Vegetable Seeds Seeds For Sale In Colorado

Excellent salad green, with ruffled leaves and a nice sweet spicy flavour. Sow every 10-25 days from early spring to early fall. Can be cut several times before the bolt and need to be reseeded.

Also used as an antibiotic against candida. The fresh leaves are edible and are eaten like cress. (Spilanthes; Australian cress) Leaves have a mild numbing effect and are useful for toothaches.

(Rose milkweed)

Used in cosmetics and pharmaceutical products, and as a top-quality industrial lubricant that may replace sperm whale oil. Used in shampoos; believed to arrest hair loss and induce new growth.

Tender, crisp leaves are sweet and spicy. Tall cylindrical heads are pure white inside. Delicious cooked or served raw. Best sown out at mid-summer as heads bolt during hot weather.

Curly, aromatic leaves are used to season soups and stews, or as a refreshing garnish. No blanching required. Something different from Europe.

(Mache; Feldsalat) Frequently found in summer salads in France and Germany. Pleasant alternative to lettuce or endive, possessing its own special piquant flavour. Ready to use when 3-4 leaves have developed.

(Yellow dock) Ointment for skin eruptions and itchy skin is made by boiling roots in vinegar, then mixing softened pulp with lard or petroleum jelly. Various plant parts used with mordants yield yellow, green, gold and tan dyes.

Beautiful hallucinogenic plants from South America where they have a history of shamanic ritual use for divination, prophecy and sorcery. Large single white trumpet-like flowers are fragrant at night.

A showy form of the venerable castor bean long used in medicine. Can reach as high as 150cm/60in. Large tropical-looking foliage. Has large maroon leaves, red stems, and spiky red seedpods.

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. When in flower, it is used as a gland stimulant and an aphrodisiac.

Grows to 6m/20ft. Like other oleanders, all parts are poisonous. Do not use without medical supervision. But can be maintained at 1m/3ft with regular pruning. Often grown for hedging in the tropics or as pot plants in temperate areas.

Butterhead type with loosely folded, succulent, dark green leaves. Our favourite because it is slow to bolt in summer.

Its tall upright shaped fruit are dark green in color and have light yellow-orange stripes that run from the top to the bottom. Tours' fruit have a diameter of 10 to 14", stand 12 to 18" tall, and have a contrasting light green stem that is hard and firmly...

A hybrid Pak Choi with attractive spoon-shaped stalks, ivory white stems, and dark green leaves. It has shown moderate tolerance to cold temperatures.

Harvest as a 2 to 3" baby or let it grow to a 6" to 8" in length; either way Supersett is a grower's dream. The precocious yellow gene gives it yellow stems and masks the greening effects of CMV and WMV.

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.”

ERFURTER is rich in medicinal mucilage, up to 10%. Noted for soothing irritations and inflammations of the skin, throat, eyes, lungs and urinary organs.

Torero is a makes a beautiful orange bell pepper, that add color and interest to your sweet pepper offering. Sturdy, medium height plants offer good cover to the fruit and produce good yields of 4" x 4" blocky bell fruit that have a medium to thick wall.

Mischief is the perfect size pumpkin for chain store, farmers' market and roadside sales. Its fruit are uniform for both size and shape and its plant has intermediate resistance to powdery mildew.

The crisp and mild flesh is slow to turn pithy and its medium size top makes for easy bunching. Amethyst radish makes an attractive bunched radish by itself or adds additional color to bunches of other colored radishes you are growing.

Hannibal is another early maturing pumpkin variety that should be considered for short growing season areas. Hannibal pumpkins would also be good to use when planting windows have been cut short due to poor planting conditions.

This hybrid radish has performed well in plantings around the U.S. Red Satin produces uniform, round roots that have a bright red color, extremely white interiors and refined taproots.

This is the original strain of the high quality Hubbard squash. Although smaller than the New England strain, it still produces the classic hubbard-shaped fruit and measures 12" long by 7" in diameter.

A beautiful white version of the Lemon heirloom cucumber. The texture is nice and crisp and the flavour is sweet and never gets bitter. The round white fruits are about 7cm/3" across and fit easily in the palm.

Famous European alpine herb unrivalled as a bitter tonic. Maintain at 10-15°C/50-60°F until germination is complete. Requires a cold period (4-5 weeks at 5°C/40°F) or 24 hours in 40-70 ppm gibberellic acid for success.

This strain of this popular winter keeper type beet produces roots that are not quite as large as the Lutz strain. The glossy green tops have deep pink veins and the stems are deep pink striped with green.