Vegetable Seeds Seeds For Sale In Chicago

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.

Its legendary healing powers are summed up in the Arab proverb, “In the black seed is the medicine for every disease except death.” Seeds can be ground and used with near abandon like black pepper.

Used to alleviate stomach ache, diarrhea and for colds and cough. This is the true that is cultivated and used in India, and is completely different from what is commonly sold in America incorrectly under the same name.

Poultice of leaves used for rheumatic swellings of the joints, lumbago, painful tumours. Used in India like stramonium in treatment of asthma, whooping cough and bronchitis.

It grows along the coasts among rocks where it forms neat star-like annual or perennial clumps up to 30cm (1ft) high. Even the older less tender leaves can be blanched a few seconds and added to salads.

(Roseheart radish; Red meat radish) It is totally the opposite of a typical radish: the outside is white and the inside is red! The outside colour starts out green but turns a bright white as the radishes mature.

Ht. 40cm/15”. The result is a beautiful new ornamental herb for sunny borders or mass plantings. (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...

Chinese medicinal herb noted for strengthening the spleen and building energy. Rhizomes are used to treat diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite and vomiting related to deficiencies of spleen or stomach.

Common in the dry plains and slopes of the American West. Very tolerant of drought and a good plant for xeriscaping. Strong pungent fragrance. Likely because of its antiseptic properties, it was used by Native Americans like other sagebrushes to treat...

Has double orange and maroon blossoms. Compact plants are ideal for interplanting. Preferred variety of marigold for insect control.

The breeder's choice of variety name 'Gecofure' is an unimaginative contraction of 'GEnovese COmpatto FUsarium REsistant'. But what the breeder has done to the variety's performance, leaf quality and disease resistance is far more inspired.

Ht. 40-50cm/16-20". Like spinach, the leaves can be eaten fresh or cooked. These "berries" are quite edible, and the taste is a bit like mulberries. But the novel thing about this plant is that late in the season red, juicy strawberry or raspberry-like...

Ground cover for any unsightly barren patches, south-facing slopes, etc. Mounds of lacy leaves topped all summer long by a profusion of pink or white flowers. Should not be used without medical supervision.

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

(Paperbark) Source of cajeput oil, a pungent oil distilled from the leaves of this aromatic tree from Australia. The oil is antiseptic, decongestant, analgesic, promotes circulation, reduces fevers and relieves cramps.

Medium-hot at 5,000 Scoville units. 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.

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

Kuroda offers intermediate resistance to Alternaria Leaf Blight and makes good size when not crowded. The 5" tapered roots are about 2 to 3" wide with a smooth surface, fi ne texture and high moisture content.

Has short runners in cool weather. For uniformly well-filled pods of delicious limas, grow this standard bush variety. Fordhook is still the popular lima and a dependable heavy yielder of plump, thick beans of the finest quality.

Perhaps the Israelites encountered it during their captivity in Egypt, for the cultivation of flax is written of in the Talmud and Bible. As ancient as civilization itself, pretty blue or white flax flowers have waved over fields tended by every population...

Low mat-forming variety with woolly leaves and golden flowers.

Its uniform sized and shaped fruit have a classic Crimson Sweet rind pattern with medium green and dark green stripes and weigh 15-20 lbs. Traveler is a high yielding seedless watermelon with a strong, vigorous plant that has resistance to Anthracnose.

It is heat and drought tolerant and very hardy. Start seeds early: it takes 3-4 months to get garden-sized plants. Fine garden choice for borders in hot and dry locations. Excellent for dried arrangements and potpourris.

Determinate plants offer good yields of 4 to 5 oz. Mariana is one of the widely used saladette types because of its wide adaptability, disease package and fruit uniformity. Fruit that have good smoothness and are uniform ripening.

Adapted to cool coastal climates and Eastern and Mid states. Snow Crown must be tied for best quality and may show a light purple blush on the underside of heads when grown under stressful conditions.