Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Pittsburgh

Excellent addition to green salads, and very palatable with butter. Do not disturb roots when transplanting. Needs long growing season; sow early in peat pots. Important in commercial baking as roasted seeds add nutty flavour to breads and buns.

Adds gorgeous colour to tossed salads. (French spinach) Ancient Greek and Roman spinach-like green, and still popular in France today. The tender young shoots can be boiled and buttered, creamed, added to quiches, or rolled up in crepes.

Has large maroon leaves, red stems, and spiky red seedpods. Can reach as high as 150cm/60in. Large tropical-looking foliage. A showy form of the venerable castor bean long used in medicine.

Good hedge plant; has vigorous habit and withstands heavy clipping. Source of yellow, gold and khaki dyes. Boiled root decoction was once used to bathe irritated eyes. Hardy in southwestern Ontario and coastal B.C.

Medium late maturity. Very uniform mosscurled type suited for fresh-cut and processing use. Leaves are dark green, medium fine curled. Suited also for potplant production.

Height 24-36in (60-90cm) The essential oil taken from ambrosia is captivating and fragrant. Sow into moderately rich soil, in full sun to part shade. Plant stems form well into a wreath base for any season.

The result is a beautiful new ornamental herb for sunny borders or mass plantings. (Baikal scullcap; Huang qin) One of Chinese medicine's most important herbs is now all dressed up for the flower garden! English breeders managed to coax the hardy perennial...

It grows wild along the coast but the monks were known for growing it in their gardens. In Italian it is known as "Barba di Frate" or "monk's beard" because the Capuchin monks were fond of it.

Both the fruits and leaves are high in papain, an enzyme that aids digestion and is used in meat tenderizer. The famous dessert melon of the tropics. Dwarf variety 75cm/30”.

One of the four ingredients of the Essiac anti-cancer remedy. Traditionally used for fevers, inflammation, diarrhea, excessive menstruation and cancer. Although leaves are small and time-consuming to gather, they are delicious to eat.

Leaves somewhat smaller than Rubin basil and less prone to lean. Darkest of the purple basils. Height 50cm/20”.

Served on sashimi (sliced raw fish), tempura, and sushi. (Azabu-tade; Cultivated smartweed) Popular Japanese herb used for sushi. Peppery flavour is hot, but does not linger. This herb has lots of potential for experimentation!

(Yellow dock) Ointment for skin eruptions and itchy skin is made by boiling roots in vinegar, then mixing softened pulp with lard or petroleum jelly. Various plant parts used with mordants yield yellow, green, gold and tan dyes.

Native in the Eastern US, and in Ontario but endangered there due to habitat loss, gayfeather can make itself at home in any garden scheme. Blooming in the difficult-to-fill midsummer, the plants prefer moisture but tolerate poor soil.

Spicy Mesclun contains pak-choi, chinese mustard, mustard spinach, shungiku, curled cress, roquette and mizuna. Mesclun is commonly defined as a mixture of salad greens. Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens.

Cinnamon-scented leaves are popular in Japan for flavouring raw fish, bean curd, pickles and tempura. Purplish red leaves; preferred variety for pickling. Before sowing, chill sees at 5°C (40°F) for 3 days in moist sand.

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 where parsley is used. Sow direct in the garden in early spring or late summer to overwinter the following spring.

It is also used for mastitis and for distension of the breast. Native of Tibet with showy masses of violet-blue globe-like flowers from July to August. The roots are anti-inflammatory and are used as a galactagogue -- an agent that increases milk flow...

(Rose milkweed)

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.

Cooling tea made from leaves is useful for fevers, dysentery and morning sickness. Tropical fruit and timber tree used widely in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Tart fruits are commonly used in Indian curries, sauces, chutneys and beverages,...

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

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

Used externally for skin parasites, venereal disease, herpes, and as a dressing for wounds. (Termite plant; Babantsi; Bio-diesel plant) Impressive-looking small tree cultivated as an ornamental throughout Africa.

Germination is quick in warm weather, and plants self-seed if allowed. The peppery leaves add a spicy spin when boiled in stews or soups or tossed fresh in salads. It is delicious like watercress in sandwiches and salads but does not require damp growing...

Until the ground freezes. We offer high quality stratified seeds. It has become extinct in many areas and is now cultivated to a large extent in British Columbia, Ontario and Wisconsin.

Erect, sturdy growth habit and larger flowers containing up 0.7% essential oil high in bisabolol and other medicinal compounds. Improved tetraploid strain of German chamomile for commercial production.