Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Maryland

Leaves and young shoots - cooked. Start seeds indoors and transplant outside when danger of frost is past. Use the young pods before they mature for best flavor. They have a flavour similar to mushrooms when sauteed.

Sow the seed as soon as the soil temperatures are bove 40 degrees F. * It preferes cool growing temperatures and will tolerate some shade. This variety was the All America Selection Winner in 1949.

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.

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. A pleasant mild flavour, with a similar texture to the leaves, they make a pleasant and pretty addition to the salad bowl.

* 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.

The species status in the New World is uncertain: it is generally considered an exotic weed; however, there is evidence that the species was in Crawford Lake deposits ( Ontario ) in 1430-89, suggesting that it reached North America in the pre-Columbian...

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * Other reports say that they contain 'estevin' a substance that, weight for weight, is 150 times sweeter than sugar.

* An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely pink or white) flowers resembling scabiosa; likes moist, peaty soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, north Africa, east to...

It has green arrowhead-shaped leaves and red-tinted deeply ridged stems, and it sprouts from an aggressive rhizome . The plant and its subspecies are common perennial weeds . The flowers emerge from a tall, upright stem.

* The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days. * High in Vitamins! * Purple Top White Globe Turnip is an outstanding Heirloom variety.

Great for slicing and fresh eating! * Also make very good fried onion rings and can be used in cooking where a mild onion flavor is desired. To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed...

* The leaves are mucilaginous and fairly bland, we use them in bulk in summer salads. 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...

It grows in wet soils . A herb tea is made from thefresh or dried leaves. * Mentha spicata ( Spear Mint or Spearmint ) is a species of mint native to much of Europe and southwest Asia , though its exact natural range is uncertain due to extensive early...

Used as a potherb. * The root is eaten raw or cooked. They include western goat's beard, wild oysterplant, yellow salsify, yellow goat's beard, meadow goat's beard, goat's beard, goatsbeard, common salsify, or salsify.

* Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. The plant is noted for its effectiveness in treating catarrhal problems of many kinds and has also been used successfully in treating diarrhoea, haemorrhoids and infantile cholera.

The leaves are often blanched by excluding light, either by removing all the leaves and then earthing up the new growth, or by covering the plant with a bucket or something similar.

* From ancient times the lotus has been a divine symbol in Asian traditions representing the virtues of sexual purity and non-attachment. * The plant has a folk history in the treatment of cancer, modern research has isolated certain compounds from the...

Lupulus is the main ingredient of many beers, and as such is widely cultivated for use by the brewing industry. 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...

It is cultivated worldwide as a semi-arid crop, and its seeds are a common ingredient in dishes from the Indian Subcontinent. The seeds are very nourishing and are given to convalescents and to encourage weight gain, especially in anorexia nervosa.

* Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe . In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu".

Peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns . The flowers are white, with a five-lobed corolla 10–15 mm across, with an inflated basal calyx which...

* Plants typically form a low foliage mound from 6-9" tall on procumbent stems which spread along the ground to 3' wide. * Plants resent root disturbance so the seed is best sown in situ in April.

The leaves are strongly flavoured and are used less often, either as a flavouring in soups and stews or as a dried herb. The leaves are pinnate to bipinnate with rhombic leaflets 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad.

* Maca grows at high altitudes in the Andes is an inhospitable region of intense sunlight, violent winds and below freezing weather. * Due to its purported effects on fertility, maca has experienced a major gain of commercial interest, as well as research,...

Includes 1 each of Reliance, Mars, Marquis, Himrod and Concord grapes.

This plant, with showy summer-blooming white flowers, is often used as a honey plant, medicinal plant, and garden ornamental. Each cluster is about 1.5 in (4 cm) long, containing about 20–50 flowers.

They grow 4-5' high and differ primarily in their ripening season. (Neutral soils can be made acid by application of acid peat or sulphur.) For better pollination we suggest you plant at least two varieties.