Annual Horticultural Plant Seeds For Sale In Connecticut

* These small round cucumbers ripen to a lemon yellow color.

The foliage makes a nice garden cover when not in bloom and the attractive seedpods add interest after flowering. * Usually flowers blue, pink, white, lavender, and purple. * An essential oil distilled from the plant is used in perfumery and lipsticks.

It is native to Southeast Asia but elsewhere is cultivated in gardens as an annual. * Besides the use for ornamental purposes, Job's tears grains are useful as a source of food (cereals) and folk medicine.

A.k.a. Aster tanacetifolia * Branched stems with fern-like leaves ending in flower heads with many bright purple, very narrow rays surrounding a yellow central disk. It is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern and central United States, where...

In particular it is an excellent herb for treating various digestive disorders, nervous tension and irritability and is also used externally to treat skin problems. Gather the flowers in the summer.

* Erect, bushy annual with oval to heart-shaped, toothed, hairy, dark green leaves 2 1/2" long. The naturalized variety is typically tubular, bright red, about 1.25 in (3.2 cm) long.

It is a biennial plant usually grown as an annual. The high fiber content of parsnips may help prevent constipation and reduce blood cholesterol levels. It was used as a sweetener before the arrival in Europe of cane sugar.

It is great fresh in salads or steamed. Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular-based, very variable in size from about 2-30 cm long and 1-15 cm broad, with larger leaves at the base...

In Telugu it is called 'chamma kaya' also called 'Tammi kaya' * The fruits are eaten as a vegetable in Africa and Asia. * The legume is a used as a vegetable in interiors of central and south central India, though not commercially farmed.

* This heirloom variety was created by Rutgers University in the 1930's. It was the main commercial tomato grown in New Jersey for many years. It produces an abundance of medium sized round bright crimson tomatoes.

* Secretions from the roots of growing plants have an insecticidal effect on the soil, effective against nematodes and to some extent against keeled slugs. The growing plant repels whitefly and can be grown near tomatoes to keep that crop free of the...

* It is used in both fresh and dried forms, to not only "heat up" curries, pickles and chutneys, but also to impart two distinct flavours to them. * In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) was the world's hottest...

It is great fresh in salads or steamed. Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular-based, very variable in size from about 2-30 cm long and 1-15 cm broad, with larger leaves at the base...

* It is used in both fresh and dried forms, to not only "heat up" curries, pickles and chutneys, but also to impart two distinct flavours to them. * In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) was the world's hottest...

* The leaves lose their flavour if the are cooked for any length of time and so are best used raw or added to cooked dishes only a few minutes before the cooking is complete. * In Canada, dill is a favorite herb to accompany poached salmon.

Oval to round fruit with red sweet flesh and small seeds, maturing in 85 days. * It was an All American winner in 1964. * Crimson Sweet is a heirloom variety that has been around a long time.

The foliage makes a nice garden cover when not in bloom and the attractive seedpods add interest after flowering. * Usually flowers blue, pink, white, lavender, and purple. * An essential oil distilled from the plant is used in perfumery and lipsticks.

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose.

Conyzoides can cause liver lesions and tumors. * The whole plant is antiinflammatory and antiallergic. It is also an insecticide and nematicide. The juice of the fresh plant is also useful in treating post-partum uterine haemorrhage.

It is common in Middle Eastern , European , and American cooking . It is also a good detoxifier, helping the body to get rid of toxins via the urine and therefore helping in the treatment of a wide range of diseases such as rheumatism.

It acts principally on the digestive and nervous systems, easing flatulence, stomach cramps, colic and indigestion. Most culinary and ornamental basils are cultivars of the species Ocimum basilicum , but other species are also grown and there are many...

It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature. Worldwide, the figure is about 90% of all production for this species.

Peanut shells are used in the manufacture of plastic, wallboard, abrasives, fuel, cellulose (used in rayon and paper) and mucilage (glue). Rudolf Diesel ran some of the first engines that bear his name on peanut oil and it is still seen as a potentially...

* When eaten they first of all impart a viscid sweetness, followed by a strong penetrating taste of a saline nature. It is probably native to southern Europe though its long history of cultivation makes its precise origin unknown, and may possibly be...

* This species was in use as a food source in Central America as early as 4000 BC. They can also be sprouted and used in salads. They are eaten cooked or ground into a powder and used for making cakes etc.

If you really want to grow a record breaker do your homework on growing techniques, fertilization, etc. * There is an art to growing the giants so don't be discouraged if you don't get pumpkins weighing hundreds of pounds on your first try.

* This is a timeless classic. * They are like the peppers that you buy in the store. * California Wonder peppers are an open pollinated heirloom variety of sweet bell pepper. * Blocky shape, excellent for stuffing with a sweet mild flavor.