Assortment - Fruits & vegetables for canning
Imagine a vegetable garden as a living, open-air larder, offering you the possibility of self-sufficiency in food all year round. Grow organic fruit and vegetable varieties ideal for canning, and experiment with different preservation methods such as lacto-fermentation, sterilization, jamming, etc., so you can enjoy these delicious preparations all year round!
Seeds in the Fruits & Vegetables for Preserving assortment can be sown from February to July, depending on the variety.
Varieties for Fruit & Vegetables for Preserving
This assortment includes :
This old, highly productive variety, originally from Florence, produces around 50 dense, juicy red "beef-flesh" fruits. Strongly ribbed on the upper half, they weigh between 180 and 300 g and can be eaten fresh or preserved.
This variety produces cylindrical, orange banana-like fruits, 8 to 10 cm long with a small point at the tip, weighing 60 to 80 g. They have a mild flavor and are suitable for sauces and preserves as well as for drying.
This ancient, early and very productive variety offers intense purple fruits, to be harvested before they reach 20 cm in length, with firm, tasty flesh containing few seeds.
This ancient variety offers small, pointed fruits, traditionally used for pickling, ripening from green to bright red. Its name means "chicken heart".
This variety produces many elongated fruits with a thin, yellow skin that need not be peeled. Eaten raw or cooked, they offer a highly appreciated flavor.
This old, vigorous variety, adapted to heavy, clayey soils, offers long orange roots up to 30 cm long, with red flesh that is firm and sweet to the core.
This hardy, extremely productive variety, an improvement on "Phénomène", offers an abundance of straight, round pods, 25 to 30 cm long. Their thick, tender-textured flesh is ideal for canning.
This variety, excellent for preserving, has a very firm, white oval head and a short, shatter-resistant stalk. The outer leaves are regular. Particularly suitable for sauerkraut.
This very old French variety, vigorous and hardy, produces a myriad of small, long, cylindrical green fruits.
This very old variety produces spherical, light-green fruits with grayish stripes, 30 to 40 cm in diameter. Their juicy, sweet, greenish-white flesh is traditionally used for jams.
