Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Fort Collins

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...

In Italian it is known as "Barba di Frate" or "monk's beard" because the Capuchin monks were fond of it. Steamed or sauteed, and dressed with lemon and oil, it is commonly served with fish.

Roots act specifically on the lungs as an expectorant and anti-inflammatory. (Butterfly weed) Bright orange-red flowers are worthy of attention as an ornamental. Valuable for all chest complaints, including pleurisy.

(Cape jasmine; Zhi zi) Wonderfully scented white flowers used by the floral industry in arrangements and corsages. Flowers used to flavour Chinese tea and a source of important essential oil used in perfumery.

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

Ht. 40-50cm/16-20". Best sown directly in the garden in spring. Try throwing them in salads just for fun. But the novel thing about this plant is that late in the season red, juicy strawberry or raspberry-like "berries" appear along the stems.

Excellent choice for fresh cilantro. Ready for harvest in 28 to 80 days depending on the season. Tolerates summer heat well and is bolt-resistant. This variety is also used for sprouting.

Leaves picked before the flowers appear are nutritious salad greens. Masses of flowers in spring are a mix of purple, pink and white. When in flower, it is used as a gland stimulant and an aphrodisiac.

Superb variety, excellent for Vietnamese and Thai cooking. Strongest scent and flavour of all the Thai basils.

The Shoshoni Indians of Nevada used the leaves for coughs and colds. The black sagebrush is one of the most common shrubs of the United States. The low grey-green shrub is found from California to New Mexico north to Montana.

In cultivation since the Bronze Age, fenugreek travelled the world with the cultures that used it and can be found growing wild in many places. Growth will be hindered by wet soil.

Indeed, the Royal Horticultural Society has honoured it with an Award of Garden Merit, and it is an excellent as a cut or dried flower. Non-invasive, unlike the European mugwort. But it is also a Chinese medicinal herb valued for its bitter aromatic tonic...

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).

Delicious in preserves, sauces and tea. (Wild rose) A wild rose found growing in eastern and western North America. Pink flowers have delicate fragrance; June. Fruits or rosehips are 20 times richer in vitamin C than oranges.

Finally, here is a lemon catnip that truly smells of lemons. For years we have carried ‘Lemon Catnip' and while it had a perceptable hint of lemon, it never quite lived up to its name.

In temperate areas it is best grown in a warm greenhouse where plants will flower freely and produce several fruits. (Spiny gourd; Kantola) A Vietnamese melon with a spectacular spiny orange-red skin and red fleshly sacs containing the seeds.

Fresh flower petals are excellent in salads and can be used to make medicinal creams. (Pot marigold) Compact variety with bicolored flowers ranging from pale creamy orange to deep gold.

The roots were used for "menstruation sickness" which the Seminoles believed was a weakness men suffered after having intercourse with a menstruating woman. (Honeyball; Honey bells) A handsome native shrub found growing in wet areas of eastern North America.

The name translates as "little beak" in reference to the small pointy ends at the bottom of the fruits. When covered in orange and red fruits, the plants can be very pretty for the patio.

(Aztec Tobacco) The wild tobacco used by North American Indians for thousands of years and still in use in native ceremonies. It is grown for smoking in some parts of Asia. It is frost tender, but will produce a crop in areas where the summers are warm...

Medicinally, it prevents blood clotting. (Yellow sweet clover) Important forage crop. Salve or poultice is useful for swellings, boils, arthritis and rheumatism.

Used by South American Indians to paint their bodies red. Seeds are source of natural bright-yellow food colouring, used in butter, margarine, cheese and other foods. Easy to grow shrub or small tree; nice compact bushy habit.

The flowers start earlier than other bergamots and last through August. Mildew resistant. The mass of colour is so striking Bergamo was awarded the Fleuroselect Gold Medal for 2008.

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

Ideal for dicing into salsas, slicing into salads or making the most succulent sauce you've ever tasted. Approximately 15 seeds per packet. This variety is extremely dense and meaty with very few seeds and a unique no-gel texture.

This is a tender leaf Cabbage that is so tender, crisp, sweet and succulent. Ready to harvest in 68-days. So soft, it is often mistaken for lettuce. Sweetheart Lettage Hybrid will change the way you think about Cabbage.