Edible Leaf Plant Crop Plant For Sale In Cary

After 260 to 280 days, it is formed to the harvestable hypocotyl. It is grown for its fleshy hypocotyl (a fused hypocotyl and taproot), which is used as a root vegetable and a medicinal herb.

Leaves and young shoots - cooked. Immature seeds are used in soups etc. They have a flavour similar to mushrooms when sauteed. Start seeds indoors and transplant outside when danger of frost is past.

They are eaten cooked or ground into a powder and used for making cakes etc. * It is an important crop for subsistence farmers in Africa. * The mild-flavoured leaves (cooked as a spinach) are rich in vitamins and minerals.

Excellent for use in salads or steamed. * Fordhook is a well known and very popular variety of Swiss Chard. It is cold hardy as well as tolerant of heat. * The large stalks are topped by deep green leaves.

The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute. They should be harvested in the spring before the plant comes into flower. A cucumber flavour they can be added to salads or used as a potherb.

The plants prime use is as a diuretic where it is effective in ridding the body of stones and in treating jaundice, dropsy, cystitis etc. In modern cooking, parsley is used for its leaf in much the same way as coriander (which is also known as Chinese...

Excellent for use in salads or steamed. * Fordhook is a well known and very popular variety of Swiss Chard. It is cold hardy as well as tolerant of heat. * The large stalks are topped by deep green leaves.

* Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates.

* A refreshing tea can be made from the leaves - it is high in vitamin C. * It is closely related to the eastern black raspberry Rubus occidentalis. * It is a deciduous shrub growing to 0.5–3 m tall, with prickly shoots.

* High in Vitamins! * The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor.

* The stalks should be peeled, they can be used like celery. They are also used to sweeten tart fruits. * The essential oil of the roots of Angelica archangelica contains ?-terebangelene, C10H16, and other terpenes; the oil of the seeds also contains...

The seed is rich in carbohydrates, it can be dried, then ground and used as a flour in breads, puddings, as a thickener in soups etc. A somewhat astringent taste raw, it improves considerably when cooked and is delicious baked with a floury texture and...

It acts principally on the digestive and nervous systems, easing flatulence, stomach cramps, colic and indigestion. * Ocimum basilicum , or Sweet Basil, is a culinary herb of major importance.

* An important timber tree in Asia, the timber is used for construction, railway sleepers, mine timber, furniture, wood pulp, etc. * It is an evergreen tree reaching 25-45 m in height, with a broad, rounded crown of long branches.

* Umbellularia californica is a large tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into Oregon .

Its Australian names of warrigal greens and warrigal cabbage come from the local use of warrigal to describe plants that are wild (not farmed originally). It is native to Argentina, Australia, Chile, Japan, and New Zealand.

They make a very good perennial substitute for lettuce in a salad, producing fresh leaves from spring until the middle of summer, or until the autumn from spring germinating plants.

After 260 to 280 days, it is formed to the harvestable hypocotyl. It is grown for its fleshy hypocotyl (a fused hypocotyl and taproot), which is used as a root vegetable and a medicinal herb.

Self-pollinating! Zones 5-9. Semi-dwarf variety grows only 3 feet tall. Outstanding yields of large dime-sized dark blueberries. Requires only 150 chilling hours.

The dried leaves are a very pleasant tea substitute. * Sow seed early spring in a greenhouse. The seed can take 4 weeks or more to germinate. * The Virginia strawberry, wild strawberry, or common strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) is one of two species...

Collection includes 3 each of Jewel and Latham raspberries. 6 plants in all!

* Erect stalks topped with one or several blue 1 1/2" flowers; parent of many cultivars with white, blue, or double flowers; popular and easy to grow. Its flowers are cup-shaped and can be either lilac-blue or white.

1-1/2 - 3' trees. North Star is self-fruitful and does not need a pollinator but will do even better by planting two. Beautiful little trees grow only 6-8 feet tall but produce full size fruit.

In zones 4-5 it NEEDS a pollinator. You will enjoy a mid-season July-August harvest, so be ready to pick this one early. Great for eating, canning and drying. Fruit is smooth, fuzzless, juicy and sweet.

Nothing quite compares to the taste of a Persimmon. Need another within a mile radius for pollination. Exquisite flavor - the key is letting the fruit ripen completely (almost to the point of going bad).

Self-Pollinating. Pears are shaped like an apple but have great pear flavor. Very good disease resistance. We ship 3-4' trees.

Grows 18-24" high, 30-40" wide and produces an average of 2-5 lbs. Of fruit per plant. Exceptional quality for the home gardener! Developed by the University of Minnesota, North Country Blueberry is hardy to -35°, with attractive sky-blue flowers, followed...