Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Fort Wayne

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

* The mild-flavoured leaves (cooked as a spinach) are rich in vitamins and minerals. * This species was in use as a food source in Central America as early as 4000 BC. They are eaten cooked or ground into a powder and used for making cakes etc.

A mild flavour, it is nice in salads and is liked by most people who try it. Its flowers are cup-shaped and can be either lilac-blue or white. * Campanula persicifolia (peach-leaved bellflower) is a flowering plant species in the family Campanulaceae.

* 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. * The root is eaten raw or cooked.

* This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable. * High in Vitamins! * The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor.

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

* The stalks should be peeled, they can be used like celery. * The seed is used as a flavouring in liqueurs such as Chartreuse. They are often crystallised in sugar and used as sweets and cake decorations.

In cooler climates, however, it should be grown in shallower water, though no less than 30 cm deep, which will warm up more quickly and encourage better growth and flowering. * The flavonol miquelianin (Quercetin 3-O-glucuronide), as well as the alkaloids...

Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally biennials but a number of races can be short lived perennials .

* The root can be cooked like parsnip. The unblanched leaves are much less bitter in winter and make an excellent addition to salads at this time of year. Young roots have a slightly bitter caramel flavour when roasted, roots over 2 years old are much...

They can be slowly baked. In the 1990s, a quick expansion of cultivated land with maca was seen. It is grown for its fleshy hypocotyl (a fused hypocotyl and taproot), which is used as a root vegetable and a medicinal herb.

* The root can be cooked like parsnip. The unblanched leaves are much less bitter in winter and make an excellent addition to salads at this time of year. Young roots have a slightly bitter caramel flavour when roasted, roots over 2 years old are much...

* Seed propagaqtion- best sown in early spring in situ. In many gardens it self sows freely. The seeds, leaves and roots can be used, but the seeds are most active medicinally and are the part normally used.

* 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.

* They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights.

Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally biennials but a number of races can be short lived perennials .

The leaves, which resemble a colt's foot in cross section, do not appear usually until after the seeds are set. Tussilago is often found in colonies of dozens of plants. The plant is typically between 10 - 30 cm in height.

* They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights.

* It is closely related to the eastern black raspberry Rubus occidentalis. A black raspberry, it is a very well flavoured fruit that can also be dried for winter use. * A refreshing tea can be made from the leaves - it is high in vitamin C.

The leaves are also fermented for later use. Sow at a rate of 4-8 lbs./acre. It also makes and excellent cover crop. * Bonar Forage rape has large leaves, is resistant to powdery mildew, is late maturing, and is very high yielding.

* The stalks can be eaten like celery and the flavor is similar. * Early America settlers boiled parts of the plant to make into candy and they also used it as an ingredient in cake .

* The leaves are eaten raw or cooked. The leaves are often blanched (by excluding light from the growing plant) before use. The stems can be tinted purplish, they are upright or lax, and produce flower heads that are held as tall or taller than the foliage.

* This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China.

Prefers part shade in warmer climates. * Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer or rabbits. * Bell-shaped flowers are pale lavender-blue and bloom for an unusually long time (4-5 weeks) in summer with a repeat bloom in fall.

The leaves, which resemble a colt's foot in cross section, do not appear usually until after the seeds are set. Tussilago is often found in colonies of dozens of plants. The plant is typically between 10 - 30 cm in height.

With 3-7 in a cluster. Plant two trees for pollination. It grows to 30', has fragrant purple blooms and large, drooping leaves. Fleshy, oblong-shaped fruit makes unique-flavored pastries and breads.

* It is believed fenugreek was brought into cultivation in the Near East. The seeds are very nourishing and are given to convalescents and to encourage weight gain, especially in anorexia nervosa.