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This hardy perennial can decorate your garden as nicely as your salads, with its striking dark red veins. It is also great with sandwiches, omelettes, quiches, and most other egg-based dishes. Slightly more tangy than common sorrel, bloody dock is the first to show up in the spring.
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Clary sage is a perennial plant that is valued both for its culinary and ornemental qualities. The flowers are white with some purplish blue undertones, and are an absolute delight for bees. It is used just like common sage, but some recommend using clary sage for more extended uses. In popular medicine, the leaves are used to heal wounds. Clary sage has been grown since Antiquity for its medicinal properties.
This plant only starts flowering on the second year, but it is well worth the wait to see the carpenter bees and hawk-moths feast on the blooms.
Package: 30 seeds
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Common comfrey is widely used in organic agriculture as green manure. It can also be made into comfrey liquid manure or added to compost. This helps with soil fertility and thus plant growth.
Comfrey is also very popular among bumblebees and other bees that thoroughly enjoy its sweet nectar.
The plant easily reach a meter in height. The stem is a little prickly, and the leaves are large, alternate, pointy, and covered in hair. Above all of this, shoots grow where pink or purple flowers bloom in the middle of summer.
*For better germination rates, the seeds should be stratified. To do this, place the seeds in small bag full of humid sand of soil, and put the said bag in the fridge for 2 weeks.
*This comfrey is not Russian comfrey (such as Bocking 14). Russian comfrey doesn't produce seeds and would therefore be tricky to sell in seed packages.
Warning. We advise against regular comfrey consumption. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids which can be toxic for the liver in high dosage.
Package: 25 seeds
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No need for introductions! This herb is loved by all cooks for its taste, and gardeners for how easy it is to grow. It aromatic leaves and equally tasty seeds makes it a great ally, be it in the garden or in a pot on the balcony. Sow at intervals to be able to harvest all season long.
Package: 75 seeds
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Curly parsley is among the most widely used decorative herbs. This specific variety's leaves are diverse, ranging from very curly to more open. The plant is hardy and tolerates our winters readily. It can be eaten all summer long, and frozen in ice cubes in preparation for winter cooking.
Package: 150 seeds.
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Parsley is one of the most commonly used herb for decorating dishes. This variety's leaves are flat and tripinnate. The taste is very sweet and aromatic. The plant itself is hardy and tolerates well our winters. It can harvested and consumed all summer long, and frozen in ice cubes in preparation for your winter cooking.
Package: 150 seeds.
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French sorrel is a perennial that grows into a ground cover that establishes nicely along paths and beds, or on rocky soils. The small leaves of this sorrel variety are light green with occasional silver specks. They taste a little tangy and lemony. They are well-loved by kids, and are delicious in salads, sandwiches or sauces. The leaves can be harvested young in which case they are delicious eaten raw, or later to be cooked like spinach. Once harvested, the leaves can be stored frozen for a long time.
Package: 55 seeds
Photo credit: https://www.andrewsgarden.be/en/exotis-spices-medicinal-plants/rumex-scutatus-silver-leaf-french-sorrel/a-559-13
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Lemon balm is originally from the Eastern part of the Mediterranean basin (Turkey). It is now found all over the world, in every temperate region. It gives off a soft lemony smell when its leaves are rubbed. Lemon balm can be used in herbal teas, fresh or dried. The leaves, stalks, and flowers can be used.
The plant has been known since Ancient Greece, and used against stress, insomnia, and exhaustion. Lemon balm also has significant antispasmodic, antiviral, digestive, and anxiolytic properties.
Careful: Lemon balm seeds require moist and cold stratification prior to sowing.
Package: 150 seeds
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Meadow sage is an aromatic plant native from Europe. It is also melliferous, blooming profusely thorough the summer for the greatest delight of pollinators and yourself. Not difficult, it can grow in the sun as much as in mid-shade, and can handle fairly dry soil. Its leaves have several medicinal and culinary uses.
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Package: 40 seeds
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Mitsuba, also known as Japanese parsley, is one of garden plants that grows in the shade. This Japanese herb is eaten just like parsley. All the parts of the plant are edible. Soft parsley taste, with a bit of an anise undertone. Moreover, mitsuba is rich in carotene, potassium, and iron.
Small perennial plant that tolerates Quebecois winters very readily.
Package: 25 seeds
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This dense, shrubby and aromatic plant is a must in any garden. This melliferous plant, also known as wild marjoram, is easy to cultivate. It grows pretty purple flowers, and its perfumed leaves can be used as seasoning in your pizzas, sauces, and soups. Plus, not only is oregano delicious, it is also recognized for its antiseptic, antispasmodic, appetite stimulating, digestive, diuretic, and tonic properties. Enjoy the dried flowers in infusions during the winter; with all these beneficial properties, they will take care of you until the warmer days return!
Originally from Eurasia.
Package: 200 seeds
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This herb is commonly used in Acadian traditional cooking. It should therefore not be a surprised that, through time, they developed their own summer savory variety.
The first records of 'Ancienne d'Acadie' summer savory go back to Mr. Jean Prudent Robichaud in Burnt Churchill, Nouveau-Brunswick, at the end of the 19th Century. He received the seeds from a local indigenous woman. His family then grew the plant over several generations.
Given that this variety has had to adapt to the harsh and windy Eastern Canadian climate, it became stockier and hardier than common summer savory. The flavor is also more distinct.
For the full story please visit the Potager d'Antan website (in French) : https://potagersdantan.com/2017/01/31/curiosite-au-potager-la-sarriette-ancienne-dacadie/
Package: 25-30 seeds
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