Uses Seed Chicken Forage Seed For Sale In Irvine

Turnips have a high leaf to stem ratio and and provide very high concentrations of protein, sugar content and leaf yields. Barkant turnips are an improved, early maturing, diploid turnip with a large purple tankard shaped bulb.

Bush type cowpea producing heavy yields of purple pods. Cowpeas are great for drying and canning. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. Tends to stay off the ground and cluster making for easy picking.

Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Compaction Control, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation, No Till, Weed Suppression Contains 239,500 seeds/lb.

Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Compaction Control, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation, No Till, Weed Suppression Comes OMRI Pre-inoculated.

You can use these as green shell peas or dry like winter beans. This pea plant is high yielding, vigorous and easy to grow. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation.

Packer forage pea is a low-growing, viny legume which has been shown to fix over 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre per year. Packer forage pea is a legume for cover crops, wildlife and winter grazing! Sometimes called “Canadian field pea” is a cool-season,...

Lovely ornamental lavender grown as an annual in flowerbeds, planters, and baskets. Ht. 50-60cm/20-24. Blooms all summer. Set against its soft aromatic fern-like green leaves are masses of bright blue lavender flowers.

Due to its bioflavonoid content, the herb also strengthens the walls of capillaries and veins and can be used to treat varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and other vascular problems associated with aging.

Excellent purple basil. Dark purple with little or no green colouration, much like the Dark Opal variety was before it deteriorated to greenish-purple. Strong flavour and scent. Medium sized leaves.

Excellent salad green, with ruffled leaves and a nice sweet spicy flavour. Unlike some other fresh greens, the curled leaves don't easily fall flat in tossed salads. Sow every 10-25 days from early spring to early fall.

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

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

(Bishopsweed) Developed for the commercial cutflower market. When plants are in bloom it looks like the angels draped celestial white lace everywhere. Ht. 100-125cm (40-50in). Stems are strong, straight and uniform for easier harvest.

Sow direct in pots. (Chinese parsley) First true cilantro developed for potted plant production.

A traditional source of molasses and sugar. Cool weather crop; roots attain maximum sugar content in the fall. 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...

(Hoja de colico)

It is a shrub or small tree grown in the warm temperate parts of Asia. Young leaves are processed to make fermented, semi-fermented or green teas/beverages. Can be grown indoors in a cool window.

Poultice of fresh leaves on wounds prevents infection. Leaf juice is reputed to have blood cleansing properties, to strengthen weak lungs, and to fight colds, diarrhea and similar digestive complaints.

Somewhat winter hardy, but grows more quickly than regular alfalfa. As an annual green manure, “Summer” alfalfa can produce up to 10 tons of organic matter per acre. Alfalfa is basically good at everything! Just look at all it's uses below! Alfalfa...

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.

Pascal is the precursor that transformed celery into the thick fleshy form we know today. But as much as this heirloom belongs among the vegetables, its lush dark green leaves are also terrific as a fresh herb.

It produces flowering shoots and bladed grass up to 1m tall. Blooms July & August. It can be found growing in meadows, hay fields, wetlands and disturbed soils. (Sweet vernal grass) An ornamental grass similar to sweetgrass but more compact.

(Desert sage; Basin sagebrush) This iconic sagebrush of the American West is a pale-grey shrub that can reach 1m/3ft in height. Some believe that this is the "sage" that is most used for ceremonial smudging among the First Nations peoples of the western...

(Flue-cured Tobacco; Bright Tobacco) A leading commercial variety in Ontario. The flavour is said to be somewhat stronger than other varieties. Its slightly heavier, thicker leaves cure nicely with a high percentage of mahogany and orange leaves.

(Couve tronchuda; Portuguese kale)

As a companion plant it does well with coriander, and is protective against aphids. Anise seed has traditionally been valued for its ability to calm nervous stomachs and aid digestion, and is also thought to be helpful with chronic coughs.

They keep up to six months! Start seeds in March. (Horned melon) Quite unlike other cucumbers, this one has small orange spiny fruits, 8-13cm/3-5” long, possessing a subtle banana-lime flavour.