Edible Leaf Plant Crop Plant For Sale In Seattle

* They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor.

* It can be grown indoors in the winter. It is never pithy and stays crunchy in the refrigerator. This variety was the All America Selection Winner in 1949. They are grown and consumed throughout the world.

* The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * High in Vitamins! * Purple Top White Globe Turnip is an outstanding Heirloom variety. * This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable.

It is great fresh in salads or steamed. Matures in 45 days. It is native to central and southwestern Asia . 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...

* It is an exceptionally nutritious vegetable tree with a variety of potential uses. * It may be used as forage for livestock, a micronutrient liquid, a natural anthelmintic and possible adjuvant.

* 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.

* It is a deciduous shrub growing to 0.5–3 m tall, with prickly shoots. * Young shoots - harvested as they emerge in the spring, then peeled and eaten raw or cooked like asparagus.

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * Stevia has become very popular as a natural sugar substitute with almost zero calories! * Because stevia has a negligible effect on...

It is also cultivated and naturalized in East Asia and in scattered locations in North America. There is a report that secretions from the roots can be effective in controlling nematodes in the soil, but this has not been substantiated.

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

They should be harvested in the spring before the plant comes into flower. The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute. * Sanguisorba officinalis ( Great Burnet ) is a plant in the family Rosaceae , subfamily Rosoideae .

* The source of tea; white flowers in fall; tolerates shade or sun well; an attractive small shrub for its ornamental value as well. Modern research has shown that there are many health benefits to drinking tea, including its ability to protect the drinker...

* The Sacred water lotus has been used in the Orient as a medicinal herb for well over 1,500 years. * The flowers have a sweet fruity perfume. The plant also contains nuciferine and aporphine.

* In warmer areas, garlic chives may remain green all year round. * The leaves are available from early spring until late in the autumn. * The leaves have a mild flavour, somewhat like a cross between garlic and chives, they are delicious in salads.

* 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. The bark is thick, greyish-brown, and scaly plated at the base of the trunk, and orange-red, thin, and flaking...

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi). * Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include...

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi). * Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include...

* Nettles are the exclusive larval food plant for several species of butterflies, such as the peacock butterfly or the small tortoiseshell, and are also eaten by the larvae of some moths including angle shades, buff ermine, dot moth, the flame, the gothic,...

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. * Parsley ( Petroselinum ) is a bright green biennial herb , often used as spice .

The most notable is the holy basil or tulsi, a revered home-grown plant in India and Nepal. The flowers are small, white in color and arranged in a terminal spike. Etymology: The word basil comes from the Greek

* A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic. * The seeds have been used in making cough syrups. * Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall.

It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves. * In Israel, fennel salad is made of chopped fennel bulbs flavored with salt, black pepper, lemon juice, parsley, olive oil and sometimes sumac.

* In warmer areas, garlic chives may remain green all year round. * The leaves are available from early spring until late in the autumn. * The leaves have a mild flavour, somewhat like a cross between garlic and chives, they are delicious in salads.

* Beets are low in calories (about 45 kcal per 100 g), have zero cholesterol and a minute amount of fat. * The tops are loaded with vitamin A and the roots with Vitamin C. They germinate right away and will mark the row.

* Melilotus officinalis, known as yellow sweet clover, yellow melilot, ribbed melilo and common melilot is a species of legume native to Eurasia and introduced in North America, Africa and Australia.

It grows typically in warm, sheltered spots with moist soil. Used as a potherb. Young stems, when 5 - 10cm high, and the bases of the lower leaves - raw or cooked. Its yellow flower head is 4–6 cm in diameter and is likely to be seen in late spring...

Start seeds indoors and transplant outside when danger of frost is past. The yields of pods average 250 - 500g per m². The seed can also be roasted and eaten like peanuts or fermented and used as tempeh.