How to add your seeds:
1) Make sure you are logged in (upper right corner of page)
2) Click "EDIT" above.
3) Put cursor in a box where you want to type.
4) Add your seeds and info. Boxes will expand to fit what you write.
5) Use the Table of Plant Types to identify your crop (e.g. BEAN/BUSH/DRY).
6) Click "Save" below.
| crop | variety | source of original seed | most recent year saved | comments | maintained long term? |
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| bean/bush/dry | Anasazi | gift/food | 2019 | Planted them as bush, but had to support; many grew as solid magenta; maybe a quarter were patterned (like the parent seeds) | |
| bean/bush/dry | Black Turtle | Fedco | 2023 | Midnight strain; prolific | |
| bean/bush/dry | Blooming Prairie | Friends of Sam Birch | 2019 | Beautiful deep purple beans for fresh eating; prolific; lavender seeds; needed support. | |
| bean/pole/dry | Chester | Solstice | 2020 | ||
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Early Warwick |
John Bunker |
2018 |
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bean/pole/dry |
Fort Portal |
Baker Creek |
2018 |
Beautiful round green beans (from Uganda?) |
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| bean/pole/dry | Good Mother Stallard | ||||
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King of the Early |
Fedco? |
2019 |
Super prolific and early |
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| bean/bush/dry |
Marfax |
Sylvia or Ruth |
2023 |
Super baked beans variety |
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| bean/pole/dry |
Mayflower |
Fedco |
2020 |
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| bean/bush/soy |
Midori |
High Mowing |
2023 |
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| bean/pole/dry |
Papa de Rola |
Lisa Crutchfield/CGCF |
2018 |
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| bean/pole/snap |
Rattlesnake |
Fedco |
2023 |
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| bean/bush/snap | Red Swan | High Mowing | 2017 | ||
| bean/bush/soy |
Shirofume |
Fedco |
2023 |
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| bean/pole/dry | Succotash | Johnny's | 2023 | Complimentary seeds sent by ? at Johnny's about 20 years ago; now available at Baker Creek Seeds; perhaps first shared by the Narragansett Indians; beautiful black corn-kernel-shaped seed | |
| bean/half-runner/dry |
Tiger Eye (Papa de Zapalla) | Will Bonsall/Scatterseed |
2020 |
Super, as aways. May be advertised as bush, but I always have to give them support. |
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bean/pole/snap |
Trionfo Violetto |
Pinetree |
2023 |
Prolific purple Italian bean; the gift that keeps on giving... I like to grow them on a fence; more light = more purple color (or so it seems to me) |
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| bean/pole/dry | True Red Cranberry | Fedco | 2020 | Beautiful to look at but more resistant to shelling than any other bean I've grown (and they never mature in time to take them to the CGCF for 'cleaning') | |
| bean/pole/dry | Turkey Craw | Seed Savers Exchange | 2020 | ||
| bean/ fava |
Atahualpa |
Baker Creek |
2018 |
Complimentary pkg sent by Baker Creek in spring 2017 in return for feedback on growing results |
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| PEAS | |||||
| pea/pod |
Blauschokkers |
Pinetree? |
2020 |
Edible purple pods, better if used in stir-fried than fresh (a bit tough). Dried as a soup pea. Dutch origin. |
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| pea/pod | Golden Sweet | Pinetree? | 2023 |
Delicate, delicious pale yellow edible pod pea; great raw in salads or with hummus, etc | |
| pea/garden | Green Arrow | Ruth | 2023 |
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Northfield |
Will Bonsall/Scatterseed |
2023 |
One of the many varieties Will maintains. I love the looks of the vines with their many tendrils tangling in and about |
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| TOMATOES | |||||
| tomato/cherry/purple |
Blueberry |
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2018 |
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| tomato/cherry/brown |
Brown Berry |
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2020 |
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| tomato/cherry/yellow |
Lemon Drop |
Seed Savers Exchange |
2020 |
Lovely to look at, prolific and great in a colorful mix with red, orange and 'brown' cherry tomatoes to share with friends and neighbors (not to mention relatives) |
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| tomato/cherry/red |
Red Velvet |
Seed Savers Exchange |
2020 |
Voted best tasting cherry tomato a number of years ago at the SSE tasting event. Prolific and has replaced hybrid Super Sweet 100 in my garden |
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| tomato/cherry/orange | Sweet Orange II | Solstice Seeds | 2020 | Wonderful heirloom to grow instead of Sungold hybrid | |
| tomato/paste/red | Amish | Fedco | 2018 | Dependable | |
| tomato/paste/red | HogHeart | Fedco | 2018 | Great past tomato | |
| tomato/orange | Goldie | Fedco | 2018 | Best BLT (and all around delicious) tomato ever! | |
| tomato/yellow | Plum Lemon | SSE | 2020 | Look like clusters of lemons hanging on the vines! | |
| BEANS | |||||
| beans/bush/dry | Saturday Night Special | Fedco | 2019 | Had to stake; didn't perform well. Not enough to share | |
| beans/pole/dry | Black Coat Runner | Friends of Sam Birch | 2019 | |
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| beans/pole/dry | Eye of the Goat | Sylvia Smith | 2019 | Did I plant them too late? Long time til ripe seeds (pulled the plants before the first serious frost and let them continue to ripen/dry in the sun and shed | |
| beans/pole/dry | Ugandan Bantu | Solstice | 2019 | Wet spring; late planting; get them in earlier for more chance of maturing pods. Not enough to share |
2023 Seeds Saved
Peas: Penelope, green arrow, northfield peas, golden sweet, sugar snap, schweizeriesen edible pod peas
Beans; midori, shirofume, giant Hokkaido & tankuro soybeans; rattlesnake, trionfo violetto, succotash, Norma pole beans; eagle, marfax, midnight black turtle bush beans
Corn: early riser flint corn
Basil: large leaf
Kale: red Russian & siberian in the garden
Greens: Frizzy lizzy, mizuna & tatsoi in the garden
Tomato: lemon drop, sweet orange 2, Amish, plum lemon
Spinach: bloomsdale
Flowers: nasturtium (jewel & Alaskan mixed), bright light cosmos, marigolds, sunflowers, hollyhocks (cream, peach & maroon) foxglove seedlings springing up in abundance