Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Sterling Heights

The black sagebrush is one of the most common shrubs of the United States. The low grey-green shrub is found from California to New Mexico north to Montana. The Shoshoni Indians of Nevada used the leaves for coughs and colds.

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. Cool weather crop; roots attain maximum sugar content in the fall.

Looks like a cayenne pepper with long glossy scarlet pods 15-17cm/6-7" but the flavour is sweet and tart with undertones of strawberry and apples and no bitterness. Medium-hot at 5,000 Scoville units.

In fact, the more they are picked, the more they produce. Cooked like regular spinach. Unlike ordinary spinach, its spreading branches produce succulent leaves and stemtips of very fine flavour throughout the season, long after all other varieties finish.

Very tender with distinctive bittersweet flavour. Stems can be cooked like asparagus. (Chinese spinach; Hinn choy) Young leaves are eaten either cooked or raw like spinach, but contain more calcium and iron.

(Carline thistle) Root is used as a liver, gall bladder and kidney tonic, and an ingredient in Swedish Bitters. Extracts used to treat herpes and skin rashes. Not invasive like other thistles; a protected wildflower in Germany.

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

(Jue-ming-zi) Excellent laxative: safe and effective for chronic constipation. Promotes clear vision, and relieves swelling, soreness and redness of the eyes caused by liver inflammation.

Thrives in shady, damp places. A tea made from the herb is recommended as part of the fresh vegetable juice diet devised to combat cancer by Rudolf Breuss. Attractive lacy foliage topped by clusters of small purple flowers.

(Wild garlic; Bear garlic; Baerlauch) The fresh flowering herb is used to treat high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries. Leaves are used in salads, sandwiches and any dish where a garlic flavour is desirable.

Both the fruits and leaves are high in papain, an enzyme that aids digestion and is used in meat tenderizer. Dwarf variety 75cm/30”. The famous dessert melon of the tropics.

Finally, here is a lemon catnip that truly smells of lemons. What a wonderful way to sip tea before bedtime to help you sleep! For years we have carried ‘Lemon Catnip' and while it had a perceptable hint of lemon, it never quite lived up to its name.

(Miner's lettuce) During the California gold rush miners ate this wild green to avoid getting scurvy. The succulent heart-shaped leaves have a fresh water chestnut-like taste and can be eaten raw in salads or cooked like spinach.

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

(Honeyplant) Commercial variety for the cutflower market. Flowers look like white umbrellas mounted on strong, straight stems. It is earlier to flower and more uniform than the standard form.

Old English favourite for cottage gardens. Fragrant golden yellow flowers are delightful in potpourris and as cutflowers.

Improvements include lower nicotine content and better resistance to disease. Its slightly thinner and lighter leaves cure well, producing a high quality tobacco with a light flavour.

Showy Australian native with flowers of pure white like the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast. Usually grown as an annual.

Long history of use as a hallucinogen by the Mexican Indians. The effects of this plant are well described by Castaneda in .

(Spiny gourd; Kantola) A Vietnamese melon with a spectacular spiny orange-red skin and red fleshly sacs containing the seeds. Hand pollination of the flowers is probably necessary also.

Standard lettuce-leaf type grown in Italy. Large ribbed leaves, strong flavour.

Easy to grow, tolerates part shade, and is very hardy. Excellent for group or hedge plantings. Disease resistant. Repeat bloomer with purple-red single flowers. 120cm/4ft x 90cm/3ft.

Sow in rich, moist, well-draining soil in full sun to part shade. It contains aconitine, an analgesic, sedative and a neurotoxin at higher concentrations. In ancient times aconite was used as a poison to coat arrowheads in battle and hunt.

Shrub of Mediterranean climatic zones; naturalized in California. Fragrant flowers yield a yellow dye. Said to be 5-6 times more potent medicinally than Scotch broom.

Gardeners Choice Tomato got its name from a panel of master gardeners. Fruits are a pink, beefsteak-type that resist cracking and grow up to 16 oz. It combines the luscious taste and meaty texture of the beloved Brandywine tomato with higher yields and...

One of the earliest picklers on the market. Gynoecious (all-female) vines ensure abundant crops. Ready to harvest in 50 days. Pollinator seed included. Nicely crisp for fresh use, making a superb salad.