Herb Plants Vegetable Plants For Sale In Pittsburgh

(Lesser calamint) A regional favourite in Tuscany where it is added to mushroom dishes and green vegetables for its distinctive minty flavour. Sauteed zucchini or mushrooms with fresh nepitella, tomatoes, and garlic is served with roast or boiled meat...

Attractive tufted low growing herb with small, silvery fern-like leaves. Used for stomachache and in vermouth.

Outstanding prolific, heavy bearing variety that often will produce two crops a season. The fruits are small to medium in size and the flesh is a luscious red colour and very sweet.

Strong peppermint scent; robust upright habit.

Ht. 60cm/24”. Developed at Folgate Nursery in England before 1924. Well suited for gardens and borders, and for cutting and drying. Neat compact variety with dark mauve, mildly scented flowers on long spikes.

Recommended for fevers and gout. Berries are eaten raw, or in preserves and pies. Edible berries are borne inside fascinating orange chinese lantern-like calyces.

Orange-scented. Compact, showy plant.

Its oil is the major ingredient in some plant-based insect repellents, and a scattering of the leaves crushed or whole repels cockroaches and silver fish around the house. For a tree, it is extremely fast growing, but can be kept as an annual bedding...

Ht. 25-30cm/10-12in. This cultivar is also known (incorrectly) as ´Golden King´. Lovely gold-dappled pillow-like mats of sweet lemon-scented foliage covered in purple-pink flowers in June and July.

Currently under evaluation in Michigan for commercial use. Yields are high, more than 2 tonnes per hectare; but yields can be hurt by mildew if not controlled. The aroma is fruity, blackberry-like.

Grows 20-30cm/8-12”; grass-like foliage. Prefers full or partial sun in wet soil or in water garden. Used in Thai cooking, and deserving of experimentation wherever a new flavour twist is desired.

The aroma is spicy, pine-resiny, with grapefruit notes. Cross between Peltham Golding and 63012M. Popular with both craft and major brewers -- a real “workhorse” hop. Super alpha hybrid variety with high vigour and yield.

Excellent beeplant. Leaves possess a wonderful menthol fragrance; may be used just like peppermint. Hardy U.S. native.

10,000-23,000 Scoville units. This unusual chile is actually quite edible and hot. It is perhaps not for everybody, but if you are growing this in your garden for all to see, it does help to have a healthy dose of humour.

It is also known as “Bugbane” because it repels insects. Sow into fertile, moist, acidic soil. Prefers full to part shade, out of direct sunlight. Roots are typically harvested 3-5 years after seeding to use for medicinal purposes.

The scent is light and flowery and has little of the camphor notes found in other lavandins. Widely used in soaps and in aromatherapy. The oil yield lower than other lavandins but the quality is much higher.

Lovely house plant. Essential oil is used for fragrance. Fragrant white flowers and leaves are used in potpourri. Classic evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean. Spicy leaves can be used in cooking like bay leaf.

Flowers and leaves in combination with mordants yield yellow, gold, tan, grey and taupe dyes. Seeds can be slow to germinate. Also useful in herbal smoking mixtures designed for the relief of asthma and bronchitis.

Pleasant scent, though not convincingly of coconut. Attractive creeper.

Purple fruits are large, the size of tangerines, and the flesh is dark and very sweet. It produces its first abundant crop at an early age. It was first discovered in Olympia, in Washington State.

Produces crops in summer and fall. The striking, almost black fruits have a red flesh that has intense rich flavour! A-fig-cionados say that this variety is one of the very best. Named after a town in the Bordeaux region of France where this variety is...

Ht. 90-180cm/3-6ft. ‘Dagga' is a local name for marijuana in southern Africa, hence the name ‘wild dagga' . It is used like marijuana by Hottentot tribesmen as the resinous tops and leaves have an euphoriant effect.

Produces crops in summer and fall. Either way, this is one wonderful fig. By one account this fig was brought to the U.S. by an Italian sailor who named it after his wife. Large green-yellow figs with beautiful sweet purplish-red flesh.

Indians dyed their bodies and clothes with bloodroot. Important dyeplant: roots yield red-orange colour for dyeing wool. Conspicuous white flowers, 5cm/2” across, appear in early spring.

The shrub is incredibly versatile, growing happily everywhere from northern Quebec to sub-tropical America. Very hardy, very adaptable. This is the hardy native form grown from seeds collected in southern Ontario.

Leaf oil is highly antiseptic due to thymol content which explains its use as a gargle, dressing for wounds and treatment for conjunctivitis. Popular general tonic and remedy for diarrhea, and used to repel insects.