Herb Seeds Vegetable Seeds For Sale In Vallejo

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

Twining annual found throughout India. Seeds are a natural storehouse of L-dopa, a precursor of the neural transmitter, dopamine. Ayurvedic medicinal herb used traditionally as a nerve tonic.

Native wildflower used by the Navajo and Cheyenne Indians as an analgesic for chest pains, wounds and fevers. Yellow, droopy daisy-like flowers in summer. Also used as a treatment for poison ivy.

(Japanese parsley) Unique flavour of leaves and leafstalks, either fresh or blanched, is pleasing in soups, salads, and fried foods. Of easiest culture; prefers moist, partly shady locations.

Seeds used like regular caraway except this annual strain is superior for commercial production. Also seeds do not shatter when mature making them much easier to harvest. High yielder, producing double the crop of the common biennial variety.

Angels trumpets are popular in containers for the patio, balcony or deck. Beautiful hallucinogenic plants from South America where they have a history of shamanic ritual use for divination, prophecy and sorcery.

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

(Baikal scullcap; Huang qin) One of Chinese medicine's most important herbs is now all dressed up for the flower garden! English breeders managed to coax the hardy perennial to throw up bigger purple-blue flowers and more of them.

Sow every 14 days indoors or out for a continuous supply of fresh leaves. Ready to use when seedlings have 3 or 4 leaves. Delightful companion to mustard cress #4150.

Common weed in lawns and in pathways. Also helpful for bladder problems and ulcers. Valuable for respiratory and gastrointestinal problems such as asthma, bronchitis, and diarrhea.

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

Serve with a little butter or oil for a wonderful treat. Very easy to grow. It can be cut into 5-8cm/2-3" lengths and eaten raw or steamed, or it can be blanched briefly in salt water.

(Huacatay) ‘Weedkiller' plant. In South America, dried leaves are used to flavour soups, meats and vegetables. AIso effective mosquito control. Besides its nematodicidal and insecticidal properies, it destroys noxious weeds, including ground elder,...

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

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

Source of the famous dye “Turkish Red”, a characteristic colour of Persian carpets. In Egypt, the oil expressed from the seeds is said to be an aphrodisiac. Seeds possess hallucinogenic alkaloids.

Here's to good health, naturally! Cayenne, Comfrey, Valerian and Calendula.

This tall upright plant produces bright blue-green domes that are 12 in. Produces a tight main head and numerous small side shoots. Premium Crop Hybrid Broccoli is the most widely adapted broccoli for Southern conditions.

Socrates is the most notable to die in this manner. In the fresh state all parts are very poisonous. Under proper directions it is a useful sedative for cases of nervous motor disturbances.

(Lablab) Most of this legume vine from India is edible: the pods, leaves, flowers, dried seeds, sprouted seeds and roots are all commonly eaten in India. In traditional Chinese medicine it is used as a tonic and for the treatment of dysentery, bloody...

A most attractive form of bush basil with larger leaves (1 cm) and uniform dense globular little bushes. Plants tend to be a little stronger and more uniform than other bush varieties.

Interesting Mexican vegetable green. Young leaves are mild spinach substitute: beneficial for those who must avoid the calcium-sequestering oxalic acid in spinach. Flower clusters can be steamed like broccoli or fried in egg batter with mozzarella cheese.

It has significant anticancer and antioxidant effects and even has been shown to prevent tooth decay on account of its high fluoride content. Young leaves are processed to make fermented, semi-fermented or green teas/beverages.

(Couve tronchuda; Portuguese kale)

Something different from Europe. Curly, aromatic leaves are used to season soups and stews, or as a refreshing garnish. No blanching required.

All parts are bitter. Attractive British wildflower with masses of milky white or purplish flowers. Used for gout, rheumatism, asthma, bronchitis, dropsy and cardiac ailments. Found mainly in the English and Scottish limestone areas.

Sweetheart Lettage Hybrid will change the way you think about Cabbage. It has a distinct cone shaped head that can be harvested early to use in salads. So soft, it is often mistaken for lettuce.