Farm Seed Seeds For Sale In Houston

Great for garlic beds and other vegetables. Oats will kill off winter weeds and hold soil with a mat of vegetation! A high yielding oat that can produce over 100 bushels per acre. Quick growing green manure.

Traditionally used in all spring soups and salads. Luscious green leaves have special subtle flavour. Can improve every dish in which parsley is used. Curled leaves make a handsome garnish.

(Couve tronchuda; Portuguese kale)

Locate in full sun to part shade. Erupting like flames,” is how the breeder describes it. Flowers may be brewed into a tea, and aromatic leaves can be dried for potpourri. They are fragrant, and may even draw a hummingbird or two to your garden.

Flower clusters can be steamed like broccoli or fried in egg batter with mozzarella cheese. Interesting Mexican vegetable green. Young leaves are mild spinach substitute: beneficial for those who must avoid the calcium-sequestering oxalic acid in spinach.

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

Evidence indicates it has been consumed by humans as far back as 7,500 BC. (Chiltepin; Bird pepper) Small pea-sized red pepper thought to be the ancestor of the cultivated peppers.

Thrives in shady, damp places. A tea made from the herb is recommended as part of the fresh vegetable juice diet devised to combat cancer by Rudolf Breuss. Attractive lacy foliage topped by clusters of small purple flowers.

Pearl Millet is a very tall grass that can reach 15 feet. Multiple cut forage grass and green manure. Well adapted to low soil moisture, low fertility, and high temperatures. High in protein, digestible, and free of prussic acid.

Few plants grow as rapidly as these colorful cosmos. Proven tops for performance and adaptability. Attracts Butterflies. A wonderful for cutting and bringing inside. Fewer flowers offer the gracefulness of Cosmo Bright Lights.

Set against its soft aromatic fern-like green leaves are masses of bright blue lavender flowers. Lovely ornamental lavender grown as an annual in flowerbeds, planters, and baskets.

The name translates as "little beak" in reference to the small pointy ends at the bottom of the fruits. These teardrop-shaped peppers from Brazil are the cutest little things, less than an inch in size.

It has antioxidant, antimicrobial, antimalarial, antifungal, insecticidal and wound healing properties. Ht. 1-1.5m/3-5ft. Used to alleviate stomach ache, diarrhea and for colds and cough.

For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Dark green leaves, bushy habit, and slow to bolt. Excellent for dillweed production. Finely cut foliage.

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

Good tonic during convalescence. White-pink flowers resemble turtle heads. (Balmony; Bitter herb) Used for poor appetite, indigestion, general debility, constipation, piles, worms.

The seeds are a typical blackeye type of Southern peas with cream-colored seed coats and black pigments around the eyes. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. Bred by the UCLA and released in 1987.

Alamo originates from Live Oak County, Texas. Switchgrass is a rhizomatous, warm-season bunchgrass that is native throughout most of the U.S. It is a major component of the Tallgrass Prairie ecosystem.

Neat bush habit. Purple, pink and white, clover-like flowers.

Useful for skin diseases, including eczema. Roots of this common wildplant are said to have “blood-purifying” properties. Recent medical evidence supports folkloric use for tumours.

From Papua and New Guinea but widely cultivated throughout the tropics. Needs a warm, sunny location, moist soil, and a trellis to climb on. Not well known to gardeners because traditional varieties fail to produce before the frosts arrive in autumn;...

Large yellow flowers. Fern-like leaves; height up to 1.5m/5ft.

Excellent as cutflowers in floral arrangements and bouquets. Airy masses of small white flowers (50% doubles) in summer.

Does well in most climates. Adapted to hot humid climates. If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. Pods average 6-7 ” long, and are silver colored, occasionally streaked with rose.

Indeed, the Royal Horticultural Society has honoured it with an Award of Garden Merit, and it is an excellent as a cut or dried flower. Creamy white flowers set against a backdrop of green foliage makes this a very attractive ornamental herb for the garden.