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Ruth's Inventory

Page history last edited by Ruth 4 months, 1 week ago

 

 

 

crop                 
variety                   

source of original

 seed                          

year saved comments                                                  
maintained long term?
Bean/Bush/Dry Kenearly Yellow Eye Uprising Seeds 2020

Originally developed in Kentville, Nova Scotia, for an early and uniform harvest. Plants are tall and upright and hold their pods off the ground.

yes
Bean/Bush/Dry Pois-fève Laliberté Julien Drouin-Bouffard & Terre Promise
2020 From Quebec, halfway between a pea and a bean, the plant like a bean but the legume seems more like a pea; good for traditional Québécois soupe aux pois.
yes
Bean/Bush/Snap Marché de Genève
Solstice/Sylvia
 
 
yes
Bean/Pole/Dry Vermont Cassoulet/Tarbais   2023 Large, white, flat bean from southwestern France; traditionally used for cassoulet.
 
Bean/Pole/Snap
Cloud's Horticultural Delbert & Marilyn Cloud  
Half-runner; needs to climb; delicious shell bean or dried; grown by the Clouds since the 1930s
yes
Bean/Pole/Snap Rattlesnake ?

2018

2021

Flattish, green pods streaked with purple. The vigorous vines are tall. A super tasty green bean at any stage and good as a dry bean, too. Freezes well.
yes
Beet/Red 

Rywal

 

Andrey Baranovski
2018
Cylindrical, bright red roots, tender and juicy, high sugar and betanin content. High yield and excellent long-term winter storage. From Poland. yes
Corn/Semi-Dent Northwestern Red Sand Hill 2020 Selected from Bloody Butcher by Oscar Will; 5-6'+ plants; 8-10" ears; red with white cap with some variation; makes very tasty pancakes and cornbread. yes
Kale Vates High Mowing 2021

Seed saved from 17 overwintered plants

yes
Leek Musselburgh Turtle Tree

2020

2021

An old Scottish variety from the 1800s. Large, mild, flavorful leeks with long, thick stalks up to 2-3" inches diameter. Very hardy, will overwinter in the garden. Seed heads are very slow to ripen. yes
Pea/Garden Carruthers' Purple Podded Adaptive Seeds 2019 4-6′ tall vines, pink and purple flowers. Purple pods contain sweet, tasty peas for fresh shelling or freezing. An heirloom grown by the Carruthers family in County Down, Northern Ireland, for almost 40 years. Peas are pale green and firm, different from the bright green peas. Over-mature peas make a good soup. I will try the dried peas for soup, too, this winter. no
Pea/Garden Clarke's Beltony Blue Adaptive Seeds 2019

A purple-podded pea from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It has been grown on the same farm there since at least 1850. Can grow up to 5 1⁄2′ tall. Purple pods become mottled with green when ripe. Peas are pale green and firm, different from the bright green peas.

Over-mature peas make a good soup. I will try the dried peas for soup, too, this winter. Similar but later, in my experience, than Carruthers' Purple Pod.

no
Pea/Garden Holgers Kæmpe ært Copenhagen Seeds 2023
Up to 2.5 meters tall with very tasty, large peas. Good garden pea with high yield in a small space over a long period. This heirloom comes from the Løgstør (Northern Jutland) area and is named after Holger Gundersen. The pea comes originally from the United States, where it most likely had a different name. The journey between the United States and Europe took place in the 1700s, initiated by nobles in France.  yes
Pea/Snap Calvert   2023 55 days fresh, 90 dry. French heirloom is a very fine 6' climbing edible pod pea with very large 4-5” pods, tender from beginning to end of season. Dry peas can be used for soup.
 
Pea/Soup Carlin Great Lakes Staple Seeds
2018

An old English soup pea said to date back to Elizabethan times. A tall and vigorous climber with delightful bi-colored blossoms and an abundance of small, greenish gold mottled peas. It is late to flower and late to mature. Traditionally fried in butter or drippings after boiling and served with vinegar and black pepper on Carlin Sunday, the Sunday before Palm Sunday. 

See Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity page or Mother Earth News Heirloom Pea Varieties.

not sure
Pea/Soup Darlaine Resilient Seeds 2023
Self-supporting (but some support is better) bush variety that makes a fine yellow soup pea. Yields about a pound of peas per ten square feet. Creamy/tan round seed. Good cover crop pea. This is the pea to get if you want to make split pea soup, as it cooks up into a smooth, creamy texture. This is the pea grown by Aube Giroux of Modified fame. Not enough seed yet to share.
not sure
Pea/Soup

Dansk Felt ært

Danish field pea

 

Field in Dorf Kirkeby, Nordjylland, Denmark 2018
Yellow field pea, most likely grown for pig feed in Denmark, but also good for soup. White blossoms, thick with many very curly tendrils, self-supporting in a block if not blown over. yes
Pea/Soup Lollandske Rosiner Copenhagen Seeds 2018
Lolland Raisins. Old variety of Danish field pea with many tendrils, so the plants can theoretically keep each other up, but support doesn't hurt if it's windy or lots of rain. They are special because they do not cook out but remain whole and look like raisins when cooked. Good for soup, falafel and pea humus. Can be eaten as fresh peas as well. Not enough seed yet to share. not sure
Pea/Soup Saint-Hubert Resilient Seeds 2018
Heirloom variety introduced to the Saint Lawrence River Valley by French settlers in the 17th Century. It is still eaten today and makes delicious pea soup. High yielding plants bear small green peas. They will need trellising and can grow well over 1 meter tall.
yes
Pepper/Hot Lady Choi Kitizawa Seeds 2020 A hot, flavorful Korean pepper used to make gochugaru  
Pepper/Hot Maria Nagy's Transylvanian Hot Adaptive Seeds 2021 Shaped like a cayenne but with its own delicious, rich, spicy hot flavor. Very productive and early ripening, with loads of peppers. not sure
Pepper/Sweet Babar (aka Alexander's Cousin) Alexander seed from Andrei Baranovski 2023 Chunky, ribbed, thick-walled, delicious, early, prolific, sweet, juicy, ripens to a deep rich red. My seed saved from 5 Alexander plants without isolation from other peppers in the garden. yes
Spinach Winter High Mowing
2021  Plant mid-late August for good winter survival and spring growth
not sure
           
GRAINS          
Rye/Winter Svedjerug Tvengsberg Johan Swärd 2022

http://www.flatbreadsociety.net/stories/view/14.

Video essay featuring Johan here: https://vimeo.com/124598269

 
Wheat/Winter Canaan Rouge Eli Rogosa 2017    
Wheat/Winter Nonette de Lausanne Sylvia D
2017  Beautiful Swiss landrace, tetraploid, long awns, tall, plump brown seeds, moderately winter-hardy in my garden.
 
Wheat/Spring or Winter
Konini
Anders Borgen
2018
A purple cultivar from New Zealand, released in 1981, relatively low in gluten and high in antioxidants.
 
Wheat/Winter Red Lammas Eli Rogosa 2017  
 
Wheat/Winter Rouge de Bordeaux
Eli Rogosa 2017    
Wheat/Winter Vermont Read 1898 Eli Rogosa 2017  
 
   
       

 

Seed Saving Plans for 2023 

Year 1 Robuschka beet (try again)

Year 1 some carrot

Year 1 Tadorna leek

Test of Ailsa Craig seed grown last year (is it true to type?) NO it's not, unfortunately.

Beans

Peas

Harvest of French wheats and Orange Devon planted in fall 2022 - CROP FAILURE due to rain

 

 

 

 

Seed Saving Plans for 2021 

Year 1 Robuschka beet

Year 1 Ailsa Craig and Karamel to try to overwinter some in the garden

Year 2 onion if needed TBD

Mauve bread seed poppy

Fava TBD

Zapalote Chico corn

beans, peas, lettuce, tomatoes, one pepper...

 

 

Other Seeds Saved in 2020 (not enough to share freely)

Lady Choi Korean hot pepper

Bergeron fava

 

Seed Saving Plans for 2019

Bean/Bush/Dry. Kenearly +

Bean/Bush/Snap. Merveille de Piemont

Cowpeas. I am trialing a few and will save seed of all that mature.

Fava - which?

Kale/Siberian - growing three different ones to see if any will overwinter one way or another

Onion/Yellow. Giant Zittau Year 2

Onion/Yellow.  Yellow Ebenezer or ?? Year 1 

Corn/Flint. Gaspé

Peas - Darlaine, Lollandske Rosiner, Calvert, Hogers Kæmpe ært  +

Pepper/Sweet. Alexander’s Cousin

Spinach. Steadfast

Squash/Winter. Blue Kuri

 

 

 

 

 

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