Performs best as a fall planted crop. Mustard residues which contain glucosinolates are known to suppress soil-borne fungi and nematodes. Thrives in cool conditions. Sow at 15-20 lb./acre.
A cabbage related plant that is a perfect grazer! Dwarf Essex Rape is a perfect grazer plant that will persist well after the first frost. Ready to pasture 6-8 weeks after sowing. Canola (Brassica napus): Cool season, broadleaf, upright and spreading...
A great way to ready your vegetable garden for the spring or beautify a landscape! Also a great way to attract bees! Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Compaction Control, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen...
Nitrogen per acre. Red clover may be the best choice for frost seeding; it is extremely cold hardy and does well in most soils and growing conditions. A fast growing clover that can be sowed in spring, summer or fall! Mammoth Red is a popular biennial...
Excellent choice for potted plant growers and for greenhouse and hydroponic basil producers. The internodes -- the length of the stem between leaves -- are extremely short, which is why the plants are exceptionally compact and bushy.
Native of dry, rocky regions of Central Asia, Tibet, China and Mongolia. Requires full sun and well drained, sandy loam. Has higher total saponins, including the various forms of ephedrine.
Some studies have indicated it may promote clotting. The seed can be tricky to germinate, but once established the plant is tenacious. It produces yellow, gold and green dyes with very good fastness and contains tannins, making it appropriate for treating...
Seeds are a natural storehouse of L-dopa, a precursor of the neural transmitter, dopamine. In a recent clinical trial Parkinson's sufferers treated with crushed seeds regained some mobility with fewer side effects than conventional drugs.
Ht. 90-120cm/3-4ft. It was once used for fever and malaria. Herbalists today use it as a detoxifier, especially in support of Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. (Pitcher sage; Blue sage; Kansas sage) Tall azure-blue sage of the American prairies...
Ease of Germination: Moderate/Special Treatment Required
Can be used wherever sage is used when a more subtle flavour is desired. Soothes and aids in digestion. Summer savory is annual, unlike the perennial winter variety, and hence is easier and quicker to raise from seed.
A perfect border plant for the garden, it does best in part shade. Berries are very sweet, with a faint pineapple tang, excellent for eating fresh out of hand, or for use in jams. Can be direct sown outside.
Dark green leaves, bushy habit, and slow to bolt. For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Excellent for dillweed production. Finely cut foliage.
Adapts well to home or greenhouse environment. Attractive succulent from South Africa. Contains anthraquinone glycosides, principally barbaloin, which are responsible for the purgative action.
The infusion made from the flowering tops is high in rutin which combats arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries and veins). Well known as a grain, cover crop and beeplant; not so well known is its medicinal value.
Very tolerant of drought and a good plant for xeriscaping. Strong pungent fragrance. Long-lived shrubby perennial with blue-grey leaves with a silver cast. Likely because of its antiseptic properties, it was used by Native Americans like other sagebrushes...
(Yellow sweet clover) Important forage crop. Medicinally, it prevents blood clotting. Salve or poultice is useful for swellings, boils, arthritis and rheumatism.
Ht. 50-60cm/20-24. Set against its soft aromatic fern-like green leaves are masses of bright blue lavender flowers. Blooms all summer. Lovely ornamental lavender grown as an annual in flowerbeds, planters, and baskets.
Ht. 1-1.8 m/3-6 ft. Usually taken in combination with with coriander to prevent cramps. Also used to expel worms and for fevers. Effective laxative much in use by American herbalists.
They grow to about 3 m (10 ft). Treasured for its unique and nutritious fruits, strawberry guava is a small shrubby tree that yields sweet, tart strawberry-flavoured fruits high in vitamin C that can be eaten fresh or in preserves.
Has adaptogenic and immune-enhancing properties similar to ginseng. Sometimes referred to as ‘Chinese Prozac'. Hardy climbing vine, to zone 5. (Wu-wei-zi) Chinese medicinal; astringent and demulcent berries are used to treat nervous conditions, chronic...
Large single yellow trumpet-like flowers are fragrant at night. 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,...
