Talamh Draiocht Biadmar Farm
Printed by Denise O’Reilly
2013
A’bunadh Farm
(A-boon-arh - The origin)
Short Season Heritage and
Heirloom Alberta Seeds
2013
Online at
gardenofeden2010.
Box 127, Cherhill, AB T0E 0J0
smileyo@xplornet.ca
780-785-2622
As always I am very pleased to offer even more seeds for people who are looking for open-pollinated, short season produce for Alberta and other zone 2b areas. But even if you live elsewhere you can grow these seeds. Seeds provide you with all your needs to begin to be self-sufficient. Our idea is to get you started so you can save your own seed and have it on hand for years and years. This year I have added many more squash, broad and soybeans, peas and other beans for both fresh eating and drying, tomatoes and zucchini, and one eggplant!
Seed saving is easier than you think, but like all things it requires time and patience and diligent record keeping. If you are only looking to grow great tomatoes for your salsa, you may not care what variety it is, as long as it produces. But as with all heritage seed, accurate recording is very important. If you like a variety, save a few seeds from your fresh produce. I will share with you how on the website at
Different seed types are offered beyond this page. Each package is $3.00. Some are on sale for as low as $1.00 so check those out as well. Shipping rates are usually about $.50 extra per package. Germination tests show viability of greater than 75% on all regularly priced seeds. Please indicate listing number and name of seed on the order form at the back of the catalogue. You can get a complete list online as well. Some seeds are limited quantity and may be substituted with a similar kind as necessary. Thanks for your interest in heritage seeds and Good Luck in your Garden this year!!
Seed Listing 2013
Vegetables
Asparagus – 25 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
A1. New Jersey Giant – People either love or hate asparagus. If you love it you can never get enough. These seeds will produce shoots in pots the first year, and can overwinter in pots with adequate protection, or be dug in to the garden in late fall. Dig in deeper than you would think, and as they grow, fill in the dirt around the roots gradually every year. Can be harvested at 30% the third year, and then fully on the fourth and subsequent years until the 1st of July. Do not harvest after that, as the roots need to be strengthened for the rest of the season to ensure good survival. Leave the tops also until you are sure all growth is finished for the season or they will dry out and kill the roots. Always harvest asparagus below the surface of the soil for the same reason.
A2. Martha Washington – a heritage variety known for its hardiness in our area and production of tender, green shoots in the spring. Grow from seed as above. Expect harvest starting in the third season.
Beans – Pole (Phaseolus coccineus)
25 seeds per pkg. - $3.00, unless stated
BP1. Blue Lake – 60 days. White seeded beans, a great choice for northern gardeners, producing lots of beans. Traditionally producing pods days earlier than other varieties. Beans are 6-7”, stringless and slow to become coarse. Sold out for 2013.
BP3. Steeve’s Caseknife Bean – 65-70 - days (from Heritage Harvest Seeds). We are pleased to offer this heritage variety of the Steeve’s family originally kept in the New Brunswick area. Limited quantities, long beans, dries well. Climbs to 8 feet.
BP4. Blauhilde – 65 days. This stringless bean has long, fleshy deep purple pods up to 9” in length. Good yields and resistance to disease. Beans turn green when cooked. Limited offering – 20 seeds.
BP5. Heritage Dore (also called Golden Heirloom) – Mustard Colored seeds are used like dry beans for baking. Can also use the pods for fresh use. Dries well, 100 days to dry beans. These are vining bushes rather than true pole beans.
BP6. Scarlet Runner beans – 7 seeds per pkg. The true type climbing bean with dark black and purple mottled beans and deep scarlet flowers. Fun to grow for the large pods and decorative flowers. Prefer warm sheltered location.
BP7. Kentucky Wonder – 20 seeds. The tried and true pole bean, producing good sized flat green pods with great flavor. Vigorous climbers, requiring fencing for support or trellises.
BP8. Japanese Long Beans – 70 days to snaps. Used in stir fry dishes, these beans are up to a foot long, slender and rounded, used as snap beans. Like to climb up to 8 feet. Limited numbers.
NEW for 2013!!
BP9. Tung’s Pole beans – 60 days to snaps. These robust climbers were loaded with large flat pods even though planted into the ground from seed this year.
BP10. Dwarf Bees – 89 days. A dwarf plant version of the Scarlet Runner bean, or seems to be. Seeds are similar and so are flowers, this one grows just 2’ high. Limited seed.
BP11. Early Riser - 70 days to snaps. This bean is a prolific climber and producer of very huge (8”x1/2”) long flat pods with great taste, tenderness and flavor. Just a few plants produce many beans. Very tall climbers.
BP12. Baie Verte Indian – 70 days to snaps. Relatively early for this climate, these beans produce well and the seeds are a delightful mix of half tan and half brown speckles. It is termed an heirloom baking bean from the Baie Verte area of New Brunswick. Snaps are great too. A round green bean. 35 seeds.
BP13. Cherokee Trail of Tears – 70 days to snaps. Good bean for multipurpose uses, as they produce an abundance of delightful flattish green beans of great flavor and are a delight as they turn color from green to red and then tan pods holding an abundance of deep purple seeds that dry to black. Can climb to 6+’ and beans are about 6-7” long. Very good for anyone. Dating back to at least 1839.
BP 14. Anellino Yellow Pole – 68 days to snaps. Good producer. Yellow, flat beans about 4-5” long, on vines about 5’ tall. Beans are not straight with a slight to pronounced curl. Good for all purposes, sweet and tender and full flavored as the beans develop later. Seeds are brown and red blotchy.
BP15. Romano Pole – 65 days. Vigorous vines are not as tall as other varieties, but still require good staking. Beans are 6”, flat and wide with good bean flavor. Green beaned variety. Useful for all purposes. Limited seeds.
BP17. Painted Lady – 67 days. From Devonian gardens seed, these seeds are black and produce climbing vines with good sized, round green beans. Limited seed for 2013.
BP18. White Pole – 67 days. I am not sure what variety these are. Most likely they are Kentucky Wonder white seeded variety or a blue lake pole bean. Collected for their good qualities and quantities of long, round green beans.
BP19. Lazy Housewife – 70 days. Don’t care for the name because no wife would be lazy keeping up with these beans! I imagine they were so called because the tall climbers are easy to pick and productive. If you only had one variety of round, 7” green bean, this might be it. White seeded.
Beans – Bush (Phaseolus vulgaris) average 102 days to dried beans
For eating fresh and dry bean production. 30--45 seeds per pkg. - $3.00 unless low quantities
B0. Annie Jackson – 60 days to snaps, 95 dry. Similar to Mohave beans in coloring when dry, these round beans are half white and half burgundy. Fun to grow, prolific producer of flat, green beans. Can also be used in baking when dry. 25 seeds.
B1. Black Turtle – 90-100 Days for dry beans. Productive small black beans on bushes, Start indoors for earlier start. Full, rich flavor, great for soups and stews.
B2. Red Kidney – 100 days to dry beans. Medium sized kidney beans, full red color, earlier maturing for northern climates than regular larger kidney beans. Can also be eaten as bush bean, but save some seed for next year.
B3. Swedish Brown – 100 days(to dry beans). Hardy and plump, these beans make great additions to soups when you want it thickened. Also good for Boston brown bean recipes. Prolific and early.
B4. Ukrainian Beans – 100 Days (dry). Like Great Northern beans only more round. Use in soups and stews, salads and other areas where a firm bean is required. Good producer.
B5. Black Valentine – 110 days to dried beans. Now making a huge comeback as a popular green bean, this little black bean is similar to black turtle only large and kidney shaped. Good producer. Make sure to save some seed!
B7. Jesse Fisk – limited quantities (15 seeds), 90 days to dry beans. Good bean if used young or kept for larger kidney shaped, maroon and tan splashed seeds. Quick cooker for soups, chili and stew. Earlier than other dry beans. Sold out.
B8. Jessy’s Family Heirloom – (limited – 15 seeds), 100 days (for dry beans). Early strain of sulphur beans popular in the old days. The sulphur colored oval seed cooks down to a thick broth. Original source Heritage Harvest Seeds. Not available.
B9. Limelight – 65 days to snaps, 95 to dry. Developed in Lethbridge in 1968, they have a flavor and appearance similar to lima beans if used in the green shelling stage. Disease free, ivory colored flat seed, now considered a rare variety. Low availability – 20 seeds.
B10. John’s – 67 days(snaps). Used as pinto beans, these beige seeds with purple stripes (or reverse coloring) are a delight to shell out and also make good flat green beans. Early and productive, originally from the Maritimes. Very low availability.
B11. Montezuma Red – 67 days (snaps or longer for dry – about 20+ more). A wonderful red smaller version of the kidney bean, more suitable to shorter climates. Profusion of pods, and if left kidney beans used in soups, stews and chili. Sold out.
B12. Mohave – 62 Days for fresh eating. I love these beans and their unique coloring and shape. Fun to grow and store. They may also be called Cranberry beans, as they are half white and half cranberry in coloring. 4-5 plump round beans per pod. Sold out.
B13. Little White Rice – 90 days to dry beans. Limited quantity- 25 seeds. Small navy type beans, quicker to cook, and provides a lot of beans per plant. Thin pods are harder to shell at the dry stage, but can be used as fresh beans. Sold Out.
B14. Norwegian – 58 days to snaps. Brown med. Sized beans, many to a pod, used in stews and navy bean dishes. Bushy plants. May also be used as a green bean if picked young.
B15. Pepa de Zepallo – Reintroduced! (Aka – Tiger Eye) 85 days to dry beans. This is a great bush bean, originally from Chile and used as a dry bean like Kidneys. Easy to grow here and prolific. It has a good creamy texture for refried beans. Early and disease resistant.
B16. Pinks – limited availability (10 seeds) – 100 days to dry beans. Drought tolerant fun, small kidneys. Bright pink coloring on beans. Hard to miss in the garden.
B17. Reintroduced Pisarecka Zlutoluske – 50 days for snaps. One of the most productive yellow wax beans for short season areas. Hugely productive and tender, with long 6” or more pods. Highly recommended if you like yellow beans.
B19. Red Peanut – 58 days to snaps, 80 for dry. Eat young as a snap bean or saved for the red seeds, colored for their namesake. Pods turn light pink when ready to shell. Sold out.
B20. Red Valentine – 100 days (low avail. 10 seeds). Originally from the Missouri River Indians, this bean is used young as a green bean or later saved for dried seed. Grows smaller than kidney beans here in the short season. Sold Out.
B21. Refugee – 67 days to snaps, 90 dry. A very old variety, thought to arrive in N. America with the French Huguenots. Originally this huge producer was used for pickled beans. Green striped pods, ripen to produce small pink-beige seeds mottled with black. Dependable and disease resistant. Sold Out.
B22. Soldier – 95 days to dry. Limited availability. Known since the days of early settling in the US, these beans are good producers of long green pods for fresh eating or keeping as a shell bean in the dry state. Beans are kidney shaped, buff with brown markings around the helium.
B23. Great Northern or Cannellini – 100 days to dry. These beans are known by either name, but they are an Italian heirloom used in baked dishes. The beans are good sized, flat, rounded shape and white. Plant early indoors in short season areas and carefully transplant outside for early harvest of dry beans. Very limited availability.
NEW!!
B24. Golden Wax – 55 days to snaps. Seed is white with brown helium and spots. Good multipurpose bean, light golden yellow and round shape.
B25. Jade – 60 days. From open-pollinated seed. Nice round shape, productive plants, green snap beans. 5-7’ long on compact 12” vines. Good show bean! Limited availability – 20 seeds.
B26. Lynx – 55 days. A nice dark green 5” filet bean, round, growing in dense clusters on 12-18” plants. Good bean all around.
B27. Blue Jay – 60 days to snaps, 90 days dry. Extremely rare and beautiful bean that is very productive. Beans are green and round with darker streaks sometimes, about 6-8” long and remain stringless or are good tasting dry beans. The seeds are beautiful as well, deep purple with whitish-tan markings.
B28. Romano Bush – 55 days to snaps. Similar in shape and characteristics to Romano Pole beans, but short bush variety. Limited seed this year.
B29. Stringless Green Pod – 50 days to snaps. Early, productive vines are loaded with green round pods that remain stringless for a longer time than most. Good as a green snap bean, the seeds are medium brown in color.
B30. Oma’s Speckled Green Pod – 50 days to snaps, 75 dry. Some of the best colorful seed you will find, grows fantastic production of green beans on 12” plants for fresh use. Really a winner.
Broad Beans and Favas (Vicia faba)
10-15 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
BF1. Bell Bean Fava – about 70 days. A great option for fava beans. Small seeded, prolific and delicious. These beans are extremely hardy and can also be used as a cover crop because they have excellent nitrogen-fixing abilities. Limited offering.
BF2. Wilkeim type broad beans – 80 days. Nice big broad beans, good producer, large pods, dries well for seed saving. Leave on plant until pods are very plump and blackening.
BF3. Walter Krivoa’s – 78 days. Similar to Bell Bean but slightly larger. Limited offering.
BF4. Broad Windsor – 80 days. Large podded and seeded Broad beans. Favorite old variety. Good production for our area. Prefers hot spot in garden. Does well with frost. Low quantities.
BF5. Barton’s Broad – 75 days. A good variety for cold season production with large green pods and good sized beans.
NEW!!
BF6. Andy's Broad beans – 75 days. A good producer of nice long thick pods filled with regular sized broad beans. Limited availability.
BF7. Small Iluman – 70 days. A fava bean from South America from Jim at Prairie Garden Seeds. Seeds are similar to Bell Bean Fava, growing in clusters of 3-4 pods per node. Good flavor and growth.
BF8. Polar - 67 days. Grown for a short season variety. Pods are slim and early maturing, with white seeds. Good flavor. Fun to have in the dish. Limited seeds.
BF9. Red Epicure – 72 days. A medium sized bean variety with very nicely colored red seeds. Medium growth of plants, and claim is seeds taste like chestnuts. Limited availability.
BF10. Black Fava – 70 days. A smaller fava bean with black seeds. Sometimes used as a coffee substitute when roasted.
BF11. Sweet Lorane – 100 days. Bred by Steve Soloman at Territorial seeds, these were selected for their lower tannin content and lighter color, making them less bitter as Broad beans go. Smaller seeded and good production. Sold out.
BF12. Golden Lima – 80 days. Not a true lima, this is a climber with flat golden seeds with dark pink markings. Not available due to crop failure.
BF13. Centennial Fava - 85 days. Obtained from Devonian Gardens in Alberta. This bean is a large podded and seeded variety. Good production, and I am still growing them for seed next year. Check back in 2014.
BF14. Bunyard's Exhibition – 1845 seed origin. 86 days. Very large pods, growing on tall plants, yielding heavily. Seeds are white and large. Limited availability.
Beets (Beta vulgaris)
50 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
BT1. Detroit Dark Red – 60 days. Producing consistent, dark red beets with good size and storage capability. Flavor is robust and sweet.
BT2. Cylinder – 65 day. Long slender beets, good dark red color and flavor, stores very well. Excellent variety of beets for pickles and fresh eating, as well as juicing.
NEW!!
BT3. Early Wonder – 55 days. Earlier than Detroit Dark Red, a good variety for the same purpose, round and sweet. Slightly smaller in diameter overall. Limited seed.
Broccoli, Cabbage, Rutabaga family (Brassica spp.)
50-100 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
BC1. Gai Lohn – 65 days. This is a common Chinese green found in supermarkets. Like Rapini broccoli also called green sprouting, the entire top of the stock is used like mustard greens. Taste like broccoli only stronger, and great in stir fries.
BC2. Green Cabbage – 90 days. This is a winter storage and eating cabbage, large round green heads. Must be kept overwinter in a cool, damp area for seed production the next year. Good keeper, crisp and sweet heads.
BC3. Red or Purple Cabbage – 90-100 days. This excellent storage cabbage provides dark red heads that are crisp and tasty.
BC4. Laurentian Turnip/Rutabaga – 90 days. A very good keeping root vegetable, used fresh or cooked and mashed as ‘turnip’ in Christmas dinner preparations. A heritage favorite, this turnip is large, up to 12” across and dark purpley red on top and yellow beneath, yellow flesh.
BC5. Purple Top Milan – summer turnips. 50-60 days for roots. Some people eat turnip greens in the spring and these provide a quick harvest. Leave the tops to grow and provide nourishment for the smaller two tone roots, purple top, white beneath, with white flesh roots. An open pollinated, French variety, providing a good supply of tasty summer turnip without the wait.
NEW!!
BC6. Snowball Cauliflower – 78 days. Well known variety producing snow white tight heads. 30 seeds per pkg.
BC7. Superschmetz Kohlrabi – 75 days. A variety of green kohlrabi grown for it’s very large size and tenderness at all stages. Limited seed – 20 per pkg.
Carrots (Daucus carrota var. sativa)
100 seeds per pkg. approx. - $3.00
C1. Sweet mix – 65-70 days. These seeds provide a mixture of long, large, sweet and flavorful roots that always keep well into April for me. Over-winter roots in the ground for seed the next year.
C2. Danvers #2 – 65 days. Long tapered carrots that do well in all soil types, sweet and reliable. Good keepers.
C3. Vita Treat type – 70 days. Very long carrots with higher vitamin content than regular type. Good for storage, fresh eating and juicing.
C4. Long John – 70 days. Great carrots for storage and hard soil types. A Danvers type, producing 7-8 inch roots, or longer. Good sweetness.
C5. Scarlet Nantes – 70 days. Good tapered roots, long 10” roots for compact soils. Sweet and juicy. Limited quantities.
C6. Long Mix – 65-75 days. Selection of the above varieties of long roots with color and taste in mind. Mixed colors.
C8. Baby – 55-60 days. Small stubby roots, good for baby carrots, salad and fresh eating. Will store well. Chantenay type.
C9. Red Core Chantenay – 60 days. Short blunt roots, useful in fresh eating. Stores well.
C10. Purple Haze – 65-70 days. I love growing these colorful and tasty roots. They are deep purple, almost black on the outside and a normal carrot color on the inside. They lose the purple on cooking, but are great for fresh eating and surprising visitors. Unique and different, they have excellent storage qualities as well. Enjoy them all summer long.
C11. Shorty Mix – Favorite mix of fingerling type early eating carrots.
Corn (Zea mays) Sweet varieties – Average 75 seeds per pkg., less with limited or rare varieties. $3.00
CN1. Kandy Korn – 75-80 days. This corn is a hybrid but produces abundant corn in long straight rows with sweet flavor and slow conversion to starch. Old corn can be canned or used in bean and corn salsa – my family’s favorite.
CN2. Seneca Arrowhead – 80 days. Older version of the popular sweet corn. Good flavor, produces nice cobs in longer season or if plants are started indoors and put out after last frost. We have had good luck with this variety.
CN3. Simonet – 80 days. This variety originally from Prairie Garden Seeds. Good producer. Sold Out.
CN4. Lyric – 70 days. Good short season corn, smaller cobs but full corn flavor. Limited quantities.
CN5. Butter and Sugar type – 90 days. Bit longer season required for this bicolor sweet corn. Can produce cobs if started early indoors. Separate from other varieties to produce pure seed (500’). Limited quantities for 2012.
CN6. Earlivee – 70 days. Another popular heritage variety. Good for short season. Short cobs, good flavor, best picked young. Sugars change to starch quickly so eat within hours of picking. Great for Alberta gardens. Not available this year.
CN7. Golden Bantam – 70-80 days. Original variety from 1902, it was one of the first yellow corns for the table. Good full flavor, use quickly for sweet corn. Good short season variety. Smaller cobs.
CN8. Pickaninny – 85 days. Similar to Golden Bantam and others, the stalks produce 2 or more cobs of good size and quality. Pre-1929 variety. Purplish-blue seeds. Very rare – 40 seeds per pkg..
CN9. Kandy Quick type – 80 days. Very good corn derived from hybrid seeds, still very true to type and an excellent sweet cob corn. Large cobs and plants, fairly early, good taste. Worth a try.
CN10. True Gold – 80-90 days. A very hard to find and excellent Heritage sweet corn. Delicious, rich, buttery flavor. Golden cobs. Good for Alberta climates. Limited availability, 40 seeds.
CN11. Alta Gold Early – 80-90 days. Obtained from the Devonian Botanical Gardens in Northern Alberta at their annual seed swap. Low quantities.
Popcorns and Grinding Corn types
Pkg. $3.00, 50 seeds unless stated.
Cp1. Mandan Bride – 90 days. Beautiful ornamental or flour corn from the Mandan natives in N. Dakota originally. Cobs are an amazing mix of colors, with striped kernels sometimes. Early maturing for the prairies.
Cp2. Fiesta type – 92 days. Like Mandan Bride, Fiesta makes a gorgeous display in the garden of multihued cob and plants. The kernels are multiple colors on one cob, ranging in shades from white to red, to dark burgundy and black. One of my favorite types. I will try some for flour and popping. Who knows what will happen?
Cp3. Robust Hybrid popcorn – 100 days. Limited offering. 50-60 seeds per pkg. This corn takes longer to make cobs but it is worth it. Always the last thing out of the garden, it is started indoors and set out in a hot, sunny location. Cobs are about 6-7 “ long, filled with rows of light yellow, bordering on white kernels that dry hard and pointed. Pops good, tastes great.
Cp4. Carousel mixed popcorn – 105 days. Limited offering, 35 seeds per pkg.. Colorful and fun mixed popcorn similar to Fiesta. Good for the prairies.
Cp5. Tom Thumb Popcorn – 70 days. Super early and fun. The small plants produce only one or two 2-3” cobs on 3’ plants but fill quickly and fully. The kernels are true popcorn style and almost as big as commercial varieties. Limited offering – 35 seeds.
Cp6. Pink Popcorn – 85 days. 60 seeds per package. These tall thin plants produce 2-3 cobs per plant of delightful pink colored seeds that pop up nicely. Good for our climate.
Cp7. Lazer Mix Popcorn – 95 days. Good popcorn type for the prairies. Growing up to 8 feet, produces mixed colors on the same cob. Good for popping or fall decorations.
Cp8. Gaspe Flour corn – 90 days. Early enough to produce grinding corn for polenta or flour, this corn produced well and has 2-3 cobs per plant, not overly tall or bushy and medium sized full kernels. Good pick for short season areas. Start indoors 3-4 weeks early to ensure a good crop before first frost. Limited supply.
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
20 or more seeds per pkg. - $3.00
CU1. Sweeter Yet slicing – 55 days. Purported to be better tasting and burpless than other varieties. Multiple disease resistances, does well on trellises or on hot side of the house. Sweet and long, best picked at about 10-12” long, 1.5-2’ diameter. Produces throughout the season with lots of moisture. Not available in 2013.
CU2. Poinsette slicing – 58 days. Limited offering – Shaped more like a field cucumber (slicing), this does well in the garden, offering long slicing cukes throughout the growing season, each about 6-8” long.
CU3. Early Green Cluster pickling – 63 days. From the 1700’s, this variety is very drought tolerant and disease resistant. Good for pickling, forming all the fruits at the ends of the branches. Very rare. Not available.
CU4. Boston Pickling – 55 days. Productive pickling cuke with black spines. Green fruit about 5-6” ling. Limited quantities, 20 seeds. Not available.
CU5. Lyaluk – 45 days. Extremely early for the prairies. Pickling cuke for small areas, as the plants are compact. Old Belarusian variety. Can also be used to slice. Limited quantities – 20 seeds.
CU6. MidEast Prolific – 65 days. An open pollinated variety that is known for producing many excellent slicing cucumbers about 7” long.
CU7. Parisian Pickling – 60 days. We used for gherkins or cornichons when very small, and grows larger but with a strange shape. Rare variety. Limited offering.
CU8. Early Russian – 55 days. Slicing or pickling uses, super early. Black spines on green fruits. Nice for the prairies. Limited offering. Not available.
CU9. Plump Pioneer – 55 days. Pickling variety saved from Pioneer seeds. Cucumbers are plump and shorter than true types. Limited offering.
CU10 – Long Green – 65 days. Great heritage variety that produces long straight slicers. Can be grown in a greenhouse for extended harvest.
CU11. Straight 8 – 65 days. The well-known standby of many prairie gardens, producing straight thick slicing cukes that can also be used in pickles.
CU12. Armenian – 70-75 days. A heritage variety from the middle east. A great slicer, the fruits are long, light grey and ridged. Unique and different. Limited offering.
NEW!
CU13. Homemade Pickles – 50 days. An open-pollinated pickling cucumbers producing 2-3” squat cucumbers on their shorter vines. Good for small gardens. Limited quantities.
CU14. Jaune Dickfleischige – 65 days. An heirloom from Germany, this slicing cucumber is very ancient and excellent. The skin is yellowish but does not detract from the juicy sweet crisp flesh. Good producer on medium length vines. Rare.
CU15. Tendergreen Burpless – 65 days. A green slicer grown for it’s flavor. It is the variety grown for the small crisp cucumbers that are popular in stores now. Enjoy them whole or sliced when larger. Limited quantities.
NEW! Eggplant - 10 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
OT40. Apple Green - 69 days from Transplants. Finally I got one to grow here, without the cattle getting out and tromping it into the ground! These squat light green eggplant are 3", roundish and grow on shorter plants. Hand pollinate for best luck. They like a sheltered sunny location and even moisture. Limited availability.
Lentils
40 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
LN1. Ethiopian – 70 Days to dry lentils. These lentils are larger than what you may be used to at about 3/8” across. They are light greeny-brown and tasty. They grow readily in the North and shell easily. The whole plant can be pulled and dried by hanging upside down. Limited quantities – 15 seeds.
LN2. Red Lentils - 75 days to dry lentils. Limited offering. I had good success growing these lentils. Although small they are abundant, and easily shelled inside a sack or paper bag and pounding lightly on them prior to winnowing. Tasty and easy to grow in all conditions. Sold out this year.
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
50 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
L1. Ruby Red – 45-50 days. This variety is slow to bolt, tasty and productive with a slight red tinge. Nice addition to fresh spring salads with horseradish greens, arugula and early onions.
L2. Romaine – 40 days. Nice compact, upright heads of sweet crisp flavor. Start in trays and set out after last frost or direct seed.
L3. Paris Cos – 45 days. Romaine type, good flavor, shape and crispness. Early enough to enjoy in the summer garden.
L4. Green Leaf – 40 days. Green leafy salad type. For mixed greens.
NEW!
L5. Grande Rapids – 50 days. (1898) A very wavy leafed loosehead type, can be very large plants, good for cold frames for early lettuce or growing indoors for year-round greens, if you have the space. Grow similar to other lettuces. Protect from heat or it will bolt and be bitter.
L6. Iceberg – 80 days. One of the only open-pollinated head lettuce types (1894 introduction). Well known for its crispness. Grow in cool areas of the garden to keep sweet.
See Salad Mixes for various other selections.
Muskmelons & Cantelope (Cucumis melo)
Some have been saved from store seed, but grown successfully
20 seeds per pkg. - $3.00 unless otherwise stated.
M1. Early Gold – 65 days. Start indoors for greater fall yields. These are similar to Cantelope, with golden flesh and green mottled skins. Fruits are small to medium sized. Sweet and fragrant.
M2. Ontario – 70 days. Seed was given to us by our Aunt in Ontario, where she has grown it in her garden in New Brunswick. It did well for us also, with a smoother skin than Early Gold and good flavor.
M3. Far North – 65 days. Similar to Early Gold, but smoother skinned.
M4. Crenshaw – 85 days. Saved from store seed and grown in garden last year. Crenshaw melons are softer fleshed, smooth yellow skins and super sweet interiors. Grow in hot place for best yields.
M5. Honey Rock – 65 days. A muskmelon with a harder rind and golden orange flesh. Good for our Northern climates. Not available
M6. Gnadenfeld – 72 days. This rare heritage melon was grown in Gnadenfeld, Manitoba for years. Small melons, deep orange, fragrant flesh. Produced in abundance. Good for short season areas. Very limited quantities – 10 seeds.
M7. Early Hanover – 75-86 days. A muskmelon introduced by T. W. Woods & Sons in 1895, early 2-3 lb. fruits are up to 6” in diameter. Prodigious producer of green fleshed, sweet melons right to the rind. Endangered variety. Limited offering.
M8. Tip Top Melon – 75-80 days. 1892 est., also called Livingston’s Tip Top Nutmeg. One of the leading market melons at the time, it is now extremely rare. Med. Size, very sweet, spicy orange flesh right to the rind. Drought tolerant. Limited offering.
M9. Queen Anne’s Pocket Melon – 75 days. From 1737. Also called Portugal, King Charles, Dormers, Pomegranite, Dudaim or Plum Grannie. Grown strictly for its fragrance, it was worn in the pocket of Victorian-age women for its perfuming ability. Lovely smelling, cute 2” yellow melon with orange stripes. I love it.
M10. Crane Melon – 80 days. This melon has been grown and maintained by the same family for almost 90 years. Developed in 1920 by Oliver Crane in California as a cross of popular varieties at the time. Noted for outstanding, sweet, juicy, aromatic flesh, pear shaped. Flesh is light orange, can weigh up to 7 lbs. Not a shipping variety. Very low quantities.
M11. Montreal Market Melon – 90 days. Since the 1880’s this melon has been grown in Montreal area, thought to be of French origin. Brought back from the brink of extinction, it is now very popular, as it has outstanding taste and can reach up to 10 lbs. each. Green fleshed and delicious.
M12. Prairie 1 Cantelope – 61 days. Smaller variety of cantelope created from the production of the best prairie varieties. Can be green or orange fleshed, muskmelon exterior, sweet. Sold out.
M13. Minnesota Midget – 67 days. Introduced by Farmer Seed Company in ’48, developed at the U. of Minnesota. Made for short seasons, producing on short 3’ vines, fruits are 3-4” here, with sweet golden flesh. Productive. Limited availability.
M14. Prairie 4 Melon – 65 days. Created from natural crossing. Fruits are orange fleshed, with green outer skins. Earlier than Prairie 2 or 6.
M15. Delice de la Table – 91 days. Old French Heirloom from 1885. Deeply ribbed, light orange 1 lb. fruits look like small pumpkins with very sweet flesh. Brought back from near extinction.
M16. C52 Casaba – 87 days. Originally from store seed, I was surprised and delighted when the variety came true and produced fruit. Flesh is light yellow, rind darker with vertical ridges. Grew to about 3 lbs. in a very dry year. Keeper for sure!
M17. Green Nutmeg – 76-90 days. Introduced as far back as 1806 and popular for it’s sweet, spicy flavor. Flesh is green and succulent, rind is ribbed and heavily netted. Good producer of 2-3lb. fruits. Rare variety. Not available this year.
M18. Jenny Lind Muskmelon – 72 days. Pre-1846. Plants produce an abundance of 2-3 lb. heavily netted fruits with light green flesh. Extremely sweet and disease resistant. Low quantities.
M19. Cershownski – 90 days. Grown by the Rempel family of Halbstadt Manitoba, this variety can be traced back to the Southern Ukraine as far back as 1874. it may be a strain of the extremely rare Cob Melon. Center is filled with a cob like structure of seeds, so melons are cut lengthwise and twisted apart. Flesh is light green to cream, mildly sweet, 8-9” long and 5-6” in diameter. Good on the prairies. $4.00 per pkg..
M20. Tigger – 80-90 days. Similar in coloring to Queen Anne’s only larger. Very attractive, drought tolerant plants, producing 1 lb. yellow fruits, with unique bright red zigzags all over the rind. Flesh is white and slightly sweet, but very fragrant. From Armenia.
M21. Oka Melon (Île Bizard Strain) – 90 days. Bred in Canad in 1912 by Father Athanase of the Trappist Monestery in Oka, Quebec. A successful cross of the Montreal Market and Banana melons. Ribbed like Delice de la Table, but one color instead of multiple blotches. Orange inside, green outside, a cantelope type with great flavor. Thought to have disappeared, it was recently rediscovered on the Island of Bizard, Quebec. Rare.
M22. Collective Farm Woman – 82 days. Originally an old Ukrainian variety, it ripens even in Moscow. Med. Sized, yellow/white flesh, sweet, fragrant and crunchy!. One of our favorites, rare.
M23. Fast Break #3 – 90 days. Popular variety in the 1980’s, seed has been chosen to stay as true to type as possible. Takes longer than other melons, but has good flavor and solid flesh that ships and keeps well. Sold out for this year.
M24. Charantais – 75-90 days. Popular French heirloom known for its exceptional flavor. Grapefruit sized, with salmon flesh and light creamy exterior. Heavy fragrance and rich taste. Limited quantities.
M25. Prairie Canary – 90 days. Again, a successful seed transplant experiment. Fruits are long, thin, honeydew type flesh. Good flavor and fairly early for the prairies.
M26. Prairie 6 – 90 days. Very crisp, green flesh like honeydew. Smooth outer flesh. Fruits can reach 5” diameter or larger in good conditions. Rounder type than Prairie 2.
M27. Prairie 2 Cool – 90 days. Canary melon type, green inside with crisp flash, smooth with slightly hairy outside, sometimes orange around the seeds. Late season variety, but survives both frost and hail well. Longer fruits, about 6”, 2’3” diameter. Limited seed available.
M28. Melon mania mix - $4.00 for 25 seeds. A collection of early and sweet melons for short season areas. Even still, start at least one month ahead for best results. Mix of at least 5 different kinds.
M29. Haogan – A Seed Savers Exchange variety that does well in all areas. The melons are 2-3 lbs., with firm green flesh, and a yellow and green exterior. Did well for our area, started early. Sweet and juicy flavor.
Onion (Allium cepa)
50 seeds - $3.00
ON1. Kelsae – 90 Days. Limited offering of these good flavored onions. Not the best storage onion, but productive. Start early indoors for fall harvest. Leave in ground over winter for seed production the next year.
ON2. Home Run – 90 days. A variety of onions open-pollinated in the garden and producing good sized round roots that keep or can be used for fresh use as bunching onions.
ON3. Norstar Type – 80 days. Earlier variety of keeping onions, good size and taste. Not available this year.
ON4. Copra type – 90 days. Good keeping onions that are round and yellow. One of our favorites for years. Sold out
ON5. Candy type – 90 days. Limited availability. For eating or cooking. Does not keep as long as others in this category, but it will keep for a few months. Sold out.
ON6. Multiplier Onion – 70 days. Seed from the common multiplying onion types. Now you can grow them from seed or keep for future use. See also sets.
ON7. Superstar type – 70 days. A larger variety of white eating onions. They are good keepers, large and juicy. Sold out.
ON8. Vespucci – 80 days. An Italian heirloom onion, red and juicy. Good for keeping, fresh eating and cooking.
ON9. Dulce Grande type – 80 days. Large variety of eating onion, grows well if seed is started indoors first, 6-10 weeks before last frost. Sold Out.
ON10. Chives – 50 days from seed. Perennial after that. The common garden green onions, used fresh or dried. Purple flowers produce next years seed stock. Sold out for this year.
ON11. Garlic Chives – 60 days from seeds, perennial thereafter. As with chives, these plants are perennial once started. The leaves are flatter and thicker, with true garlic flavor. Can be added to salads or stir fries. Limited seed for 2013.
ON12. Welsh Perennial Bunching Onions – 55 days. Once started these onions continue in the garden plot, producing like bunching onions and forever seeding for the next years growth. Good sized onions, tall, thin, small white base. Limited quantities.
Top setting Onion (Allium cepa var. proliferum)
Shipped as sets in spring. Allow $7.95 for shipping and handling. 7 sets for $5.00
OL2. Egyptian Walking Onion sets – 50 days, continual from second year.
These perennial favorites produce the earliest green cutting stems in the spring and a prolific burst of red tinged sets from the tops of the seed stems by early fall that grow and topple the stem to the ground to set the next clump. Fun and interesting. I have used these sets for pickling onions with some success. Not available this year.
Multiplier Onions (Allium cepa - Aggregatum group)
Shipped as sets in spring. Allow $7.95 for shipping and handling. 7 sets for $5.00
OL3. Multiplier Onion sets – 65 days. A smaller onion with great storage and over wintering capabilities. A patch of multiplier onions will provide you with fresh bulbs in the spring as well as greens when there is nothing else left in the cold storage. They produce about 5 or 6 onions from every set planted in the spring. I use them in mustard pickles and salsa as the flavor is strong and enjoyable.
OL4. Belgian Shallot sets – 65 days. Lightly blushed with red, these sets can also over winter in the garden or be divided in fall and replanted for hassle free gardening come spring. Each set produces 4 to 5 or more new bulbs come fall. Nice medium strong onion flavor, so that even though small, only one is needed to hint a dish with their aroma. Not available.
OL5. Dutch Onion sets – 65 days. Good for growing on a continual basis. Lift in the fall or mulch well to leave in the garden for the winter.
OL6. Red Sun shallots – 65 days. Limited availability. Good variety of shallots for Alberta. Grows well in all soil types. Red skins, tall, thin variety, solid flesh.
OL7. Fluet onions – 60 days. Provided to our family by Mr. A. Fluet, this onion was grown in Alberta for years. Larger than the multipliers that I had, with similar growing characteristics. Great for cooking.
Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
50 seeds - $3.00
RP1. Hollow Crown – 115 days. Old favorite makes enormous parsnips that drill down even into the clay pack. Sow in the fall for early spring start. Self seeds second year. Roots can be left in the ground over winter and dug intermittently or left to seed. Do not dig until well past fall, but before winter hard freeze or deep snow.
RP2. Arrow type – 110 days. From commercial source. Seeds produce fine shaped, long roots, smaller than Hollow Crown but store well and taste good.
RP3. Gladiator – 95 days. NEW!! Good sized, long, straight white roots for short season areas. Limited availability.
Pea (Pisum sativum var. sativum)
50 seeds per pkg. unless stated - $3.00
PE1. Bill Jump – 80 days. The pods are small but peas are good eaten fresh or for dry shelling and soup use in the fall. Peas are small and round with good flavor. Allow for trellising to keep off the ground and harvest dry peas by laying on a tarp in the fall and stomping to release the peas.
PE2. Prairie Pea – 65 days. Similar to Straight Arrow, these peas are a top performer on our farm. Sweet with 5-7 peas per pod, keeping sweet quality for a long time. Sold out.
PE3. Mrs. Vans – 70 days. Taller plants needing trellises for support. Productive and tasty.
PE4. Tall Telephone – 72 days. Very tall peas, producing shorter pods, with good flavor, lighter in color than regular peas and slightly smaller sizes.
PE5. Skyscraper – 72 days. Very tall, need trellising. Good pods with tasty peas, 5-6 peas per fat pod. Lighter colored seeds. Sold out.
PE6. White Sugar Snap – 62 days. Early and productive, sugar snap peas are the type you eat pod and all. Not for shelling. 25 seeds per pkg. Really sweet and stringless with good flavor throughout.
PE7. Green Arrow type – 75 days. Good producer of long podded, sweet peas. Good sugar holding capability. Enjoy fresh or blanched for the winter. Shelling type.
PE8. Homesteader type – 72 days. Proven for the prairies, good producers with good flavor. Susceptible to mold.
PE9 Green Cross – 72 days. A mixture of several sweet green pea varieties that have turned out wonderfully. These are good producers. Sold out.
PE10. Oregon Giant – 76 days. Produces unusually large, broad pods of good length with many peas inside. Very sweet and good. Limited quantities.
PE12. Crazy Kids – 70 days. These seeds came in a package of kids starter garden seeds from Territorial Seeds years ago and were always fun to grow because of the leafy frond type hand that comes out of the end of each vine and the very curly tendrils. Different leaf shape, but great tasting peas, only 5 per pod, but in clusters of 3-4 pea pods per node. Limited quantity – 20 per pkg.. Sold out.
PE13. Igloo – 70 days. Open-pollinated sweet shelling peas for cool weather conditions. They are good producers of long pods, and sugary peas. Limited quantities.
PE14. Alaska – 65-70 days. Developed for cooler spring fruit set and shorter growing seasons. Good pod length and great taste. Medium high climbers (4-5’). Sold out this year.
PE15. Laxton’s Progress (#9) – 68 days. A popular variety for home gardeners. Open-pollinated. Good producers of long, straight pods with 8-9 peas inside. Good disease resistance.
PE16. Olympia – 68 days. Early producer, medium tall, long pods with lots of peas. Sweet flavor and good for markets or freezing, or just eating fresh.
PE17. Mammoth Melting Pod – 70 days. Large vines produce huge pods used as a stir-fry pea. Great flavor and sugar holding abilities. Open-pollinated variety. 20-25 seeds.
PE18. Hungarian Shelling Pea – 65 days. 3-4” pods holding 6-7 peas of exceptional flavor and holding ability. Great pea for Alberta. I like this variety a lot. Sold out for 2013.
PE19. Cascadia – 67 days. A flat delicious snap pea that has good disease resistance in wet conditions. Climber or unstaked they tumble in the garden. Limited quantities 25 seeds.
PE20. Bolero – 65 days. A variety grown for it’s long pods filled with sweet peas. A medium sized climber, and prolific.
PE21. Stir Fry mix – This package contains seeds for onions, sugar snap peas, carrots, broccoli (Chinese), mung beans (for sprouts), and peppers for starters. Just add whatever else you like. Instructions included. Each seed individually marked and packaged. About 120 seeds - $12.50
All NEW!! For 2013
PE22. Mr. Big – 60 days. Very large fat pods with big sweet tasting seeds. 6-7 peas per pod. Trellises up about 4-5’. Good variety producing all season. Limited seed - 20 seeds per pkg.
PE23. Ne Plus Ultra – 60 days. (1840’s) variety that is endangered and rare. 25 seeds per package. Good variety for long, pods filled with 6-8 peas. Sweet and good sugar holding ability. Very tall plants so support adequately.
PE24. Desiree – 64 days. A snow pea variety with stunning dark purple flowers and pods, used for soups and stews. Not good to eat fresh, but add great flavor to dishes. Delightfully colorful on short dwarf vines (2-3’ tall). Limited – 20 seeds per pkg.
PE25. Triple Treat – 60 days. A beautiful variety of double- and sometimes triple-podded variety of shelling pea with superior flavor. Limited offering, 20 seeds.
PE 26. Sutton’s Harbinger – 60 days. From 1901 and earlier in England. This exceptional eating fresh pea is loaded with pods on 4-5’ vines. Vigorous and productive. Good flavor and holding capacity.
PE 27. Top Pod – 65 days. Known for its disease resistance and productivity throughout the heat of the summer, pods often hold 9 sweet peas. Good climbers for tall trellises. Good pick for short season gardens.
PE 28. Dry Green Round Pea – 78 days to dry peas. Great soup pea producing lots of pods with many dried round green peas in each, hence the name. Just a few plants produces many peas for your winter soups. Great flavor. Not for fresh eating.
PE29. Spring – 57 days. Good short trellis variety, produces a good amount of sweet podded peas for shelling or whole pod eating. Not a true sweet pod variety, but good for both uses. Limited availability – 20-25 seeds.
PE 30. King Tut – 78 days for dry peas. Supposedly from the tomb of King Tut, but also known to exist as a staple in Equador and surrounding regions, this variety of dry pea is used for soups and stews. The plant produces beautiful purple flowers and pods, which darken to brown, holding up to 6 dry flat, squarish peas inside of light tan/green. Exciting novelty to try. 25 seeds.
PE31. Russian Sugar – 69 days for fresh peas. I began to wonder if this pea was the same as Golden Sweet Edible Pod, as the seeds are almost identical. But indeed it is a different plant, producing copious amounts of green sugar snap peas from double purple colored flowers. Very sweet in all stages, it can be shelled or eaten whole. Left to seed it produces round grey seeds with black flecks. IT is just so colorful at all phases and tasty too. 25 seeds.
PE32. Early Frosty – 55 days. Productive shorter vined sweet shelling pea. Not many packages available this year.
PE33. Sugar Ann – 66 days. Grown for it’s sugar pods, and eaten whole. Limited quantities this year.
PE 34. Lincoln – 65 days. Good for the prairies, like old fashioned Lincoln Homesteader. 4’ vines, producing about 7 peas per pod.
PE 35. Mom’s – 60 days. Good early variety from Mom’s garden. Crosses that produce good sweet shelling peas, average of 6 peas per pod. Excellent flavor.
PE. 36. Straight Arrow – 65 days. Reintroduced due to popular demand and people being unable to find it elsewhere. Since I only grow so much a year there is still limited availability. Great shelling variety, known for it’s productiveness and flavor.
PE37. Super Sugar Snap - 68 days. People who like a sugar snap variety will enjoy this productive vine. Limited quantities for 2013 as my kids like to eat them too! 25 seeds per pkg.
Peppers (Capsicum annum) – Sweet types
20 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
PP0. New Ace – 55-65 days. This variety always does well for me whether inside the greenhouse or in the garden in a protected spot. Good sized bell shaped peppers for salsa or pickles or fresh eating. Mild and sweet. Limited for 2013.
PP1. Redstart type – 65-75 days. Producer of red bell peppers, good size and color. For fresh eating. Sweet. Mild.
PP2. North Star type – 75 days. Fresh eating, green bell type with a mild flavor and good quality. Made for Northern growers. Sets fruit in cooler climes. Sold out
PP3. Georgescu Chocolate – 71 days. A fun, dark brown long pepper with a sweet flavor. Very unique look. From Salt Spring Seeds. Bulgarian heirloom.
PP4. Red Storehouse – 68 days. Slender, long red peppers, good to grow for fresh eating. Excellent sweet flavor.
PP5. Topepo Rosso – 71 days. Small, meaty round fruits with a full zesty, sweet flavor. Good for pickling, eating fresh or roasting. Compact for container growing.
PP6. Tomato Pepper – 66 days. A Hungarian heirloom, peppers are short and stocky like a lobed tomato. Flavor is sweet with a hint or more of heat.
PP7. Jimmy Nardello – 70 days. An Italian heirloom that is sweet. Excellent flavor for frying. From Salt Spring Seeds. Very good producer.
PP8. Frigitello Sweet – 70 days. Another Italian heirloom from Dan at Salt Spring Seeds. One of our favorite multipurpose peppers. Long tapered red fruits, very sweet and prolific.
PP9. Orange King – 70 days. Huge orange peppers, sweet taste. Limited quantities for 2012.
PP10. Orange bell – As above, good sized fruits that ripen orange and sweet.
PP11. Yellow bell – 70 days. Large bell-shaped yellow fruits that are juicy and sweet.
PP12. Red bell – 70 days. Produces an abundance of large red bell peppers that start out green. Good flavor.
PP13. Big bell mix – 70 days. A mixture of all colors of the bell peppers that can be grown in Alberta. Start indoors in March for best results.
PP14. Mini orange – 70 days. A miniature version of the above orange bell pepper.
PP15. Mini yellow – 70 days. Mini yellow bell peppers, firm flesh and sweet flavor.
PP16. Mini red bell – 70 days. As above, only red!
PP17. Cutie bell mix – 70 days. A mixture of the above, red, orange and yellow mini bell peppers.
PP18. Large bell mix – average 70 days. Mixture of the 3 colored peppers. Sample your favorites.
SM1. Salsa mix – 45-70 days. A mixture of cilantro, parsley, celery, tomato and pepper seeds, each individually labeled with specific instructions, designed to grow the best salsa you ever tasted!! About 120 seeds, $15.00. See mixes section for more offerings.
Peppers – Pimento and Paprika types
15 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
Pim0. Apple Sweet Pimento – 90 days. Very nice looking heart shaped pimentos of good size, thick skin and rib, excellent sweet taste. Good for drying and keeps deep red color.
Pim1. Feher Ozon – 68 days. Originally from Hungary, said to be one of the best pimento peppers of all. Turning from light, yellowy green to dark orange when ripe. 3” wide, 4-5” long. Very sweet.
Pim2. Tangerine Pimento – 69 days. Thick and crunchy flesh, deep orange when ripe on rounder, squat fruit. Very sweet and tasty, compact plants. Excellent.
Pim3. Hungarian Paprika – 50-60 days. The red fruits are 6-7” long, fleshy and sweet that dry easily for fresh paprika you make yourself. Wonderful flavor.
Peppers – Hot and Spicy types
15-20 seeds per pkg. - $3.00 HANDLE SEEDS WITH CARE!!
PH0. Bulgarian Carrot – 91 days. This is an incredibly hot pepper, but enjoyable. It is prolific, for longer growing areas. Fruits are green, carrot shaped, ripening to orange when ready. Can be used green and still be hot. Seeds are dangerous!
PH1. Hot Portugal – 65 days. A long, slim shaped pepper, longer and bigger than Cayenne. Fiery hot.
PH2. Hungarian Hot Wax – 65 days. This pepper ripens to red if left long enough. We use it at the green stage as well. Larger around and fleshier than Hot Portugal, but not as lengthy. Medium hot flavor.
PH3. Early Jalapeño type – 82 days. Almost needs no introduction. Jalapeños are famous for their fine medium hot taste. This is an early type.
PH4. Long Slim Cayenne – 83 days. Try these wonderful peppers. They are hot and spicy and of course can be ground very carefully when dry for your own cayenne seasoning or eaten fresh in stir fries.
PH5. Serrano Hot – 85 days. A very hot pepper, smaller than Jalapeños but similar in shape. Watch out, they are really good. Limited quantities.
PH6. Cyklon Hot – 81 days. From Poland, bruits are long, tapered and red when ripe. Quite hot, but flavorful and dry well. Very productive. Endangered variety.
PH7. Matchbox Chili – 67 days. Open-pollinated version of the Super Chile Pepper. It is early enough that anyone can grow it. Fruits are smaller, up to 2”, tapered, ripening to red, with a good hot flavor. Ornamental when strung. Can be used as a potted variety.
PH8. Grandpa’s Siberian Home Pepper – 81 days. Also applicable to potted applications, this pepper is dwarf, growing to 1.5 ft. in height, can be used indoors if pinched back. Produces small hot peppers. Siberian Heirloom, which is Extremely rare. Limited quantities.
PH9. Red Dynamite – 68 days. Similar to Matchbox, low to the ground, ornamental, peppers are about 2” pointed, and very hot. Limited quantities.
PH10. Explosive Embers – 67 days. Cute and ornamental, this plant is darkly colored, with decorative purple peppers which ripen red. Very hot. Used in Asian dishes and sauces. Limited quantities.
PH11. Black Hungarian – 87 days. A black jalapeno type pepper with very hot taste. Late season variety, start indoors in Feb/March.
PH12. Cherry bomb – 80 days. Similar in shape to the Topepo Rosso but very hot flavor. Great for salsa or hot pickling.
PH13. Flame – 80 days. A long cayenne type pepper with medium hot taste. Useful where cayenne is required.
PH14. Torreon Hot – 84 days. An orange ripening jalapeno type, with good strong spicy flavor for hot dishes, pickling and salsa.
MP2. Mixed hot – 70 days average. A mixture of favorite hot varieties, enough of each to try and enjoy.
MP3. Mixed hot and sweet – 70 days average. Mixture of favorite hot plus sweet varieties for all around uses, cooking, salsa, etc..
See also salsa and stir fry mixes.
Potatoes for 2013
Can be ordered in the spring for shipment in late April or early May, weather permitting. Each bag contains 5-8 tubers which will yield one hill of potatoes each (yield varies according to year, growing conditions and variety). Each bag $5. Shipping $7.95, which you can save on if you arrange for pick up at a Seedy Sunday event. Contact us for more information.
On offer:
Red Pontiac, Caribe, Cherry Red, Agria, Chieftain, Green Mountain, Viking, Norlands, All Blue, Bintze, Sangre, All Red, Yukon Gold, Yellow Finger, Nooksak, Russet.
Radish (Raphanus sativus)
50 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
RT5. Cherry Belle – 26 days. Limited offering. Typical red skinned white fleshed radish of good holding capacity and flavor. Water in dry years to keep flavor of roots mild.
RT6. Champion – 27 days. Limited offering. Similar coloring red/white to Cherry Belle. Same shape and good taste.
RT7. Altaglobe - 28 days. Round red roots with sweet firm texture. Great for salad or fresh eating.
RT8. Black Spanish – 30 days. Slightly elongated dark purple roots that are almost black. Produces in abundance. Heritage variety from Spain. Limited quantities. Note that in this area they are grown for the flower pods also called rat-tails that are used in salads and stir fries.
Salad Greens
100 seeds per pkg. - $3.00 unless stated.
SL0. Tatsoi – 50 days. A Chinese green used fresh in salads, for stir fries or steaming like spinach. The leaves grow out from the base like bok choi, only low to the ground and all green. Tasty with a bit of spice.
SL1. Salad mix – 50-70 days. Arugula, Tatsoi and Kale – a mix of all three for use in full summer, early, mid and late. Arugula is a spicy salad green, a favorite addition in springtime. Enjoy all three.
SL2. Mitsuba – 45 days. A slightly spicy green, popular in mesclun mixes, small foliage and more refined lobes than Arugula.
SL3. Mesclun mix – 45-70 days. $4.00 Mixture of popular lettuces and other salad greens to provide for baby salad in summer time.
SL4. Mesclun plus mix – 45-70 days. $4.00 Mesclun mix plus spinach.
SL5. Super Salad – 45-70 days. $4.00. A super mix of everything in the salad bowl, brassica greens, beet leaf, onions, radish, lettuce and more! A surprise in your bowl.
SL6. Mesclun Master Mix – 45 -60 days. $4.00 A well rounded mix of leafy greens and other favorites.
SL8. Wasabi Greens – 45 days. A mustard with a sharp taste for those that like this green. Limited quantities.
SL9. Wild Rochette – 40 days. Good variety with a smaller leaf than regular arugula and similar taste. Limited quantities.
Soybean NEW!!
40 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
SOY1. Green Envy – 75 days. A good producer of beans for any use. Seeds are vibrant green, round and tasty.
SOY2. Grand Forks – 82 days here. From growers in the Southern BC, these beans are good producers of slightly larger pods, when dry the seeds are two-tone brown.
SOY3. Sayamusume – 85 days. The largest of the soybeans, these are light beige or green and round like ordinary soybeans. They take longer to produce, but are about as abundant as the others offering larger pods and seeds.
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
50 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
Sp1. Bloomsdale – 50 days. These famous leaves are the first to appear in my self-seed patch in the garden, providing an abundance of wonderful leaves for spring salad. If left in one patch they will readily self-seed and provide you with spinach weeks before ones planted by hand in rows.
Sp2. New Zealand – 50 days. Very large leaves, slow to bolt. Good spinach flavor. Leave to self-seed or collect after leaf harvest by leaving plants in garden until late summer. Sold out.
Squash (Cucurbita maxima)
25 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
SCM0. Howden pumpkin – 115 days. Tall faces make for great carving pumpkins on this variety. Beautiful storage capabilities as well and early enough if started indoors. One plant provides up to 7 of these pumpkins every year. Good for pie but not the best pie pumpkin.
SCM1. Small Sugar – 100 Days. A perfect size pumpkin for drawing faces on at Halloween, these small pumpkins average about 3 lbs. and are perfect spheres. Cute and good eating too. The seeds can be used like pumpkin seeds, as can all types. Delicious!
SCM2. Jarradale pumpkin – 90 days. NEW!! An interesting open-pollinated variety from Australia, they are like the Cinderella pumpkin only they remain greyish green. Deeply lobed, fun for decorations or eating. About 10-15 lbs. Good short season alternative to butternut.
SCM3. Pink Banana – NEW!! 100 days. Wow, was I surprised at how prolific these squash were, and as I was uncertain if they would grow big here, I had to try and of course I put in 2 plants! Needless to say I had a good crop of these squash, which have a pinkish tinge to their orange skins and sweet, rich firm flesh. Grew to about 10 lbs. each. Similar to Spaghetti squash in texture.
SCM4. Guatemalan Blue Banana – NEW!! 90-95 days. Fun to grow and manageable size in the fall at 5-7 lbs. each, these squash make great eating and have smaller edible seeds. Excellent in soup or baked with butter. Limited 12 seeds. Like butternut squash in it’s texture.
SCM5. Red Warty Thing - NEW!! 100+ days. If you start these early enough you will have good luck making at least one or two of these beauties. Don’t be put off if there are no warts as they will develop the longer they are stored, and they store well. They can be eaten like a hubbard, similar in texture and taste, but are great for decorating purposes as well. 20 seeds.
SCM6. Queensland Blue - NEW!! 100 Days. This is a smaller squash to the Jarradale pumpkin, similar in that it is lobed and grayish-green (making it blue) but is turban shaped. It is great for eating and stores very well. The flesh is yellow-orange and dryer like a buttercup squash. They grow to about 4 lbs.. If you are a fan of Butternut you will love this.
SCM7. Triamble - NEW!! 100 days. Also known as Shamrock or Tristar, this unique three lobed squash is fun to try. I got a couple off of mine and they are weird looking squash for pies or side-dishes. Stores very well. Rare – 10 seeds.
SCM9. Green Hubbard - 95-100 days. NEW!! Introduced about 1840 these squash are grown for their excellent flesh, reaching about 35-45 lbs. in my garden last year. That is one large squash!! I love it, which is a good thing. They ripen from smooth green with lighter stripes, to a deep green with a hint of the orange flesh beneath. Very productive vines.
SCM10. Blue Hubbard – 95-100 days. Traceable as far back as 1859. They again produced 35-45 lb. fruits which I used in soup and fabulous Christmas dinner. The fruit is blue-ish as it grows, ripening to a pale orange beneath the skin once it ripens in storage. Long keeper, firm, sweet, moist flesh. Not as dry as regular hubbards. If you like butternut squash, but cannot grow it, this is a great one.
SCM11. Rouge Vif D’Etampes – 95 days. Dating back to pre-1883, this is also known as the Cinderella pumpkin, or Red Etampes. Deeply ribbed French heirloom, growing large and flat like the popular Disney version. Flesh is thick and yellow, good for pie and pumpkin soup. Mild flavor. Grows orange at all stages of development. Decorative and ornamental, but also useful.
MX12. Maxima Mix – 80-100 days. A blend of winter squash, of all types and shapes, for all needs. 20 seeds $3.00
MX13. Jack o’Lantern Medley – 100 days. Our favorite blend of pumpkins designed to give you an assortment of all sizes for carving and pie. Mostly large types. 20 seeds - $3.00
SCM14. Australian Butter - NEW!! 90 days. Fun, peachy-orange turban shaped fruits, each vine sets about 2 each, so if you let the runners go, you will have more than enough. They are about 6 lbs. and the flesh is firm and moist. Excellent flavor.
SCM15. Peanut – 96 days. NEW!! These look very similar to Australian Butter when growing, but they have a pointed blossom end instead of flat and end up with little bumps on them sometimes. They have a similar flesh and productive vines.
SCM16. Valencia – 98 days. NEW!! Rare and limited seeds 12 per pkg. A beautiful lobed white skinned pumpkin, very nice eating and for pies. Firm flesh, deeply orange when ripe. The skin remains light colored, taking on more of an orange tinge when ripe. Good size and flavor. Fun for decorating as well. Flesh similar to butternut.
Squash (Cucurbita moschata)
25 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
SQ0. Orange Buttercup/Turban Squash – 95 days. This is a Kabocha type buttercup squash that can sometimes have a turban squash base from the blossom scar. Usually roundish with lighter orange stripes, sometimes they are more green. The fruits are always delicious, keeping well and producing many fruits on one vine. The usual weight is 3-4 lbs. sometimes more. Very productive in seeds that can be saved and roasted for eating as well.
SQ1. Green Buttercup – 95 days. Flattish buttercup type, dark green, bright orange flesh that is dryer and sweet. Good producer. Long vines produce well even in stress years. Limited offering.
SQ2. Uncle Dave’s Dakota Dessert Squash – 80 days. NEW!! One of the original Buttercup squashes, it is dry and extremely sweet for those who love buttercups. They were enormously prolific, setting lots of 1-2 lb. fruits that stored exceptionally well. Limited 15 seeds per pkg.
SQ5. Sweet Momma type – 85 days. These flattened buttercup squash are about 4 lbs., maintaining a dark green color with lighter stripes. The flesh is medium dry, excellent for squash soup recipes and baking. The seeds are delicious as well. Each vine can produce many squashes. Two vines produced 10 fruits last year before mom cut the vines short. They are good keepers as well. They do well in cooler climates.
Squash (Cucurbita pepo)
25 seeds per pkg. unless otherwise stated - $3.00
SCP0. Connecticut Field – 110 days. These pumpkins are good for pie and also carving. Pumpkins can be eaten like squash, providing good nutritional value and fiber. The fruits can reach up to 25 lbs. but in Northern Climates with an indoor start you will probably have the largest ones at 10 lbs. They are slightly flattened out of round, but still with good shape for carving. The seeds make good eating as well. The flesh is dry and sweet.
SCP1. NEW!! Winter Luxury Pie Pumpkin – 95 days (will ripen indoors). Apparently this heirloom was introduced by Johnson and Stokes in 1893. It will grow to about 4-6 lbs. and is the best pie pumpkin available. White netting interior is easy to remove and they are sweet and good. Round type. Rare – 12 seeds.
SCP2. Lady Godiva – 100 days. NEW!! A naked seeded variety grown for the seeds, the flesh can also be eaten. They grow to about 20 lbs. and yield a few handfuls of dark green naked pumpkin seeds for fresh eating and of course growing your own next year. They are beautifully dark green with darker stripes that eventually ripen to orange with greenish stripes, but they remain green here until well after picking. Store for up to 3 months.
SCP3. NEW!! Long Pie pumpkin – 80 days. These are not round pie pumpkins, but are apparently very sought after as they make fantastic pies. It is also called St. George, as offered in Burpee’s catalogue in 1888. Productive and will germinate in poor soils. Looks like a zucchini but has a tell-tale orange spot where it rests on the ground. Long storage on these ones. Limited seeds – 12 per pkg.
SCP5. Atlantic Giant Pumpkin – 115 Days (4 seeds per pkg.) Limited offering. I saved this seed from stock I had for 12 years and it grew no problem last year. The two plants we had won the biggest pumpkin contest in our area. The largest probably only weighed 45 lbs….no record, but how much pie you can eat! Make great carving pumpkins as well. The seeds are large and can be eaten as well. Not available.
SCP6. Big Max type – 109 days. Huge potential pumpkins, like Dill’s only more manageable. Grows between 10 and 50 lbs. or bigger. Depends on you! Good for pies, seed lovers and pumpkin addicts.
SCP7. Jolly Roger pumpkin – 89 days. Round and jolly, medium sized pumpkins just the perfect size for pie or carving. Start out green speckled and turn orange. Delightfully easy to grow.
SCP10. Birdhouse Gourd – 95 days, 10 seeds per pkg. We grew these gourds to experiment and they managed to mature and give seed. The gourds are neat when hollowed out to use as birdhouses or dipping vessels. I imagine you could make bowls from them as well. Sold out this year.
SCP11. Yellow cup gourd – 95 days. Averaging ½ lb. each, these cute gourds can be used for decoration, but I wanted to make drinking cups out of them and so that is what I did. They are small, pear shaped with bumps on the yellow skin. Interesting and fun.
SCP12. Green birdhouse gourd – 95 days. 5 seeds per pkg. Limited offering. Similar to the above yellow gourds, only large, oblong and with fewer bumps. The skin is striped green. They can be used for larger birdhouses or drinking cups or bowls.
SCP13. Mixed Gourd – average 95 days. A mixture of gourds to make a colorful basket at Thanksgiving. Start indoors early for best results.
SCP14. Table Queen Acorn type – 90 days. Limited offering – 10 seeds. A typical acorn squash with nice yellow flesh. Firm and tasty. They grow well with other squashes. Best cut in half and baked with butter and salt and pepper. Excellent source of vitamins and minerals.
SCP16. Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash ( Acorn type) – 90 days. This prolific slow spreading bush squash produces abundant orange-yellow long acorn type squash with a unique sweet flavor. Long season type but worth the growing time. Limited – 10 seeds.
SCP17. Fordhook Acorn – 90 days. Developed by the W. Atlee Burpee Seed Co. in the us, they were named for the research farm at Fordhook, Penn.. Up to 2 lbs., golden, and deeply ribbed acorn squash. Firm dry flesh. Very rare – 10 seeds. Sold out.
SCP18. Black Beauty Zucchini – 60 days. Limited offering – 10 seeds. Large dark green zucchinis that do well in the heat, drought or cold. Flesh is firm and solid, ripening to darker orange if kept over winter. Can be eaten raw, or canned, dried as chips, etc.. Sold out.
SCP19. Ambassador Zucchini – 50 days. Limited offering – 10 seeds. As above but lighter green color, maturing sooner in the summer. Plant is compact and high yielding over entire summer. Not available in 2013.
SCP20. NEW!! Costata Romanesca – Zucchini – 55 days. A beautiful open-pollinated variety of zucchini that grows like wild here and produces lobed fruits that are beautiful when sliced as they are very decorative. Very nice variety. 10 seeds.
SCP21. Eight Ball or Mexican zucchini – 65 days. Small round zucchinis that are fun to grow. Use as you would any zucchini.
SCP22. Bread loaf zucchini – 68 days. Growing rounder and larger than black beauty, these zucchini achieve the size of a large loaf of bread, more elongated, up to a foot in length. Use young as you would any zucchini. Not available.
SCP23. Onyx type zucchini – 60 days. Darker black than black beauty, similar to grow and used the same. Limited for 2013.
SCP24. NEW!! Dark Green Zucchini – 60 days. Similar to Onyx or black beauty. Good size and productivity. 10 seeds.
SCP25. Baby Boo type mini – 90-95 days. Pumpkins used for decorative baskets or kids use at Halloween. They have white skins. Limited offering.
SCP26. Jack Be Little type – 95 days. Mini pumpkins with red skins and decorative lobes. Limited offering.
SCP27. Mini Baby pumpkins – 90 days. Smaller than Small Sugar, used for ornamental use or for small children to paint. Cute. Orange skins and flesh. Limited offering this year.
SCP28. Mandan Squash – 85 days. Originally from Heritage Harvest Seeds, this is what she believes to be the original Mandan Squash from the Mandan Native tribe of the Midwest states. The fruits are flattish, yellow with green stripes, up to 1 lb. in size, for fresh summer eating. Very ornamental later, can be used in fall decorative displays. Extremely rare. 10 seeds per pkg..
SCP29. White Scallop Squash – 70 days. Early and interesting, these flying saucer shaped light green summer squash ripen to an almost white color, 7-8” in diameter. Plants are compact. Mom thinks they look like flying saucers due to their squat nature and deeply lobed exterior rim. Great taste young or baked when older. Pre – 1591 variety aka Cymling, Custard Marrow, or Patisson Panache ( Pati-pan). Sold out. Try baby boo when young or any of the little pumpkins.
SCP30. Spaghetti Squash – 90 days. Limited availability - 10 seeds. Used commonly for it’s shredding quality when cooked, resembling spaghetti and used in the same way. Good producer. But if you like this also try Pink Banana Squash.
SCP31. Potimarron – 90-100 days. 10 seeds. Very limited for 2012. This squash is one of the few summer squashes that is orange from fruit set onwards. A heritage squash whose name means pumpkin and chestnut, as the flavor resembles the latter. It keeps very well, increasing the nutrient content the longer it is in storage. Very rare. If you like butternut, try these.
SCPM1. Squash Mix – Edible summer and winter squash, each individually marked, in one package, all shapes, sizes, colors and tastes. Sure to please, you decide which are your favorites. All seeds are edible. 5 of each variety (summer and winter varieties). $4.00
Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris – Cicla Group)
50 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
CH1. Lucullus – 70 days. Limited offering. Swiss chard is best left until the first frost, but this type is good all season. It can be left in a plot like spinach to self-seed if the deer don’t get it all! Not available this year.
CH2. Fordhook Giant – 70 days. These seeds were saved from large plants with lighter ribs, good quality and tenderness. Flavor is best after a frost, if you can keep the deer away, or when young.
Tomatillo (physalis ixocarpa)
$3.00 per packet of 20 seeds or more. Dates are from transplants.
TM0. Cossack’s Pineapple Ground Cherry – 40-50 days. This abundant spreading tomatillo produced amazing 1” husked, yellow, pineapple flavored ground cherry fruits, that were wonderful. All season producer. The fruits fall to the ground when ripe, so it will self-seed. Squirrels love them. Low quantities.
TM1. Purple tomatillo – 87 days. Requires a longer, hotter season to be a reliable producer, but it does do that. The medium sized husked fruits are good, purple and wonderful to look at. Larger than Cossack’s.
TM2. Tomatillo Verde – 78 days. These plants can grow incredibly large. They love rain and heat and produce large husked tomatillos for salsa verde and fresh relish dishes. They also store well for fresh use until Christmas. Very heavy producer.
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)
25 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
T0. Tomato Large Assort. For Canning – 60-70 days. Most likely these are from beefsteak tomatoes that I saved from canning tomatoes. I didn’t have the variety when I bought them. Good large sized tomatoes that also are great for sandwiches.
T1. Beefsteak, Brandywine and Prairie Fire – 73 days. My favorite mix of tomatoes for multipurpose and multi-climate. Brandywines are a favorite heirloom tomato for flavor and size, Prairie Fire is a good cold climate set tomato of good size and flavor also. Beefsteak needs no introduction.
T2. Beefsteak – 75 days. Known for large, perfectly smooth beefy fruits. Average size 10-12 oz. but can be larger by far. Good flavor, staking required. For canning or slicing.
T3. Red Brandywine – 75 days. These seeds produce a lighter red fruit with tremendous flavor. A good slicing and multi-purpose tomato. Do well in all gardening areas.
T4. H1 – 75 days. This tomato is medium sized slicer that is more oblong than round. Good flavor and keeping quality.
T5. H2 – 75 days. Similar to above only larger.
T6. Silvery Fir Tree – 80 days. Very ornamental with small, fir tree type leaves similar to carrots. Good for small areas and patios. Produces medium orangey red tomatoes early in the season. Good flavor and cold tolerance, as well as disease resistance. Hails from Russia originally. Determinate type.
T7. Amish Paste - 83 days. - heirloom variety, good shape and size. Limited quantities. See mixes for more offerings.
T8. Aunt Ruby's German Green - 76 days - survived the hail and frost to produce seed. The tomatoes ripen with just a tinge of red on the green fruits. Good tangy flavor and large size. Good slicer.
T9. Black from Tula - 66 days - Ukraine origins, tomatoes are 10-12 oz, med. sized, nice shape and flavor, black shoulders and streaking on the flesh. Dark in overall color with green seed coats on interior.
T10. Double Rich - 72 days, known to be high in both betacarotene and vitamin C, this tomato is a nice bright red, round and med. sized 14 oz. fruits.
T11. Druzba - 60 days - Bulgarian origins, disease free, easy to grow, enjoy good sized, flavorful fruits. 8-12 oz, in clusters of 3 or 4.
T12. Dufresne (#2) - 76-86 days. Spreading plant, late, developed in Quebec. Beautiful pink 3-4" fruits, good flavor and tender skins.
T13. Cluster grande - 60 days, these smaller type tomatoes grow in long clusters, good salad tomato, good taste, must trellis.
T14. Fireball - 87 days. Later, making med. sized 12 oz. dark orange fruits of good round shape.
T15. Ailsa Craig – 45 days. Very dependable heirloom tomato. Did well in the drought, producing med. sized red tomatoes with good flavor on compact plants. Originally of Scottish origin. A winner for sure.
T16. Harbinger – 48 days – very early and prolific med. sized multi-purpose tomato. Did well in the drought, good flavor, balance of firm flesh and juicy taste. Introduced in 1910, cold hardy.
T17. Hillbilly – 85 days – Later producer of huge bicolor slicers. The ones produced in 2009 were yellow with red color splashed all around. Very rich flavor. Variety originates from West Virginia.
T18. Japanese Trifele Black – 45-50 days – Originally bred in Russia, potato leaf, size of a Bartlett pear. Best black tomato for flavor, does not split often, high yielding and blemish free.
T19. Kicker #9 – 65 days – One of the best producers of smaller sized 2” round red tomatoes, good flavor and spot free. Did well in the drought.
T20. Landry’s Russian – 82 days – Later and flavorful, red 2-3” rounded salad tomatoes, good yields. Good keeping qualities.
T21. Longkeeper – 80 days – Usually earlier, this year, due to the weather it was hard to get fruit set. Dependable well-known tomato, bred for storage. Keeps ‘til Christmas usually.
T22. Lucky #7 – 80 days – late season medium slicer, good flavor, more tender than other varieties. Limited quantities for 2010.
T23. Manitoba – 50 days – Early and prolific, bred for the prairies. Good standby variety producing med. sized fruits for a variety of purposes.
T24. Moneymaker – 66 days. A clustering tomato producing up to 6, 2-3” tomatoes per clump. Good producer in all areas.
T25. Mortgage Lifter – 66 days. Larger beefsteak tomato, good flavor and hardiness. Fruits are red and as large as 1 lb. each. Few seeds, disease resistant.
T26. Moskavich – 80 days – Of Siberian origin, these 4” bright red fruits are good producers and keepers, rounded or slightly flattened.
T27. Nepal – 85 days – Produces long vines, late fruiting of unblemished 7-8 oz. fruit of a unique flavor. From the Himalayas.
T28. No name #2 – 40-50 days – early medium sized red tomato from unknown variety. Good flavor and size for all uses.
T29. Prairie Fire – 49 days – Bred for the prairies to set fruit when cool or questionable conditions. These plants are compact, producing meaty 3-5 oz. fruits, close to the vine.
T30. Old Brook – 49 day – An early full-sized tomato. Fruit are rose-red, up to 1 lb., juicy and delicious. Higher in acidity, resistant to blossom end rot. Good canning tomato..
T31. Peron Sprayless – 77 days – Late season tomato from Argentina. Large 13 oz. red fruit, tart, without cracks. Produces in cool weather, pest and disease resistant.
T32. Persimmon – 85 days – Lovely deep orange, softer fruits up to 1 lb. in size. Late season, resistant to cracking. Delicious sweet fruity flavor. Plants spread 3-5’.
T33. Principe Bourgese – 80 days – Plants are compact and bushy, bearing large crop of 1 oz. fruit, good for drying or sauces.
T34. Pumpkin Tomato – 82 days – Large, med. orange fruits with uneven bottoms, but make good slicers because of nice flavor. Fruits are at least 1 lb. each.
T35. Purple Calabash – 66 days – Called the ugliest tomato in the world, this plum colored, deeply ribbed fruit is flat and well, ugly. But the flavor can’t be beat. Good for fresh eating and just keeping around for entertainment. Extremely drought tolerant.
T36. Purple Cherokee – 47 days – From the Cherokee Natives. Nice smokey black red fruit, flattened and larger with green shoulders sometimes but good for slicing. Nice flavor, low acid.
T37. Purple Russian – 45 days – Plum shaped darker smokey red tomatoes. Sometime splitting occurs but the flavor is excellent. Early and productive. Fruits are about 2-3 oz.
T38. Roma – 58 days – Needs little introduction. Most popular and fruitful paste tomato. Meaty 3 oz. fruits.
T39. Andrea’s Black Russian – 70 days. A variety brought back from Russia when my cousin visited there in 2010. Similar to Black Krim, dark coloring with green and red striping, great flavor.
T40. Rose de Berne – 87 days – Larger 4-5” blush red fruits with speckles of white. Very smooth, flavorful and sweet. Thin skinned, heavy producer.
T41. Salt Spring Sunrise – 45 days – developed on Salt Spring Island by the James Seed Company. Thrives in coastal or hot dry summers. Fruit is red, slightly flattened, about 2-3” across. Produces lots on med. sized bushes.
T42. San Marzano Paste – 75 days – One of the most productive paste tomatoes I have grown. Fruits are long oblongs with pointy ends, red and meaty, but if you like a drier eating fruit they are good for that also. Keep a long time.
T43. Saucilito – 55 days – Larger and more Roma shaped, Saucilito is a paste tomato. Fruits are about 2-3 oz. each and rounded on the ends.
T44. Sicilian Saucer – 76 days – bred for large fruit production, the smallest about 1 lb. slightly flattened, beefsteak type. Did well in drought this year.
T45. Store cluster – 90 days – LIMITED QUANTITIES for 2010. A larger salad type tomatoes 2”, round, in clusters on sturdy vines. More compact plants if pruned.
T46. Stupice – 35 days – this tomato had the earliest production of all the varieties I grew and produced all year long in all conditions. Evenly round, bright red 1-2” fruits, good for snacking or throwing in a salad. Zesty, full flavor. From Czechoslovakia.
T47. Superfantastic – 90 days – High yielding all summer. Solid, meaty 7 oz. fruits, red with a smooth skin. Needs heat and longer season to mature on prairies.
T48. Taxi – 66 days – Bright yellow and almost transluscent. The fruit is 3” or more, round, evenly colored and good tomato flavor. Blemish free and easy to grow.
T49. Ukrainian Pear – 94 days – Nice sweet flavored, pear shaped fruits of a deep pink red with green shoulders sometimes. Sweet and flavorful, good for slicing or canning.
T50. Vision of the World – 94 days – Large beefsteak tomato about 8-10 oz. Red and round but slightly squashed. Good slicer.
T51. Weisnight’s Ukrainian – 88 days – One of our favorites. Originally brought by Ukrainian immigrants. Outstanding flavor, large flattened fruits are pinky red and over 8 oz. in size. A winner for us.
T52. Yellow Stuffer – 77 days – Slightly transluscent yellow in color, these fruits are great for stuffing, as the name implies as it is hollow on the inside, the seeds few and close to the center core in an interesting gelly-brain formation. Fun and tasty.
T53. Yellow Tangerine – 92 days – Science has isolated new varieties of lycopene and carotenes in different colored tomatoes, hence perhaps the unique taste of these varieties. This one is a winner for taste and grows medium sized, rounded tomatoes with a slight citrus taste.
T54. Beef ‘em up X10 – 82 days – Beefsteak type tomato that is slightly smaller, but still a good tomato for the prairies.
T55. #3 – 66 days – cross of two varieties to produce a good med. sized multipurpose red tomato. Round and good flavor.
T56. Belgian – 79 days. Very large, round tomatoes similar to a Weisnight’s Ukrainian. Excellent flavor and keeping qualities. Limited for 2012.
T57. Prairie Pride – 70 days. Compact plants, good container sized, bushy and squat, producing a good number of medium sized, very round fruits of good quality and flavor.
T58. Oxheart Giant – 80 days. Very large, slightly oval fruits, usually 6-7 oz. in size. Good for canning, slicing or sauces. Heritage variety.
T59. Carol Chyko’s Big Paste – 88 days. These enormous tomatoes are not really paste tomatoes as you would think of them. They are great eating tomatoes, flat and round, but can be used for good paste if boiled down. They are also good keepers, but late. That’s ok, cause they ripen in the basement quite well.
T60. Gardener’s pride – 70-80 days. A variety that produces orange red fruits, of good slicing size.
T61. Amish paste/superfantastic mix – as stated, mostly amish paste. For salsa and fresh eating.
T62. Superfantastic/amish paste mix. Mostly superfantastic tomatoes, interesting blend.
T63. All orange blend – A mix of the best tasting tomatoes in the class. 30 seeds - $4.00
T64. Big Red Mix – 70-88 days. All the largest, choicest tomato varieties in a mix. All red. 30 seeds - $4.00
T65. Big Red Heirloom Mix – 70-88 days. Only Heirloom red beefsteak types. 30 seeds - $4.00
T66H. Heritage mix – 70-86 days. A mixture of some of the most delicious Heritage varieties – that taste as a tomato should. All shapes, sizes, colors, medium to large varieties. 30 seeds - $4.00
T67. Heirloom big and small – 60-70 days. A medley of Heirloom varieties, chosen for earliness, hardiness, taste and color. All sizes. 30 seeds - $4.00
T68. Sunshine blend – 60-70 days. A mix of our favorite yellow and orange varieties, with some different colored reds mixed in for a sunset windfall of tomatoes all season long. 30 seeds - $4.00
T69. Saucy mix – 60-75 days. Mix of the best paste and sauce tomatoes. 30 seeds - $4.00
T70. New Grower blend – 55-70 days. If you are new to tomato farming, these are the best varieties, the most forgiving of mistakes with high yields. All packets come with Sure to Succeed Instructions and suggestions. 30 seeds - $4.00
T71. Jitomate bulito – 90 days. Very late for this region. This is an old Zapotec natives variety from S. American states. Tomatoes are elongated paste types with a pointy end. Good variety.
NEW FOR 2013
T72. Black Brandywine - 72 days. I am not sure if I would call this a Brandywine or not. But that is what the package said. I would say it is a salad tomato. It is about 2-3 oz. with soft flesh, definitely on the black side, but must be eaten right away as it is not a good keeper. Fair production, it is good for having for eating right off the vine.
T80. Caspian Pink - 67 days. A well known Pink tomato, about 4-6 oz. fair sized for slicing, canning, fresh eating. Like a larger Brandywine, smooth and tasty.
T81. Debarao - 78-85 days. A very late paste tomato. Large oblong paste tomatoes, rounded blossom end and full meaty texture. Not that many on a plant but the size is very good.
T82. Fierette - 75 days. Originally obtained from the Devonian Botanical Gardens seeds, these tomatoes are large, elongated with a point on the growing end. Massive clusters, large plants, later but worth the extra time starting indoors. Good for canning, sauce and paste, or salsa. A winner for sure. In the Devonian trials they said the staff thought they were the best tasting of the kinds they grew that year.
T83. Moon Glow - 78 days. Later type orange medium to large sized slicers or fresh eating tomato. I love orange tomatoes for flavor. What can I say? They make the most beautiful addition to salads and stews.
T84. Pink Brandywine - 70-75 days. Larger sized tomatoes, about 5-6 oz., smooth and shaped like typical Brandywines, possibly a bit smoother and not reaching a deep color like typical red tomatoes. They were very tasty and productive.
T85. Portugal - 67-70 days. Obtained from seed from Portugal from a fellow who travelled there. These tomatoes are large paste types that are very smooth and beautiful. Used for salsa or sauce as well.
T86. Red Beauty - 65-70 days. These tomatoes are typical of what you would find in the store, long keepers, beautiful round, flawless perfection on the skin. Tough skinned, so they do not easily bruise, flesh is firmer like a store tomato and they grow in large clusters on the vine. They ripen in sequence for continual fresh picking. Limited offering 10 seeds.
T87. Striped Cavern - 65 days. There were fun to grow as well. They are a stuffing tomato, not quite as large as the yellow stuffer, but a bit more productive. They have 2 hollow cavities, where the seeds cluster around in a brain-like mass which are easily removed. The flesh ripens from light yellow to a deeper orange with darker stripes. Beautiful tomato and good taste.
T88. Striped German - 78 days. These tomatoes are a bit smaller and the stripes are not as noticeable as I thought they would be. They are good slicers for salads or fresh eating, but are a bit later for longer season growers. Large sprawling plants.
T89. Vintage Wine - 80 days. One of my new favorites. These are the most interesting colored tomatoes you will ever see. They have a Brandywine type shape, can reach up to a pound each in some cases, with deep green striping on wine colored tomatoes. Very good flavor but you have to catch them early as they are not that great a keeper on wet years.
See also salsa mix and stir fry mixes.
Cherry Tomato types
25 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
TC2. Gardener’s Delight – 65 days. Limited offering. Heirloom variety. Red cherry tomato with good sweet flavor. Very productive.
TC3. Black Plum – 65 days – Early and dark skinned, plum shaped tomatoes with slightly smokey flavor. Cute in the salad bowl or tasty for fresh eating.
TC4. Chadwick Cherry – 70 days – later cherry type, good size and flavor, developed not to split. Bushes can be huge.
TC5. Sweet Chelsae – 62 days – very amazing tomato flavor, sweet, tart and delicious. Larger than most cherry tomatoes, but I like them in the salad anyway.
TC6. #8 Wonder – 50 days – like a sweet million only not as prolific. Prone to splitting, but the flavor makes up for it. Limited quantities.
TC7. Anna Aasa – 45-50 days - Cherry tomatoes that are delicious and prolific, small plants, but amazing for our drought year. One of our favorites.
TC8. Isis Candy – 60 days - Loved this tomato as well. Excellent flavor, delicate pinkish red, good producer.
TC9. Fargo Yellow Pear – 45 days – Nice flavor and bright orange color. Pear shaped but wonderful additions to the salad.
TC10. Coyote – 82 days - very light yellow, almost white cherry tomatoes, very small and late. Due to the frost and hail in 2009, it was hard to attain seed. Hopefully in 2012.
TC11. Matt’s Wild Cherry – 65 days – very prolific producer of small ½ inch cherry tomatoes of good flavor. Vines can take over if not pruned to one or two climbing vines. 8’ tall in 2009!
TC12. Black Cherry – 50 days – One of my favorites, this cherry is dark, smokey and almost blue in coloring, nice smokey flavor, rich and wonderful. Produces an abundance in good years.
TC13. Camp Joy – 60-70 days – These tomatoes might not be considered cherry tomatoes as the larger ones can reach 1 ½ to 2 “ in diameter. But they make a nice treat just to eat right in the garden, good flavor.
TC14. Golden Nugget – 45 days – one of the earliest tomatoes, making round small cherry tomatoes that are golden color. Good flavor if outside. Limited availability.
TC15. Baxter’s Bush – 49 days – as the name implies it is good for container growing, the plants do well in dry years as well. Tomatoes are larger, red cherry types, more dense than other varieties.
TC16. Reisentraube – 73 days. Means giant bunch of grapes in German. And it produces clusters of smaller grape shaped, pointy end tomatoes. Good for eating off the vine or salads.
TC17. Sweet 100’s – 55 days. Good producers of the favorite flavored cherry tomatoes so many growers cherish. Limited quantities.
TC18. Super Sweet 100 – 60 days. The original tomato is a hybrid, but the seeds produce plants with similar qualities and good sized sprays of cherry tomatoes with good flavor. Limited quantities.
TC19. Tumbler – 60 days. The famous variety grown in pots or hanging baskets, producing prolific quantities of cherry sized tomatoes with good flavor all season long. Sold out.
TC20. Yellow banana – 68 days. A later variety of cherry tomato that is elongated and yellow-orange. Great flavor. Limited availability.
TC21. Small tomato medley – 50-60 days. A mixture of all kinds of small tomatoes, good to eat off the bush. 30 seeds for $4.00. All sizes, shapes, colors and tastes, guaranteed to please.
TC22. Yellow Currant – 65 days. Delightful yellow skin and flesh that make an interesting addition of color to the salad bowl. Intense flavor. Like the name says, they are quite small.
NEW FOR 2013!!
TC23. Sweetie - 60 days. Good sized clusters on tall sprawling plants. These tomatoes are very good producers with a taste that says it all.
TC24. Xina - 70 days. Smaller plum shaped tomatoes. Obtained from a fellow that travels overseas to North Eastern Russian states. Good for fresh eating.
TC25. OSU Blue - 78-90 days. Larger than a typical cherry variety, more a small tomato. One I had to try, given my penchant for different colored tomatoes! There were very blue all the way through the season, making it an interesting addition to the tomato patch, and when they ripen they retain the tinged shoulders that almost look black then. As an eating tomato they have a sharp taste. Try them!
TC26. Nova - 70 days. Makes large clusters of grape tomatoes, quite a bit bigger than store varieties and used the same way or as a paste tomato.
TC27. Marmande - 60 days. A 2-3 oz. meaty salad tomato that is very early. Had good flavor in our trials.
TC28. Belle Star - 67 days. A good tomato for fresh eating, cutting into salad or using in sauces. It is a bit firmer, about 3 oz. each and clusters on compact plants are large. Good producer.
TC29. Quebec 2473 - 65 days or so. Massive clusters of pointy, slightly larger than grape sized tomatoes with good flavor. Very productive last year. Plants are semi-compact.
HERBS
All pkgs. are $3.00
HB0. Cilantro (aka Coriander) – 40 days. 50 seeds. The fresh leaves of this plant are common in spring salads as they add a distinctive, lemony crisp flavor and are a major ingredient in all Mexican and Indian dishes. It is a readily self-seeding annual that requires numerous plantings to ensure fresh leaves throughout the growing season. Seeds can easily be saved by collecting from mature plants.
HB1. Dill – 55 days common, (at least 100 seeds per pkg.). As with Coriander, dill will readily self seed. A good idea to let it do so in one patch, as early dill is less prone to aphid infection than that planted to be ready when the cucumbers are!! Good flavor as dried greens also.
HB2. Sweet Basil – (Occilium basilicum) – 30 seeds. LIMITED Quantities for 2013. This variety of basil produces medium sized leaves, useful for sauces, drying or other culinary uses. Good potency of flavor, grows well in most conditions. Start early inside in sterilized soil mix and water from the bottom.
HB3. Greek Basil – Limited quantities – 20 seeds. This is a compact, perfect shaped basil with small leaves. Designed for greek dishes and potted plants for the windowsill. Strong basil flavor, delicate and fun looking plant. Perfect globe shape.
HB4. Sweet Ripple Basil – Exclusive to us. Very limited quantities ( 20 seeds). This is one of the largest basils you will ever find. Enormous rippled leaves, the size of large spinach leaves. Great, aromatic basil flavor.
HB5. Lettuce Leaf Basil – Limited quantities. Known for it’s larger sized leaves and good basil flavor. Dries exceptionally well.
HB6. Italian Large Leaf Basil – Similar to Lettuce leaf basil in flavor and size, possibly a little smaller, but with good flavor.
HB7. Cinnamon Basil – Limited Quantities for 2013. This flavored basil is used in teas and other dishes where a cinnamon flavor is desired. Leaves are smaller and plant is somewhat slim, with some upper leaves colored red to purple.
HB8. Mrs. Burn’s Lemon Basil – My favorite lemon basil. Very robust lemon smell and flavor for fresh lemon tea in the summer. Can also be dried slowly and used throughout the year. A winner for taste. Leaves are larger than regular lemon basil plants.
HB9. Lemon Basil – A good plant for flavored teas and other herbal uses. The leaves have distinctively lemony smells and taste. If pinched back regularly they can become quite large and bushy in the garden in a sheltered spot.
HB10. Lime Basil – Very limited quantities for 2013. This plant is small but does well with pinching similar to lemon basil types. Will produce leaves with very strong lime scent and flavor.
HB11. Thai Basil – Limited Quantities. This variety is beautiful to look at and can be grown just for its distinctive colors in the garden! A licorice flavored basil for use in Asian dishes, the base of the plant is green, but the new growth is purple. Very showy.
HB12. St. John’s Wort – 80 – 90 days. 100 seeds per pkg. St. John’s wort herb is used as an antidepressant, but the flowers when eaten raw provide essential omega fats required by the brain and nervous system. Great in salads. The green plant leaves can be brewed in tea.
HB13. Milk weed – 20 seeds per pkg. Limited quantities. Used as a liver cleanse.
HB14. Lavender, English – 25 seeds. Limited quantities. Smelly and showy flowers in that old familiar scent.
HB15. Speedwell – Veronica Blue – 50 seeds This purple/blue variety is known for producing showy spikes of small flowers. Will self-seed, so keep in a certain area.
HB16. Queen Anne’s Lace – 20 seeds per pkg. Used in traditional medicines and sometimes found in wildflower mixes. Umbel of small, scented white flowers.
HB17. Shepherd’s Purse – 50 seeds per pkg. Considered a weed species, it can be eaten as a nutritious salad green.
HB18. Chamomile – German – over 100 seeds. This variety is used extensively in herbal concoctions and teas. Prolific self-seeder.
HB19. NEW!! Parsley – Curled leaf. 100 days. Start indoors for best plants, slow to start but worth the wait. 20 seeds per pkg.
Grains
G11. Amaranth – 85 days. 100 seeds per pkg.. This small seed grain was used by the Aztecs. It is rich in protein, vitamins and fiber and produces a mucilaginous liquid with great healing properties. Cook like rice in a 1:1 ratio with water for about 30 minutes.
G12. Hulless Oats (Avens sativa nuda) - from Salt Spring Seed - high yielding and easily threshed by hand. Smaller heads than hulled oats.
G13. Golden Flax ( Linum usitatissimum) - 100 or more seeds. Good variety to grow on a short season. These seeds are very high in Omega-3 fatty acids, tastey raw or cooked. The seeds are not as mucilaginous as brown flax.
G14. Brown Flax (Linum spp.) - 100 or more seeds. Dark brown seeds with a high mucilage component. Great nutrition as above. Not quite as high in Omega-3's as golden flax, but as with all flax, excellent source of fiber.
G15. Purple Amaranth – 100 or more seeds. For eating of the greens, saving seed for eating or as a garden flower, these plants have purple foliage and darker flowers.
G16. Non-GMO Canola – 100 seeds or more. Round seeds can be used for oil production or the young plants can be used as a green for eating steamed or raw. From natural varieties.
G50. Ethiopian Barley - extra early variety of two row barley. Light heads, good yields. A heritiage hulless variety.
G51. Hulless Barley - originally obtained from Salt Spring Seeds, we have grown this barley up to quanitities now sustainable and available to the public. Threshes out of the husk with a little work.
G52. Sheba Barley - good production variety also used for ornamental purposes because of it's beautiful long golden awns. Hulless also.
G53. Sangatsuga Barley - golden brown seeds, hulless, good producing variety. Shorter variety, we have found.
G54. Arabian Blue - beautiful heads tinged with blue, and also dark seeds. Sold out.
G55. Malting Barley – 90 days, 100 seeds per pkg. about. What else would you use it for? Malting barley is obviously better suited to beer brewing than other uses, but it can be eaten cooked like any grain or ground for barley flour and used like wheat.
Wheat Varieties (Triticum spp.) - 107 days
Price: $2 per 25 gm, $4 for 50 gm, $5 for 100 gm, $8.50 for 200 gms
G70. Durum - T. durum our first crop of Durum wheat survived the grasshoppers and the drought. A suitable variety for grinding, sprouting and pasta uses.
G71. Marquis - A robust wheat variety, developed as a cross between Red Fife and Hard Red Calcutta Wheat in 1904 by Charles Saunders in Canada and has always been a good producer on our farm. Smaller, rounder kernels easier for grinding, but can be used in all ways wheat is used.
G72. Roblin - This is a flour wheat, a hard winter wheat. Large, long red kernels, keep well and good taste. No longer available on the market, this is a good variety for the prairies.
G73. Kamut (also called Polish Wheat) T. polonicum Huge kernels, typically twice the size of regular wheats. 29% more protein, and 27% more lipids, higher in vits and minerals. Beautiful twisting heads. Takes a slightly longer growing season than regular wheats. 120 days.
G74. Egyptian - Hard red spring variety, good flavor, easy to thresh by hand, high yields. Not available this year.
G75. Ethiopian Blue - Lovely kernels of dark blue wheat, hard seeded for flour production or any other use. Makes a fun addition to traditional whole kernel dishes.
G76. Khapli Spelt - Fan shaped large heads, harder to thresh by hand. Good sized kernels and used largely for pastas where a softer wheat is required.
G77. Ultrecht Blue Wheat - Difficult to thresh by hand, largely used in ornamental flower arrangements, beautiful decorative blue heads. Very limited quantities. $3.95 per package of 50 seeds.
G78. Dwarf Indian Wheat - T. sphaerococcum - A very short and upright variety that has good production and taste. Heads are like bottle brushes, stiff and wiry, kernels are plump, almost round.
Others
These are seeds I have saved from organic sources wherever possible but that I have successfully planted and grown at home (indoors for the most part). 10-20 seeds per pkg. - $3.00
800. Lemons
801. Oranges
802. Pomelo (Chinese grapefruit)
803. Clementines
804. Lemon/Lime mix
OT16. Sorghum – Broom Corn. 105 days for broom stalks. 50+ seeds. This variety grows tall like corn with multicolored seed heads forming late in the season. Green stalks can be cut and used to make straw brooms. Fun to grow for a change.
OT17. Tobacco – Virginian. 100 + seeds. Grown for it’s long slender leaves, this tall plant has an abundance of seeds in the Nicotiana type flower head, of which family it is a member. Plants grow at least 5 feet tall. Leaves are harvested from the base up when they turn yellow.
OT18. Tobacco – 1000 year old. 100+ seeds per package. From Dan at Salt Spring Seeds originally. We hear the story is that the original seeds were found preserved in an urn and carbon dated to be over 1000 years old. The plant is a very old version of Nicotiana with enormous round leaves that make quite a different version of tobacco. Used for ceremonial offerings or household use. Very tall plants – up to 6 ‘ in our area.
For Edible oil seeds see Sunflowers in Flower section and flax and canola in the grains section.
Trees and Fruiting Shrubs
TR0. Red Currant – An outstanding producer of small red berries in the summer that make excellent jams and jellies, wine or can be dried as an addition to cakes and cookies. The raisin of the prairies. Growing instructions included.
TR1. High Bush Cranberry – Another wild edible from tall shrubs that are abundant producers and yield red berries in the fall for uses similar to red currants. A must with turkey. Instructions included.
TR2. Tamarack – a variety of Larch that is known to drop it’s leaves in the fall, growing in wet areas and yielding an extremely hard and rot-resistant wood. Can be used as firewood, ornamental or other uses such as fencing, building and the like. Easily grown from seed in soil with a sandy medium in the beginning.
TR3. White Spruce – a conifer common to the Alberta prairies and woodlands, and growing tall and relatively large for here. Common uses as firewood and building needs. Can be pruned for ornamental uses and shelterbelts.
TR4. Black Spruce – A lowland variety of the white spruce, known for it’s compact growing habit, dense wood structure, and resistance to rot. It was said that a larger black spruce could be used to make shakes for roofs. Jack Pine was also useful for this. See below.
TR5. Scotch Pine – or Scotch pine, is one of the ornamental pines brought to Alberta by settlers and that likes to grow here. An uncommon trait is the long, graceful needles, common to pines, but especially long in this variety.
TR6. Lodgepole pine – used by Native Peoples across the land to construct their winter lodgings, these trees when found in stands grow straight and tall. Excellent ornamentals as well, and easy to grow on any soil.
TR7. Jack Pine – A variant of the lodgepole, these pines are not as straight, but have great character, loving sandy soils where they are readily found throughout the province. Used for shake manufacturing as they are resistant to rot and large enough to accommodate this use readily.
TR8. Ponderosa Pine – these tall giants usually inhabit warmer climes, common to the interior of BC, in places like the Okanagan Valley where they are immense, daunting giants. We have the fortune of having an Alberta Source where these trees were lovingly established by a master gardener. Special seeding instructions included.
TR9. White Pine – limited quantities. These seeds are again native to warmer areas of BC, but can be established here and found occasionally in Alberta.
TR10. Pincherry – harvested sustainably from wild Alberta groves nearby. These tree/shrubs produce a small sour cherry that can be used like red currants or chokecherries.
TR11. Chokecherry – not available until 2012. Wild harvested viable seeds producing wild shrub/trees bearing clumps of black cherry berries with a mouth-moisture draining aspect. Very medicinal and excellent for wine, jellies, jams, etc.. Only the brave eat them raw!!
TR12. NEW!! Fast-growing spruce (likely Norway) – obtained from cones of a neighbor, these spruce can grow incredibly fast here. Have a nice blue tinge but not blue spruce as the needles are softer. Sold in a kit with instructions for $3.
Seed Garlic
$3.75 per bulb (not clove). Plant in spring by April 1 or in October before ground freezes. Due to crop failure, seed is not available in 2013 spring. Call for availability in the fall.
Gar0. Spring garlic - Silver skin type - shorter season garlic, good flavor, smaller cloves with pink tinges. Not available this year.
Gar1. Chinese Sativum- like store variety most commonly grown in China in massive farms. Grown here the flavor improves.
Gar2. Korean - good sized cloves, larger heads, needs a longer season. Best planted in the fall, definite purple tinge to cloves and heads. Med. strong flavor. Limited quantities.
Gar3. Persian Star - Longer season garlic, good sized light colored heads, cloves are also about med. sized. Med. strong flavor.
Gar4. Gido Krupa's - Medium sized heads, pinkish smaller cloves, good producer and great flavor. Very limited quantities.
Gar5. Les Pudar's - Very large white heads with large cloves, 8-10 per head. Does well in all kinds of weather and drought or rain. Limited quantites.
Gar6. Mr. Kastelic's - Similar to Gido Krupa's with very large heads and cloves produced if watered well and consistently throughout the season. Limited quantities.
Rest of garlic sold out for 2013
Annual and Perennial Flowers
FL0. Clematis – Loveliness. A very productive vine growing over 10 feet in a season, loaded with medium yellow flowers that the bees love. Hard to grow from seed but give it a try. Limited offering. 15 seeds per pkg.
FL1. Columbine – Red/orange 40-50 seeds. Great flower for attracting bees and butterflies. Height: 18-28”. Color as the name says.
FL2. Columbine – Blue/purple 40-50 seeds. Flowers are a deeper color blue, bordering on purple with slightly lighter throats. Average 24” high.
FL3. Blue Delphinium 40-50 seeds. Tall, wonderful spikes of a light blue color. Great heritage flower from my grandmother’s garden. Growing up to 5’ tall.
FL4. Money Plant – 10 seeds. Limited offering. Plant ripens flower seed pods that are flat and look like silver coins in the fall. Good for dried flower arrangements. Usually about 24” high.
FL5. Sweet William – 20-40 seeds. Assorted colors of the perennial favorite of old country gardens. Producing clustered heads in white with pink splashes, deep pink and variations in between. You may order also dark pink with white centers, or white with dark pink centers separately. Just specify in your order. Up to 18”.
FL6. Petunias – 50 seeds or more
a) Midnight Dreams type – deep purple, almost black.
b) Iced Salmon – salmon pink and slightly lighter shades.
c) Frosted mix – pinks with white edges, carnation pink, and
purples with light edges.
d) Butter cream – yellowy white
e) White
f) Carmen type – deep hot pink and lighter variations on that
theme.
g) Plum blush – vibrant plum colors in deep shades
h) Petunia mix – mix of all of the above.
i) Orchid daddy type – medium purple.
j) Peach Ice – light peach color.
k) Electric plum – bold plum that is at once deep pink and blue.
Hard to describe. Very showy.
l) Red dreams – red flowers, not available this year.
m) Tidal Wave silver – light purple almost silver, trailing wave
type
n) Tidal pink – hot pink, trailing wave type
o) Mini Tidal Orchid Daddy type – like Orchid Daddy only wave
and small flowers.
p) Midnight dream mix - dark purple true types and electric plum
variations. Interesting mix.
q) Midnight frost - dark purple with white frilly edges
r) Frosty mix - mixture of purple and pink centers with white frilly
edges.
FL7. Datura – Blue Angel. 40 seeds per pack. This variety of angel trumpet puts forth early single light purple flowers with a rich fragrance. Readily self seeds if the seed heads are not clipped. Delightful in the garden in early morning and late afternoon. Plant in an area where it has sway over a 4’ diameter, as it just keeps growing. These plants can be potted and overwintered to become beautiful trees eventually if you have room and inclination. Note that this is a noxious weed in some areas, it seeds prolifically so keep deadheaded.
FL8. Bunny Tail Grass – 45 seeds per pkg. This fun grass is covered with fluffy, soft bunny tail seed heads that turn from green to light tan. Good for containers or the back of the flower bed. They are drought tolerant and ornamental for flower arrangements. 8-12” high.
FL9. Poppy – Venus type Double pink – 50 seeds or more per pkg. These delightfully large flower heads are frilly and pink, with darker centers. Very full and ornamental in the garden, they bloom all summer long. Large seed pods produce an abundance of seed. Foliage is light green with a white blush. 24” high.
FL10. Poppy – Double red – 50 or more seeds per pkg. Similar to the above only flowers are full, frilly red. 24 “.
FL11. Poppy – Shirley mix – 50 or more seeds per pkg. A mix of day blooming single poppies in an assortment of colors from white, to pink, red and orangey red, some with dark centers. 12”
FL12. Poppy - Fuschia and white frills, up to 18” high.
FL13. Poppy - Red ruffle - large red frilly double flowers, up to 24” high.
Fl14. Poppy - Pink skirt - large pink flowers with white frilly lace edges, up to 16” high.
FL15. Poppy - Single white, plants up to 18” high.
Fl16. Ice plant – red/orange – 25 seeds per pkg. Limited offering. This succulent is one of my favorite plants, easy to grow and producing captivating flowers and foliage. Low spreading ground cover or pot plant.
FL17. Ice plant – hot pink – 25 seeds, limited. As above only bright hot pink flowers and shades of pink on the foliage as well.
FL18. Ice plant – light pink – not available this year.
FL19. Ice Plant – mix and match, of the above colors. 25 seeds.
FL20. Pink Mallow – 25 seeds. Flowers are light pink with dark veins and showy on a tall(up to 3’) light green plant. Usually about 12-18” high.
FL21. Nicotiana – 40-50 seeds. Dark pink flowers growing 12-18 inches tall.
FL22. Nicotiana – 40-50 seeds. Light purple flowers. Plants up to 18” tall.
Fl23. Purple Mallow – 25 seeds. Flowers are darker than pink mallow above, showy. Up to 24” high.
FL24. Marigold - 25 seeds. Large orange blossoms on 2' plants. Royal type.
Fl25. Marigold - 25 seeds. Large yellow blossoms on 2' plants. Royal type.
FL26. Marigold - 25 seeds. Dwarf plants (under 12”) with showy orange flowers.
FL27. Marigold mixes- 25 seeds. Dwarf mix of showy variations of yellow, golden orange and red, some mixing within flower heads. Compact, 6” plants for border arrangements.
FL28. Marigold mix - 25 or more seeds. Mixture of all types of marigolds in a rainbow of colors and heights. Just not sure what you will get!
FL29. Marigold – Red – 25 seeds. A dwarf variety (up to 12”) with dark red flowers. Interesting and different. Limited quantities.
FL30. Snapdragon – 50+ seeds. Mixed colors, various heights from one to two feet.
FL31. Snapdragon – yellow – limited quantities. Tall type (2’), single flowers on large spike.
FL32. Snapdragon – Pink – 50 or more seeds. Tall (2’) and showy beautiful rich pink colored flowers.
FL40. Sunflowers – Edible seeded – 25 seeds. Tall plants (over 3’) with medium to large sized heads, grey striped seeds. Flowers are yellow and showy, typical of edible seeded varieties.
FL41. Sunflowers – Mammoth Russian – 25 seeds. Very tall, 6’ and stocky plants with enormous seed heads loaded with delectable tasty seeds. Heads can measure one foot across and more.
FL45. Love lies bleeding – Amaranth – 48 days. Beautiful drooping pink and red flower sprays that contain tiny light yellow, round edible seeds. Cook like quinoa or regular amaranth for a tasty treat or just enjoy the beauty of the plants. Leaves and stems of this plant also contain active red and purple pigments. Grow about 2.5 feet tall.
Mixes
MX1. Beginners seed gift pack – An assortment of easy to grow and popular vegetables and flowers. 10 pkgs. - $30.00
MX2. Bring on the harvest pack – An assortment of vegetable varieties that produce prolifically during the season, in all climates. Includes peas (2 kinds), corn (2), carrots, spinach, beets, beans (2), onions, peppers (hot and sweet), squash and tomatoes (2). 15 packets, each individually labeled with instructions, $65.00. Will suite one family of 4 for one growing season, with instructions on saving seed for future years.
MX3. Five year plan – An assortment of the varieties of vegetables in package M2 but with a quantity suitable for a five year growing period. Save by purchasing in bulk - $300.00 with tips for storage.
MX4. Grow your own breads and cereals pack – A popular blend of wheats, barleys, and cereal grains, flax and other oil grains, with growing, harvesting and storage instructions, along with ideas for use including recipes. Intended for you self-starters and to provide seed for multiplying on small plots. 12 packets - $40.00
MX5. Herb Gardener packs – For those who love their herbs. This package includes a popular mix of basil, dill, cilantro, St. John’s Wort and lavender. 5 packets - $15.00
MX6. Nothin’ but the flowers – A colorful mix of flower species designed for the avid lover of bloom and fragrance throughout the season. Starting indoors required, instructions included. 10 packets, $25.00.
MX7. Fun with house plants – A combination of plants that can be grown inside during the winter months and all year. Includes on e citrus seed for a pot plant, some herbs and suitable vegetables. Fun for kids to grow and try. Good lighting is a must. 5 pkg. - $14.00.
MX8. Eat and Grow storage pack – All the seeds included in M3, along with 5 lbs. each of 3 varieties of cereal grains, wheat, barley, oats, rye or triticale, 2 lbs. each of beans and peas and 1 lb. each of flaxseed. Shipping will be extra for this item. Cost $350.00 plus shipping.
MX9. Number M2 plus – everything in M2 plus seeds for cucumber, swiss chard, 5 popular culinary herbs, melongs, parsnip, and potato tubers, multiplier onion sets, strawberry runners (5 plants), 5 raspberry canes and one rhubarb root. If you are starting out on your own in a new garden spot, this is the package to have. $145 shipping extra.
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