Annual Plant Crop Plant For Sale In Hayward

* Gypsophila elegans ( Annual Baby's-breath , Showy Baby's-breath ) is an ornamental plant native to Asia and Europe . * An annual baby's breath, large white blossoms, used as a cut flower.

* American president Thomas Jefferson cultivated mache at his home, Monticello, in Virginia in the early 1800s. * Corn salad, also known as mache or lamb's lettuce, grows in a low rosette with spatulate leaves up to 15.2 cm long.

It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature. * This is the most important cotton of commerce. It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest.

The gelled seeds can also be prepared as a gruel or pudding. It was cultivated by the Aztec in pre-Columbian times, and was so valued that it was given as an annual tribute by the people to the rulers.

* Sweet marjoram is mainly used as a culinary herb, but is also medicinally valuable due to its stimulant and antispasmodic properties. It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems.

* This species was in use as a food source in Central America as early as 4000 BC. * The seeds are very small but easy to harvest and very nutritious. * Amaranthus cruentus is a common flowering plant species that yields the nutritious staple amaranth...

* This variety of seed will produce gourds common for making birdhouses.

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 of the plant and small leaves higher on the flowering stem.

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

* The shoots, tendrils, and leaves of the plant may also be eaten as greens. * This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ipu heke in contemporary and ancient hula.

* This is an annual herb growing erect to approach half a meter in maximum height, its stem with linear leaves 2 to 4 centimeters long. It is a readily available ornamental plant for the flower garden.

* It has a mild aromatic flavour that is suggestive of aniseed. * The leaves are ready for harvesting in about 8 weeks from sowing, the plant responds well to cut and come again harvesting.

In places with old architecture it can grow between the stones of the road or sidewalk. It has many common names, including rose moss, eleven o'clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, sun rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane.

* Although considered a "winter" squash, acorn squash belongs to the same species as all "summer" squashes (including zucchini and yellow crookneck squash). Roughly 85 days after germinating, acorn squash are ready to be harvested.

* Glebionis coronaria, formerly called Chrysanthemum coronarium, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family. * Glebionis coronaria is used as a leaf vegetable. There is a report that secretions from the roots can be effective in controlling nematodes...

* Glebionis coronaria, formerly called Chrysanthemum coronarium, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family. * Glebionis coronaria is used as a leaf vegetable. There is a report that secretions from the roots can be effective in controlling nematodes...

* Echinocystis is a monotypic genus in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is an annual, sprawling plant that is native to North America. The seed usually germinates within 1 - 2 weeks at 20°c.

It has deep lobed green leaves that are very sweet and tender. It is slow to bolt as summer progresses so it can be grown later in the spring than many varieties. It is ready to harvest in about 60 days from sowing and does well in cool weather in the...

* Seed - if sown in situ during March or April, the plant will usually flower in the summer and complete its life cycle in one growing season. Let stand 30 minutes before drinking.

Tabacum is sensitive to temperature, air, ground humidity and the type of land. * Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually-grown herbaceous plant. * All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide.

* It is native to tropical Africa and southern India. It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide. * Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and...

It provides continuous pods throughout the season. Pods are stringless, straight, and posses a rich buttery flavor. Perfect for eating fresh, freezing and canning. * Golden Wax bean produces excellent yields of golden yellow wax beans.

They are great fresh, frozen or canned. When growing the plant for its seedpods, be sure to pick them whilst they are still small and tender. * Tenderette produces 5 inch pods over the whole summer, and not just all at once.

* Hybrid cucurbit varieties such as Big Max are not true pumpkins, but instead "squash-type pumpkins". * Big Max is a large variety of squash that can exceed 100 pounds and 20 in (510 mm) in diameter under ideal growing conditions.

Young stems, when 5 - 10cm high, and the bases of the lower leaves - raw or cooked. * Like most salsifies, the western salsify grows as an annual or occasionally biennial forb, reaching a height of typically 20–60 cm but sometimes almost a metre.

* Sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae ( legumes ), native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Sicily east to Crete .

It is in flower from May to September. It is hardy to zone 5 and is not frost tender. * Uses: A good green manure crop, it can be sown in autumn or spring and is often combined with clover.