Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Allentown

She describes it as "like popping candy" and "little needles poking the top of your mouth". * I just watched a You Tube video of a woman eating 1/4 of a flower. * The leaves and flower heads contain an analgesic agent spilanthol used to numb toothache.

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. * 2 1/2" deep purple flowers on a plant that resembles a small hollyhock; likes full sun; biennial or perennial; native to Europe, north Africa, and northwest China.

When pureed it is said to rival the best spinach purees. * Silene vulgaris or Bladder Campion is a plant species of the genus Silene of the Pink Family ( Caryophyllaceae ). It is native to Europe but is widespread in North America where it is considered...

It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is eaten throughout much of Europe, the middle east, Asia, and Mexico * It has an extensive old-world distribution extending from North Africa through the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent to Malesia and...

It is an aromatic bitter tonic herb that reduces blood pressure, relieves indigestion, stimulates the uterus and is anti-inflammatory. Dulce) is a plant variety in the family Apiaceae, commonly used as a vegetable.

60-75 days to maturity. The pods are harvested when about 15 - 20 cm long and 2cm wide. Leaves and young shoots - cooked. Use the young pods before they mature for best flavor. The yields of pods average 250 - 500g per m².

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

Matures in 45 days. It is native to central and southwestern Asia . It is great fresh in salads or steamed. * Sow in early spring or early fall. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular-based, very variable in size from about 2-30 cm long...

Used as a potherb. * 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.

* 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 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.

Betaine lowers the chance of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and peripheral vascular diseases. * The usually deep-red roots of garden beet are eaten boiled either as a cooked vegetable, or cold as a salad after cooking and adding oil and vinegar.

* Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. Established plants are drought tolerant.

A popular culinary herb with 1/2in. A herb tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, it is said to improve the digestion. The young leaves and flowers can be eaten raw, boiled, pickled or used in sandwiches.

This is the variety that is most commonly seen in the supermarket, sold in bunches. Sow the seed as soon as the soil temperatures are bove 40 degrees F. It is never pithy and stays crunchy in the refrigerator.

* It is an herbaceous perennial growing to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). * 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.

After 260 to 280 days, it is formed to the harvestable hypocotyl. * The root is eaten cooked. * Lepidium meyenii (maca) is an herbaceous biennial plant of the crucifer family native to the high Andes of Peru.

It is an aromatic bitter tonic herb that reduces blood pressure, relieves indigestion, stimulates the uterus and is anti-inflammatory. Dulce) is a plant variety in the family Apiaceae, commonly used as a vegetable.

They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi). Aromatic and somewhat bitter. Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods.

A popular culinary herb with 1/2in. A herb tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, it is said to improve the digestion. The young leaves and flowers can be eaten raw, boiled, pickled or used in sandwiches.

They can also be sprouted and used in salads. * The seeds are very small but easy to harvest and very nutritious. * It is an important crop for subsistence farmers in Africa. * This species was in use as a food source in Central America as early as 4000...

* The leaves can be used as thickeners in soups etc, they can also be dried for later use. It has green arrowhead-shaped leaves and red-tinted deeply ridged stems, and it sprouts from an aggressive rhizome .

It grows well in sandy soils and is drought tolerant once established. * Seed propagaqtion- best sown in early spring in situ. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves.

* 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.

* Can be overwintered if mulched to zone 4. * Develope to maturity in only 60-65 days. * These scallions are perfect for adding mild flavor to salads of all kinds. * Many Welsh onions can multiply by forming perennial evergreen clumps.

Roughly 85 days after germinating, acorn squash are ready to be harvested. * Seeds are started after all danger of frost is past and the soil is warm or within 3–4 weeks before the predicted last frost date in the area.

It spread when the explorer and botanist Joseph Banks took seeds back to Kew Gardens during the latter half of the 18th century. Its Australian names of warrigal greens and warrigal cabbage come from the local use of warrigal to describe plants that are...