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

Hulls are purple, cowpeas are green with pinkeyes when freshly picked turning cream with dark maroon when dry. Cowpeas are great for drying and canning. Produce pods that are six to seven inches long and purple.

Long podded variety with 13-16 peas per pod, light tan in color, oblong shape, good garden variety. If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. A high yielding, popular Southern Pea that is great for home gardens.

Long taproots break up compacted soil and bring up subsurface minerals. As an annual green manure, “Summer” alfalfa can produce up to 10 tons of organic matter per acre. High nitrogen fixation and great bee forage.

Promotes clear vision, and relieves swelling, soreness and redness of the eyes caused by liver inflammation. Ht. 30-90 cm/1-3 ft.X5385 Also used for high blood pressure, headaches, and dizziness.

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

The bush-type plants are prolific and thrive in hotter, Southern weather. Sadandy is very similarly to ‘Texas Cream' but the peas are slightly smaller. A “cream pea” type variety, they are generally used at the fresh shelling stage.

(Blueweed) Bristly native of Europe with brilliant blue flowers from June til frost. Thrives in dry, poor soils. Infusion of leaves is helpful for fevers, headaches and nervous complaints.

Broccoli-like vegetable from China. Flowering stalks, young leaves and buds are delicious steamed, boiled or fried with other vegetables, meat or on its own. Start indoors in April or sow direct after last frost.

It is somewhat shade tolerant, but needs sun to bring out its best colour. If the plant blooms, it is best to remove the unprepossessing yellow flowers to maintain the foliage. One or two drops of fresh juice dropped into the eye are said to remove cataract.

Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens. Heat tolerant; suited for mid-summer sowings. Sweet basil, borage, roquette, bronze fennel, sugar beet, red leaf lettuce.

With antibiotic resistance on a sharp rise worldwide finding new antibiotics that work in new ways is an urgent priority. Compounds extracted from the leaves are at least as effective as the antibiotics ampicillin, gentamycin and tetracycline.

The roots are anti-inflammatory and are used as a galactagogue -- an agent that increases milk flow in nursing mothers. Excellent cut or dried flower. It is also used for mastitis and for distension of the breast.

Fleshy roots, dug in autumn and boiled and roasted, taste like chestnuts. Was prescribed for chronic nervousness and kidney and bladder disease. In the 16th and 17th centuries the candied roots, called “kissing comforts,” were considered aphrodisiac,...

Juice of plant can be added to soaps to make an effective poison ivy-fighting soap. North American woodland plant with distinctive orange-yellow pendant-like flowers. When applied liberally to affected skin, it works almost immediately to soothe and help...

Mildly narcotic colourless juice was used by Californian Indians to treat toothache. Brilliant orange flowers. Best sown direct very early in spring as it prefers cool weather.

Immature green seeds can substitute for capers, and in tossed salads flowers add an interesting touch. They have unusually high vitamin C content. Climber with strong vines up to 2m/6ft high; for trellises, fences or poles.

(Eglantine rose) Spicy, sweet fragrant leaves fill the air, especially after a shower. Pink scentless flowers appear in June.

Large lavender flowers dry to a beautiful, silvery-white.

Lovely fast growing vine with dark sky-blue flowers. Ideal for walls, trellises or tall fences. Used by the Aztecs as a hallucinogen in religious ceremonies.

Cool wheat grain is quick to germinate and cold tolerant! Adaptable to a wide range of soils, Winter Wheat is sown in late summer for erosion control and tilled under in early spring to add organic matter.

An easy plant to grow from seed and transplant outside. Wild Geranium, also called Spotted Geranium. Does well in sun or mostly shady locations. Wild Geranium that grows wild in woodland floors.

Variety commonly sold as peppermint or spearmint. Flavour and odour is pungent, not sweet like the true root-propagated strains. Useful for tea, for medicinal purposes.

This flowers of this variety have tubular petals and come in a mix of crimson, rose, pink and white. Suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden.

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

It was once used for fever and malaria. Ht. 90-120cm/3-4ft. Herbalists today use it as a detoxifier, especially in support of Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. (Pitcher sage; Blue sage; Kansas sage) Tall azure-blue sage of the American prairies...

(Flue-cured Tobacco; Bright Tobacco) Commercial variety grown in Ontario, developed by crossing Delgold, the longtime industry standard, with an American variety. Improvements include lower nicotine content and better resistance to disease.