Lavender Lovers: As you sow your seeds with love, this Lavender Hyssop will reciprocate with gifts of calming fragrance. This herb provides many purple flower spikes that sit on top of dark-green foliage. Leaves emit a potent licorice scent when crushed and can be used as a flavoring for cooking and for tea. Makes an excellent cut flower.
Lemon Balm: Lemon Balm corresponds to the Hierophant Tarot card that represents education and desire for spiritual guidance. For those looking to begin the journey of growing Lemon Balm is a wonderful teacher as it is easy to grow with its bountiful supply of lemon-kissed leaves. Known for a multitude of healing properties in the herbal community, this plant has endless beneficial possibilities including uses in teas and culinary seasoning.
Oregano: Temperance in tarot means learning to bring balance, patience and moderation into your life. Maintain a sense of calm with this naturally antibiotic, antioxidant, nutrient-rich plant with many practical uses. The Oregano herb is a bushy perennial with attractive, purple-brown stems, broad fuzzy leaves and branched clusters of purple-pink flowers that appear during the summer.
Garden Thyme: The ancient Greeks believed that thyme imparted strength and fortitude. Their word for courage, thymon, may be the origin of its name. Like the Queen of Cups, Thyme is feminine in nature and associated with the water element's loving energy and the planet Venus. In tarot the queens represent this same feminine energy that includes creativity, nurture and love.
Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucumber: The Two of Cups symbolizes a deep partnership based on the sharing of values and compassion. These unique mini cucumber plants share a lot of the same characteristics of typical cucumbers so they are compatible with any cucumber recipe while offering a complement of unconventional tangy citrusy flavor. This plant produces grape-sized cucumber-like fruits form on a sprawling, small leaved vine. Refreshing flavor that is: sweet and pleasant, but also tangy. They also make lovely pickles.
Scarlet Kale: The Hanged Man tarot symbolizes selflessness and making a decision for the greater good, which is fitting for this colorful, cold-tolerant plant because it responds to hot weather by deepening it's red hue making it a unique and delicious addition to salads, juices and soups. Beautiful curled kale is produced from 2-3 foot tall stalks. Deep red in color and full of anthocyanins. The hotter the temperature outdoors, the darker the color will appear. Frost tolerant and can withstand cold soil.
Dr. Wyche's Yellow Tomato: The Ace of Pentacles represents prosperity & new beginnings. This special breed of tomato with its sweet, tropical flavor profile is a wonderful substitute for the average tomato. Dr. Wyche overwintered with the Carson & Barnes circus where he fertilized his terraced mountaintop gardens with elephant manure & scattered lion & tiger waste to keep out deer & rabbits. This gorgeous plant produces large golden-yellow tomatoes. Meaty flesh and rich flavor. Indeterminate.
Blueberries Cherry Tomato: The Magician Tarot represents resourcefulness and inspired action and best suits this colorful, compact variety of tomato. With full sunshine and well watered roots, this plant is able to produce beautiful red and bluish black fruit in abundance. This sprawling plant yields big quantities of 1/2 inch dark purple- almost black fruit, indicating that it is rich in anthocyanins. When fully ripe these tomatoes turn red where the fruit was shaded; and purple/black where the fruit has received the most sunshine. This beautiful fruit is luscious, sweet and flavorful.
Moon and Stars Watermelon: The Eight of Cups symbolizes the discovery of deeper meaning in something you enjoy. Expect this realization with this rare variety of watermelon that offers a more profound taste and appearance than run of the mill types. Provides delicious fruit with sweet pink flesh and black seeds, that can reach about 2 feet long, weighing 10-16 pounds. First introduced in 1924 as Sun, Moon and Stars, this strain came from Mereel Hales of Oklahoma who feels it is a close example of the original Cherokee varieties of watermelon.
Black Hungarian Jalapeño: The Chariot Tarot card represents motivation and focus. This attention grabbing Black Hungarian Jalapeño is an heirloom beauty with a delicious blend of sweet and spicy flavors. These tall, sturdy plants have lovely purple flowers. The fruit is solid black with a mildly hot, sweet flavor.
