of a variety fails or if it is out of stock, we source from other seed companies to ensure an interesting selection. This is the case for this variety.

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Spinacia oleracea
Common names: Matador spinach, Viking spinach
English: Matador Spinach
Family: Amaranthaceae, formerly Chenopodiaceae