Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Washington

The protein is exceptionally well balanced among all the essential amino acids required by humans. Try teff in your favourite breads, cookies, cakes, stir fry dishes, casseroles, soups, and stews.

The infusion made from the pink flowers or leaves is used externally to moisturize and tone the skin and internally to soothe mucous membranes irritated and inflamed by coughs, stomach upsets and other intestinal problems.

Like regular lemon balm, the fresh leaves give a burst of lemon when they are squeezed. A much-loved lemon-scented herb gets a makeover with beautiful gold-infused leaves! The gold is most pronounced in spring and fades to green in summer.

The completely white beets won't ever stain your clothes or your tablecloth! This heirloom beet from Holland has a delicious, sweet flavour. Something different to try in the garden.

Fresh leaves used as a poultice for inflammations, ulcers, abscesses. Can be invasive. A decoction is used to treat constipation. Fresh leaves are eaten as a delicacy in salads or cooked like spinach.

Fiery chile from Trinidad. Heat: 100,000-350,000 Scoville units. Wrinkled lantern-shaped pods are used fresh or dried in salsas, chutneys, marinades. Matures into a deep orange-chocolate colour.

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

Gayfeather is easily grown from seed, blooming in the second year. Tuberous roots make a soothing tea valuable in kidney diseases or as a gargle for sore throats. (Blazing Star) Shooting bolt upright out of the garden bed, gayfeather is a bold statement...

The flowers are unusually long lasting, and if flowers are dead-headed, the flowers will just keep coming right up until frost. Ht. 20-30cm/8-12in. (Pot marigold) Compact variety with bicolored flowers ranging from pale creamy orange to deep gold.

Best sown in late summer to yield fresh seed the next season. Produces seeds the second year. Spicy caraway seeds add European character to all cabbage dishes, including coleslaw and especially sauerkraut.

Fresh chopped leaves are also interesting in salads, soups and stews. Uniform, compact, erect form, 25-30cm/10-12in high with medium-large to large leaves. CITRONELLA is the most fragrant variety available.

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.

Beautiful prairie wildflower used by American Indians. Tolerates drought well and often self-seeds in optimum conditions. The Navajo and Oglala tribes made a pleasant beverage tea from the leaves and the Comanche, Lokota and Ponca chewed the sweet tasting...

Highly productive oil-yielding variety. Coarse, broad leaved variety. Yields camphor-like oil used primarily in soaps.

Nutritious soft-shelled seeds are widely consumed in macrobiotic cuisine. In Chinese medicine, the seeds strengthen the spleen and counteract damp heat, and are used for edema, diarrhea, rheumatoid arthritis and difficult urination.

Tart fruits are commonly used in Indian curries, sauces, chutneys and beverages, and in Indian medicine for their carminative and laxative properties. Poultice of fresh leaves helps reduce swellings and boils and relieves pain.

Most popular everlasting; long cherished for wide colour range: crimson, salmon, rose, brown, yellow, and white.

The leaves have a pleasant mild lemon scent and flavour. The mass of colour is so striking Bergamo was awarded the Fleuroselect Gold Medal for 2008. The flowers start earlier than other bergamots and last through August.

Beautiful European variety with rose-purple petals that don't droop as much as wild echinaceas. Developed in the 1980s by Swedish echinacea breeder, Magnus Nilsson. Was proclaimed the Perennial Plant of the Year for 1998.

Young shoots are eaten raw, mixed with coconut, or cooked with other greens. Height 75cm/30” Indonesian favourite with a strong, pungent scent and flavour. Bright yellow flowers.

A favourite of cottage gardeners for its charming, unfussy contribution to the billowing colours of the mixed border, yellow foxglove is a biennial, perennial in some zones, blooming the second summer after it is seeded.

Excellent salad green, with ruffled leaves and a nice sweet spicy flavour. Sow every 10-25 days from early spring to early fall. Unlike some other fresh greens, the curled leaves don't easily fall flat in tossed salads.

Melons keep for 1-2 months. Egg-shaped squash with flesh that really does look like spaghetti. Delicious served hot with spaghetti sauce, cheese or butter, or chilled in salads.

Whether in the garden or on the windowsill, learn their likes and dislikes, and you'll be rewarded with flavor and beauty. May be slow and erratic to germinate. Check the code at the end of the description for specific germination requirements.

A beautiful chervil of the Brussels Winter type, with shiny dark green flat leaves and a nice dense growth habit. Like all chervils the fresh leaves are sweet with a hint of anise and are delicious chopped in salads, soups, on tofu, fish -- or anywhere...

In Jamaica and in Guyana the preferred leaf is from the amaranth. Very easy to grow. The association between the dish and amaranth is so strong that the plant itself is often called “callaloo”.

Recommended for excessive menstruation. Infusion is excellent for stopping internal and external hemorrhages.