Farm Seed Seeds For Sale In El Monte

Sow direct in the garden in spring. Like the green variety, the leaves are best used when young when they are sweet and slightly tangy. The brilliant red leaves are cooked like spinach to make Jamaican and Guyanese-style callaloo, a traditional dish that...

Chinese medicinal herb noted for strengthening the spleen and building energy. Animal studies suggest it strengthens endurance. Also used as a diuretic and to reduce excessive sweating.

Was prescribed for chronic nervousness and kidney and bladder disease. In the 16th and 17th centuries the candied roots, called “kissing comforts,” were considered aphrodisiac, and were given, with all due discretion, to older people suffering from...

Darkest of the purple basils. Height 50cm/20”. Leaves somewhat smaller than Rubin basil and less prone to lean.

They keep up to six months! Start seeds in March. (Horned melon) Quite unlike other cucumbers, this one has small orange spiny fruits, 8-13cm/3-5” long, possessing a subtle banana-lime flavour.

Deer and livestock can feed all winter on the roots. Deer and cattle will graze on the foliage in the fall and the roots throughout the winter.Sowing mid summer through early fall is best for winter grazing.

Broccoli-like vegetable from China. Start indoors in April or sow direct after last frost. Flowering stalks, young leaves and buds are delicious steamed, boiled or fried with other vegetables, meat or on its own.

Infusion used for sore gums. Leaves and seeds increase inebriating quality of liquors when added during fermentation. Fine border plant. Floral bracts are intensely coloured purple or pink.

Attractive white lacy flowers are excellent for fresh floral arrangements. (Bishopsweed) Known to the ancient Egyptians as a treatment for skin diseases this humble wild plant of the Nile valley was recently catapulted to the forefront of modern cancer...

Variety commonly sold as peppermint or spearmint. Useful for tea, for medicinal purposes. Flavour and odour is pungent, not sweet like the true root-propagated strains.

Elite variety for commericial production, rich in proazulene, a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. High yielding variety for medicinal use. The proazulene add a distinctive blue colour to the essential oil.

Be careful not to overwater. Ht 18in (45cm). Apricot sprite won the 2000 “Fleuroselect Quality Award” for novelty, as it produces wonderful flower spikes perfect for cutting and arranging.

The famous dessert melon of the tropics. Dwarf variety 75cm/30”. Both the fruits and leaves are high in papain, an enzyme that aids digestion and is used in meat tenderizer.

Bush type cowpea producing heavy yields of purple pods. Tends to stay off the ground and cluster making for easy picking. Referred to as a “Knuckle Hull” because of the big, plump peas.

Like spinach, the leaves can be eaten fresh or cooked. These "berries" are quite edible, and the taste is a bit like mulberries. Best sown directly in the garden in spring. Ht. 40-50cm/16-20".

Prefers moist conditions but will tolerate a wide range of soils. It is a bitter tonic and alterative useful for menstrual disorders and fevers. (New York ironweed) Tall native flower with masses of deep purple fluffy flowers.

Egg-shaped squash with flesh that really does look like spaghetti. Melons keep for 1-2 months. Delicious served hot with spaghetti sauce, cheese or butter, or chilled in salads.

Eyewash is reputed to strengthen weak eyes. Striking brilliant blue blossoms, infused in water, have both curative and calming action for nervous disorders.

An enormous flower that blooms at night. The moon flower is a vigorous, easy to grow flower that grows up a vine upwards of 15 feet if given support. Its large 5-6″ pure white blooms open at night to release its spectacular perfume.

(Yellow sweet clover) Important forage crop. Salve or poultice is useful for swellings, boils, arthritis and rheumatism. Medicinally, it prevents blood clotting.

In short this is one amazing medicinal herb! Easy to grow annual and easy to use. In China and India the plant is commonly used to treat a wide range of infections such as gastrointestinal complaints, hepatitis, herpes, and throat infections.

Shrub or small tree. Eaten fresh, or in jellies, preserves and pastes. Rich source of vitamins A, B and C. Bears sweet; juicy, highly flavoured fruits, in a fine balance between acid, sugar and pectin.

A sun-lover, this perennial flower has 20″ inch spikes of bright pink on bushy stems. Blooms heavily in early summer, repeating till fall.

In South India, poppy seed milk is used to prepare delicious recipe famous as couscous payasam with added milk, coconut milk, cardamom, raisins, and sugar. Other essential ingredients – Poppy seeds also offer many elements, which include thiamine, riboflavin,...

Added to a bath, it can help ease sunburns, and yeast or fungal conditions. Height 40in (101cm); Spread 18in (45cm) Medicinally, anise-hyssop has been used to treat a variety of ailments.

Suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden. This variety has medium pink flowers and grows to five feet tall.

Crimson clover fixes up to 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre, and prefers well-drained, loam soils with good organic matter content for best results. Easier to incorporate in the spring than Hairy Vetch.