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
