Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In El Monte

Homey bees love this herb, and for beekeepers having this around adds a light fragrance to the honey. Attractive honey plant with masses of white flower spikes, rich in nectar. Simmer leaves in cream for licorice flavour in ice cream recipes.

Difficult to germinate: viability is usually quite low, never exceeding 40%. Famous European alpine herb unrivalled as a bitter tonic. Requires a cold period (4-5 weeks at 5°C/40°F) or 24 hours in 40-70 ppm gibberellic acid for success.

The fruits go from green to yellow, to orange and red as the fruits ripen, but they are best used when bright yellow. Often called banana pepper, this is a milder version of the 'Hungarian Hot Wax' pepper (listed in the herb section).

The plant produces garlands of small flowers. Grows naturally in disturbed soils. Flowers are sometimes brewed into tea, though caution should be taken as seeds and leaves contain oxalic acid and saponin.

Popular seasoning herb preferred over winter savory for its delicate flavour. Indispensable for its use in traditional Eastern Canadian dishes like potato stuffing. One of the ingredients in .

Dropwort can be sown directly into the garden after the danger of frost has passed. Deer will generally leave it alone, as will other pests. Charmingly informal white flowers decorate the dropwort from late spring to mid-summer.

Fresh herbage (strongest when in flower) is steeped in water for 12-48 hours with frequent stirring. Ancient dyeplant known for the clarity and fastness of the blue produced. A blue sediment will form which is the dye.

Likes to be pruned; perfect plant to shape into your own masterpiece! Aromatic sprigs are placed among clothing to repel moths. Chamaecyparissus, it is particularly effective in knot gardens when clipped as low hedges.

Spectacular drooping pink-rose flower spikes.

Since earliest times used to dye wool bright yellow. Formerly recommended for gout and rheumatism.

Repeat sowings till mid-August for continuous supply. Ready to use when 3-4 leaves have developed. (Mache; Feldsalat) Frequently found in summer salads in France and Germany. Pleasant alternative to lettuce or endive, possessing its own special piquant...

It requires a growing season of 4-5 months, with flowering triggered by the shortening days. A common ingredient in curry powder, it is used in oriental sauces, soups, stews, the production of imitation flavourings like maple and vanilla, as well as for...

Ht. 45-90cm/18-36". It is more yin-like, and burning moxa made with this mugwort helps to soothe the nerves and induces a truly remarkable experience of "surrender" and of "tearing down the walls of the heart." Gives immediate relief for insomnia, anxiety,...

Germination is slow and sporadic. Handsome dark green leaves; fine specimen plant for sunny window or greenhouse. Source of commercial chocolate substitute used in making health food candy bars.

Herbalists have long extolled the beneficial effects of pickled samphire on the digestive system. Succulent leaves are delicious boiled with salt and pickled in vinegar and spices.

Controversially, the bark contains cephalanthin, a compound that is both a poison and a source of its healing powers. The roots were used for "menstruation sickness" which the Seminoles believed was a weakness men suffered after having intercourse with...

Requires a long warm growing season; should be started indoors in colder climates. Used in soups, cake, bread, cheese, and is a standard ingredient of commercial curry powders. Seeds are important in many international cuisines, including those of India...

Very similar to American elder in appearance and used in the same ways. (Common Elderberry) Source of fruit for elderberry wine, pie and jelly, possesses extraordinary powers as a virus and bacteria fighter.

Start indoors in April or sow direct after last frost. Flowering stalks, young leaves and buds are delicious steamed, boiled or fried with other vegetables, meat or on its own. Broccoli-like vegetable from China.

(Jewels of Opar; Fameflower; Tu ren shen)

Socrates is the most notable to die in this manner. In the fresh state all parts are very poisonous. Under proper directions it is a useful sedative for cases of nervous motor disturbances.

(Horned melon) Quite unlike other cucumbers, this one has small orange spiny fruits, 8-13cm/3-5” long, possessing a subtle banana-lime flavour. They keep up to six months! Start seeds in March.

It can be cut into 5-8cm/2-3" lengths and eaten raw or steamed, or it can be blanched briefly in salt water. The name means "land seaweed" and indeed it has a salty flavour and crispy texture that suggests seaweed but is easily cultivated on land.

Keep away from the eyes! This herb has been used traditionally in America, Jamaica and Indonesia as a remedy for snakebites, dysentery, pneumonia and several other conditions. Its a protective mechanism that keeps birds from feeding on monarch caterpillars...

Great when topped with cheese and spaghetti sauce. Vegetable Spaghetti Winter Squash can be used in place of pasta. Approximately 25 seeds per packet. Pasta-like flesh looks like the real thing.