Farm Seed Seeds For Sale In Simi Valley

Seed early spring for a spring-through-summer cover crop or late summer through fall for winter cover/mulch. Can be a source of revenue for market farmers.http://www.johnnyseeds.com/farm-seed/cover-crop-mixes/peas-and-oats-mix-organic-cover-crop-seed-3685G.32.htmlThis...

(Cancerweed) Attractive purple-blue flowers and cleft, dandelion-like leaves. An American folk remedy for cancer, hence its alias "cancerweed." Indians used the roots for sores, and the tea has been used for colds, coughs, nervous conditions.

Protein content is higher than that of wheat, rice, and corn.High in the essential amino acid, lysine, which is generally low in other grains. Ancient Aztec food grain. Can be milled into flour.

Set against its soft aromatic fern-like green leaves are masses of bright blue lavender flowers. Blooms all summer. Ht. 50-60cm/20-24. Lovely ornamental lavender grown as an annual in flowerbeds, planters, and baskets.

Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens. -- Richters special mesclun contains Kagraner lettuce, red leaf lettuce, roquette, radicchio, cornsalad, borage, mizuna, mustard spinach, chervil and curled cress.

Soothing tisanes to collect the spirit. Anise-Hyssop, Lemon Balm, Chamomile, Menthol Mint and Bergamot.

Well known as a grain, cover crop and beeplant; not so well known is its medicinal value. The infusion made from the flowering tops is high in rutin which combats arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries and veins).

Juice was used in early times to execute criminals. In the fresh state all parts are very poisonous. Under proper directions it is a useful sedative for cases of nervous motor disturbances.

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

Root tincture made with brandy strengthens the human system, particularly in cases of weak digestion and lack of appetite. Famous European alpine herb unrivalled as a bitter tonic.

In the south they may need a little shade. The clove-scented flowers are edible, and can be added to salad, fish dishes, tea, marmalade and sorbet. Deadheading will keep them blooming, and they are wonderful cut flowers, lasting for days in water.

(Huang shu kui; Yellow sichuan mallow)

Old garden favourite. Sweet-scented, deep violet flowers are candied as decoration for puddings, cakes and ice cream. Important source of perfume.

The Navajo and Oglala tribes made a pleasant beverage tea from the leaves and the Comanche, Lokota and Ponca chewed the sweet tasting roots like candy. Beautiful prairie wildflower used by American Indians.

The small and thin fruits, about 5cm/2" long, can be picked green or red. Good tolerance to phytophthora, tobacco mosaic virus, and bacterial wilt. A very hot and prolific, early maturing bird pepper developed in Vietnam for the commercial production...

Large lavender flowers dry to a beautiful, silvery-white.

What happens is the mouth goes numb briefly, followed by an intense cooling sensation. There is hint of a bitter, grassy flavor but that is really secondary to the sensation. This European variety has bright gold button flowers with red "eyes" that look...

The flowers are unusually long lasting, and if flowers are dead-headed, the flowers will just keep coming right up until frost. Fresh flower petals are excellent in salads and can be used to make medicinal creams.

We offer high quality stratified seeds. It has become extinct in many areas and is now cultivated to a large extent in British Columbia, Ontario and Wisconsin. Until the ground freezes.

Butterhead type with loosely folded, succulent, dark green leaves. Our favourite because it is slow to bolt in summer.

Perfect for meadow or butterfly gardens, the whole plant is fragrant. It produces yellow, gold and green dyes with very good fastness and contains tannins, making it appropriate for treating leathers.

This charming variety has white flowers with rose to crimson markings. Suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden.

Easier to incorporate in the spring than Hairy Vetch. Where winter is above -10°F (-23.3°C), it is sown in late summer, is dormant in winter, resumes growth in spring, and flowers in May.

Amerindian herb, used as a general tonic, emetic, diuretic, and for coughs, asthma and gonorrhea.

It gets quite tall, up to 2m/6ft high, but then it produces long green tassels that swoop down for a striking tropical effect in the garden. The tassels produce buckets of seeds that can popped like popcorn or ground into flour.

A fast growing, cool-season annual legume, Secada peas perform very well during the fall, winter, and spring in Southern states. In more northern climes, an early spring plant will give high dry matter yields of excellent forage.