Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Kentucky

* The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * High in Vitamins! * This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable. * The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days.

* 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 BC. They can also be sprouted and used in salads.

The flowers, which superficially resemble dandelions , appear in early spring before dandelions appear. Tussilago is often found in colonies of dozens of plants. * Bright yellow 3/4" flowers on foot-long stalks before the leaves appear, in very early...

* Due to its purported effects on fertility, maca has experienced a major gain of commercial interest, as well as research, in the last few decades. In the 1990s, a quick expansion of cultivated land with maca was seen.

* In warmer areas, garlic chives may remain green all year round. * The leaves are available from early spring until late in the autumn. * In China, they are often used to make dumplings with a combination of egg, shrimp and pork.

* A refreshing tea can be made from the leaves - it is high in vitamin C. * It is a deciduous shrub growing to 0.5–3 m tall, with prickly shoots. * The fruit is used raw or cooked in pies, jams etc.

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

It also grows on damper ground . It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small Scabious and Field scabious have 5 lobes and hence it has been placed in a separate genus in the same family .

* The leaves are mucilaginous and fairly bland, we use them in bulk in summer salads. * A perennial with striking pink or white five-petaled 2" flowers in summer; often a weed, but a very pretty one; likes sun, grows in grassy places, especially on limestone,...

* A pleasant lemon-like aroma and flavour, they are used mainly as a flavouring in salads and cooked foods. * A perennial mint with lemon-scented foliage and clusters of small white flowers in whorls in the leaf axils; the leaves are used in cooking--teas,...

* 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. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer.

The flowers, which superficially resemble dandelions , appear in early spring before dandelions appear. Tussilago is often found in colonies of dozens of plants. * Bright yellow 3/4" flowers on foot-long stalks before the leaves appear, in very early...

Chicory-root is free of harmful ingredients, and is essentially a concentrated combination of three sugars (pentose, levulose and dextrose) along with taraxarcine (the bitter principle of dandelion).

Golden summer turns deeper yellow as it matures. This squash is very tender and full of flavor. They are best harvested when 8" long. It is one of the earliest producing crookneck squash on the market that produces all summer long.

The seed can take 4 weeks or more to germinate. The fruits are used as a tooth cleaner. Small but delicious, up to 20mm in diameter. Tolerates semi-shade though fruit production will be reduced when plants grow in such a position.

They are also medicinal. It is a dioecious, perennial, herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to a cold-hardy rhizome in autumn. * The dried flowering heads of female plants are used as a flavouring and preservative...

* 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 .

* In warmer areas, garlic chives may remain green all year round. * The leaves are available from early spring until late in the autumn. * In China, they are often used to make dumplings with a combination of egg, shrimp and pork.

When used in salads, they are rather bitter, though less so in the winter. 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.

It has green arrowhead-shaped leaves and red-tinted deeply ridged stems, and it sprouts from an aggressive rhizome . Female flowers are maroon in color. The other herbs included in the formula are Arctium lappa, Ulmus rubra and Rheum palmatum.

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. * These curiosities are well worth growing, if only for the conversation factor! * The buds...

* 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 an annual plant (rarely biennial ), which grows to a height of up to 30 cm. 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 at the base of the plant...

And up to 300 lbs. * Hybrid cucurbit varieties such as Big Max are not true pumpkins, but instead "squash-type pumpkins". * The variety was hybridized for its size during the early 1960s.

* In Europe it was believed that the plant could cure alcoholism . * The stalks can be eaten like celery and the flavor is similar. * Plants are reliably perennial if they are prevented from setting seed.

* A refreshing tea can be made from the leaves - it is high in vitamin C. * It is a deciduous shrub growing to 0.5–3 m tall, with prickly shoots. * The fruit is used raw or cooked in pies, jams etc.

Young fruit can be eaten as a vegetable while ripe fruits can be use to make bath sponges. It is native to northern Africa. They may also be grown as an ornamental plant . Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete...