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For grain harvest, sow 3 months before fall frost. Sow in late May through July and till in about a month later, when flowering has begun. Cut the plants when 80-90% of the seeds have matured (turned brown).

They can be dried like peppercorns or used fresh in salsa. It is still a popular tradition in Mexico to gather them in the sierras. Heat: 50,000-100,000 Scoville units. Ripens to a brilliant red colour and packs serious concentrated heat.

Fragrant golden yellow flowers are delightful in potpourris and as cutflowers. Old English favourite for cottage gardens.

A much-loved lemon-scented herb gets a makeover with beautiful gold-infused leaves! The gold is most pronounced in spring and fades to green in summer. Like regular lemon balm, the fresh leaves give a burst of lemon when they are squeezed.

It dislikes the wet and may develop crown rot if planted in an area with poor drainage. It prefers a loamy, well-drained soil, and sun or part shade. Children may be tempted to wear the buttery little cups on their fingers, but beware: Yellow foxglove...

They are also used externally in the form of poultices or ointments for the treatment of aches, pains, arthritis, and rheumatism, All parts of the plant are poisonous if used improperly, especially if ingested.

Easy to use: chopped roots are soaked in water and stirred to a lather. Spectacular towering spikes of creamy white flowers. Roots contain 2% saponin, a soapy substance valuable in shampoos; leaves a fine sheen to hair.

Up to 0.5% hypericin; yields 2.5 tonnes/ha (1 ton/acre). Improved strain for commercial production.

If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. Cowpeas are great for drying and canning. Produce pods that are six to seven inches long and purple. Hulls are purple, cowpeas are green with pinkeyes when freshly picked turning...

Enjoy in a spring salad, or cooked like spinach. Treat as a biennial -- sow one year, pick the next. This strain of the lowly dandelion boasts tender fleshy leaves, topping all other fruits and vegetables for iron content.

All America Winner for 1992. For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Finely cut foliage. Excellent for dillweed production and potted plants. Unique dwarf plants (45cm/18in); dark green leaves.

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

3-4' tall peas smother weeds better than spring-sown clover. (120 lb./acre) alone or mix with vetch and/or oats, winter rye, or ryegrass. Can be seeded into rough ground; use 25% more seed than usual.

Suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden. This flowers of this variety have tubular petals and come in a mix of crimson, rose, pink and white.

The active principle, coniine, has provided to be an effective insecticide against aphids and blowflies. Juice was used in early times to execute criminals. Under proper directions it is a useful sedative for cases of nervous motor disturbances.

Sow midspring once soil has warmed. Cowpeas can also be used for underseeding in spring crops and tilled under prior to fall-planted crops. Frost sensitive, but fast growing to 2 1/2' in warm/hot weather.

(Lesser burnet) A tea made from the root and sweetened with honey was recommended for the bubonic plague! Used for stomach and intestinal inflammations, catarrh, cough and asthma. 15-50cm/6-20”

A unique addition to cole slaw. Delicious cooked or served raw. Best sown out at mid-summer as heads bolt during hot weather. Tender, crisp leaves are sweet and spicy. Tall cylindrical heads are pure white inside.

Usually grown as an annual. Showy Australian native with flowers of pure white like the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast.

Dried roots are very popular as a coffee substitute. Promotes bile secretion. Universally despised as a pesky weed, the lowly dandelion is actually one of the more useful herbs around.

A “cream pea” type variety, they are generally used at the fresh shelling stage. The bush-type plants are prolific and thrive in hotter, Southern weather. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation.

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

Specialized equipment, which is often needed for terminating (mowing and incorporating) perennial cover crops, is not necessary. Mixed to meet our farm manager's preferred percentages of 70% peas and 30% oats.

500 BC), who is credited with discovering their medicinal value. This rare Tibetan species of gentian is an upright plant, 60cm/2ft tall, with leaves 30cm/12” long. It is a real novelty for the mixed border or cottage garden, and it is attractive to...

Sideoats Grama is a warm-season bunchgrass that is native throughout much of North America. Recommended for meadow and prairie plantings, beds & borders, and as a component of forage mixes for livestock and wildlife.

Huge blooms continually face upward over a long season on well branched plants. The top performing Pansy around! Pansies have a reputation for being reliable and consistent.