Thursday, January 21, 2021

Vegetable/Herb/Flower Seed List Updated 1/21/2021

OG = organic seed

 

Beans: (approx. 24 seeds per packet)

Blue Lake 7 – pole, 60 days

Bountiful – bush bean, 45-50 days

Empress – bush, 55 days

Mayflower – pole bean, 95 days

Climbing French Bean – pole bean, edible 4-7” pods, 65-75 days

Contender – bush bean, 55 days

Painted Pony – bush, 60 days pod, 90 days bean

Tiger Eye – half-pole, 80-90 days

Unknown variety

 

Lettuce:

Arugula – green, 40 days

Better Devil – OG, romaine, purple ruffled, 56 days

Bronze Mignonette - from Siberia, very cold tolerant, oakleaf shaped leaves, green with bronze tips, 50 days

Burpee Bibb – green, 75 days

Burpee Bibb – OG, green, 75 days

Buttercrunch – butterhead, 65 days

Cinnamon – romaine leaf, ruby rust red, 45 days

Little gem – mini romaine, 50-55 days

Lolla Rossa – OG, red looseleaf, 55 days

Parris White Cos  - romaine, 65-70 days

Parris Island Romaine – OG, romaine, 65 days

Prizehead – inner leaves green, outer leaves purple to bronze, 45 days

Rocky Top – blend or red, bronze, green, 38-45 days

Rogue d’Hiver, red, 70 days

Mesclun, mixed, 20-45 days

Winter Density – romaine, 44 days

Salad Bowl Mix

Gourmet Blend Seed Tape– OG, mixture looseleaf, 44 days

 

 

Peas:  (approx. 24 seeds per packet)

Champion of England – shelling pea, 60-75 days

Extra Early Little Marvel – shelling pea, 58-63 days

Early Perfection – shelling pea, 3” pods, 66 days

Homesteader – shelling pea, 65 days

Mammoth Melting – snow pea, 65 days

PLS 14 – OG, shelling, 50 days

Progress #9 – shelling pea, 58 days

Sugar Ann – snap pea, edible pods, 20” vines, 51 days

Tom Thumb – OG, shelling pea, 50-55 days

 

 

Peppers:

Banana – sweet pepper, yellow, 60 days

California Wonder – OG, sweet green bell, 75 days

Serrano – hot

Thai – hot

Wisconsin Lakes – OG, sweet red bell, 75-85 days

 

Tomatoes: Regular Sized:

Black Giant – purple-black, 6-14oz, 65-85 days

Black Krim – dark red-purple, 80 days

Brandywine – red, 80-100 days

Box Car Willie – red, 12-18oz, 80 days

Copia – gold and yellow stripes, 1lb, 85 days

Dakota Sport – red, 65-75 days

Earl of Edgecombe – orange, 3”, 70-75 days

German Johnson – red, 1-2lb, 80 days

Gold Medal – orange-yellow with red, 75-90 days

Hungarian Heart – reddish-pink, 1lb, 80 days

Pink Brandywine – pink, 1-2lbs, 80-100 days

Rozovyi Izumnyi – pink, 85 days

Vinson Watts – pink, 10-16oz, 85 days

 

Tomatoes: Cherry/Lunchbox Size:

Blue Berries – dark purple, 75 days

Chinese yellow – yellow, pear shaped, 75 days

Current Sweet Pea – red, very tiny, 75-80 days

Fox Cherry – red, 75 days

Garden Peach – light yellow, 2-3oz, 75 days

German Lunchbox    pinkish red, 70-80 days

Gold Nugget – golden, 1-2”, 60 days

Green Doctors – green, 85 days

Green Zebra – olive yellow, 3oz, 70-80 days     

Jaune Flamme – orange, 2-4oz, 70 days

Kazachka – red/green, 1-2”

Matt’s Wild Cherry – deep red, 55 days

Mexican Midget – red, 60-70 days

Tommy Toe – red, 70 days

Yellow Pear – yellow pear shaped

 

Tomatoes: Roma/Paste Tomatoes:

Amish Paste – red, 8-12oz, 80 days

Martino’s Red Roma – red, 3” long, 75-80 days

San Marzano – red, 5”long, 75 days

Striped Roman – orange stripes, 75-80 days

 

 

Other Veggies

These plants are considered ‘difficult’ to save their seeds because they either cross-pollinate easily within their family of plants or they are a biennial so it takes 2 years for them to produce seeds. Only save the seeds from these plants if you can ensure they have not been cross-pollinated. These plants need between 600ft – ½ mile between varieties to ensure no cross-pollination. Most of these seeds are from commercial growers who can ensure they are not cross-pollinated.

 

Broccoli – Calabrese – 5-8” heads, 58-90 days

Asian Greens:

            Hon Tsai Tai – 40 days

Tatsoi, 21-45 days

Cabbage:

Brunswick – 6-9 lbs, 85-95 days

Early Jersey Wakefield – 3-4 lbs, 60-70 days

Carrots:

St. Valery – Red-orange, excellent storage, 12”, 80-90 days

Red Core Chantenay – red core, wide shoulders, good heavy soils, 5”, 70 days

Rouge Demi-Longue de Chantenay – red core, 65-70 dys

Celery – start by Feb 15, 100-120 days

Chard – Red Rhubarb – dark red veins, 50-60 days

Corn – Glass Gem  - 120 days

Cress - Belle Island – rich in Vitamin A&C, calcium, iron, 50 days

Cucumbers:

            Hmong Red – grows from white-pale green-yellow-red, best eaten yellow, 4-5”

Lemon – round, yellow tennis sized balls, 65 days

Marketmore 76 – slicing cucumber, green, 8-9”, 63 days

Mexican Sour Gherkin – tiny 1”, sweet cucumber flavor with a tang, 60-70 days

Russian Pickling – smooth skin, sweet crisp, 50-55 days

Spacemaster 80 – dwarf plants, 8” fruit, 60 days

Grain – Jacob’s Tears – ancient grain, 4-6’ tall

Kale – Lacinato – blue-green, 65-80 days

Kohlrabi – Blauer Speck – violet-blue color, 60 days

Melons:

            Iroquoise Cantaloupe – 90-100 days

Petit Gris de Rennes cantaloupe – 2 lbs, 85 days

PMR Delicious cantaloupe– 2-3 lbs, 75-80 days

Hearts of Gold cantaloupe – 2-3 lbs, 80-90 days

Kajari melon – copper-red & green striped, light green flesh, 2-3 lbs, 60-70 days

Black Diamond Watermelon – 30-50 lbs, 60-90 days

Sugar Baby Watermelon- <10lbs, 65-85 days

Microgreens - radish

Okra – Clemson Spineless – 2-3”, 56 days

Pak Choy – Hong Tae – 50-55 days

Radish:

Chinese Green Luobo – bright green, 50-75 days

Chinese Red Meat – green/white outside, rosy red inside, 2-4”, 50 days

Champion – red, mild flavor, 25 days

D’Avignon – 3-4” long, slender, white tip, 21 days

Early Scarlet – 1-2” long, 20-28 days

Philadelphia White Root – white, spicy, 30 days

Sparkler White Top – 1” white tops, red bottoms, sweet, 24 days

White Icicle – 5” cylindrical white roots, 27-35 days

Rhubarb – start seeds indoors, grow 1 year before harvesting

Spinach:

            America – heat & drought tolerant, 8” tall, 43-55 days

Caucasian Mountain (Hablitzia tamnoides) – long lived, semi shade vine, edible leaves & shoots

Good King Henry – perennial spinach, edible leaves, seeds need stratification

Red Malabar – tropical vine like spinach, 50-70 days

Squash:

Eight ball zucchini – 3-4” round, green zucchini, 55 days

Sweet Meat (winter) – bluish grey winter squash, 100 days

Tomatillos:

Grande Rio Verde – 3-4 oz, 80-85 days

Aunt Molly’s – small yellow fruit, 75-90 days

Green - green, 60 days

Turnip – Purple Top White Globe – 4-6” white roots, pink top, sweet, 55 days

 

Herbs

Most herbs are considered ‘difficult’ to save their seeds as they cross-pollinate easily with other varieties of the same type. Only save seeds from these plants if you can ensure they have not been cross-pollinated by ensuring no other plant of the same type was within 1600 ft.

The seed library has commercial packets of seeds for basil- cinnamon, basil – mammolo, catnip, lemon balm, parsley, sage, salad burnet, tarragon and thyme.

 

Basil:

Cinnamon

Italian Genovse - OG

Mammolo

unknown variety – locally harvested

Catnip - OG

Cilantro

Dill

Garlic Chives

Lemon Balm - OG

Lovage

Parsley

Dark Green Flat - OG:

Moss Curled

Italian Giant

Parsley Root

Sage – OG, Common

Salad Burnett

Tarragon

Thyme - OG

 

Flowers

Most flowers are pollinated by insects which means there can be cross-pollination between varieties of the same type of flower. This can result in different heights or color of blooms than the original plant.

 

Annual Flowers:

Angel Trumpet

Bachelor Button

Bee’s Friend

Browallia

Calendula

Cosmos – yellow to tangerine in color, Sensation mix

Cutflower mix

Dahlia – Coltness, Mixed

Four O’Clocks – mixed colors

Impatiens

Indian Blanket

Korean Angelica

Marigold – Snowdrift (white), Disco Marietta, yellow, orange

Morning Glory – Milky Way, Grandpa Ott

Nasturtium – Purple Emperor

Ornamental peppers

Poppy – double pink, red

Runner Bean –Scarlet

Tithonia

 

Perennial Flowers:

Baptisia/False Indigo

Blanket Flower – Arizona Sun

Balloon Flower

Foxglove – purple

Globe Thistle – Blue Glow

Lily – Blackberry

Obedient Plant – white

 

 

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