Crop Plant Seeds For Sale In Sterling Heights

If necessary, thin young seedlings to ¾–2" apart, depending on type or root size desired. To prevent blights, practice a 3-year crop rotation. Cercospora blight first appears as small dark spots with yellow margins on the younger leaves and stems.

Keep weed-free by tine weeding and shallow hoeing. Chantenays are top-shaped and suitable for shallow or heavy soil. For minimum soil compaction, use raised beds with 2 or 3 rows 16–24" apart, beds 5–6' on center.

NOTE: For round roots, be sure to provide even moisture. Keep weed-free by tine weeding and shallow hoeing. Atlas's small root size, 1 1/2-2" diameter, makes it a great variety for shallow soils.

* Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates.

* Methyl palmitate, which has been extracted from green husks of J. * Juglans regia is a large deciduous tree attaining heights of 25–35 m, and a trunk up to 2 m diameter, commonly with a short trunk and broad crown, though taller and narrower in dense...

* This is the most important cotton of commerce. * Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States, constituting some 95% of all cotton production.

Exclude adult insects with fabric row covers.Carrots may be dug any time after they reach the desired size. Nantes are medium length and cylindrical. 20,000 seeds/lb. Imperator type.

Keep weed-free by tine weeding and shallow hoeing. Intended for midsummer sowings and fall harvests as it will bolt under increasingly warm temperatures and/or during long-day-length periods.

The fruit is a drupe 4-7 cm in diameter with yellow-pink flesh; it can be harvested in the summer. * Prunus salicina ( syn. The flowers are produced in early spring, 2 cm diameter with five white petals.

Great for slicing and fresh eating! * Also make very good fried onion rings and can be used in cooking where a mild onion flavor is desired. To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed...

* Due to its purported effects on fertility, maca has experienced a major gain of commercial interest, as well as research, in the last few decades. * The root is eaten cooked. After 260 to 280 days, it is formed to the harvestable hypocotyl.

The seed can take 4 weeks or more to germinate. * Its natural range is confined to North America, in the United States (including Alaska) and Canada, although a popular variety called "Little Scarlet" is grown only in Great Britain, having been imported...

* Corn salad was originally foraged by European peasants until Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, royal gardener of King Louis XIV, introduced it to the world. It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green.

Most of the Asian basils have a clove-like flavour that is generally stronger than the Mediterranean basils. A common foliar disease of basil is gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea, can also cause infections post-harvest and is capable of killing the...

* Methyl palmitate, which has been extracted from green husks of J. * Juglans regia is a large deciduous tree attaining heights of 25–35 m, and a trunk up to 2 m diameter, commonly with a short trunk and broad crown, though taller and narrower in dense...

* This variety is perfect for growing in containers or restricted spaces. * It will yield normal sized cucumbers but not take up as much room in the garden.

Chantenays are top-shaped and suitable for shallow or heavy soil. Beautiful, 6-7", yellow roots with broad shoulders and a well-filled, blunt tip. For minimum soil compaction, use raised beds with 2 or 3 rows 16-24" apart, beds 5-6' on center.

Officinalis should be treated as a subspecies of M. * The highly aromatic bark is stripped from the stems, branches, and roots and used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is known as hou po (thus the common names).

Tabacum is sensitive to temperature, air, ground humidity and the type of land. * Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually-grown herbaceous plant. * All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide.

The seed contains about 20% of an edible semi-drying oil. * This is the most commonly grown plum at least in Europe, and most prunes (dried plums) are made from fruits of this species.

Wine corks represent 15% of cork usage by weight but 66% of revenues. * The tree forms a thick, rugged bark containing high levels of suberin. Only the bark is extracted, and a new layer of cork regrows, making it a renewable resource.

Green manures can be grown in the same year as a vegetable crop, such as a cover crop of white clover planted around a cole crop. The roots also scavenge nutrients from deep in the soil and bring them back to the surface where they can be utilized by...

The skin (or pellicle) of the seed is easily peeled. * Plants can fruit in 5 - 7 years from seed and yields from mature trees are around 25 - 60 kilos per tree. * Chinese chestnuts have evolved over a long period of time in coexistence with the bark fungal...

Organic matter is the food component of soil. More and more organic growers and gardeners are discovering the long list of benefits that growing cover crops such as oilseed radish, mustards, and forage turnips can provide.

* Gypsophila elegans ( Annual Baby's-breath , Showy Baby's-breath ) is an ornamental plant native to Asia and Europe . * An annual baby's breath, large white blossoms, used as a cut flower.

If left to grow, winter wheat makes good forage for livestock; or if allowed to mature it can be harvested mid-summer. Cover crops choke out weeds by restricting sunlight to the soil, stabilize the soil surface, and through their deep-reaching roots,...

Foliage unlike standard tomatoes. Train to climb on fence or trellis. After danger of frost, set 4' apart in garden. Planting guide: Start indoors 8 weeks before time to set in open ground.