Himalayan Basil or Clove Basil or Tree Basil is a tall light green extremely fragrant basil with clove scented leaves. It is valued for its lime green leaves which are up to 4 inches long and leafy tops, which are used widely for seasoning soups, stews and sauces.
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Approx 50 seeds per pack
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Lemon Basil has a wonderfully fresh sweet lemony/citrus fragrance with high essential oil content. Aromatic white flowers with clove flavored nectar and light green leaves that love the heat. Delicious in mild sauces, with chicken, grilled fish or seafood; yet will work well with meats. Makes an intriguing and unique pesto. Stocks, sauces and stews benefit greatly from a ‘bouquet garni’ that includes Lemon Basil.
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Approx 50 seeds per pack
Thai basil's name is Bai Hora-pa, also called Asian basil. Highly aromatic, they are slightly sweeter but more intense in flavor and are more stable when cooked than the Mediterranean basil. Leaves are narrower than the more rounded Mediterranean version. Wonderful container plant, as they only grow to about 24 in. tall.
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Garlic chives, or Chinese Chives are perennial in all but the coldest climates. Producing purple-flowered seed heads. A subtle garlic flavor of is perfect for use in uncooked dishes where raw regular garlic might be overwhelming or too spicy. Also used in many dishes from dips to steaks.
Approx 100 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. Approx. 35 seeds per pack
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Cilantro was cultivated before 1700 in America. The fresh leaves (cilantro), the seeds (coriander) and the edible flowers are an important ingredient in Mexican, Asian and other ethnic cuisines. The aromatic spicy sweet flavor is superb in salsas, stir-fries and curries, breads, pastries, perfumes and potpourris; and were found in Egyptian tombs. Grows slow and steady, allowing you to harvest leaves when others have bolted. Succession plant for harvest all season long.
Approx 40 seeds per pack
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Also called long coriander or Mexican coriander, it is often mistaken for its close relative Cilantro or coriander, the dried cilantro seeds. A biennial herb grown as an annual that is indigenous to the American tropics and West Indies.
The appearance of culantro and cilantro are different but the leaf aromas are similar, although culantro is more pungent. The leaves are 1/2 to 3/4 " wide and up to 4" long.
Approx 130 seeds per pack
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Cumin is an ancient herb -well known to the Persians, Egyptians and Hebrews- and referenced in the Bible. This classic spice has been found in dishes from Indian, Pakistani, North African, Middle Eastern, Cuban, Mexican and Western Chinese cuisines.
Hardy to zone 8 and frost tender, it is in flower from June to July, and the seeds ripen from Aug to Sept. Harvest when the heads are starting to brown by clipping heads and storing in paper bags to complete drying.
Approx 60 seeds per pack
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Anise, aniseed or sweet cumin has sweet and very aromatic leaves, with umbels of flowers that produce fruits distinguished by their licorice-like flavor.
The flowers and leaves are used in salads, stems and roots in soups and stews. Anise plants are easy to grow and do best in light, fertile, well drained soil.
Annual
Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Fernleaf dill is a dwarf variety especially good for containers, perfect for the kitchen windowsill. The dark, finely divided foliage has an excellent soft buttery tangy flavor to complement dishes and dips. Dill also soothes colicky babies and settles adult digestive upset. This extended- season, versatile dill is a slow-bolting, space-saving variety that produces large quantities of dill weed.
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Epazote is also known as Wormseed, American Wormseed, Mexican Tea or Herba Sancti Mariae. This annual Mexican herb has a pungent aroma, spear-shaped, deeply toothed leaves and green flowers.
Epazote's fragrance is strong and pungent. It has been compared to citrus, petroleum, savory, mint or camphor. We have nick-named it the "diesel leaf plant" in our garden. It smells pretty strong, but we have found that it does add a wonderful depth of flavor to a pot of beans!
Annual or short-lived perennial.
Approx 65 seeds per pack
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Anise hyssop is a native plant with showy lavender flowers from July-September that add a lively licorice taste to salads, fruit dishes, baked goods and drinks. Extra-sweet, anise-flavored leaves make soothing teas to settle upset stomachs, respiratory disorders and fevers. Attracts butterflies and bees, producing a fine, mildly anise-tasting honey. Its aromatic properties were known to the North American Indians, who used the leaves as a cough medicine. Certified Organic. Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Virginia Mountain Mint is a slender, erect, native herb with strong, mint-scented, frosty leaves and lavender flowers late summer to fall. Scent remains when dried. Wonderful for teas, beverages, recipes, dried arrangements. Tea made from the leaves is used in alternative medicine.
Approx 50 seeds per pack
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Sweet Marjoram is an ancient shrubby tender perennial that grows to about 1' tall with wiry, red-brown stems and downy very aromatic gray-green leaves, with tiny white flowers on clustered spikes in summer. Wonderfully aromatic mild oregano flavor with a hint of balsam. Key ingredient in bouquet garni, used to flavor soups, stews, and sauces that includes parsley, thyme, bay, peppercorns, allspice, and tarragon. Use fresh leaves throughout the growing season, main harvest is just before it flowers when the color and flavor is at its peak.
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Rosemary is an ancient woody, perennial culinary and medicinal herb with fragrant evergreen needle-like leaves, semi drought tolerant and used in landscaping. It is a symbol of remembrance and friendship, often carried by wedding couples as a sign of love and fidelity. Easy to grow and very pest resistant. Fresh and dried leaves are used in cooking, with the flowers and leaves used medicinally. Used in potpourris to freshen the air, and in cosmetics, disinfectants and shampoos. Has a very old reputation for improving memory, and to treat gout. The finest plants are said to be raised from seed.
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Black Seed Sesame was first domesticated in India, cultivated at Harappa in the Indus Valley between 2250 and 1750 BC. Single stem with oval leaves and tubular flowers are yellow to blue or purple. Grown for its edible seeds in long pods that burst open when ripe. Seeds are dry roasted and used whole in cooking or ground and used as a paste for flavor. Used extensively in Asian, East Indian and Mediterranean cuisines. Black varieties are prized in the Far East, which have a rich earthy, nutty flavor and have high amounts of protein, phosphorous, iron and magnesium.
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Afghani Sesame is a very early maturing, dependable cultivar that likes hot weather. Up to 3’ tall, it produces an abundance of seed pods that burst open when ripe, with 80-100 tan seeds per pod.
An annual herb grown for its edible seeds in long pods. Tropical and heat loving, it thrives wherever cotton can be raised. Dried seeds taste nutty; their flavor is dramatically increased by toasting. Seeds are dry roasted and used whole in cooking or ground and used as a paste for flavor.
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110 Days
Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Rock Thyme is both an herb and groundcover! Dense, cushiony mats of wide spreading, and deep evergreen foliage sport violet flowers with red and white markings that bloom June to Oct. Leaves are succulent in cooked dishes, also make a delicious tea. Beautiful, edible, hardy groundcover that's a seldom seen but easy-to-grow perennial that does well in poor soils. Sow outdoors in spring.
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Joe Pye Weed is an amazing plant that is a native herb, a wildflower, a butterfly plant and an ornamental for the flower bed. Composite, rose-purple flowers have a vanilla-like scent. Possibly named for a Native American doctor, Joe Pye, who used it medicinally in early Massachusetts. It reputedly stimulates circulation and sweating, makes a gentle laxative and is used for kidney problems. Some Native American tribes still consider Joe Pye Weed to be an aphrodisiac. In danger of extinction in the wild, direct sow outdoors in fall.
Approx 100 seeds per pack
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Navajo/Hopi Tea, aka Greenthread has coreopsis-like blooms that stand out like radiant, yellow beams from June - Sept. Revered since Ancient Puebloan times, the slightly smoky, jasmine-scented drink from stems and leaves is one of the best wild, herb teas.
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