Uses Seed No Till Seed For Sale In Nova Scotia

It is resistant to powdery mildew and barley yellow dwarf virus. Widely adapted variety of barley! High yielding, good standing six-rowed barley. Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Erosion Control, Green Manure, Nitrogen Scavenger, No Till, Organic Matter...

Showy crimson blooms in late spring are an excellent source of nectar for bees. Inter-seeds well with grass. Winter annual protects and improves soil! Plant fall or early spring. A great way to ready your vegetable garden for the spring or beautify a...

Cut right after flowering in spring and till into soil for green manure. A multipurpose cover crop blend that is sowed in fall! This wonderful blend will help with nitrogen fixation, adding organic matter and weed suppression.

Quick growing green manure. Oats will kill off winter weeds and hold soil with a mat of vegetation! A high yielding oat that can produce over 100 bushels per acre. Great for garlic beds and other vegetables.

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

In more northern climes, an early spring plant will give high dry matter yields of excellent forage. A relatively new forage pea that has a wide range of applications! Secada forage pea is highly palatable, self-climbing, with high dry matter yields.

The multiple stems or branches of a flax plant are slender and flexible, bearing attractive blue flowers. Flax will take up excess N and other minerals, will winter kill and provide moderate to high amounts of organic matter back to the soil.

Fixes nitrogen. A perennial clover to control erosion and protect soil! A living mulch of permanent cover. Spreads by stolons. Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation,...

It is easy to grow and prefers full sun and moderate to dry soils. Sideoats Grama is a warm-season bunchgrass that is native throughout much of North America. Recommended for meadow and prairie plantings, beds & borders, and as a component of forage mixes...

Fibrous roots prevent soil erosion and build organic matter! Plant early fall to late fall, or early to mid-spring. When used as a spring cover crop the grass should be killed before reaching seed formation stage.

Animal studies suggest it strengthens endurance. Also used as a diuretic and to reduce excessive sweating. Chinese medicinal herb noted for strengthening the spleen and building energy.

Grows best in dry alkaline soil. (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.

Attracts butterflies. Charming European yellow wildflower similar to cowslip but larger. Excellent for colds and coughs. Root tea stops catarrh and acts to expel phlegm.

Considered an important medicinal herb for wounds, heart problems, diarrhea and pneumonia. Easy to grow in well-drained soils in full sun. Beautiful prairie wildflower used by American Indians.

Good container plant and for edging. Masses of double white flowers on neat, compact plants 18cm/7” high. Low parthenolide. Lovely in fresh or dry bouquets and arrangements.

A decoction of leaves was used for pneumonia, and an infusion was widely used for coughs and colds, fever, sore throat, and runny nose. (Desert sage; Basin sagebrush) This iconic sagebrush of the American West is a pale-grey shrub that can reach 1m/3ft...

Coarse, broad leaved variety. Highly productive oil-yielding variety. Yields camphor-like oil used primarily in soaps.

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. (Red Bulls Horn) One of the most loved sweet peppers of Italy. The long curved pepper looks like, as the name suggests in Italian, the "horn of the bull".

Thick flesh; clean biting heat. Salsas, pickled, or roasted for sauces. Use when green or ripened to scarlet. Heat: 10,000-23,000 Scoville units. Small: 2cm/1” long, 1cm/0.5” across.

It is used in the liniment Tiger Balm and in the decongestant Olbas Oil. Also used in commercial preparations for bacterial and fungal infections in fish. (Paperbark) Source of cajeput oil, a pungent oil distilled from the leaves of this aromatic tree...

A soothing herb for irritations of the skin and mouth. The back of the border will come to life when these tall spires of luscious colour erupt in mid-summer. Double hollyhock grows to between 1.2-2.5m (4-8ft), and features huge, full blooms that are...

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

Improved tetraploid strain of German chamomile for commercial production. Flowers are large and dry yields can be as high as 800 kg/ha (700 lbs/acre). Erect, sturdy growth habit and larger flowers containing up 0.7% essential oil high in bisabolol and...

Lovely variety with large purple wing-like bracts resting upon a sea of dark purple flowerheads. Ht. 35-40cm/14-16. Stunning in flower beds! Flowers the first season if started early (Jan-Feb).

A cocktail of chemical constituents has been found to be medicinally active, including flavonoids, saponins and glycosides. Easily taken for granted in North America when the countryside is awash with its yellow flowers in fall, goldenrod is better appreciated...