Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Chicoutimi Jonquiere

Use powdered for sauces, soups, stews. Heat: 15,000-30,000 Scoville units. Cayenne type, 5-7cm/2-3” long, 5-7mm across.

The roots are tonic, diuretic and diaphoretic. Tea made from the roots is said to improve male potency and promote muscular development. Grows throughout eastern and central North America but is endangered in Ontario due to habitat loss.

Teff is an important food grain in Ethiopia where it is used to make injera. Can be planted direct in the garden in late May in same manner as alfalfa. While it contains glutin, the glutin is not of the type that causes celiac disease.

Still a reliable producer today. Fruits are dark green maturing to red. It quickly became popular among growers because of its improved resistance to tobacco mosaic virus and because its extra bushy foliage helps protect fruits from scalding caused by...

Good summer green performing best in hot weather. Tender green leaves. Succulent leaves are popular in France for salads, cooked greens or in soups. Much improved over its wild relative.

(Couve tronchuda; Portuguese kale)

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

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.

Cultivated in India and China since remote times for the oil used in cooking, medicine and as fuel for lamps. Needs long growing season; sow early in peat pots. Excellent addition to green salads, and very palatable with butter.

Matures into a deep orange-chocolate colour. Thrives in hot sunny spots, a little on the dry side. Wrinkled lantern-shaped pods are used fresh or dried in salsas, chutneys, marinades.

Chia Seeds A popular component of the health food game, Chia seeds are consumed raw, made into flour, soaked in juices and teas, and added to smoothies. An excellent source of protein and Omega 3s (and simply delightful when grown as a pet) there's not...

Indeed, this is one very impressive herb native to England. Ht 18in (45cm). They are fragrant, and may even draw a hummingbird or two to your garden. A fine selection for flower beds, borders and containers.

Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat. Improved strain for commercial production. Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes. The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like...

Seeds are used to promote urination and to clear heat. Specially noted for correcting eye problems caused by deficient liver and kidneys (such as dry eyes or cataracts) or excess heat in the liver channel (such as red, painful, swollen eyes).

Wagner of the University of Munich, the leading European research group working on echinacea, suggest that is the correct name for the plant commonly traded in Europe as . The taller (1m/40”) and the paler of the two, and may, in fact, be the more important...

Forms dense globular little bushes 50-70cm/20-28” across so perfectly uniform they look pruned. Good spicy flavour. A spectacular refinement of bush basil from Italy where the variety is known as (“very fine green, like a ball or globe”).

Cinnamon-scented leaves are popular in Japan for flavouring raw fish, bean curd, pickles and tempura. (Aoshiso) Decorative green foliage reminiscent of coleus. Before sowing, chill sees at 5°C (40°F) for 3 days in moist sand.

Excellent in dried arrangements. Water trapped in leaf basins is valued as an eyewash. Comb-like flowerheads were once used for raising nap on woolen cloth.

Horehound Seeds

Also excellent as an autumn decoration and sells well at farmers markets. Old timers still call it "squaw corn" and remember making a porridge out of it during the cold winter months.

It has a slightly mucilaginous texture that may take some getting used to but millions will tell you it is well worth it. Leaves are minced and cooked with coriander and garlic and served as a puree on rice with chicken, rabbit, lamb or fish.

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

The leaves and flowers have a hot watercress flavour and are great in salads; and the young seed pods are hotter and can be pickled and used like capers. Here is a flower-herb-veggie that cuts across the genres, with its white-flecked leaves and showy...

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 young leaves can be cooked like spinach.

Use it like parsley and surprise your guests with its rich celery flavour and aroma. More compact than other leaf celeries, reaching only 25-50cm (10-20") in height. A very nice leaf celery with finely cut, dark green glossy leaves.

Used by Amerindians as a purgative, emetic, and anti-inflammatory. Under study as a potential booster of the immune system. Showy American native with blue-violet flower spikes and majestic, upright growth habit.