Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Thousand Oaks

Found throughout India where its seeds are used to make a popular milkshake called . The seeds are soaked in water to form a gel and then are stirred into milk along with rose syrup and crushed ice.

Will succeed, however, in gardens or in pots, provided soil is kept moist. Best grown along streams where water is shallow and calm.

Juice or freshly crushed leaves are effective for the treatment of poison ivy. When applied liberally to affected skin, it works almost immediately to soothe and help to reduce the itchy rash caused by poison ivy's irritant oils.

Flowers are 7cm/3” across with a chocolate brown centre. Traditionally used like other echinaceas for its antiviral, anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting effects. (Yellow coneflower) The only yellow-flowering echinacea.

Attractive potplant; grows well in pots, but will not produce pine nuts unless grown where it can reach mature size. Native tree of southern Europe where it grows up to 20 m. Source of the richly delicious pine nuts used in pestos and other Mediterranean...

Stramonium has a long and fascinating history in North America, including ceremonial use by Native Americans, and disastrous encounters by early colonial settlers. All parts of the plant contain high levels of tropane alkaloids, which can cause delirium,...

Excellent for stir fries, especially with egg, and for pickling and seasoning. In Chinese medicine the bark is used for diarrhea, dysentery, and flatulence. But at the seedling stage the fresh young leaves and shoots are edible, highly nutritious, and...

Compact, lush green foliage is beautifully decorated with numerous purple button-sized flowers. All America winner for 2002. Has great potential in salads, pestos, as garnish, or anywhere regular basil is used.

Important beeplant in Australia. Leaves are delightfully honey-scented.

Hardy along southern B.C. coast. (Bead tree) Beautiful tree, native of China and India; much cultivated in southern U.S. Bark used as an emetic and to expel worms. Hard nuts are used for making rosaries.

Large 10cm/4" roots are crispy, as you would expect, with a mild, almost sweet flavour. Does best in cool climates or sown late for fall harvest. Excellent for salads, as a garnish, and even cooked like Asian radishes.

Our favourite because it is slow to bolt in summer. Butterhead type with loosely folded, succulent, dark green leaves.

It was used by the Cherokee for pain, toothache, ulcers, and hemorrhage. It is a bitter tonic and alterative useful for menstrual disorders and fevers. (New York ironweed) Tall native flower with masses of deep purple fluffy flowers.

Has overtones of pine, citrus, mint and anise, all wrapped up in a complex nexus of aromas and flavours. Also fights bacterial infections and inflammatory diseases and helps detox the liver.

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.

Useful for tea, for medicinal purposes. Variety commonly sold as peppermint or spearmint. Flavour and odour is pungent, not sweet like the true root-propagated strains.

Anti-flatulent. Has highest oil content. Fresh leaves, used as a garnish, add flavour to vegetables. COMMON biennial strain. Best sown in late summer to yield fresh seed the next season.

A refreshing lemonade drink can be made from the fruits by soaking them in water for 10-30 minutes. When dried the fruits can be powdered and used as a seasoning, and can substitute for European sumac ( ) in spice mixtures such as zaatar.

In warm areas where French tarragon will not grow, this is an excellent substitute. Slow to germinate. Golden yellow flowers. Makes a stimulating tea. (Mexican tarragon; Mexican marigold) Sweet-smelling leaves and flowers with a flavour similar to tarragon.

(Cape gooseberry; Husk cherry; Goldenberry)

The red colour, crisp, crunchy texture, and slightly bitter taste add distinction to any green salad. (Red endive) Grows like Belgian endive. Rootstocks produce compact rounded heads of purplish red foliage when being forced after fall harvest of roots.

The flowers are unusually long lasting, and if flowers are dead-headed, the flowers will just keep coming right up until frost. Fresh flower petals are excellent in salads and can be used to make medicinal creams.

Used in Chinese medicine to expel wind dampness, damp heat, jaundice, for dry constipation, and as a tonic. Although gentian blue is the colour most associated with these gentians, the flowers of Tibetan gentian are greenish white and tubular, appearing...

Stores well and stays crisp. Ready to harvest in 75-days. Gives you more than generous yields. Good choice for clay soil. Long and has approximately 415 seeds. Danvers Half Long Carrot produces blocky-topped, tapered roots chunk up nicely at 6 in.

For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Dark green leaves, bushy habit, and slow to bolt. Excellent for dillweed production. Finely cut foliage.