Uses Seed Chicken Forage Seed For Sale In Fort Wayne

The green pods are easy to shell. The peas themselves have a deep purple color when first shelled which then turn black when dried. Black Crowder cowpea is a high yielding variety of long pods.

In more northern climes, an early spring plant will give high dry matter yields of excellent forage. A fast growing, cool-season annual legume, Secada peas perform very well during the fall, winter, and spring in Southern states.

Heavy yielding Southern pea great for fresh shelling. The bush-type plants are prolific and thrive in hotter, Southern weather. A “cream pea” type variety, they are generally used at the fresh shelling stage.

The short plants are great for small gardens, and yields are high. The smallest and most tender Southern pea on the market. This cowpea is excellent freshly cooked and very tender.

Sow with or without grain, grass or field peas! When sown late summer, spring regrowth is vigorous and nitrogen-producing, for tilling in before planting the spring garden crops. Hairy Vetch has rapid growth that makes it a good weed suppressant.

Clinical research indicates it improves and prolongs male erection and increases sperm counts. Important diuretic herb in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for urinary problems, kidney and lower back pains and as an aphrodisiac.

Airy masses of small white flowers (50% doubles) in summer. Excellent as cutflowers in floral arrangements and bouquets.

Sow seeds outdoors in shallow trenches in Spring, thinning seedlings to six to nine inches apart when they appear. According to Gerard, the daisy was once known as bruisewort, for its ability to soothe bruises when the leaves were applied externally.

The flavour is fruity and smokey, and while they have some heat, the pickled fruits are perfect for those who do not like their chiles to start a fire. These teardrop-shaped peppers from Brazil are the cutest little things, less than an inch in size.

Caution: although the oil is safe, raw seeds are poisonous. Large tropical-looking foliage. Oil extracted from seeds is a commonly used laxative for temporary constipation and acute diarrhea.

Very easy to grow. Leaves are cooked like spinach or in soup, or raw in salads. (Garland chrysanthemum; Chopsuey green) Popular Oriental green with an unusual strong flavour. Fast grower; successive sowings every two weeks will ensure continuous supply.

Well known as a grain, cover crop and beeplant; not so well known is its medicinal value. The infusion made from the flowering tops is high in rutin which combats arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries and veins).

(African marigold) Although better known by the misnomer, ‘African marigold', this Central American annual is a popular bedding plant available in many ornamental hybrid forms. When added to chicken feed, lutein-rich marigold flowers help make egg yolks...

Ht. 40-45cm/16-18”. The effect is striking, as if masses of butterflies have gathered in the garden. Impressive French stoechas lavender with elongated wing-like magenta petals extending from dark bracts on slender stalks.

(Miner's lettuce) During the California gold rush miners ate this wild green to avoid getting scurvy. The succulent heart-shaped leaves have a fresh water chestnut-like taste and can be eaten raw in salads or cooked like spinach.

Its legendary healing powers are summed up in the Arab proverb, “In the black seed is the medicine for every disease except death.” Seeds can be ground and used with near abandon like black pepper.

Such tattoos fade after a few days. (Egyptian privet) The world's most popular dye plant for thousands of years. The white and pink flowers are very fragrant, and are used in the production of perfumes.

(Vegetable gourd) Small 8cm/3in melons taste like a sweet winter squash. Delicious stuffed like bell peppers with meat and rice and baked.

Can be used wherever sage is used when a more subtle flavour is desired. Popular seasoning herb preferred over winter savory for its delicate flavour. One of the ingredients in . Summer savory is annual, unlike the perennial winter variety, and hence...

Flowers all summer in full sun or partial shade. Peppery leaves and fragrant flowers are delicious added fresh to salads. High in vitamin C. Or for fun freeze the flowers in ice cubes for drinks.

Herbalists today use it as a detoxifier, especially in support of Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. It was once used for fever and malaria. (Pitcher sage; Blue sage; Kansas sage) Tall azure-blue sage of the American prairies with aromatic, astringent,...

California Indians so cherished the tea for general use that it was always available. Indigeneous folk remedy for colds and headache, and for urinary and venereal diseases. (Mormon tea; Desert tea; Joint-fir) Reported to contain some ephedrine and pseudoephedrine,...

Also suitable for sprouts and ‘microherb' production. In China there is a large industry growing the ‘tree vegetable' in greenhouses and tunnels year round. But at the seedling stage the fresh young leaves and shoots are edible, highly nutritious,...

Fine flavour and aroma. Leaves nearly pure purple-bronze; very little green. Significant improvement over the Dark Opal variety.