Seeds

Comfrey is popular for medicinal use, natural fertilizer, and permaculture use. It grows rapidly and easily from root cuttings. These are Naturally Grown at our nursery. These are a non-seed producing, non-spreading strain of comfrey (Bocking 14.) It won’t spread via seeds but stays in place, expanding slowly as a tidy clump of plants with huge leaves and all the soil and fertility benefits comfrey brings.  We have tested it for years- it really does increase soil organic matter and improve soil tilth around fruit trees and other plantings.

Very easy to grow, simply cut the roots into approximately 3-4 inches long cuttings and start them in small plastic pots in potting soil and then transplant later. They take about 2-3 weeks to sprout above ground, sometimes longer. Once started, they grow very rapidly. See our comfrey listing for more information about comfrey.

18 inches of Naturally Grown comfrey root cuttings. These are living, viable plant roots to be planted and not plants.  The size of the roots will vary but all will be viable and ready to plant and will produce plants. Sold for planting purposes only.

Fresh Comfrey Roots (Bocking 14 Strain)

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8 oz

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A vastly superior strain of one of the best perennial vegetables available!  What is groundnut?  Also called 'potato beans,' this low-maintenance and trouble-free native USA plant is a legume, or bean family member.   It rapidly grows lovely bean-like vines that like to climb.  In late summer lovely purple, pea-like flowers appear.  After growing in ground for about 18 months the tubers can be dug.  Yields on this LSU selected strain are massive- we harvested over 23 LBS off an 8-ft long bed in partial shade.  Leave some tubers to continue to grow for perpetual yields!  The tubers reach golfball to softball size, although LSU claims basketball-sized tubers can be obtained, likely in sandy soils!  You can then boil the tubers like potatoes and the starchy, Idaho-like potato like flesh is really good with some butter and salt!  Much higher in protein and nutrition than potatoes.  Would be a great 'survival crop'.  We've been very impressed with this plant and have wanted to offer it for years, so now is your chance!  The tuber size you will receive will vary from large marble to egg sized.

NATURALLY GROWN TUBERS

Pests:  None observed.  Voles ate a tiny bit of the tubers, but nothing major or even impactful.

Harvest:  Dig tubers in autumn after frosts up until very early Spring.  Tubers are found only 1-4 inches deep, so this is very easy and fast.

Planting:  Plant tubers in spring to summer.  Plant ground nut in full sun in well draining soil. It needs a trellis or something to climb on (large tomato cage, fence, bamboo sticks, etc.). Plant the tubers about 2-3 inches deep and cover with mulch, water in well. Provide some trellis or chicken wire or bamboo for them to climb.  We harvested about 4 lbs per foot of row.  Plant about 1-2 tubers per foot.  Harvest in 1-2 years for full harvest.

Zones 5-8b?  Possibly colder climates with decently long summers.  Not a desert plant.

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NUMBER OF TUBERS

Groundnut Tubers (Apios americana)

Nursery Plants

FREE SHIPPING! A delicious, productive fig perfect for the Deep South. Has superior delicious flavor, production, soft, chewy texture, and size. Figs are medium-large, firm, round and have bright reddish pulp.  Ripens early in the season, and is known as one of the earliest figs.  Disease resistant, tight closed eye, and good for the humid South - it's a seedling of "Celeste".  Would thrive in warmer zones like 8-9. Winter protection and a warm, sunny site are always advised in zones 6-7 for figs. The LSU figs come out of the Louisiana Fig Breeding program started in the 1950s that successfully produced superior figs for the Deep South.  This is the 'JF&E" strain 'Improved Celeste'.

NATURALLY GROWN - no synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides, neo-nictinoids, or other pesticides or toxic ag chemicals used at our nursery 

Uses: Makes an excellent dried fig. Also top-notch fresh eating, good for jams and cooking also.

Resistant to: Figs are remarkably free of disease and insects. This fig is resistant to rotting and splitting and has a tight eye.

Site Selection: Well-drained soil. Needs a warm, sunny, protected location like a south side of building, or in warmer zones like 8-9 a full sun location.

Pollination: This fig requires no pollination in order to set fruit.

Plant Size: 1-2' Tall 'MEDIUM' Size

USDA Zones 8-10

OUR NURSERY IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN 100% FIG BUD MITE FREE.

"...Thank you for the fig plants. They looked great, strongly rooted and ready to grow, which they’re doing now."
-Lee Reich Ph.D- Famous author on growing fruit, renowned fruit grower, and organic gardener

LSU Celeste Fig Tree - Naturally Grown

1 lb

FREE SHIPPING! Our favorite hardy fig!  Most cold hardy fig generally available. Excellent quality, medium-large, velvety soft, dark purple figs have very sweet, rich, thick strawberry pink pulp and very thin edible skin. Just delicious! Fast growing and very, very productive!

Discovered in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Borne, growing in an urban location in the 1970s. Very cold hardy. When left unprotected in colder winter areas (zones 5 and 6), this fig will almost always die back to the ground, only to sprout back from the roots in spring and produce figs that ripen in late summer! Unlike most other figs it does not need 1-Year old or older growth to fruit. This is very rare and useful for people wanting to grow figs in KY, IN, IL, OH, NY, etc.  In warmer areas such as MS, GA, LA, (or in colder areas under protection in the winter), it thrives and does exceptionally well, even in the extreme humidity and heat of the Gulf. One Gulf Mississippi grower told us it's one of his best figs of all (Carriere, MS).  Without winter protection in zones 6-7 it usually will die back to the ground, or very close to the ground.

NATURALLY GROWN - no synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides, neo-nictinoids, or other pesticides or toxic ag chemicals used at our nursery 

Site requirements: Full sun location. Figs will grow in a range of soil types provided the planting location is well drained. Protected locations, such as on the South, East or West side of a building is ideal.

Size at maturity: 8-15', depending on location, climate and care.

Pollination: This fig requires no pollination in order to set fruit. Fruits are seedless.

Resistant to: Cold winter temps. Also resistant to fungus, rots, and fig rust on leaves. Figs are known for remarkable disease and insect resistance. Ants can get interested in figs and heavy rains can make the current ripe figs rot, so keep well-picked. Figs continue to put on new fruit constantly until frost.

Hardiness: USDA zones 7-10. Winter protection in zone 6-7 recommended.

Plant size: 1-2' tall 'MEDIUM'

OUR NURSERY IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN 100% FIG BUD MITE FREE.

"...Thank you for the fig plants. They looked great, strongly rooted and ready to grow, which they’re doing now."
-Lee Reich Ph.D- Famous author on growing fruit, renowned fruit grower, and organic gardener

Chicago Hardy Fig Tree - Naturally Grown

Hardy passionfruit (Passiflora incarnata) from our superior line of large, tasty fruit producers.  Our superior passionfruit seeds are untreated, cold-stratified and require no special treatments (ready to GROW!). Grown in Kentucky, zone 6. 

Passionfruit vines, being hardy natives, are highly resistant to insects or disease, and our special strain is quite productive of delicious fruits. The vines grow vigorously and will soon rapidly climb and create a stunning ornamental cover for arbors, fences, decks, etc, making a wonderful natural screen and shade. The flowers begin to come on around July-August and are just stunning.

One vine typically produces about 15-20 fruits per season, ripening from September-November.  Ripe fruits always drop.  They'll keep in the fridge about 1 month. The vines and leaves are a potent natural relaxant and sleep aid and sold in the health food industry for that use.  Plant vines 3-4 feet apart early in the season, right after all danger of frost. Very winter hardy once established. By mid autumn the upper vine portion dies back to the ground. The following spring it will resprout from the roots, vine out, flower and fruit again, thus it is a PERENNIAL. In Zones 9-10 may become a permanent woody vine. Will often flower and fruit the same year of planting if planted in spring. These Passiflora incarnata seeds are derived from superior fruiting vines of excellent quality, size and flavor and represent much better than average genetics. 

NATURALLY GROWN Seed grown at Peaceful Heritage Nursery with zero synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.  Our vines at the farm host native butterfly species that would not exist without them. 

No scarification or treatments required: simply plant as you would tomato seeds, either indoors or direct into well-worked garden soil after all danger of frost. 

Resistant to: Highly resistant to insects and disease in general. Watch out for Japanese beetles, which can sometimes eat the flowers.

Pollination: Self-Pollinating

Approximately 20 Seeds per packet .  UNTREATED 


Zones 5b-10

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