Edible Leaf Plant Crop Plant For Sale In Hampton

They germinate right away and will mark the row. * Beets are low in calories (about 45 kcal per 100 g), have zero cholesterol and a minute amount of fat. They also are harvested long before the beets so you get two crops instead of one! * Mineral Rich...

* Ocimum basilicum , or Sweet Basil, is a culinary herb of major importance. * 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...

* Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a flowering plant species in the carrot family. * On account of its aromatic properties, fennel fruit forms one of the ingredients of the well-known compound liquorice powder.

* It is an evergreen tree reaching 25-45 m in height, with a broad, rounded crown of long branches. * The leaves are needle-like, dark green, with two per fascicle, 12-20 cm long and 0.8-1 mm wide, the persistent fascicle sheath 1.5-2 cm long.

It is great fresh in salads or steamed. * Sow in early spring or early fall. It is native to central and southwestern Asia . It is an annual plant (rarely biennial ), which grows to a height of up to 30 cm.

Older writers usually distinguished the turnip and rape by the adjectives round and long (- rooted ) respectively. Added to salads or used as a potherb. * It is preferred forage by livestock.

* Generally grown as an annual to produce desired onions for eating. To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed to grow until the second summer when they will produce flowers and seed.

* The leaves and flower heads contain an analgesic agent spilanthol used to numb toothache. She describes it as "like popping candy" and "little needles poking the top of your mouth".

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

The leaves are rich in potassium and calcium, they have a salty cucumber flavour. * They can be used as a pot-herb or be added to salads. It is used to colour vinegar. * In milder climates, borage will bloom continuously for most of the year.

The cooked young shoots, harvested when about 5cm long, have a flavour similar to green peas but with a slight bitterness. The leaves can also be finely chopped and added to salads.

* It is an exceptionally nutritious vegetable tree with a variety of potential uses. * In developing countries, moringa has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and support sustainable landcare.

Medium sized fruit is mild and sweet. Delicious when eaten fresh and in jams and jellies. An old variety that was first introduced in 1895, it is a hardy, vigorous grower. White Imperial produces white, translucent clusters with pink undertones.

* Glebionis coronaria is used as a leaf vegetable. It is also cultivated and naturalized in East Asia and in scattered locations in North America. It is native to the Mediterranean region.

The leaves, which resemble a colt's foot in cross section, do not appear usually until after the seeds are set. * Coltsfoot is a perennial herbaceous plant that spreads by seeds and rhizomes .

Includes 1 each of Red Delicious and Yellow Delicious Standard Apples.

An excellent cooking apple. Medium-sized, with yellow flesh and crisp texture. Apples are self-fruitful, but for greater yield, plant with another variety.

Two varieties are required for pollination. Hardy to minus 40 degrees! Produces large crops of elongated blueberry-like fruits 1-2 years after planting. Prefers full to partial sun.

Ripens in Early August and continues until September. (Early Summer) Use Yellow Delicious as a pollinator. Great for homemade pies, applesauces and cider. The earliest apple. Flesh is white, crisp, juicy and mildly sub-acid.

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 by medium sized sweet fruit.

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

Leaves are grey-green, rugose on the upper side, and nearly white underneath due to the many short soft hairs. The leaves are oblong, ranging in size up to 2.5 in (6.4 cm) long by 1 in (2.5 cm) wide.

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

In fall, they turn to shades of yellow, tinged with red. * Beautiful fall color, yellow, orange, purple, and scarlet; curious mitten-shaped or three-lobed leaves; often suckers from roots to form colonies; handsome deeply channeled reddish-brown bark;...

* Chia (Salvia hispanica) was the third most important food of the Aztecs in the time of Cortez (behind corn and beans and in front of amaranth), and has long been an important crop in Mesoamerica for the unique nutritional qualities of its seed.

Prefers part shade in warmer climates. * Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer or rabbits. * Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.

Young stems, when 5 - 10cm high, and the bases of the lower leaves - raw or cooked. * Tragopogon dubius (yellow salsify, western salsify, western goat's-beard, wild oysterplant, yellow goat's beard, goat's beard, goatsbeard, common salsify, salsify) is...