Uses Seed Farm Seed For Sale In Joliet

Prices start at : 4.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

A perfect border plant for the garden, it does best in part shade. Can be direct sown outside. Berries are very sweet, with a faint pineapple tang, excellent for eating fresh out of hand, or for use in jams.

When to Sow: Spring/Late Summer/Early Fall
Duration: Perennial
Uses: Culinary/Medicinal

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Citronella Balm

Price : CALL

A truly delightful tea made from the dried leaves is our favourite anytime tea as it both stimulates the heart and calms the nerves. CITRONELLA is the most fragrant variety available.

Ease of Germination: Easy
Uses: Culinary/Medicinal/Beverage/Aromatic
Duration: Perennial

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New England Aster

Prices start at : 3.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

The Iroquois used it as a ‘love medicine' and as a ‘smudging' herb to revive the unconscious. Native people have used the roots of this plant for fever, catarrh and pain. This showy North American native displays its deep violet flowers in the fall.

Uses: Medicinal
Ease of Germination: Easy
Duration: Perennial

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Spanish Eyes Lavender

Prices start at : 5.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

Ht. 50-60cm/20-24. Blooms all summer. Set against its soft aromatic fern-like green leaves are masses of bright blue lavender flowers. Lovely ornamental lavender grown as an annual in flowerbeds, planters, and baskets.

When to Sow: Spring/Anytime
Duration: Perennial
Botanical Name: Lavandula multifida 'Spanish Eyes'

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Barba di Cappuccino

Prices start at : 3.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

It grows along the coasts among rocks where it forms neat star-like annual or perennial clumps up to 30cm (1ft) high. We do not honestly know, but we love the name anyway. Now what is the connection with cappuccino?

Botanical Name: Plantago coronopus 'Minutina'

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Yellow Yarrow

Prices start at : 2.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

Large yellow flowers. Fern-like leaves; height up to 1.5m/5ft.

Duration: Perennial
Ease of Germination: Easy
Uses: Medicinal/Beverage/Aromatic

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Hairy Vetch, Legumes

Prices start at : 275.00 USD / 100 Pounds

Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation, No Till, Weed Suppression Typical nitrogen produced is 100 lbs.

Form: Seed
Sub Type: Vetch
Seeds Per Pound: 14,200
Size: 100 Pounds
Broadcast Rate per Acre: 25-40 lbs.
Days To Maturity: 60-300

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Strawflower

Prices start at : 2.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

Most popular everlasting; long cherished for wide colour range: crimson, salmon, rose, brown, yellow, and white.

Botanical Name: Helichrysum bracteatum 'Monstrosum'

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Canada Wildrye, Grain Seed

Prices start at : 128.00 USD / 5 Pounds

Provides quality forage for livestock and wildlife. It tends to be short-lived but provides quick stabilization for erosion control seedings, and it makes a good, early successional component of prairie mixtures.

Form: Seed
Broadcast Rate per Acre: 6-12 lbs.
Sub Type: Rye
categories: Cover Crop
Seeds Per Ounce: 7125
Life Cycle: Annual

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Black Wormwood

Prices start at : 2.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

It is made by steeping the flowering tops of black wormwood in vodka or pure grain alcohol, producing a natural pale gold color. Used to make , a liqueur or aperitif similar to absinthe, often taken before or after meals to help to stimulate the digestion.

Botanical Name: Artemisia genipi
Uses: Industrial/Medicinal/Beverage/Culinary

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Painted Sage

Prices start at : 3.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

Infusion used for sore gums. Leaves and seeds increase inebriating quality of liquors when added during fermentation. Floral bracts are intensely coloured purple or pink. Fine border plant.

Botanical Name: Salvia viridis
Ease of Germination: Easy
Duration: Annual

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Yellow Echinacea

Prices start at : 3.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

Flowers are 7cm/3” across with a chocolate brown centre. Ht. 75cm/30”. Prairie native of the Missouri and Arkansas Ozark regions. Traditionally used like other echinaceas for its antiviral, anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting effects.

Duration: Perennial
Botanical Name: Echinacea paradoxa
When to Sow: Spring/Late Summer/Early Fall

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Wild Bergamot

Prices start at : 3.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

Used for tea and for flavouring meat. Lavender flowers; strong fragrance. Frequently seen along roadsides in eastern Canada and U.S.

Botanical Name: Monarda fistulosa
Duration: Perennial
Ease of Germination: Easy

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Summer Alfalfa - Cover Crop Seed

Prices start at : 8.85 USD / 1/4 Pound

Provide adequate moisture to improve germination. Sow early to midspring or in late summer (best time for weed competition), 1/2 lb./1,000 sq.ft. Use half this rate when mixed with grain/grass.

Hybrid Status: Open Pollinated
Life Cycle ID: Annual
Attracts Beneficial Insects: Yes

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Gai Lohn

Prices start at : 2.50 USD / Seeds / pkt

Flowering stalks, young leaves and buds are delicious steamed, boiled or fried with other vegetables, meat or on its own. Broccoli-like vegetable from China. Start indoors in April or sow direct after last frost.

Botanical Name: Brassica oleracea (Alboglabra) 'Kailaan'

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Rose Queen, Salvia Seeds

Price : CALL

A sun-lover, this perennial flower has 20″ inch spikes of bright pink on bushy stems. Blooms heavily in early summer, repeating till fall.

Botanical Name: Salvia
Size: 1,000 Seeds
Zones: 4
Form: Seed

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Toro

Prices start at : 1500.00 USD

52" 3 Pt Seeder, nice.

Make: Toro

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Globe Thistle

Prices start at : 3.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

Excellent cut or dried flower. It is also used for mastitis and for distension of the breast. The roots are anti-inflammatory and are used as a galactagogue -- an agent that increases milk flow in nursing mothers.

When to Sow: Spring
Uses: Medicinal
Duration: Perennial

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Cape Aloe

Prices start at : 4.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

Adapts well to home or greenhouse environment. Contains anthraquinone glycosides, principally barbaloin, which are responsible for the purgative action. Also, an ingredient of the ‘Swedish Bitters' popularized by European herbalist Maria Treben.

Botanical Name: Aloe ferox
Ease of Germination: Moderate
Duration: Perennial

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Toothache Cress

Prices start at : 3.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

Also used as an antibiotic against candida. (Spilanthes; Australian cress) Leaves have a mild numbing effect and are useful for toothaches. The fresh leaves are edible and are eaten like cress.

Botanical Name: Spilanthes oleracea
Duration: Annual
Ease of Germination: Easy

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Buckwheat

Prices start at : 2.50 USD / Seeds / pkt

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.

When to Sow: Spring
Duration: Annual
Ease of Germination: Easy

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Avens

Prices start at : 3.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

Medicinally it is thought to be beneficial against stomach upset, and as an external application to wounds. (Herb bennet) Once known as the , the blessed herb. It appears as a decorative feature in the stonework and stained glass of Medieval cathedrals,...

Uses: Medicinal
Ease of Germination: Easy
Botanical Name: Geum urbanum

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Lemon Catnip

Prices start at : 3.75 USD / Seeds / pkt

Finally, here is a lemon catnip that truly smells of lemons. For years we have carried ‘Lemon Catnip' and while it had a perceptable hint of lemon, it never quite lived up to its name.

Uses: Medicinal/Beverage/Aromatic
Duration: Perennial
When to Sow: Spring/Late Summer/Early Fall

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Buttonbush

Prices start at : 3.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

Controversially, the bark contains cephalanthin, a compound that is both a poison and a source of its healing powers. The roots were used for "menstruation sickness" which the Seminoles believed was a weakness men suffered after having intercourse with...

Ease of Germination: Moderate
Botanical Name: Cephalanthus occidentalis
Uses: Medicinal/Poisonous!

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Chinese Senega

Prices start at : 5.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

In Chinese medicine, it calms the spirit and opens the flow of in the heart, which in western terms may be related to its sedative and tranquilizing properties. Much easier to grow than the North American species.

Uses: Medicinal
Botanical Name: Polygala tenuifolia
Ease of Germination: Easy

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Elite, Cowpea Seeds

Prices start at : 8.00 USD / 1/2 Pound

If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. This is one of the most productive of all the cream peas. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. Peas are delicious and easy to shell.

Seeds Per Gram: 10
Days To Maturity: 75
Weight: N/A
Form: Seed
Zones: 3
Germination: 3

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Mucuna

Prices start at : 4.25 USD / Seeds / pkt

In a recent clinical trial Parkinson's sufferers treated with crushed seeds regained some mobility with fewer side effects than conventional drugs. Seeds are a natural storehouse of L-dopa, a precursor of the neural transmitter, dopamine.

Botanical Name: Mucuna pruriens
Duration: Annual
Ease of Germination: Moderate

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