Farm Seed Seeds For Sale In New Brunswick

Stems can be cooked like asparagus. (Chinese spinach; Hinn choy) Young leaves are eaten either cooked or raw like spinach, but contain more calcium and iron. Very tender with distinctive bittersweet flavour.

Valuable for all chest complaints, including pleurisy. (Butterfly weed) Bright orange-red flowers are worthy of attention as an ornamental. Roots act specifically on the lungs as an expectorant and anti-inflammatory.

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

Excellent cutflower. Ht. 70-80cm/28-32. Impressive new series from Germany with abundant large flowers, 10-12cm/4-5 across. Attracts butterflies. Good heat and drought tolerance.

It is earlier to flower and more uniform than the standard form. Ht. 100-125cm (40-50in). (Honeyplant) Commercial variety for the cutflower market. Flowers look like white umbrellas mounted on strong, straight stems.

Ht. 40-45cm/16-18”. Impressive French stoechas lavender with elongated wing-like magenta petals extending from dark bracts on slender stalks. The effect is striking, as if masses of butterflies have gathered in the garden.

Grows in coastal areas from northern California to southern B.C. Excellent for moxa, and as such it is decidedly less harsh than the common mugwort, . (Coastal wormwood; San Juan mugwort) Beautiful silvery-green mugwort with a pleasant sage scent.

Gumplant produces a resin that protects the flower heads while they are in bud. (Gumweed; Rosinweed) Native to North America but underutilized by gardeners, gumplant is a short-lived perennial with large, toothed leaves and daisy-like yellow flowers on...

Roasting directions included with each order. Coffee substitute costing pennies a pound. Large roots, roasted and ground, can be adulterated with your favourite brand or enjoyed alone as a nourishing caffeine-free drink.

Requires cold stratification for 1-2 months to break seed dormancy. Roots contain medicinal constituents similar to those found in . Ht. 75cm/30”. Prairie native of the Missouri and Arkansas Ozark regions.

Important diuretic herb in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for urinary problems, kidney and lower back pains and as an aphrodisiac. (Puncturevine) This low growing vine likes moist, sandy soils.

15,000 seeds/lb. Tolerant of dry conditions. For maximum benefit terminate crop at first flowering, prior to developing fibrous, hard-to-manage stalks. Sunn Hemp is a fast-growing legume that produces significant quantities of biomass and fixes nitrogen...

The growth is uniform, dark green in colour, and the leaves are bigger than the original. A new improved form of Gigante d'Italia, the old favourite of Italy. It also has shown to have some resistance to downy mildew.

Superb variety, excellent for Vietnamese and Thai cooking. Strongest scent and flavour of all the Thai basils.

Highly useful during convalescence. Traditional European panacea for many complaints including lack of appetite, sluggish digestion and stomach disturbances.

Leaves used by Hopi Indians to flavour wild game. Attractive native of the American southwest with pink-purple flowers. Young foliage is strongly lemon-scented and excellent in tea.

Strong powdery mildew tolerance. Improved plainleaf variety with dark green flat leaves and upright growth habit.

Edible and highly ornamental. (Rubra) Red-stemmed variety.

Leaves are dark green, medium fine curled. Very uniform mosscurled type suited for fresh-cut and processing use. Suited also for potplant production. Medium late maturity.

Delicious stuffed like bell peppers with meat and rice and baked. (Vegetable gourd) Small 8cm/3in melons taste like a sweet winter squash.

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

Sow direct in pots. (Chinese parsley) First true cilantro developed for potted plant production.

Common weed in lawns and in pathways. Also helpful for bladder problems and ulcers. Used externally for skin problems, including ringworm, shingles, and varicose ulcers. Familiar broad leaves have astringent, diuretic and expectorant properties.

Although it is somewhat bothered by insects and disease, it is tough and will come back over and over. It has naturalized and grows wild in some Canadian provinces and central and Eastern U.S. states, preferring hillsides and rocky locales.

Dimpled Brown Crowder Cowpea is a prolific yielder with pods that contain 12-15 peas, closely bunched together. Excellent cowpea for canning, freezing or drying. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation.

Scarlet, white or blue flowers close when bad weather is imminent, hence the name Weatherglass. Reputation for treating depression, melancholy, and allied mental disorders.