Annual Plant Crop Plant For Sale In Manchester

* It produces an abundance of 8-9 inch dark green cucumbers with excellent mild flavor. * This open pollinated variety has been around a long time and is still the favorite.

* Sweet basil has been used for thousands of years as a culinary and medicinal herb. Most culinary and ornamental basils are cultivars of the species Ocimum basilicum , but other species are also grown and there are many hybrids between species.

Tabacum is sensitive to temperature, air, ground humidity and the type of land. * In their great first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were introduced to a plant whose smoke was called tobacco by the natives of Hispaniola.

* Rapeseed ( Brassica napus ), also known as rape , oilseed rape , rapa , rappi , rapaseed and (in the case of one particular group of cultivars , canola ) is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family).

About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage). The whole plant contains substances that are toxic to cockroaches.

It is used in Italian, Portuguese (Catarino bean), Turkish, and Greek cuisine. * The Borlotti bean, also known as the Roman bean or romano bean (not to be confused with the Italian flat bean, a green bean also called "romano bean"), is a variety of cranberry...

Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete name Luffa cylindrica and frequently misspelt "Luffa aegyptica", it is cultivated and grown for its fruit.

* These have the genetic potential to be GIANT. If you really want to grow a record breaker do your homework on growing techniques, fertilization, etc. GOOD LUCK! * The world record holder weighed in at 2009 pounds!

It is a readily available ornamental plant for the flower garden. * 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.

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

The fruit is antihaemorrhoidal and hypotensive. Eggplants can also be battered before deep-frying and served with a sauce made of tahini and tamarind. Seeds are typically started eight to 10 weeks prior to the anticipated frost-free date.

* Cumin is an aromatic, astringent herb that benefits the digestive system and acts as a stimulant to the sexual organs. * Cumin's distinctive flavor and strong, warm aroma are due to its essential oil content.

The seed usually germinates in 10 - 21 days at 18°c. * The plants are pollinated by bumblebees , and the flowers close over the insects when they enter and deposit pollen on their bodies.

Mirabilis jalapa is said to have been exported from the Peruvian Andes in 1540. * Very fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers, 1-2" red, pink, yellow, white, or variously mottled with different color combinations, in quantity; the common name is based on the...

Sotolon is the chemical responsible for fenugreek's distinctive sweet smell. It has a wide range of medicinal applications. * Fenugreek is much used in herbal medicine, especially in North Africa, the Middle East and India.

The fresh leaves are highly nutritious and can be considered a natural vitamin and mineral supplement in their own right. The plants prime use is as a diuretic where it is effective in ridding the body of stones and in treating jaundice, dropsy, cystitis...

* The roots grow into the soil up to a depth of 50 centimetres (20 in), so the plant can survive long periods of drought. Delphinium consolida ) is an annual plant in the Buttercup family Ranunculaceae .

* Portulaca grandiflora is a flowering plant in the family Portulacaceae, native to Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens. * It requires almost no attention and spreads itself very easily.

The plant has a trailing habit, and will form a thick carpet on the ground or climb though other vegetation and hang downwards. Tetragonioides was the only cultivated vegetable to have originated from Australia and New Zealand.

When growing the plant for its seedpods, be sure to pick them whilst they are still small and tender. This will ensure the continued production of more pods by the plant. * The green pods are commonly used as a vegetable, they have a mild flavour and...

* Sweet marjoram is mainly used as a culinary herb, but is also medicinally valuable due to its stimulant and antispasmodic properties. In some middle-eastern countries, Marjoram is synonymous with Oregano, and there the names Sweet Marjoram and Knotted...

* Other reports say that they contain 'estevin' a substance that, weight for weight, is 150 times sweeter than sugar. * The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves.

* Hybrid cucurbit varieties such as Big Max are not true pumpkins, but instead "squash-type pumpkins". * The variety was hybridized for its size during the early 1960s. They are often bright orange in color, with fine-grained, yellow-orange flesh.

The species name campestre means "of the fields". * Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland...

* It has a mild aromatic flavour that is suggestive of aniseed. * Sometimes called garden chervil , it is used to season mild-flavoured dishes and is a constituent of the French herb mixture fines herbes .

The leaves are sessile with a coarsely-toothed margin. * The species name cernua is Latin for nodding. Where the range of this species and Smooth Bur Marigold (B. It grows from 30-100cm tall in wet areas.

* In the wild, it is an endangered plant; the main cause of decline is habitat destruction by slash and burnagriculture. It is also however widely cultivated and is naturalised in subtropical and tropical areas of the world.