Farm Seed Seeds For Sale In Sherbrooke

It is heat and drought tolerant and very hardy. Beautiful deep sky-blue flower spikes are nicely set against silvery green foliage. Start seeds early: it takes 3-4 months to get garden-sized plants.

Main value is a tonic, particularly for the digestive system. Said to improve circulation and blood, thereby strengthening the brain and memory.

Ht. 1-1.5m/3-5ft. This is the true that is cultivated and used in India, and is completely different from what is commonly sold in America incorrectly under the same name. It is also used in India to treat ulcers and wounds.

Has higher total saponins, including the various forms of ephedrine. (Chinese ephedra) In Chinese medicine this species is considered equivalent to and is used for the same purposes.

Very easy to grow. The association between the dish and amaranth is so strong that the plant itself is often called “callaloo”. (Chinese spinach) Callaloo is a popular Caribbean dish made from different leafy plants depending on local custom.

In spring or fall, sow alone at 3 lb./1,000 sq.ft. Pea tendrils (the most recent 6-8" of growth) are also great in salad mixes, and the dry yellow peas can be cooked in soup. Plant like garden peas: inoculate with proper inoculant, drill or broadcast,...

Fern-like leaves; height up to 1.5m/5ft. Large yellow flowers.

It is used in the liniment Tiger Balm and in the decongestant Olbas Oil. (Paperbark) Source of cajeput oil, a pungent oil distilled from the leaves of this aromatic tree from Australia.

Salve or poultice is useful for swellings, boils, arthritis and rheumatism. (Yellow sweet clover) Important forage crop. Medicinally, it prevents blood clotting.

Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat. The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like pork or duck. Improved strain for commercial production.

Fresh leaves are eaten as a delicacy in salads or cooked like spinach. Fresh leaves used as a poultice for inflammations, ulcers, abscesses. Can be invasive. A decoction is used to treat constipation.

Potent antifungal against pathogenic fungi. An important commercial spice crop in India where the pungent, aromatic seeds are in great demand in curries, pickles, confectionery and beverages.

Grows best in dry alkaline soil. Produces white flower umbels July to October. 15-50cm/6-20” (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,...

The foliage has a strong pungent aroma and bitter taste owing to the presence of camphor and terpenoids. (Desert sage; Basin sagebrush) This iconic sagebrush of the American West is a pale-grey shrub that can reach 1m/3ft in height.

The flowers of this variety have pink petals and a rose colored eye. Suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden.

The red colour, crisp, crunchy texture, and slightly bitter taste add distinction to any green salad. (Red endive) Grows like Belgian endive. Rootstocks produce compact rounded heads of purplish red foliage when being forced after fall harvest of roots.

This charming variety has white flowers with rose to crimson markings. Suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden.

They can even be candied. Herbs with edible flowers to add to salads, omelettes, desserts, and drinks. Borage, Calendula, Heartsease, Nasturtium, Citrus Marigold. Feast for the eyes -- pleasing to the palate.

Graceful for backgrounds, borders and bouquets. The Cosmo Sensation Mix blooms throughout the summer producing large, colorful flowers with broad, fluted petals and delicate, feathery foliage that blooms from midsummer on.

Spicy Mesclun contains pak-choi, chinese mustard, mustard spinach, shungiku, curled cress, roquette and mizuna. Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens.

Also seeds do not shatter when mature making them much easier to harvest. High yielder, producing double the crop of the common biennial variety. Sow Mar/Apr for harvest in Aug/Sept.

(Couve tronchuda; Portuguese kale)

Edible leaves can be added to salads. (Money plant) Curiously, it symbolizes both honesty and money. When dried its silver dollar-like seed pods make attractive winter decorations.

Often grown for hedging in the tropics or as pot plants in temperate areas. Grows to 6m/20ft. Patients who are intolerant of digitalis. Rich source of cardiac glycosides used for heart disease.

Cultivated in India and China since remote times for the oil used in cooking, medicine and as fuel for lamps. Important in commercial baking as roasted seeds add nutty flavour to breads and buns.

It can be grown in full sun or partly shaded areas and tends to be a good re-seeder. This Mediterranean annual produces spires of pink, blue, lavender, rose and white flowers. Rocket Larkspur is a great cut flower and can be used in the wildlife garden...

Garden performance is superior to other varieties, with well-branched plants, 16 to 18″ tall. Pink produces wonderful white to pink blooms! The Maverick Hybrid Geranium is a more vigorous plant with bigger 5-6″ flower heads! This is the best Geranium...