Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Halifax

Finely cut foliage. For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Anthocyanin-free, so it is greener than most dills. Has strong flavour and high oil content.

Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens. Sweet basil, borage, roquette, bronze fennel, sugar beet, red leaf lettuce. Heat tolerant; suited for mid-summer sowings.

Melons keep for 1-2 months. Egg-shaped squash with flesh that really does look like spaghetti. Delicious served hot with spaghetti sauce, cheese or butter, or chilled in salads.

Also great in salads. Medicinally similar to marshmallow. (Tree mallow) Purple flowers yield an excellent natural colouring for drinks and herbal teas.

Extracts used to treat herpes and skin rashes. Large stemless flower with creamy-yellow centre and silver bracts is excellent for dried arrangements. Not invasive like other thistles; a protected wildflower in Germany.

Highly productive oil-yielding variety. Coarse, broad leaved variety. Yields camphor-like oil used primarily in soaps.

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

Roots are excellent for flavouring soups, stews, or steamed to serve with butter or sauce. Standard variety. Roots 20-25cm/8-10 long; flat leaves. Both leaves and its slender, parsnip-like root are used.

Ht 24-60in (60-180cm). Well known as a source for high quality yellow dye since ancient times; pigments used for oil paint as well as dyeing wool, cotton, and silk up until the Middle Ages.

Although the process is lengthy it is possible to extract molasses, and even sugar, at home from sugar beets grown in your garden. Sow in open ground in May; pull roots in October.

Contains up to 2.5% essential oil; yields up to 3 tonnes/ha (1.2 ton/acre). The main culinary varieties popular with onions for poultry stuffing and for flavouring rich meats like pork or duck.

The fresh leaves add a delicious bitterness to salads, sandwiches, pizza, and pasta. (Wild arugula) A beautiful wild arugula with deeply lobed leaves and purple-red veins.

Needs plant support. (Yard long bean; Dow gauk) Stringless bean with a mildly sweet flavour. Beans will grow from 60cm/2ft-90cm/3ft long but pick them when they're tender (40cm/16in long).

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

The Inca consumed it prior to going into war to increase their strength. The ground-hugging plant develops fleshy roots that are eaten as a vegetable or are dried and ground to a powder for medicinal use.

Plants should be spaced 7-12 inches apart as they will spread to about 9-12 inches. The showy purple flowers are edible! Their fragrance has a wintergreen overtone, and may be added to soups, fruit, potato salads, ravioli, and to desserts as a garnish.

120cm/4ft x 90cm/3ft. Repeat bloomer with purple-red single flowers. (Japanese rose; Saltspray rose) Hips are tomato-red and are large, up to an inch across. Easy to grow, tolerates part shade, and is very hardy.

Small seeds (thyme, savory, marjoram, oregano) can be gently pressed onto surface of the soil—don't cover or bury seed. Hardy herbs can be transplanted after the last frost. Transplant tender herbs after last frost when weather has stabilized.

Ma huang is a powerful stimulant herb containing the alkaloid ephedrine, the main inspiration for today's popular over-the-counter antihistamine drugs. However, when used in its native, non-purified form, the dried herb is much safer and very popular...

Tolerates drought and will self-seed. Navajo remedy for stomachache, abdominal pain, diarrhea and fever. The leaves were used for teas. Easy to grow in well-drained soils in full sun.

Approximately 25 seeds per packet. Ready to harvest in 50 days. Black Magic Zucchini Summer Squash has semi-spineless vines that grow 1 ft. Tall and 3 to 3-1/2 ft. Fruits have a small seed cavity.

It grows wild along the coast but the monks were known for growing it in their gardens. The plant looks like chives but its long succulent leaves are crunchy with a mild salty flavour that is a bit bitter and a bit sour.

Found throughout India where its seeds are used to make a popular milkshake called . The seeds have no aroma or taste but they add to the cooling effect of the drink and are believed to boost body strength.

Tender biennial or triennial. This and other species of Gossypium are the sources of the eminently useful cotton fibre. The rootbark once gained notoriety as a powerful abortifacient, particularly in the southern United States.

Grows in coastal areas from northern California to southern B.C. Excellent for moxa, and as such it is decidedly less harsh than the common mugwort, . It is more yin-like, and burning moxa made with this mugwort helps to soothe the nerves and induces...

The name Bellis is Greek for “pretty,” and these charming flowers live up to their name. Flower buds can be pickled in vinegar and used in place of capers. Sow seeds outdoors in shallow trenches in Spring, thinning seedlings to six to nine inches...