Our Grow Your Own category is very dynamic and plants are added frequently depending on the availability of medicinal herbs, cuttings, roots and other perennial plants from our herb farm. Most plants are sold and shipped during their winter dormancy, which sets up our customers for the best success. We generally start selling them in July and finish at the end of August.
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Plants are grown spray free, free from chemicals, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides. We are a biological farm enhancing soil life and working with natural cycles.
There are 14 products.
Shipment on the Monday following the order.
Bulbine frutescens
Family: Asphodelaceae
Common names: burn jelly plant, stalked bulbine, snake flower, cat's tail
This is a popular, waterwise garden plant, especially when planted en masse as a ground cover, or in rock gardens. It is often cultivated for its medicinal properties.
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Allium fistulosum
We offer Red Bunching Onions as well as the traditional White Welsh Onions (select below).
These multiplying onion are a great perennial plant. They have a thickened and fleshy leaf base similar to spring onions. They are used extensively throughout the East where they are essential in Chinese and Japanese cooking.
They are easy to grow, prolific and well worth the small space they take in the garden or in a pot on a sunny windowsill. Useful for pulling as spring onions or simply cut what you need at the base. Can be divided and re-planted every spring.
The red ones grow to a larger size and are thicker in diameter than the white ones.
Order is for 5 plants.
Available again mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.
Allium schoenoprasum
Easy care multiplying spring onions/giant chives.
With this starter clump you will have spring onions/giant chives to pick from September until May. No more successive sowing, no more pricking out. Simply plant and cut off as much as you need for 9 months of the year.
Available mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is in stock.
Echinacea (echinacea purpurea) is a highly effective and safe immune herb that helps to jump-start the immune response in the body.
Order is for 3 small plants ($5 each). These are healthy seedlings with growing tips. Simply plant into your garden over winter, protect the area from bird and watch them emerge in spring. Growing tips are below.
Available again in mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.
Marshmallow leaves and roots are used for pain and swelling (inflammation) of the mucous membranes that line the respiratory tract. They are also used for dry cough, inflammation of the lining of the stomach, diarrhea, stomach ulcers, constipation, urinary tract inflammation, and stones in the urinary tract.
Growing tip are below.
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Order is for 1 plant. It will be a healthy, dormant root with a growing tip. Simply plant into your garden over winter and watch it emerge in spring. Growing tips are below.
They have been grown organically at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. Free from synthetic fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides.
Available again mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.
Healthy crown with growing tip/s. Simply plant into your garden and watch it emerge in spring. Growing tips and uses are below.
This plant have been grown organically at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. Free from synthetic fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides.
It can be dug up and divided in the following winter. This one plant will grow into 3-6 plants within one year.
Available again mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.
Valerian is most commonly used for sleep disorders, especially the inability to sleep (insomnia).
Available again mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.
This plant is very valuable in a food forest and organic garden system.
The roots and leaves have many medicinal uses. It contains high levels of allantoin, making it a powerful cell proliferant internally and externally. It is used to knit wounds and damaged tissue.
Available mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is in stock.
Available only over winter (July/August), while plant is dormant.
Meadow Arnica
Arnica chamissonis
Common names: arnica, meadow arnica
Available again in July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.
Available only over winter (July/August), while plant is dormant.
We ship live plants on Mondays* only.
Rumex acetosa
Family: Polygonaceae
Common names: Sorrel, Garden Sorrel, Lemon Sorrel
We only ship the sorrel throughout the winter period when it is dormant.
* order and payment need to be in by 4pm Friday to be sent the following Monday, otherwise they will be sent the week after. If your order contains other items they will be all sent together unless separate orders are placed.
Available again mid July 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is back in stock.
Available only over winter (July/August), while plant is dormant.
This is a beautiful peppermint with a very "pepperminty" flavour. It is the one we grow commercially. Aromatic and very flavourful, peppermint is wonderful for the digestive system, acting as a carminative to reduce gas, ease nausea and sooth cramping. It is an uplifting herb and cooling to the body.
They come bare rooted with some growing tips in place.
Small: enough for a 20cm wide planter/pot
Large: enough to fill 1 m2 of garden bed.
Available in August 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is available for order.
Smallanthus sonchifolius
"Yacon" means "water root" in the Inca language and its tubers were historically highly valued as a wild source of thirst-quenching refreshment for travellers. The liquid can also be drawn off and concentrated to produce yacon syrup. The yacón is a species of perennial daisy traditionally
grown in the northern and central Andes from Colombia to northern Argentina for its crisp, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots.
Yacón grown at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. Free from synthetic fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides.
Order is for 1 crown.
Available in August 2022. Sign up below to get notified once it is available for order.
Alpinia galanga
Commonly known as Siamese ginger, Thai ginger or galangal, is a tropical evergreen perennial with a thick aromatic rhizome. It grows well in cooler climates and has been grown exceptionally well in a tunnel house at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. We will grow some of it this year outside, so I will report back how that goes.
We grow the red variety, which is more cold hardy and does well in our South Island climate.
The galangal has been grown at KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula. Free from synthetic fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides.
Order is for 1 plant.
