Herb Seeds Seeds For Sale In San Jose

Soft, lacy, deeply-cut blue-green foliage. Blue-violet flowers appear all winter.

The small round fruit, 7cm/3" in diameter, are eaten when green, and when they turn orange they are good for stuffing. Heavy yields and insect resistant. Stunning red-orange heirloom variety from Turkey.

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

Suited also for potplant production. Leaves are dark green, medium fine curled. Medium late maturity. Very uniform mosscurled type suited for fresh-cut and processing use.

Click for instructions for growing tobacco in home gardens. It is grown for smoking in some parts of Asia. It is an annual growing to 1.5 meters (5 ft.) tall, flowering from July to September.

Tender green leaves. Good summer green performing best in hot weather. Much improved over its wild relative. Succulent leaves are popular in France for salads, cooked greens or in soups.

(Ear Shiso) The Japanese grow this aromatic herb for its flower tips and buds, and for its leaves. The flap-like appearance gives the leaves the look of an ear, which is why this form is known as "ear shiso."

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

Sometimes the texture of modern curled parsleys can be tough, a feature added by design to withstand long shipping and to extend shelf-life. It is a tad sweeter too, making it one terrific parsley for all around use.

But there is renewed interest in this, North Americas largest native fruit. The yellow fruits form in hanging clusters somewhat like bananas and have a sweet custard-like flesh with an exotic mango-banana like flavour.

Used medicinally for sore throat, bronchitis and cough. 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.

Ht. 40-60cm/16-24". (Mosquito flower; Perilla) Mexican herb used for stomach ache, diarrhea, skin rashes, and infections of the kidney and urinary tract. To gardeners, this attractive plant is known as "mosquito flower" because its pink flowers vaguely...

Found throughout the American West, from Washington to California and Colorado, growing on rocky or thin soil, or in very dry sites. (Low sagebrush) A low gray-green sagebrush, no higher than 40cm/16".

A classic seasoning for chicken, vegetables or meat. Captures the warm flavours and aromas of the sunny south of France where lavender hugs the hills and thyme is plentiful.

Small: 2cm/1” long, 1cm/0.5” across. Thick flesh; clean biting heat. Use when green or ripened to scarlet. Heat: 10,000-23,000 Scoville units. Salsas, pickled, or roasted for sauces.

Ht 36in (90cm). Its use is associated with longevity, mainly helping to relieve chronic gastric issues and respiratory symptoms. Growing Licorice is very beneficial to your garden.

Traditional Maori remedy for kidney and bladder complaints, and to combat the miseries of the common cold. Attractive New Zealand shrub called the Tea Plant by Captain Cook because of the agreeably bitter tea his men made from the leaves.

Significant improvement over the Dark Opal variety. Fine flavour and aroma. Leaves nearly pure purple-bronze; very little green.

Various plant parts used with mordants yield yellow, green, gold and tan dyes. (Yellow dock) Ointment for skin eruptions and itchy skin is made by boiling roots in vinegar, then mixing softened pulp with lard or petroleum jelly.

Tall (up to 2 metres) erect habit; rarely flowers in temperate zones. (Huacatay) ‘Weedkiller' plant. In South America, dried leaves are used to flavour soups, meats and vegetables.

These teardrop-shaped peppers from Brazil are the cutest little things, less than an inch in size. The flavour is fruity and smokey, and while they have some heat, the pickled fruits are perfect for those who do not like their chiles to start a fire.

Recommended for excessive menstruation. Infusion is excellent for stopping internal and external hemorrhages.

Height 30-60cm/1-2ft. Succulent leaves are delicious boiled with salt and pickled in vinegar and spices. Has potential in the treatment of obesity. (Sea fennel) Aromatic herb found growing along European seashores.

Poultice of fresh leaves helps reduce swellings and boils and relieves pain. Tart fruits are commonly used in Indian curries, sauces, chutneys and beverages, and in Indian medicine for their carminative and laxative properties.

The leaves and flowers have a hot watercress flavour and are great in salads; and the young seed pods are hotter and can be pickled and used like capers. Easy to grow from seeds in the garden or in containers.

Prefers dry, sunny areas with excellent drainage. Beautiful sage from southern Europe with giant silver-gray woolly leaves. In Lucania, in southern Italy, the young leaves are traditionally collected during the procession of the Black Madonna in May and...