Herbes De Provence Seed Collection

Edible Flowers Seed Collection

€12.00

A Deluxe Collection of 3 seed packets to help you grow edible flowers for your homemade salads, cocktails and cakes.

Cooking and garnishing with flowers is back in vogue, after falling out of favour for many years. Flowers are the most magical of ingredients, turning an ordinary green salad into a flowery meadow! Nasturtium, Calendula and Borage are some classics.

Contains 3 seed packets of:

Nasturtium Blue Pepe

Borage Blue and White Flowered Mix

Calendula Erfurter Orangefarbige

Standard Open Pollinated Seed, No Hybrid, GMO Free

Cocktail Herb Seed Collection

€12.00

A Deluxe Collection of 3 seed packets to help you grow sophisticated herbs for your homemade cocktails.

Though the classic mojito is made with mint—best with Moroccan Spearmint—you can use other herbs as zinged-up alternatives for this cocktail. Enjoy a tart, herbaceous, refreshing Shiso Mojito, for example, or a lemony and relaxing Lemon Balm Mojito to relieve stress after a tough day!

Contains 3 seed packets of:

Moroccan Spearmint

Shiso Red and Green Mix

Lemon Balm Quedlinburger Niederliegende

Unusual Fruits Seed Collection

€12.00

A Deluxe Collection of 3 seed packets to help you make your own Unusual Fruit. Traditional, warm, healing, at hand. 

A kit of three seed packets to help you grow your own fruits. They may be strange and unusual fruits, but you can bet they are delicious and juicy. Growing tips and recipes inside. Happy planting. 

Contains 3 seed packets of:

Alpine Strawberry Baron von Solemacher

Petit Gris de Rennes Cantaloupe Melon

Cape Gooseberry Golden Berry

Standard Open Pollinated Seed, No Hybrid, GMO Free

Common Anise

€3.50

Anise is native to the eastern Mediterranean and is one of the oldest known spice plants, used both for culinary and medicinal purposes, thanks to its sweet and very aromatic licorice-y flavour. Through the Romans, who served anise-spiced cakes after heavy meals to aid digestion, it was spread throughout Europe by Roman legions. Anise seeds, whole or ground up, are used in teas and for confectionery purposes, as well as in a wide variety of regional and ethnic liqueurs, e.g., Greek ouzo, Italian sambuca and French pastis, just to name a few. Of its many qualities, ‘it stirreth up bodily lust’, wards off the evil eye and keeps nightmares away if placed under one’s pillow.

• INFO
• HOW TO GROW
• HOW TO EAT

• LATIN NAME
  Pimpinella anisum
  SEEDS
  125 seeds
  NAME
  Anise
  VARIETY
  Common
  SHORT DESCRIPTION
  It’s the spice that wards off the evil eye.
  PLANT SIZE
  Height 60 cm
  Width 60 cm
  CONTAINER SIZE
  Height 30 cm
  Width 30 cm
  COMPANION PLANT
  Coriander, beans. Do not plant nearby carrots.
• SOWING
  Indoor Not required
  Outdoor Apr-June
  TIMING
  Germination 10-15 days
  Harvesting 120 days
  SPACING
  When sowing 3-5 cm; Depth 0,5 cm
  When thinning 20 cm
  GROWING
  Sunligth Full sun
  Soil Well-drained, light and fertile soil
  Watering Regular watering, allow to dry out
  Feeding Light feeder
  CARING
  Expert tip Anise plants are annuals, but their lives can be extended by bringing them indoors before the first frost of autumn.
  SUPPORTING
  Pollinators Attracts bees, butterflies and birds.
  Pests Attracts wasps that, in turn, eat aphids that host off nearby plants
• HARVESTING
  Harvest seeds from late summer to early autumn, when seeds have turned brown and fall easily from the head. Cut the flower stems and seed heads, and hang the stalks upside down in a warm, dry, shady place.
  EATING
  Medicinal properties Anise seeds, when chewed raw, are a miracle remedy for any digestive issues.
  How to eat Anise seeds are used in baking to add flavour to gourmet bread and to enhance the sweetness of pastries, cakes and cookies. Hard anise candies, rolled in powdered sugar, are an old-fashioned home recipe.