crop
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variety
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source of original
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year saved |
comments
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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.
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yes |
Bean/Bush/Dry |
Pois-fève Laliberté |
Julien Drouin-Bouffard & Terre Promise
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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.
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yes |
Bean/Bush/Snap |
Marché de Genève
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Solstice/Sylvia
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yes |
Bean/Pole/Dry |
Vermont Cassoulet/Tarbais |
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2023 |
Large, white, flat bean from southwestern France; traditionally used for cassoulet.
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Bean/Pole/Snap
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Cloud's Horticultural |
Delbert & Marilyn Cloud |
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Half-runner; needs to climb; delicious shell bean or dried; grown by the Clouds since the 1930s
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yes |
Bean/Pole/Snap |
Rattlesnake |
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2018
2021
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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.
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yes |
Beet/Red |
Rywal
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Andrey Baranovski
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2018
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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
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yes |
Leek |
Musselburgh |
Turtle Tree |
2020
2021
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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.
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no |
Pea/Garden |
Holgers Kæmpe ært |
Copenhagen Seeds |
2023
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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 |
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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.
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Pea/Soup |
Carlin |
Great Lakes Staple Seeds
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2018
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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.
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not sure |
Pea/Soup |
Darlaine |
Resilient Seeds |
2023
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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.
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not sure |
Pea/Soup |
Dansk Felt ært
Danish field pea
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Field in Dorf Kirkeby, Nordjylland, Denmark |
2018
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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
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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
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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.
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yes |
Pepper/Hot |
Lady Choi |
Kitizawa Seeds |
2020 |
A hot, flavorful Korean pepper used to make gochugaru |
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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
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2021 |
Plant mid-late August for good winter survival and spring growth
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not sure |
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Rye/Winter |
Svedjerug Tvengsberg |
Johan Swärd |
2022 |
http://www.flatbreadsociety.net/stories/view/14.
Video essay featuring Johan here: https://vimeo.com/124598269
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Wheat/Winter |
Canaan Rouge |
Eli Rogosa |
2017 |
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Wheat/Winter |
Nonette de Lausanne |
Sylvia D
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2017 |
Beautiful Swiss landrace, tetraploid, long awns, tall, plump brown seeds, moderately winter-hardy in my garden.
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Wheat/Spring or Winter
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Konini
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Anders Borgen
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2018
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A purple cultivar from New Zealand, released in 1981, relatively low in gluten and high in antioxidants.
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Wheat/Winter |
Red Lammas |
Eli Rogosa |
2017 |
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Wheat/Winter |
Rouge de Bordeaux
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Eli Rogosa |
2017 |
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Wheat/Winter |
Vermont Read 1898 |
Eli Rogosa |
2017 |
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