Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Gainesville

If you let some go to seed, the pods are edible. * It can be grown indoors in the winter. It's flavor is mild and is great fresh, in salads or sandwiches. The young plants can also be eaten as a slightly spicy tasting micro-green.

* Celery is used around the world as a vegetable for the crisp petiole (leaf stalk). The leaves are strongly flavoured and are used less often, either as a flavouring in soups and stews or as a dried herb.

Wholesome and nutritious.A peppery taste. * The root is boiled and eaten like salsify. The taste somewhat resembles salsify or parsnips. Fleshy, sweet and succulent. * Oenothera biennis ( Common evening primrose or Evening star ) is a species of Oenothera...

* 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. * Because western salsify is a widespread plant, it has a large number of alternative...

Excellent for use in salads or steamed. * 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.

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.

The root is the most active medicinally, it should be harvested in the autumn of its first year of growth, sliced longitudinally if necessary and dried quickly. They are often crystallised in sugar and used as sweets and cake decorations.

Plants are not very cold-tolerant, but they can beoverwintered outdoors in areas where winter temperatures do not fall below about -5°c. This species is cultivatedas a vegetable in China.

An edible oil is obtained from the seed. Root - raw or cooked like potatoes. Leaves and young shoots - cooked. Slightly sweet, it contains 20% or more protein, which is about 12 times that of potatoes.

All parts of the plant are strongly aromatic. Leaves are grey-green, rugose on the upper side, and nearly white underneath due to the many short soft hairs. They impart a sausage-like flavour to savoury dishes.

Grow them year round in your kitchen! * The leaves are eaten raw or cooked. Tender young leaves are considerably less bitter than older leaves. The stems can be tinted purplish, they are upright or lax, and produce flower heads that are held as tall or...

Chicory leaves are very bitter, making it a good digestive stimulant and tonic, and a gentle laxative even for children. Roots are used in seasoning soups, sauces and gravies, and to impart a rich deep colour.

They should be harvested in the spring before the plant comes into flower. * Sanguisorba officinalis ( Great Burnet ) is a plant in the family Rosaceae , subfamily Rosoideae . * The young leaves and flower buds can be eaten raw or cooked.

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

* In milder climates, borage will bloom continuously for most of the year. * An edible blue dye can be obtained from the flowers. * The growing plant is a good companion for strawberries, tomatoes, courgettes and most other plants.

* Maca (Peruvian Ginseng) seedlings usually emerge about one month after sowing with the onset of the rainy season in October. With its extreme temperatures and poor rocky soil, the area rates among the world's worst farmland, yet over the centuries,...

* Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. * Cut back to just below lowest flowers immediately after summer bloom to promote fall rebloom. * A very tolerant plant, thriving even when growing in unkempt grassy areas.

It produces edible quality canola oil and exhibits improve winter survival in Great Plains conditions. The name derives from the Latin for turnip , r?pum or r?pa , and is first recorded in English at the end of the 14th century.

* A perennial grown for its 2" bright red-orange inflated husk in fall, which encloses an edible red berry; the plant itself is rather lax and weedy, spreading by underground stems; nodding white flowers; native from southeast Europe to Japan.

It acts principally on the digestive and nervous systems, easing flatulence, stomach cramps, colic and indigestion. * Sweet basil has been used for thousands of years as a culinary and medicinal herb.

One of the best for pies. Ripens late September to mid-October. Tender, crisp and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor. A beautiful, bright red, medium size.

* 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. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China.

Includes 1 each of Himrod, Canadice and New Venus.

Plants ripen in late June to early July depending on location. Late setting blossoms help against freezes. Produces heavy crops, up to 15 pounds per plant! Medium sized berries are very firm and sweet.

* A perennial grass, to 3', with erect stems and leaves, very narrow; flowers and seedheads lax; native to Eurasia. * Stipa capillata is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae , native to Europe and Asia .

* Many Welsh onions can multiply by forming perennial evergreen clumps. * 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.

This red and black raspberry collection includes 3 each of Thornless Canby and Black Hawk raspberries.