Uses Seed Farm Seed For Sale In Riverside

Easy to grow shrub or small tree; nice compact bushy habit. Used by South American Indians to paint their bodies red. Seeds are source of natural bright-yellow food colouring, used in butter, margarine, cheese and other foods.

Traditional Maori remedy for kidney and bladder complaints, and to combat the miseries of the common cold. Attractive New Zealand shrub called the Tea Plant by Captain Cook because of the agreeably bitter tea his men made from the leaves.

Fragrant golden yellow flowers are delightful in potpourris and as cutflowers. Old English favourite for cottage gardens.

Sweet clover is slow to establish the first year but comes on fast the following year. Exceptional for honey bees and creating green manure! Sweet clover can grow nearly anywhere under most conditions.

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

(Huang shu kui; Yellow sichuan mallow)

It has significant anticancer and antioxidant effects and even has been shown to prevent tooth decay on account of its high fluoride content. At least 3 billion people are regular drinkers.

Dyers can use a copper mordant to derive a black dye from the roots, and the flowers and leaves can be dried to use in potpourris. A relative of meadowsweet, it is more tolerant of dry conditions than other members of its family, preferring a well-drained...

Beans will grow from 60cm/2ft-90cm/3ft long but pick them when they're tender (40cm/16in long). Excellent stir fried. Needs plant support. Best started early indoors. (Yard long bean; Dow gauk) Stringless bean with a mildly sweet flavour.

Fragrance similar to that of ripe apples.

Seedlings can be eaten raw as a sprout, or the fresh leaves added to salads to add an interesting somewhat bitter taste. A common ingredient in curry powder, it is used in oriental sauces, soups, stews, the production of imitation flavourings like maple...

Specific charges will be displayed during checkout.Sow the seeds at the time and rate specified in the product description. Let grow at least 60 days for high nitrogen fixation. Organic systems should plant 1/3 to 1/2 heavier to allow for some weed pressures.If...

(Da huang; Chinese rhubarb; Turkey rhubarb)

Attractive white lacy flowers are excellent for fresh floral arrangements. (Bishopsweed) Known to the ancient Egyptians as a treatment for skin diseases this humble wild plant of the Nile valley was recently catapulted to the forefront of modern cancer...

It is earlier to flower and more uniform than the standard form. Flowers look like white umbrellas mounted on strong, straight stems. Ht. 100-125cm (40-50in). Impressive in fresh floral arrangements! Casablanca is also a fine garden flower for tall borders.

The Navajo and Oglala tribes made a pleasant beverage tea from the leaves and the Comanche, Lokota and Ponca chewed the sweet tasting roots like candy. Considered an important medicinal herb for wounds, heart problems, diarrhea and pneumonia.

Fascinating as a specimen plant or where grown for therapeutic use. 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...

When sown late summer, spring regrowth is vigorous and nitrogen producing for tilling in before planting the spring garden crops. Blue label/Certified seed. Hairy vetch prefers well-drained soils with a Ph of 6.0-7.0, and will do poorly in clay or wet...

Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens. Spicy Mesclun contains pak-choi, chinese mustard, mustard spinach, shungiku, curled cress, roquette and mizuna.

Added at the last minute, the fresh-chopped leaves add a seductive nutty flavour to soups, stews, and salads. Named after Henri Pascal who discovered the first plants in his celery field in 1884, the variety was improved upon by Vilmorin, the French seed...

Improved strain of valerian for commercial production; root yield up to 2.5 tonnes per hectare (1 ton/acre); contains 0.7% essential oil (bornyl acetate, valepotriate and valerenic acid).

Also used for diarrhea, piles, hemorrhages, and has a reputation as an anti-cancer herb. The juice mixed with vegetable oil has been used to heal burns. A neat fleshy plant for dry areas and rock gardens; bluish-green leaves and showy crimson flowers.

Try throwing them in salads just for fun. These "berries" are quite edible, and the taste is a bit like mulberries. Like spinach, the leaves can be eaten fresh or cooked. But the novel thing about this plant is that late in the season red, juicy strawberry...

Tart fruits are commonly used in Indian curries, sauces, chutneys and beverages, and in Indian medicine for their carminative and laxative properties. Cooling tea made from leaves is useful for fevers, dysentery and morning sickness.

The yellow pigment is found primarily in the seeds, although can also be extracted from the leaves. Deep taproot discourages relocation. Ht 24-60in (60-180cm). Sow in a sunny spot, where it will get lots of moisture.

Has high vitamin E content, and like evening primrose stimulates the synthesis of prostaglandins. Culture like other pumpkins. Hull-less seeds yield a medicinally-active oil used in Central Europe for inflammations, hypertrophy of the prostate, and for...

It is believed to be the reason why an unusual number of people in areas where the herb is grown live to be 100 years. The fruits contain mogrosides, intensely sweet compounds that are as many as 300 times as sweet as sugar.