Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In Lowell

Serve with a little butter or oil for a wonderful treat. Very easy to grow. (Saltwort; Land seaweed) One of the oldest vegetables of Japan, traditionally used in sushi and salads, and it is served as a bed for fish and meat.

(Couve tronchuda; Portuguese kale)

Flowers and flowerbuds taste like mushrooms and can be eaten raw, fried or steamed. Needs a warm, sunny location, moist soil, and a trellis to climb on. From Papua and New Guinea but widely cultivated throughout the tropics.

The round white fruits are about 7cm/3" across and fit easily in the palm. A beautiful white version of the Lemon heirloom cucumber. Matures in 60 days. The texture is nice and crisp and the flavour is sweet and never gets bitter.

The brilliant red leaves are cooked like spinach to make Jamaican and Guyanese-style callaloo, a traditional dish that originally came from West Africa. Sow direct in the garden in spring.

Was proclaimed the Perennial Plant of the Year for 1998. Excellent longlasting cutflower. Beautiful European variety with rose-purple petals that don't droop as much as wild echinaceas.

(Mousemelon; Sandita; Mexican sour gherkin)

-- Richters special mesclun contains Kagraner lettuce, red leaf lettuce, roquette, radicchio, cornsalad, borage, mizuna, mustard spinach, chervil and curled cress. Mesclun is commonly defined as a mixture of salad greens.

(Butterfly weed) Bright orange-red flowers are worthy of attention as an ornamental. Valuable for all chest complaints, including pleurisy. Roots act specifically on the lungs as an expectorant and anti-inflammatory.

Also to flavour bread, soups, potato dishes and to make an aromatic tea. Near relative of fenugreek. Young seedlings as fresh greens with oil and salt.X6554 Powdered leaves and flowers used in Switzerland to flavour and colour Schabzieger or Sapsago cheese.

Needs full or partial sun in a well-drained location. (Yuan zhi; Siberian milkwort) Like the North American senega, roots are excellent for coughs, particularly when there is excess phlegm, and for bronchitis and asthma.

Also used to expel worms and for fevers. Effective laxative much in use by American herbalists. Ht. 1-1.8 m/3-6 ft. Usually taken in combination with with coriander to prevent cramps.

An improved, more aromatic selection similar to ‘Citronella'.

Native of dry grasslands of Central Asia, Tibet, China and Mongolia. Prefers dry, well-drained sandy loam. (Chinese ephedra) Properties and uses are similar to those of but contains the additional anti-inflammatory compound, ephedroxane.

Click for instructions for growing tobacco in home gardens. It is an annual growing to 1.5 meters (5 ft.) tall, flowering from July to September. It is frost tender, but will produce a crop in areas where the summers are warm and frost-free.

(Blueweed) Bristly native of Europe with brilliant blue flowers from June til frost. Infusion of leaves is helpful for fevers, headaches and nervous complaints. Thrives in dry, poor soils.

(Cleavers) Fresh juice or infusion is applied to skin diseases and eruptions with good success. Roots produce a red dye. Said to remove freckles.

(Spanish fennel flower) Hardy annual flower, native of southern Spain, the Azores, Sicily and North Africa. Prefers sunny locations with well-drained soil. Recent research has shown that the seeds possess powerful anti-inflammatory properties.

Low mat-forming variety with woolly leaves and golden flowers.

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

Harvest only as needed. Small seeds (thyme, savory, marjoram, oregano) can be gently pressed onto surface of the soil—don't cover or bury seed. Fertile, well-drained soil provides the best results.

Best to look and not touch when admiring this lovely garden dweller! It dislikes the wet and may develop crown rot if planted in an area with poor drainage. It attracts hummingbirds and butterflies, blooming from early to mid-summer, and if faded blooms...

Hardy climbing vine, to zone 5. (Wu-wei-zi) Chinese medicinal; astringent and demulcent berries are used to treat nervous conditions, chronic cough, asthma, thirst, too frequent urination, and diarrhea.

Vines are typically grown on trellises so the smooth round fruits hang down for easy harvest. The fruits contain mogrosides, intensely sweet compounds that are as many as 300 times as sweet as sugar.

For the very best, sweetest flavor and tenderness, harvest beets when they are 3 in. Approximately 200 seeds per packet. Red Titan Hybrid Beet has it all sweet flavor, outstanding color, high yields and great disease resistance.