Plant With Edible Parts Seeds For Sale In Washington

The Crimson Sweet Watermelon has firm, fine textured flesh that holds up on vine or shelf. For an earlier harvest, start seeds indoors, 6-8 weeks before last frost, harden off seedlings and transplant.

It is native to the southeastern United States , ranging from Florida north to eastern North Carolina , and west to eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas . Usually stemless, the leaves arising from an underground stock.

The leaves are also an important ingredient in Taiwanese oyster omelettes and, when young, are used along with stems to flavor soup and stir-fry. An autumn sowing under cover will often supply leaves all winter.

* The leaves are dark green, elliptic toothed and 2–4 cm long, with irregularly lobed margins, and turn to yellow and reddish tones in autumn. * Inner bark is often dried, ground into a powder and then used as a thickener in soups etc or added to cereals...

* The flowers can be eaten cooked. It is an important symbol in Chinese culture. It was first described by Henry Charles Andrews . The fallen flower petals are parboiled and sweetened for a teatime delicacy, or cooked in various dishes.

* The leaves are edible but rather bitter, especially when the plants are flowering. The unblanched leaves are much less bitter in winter and make an excellent addition to salads at this time of year.

The leaves and stems of the huckleberry are resistant to low-intensity fires, and if burned away they will resprout vigorously from rhizomes buried under the soil. * Some Native American groups lit carefully planned controlled burns in wild huckleberry...

* The nuts also provide a significant food source for wildlife. * Plants can fruit in 5 - 7 years from seed and yields from mature trees are around 25 - 60 kilos per tree. The skin (or pellicle) of the seed is easily peeled.

It is native to the southeastern United States , Cuba , and the Bahamas . The wood is also largely manufactured into canes. The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain...

The leaves are also an important ingredient in Taiwanese oyster omelettes and, when young, are used along with stems to flavor soup and stir-fry. An autumn sowing under cover will often supply leaves all winter.

* Tamarillos are suitable for growing as indoor container plants, though their swift growth, their light, water and humidity requirements and their large leaves can pose a challenge to those with limited space.

* Atriplex canescens ( Chamiso , Chamiza , Four wing saltbush , Four-wing saltbush , Fourwing saltbush ) is a species of evergreen shrub in the Amaranthaceae family, which is native to the western United States .

* Nigella sativa is an annual flowering plant, native to south and southwest Asia. It grows to 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in) tall, with finely divided, linear (but not thread-like) leaves.

* Shiny leathery leaves, coarse, evergreen, dark green or blue green. * Fruit - raw or cooked. A pleasant acid flavour, it is nice when added to muesli or porridge. * Very fragrant yellow flowers in early spring.

Rich in vitamin C, the fruit has a very acid flavour and is mainly used in preserves, though children and some adults seem to like it raw when it is fully ripe. * Yellow flowers, bright red or purple fruit that lasts into winter; upright, with a pendulous,...

Pinkish, or purple violet; much loved by birds in June and July. * The white mulberry ( Morus alba ) is a fast-growing, small to medium sized tree. * This is a cold hardy variety of the species.

* Foxtail Pines occur in the subalpine forest in these mountains: at an elevation of 1950-2750 m in the Klamath range, and 2300-3500 m in the Sierra Nevada. In both areas, it is often a tree line species.

Normally in the 20 to 50 pound size, but it is not uncommon to see pumpkins over 100 lbs. Specimens as large as 300 pounds have been grown. * The variety was hybridized for its size during the early 1960s.

Let stand 30 minutes before drinking. * Research suggests that milk thistle extracts both prevent and repair damage to the liver from toluene and/or xylene. The best edible roots should be produced from a May/June sowing, whilst sowing the seed in the...

Rich in vitamin C. Its flowers are cup-shaped and can be either lilac-blue or white. * Erect stalks topped with one or several blue 1 1/2" flowers; parent of many cultivars with white, blue, or double flowers; popular and easy to grow.

There are five to ten leaves per stem. * The woolly inflorescences remain attractive well into winter. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. * Scirpus cyperinus, commonly called woolgrass, is a grass-like, rhizomatous,...

The fruit is an oval orange-yellow berry 6 cm long by 4 cm in diameter, containing numerous seeds ; it is eaten, and the seeds spread by mammals and birds . * This plant can be used as a rootstock for some of the less hardy members of this genus, conferring...

Prefers a sheltered semi-shaded position and a light deep moist soil. Conservation Plant Characteristics Chrysolepis sempervirens (Kellogg) Hjelmqvist bush chinquapin CHSE11 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Shrub Native Status L48 (N) Federal T/E...

The broad, blunt leaves tend to spread at the base, forming close mats. The leaves have boat-shaped tips, narrowly-linear, up to 20 centimetres (8 in) long and 3–5 millimetres (0.12–0.20 in) broad, smooth or slightly roughened, with a rounded to truncate...

* These scallions are perfect for adding mild flavor to salads of all kinds. * Develope to maturity in only 60-65 days. * Can be overwintered if mulched to zone 4. * Many Welsh onions can multiply by forming perennial evergreen clumps.

Strictly speaking it is a bine rather than a vine, using its own shoots to act as supports for new growth. It is a dioecious, perennial, herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to a cold-hardy rhizome in autumn.

It is native to northwestern China and widely naturalised elsewhere in Asia east to Korea and Japan , south to northern India , and west to northern Iran . * This plant is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50...