Vegetables Herbs For Sale In Calgary

Oak leaf-shaped leaves., purple veins. Prostrate habit; fine for hanging baskets.

It also has shown to have some resistance to downy mildew. Yields are heavy! Excellent for both home gardens and for the fresh-cut and processing markets. A new improved form of Gigante d'Italia, the old favourite of Italy.

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

A neat fleshy plant for dry areas and rock gardens; bluish-green leaves and showy crimson flowers. The juice mixed with vegetable oil has been used to heal burns. (Orpine stonecrop) Fleshy leaves boiled in milk are used to stimulate the kidneys.

Excellent for pot culture. Neat compact bush habit, only 10-15cm (4-6") high, with medium sized dark green leaves.

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

(Crimson bottlebrush) Showy shrub or small tree from Australia with very potent antibacterial properties. The plant also has potent herbicidal properties, and new herbicides now on the market were inspired by compounds found in it.

Cool weather crop; roots attain maximum sugar content in the fall. Sow in open ground in May; pull roots in October. A traditional source of molasses and sugar. Although the process is lengthy it is possible to extract molasses, and even sugar, at home...

A hybrid vine that continues to produce beautiful intricate white, pink and purple flowers all year round! Not to be confused with American Passionflower, which is used medicinally, this variety is strictly valued in the perfume industry for its delightful...

(Spanish lavender) The standard form with narrow, grey downy leaves and dark violet flowers. Camphor-rosemary scent.

Buttercrunch Lettuce is a compact butterhead-type that's productive, heat tolerant and slow to bolt. L and has approximately 360 seeds. Ready to harvest in 65 days. The seed tape is 15 ft.

Up to 60cm/24in high. Choice variety for everlastings. Leaves silver-white, flowers soft lemon-yellow, large.

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

Produces nearly white flowers with traces of blue or purple. Dried powdered rhizome is the major source of orris, used in perfumery and potpourris.

Its height makes it an effective screen plant to hide compost heaps or fences. Flowers and young leaves can be added to salads. Historically used as a dye plant, fresh red blooms can be used to create red or pink dyes, with good fastness.

You can grow your own hot peppers with the Burpee Pepper Hot Mix Seed. This seed yields approximately equal amounts of 5 varieties of hot peppers: Long red cayenne, large cherry, Hungarian wax, Anaheim chili and jalapeno m.

Slow to germinate. Pretty rock garden plant with masses of purple flowers appearing early in spring. Valuable in correcting membrane disorders of the respiratory and digestive passages.

Impressive new series from Germany with abundant large flowers, 10-12cm/4-5 across. Good heat and drought tolerance. Ht. 70-80cm/28-32. Attracts butterflies. Excellent cutflower.

Its trailing habit makes it ideal for hanging baskets. Refreshing mint scent. Large velvety leaves.

Height 30-100cm/12-40”. Yellow, droopy daisy-like flowers in summer. Native wildflower used by the Navajo and Cheyenne Indians as an analgesic for chest pains, wounds and fevers.

It prefers a loamy, well-drained soil, and sun or part shade. It dislikes the wet and may develop crown rot if planted in an area with poor drainage. Best to look and not touch when admiring this lovely garden dweller!

Seeds germinate in 7 to 14 days, and you can harvest nutritional goodness in 60 days. It grows when traditional spinach won't. Apart, in sandy, well-drained soil. To grow, plant seeds 1/2 in.

Start early indoors, plant out with support. Long, slender fruit with an edible peel. Can be eaten without fear of indigestion, stomach pains or heartburn.

To gardeners, this attractive plant is known as "mosquito flower" because its pink flowers vaguely resemble the little pests. It is also known as "pink brush" for its masses of pink flowers throughout much of the summer and fall.