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Sow Mar/Apr for harvest in Aug/Sept. Also seeds do not shatter when mature making them much easier to harvest. High yielder, producing double the crop of the common biennial variety.

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

(Baikal scullcap; Huang qin) One of Chinese medicine's most important herbs is now all dressed up for the flower garden! English breeders managed to coax the hardy perennial to throw up bigger purple-blue flowers and more of them.

Striking in the garden too, reaching 2-3ft/60cm. Adds gorgeous colour to tossed salads. The tender young shoots can be boiled and buttered, creamed, added to quiches, or rolled up in crepes.

Australian aborigines have long used the crushed leaves for skin infections. Worldwide demand for the antiseptic oil distilled from the leaves has exploded over the past decade. The English explorer Captain Cook brewed a spicy and refreshing tea from...

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

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

Can be invasive. Fresh leaves are eaten as a delicacy in salads or cooked like spinach. Fresh leaves used as a poultice for inflammations, ulcers, abscesses. A decoction is used to treat constipation.

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Adapted to hot humid climates. If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. Pods average 6-7 ” long, and are silver colored, occasionally streaked with rose.

(Kanphuti; Balloon vine) Climbing annual common throughout India. Cooked and eaten in India and Africa. Decorative black seeds with cute heart-shaped white faces are used for necklaces.

Impressive new series from Germany with abundant large flowers, 10-12cm/4-5 across. Good heat and drought tolerance. Ht. 70-80cm/28-32. Excellent cutflower. Attracts butterflies.

A showy form of the venerable castor bean long used in medicine. Large tropical-looking foliage. Can reach as high as 150cm/60in. Has large maroon leaves, red stems, and spiky red seedpods.

The flavour gets stronger the older the leaves get. (Papaloquelite) Fabulous herb from Mexico. This is really a type of coriander, only stronger. If you are a cilantro aficionado, this is a must!

(Catgut) Showy native herb with pink and yellow pea-like flowers. Tea made from the roots is said to improve male potency and promote muscular development. The roots are also a source of the insecticide rotenone.

Easy to grow from seeds in the garden or in containers. The leaves and flowers have a hot watercress flavour and are great in salads; and the young seed pods are hotter and can be pickled and used like capers.

The smallest and most tender Southern pea on the market. If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. This cowpea is excellent freshly cooked and very tender.

Flowers are edible. Used for dropsy, respiratory catarrh and skin eruptions. Was once a potent symbol of romance for courting couples. (Johnny jump up) Old English favourite with charming small purple, lavender and yellow flowers.

Creamy white flowers set against a backdrop of green foliage makes this a very attractive ornamental herb for the garden. Non-invasive, unlike the European mugwort. Ht. 90-150cm/3-5ft.

Until the ground freezes. Native of cool hardwood forests throughout eastern and central North America. The following spring, the seedlings appear, and in 3 to 6 years they mature.

This charming variety has white flowers with rose to crimson markings. Suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden.

Broadcast up to 120 lb./acre, 1/2 to 1″ deep. Frost will kill the cowpeas. They can produce as much as 300 lb./acre nitrogen. Great cover crop for smothering weeds and adding Nitrogen to soil.

According to Greek legends, this flower sprang from the blood of Adonis. Formerly used as a cardiac stimulant like digitalis but is much stronger. Brilliant crimson and black flowers in June-July.

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...

This is an All America Selections winner! Diva has a crisp flesh that is both non-bitter and delicious. The slender, tapered fruit have tender skin that is smooth, glossy and bright green.

(American licorice) The sweet-tasting roots of wild licorice were once important medicine to the Great Plains Indians. The compound responsible for the sweetness is glycyrrhizin, a substance 50 times as sweet as sugar.