Uses Seed Farm Seed For Sale In British Columbia

Flowers reach 30cm/12in. The whole plant has potent but underappreciated astringent, expectorant and diuretic properties. While leaves form ground-hugging mats. Also against flu, inflamed kidneys, and diarrhea.

Contains up to 2.5% essential oil; yields up to 3 tonnes/ha (1.2 ton/acre). Also in homemade sausage, omelettes, cheese and bean dishes. Sage tea gargle is valuable for sore throat.

Sowing successively every ten days will produce a regular supply of tasty salad greens. Mesclun is commonly defined as a mixture of salad greens. Sow in early spring or late summer.

Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Compaction Control, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation, No Till, Weed Suppression Of nitrogen per acre.

Good spicy flavour. A spectacular refinement of bush basil from Italy where the variety is known as (“very fine green, like a ball or globe”). Forms dense globular little bushes 50-70cm/20-28” across so perfectly uniform they look pruned.

Attractive potplant; grows well in pots, but will not produce pine nuts unless grown where it can reach mature size. Source of the richly delicious pine nuts used in pestos and other Mediterranean dishes.

The ornate blue-dappled white flowers resemble famous Dutch pottery made in and around the town of Delft since the 16th century. Seed extracts were shown to inhibit both forms of the cyclooxygenase (COX) enzyme involved in inflammation.

The growth is uniform, dark green in colour, and the leaves are bigger than the original. A new improved form of Gigante d'Italia, the old favourite of Italy. It also has shown to have some resistance to downy mildew.

Fleshy roots, dug in autumn and boiled and roasted, taste like chestnuts. (Eryngo) Grown for its roots which are both edible and medicinal. Was prescribed for chronic nervousness and kidney and bladder disease.

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

Or for fun freeze the flowers in ice cubes for drinks. Flowers all summer in full sun or partial shade. High in vitamin C. Dwarf non-climbing growth habit is ideal for borders, window boxes and hanging baskets.

The peas themselves have a deep purple color when first shelled which then turn black when dried. Black Crowder cowpea is a high yielding variety of long pods. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation.

Tolerates drought well and often self-seeds in optimum conditions. The Navajo and Oglala tribes made a pleasant beverage tea from the leaves and the Comanche, Lokota and Ponca chewed the sweet tasting roots like candy.

Seeds are very short-lived -- lasting only 30 days; we offer fresh seed shipped immediately after harvest. Azadirachtin, a constituent of the plant, is an insect anti-feedant, repellent, and insecticide.

Important medicinally for its calming effect. Tall growing vine, ideal for covering antenna towers. A pillow stuffed with hops flowers will overcome insomnia. Seeds will yield a mixture of male and female plants.

Important diuretic herb in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for urinary problems, kidney and lower back pains and as an aphrodisiac. (Puncturevine) This low growing vine likes moist, sandy soils.

Needs full or partial sun in a well-drained location. 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.

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

Click for instructions for growing tobacco in home gardens. It is frost tender, but will produce a crop in areas where the summers are warm and frost-free. It is grown for smoking in some parts of Asia.

Excellent for stir fries, especially with egg, and for pickling and seasoning. Flavour resembles onions, with rich aromatic overtones. In China there is a large industry growing the ‘tree vegetable' in greenhouses and tunnels year round.

Elite is a bush type cream southern pea that produces heavy yields of 7″ pods. This is one of the most productive of all the cream peas. Peas are delicious and easy to shell. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation.

For fresh use as dillweed, or allowed to go to seed for dill pickles. Has strong flavour and high oil content. Finely cut foliage. Anthocyanin-free, so it is greener than most dills.

Eyewash is reputed to strengthen weak eyes. Striking brilliant blue blossoms, infused in water, have both curative and calming action for nervous disorders.

Aromatic leaves are used to season soups and stews, and like parsley they can be used as a garnish. Outstanding curled leaf variety from Holland that is both ornamental and delicious to use in the kitchen like parsley.

New research shows that it relieves the symptoms of hay fever and other seasonal allergies without the drowsiness that antihistamine drugs cause. Prefers wet locations. Traditionally used since the Middle Ages for whooping cough and as a mucus-reducing...