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Lactuca sativa. Red Romaine. 30 days baby; 60 full. A deep red version of Winter Density with very dense heads that are slow to bolt and have both heat and cold tolerance. The red color darkens up early making it a very good salad mix variety. Can be planted densely like Little Gem and harvested…
Lactuca sativa. Green and Red Crisphead. 45-55 days. A brilliant green and red crisphead lettuce. Exceptional heat resistance similar to Batavian types and the flavor is sweet and crisp even in the middle of summer. The last few years we have been trialing summer lettuces and Saragossa is one of our favorites. Selected to excel…
Lactuca sativa. Mini Green Romaine. 50 days. Crunchy dark-green stars in the garden. Stoke loves cool weather and produces sweet leaves perfect for any salad or sandwich. A very hardy variety that is capable of overwintering in the south of England with no protection (minimum temperatures to 10°F). Old-school mini-romaine, similar to Little Gem, that…
Lactuca sativa. Green Pink Leaf. 30 days baby; 50 full. Apple green leaf lettuce tinged with pink. White Seeded Samara has a unique style, a little like a savoyed butterhead but without the tight heads. Flavor and texture is great, providing a sweet loftiness with a slight crispness. Grows vigorously and survives cold, wet weather…
Lactuca sativa. Green Leaf Stem/Celtuce. 60 days. At first Xingtai 16 presents as a somewhat normal looking romaine type lettuce, and can be eaten as salad with the familiar lettuce crunch. Leaves have a light green color and savoy texture. But, later in its development, the stems elongate and produce a crunchy delicacy known as…
Tagetes patula. 65 days. We have been growing this stunning heritage marigold since 2007 and are excited to have enough harvested and cleaned to share. Ildkongen is not your average marigold. While other marigolds are short, Ildkongen forms tall bushy plants that grow to 4′ and produce lots of flowers right up until frost. Bloom…
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…
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…
Brassica juncea. 20 days baby, 40 days full. This is our favorite winter mustard. It grows vigorously for us throughout the winter, bouncing back easily after one winter’s exceptional low of 8°F. Very hot when raw, the heat all but disappears when cooked and leaves you with a good balanced mustardy flavor. Excellent pickled, simply…
Avena sativa. An early maturing, fairly short and lodge resistant white oat with hulls. Used as an animal feed and for hay, or as a winter-kill cover crop in cold climates. Grows well mixed with spring barley and fed in combination for sheep, goats, horses, cows, chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits. Bred by Wolfgang Kreimer…
Allium cepa. Yellow Storage. 100 days. Long Day. A pungent, yellow storage onion reportedly from Rheinland in Germany. Long day, storage type that stores well for over 6 months. Excelled in our 2016 trials of 12 varieties of storage onions, showing good uniformity of shape with hardly any doubles. Vigorous plants have leaves with unusually…
Allium cepa. Red Storage. 100 days. Long Day. One of the best open pollinated red onions available. Medium-early and uniform. Dark red skin with good red color through all of the bulb layers. Known as a good storage type and we have certainly seen this to be true. Medium sweet flavor. It grows very well…
Allium cepa. Red Storage. 100 days. Long Day. A landrace red storage onion from a region of Transylvania that is famous for its storage onion production. Onions measure 3-4” across, produce well even with low fertility and water inputs, and store well through the following spring. Maria Nagy was one of the few subsistence farmers…
Allium cepa. Yellow Storage. 100 days. Long Day. But of course every homestead farm also needs yellow onions! Our favorite Romanian seed steward, Maria Nagy, shared her yellow onion with us as well. Maria Nagy’s Transylvanian Yellow is very similar in appearance to the red strain (except, obviously, yellow) with 3- 4” bulbs and some…
Allium cepa. Pink Storage. 105 days. Long Day. The pretty rosy-pink skin of this onion is not the only thing that sets it apart. Flavor is both delicately sweet and piquant, complex yet not overpowering. White flesh with light pink layers. Good for braiding and long storage. Rose de Roscoff Keravel is a selection of…
Allium cepa. Red. 120 days. Long Day. These beautiful, dark red Italian onions can get very large and still maintain good storage quality through February. Classic flattened cipollini shape. White and red layered flesh is very pungent. Strong necks are good for braiding. Studies conducted at the University of Perugia’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences showed…
Petroselinum crispum. 75 days. A very rare and special parsley originally from a medieval kingdom located in what is present-day Syria and Turkey, and brought to North America via Cyprus. Cilician parsley has a more ferny leaf type, with an intense flavor that makes a great addition to any dish calling for parsley. Tolerates shade…
Petroselinum crispum. 70 days. An incredibly productive and delicious variety of flat-leaf parsley. Einfache Schnitt 3 parsley has much of the wonderful characteristics of the classic Giant of Italy, but with a more compact reliable plant and much better bolt-resistance. Translates from German as ‘easy cut,’ which proves to be very true. Incredibly flavorful and…
Pastinaca sativa. A very rare, old English parsnip variety with long, white roots that have broad shoulders and sweet flavor. The roots can get huge and therefore provide a very high yield of delicious goodness while at the same time breaking through soil hardpan to improve drainage for subsequent crops. During our 2006 Seed Ambassadors…
Pastinaca sativa. Halblange Weisse is German for ‘half long white’ and this variety is truly half-long with bright white skin. The half-long trait (majority of the mass is near the top of the root which quickly tapers), combined with strong tops result in a parsnip that is notably easier to dig. This variety was a…
Pastinaca sativa. You may think you know parsnips once you have seen a parsnip, but, think again. This is the most unique parsnip we have ever seen and never would have guessed there could be a parsnip like this. A heritage Russian variety with a beet-shaped, bulbous root. This certainly makes for a very easy…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Lavender Speckled. 95 days. Beautiful green speckled purple pods are small but also taste good as a snap bean. Small, round, lavender speckled brown dry beans are so beautiful they’re like jewels. Early and productive. Delicious and very tolerant of cool maritime weather. Given to us by Keith Parkins on our original Seed…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Rosy Speckled. 90 days. Slender pods with rosy-red speckled seeds that are good in soups and pasta e fagioli. Highly productive tall climber. Very beautiful and tasty heirloom originally from Tuscany. We have been growing it for over 10 years and with each harvest we fall in love all over again because it’s…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Tan Speckled. 90 days. These very large (XXL), round, speckled beans have a rich tan and purple-red color. Hands down the largest seeded bean in our collection other than favas and runner beans. The already large beans expand in size when cooked, making them even bigger. Large pods are nice for hand harvesting…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Tan with Purple Speckles. 90 days. We are always on the lookout for short season adapted dry beans and O’Driscoll is one of the best pole beans in this category. We discovered how great O’Driscoll performs early in our Seed Ambassadors Project variety trials and after trialing several hundred more varieties of beans,…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Black. 90 days. Produces little round beans that are a very pretty, shiny black. Early and prolific in our Pacific Northwest climate. Lives up to the general reputation of pole bean flavor being excellent, with more depth of flavor when compared to bush type black beans. Best as a dry bean, but also…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Semi-flat Yellow Pods. 70 days. Yellow/wax bean yields lots of crunchy beans with excellent sweet and beany flavor. The 9″ long straight pods are ½” wide with a semi-flat shape. Anne Berblinger of Gales Meadow Farm in Forest Grove, Oregon, says about Gold Nectar, “We have been searching for a yellow pole bean…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Flat Purple Pods. 55-60 days. Deep purple pods, stems and leaves. Semi-flat beans with excellent raw flavor. Thrives in cool, wet weather and germinates well in the cold spring ground. Pods set early and continuously up the vines. Seeds dry down quick before the rains come. One of our highest yielding pole beans,…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Flat Green Pods, Rose Seeds. 65 days fresh, 95 days dry. Pole Romano type bean with a slight curve to the pod. Large, 7-8″ flat beans are stringless and extremely tasty – Scalzo Italian is one of the best snap beans we have ever tasted. Plump, rose-colored seeds make it functional as a…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Flat Green Pods. 60 days. If you are tired of waiting for your pole beans to mature but still wish to grow pole beans because of their season-long production and excellent flavor, look no further. This is a great productive and early green bean with long, flat Romano type pods and large, white…
Papaver somniferum. Large, single blooms vary from light purple/white, to pink, red, magenta, and dark purple. This beautiful, easy to grow poppy population is the species commonly used for medicinal purposes. Adapted to our growing region, it is very hardy. Try sowing in the fall for early spring flowering. Can be sown in the spring…
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