Farm Seed Seeds For Sale In Escondido

(Emperor´s candle; Ringworm tree; Candletree; Kagayima) A beautiful South American shrub or small tree that thrives in the southern U.S. where it is cultivated as an ornamental. In Africa the plant is widely cultivated as a medicinal plant used to treat...

Petite woolly rosettes of leaves resemble a cat's foot. Lovely in rock gardens. Improves the appetite by stimulating bile flow, gastric juices and pancreatic secretions.

The oil from the seeds is used to treat leprosy and skin diseases, and the leaves are used in poultices to treat wounds. Extracts are widely employed in medicinal lotions, shampoos, soaps, creams, hair tonics, gargles, and toothpaste.

Enjoy in a spring salad, or cooked like spinach. Treat as a biennial -- sow one year, pick the next. This strain of the lowly dandelion boasts tender fleshy leaves, topping all other fruits and vegetables for iron content.

Also in soups, salads and stews. Fennel tea is given to infants for its calming and anti-flatulent effects. Chopped leaves are excellent with oily fish, such as mackerel, eel and salmon, for they improve digestibility.

Sideoats Grama is a warm-season bunchgrass that is native throughout much of North America. The ornamental and distinctive seed spikes hang from only one side of the stalk, and these make good fresh or dried cuttings.

Yellow flowers bear bladder-like pods which when squeezed go off with a bang. Like true senna ( spp.), its leaves have purgative properties, but the effect is much less drastic. Attractive hardy Mediterranean shrub.

(Sticky Oak Goosefoot) Ambrosia is distinguishable by its small oakleaf-shaped, sticky and oily, light green leaves that grow along hairy stems. Height 24-36in (60-90cm) The plant produces garlands of small flowers.

Finally, here is a lemon catnip that truly smells of lemons. What a wonderful way to sip tea before bedtime to help you sleep! For years we have carried ‘Lemon Catnip' and while it had a perceptable hint of lemon, it never quite lived up to its name.

(Termite plant; Babantsi; Bio-diesel plant) Impressive-looking small tree cultivated as an ornamental throughout Africa. Seeds and leaves have a strong purgative action and poisonous if used internally.

(Huang shu kui; Yellow sichuan mallow)

Improved strain for commercial production. Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes. Contains up to 2.5% essential oil; yields up to 3 tonnes/ha (1.2 ton/acre). The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and...

Fascinating as a specimen plant or where grown for therapeutic use. Henbane has been used as an instrument of assassination and murder since antiquity, most famously in Shakespeare's play Hamlet: “Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,/with juice of cursed...

One of the four ingredients of the Essiac anti-cancer remedy. Although leaves are small and time-consuming to gather, they are delicious to eat. Traditionally used for fevers, inflammation, diarrhea, excessive menstruation and cancer.

Thrives in dry, poor soils. Infusion of leaves is helpful for fevers, headaches and nervous complaints. (Blueweed) Bristly native of Europe with brilliant blue flowers from June til frost.

Climber with strong vines up to 2m/6ft high; for trellises, fences or poles. They have unusually high vitamin C content. Spicy fragrance and gorgeous mix of colours. Young leaves make a pleasant pepper substitute in pepper-restricted diets.

Used for tea and for flavouring meat. Frequently seen along roadsides in eastern Canada and U.S. Lavender flowers; strong fragrance.

In Egypt, the oil expressed from the seeds is said to be an aphrodisiac. Seeds possess hallucinogenic alkaloids. Source of the famous dye “Turkish Red”, a characteristic colour of Persian carpets.

Can be cut several times before the bolt and need to be reseeded. Unlike some other fresh greens, the curled leaves don't easily fall flat in tossed salads. Sow every 10-25 days from early spring to early fall.

Large tropical-looking foliage. Has large maroon leaves, red stems, and spiky red seedpods. Can reach as high as 150cm/60in. A showy form of the venerable castor bean long used in medicine.

For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. All America Winner for 1992. Excellent for dillweed production and potted plants. Unique dwarf plants (45cm/18in); dark green leaves.

Effective laxative much in use by American herbalists. Usually taken in combination with with coriander to prevent cramps. Also used to expel worms and for fevers. Ht. 1-1.8 m/3-6 ft.

(Isphaghula; Blond psyllium) Important remedy for constipation and problems of the bowel, including irritable bowel syndrome. The mucilaginous seed coats lubricate and cleanse the intestines, acting as a mild laxative.

This variety is heavy cropping, bearing white fruit all season long on runnerless plants. Berries are very sweet, with a faint pineapple tang, excellent for eating fresh out of hand, or for use in jams.

When covered in orange and red fruits, the plants can be very pretty for the patio. The name translates as "little beak" in reference to the small pointy ends at the bottom of the fruits.

(Jue-ming-zi) Excellent laxative: safe and effective for chronic constipation. Promotes clear vision, and relieves swelling, soreness and redness of the eyes caused by liver inflammation.

Requires full sun and well drained, sandy loam. Has higher total saponins, including the various forms of ephedrine. It is taller and woodier than . Native of dry, rocky regions of Central Asia, Tibet, China and Mongolia.