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Tagetes patula. 75-85 days. Aptly named, the flowers of Red Metamorph marigold are a deep red in the cooler temperatures of spring and fall but shift towards orange and yellow in hotter weather! Small blooms are 1.5” – 2” across with uniquely scalloped petals. The sturdy plants grow 2-3’ tall and bloom continuously from June…
Tagetes erecta. 55 days. With big yellow pom-poms that seem impossibly bright, Yellow Supreme Marigold appears dayglow when the light hits it just right. To borrow from the description for Yellowest Yellow paint by Stuart Semple, “Visible light is powerfully reflected by this high pigment” … flower. Sunglasses are recommended. This ultra-bright flower is available to…
Althaea officinalis. Perennial in zones 3-9. Common edible and medicinal herb native to Europe. Marshmallow has many medicinal uses which include treating stomach acid, aching muscles, insect bites, and dry coughs. Leaves can be eaten raw but taste better cooked. Similar to its okra relative, it is good for thickening soups. Marshmallows of campfire and…
Cucumis melo. 80 days. A highly fragrant and delicious Italian cantaloupe variety originally from Sicily. Fruit grow to about 6-8″ across, weighing 2-4 lbs. Beautifully netted, slightly ridged, with bright orange flesh (arancino means ‘orange’ in Italian). Relatively firm texture, ease of identifying ripeness, great color and size make this melon very well suited to…
Cucumis melo. 70-80 days. Green striped fruit have a heavenly aroma and deliciously sweet, firm orange flesh. Charentais is a traditional French type of cantaloupe that has long been considered by many to be the best of the best. Hybrid and open-pollinated Charentais melons tend to be a little slow to ripen in our climate,…
Cucumis melo. 65 days. Our selection from the Farthest North Mix that has been in the making since we crossed Galia F1 into the mix over 9 years ago. Still a genepool mix that has been selected for small, round, green-fleshed melons. Our goal is to breed a small fruited super early, super sweet galia/passport/tropical…
Cucumis melo. 65 days. A diverse genepool mix of ultra early, cool weather tolerant melons. Small, single serving, baseball-to-softball-sized melons vary in color (lots of green-fleshed but also some orange) as well as texture and flavor. This melon is like a box of chocolates (thanks Forrest Gump!). You might not know what you’re going to…
Cucumis melo. 70-80 days. Small, green-skinned melons ripen to vibrant gold and have firm, very pale cream flesh with an almost honeydew crunchy consistency. Up to five softball-sized fruit per plant. Super tasty, early variety that is good for cool, short seasons or for folks that are getting their garden in a bit late. Very…
Cucumis melo. 80-90 days. Oregon heritage melon mentioned in the Slow Food book, Restoring Salmon Nation’s Food Traditions, compiled by Gary Paul Nabhan. Super juicy and sweet flavor melts in your mouth. Slightly oval shaped but more round than Pike or Spear. Earlier than many heritage melons but not a short season melon. We usually…
Cucumis melo. 80-90 days. Unique and delightful, Sweet Freckles Melon has a sweet aromatic flavor with a smooth, dense texture. Unusual and attractive appearance, which is pear-shaped and freckled. Vines are exceedingly vigorous and while the stem does not slip when ripe, the color changes from green to orange. Not the earliest melon but it…
Tithonia rotundifolia. 75 days. A great summer bloomer with bright orange flowers that attract butterflies. Thrives on neglect, turning into bushy shrubs by the end of summer. This strain lacks the dwarf nature and muted colors of the newer varieties, Torch and Aztec Sun. We prefer this larger Mexican Sunflower as we, and our pollinators,…
Asclepias speciosa. Perennial to zone 3. Showy Milkweed is native to all Western states and is the most common species of milkweed native to Oregon. Plants grow to 4’-5’ tall when irrigated, with large, pale green, lobe-shaped leaves. Milkweed is known to thrive along roadside ditches and other neglected areas, where it tends to grow…
Setaria italica. Foxtail millet. Foxtail millet is the type used for bird food. Small seeds have yellow hulls that must be removed before humans can eat it (not an easy task). Very easy to grow, but difficult to save seed from unless you have zero birds in your garden (but who would want that?!). Try…
Eleusine coracana. 90 days. Finger millet. Aptly named, Dragon’s Claw is a unique and fun millet with panicles that are shaped like a hand with up to eight fingers pointed up to the sky. Would make a neat addition to autumn bouquets. The birds in our field left this one alone, preferring pretty much every…
Setaria italica. Foxtail millet. This is an awesome foxtail millet. Beautiful, dense, fingery heads are a reddish brown, leaves and stalks are purplestreaked green. Tolerates cooler summers. Very productive, easy to hand harvest (if you can get to it before the birds) and gorgeous in flower arrangements. Plants grow to 6′ tall. From Don Kluever…
Panicum miliaceum. Proso millet. Proso millet is a good edible grain for those with gluten allergies, if you can manage to hull it. Great as bird seed if you cannot. Large seeds have red-orange hulls. Juosves millet is very drought tolerant and is easy to grow. Sprays make attractive additions to bouquets. Variety given to…
Setaria italica. Foxtail millet. Easy to grow, small seeded variety with red-orange hulls. As with our other millet varieties, it is also great fermenting into beer for personal use or feeding to your chickens and ducks. Remove hull before you eat it. Drought resistant. Rudukes millet was given to us by the Lithuanian Ministry of…
Claytonia perfoliata. 30-55 days. This cool-weather salad green is native to the West Coast of North America, and Native Americans there have long valued it for food and medicine. Small plants prefer to grow autumn through spring and will regrow after multiple harvests. Leaves grow in pairs that slowly fuse together as they mature. Satisfying…
Amaranthus sp. Flower/Grain. 65-95 days. A fun and beautiful way to explore amaranth diversity. Amaranth Alliance contains flower and grain types in a rainbow of colors, with several reds, plus pink, green, bronze, and bicolors in the mix. Very ornamental – a festive backdrop for the garden. Equal parts Copperhead, Coral Fountain, Green Tails, Love…
Grow a garden for your feathered friends! Mix contains millet, sunflowers, lettuce, cosmos, mustard, and others. We have at times joked that our efforts are for the birds. Quite literally in this case! Sow in spring for a progression of seeds your backyard birds will love. We have been known to grow catch crops of…
Plant this mix at the edges of your garden to feed pollinators and invite beneficial insects of all kinds. Blooms start early with cilantro and dill and continue through frost. Several of these crops provide good bird food, too. Mix includes sunflowers, zinnias, tithonia, coreopsis, cilantro, fennel, parsley, dill, and others.
Monarda citridoria. Annual or fall-sown biennial. Lemon Bergamot Monarda achieves the garden trifecta of being an ornamental, culinary/medicinal, and insectary plant. Tubular purple flowers form in clusters around the stem, with two to six clusters along each stem. Perhaps most well known as an herbal flavoring for tea, leaves have a citrusy aroma and flavor…
Monarda fistulosa. Perennial in zones 3-10. The name Bee Balm says it all. Bees, butterflies, other beneficial insects, even hummingbirds love to come and drink the nectar of this member of the mint family. We saw a large number of native bumble bees foraging among the summer blooms. Steal a few flowering stems from the…
Leonurus cardiaca. Perennial in zones 3-9. Highly medicinal and intensely bitter perennial member of the mint family that grows to 3’ tall and produces small purple flowers in the second year. Motherwort’s flowering tops make a unique cut flower and its presence in the garden is also ornamental. Used medicinally across many herbal traditions for…
Artemisia vulgaris. Perennial in zones 3-9. An important part of the medicinal herb garden, as it has been used in remedies across many cultures for hundreds of years. Various preparations of mugwort have been applied to the skin to treat poison oak, rheumatism, or quicken the blood. Teas or tinctures have been known to induce…
Verbascum densiflorum. Biennial. Beautiful and burly, Dense-Flowered mullein produces lots of easily harvestable pale yellow flowers and sage green leaves for medicinal use and is pretty enough to grow as an insectary or ornamental. Easy to grow. Mullein is said to have a soothing effect on a dry cough, and a tincture made from the…
Vigna mungo. Black. 80 days. Very interesting black seeded mung bean relative. Commonly consumed in India and Nepal as a protein rich staple. Mung beans are often used in a similar way to red lentils, such as in dal makhani. The flour has a sticky texture when cooked making it useful for flat breads like…
Brassica juncea. 20 days baby, 40 days full. Hands down the most beautiful red mustard for salad mix. The leaf color is green and purple, hard to describe, and reminiscent of the 1990s fractal posters that Sarah had in her room as a teenager. Very slow to bolt in spring, it has the perfect balance…
Brassica juncea. 20 days baby, 40 days full. At this point in our farming careers, it takes a lot for a spicy mustard to impress us enough to add it to the catalog. Frizzy Lizzy did just that – in the winter of 2014 (lows to 5°F), we trialed ten B. juncea mustards in a…
Brassica rapa. 60-70 days. A tall napa cabbage with super early heads that are very juicy. The 2-5 lb heads are perfect for kimchi and stir fry. Best covered with row cover to prevent all the other animals in the world from eating them because everybody likes to eat napa cabbage, especially the bugs. Best…
Nigella sativa. 100 days. Attractive blue flowers look a lot like the related flower, Love-in-a-Mist, but Black-Seeded Culinary Nigella is a different species with closed seedpods that keep seeds safe inside. Plants grow 8-12” tall and while it does not produce many flowers, each flower is high yielding of small, aromatic black seeds that taste…
Nigella hispanica. 70-80 days. Purple-blue flowers are 2 ½” wide with a captivating cluster of extruded dark purple stamens and pistils at the center. Pollinator friendly blooms attract almost as many insect visitors as California poppies. Long, 16″ stems make great fresh cut flowers with blooms lasting just over one week – a little longer…
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