Specific charges will be displayed during checkout.Cut the plants near the base when most of the green color has turned brown and the seeds are hardening (no longer milky).If anything you purchase from us proves unsatisfactory, we will either replace...
Attracts Beneficial Insects: Yes
Days To Maturity: 35-42 bloom, 70-84 grain production
Very tender with distinctive bittersweet flavour. (Chinese spinach; Hinn choy) Young leaves are eaten either cooked or raw like spinach, but contain more calcium and iron. Stems can be cooked like asparagus.
One of the most popular varieties preferred by Southerners. Hulls are purple, cowpeas are green with pinkeyes when freshly picked turning cream with dark maroon when dry. Cowpeas are great for drying and canning.
Juice or freshly crushed leaves are effective for the treatment of poison ivy. When applied liberally to affected skin, it works almost immediately to soothe and help to reduce the itchy rash caused by poison ivy's irritant oils.
Forms dense globular little bushes 50-70cm/20-28” across so perfectly uniform they look pruned. A spectacular refinement of bush basil from Italy where the variety is known as (“very fine green, like a ball or globe”).
Here is a flower-herb-veggie that cuts across the genres, with its white-flecked leaves and showy edible red-burgundy flowers. Easy from seeds; for gardens or in containers. The leaves and flowers have a hot watercress flavour and are great in salads;...
Uses: Culinary/Medicinal/Beverage
Botanical Name: Tropaeolum minus 'Tip Top Alaska Red Shades'
Elite is a bush type cream southern pea that produces heavy yields of 7″ pods. Peas are delicious and easy to shell. If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant.
(Lablab) Most of this legume vine from India is edible: the pods, leaves, flowers, dried seeds, sprouted seeds and roots are all commonly eaten in India. Tall twining vine matures in about 75 days.
Contains 239,500 seeds/lb. Can be used as a cover crop between rows of vegetable crops if mowed to maintain manageability. Of nitrogen per acre. Works well for hay or silage. A fast growing clover that can be sowed in spring, summer or fall! Medium Red...
This is only marginally winter hardy, but grows more rapidly than normal alfalfa. Specific charges will be displayed during checkout.Sow the seeds at the time and rate specified in the product description.
Henbane has been used as an instrument of assassination and murder since antiquity, most famously in Shakespeare's play Hamlet: “Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,/with juice of cursed hebona in a vial.” Gerard's (1633) says “the leaves, seed...
(Thornapple; Devils Trumpet) Beautiful hallucinogenic plants from South America where they have a history of shamanic ritual use for divination, prophecy and sorcery. Angels trumpets are popular in containers for the patio, balcony or deck.
When to Sow: Spring/Anytime
Botanical Name: Datura metel 'Double Golden Queen'
Famous European alpine herb unrivalled as a bitter tonic. Difficult to germinate: viability is usually quite low, never exceeding 40%. Root tincture made with brandy strengthens the human system, particularly in cases of weak digestion and lack of appetite.
(Chinese parsley) High yielding commercial variety with attractive glossy green leaves, uniform growth habit, and consistent quality. Excellent choice for fresh cilantro. Tolerates summer heat well and is bolt-resistant.
Ready to use when seedlings have 3 or 4 leaves. Sow every 14 days indoors or out for a continuous supply of fresh leaves. Delightful companion to mustard cress #4150.
In the fresh state all parts are very poisonous. Socrates is the most notable to die in this manner. Juice was used in early times to execute criminals. Under proper directions it is a useful sedative for cases of nervous motor disturbances.
An enormous flower that blooms at night. The moon flower is a vigorous, easy to grow flower that grows up a vine upwards of 15 feet if given support. Moonflower (Ipomea) is a fragrant standard for any fence or trellis.
Impressive new series from Germany with abundant large flowers, 10-12cm/4-5 across. White petals with dark eye.Attracts butterflies. Excellent cutflower. Good heat and drought tolerance.
The infusion made from the pink flowers or leaves is used externally to moisturize and tone the skin and internally to soothe mucous membranes irritated and inflamed by coughs, stomach upsets and other intestinal problems.
If planted thickly, they will smother out weeds. Specific charges will be displayed during checkout.Cowpeas are tolerant of low fertility and acid soils (preferred pH is 5.5-6.5). Drill at 25-50 lb./acre or broadcast up to 120 lb./acre, 1 to 1 1/2" deep.
Hard nuts are used for making rosaries. (Bead tree) Beautiful tree, native of China and India; much cultivated in southern U.S. Bark used as an emetic and to expel worms. Hardy along southern B.C. coast.
Ornamental, aromatic and edible -- this basil has it all! Plants are remarkably uniform (for a basil) at about 40cm/15” tall and wide. Terrific for containers and garden plantings.
Thrives in shady, damp places. Attractive lacy foliage topped by clusters of small purple flowers. A tea made from the herb is recommended as part of the fresh vegetable juice diet devised to combat cancer by Rudolf Breuss.
