Heirloom Vegetable, Herb & Flower Seeds

Broom corn is a tall annual grass that looks like a corn plant but makes fan-shaped seed heads instead of ears. The seeds mature in the autumn in a multitude of colors, shades of red, black, amber and brown. The edible seeds can be sprouted, cooked, popped, or ground into flour. The straw can be made into brooms or tie untrimmed tassels into bundles to feed birds through winter.

Ideal for kids, crafts and critters. Easy to grow in full sun.

Annual 105 days

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Dukat dill is the sweetest dill of all.

Outstanding production of large, lush foliage used before the seed heads form. Bred for its sweetly aromatic essential oil content. Has a wonderfully mellow, never bitter flavor for culinary uses. Dukat also attracts beneficial insects like hover flies, ladybugs and bees, which keep the aphid population to a minimum while helping pollinate the rest of the garden.

Approx 100 seeds per pack

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Edible Chrysanthemum, also known as Shabu Shabu, Broadleaf, Shun Giku and Chop-Suey Greens, is an easily grown annual.

Both leaves and flowers are eaten though the leaves turn bitter in hot weather.

The yellow and orange daisy-like flowers look and taste great. An East Asia delicacy. The young leaves can be eaten raw or blanched. Used for its special aromatic flavor like an herb.

Certified Organic. 35-80 Days

Approx 45 seeds per pack

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The Nodding Onion is a native plant. Blooms June through early fall. Erect stems hold globes of drooping or nodding, white, bell-shaped flowers that turn lilac as they age and form exquisite seed heads.

A member of the lily family, Native Americans and early settlers used nodding onion to flavor food and to treat croup, colic, colds, fevers, kidney stones, dropsy and respiratory disorders.

Perennial

Approx. 35 seeds per pack

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Coconut Geranium, also called Gooseberry Geranium, has very strongly coconut-scented leaves and flowers on ornamental, low-growing, wide-spreading plants. Blooms late spring to first frost with a trailing habit that works well in hanging baskets, over rocks and walls. Suitable for fresh or dried herbal arrangements, potpourris and for growing indoors.

In Victorian times, it was found in parlors, on porches and in gardens. The scented leaves were baked into cakes and confections. Drought-tolerant, good for xeriscaping, easy to grow, needs little attention. Like many fine, old varieties, this fell out of favor as new hybrids were bred, but is being redisovered and treasured by gardeners in the know.

Certified Organic. Annual

Approx 30 seeds per pack

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Job's Tears, Adlay or Adlai is a tall ancient grain that is being rediscovered today. This grass has been used historically as a cereal grain in India and Asia. It grows well in higher altitudes where corn and rice won't. Hulled and cracked or ground into flour it used as a cereal or in breads. It is also hulled, roasted and eaten like peanuts. The Chinese still use the hulled grain like barley in soups and broths. The grains have been used to ferment ancient beers, and aged vinegar in Japan.

The grass grows from 3 - 6 feet tall, higher in more temperate climates. Can be perennial in the absence of heavier frosts. Crops usually harvested 4 - 5 months after planting by cutting plants at base and threshing seeds out, then hulling.

Annual

Certified Organic

Approx 25 seeds per pack

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Balloon Flower or Chinese Bellflower has mid to dark green foliage that emerges in late spring that is a prelude to the star of the show - the flowers. They have a swelling bud just before opening their 3 in. diameter, single, bell-shaped, upward facing blossoms, giving the plant its name. Blooms continuously from late spring through early fall. Native to East Asia, the roots are used extensively as an anti-inflammatory in treatment of coughs and colds.

Grows easily in well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade. Plant spreads by a somewhat stringy root system that can be divided and transplanted in larger bunches to overcome die-back.

Certified Organic

Perennial Zone 3 - 8

Approx 50 seeds per pack

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