Herbs

Herbs

Shop and grow herb seeds and plants for home gardens. Urban Farmer has trialed several herb varieties to find the highest quality plants. Our herb seeds have high yields, easy to grow, and have great flavor.

Catnip is a very fragrant herb that is great for making aromatic teas, as well as giving it to your cats as a treat! This vigorous plant is not only great for playing with a cat, but is also known for having medicinal properties for getting rid of the cold and flu. Organic seed available.

The Wild Bergamot Monarda is the best bee balm for dry locations and produces beautiful violet blooms that have a wonderful scent! This variety has great mid-summer blooms, later than any other Monardas. The Wild Bergamot will attract a large amount of butterflies, bees and hummingbirds!

The English Lavender is an improved lavender variety that offers 30% more young plants and a 80% minimum germination. This lavender is a popular variety for many bouquets that produces beautiful lilac flowers with lots of ornamental blue-gray leaves.

A lavender that produces flowers the first year from seed. Produces a more consistent and early flower blooms. Bright white spikes top silvery-green mounded plants with vigorous branching habit. 12-16" tall and 6-8" wide when mature.

The Munstead Lavender is a beautifully mounded, bushy lavender plant variety that gives off a very delicate, sweet aroma. This bushy variety produces very attractive fragrant, purple flowers that are perfect for adding to bouquets or garnished on baked goods.

Borage is a mounded plant that produces beautiful blue flowers that are great for using as a garnish for different dishes or drinks. This large variety is a self seeding annual that bears hundreds of small edible flowers, mostly blue and some pink, over a long harvest. Borage has a mild cucumber flavor that is great for salads and garnishes. Medicinal: Seed oil is a rich source of gamma-linolenic acid.

Corojo 99 is a hybrid decedent of the original El Corojo seed from Cuba in the 1930's. It is sometimes called a sister of Habano 2000. Corojo 99 is larger and much more disease resistant than the original strain, but still produces a dark brown silky grained wrapper with with a rich spicy cedar aroma. It is one of a few wrappers that does well in both sun or shade. The plants grow to 7-8 feet in height and produce 18 - 20 leaves on average. Maturity is 75-80 days from planting.

Rue produces attractive blue-green and pungently bitter foliage that have great medicinal uses as being an antispasmodic. This hardy perennial is an ornamental plant is lovely in the garden.

Jasmine is a fast growing ornamental that can be planted in early spring. It starts blooming in only 3 weeks after transplant and produces a profusion of sweet smelling flowers that last all summer long. The flowers close during the day and reopen in the late afternoon. Jasmine has one of the sweetest fragrances of any flower we have grown and its scent will fill the evening air in the surrounding area. It is also very attractive to Hummingbirds

The Lemon Basil is a very attractive and deliciously fragrant basil plant that offers such great smelling light green leaves! This variety's small,  beautiful fragrant leaves on its compact plants delightfully combine the flavors of lemon and basil. The Lemon Basil is an excellent choice for fresh or dried use.

Lemon Balm is a wonderfully aromatic herb that is used for flavorings and teas! This variety can grow up to 2 feet-tall. Lemon Balm will bloom beautiful fragrant white flowers that are great for attracting bees to your garden for pollination.

The Triple Curled Parsley has beautifully intense triple curled leaves with dark green stems that look great as a garnish. This is a popular variety that is easy to grow, clean and harvest.

Chamomile is an herb that produces an abundance of small, fragrant daisy-like white flowers that are used in making teas and perfumes. This herb is used to aid in digestion and act as a gentle sleep inducer. You can also use its flowers to garnish desserts or drinks.

Tansy is a beautiful yellow blooming herb that actually can help repel insects and may help deter ants and mice in the garden. This herb works better when its made into a tea and sprayed around the yard. If placed in a compost pile, Tansy will add potassium to it. Tansy will grow to be 2-3 feet in height.

The Vera Lavender is a very popular home garden lavender variety that produces a lovely, strong lavender scent that can be used to freshen up the home. This lavender variety has several uses including both culinary and medicinal properties. The Vera lavender plants grow to be 18" to 36" tall and produces a profusion of lilac-purple flowers on silvery foliage.

A general use Genovese basil plant that is great for fresh market and live-plant production. Dark green leaves with Genovese aroma. Semi-compact plant with excellent disease resistance. (PS5) Potted Small-Leaf 5

The Mrs. Burns Basil is a customer favorite that is known for its deliciously sweet and tangy lemon-lime flavor and scent! This popular basil variety has many wonderful culinary uses. The Mrs. Burns blooms pinky blooms that add a beautiful pop of color.

Most commonly used as a cigar binder but may be used as a filler or pipe tobacco blend or in cigarettes. It produces large leaves, has a tight upright columnar form.