Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Oceanside

According to Greek legends, this flower sprang from the blood of Adonis. Formerly used as a cardiac stimulant like digitalis but is much stronger. Brilliant crimson and black flowers in June-July.

Sow direct in spring or start early indoors and transplant out. Its use dates to ancient Egypt where it was called "food of the kings." The plant has anticancer and anti-inflammatory properties, and is highly nutritious, even more so than kale.

A study has shown that the vapours given off by the foliage can protect stored grain from insect damage. Most abundant of the big sagebrushes, growing in mountain meadows and rocky slopes from British Columbia to California.

Useful for skin diseases, including eczema. Recent medical evidence supports folkloric use for tumours. Roots of this common wildplant are said to have “blood-purifying” properties.

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. But it is also a Chinese medicinal herb valued for its bitter aromatic tonic properties and is used to treat menstrual...

Considered a ‘life medicine' by the Navajo people who have used it for menstrual pain, stomach ache, wounds, swellings and coughs. Brilliant red tubular flowers. Prefers sandy or gravelly soil on a slope.

Best started early indoors. (Yard long bean; Dow gauk) Stringless bean with a mildly sweet flavour. Excellent stir fried. Beans will grow from 60cm/2ft-90cm/3ft long but pick them when they're tender (40cm/16in long).

(Pedunculata lavender) Similar to the standard form, but has large magenta flower bracts and elongated 20-30cm/8-12in flower stalks. Height up to 75cm/30”. Stronger scent; bushier habit.

Papalo is not cooked, only used fresh or added at the last moment. This is really a type of coriander, only stronger. Leaves possess huge oil glands which give papalo its potent flavour and scent.

(Rose milkweed)

Improved strain for commercial production. The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like pork or duck. Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat.

Major improvement on the standard variety. A very regal looking plant! Has dense deep purple inflorescences contrasting with the dark green leaves. All-American winner for 1997. Spicy anise-licorice aroma and flavour; excellent served fresh in such dishes...

What happens is the mouth goes numb briefly, followed by an intense cooling sensation. There is hint of a bitter, grassy flavor but that is really secondary to the sensation. (Paracress; Electric daisy) Trendy chefs and bartenders love to play with this...

Sometimes referred to as ‘Chinese Prozac'. Hardy climbing vine, to zone 5. (Wu-wei-zi) Chinese medicinal; astringent and demulcent berries are used to treat nervous conditions, chronic cough, asthma, thirst, too frequent urination, and diarrhea.

Flavour resembles caraway but is hotter. 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 and Mexico.

Their addictive strong garlic-like odour and onion flavour are driving a wave of popularity among top chefs. In some areas such as Quebec they have been over-harvested to the point where the government had to step in to limit wild foraging.

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

The First Nations people of America used the bark for sore eyes, dysentery, toothache, headache, and as a tonic. The roots were used for "menstruation sickness" which the Seminoles believed was a weakness men suffered after having intercourse with a menstruating...

Azadirachtin, a constituent of the plant, is an insect anti-feedant, repellent, and insecticide. The oil from the seeds is used to treat leprosy and skin diseases, and the leaves are used in poultices to treat wounds.

Large tropical-looking foliage. A showy form of the venerable castor bean long used in medicine. Oil extracted from the seeds of the green form is a commonly used laxative for temporary constipation and acute diarrhea.

Roots are excellent for flavouring soups, stews, or steamed to serve with butter or sauce. Standard variety. Both leaves and its slender, parsnip-like root are used. Roots 20-25cm/8-10 long; flat leaves.

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. Easy to grow from seeds in the garden or in containers.

Super-fun for snacking with a crisp texture and sweet taste. Plant extra for the lunchbox. The seed tape is 15 ft. Scarlet Nantes Carrot grows nearly-coreless carrots in just 9 weeks.

Easy to grow -- rather like tomatoes. A fixture in Mexican salsa verde, the mildly hot green sauce served with tacos and chile rellenos. Tomatillos will keep well through the winter if stored loose in a cool place.

(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. Stems can be cooked like asparagus.

They are a challenge to grow from seeds, and take a few years to get established, but they are well worth the effort. Once common from Florida to the Great Lakes, wild pawpaw became almost extinct.