Specific charges will be displayed during checkout.Sow the seeds at the time and rate specified in the product description. Organically grown. Organic systems should plant 1/3 to 1/2 heavier to allow for some weed pressures.If anything you purchase from...
Leaves picked before the flowers appear are nutritious salad greens. This is the flower of deceit, giving off its lovely perfume only in the evening. Masses of flowers in spring are a mix of purple, pink and white.
Hardy to zone 6. Seeds require stratification. Recent German studies indicate that seed extracts regulate menstrual bleeding or too frequent menstruation, and may do this by stimulating progesterone and regulating estrogen.
Bred by the UCLA and released in 1987. If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. California Blackeye #46 plants are more erect than California Blackeye #5.
Sometimes the texture of modern curled parsleys can be tough, a feature added by design to withstand long shipping and to extend shelf-life. It is a tad sweeter too, making it one terrific parsley for all around use.
Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat. The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like pork or duck. Improved strain for commercial production.
But the novel thing about this plant is that late in the season red, juicy strawberry or raspberry-like "berries" appear along the stems. Ht. 40-50cm/16-20". Best sown directly in the garden in spring.
(New York ironweed) Tall native flower with masses of deep purple fluffy flowers. Prefers moist conditions but will tolerate a wide range of soils. It was used by the Cherokee for pain, toothache, ulcers, and hemorrhage.
Oil squeezed from the nuts has proved so valuable it is called the new “liquid gold” of the West, and jojoba “prospectors” are banking on its future. Used in shampoos; believed to arrest hair loss and induce new growth.
These red (rosso) peppers are huge, up to 20cm/8" in length. It is absolutely delicious cooked on the grill, fried, stuffed, or pickled. The thin skins combined with the thick, sweet flesh, makes this variety an extra special treat.
Botanical Name: Capsicum annuum 'Corno di Toro Rosso'
Outstanding curled leaf variety from Holland that is both ornamental and delicious to use in the kitchen like parsley. Aromatic leaves are used to season soups and stews, and like parsley they can be used as a garnish.
Used in India like stramonium in treatment of asthma, whooping cough and bronchitis. Poultice of leaves used for rheumatic swellings of the joints, lumbago, painful tumours.
(Cardinal flower) One of our favourite wildflowers which provides a briliant splash of red color in damp, partially shaded locations. Said to be anthelminthic, nervine and antispasmodic.
(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”
Considered a ‘life medicine' by the Navajo people who have used it for menstrual pain, stomach ache, wounds, swellings and coughs. Prefers sandy or gravelly soil on a slope. Brilliant red tubular flowers.
Both will winter kill in northern areas if oats are not allowed to re-seed. An easy choice for home gardeners. Mixed to meet our farm manager's preferred percentages of 70% peas and 30% oats.
Packer forage pea is a legume for cover crops, wildlife and winter grazing! Sometimes called “Canadian field pea” is a cool-season, annual legume with good, nitrogen-fixing capabilities.
(Mormon tea; Desert tea; Joint-fir) Reported to contain some ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, both potent central nervous system stimulants. Pleasant thirst-quenching tea. Indigeneous folk remedy for colds and headache, and for urinary and venereal diseases.
Native to the dry woodlands and prairies of North America, it prefers poor, dry soils, growing to 1m (3ft). Roots are a valuable antiseptic for infections of the mouth, throat, respiratory system, and the skin.
Elite variety for commericial production, rich in proazulene, a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. High yielding variety for medicinal use. The proazulene add a distinctive blue colour to the essential oil.
