Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Idaho

Excellent in soups, chilli, and stews. Looks like a cayenne pepper with long glossy scarlet pods 15-17cm/6-7" but the flavour is sweet and tart with undertones of strawberry and apples and no bitterness.

California Indians so cherished the tea for general use that it was always available. (Mormon tea; Desert tea; Joint-fir) Reported to contain some ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, both potent central nervous system stimulants.

Cooked like regular spinach. Unlike ordinary spinach, its spreading branches produce succulent leaves and stemtips of very fine flavour throughout the season, long after all other varieties finish.

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

Poultice of leaves used for rheumatic swellings of the joints, lumbago, painful tumours. Used in India like stramonium in treatment of asthma, whooping cough and bronchitis.

Leaves used by Hopi Indians to flavour wild game. Attractive native of the American southwest with pink-purple flowers. Young foliage is strongly lemon-scented and excellent in tea.

Pascal is the precursor that transformed celery into the thick fleshy form we know today. The variety went on to spawn many more varieties and radically changed celery as a crop on both sides of the Atlantic.

Has a history of medicinal and food use by Native Americans, especially for cough, colds, and pneumonia. Ht. 60-80cm/24-32". Most abundant of the big sagebrushes, growing in mountain meadows and rocky slopes from British Columbia to California.

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

‘Medinette' is slow to bolt, especially in hot conditions, and because of this trait it is often preferred over Genovese varieties where the summers are hot or in hot greenhouses.

Terrific for containers and garden plantings. All America winner for 2002. Ornamental, aromatic and edible -- this basil has it all! Plants are remarkably uniform (for a basil) at about 40cm/15” tall and wide.

-- Richters special mesclun contains Kagraner lettuce, red leaf lettuce, roquette, radicchio, cornsalad, borage, mizuna, mustard spinach, chervil and curled cress. Mesclun is commonly defined as a mixture of salad greens.

Amerindian herb, used as a general tonic, emetic, diuretic, and for coughs, asthma and gonorrhea.

Traditional Maori remedy for kidney and bladder complaints, and to combat the miseries of the common cold. Attractive New Zealand shrub called the Tea Plant by Captain Cook because of the agreeably bitter tea his men made from the leaves.

(Hoja de colico)

(Couve tronchuda; Portuguese kale)

(Red Bulls Horn) One of the most loved sweet peppers of Italy. It is absolutely delicious cooked on the grill, fried, stuffed, or pickled. The long curved pepper looks like, as the name suggests in Italian, the "horn of the bull".

(Egyptian spinach; Jew's mallow) Vegetable green popular throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Leaves are minced and cooked with coriander and garlic and served as a puree on rice with chicken, rabbit, lamb or fish.

Ht. 50cm/20”. Variety typical of the Provence region of France. Despite the popularity of hybrid lavender among French growers, this original Provencal lavender, with its deep blue shades and its more refined fragrance, is still commonly grown.

Now commonly used in place of black mustard ( ) because it is easier to harvest. Condiment mustard most used in commerce for commercial prepared mustards and mustard powder. Seeds are darker and hotter than white mustard ( ).

Used for perfume, sachets and potpourris. Sweet ambrosial scent is legendary and more than makes up for the unimpressive yellowish flowers. As the story goes, Napoleon brought seeds back from Egypt for his wife Josephine and she so loved the plant that...

(Chasteberry; Vitex) So named because the seeds reputedly subdue the sexual urge and have long been used by monks to produce this effect. Recent German studies indicate that seed extracts regulate menstrual bleeding or too frequent menstruation, and may...

Mildew resistant. Uniform, compact, erect form, 25-30cm/10-12in high with medium-large to large leaves. We urge everyone to try it. Proven effective against herpes. Fresh leaves burst of lemon when squeezed.

Cheery garden plants. Important dyeplant: flowerheads yield bright yellow-orange shades for fabrics.

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

Angels trumpets are popular in containers for the patio, balcony or deck. Beautiful hallucinogenic plants from South America where they have a history of shamanic ritual use for divination, prophecy and sorcery.

Native of dry grasslands of Central Asia, Tibet, China and Mongolia. (Chinese ephedra) Properties and uses are similar to those of but contains the additional anti-inflammatory compound, ephedroxane.