Vegetable Seeds Seeds For Sale In Elgin

The hard seeds need to be scarified in order to germinate. The roots were used for many conditions including diarrhea, stomach ache, toothache, coughs, sore throat, fever, and the flu.

Prefers sandy or gravelly soil on a slope. Brilliant red tubular flowers. Considered a ‘life medicine' by the Navajo people who have used it for menstrual pain, stomach ache, wounds, swellings and coughs.

Strong flavour and scent. Dark purple with little or no green colouration, much like the Dark Opal variety was before it deteriorated to greenish-purple. Growth is stronger, more upright than Rubin.

Up to 0.5% hypericin; yields 2.5 tonnes/ha (1 ton/acre). Improved strain for commercial production.

Chamaecyparissus, it is particularly effective in knot gardens when clipped as low hedges. Like its grey cousin, S. Rare species with green foliage reminiscent of rosemary in appearance.

Like true senna ( spp.), its leaves have purgative properties, but the effect is much less drastic. Yellow flowers bear bladder-like pods which when squeezed go off with a bang. Attractive hardy Mediterranean shrub.

Treat as a biennial -- sow one year, pick the next. Enjoy in a spring salad, or cooked like spinach. This strain of the lowly dandelion boasts tender fleshy leaves, topping all other fruits and vegetables for iron content.

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

Pascal is the precursor that transformed celery into the thick fleshy form we know today. The variety went on to spawn many more varieties and radically changed celery as a crop on both sides of the Atlantic.

Can reach as high as 150cm/60in. Has large maroon leaves, red stems, and spiky red seedpods. Large tropical-looking foliage. Oil extracted from the seeds of the green form is a commonly used laxative for temporary constipation and acute diarrhea.

Medicinally, anise-hyssop has been used to treat a variety of ailments. Leaves, when crushed, are strongly anise-scented. Dried flowers are a good incense and when anise-hyssop is planted near a back door, is thought to be protective.

More compact than other leaf celeries, reaching only 25-50cm (10-20") in height. Use it like parsley and surprise your guests with its rich celery flavour and aroma. A very nice leaf celery with finely cut, dark green glossy leaves.

The shape, size, glossy skin and color are similar without the heat. Good for stir-fries, stuffings, pickles, and raw in salads. The fruits go from green to yellow, to orange and red as the fruits ripen, but they are best used when bright yellow.

Lovely in rock gardens. Petite woolly rosettes of leaves resemble a cat's foot. Improves the appetite by stimulating bile flow, gastric juices and pancreatic secretions.

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

Graceful sprays of small papery flowers; white, yellow, blue, lavender and rose.

There is hint of a bitter, grassy flavor but that is really secondary to the sensation. What happens is the mouth goes numb briefly, followed by an intense cooling sensation. (Paracress; Electric daisy) Trendy chefs and bartenders love to play with this...

Its fruit are round to oblong in shape and have a dark green background with thin light green stripes. Bush plants produce good yields of these tiny fruit and are spineless and fairly open.

Eyewash is reputed to strengthen weak eyes. Striking brilliant blue blossoms, infused in water, have both curative and calming action for nervous disorders.

Yellow, droopy daisy-like flowers in summer. Also used as a treatment for poison ivy. Native wildflower used by the Navajo and Cheyenne Indians as an analgesic for chest pains, wounds and fevers.

A superior performer. The 10" tall heads have a fresh green color, bright white ribs and grow with vigor. Intermediate resistance to virus, downy mildew and bacterial soft rot, Blues is a Napa type that can be used for either spring or early fall plantings.

The effects of this plant are well described by Castaneda in . Long history of use as a hallucinogen by the Mexican Indians.

Also to flavour bread, soups, potato dishes and to make an aromatic tea. Powdered leaves and flowers used in Switzerland to flavour and colour Schabzieger or Sapsago cheese. Near relative of fenugreek.

Bush Blue Lake 274 green bean seeds are white and slow to develop, maintaining a long, smooth pod of delicious quality. Developed from the famous vining Blue Lake, this easier-to-pick version produces over a longer season than other bush beans and brings...

The thin-fleshed sweet frying peppers are 6-7" long and 2 to 2-1/2" wide at the shoulder, tapering to a blunt tip. This hybrid Cubanelle type produces heavy yields of pale-green fruit turning bright orange-red.

Sweet basil, borage, roquette, bronze fennel, sugar beet, red leaf lettuce. Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens. Mesclun is commonly defined as a mixture of salad greens.