Uses Seed No Till Seed For Sale In Chesapeake

Winter hardy nearly anywhere, and won't go to seed until its second year of growth. Use: Erosion Control, Green Manure, Nitrogen Scavenger, No Till, Weed Suppression Cool wheat grain is quick to germinate and cold tolerant! Adaptable to a wide range of...

Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Compaction Control, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation, No Till, Weed Suppression It is not deep rooted, and will not tolerate much drought.

High nitrogen fixation and great bee forage. As an annual green manure, “Summer” alfalfa can produce up to 10 tons of organic matter per acre. Alfalfa is basically good at everything! Just look at all it's uses below! Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.):...

Mammoth Red clover will fix up to 70-110 lbs. Large plant with big leaves makes it an ideal grazing crop. The long tap roots loosen soils and mine phosphorus and other nutrients from deep in the soil.

Provides quality forage for livestock and wildlife. This cool-season bunchgrass can be found throughout Canada and the U.S. except in the southeastern states. It is typically found in prairies, open woods, fields and disturbed sites.

Uses: Erosion Control, Green Manure, Nitrogen Scavenger, No Till, Organic Matter (Biomass), Weed Suppression< Prevents erosion and builds organic matter in the soil! Plant early to late fall; in mild climates fall through early spring.

Can reach up to 5 feet! Cereal Rye (Secale cereale L.): Cool season, grass, Annual or perennial, Upright plant growth, Crude protein: straw 4%, grain 14%, C:N ratio: 40-48, Self pollinator (wind) Uses: Erosion Control, Green Manure, Nitrogen Scavenger,...

Uses: Chicken Forage, Deer Attractant, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation, No Till, Organic Matter (Biomass), Weed Suppression A relatively new forage pea that has a wide range of applications! Secada forage pea is highly palatable, self-climbing,...

It is also believed to protect against poisonous snakes and violence. It is believed to suppress fire which may explain why it is often planted around shrines or around homes for protection, particularly against lightning.

Its flowers are brightly colored which makes it an ideal plant for attracting milkweed butterflies like the monarch! Interestingly enough, when monarch caterpillars are raised on milkweed, they develop a bitter taste that makes birds sick when they feed...

Thrives in shady, damp places. A tea made from the herb is recommended as part of the fresh vegetable juice diet devised to combat cancer by Rudolf Breuss. Attractive lacy foliage topped by clusters of small purple flowers.

When dried its silver dollar-like seed pods make attractive winter decorations. Edible leaves can be added to salads. (Money plant) Curiously, it symbolizes both honesty and money.

Low mat-forming variety with woolly leaves and golden flowers.

In Egypt, the oil expressed from the seeds is said to be an aphrodisiac. Seeds possess hallucinogenic alkaloids. Source of the famous dye “Turkish Red”, a characteristic colour of Persian carpets.

Usually grown as an annual. Showy Australian native with flowers of pure white like the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast.

Neat bush habit. Purple, pink and white, clover-like flowers.

Here is a flower-herb-veggie that cuts across the genres, with its white-flecked leaves and showy edible red-burgundy flowers. The leaves and flowers have a hot watercress flavour and are great in salads; and the young seed pods are hotter and can be...

The plant looks like chives but its long succulent leaves are crunchy with a mild salty flavour that is a bit bitter and a bit sour. Young leaves can also be added fresh to salads.

Likely because of its antiseptic properties, it was used by Native Americans like other sagebrushes to treat colds, diarrhea and sore eyes. Common in the dry plains and slopes of the American West.

Not recommended. Coarser foliage; almost completely lacks the odour and flavour characteristic of the true French variety. Tall, vigorous habit.

Not invasive like other thistles; a protected wildflower in Germany. (Carline thistle) Root is used as a liver, gall bladder and kidney tonic, and an ingredient in Swedish Bitters.

The young leaves can be cooked like spinach. Spectacular food plant often grown just for its ornamental value. It gets quite tall, up to 2m/6ft high, but then it produces long green tassels that swoop down for a striking tropical effect in the garden.

Bees love this plant. (Emperor´s candle; Ringworm tree; Candletree; Kagayima) A beautiful South American shrub or small tree that thrives in the southern U.S. where it is cultivated as an ornamental.

The Strawberry Digitalis is the longest lived foxglove on the market today. This vigorous, heavy-blooming plant delights with large blooms in deep pink. The perennial foxglove.

Young foliage is strongly lemon-scented and excellent in tea. Leaves used by Hopi Indians to flavour wild game. Attractive native of the American southwest with pink-purple flowers.

Seeds can be ground and used with near abandon like black pepper. Its legendary healing powers are summed up in the Arab proverb, “In the black seed is the medicine for every disease except death.”