Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Louisville Jefferson County

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.

Served on sashimi (sliced raw fish), tempura, and sushi. (Azabu-tade; Cultivated smartweed) Popular Japanese herb used for sushi. Peppery flavour is hot, but does not linger. This herb has lots of potential for experimentation!

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

In Chinese medicine, it calms the spirit and opens the flow of in the heart, which in western terms may be related to its sedative and tranquilizing properties. Used for anxiety, insomnia, palpitations, poor memory, and depression, especially in cases...

All America winner for 2002. Ornamental, aromatic and edible -- this basil has it all! Plants are remarkably uniform (for a basil) at about 40cm/15” tall and wide. Has great potential in salads, pestos, as garnish, or anywhere regular basil is used.

Improved strain for commercial production. Up to 0.5% hypericin; yields 2.5 tonnes/ha (1 ton/acre).

This species is the medicinal cousin of the tropical jujube fruit. They are said also to nourish muscles and enrich bone marrow. Used to treat irritability, insomnia and anxiety. Hardy bush or small tree.

The roots are also a source of the insecticide rotenone. (Catgut) Showy native herb with pink and yellow pea-like flowers. Tea made from the roots is said to improve male potency and promote muscular development.

Native to the dry woodlands and prairies of North America, it prefers poor, dry soils, growing to 1m (3ft). And blooming in August and September with small yellowish flowers. It is currently being considered as a treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome,...

The fresh leaves are edible and are eaten like cress. (Spilanthes; Australian cress) Leaves have a mild numbing effect and are useful for toothaches. Also used as an antibiotic against candida.

Popular prepared laxatives such as Metamucil are made from the seeds. (Isphaghula; Blond psyllium) Important remedy for constipation and problems of the bowel, including irritable bowel syndrome.

Hardy along southern B.C. coast. (Bead tree) Beautiful tree, native of China and India; much cultivated in southern U.S. Bark used as an emetic and to expel worms. Hard nuts are used for making rosaries.

Like true senna ( spp.), its leaves have purgative properties, but the effect is much less drastic. Attractive hardy Mediterranean shrub. Yellow flowers bear bladder-like pods which when squeezed go off with a bang.

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

High yielding variety for medicinal use. Elite variety for commericial production, rich in proazulene, a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. The proazulene add a distinctive blue colour to the essential oil.

Flowers and foliage stop hemorrhages; tea is useful against chills as it acts on the kidneys and induces sweating. (Purple archangel) Attractive beeplant and medicinal herb with purple-tinged foliage and purple-red flowers.

Soothes and aids in digestion. One of the ingredients in . Can be used wherever sage is used when a more subtle flavour is desired. Summer savory is annual, unlike the perennial winter variety, and hence is easier and quicker to raise from seed.

Best grown along streams where water is shallow and calm. Will succeed, however, in gardens or in pots, provided soil is kept moist.

Striking head of star-like pistils, suspended by delicate cup-like calyces.

Requires full sun and well drained, sandy loam. It is taller and woodier than . Native of dry, rocky regions of Central Asia, Tibet, China and Mongolia. Has higher total saponins, including the various forms of ephedrine.

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

Teff is a very versatile. Uncooked it can be added to baked goods or substituted for other seeds, nuts, or small grains. Can be planted direct in the garden in late May in same manner as alfalfa.

Added at the last minute, the fresh-chopped leaves add a seductive nutty flavour to soups, stews, and salads. The variety went on to spawn many more varieties and radically changed celery as a crop on both sides of the Atlantic.

New and improved. Ideal for pot culture. Now more uniform. Dwarf, bush form. Standard bush variety.

Rich source of vitamins A and C. Common weed, popular as a pot-herb. Young tender plants are a pleasant spinach substitute when boiled and served with butter.

It is also used for mastitis and for distension of the breast. Native of Tibet with showy masses of violet-blue globe-like flowers from July to August. The roots are anti-inflammatory and are used as a galactagogue -- an agent that increases milk flow...

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