Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Seed list

Beans
Cranberry bush type
Bush green pod Slenderette 52 days. 
Blue lake Pole string less  65 day
Blue lake (Bush) 58 days
Kentucky wonder (bush)
California Blackeye (cow pea) 75 days
Dwarf Velour  2(TL)
Swiss Landfrauen pole bean  (TL) 8-10 foot vine Main Use: Snap Maturity: Midseason
Cherokee Trail of Tears Pole Bean 65-85 days.(HCG) Green 6" pods with purple overlay,black seeds. Good for snap beans and dry beans.

Northern, Pinto, Large Lima, Blackeye, Garbanzo, Baby Lima, Kidney, Cranberry, Small White, Pink, Small Red, Navy, White Kidney, Black Bean.  

Peas
Blue podded garden pea (TL)
Little Marvel 60 days
Oregon Sugar pod II
Sugar snap (70 days) 

Wando peas. (TL) vine Over 6 feet high, productive pea in warm weather.It is tolerant of cold, so it can be planted early. The blunt, dark green pods with 7 to 8 medium-sized peas inside.
 Herb
Leisure splits cilantro
Sweet Basil

 Carrots
Atomic red
Cosmic purple
Gigantic (12 inches or longer.)
Lunar white
Tender sweet
Touchon
Solar yellow


Cold crop and greens
Broccoli (Green sprouting calabrese) x2 (TL)
Cauliflower Snowball X
Giant Nobel spinach
Golden Acre Cabbage 68 days
Long island improved Brussel sprouts 85-100 days
Michihili Chinese cabbage
Red Acre cabbage
Swiss Chard Bright lights. Multi color
Spinach Bloomsdale Long standing (x2) + (TL)
Corn salad greens
Purple Orach greens
Mizuna red streaks Mustard greens
Tall Utah celery
Kohlrabi early white Viena 55 days
Catalogna Italiko Rossa chicory  (TL)
Argentina 2' swis chard  (TL)
Tatsoi bok choy family  (TL)
Mustard greens Southern giant curled  (TL)  
                               
Root crop
Golden Detroit beet
Cylindra Beet's
Detroit dark red Beet's  (60 days)
Early wonder (55 days)
Turnip Purple top, (White globe 55 days)
French breakfast radish
Hailstone radish
Mary Washington Asparagus
Laurentian rutabaga (TL) (95 days) Brassica napus
Crosby Egyptian beets  (TL) 55 days
Melon 
Ananas d' Amerique A Chair Verte American /melon
Isreal  ( Ogen) Melon (cantaloupe)
cantaloupe hale's best Jumbo 85 days
Kajari melon from India
Black diamond watermelon
Congo watermelon  (Large 40+ pound 90 days)
Crenshaw melon  (TL)
Crimson sweet  watermelon,  (Large, round averaging 25 lb. 80  days) Light green with dark green stripes. Flesh is dark red.  Resistant to Fusarium wilt and anthracnose
Carmen  watermelon (83 Days 20-2 pounds) parent is Crimson Sweet
Sierra gold cantaloupe (TL)
Sugar baby watermelon (small 80 days)
Petite Yellow watermelon (small 65---78 days)
Big moon giant pumpkin (200+ pounds 120 days)
Thia Golden melon (TL)
Melon ? (TL)
Onion
Evergreen Bunching
Tropeana Lunga
Sweet Spanish onion
Leek Bleu of solaise (TL)
 Yellow (TL)
Onion Sturon round straw brown skin.  (TL)

Egyptian walking onion

TRUE Potato Onion Seeds.Multiplier onion seeds, perennial
An open pollinated mix of Coral mountain, white mountain and green mountain potato onions. These varieties are known to produce on average tennis ball size onions. 

Peppers
 Color mix BellsSerrano
Jalapeno
Sweet banana
Purple bell
Hungarian wax
Giant sweet red

Pumpkin 
 Blue doll Large Pumpkin 100 days
Cotton candy (5-12 pounds 110 days)

 Squash
Buttercup (TL)
Bush Buttercup
Early straight neck (Prolific 50 days)
Golden summer crookneck 50 days
 Mammoth table queen, royal acorn (5 days)
Pink banana
Summer crookneck 48-55 days
Table Queen Acorn (TL)
crookneck early squash  (TL)

Cucumber
Burpless (TL)
Homemade pickles cucumber
Australian lemon cuke
Early cluster cuke Prolific amounts easy to grow .(TL)
Res Hmong cucumber  (TL)
Sour Mexican gherkin / Mouse Melon  (Melothria scabra) 75 days. Incredible, small cucumber-like fruit are shaped like baby watermelons.
Zucchini
Black (58days)
Garden spineless (43-51 days0
Golden bush 55 days


Tomato seeds
Abe Lincoln
Aunt ruby's German Cherry
Bush beef master (determinate type)
Cherokee purple
Gold Medal
Flame (Hillbilly)
Brandy wine ( Both red and pink)
Red Ox heart
Old German
Mortgage lifter
German lunchbox (2 bite salad type)
Some un-named types I have collected and regrown.
Red yellow and orange assorted mix. (TL)
OKRA
Charles Wrights ( Big fat Okra) spiny
Clemons spineless 58 days

Fruit
Alpine strawberry
Fruit vine. Hardy kiwi Actinidia. Japan

Flowers sent 
Alaska shasta daisy
Alyssum white (carpet of snow)
Blanket Flower Burgundy (Perennial)
Black eyed Susan (Perennial)
California Poppy Red
California Poppy (Mission bells)
Celosia Plumosa Ice cream flower
Delphinium Pacific giants  (Perennial)
Five spot low growing (annual) purple spots on white
Geraniam
Malva Zebrina  (Perennial)Nasturtium Alaska
Morning glory climbers
Marigold Crackerjack mix
Nicotiana Sensation mix
Wildflower mix
Sweet pea flower
Passion flower
Strawflower Mix of colors
Buster Gourd (TL)
Bird house gourd (TL)
small gourd mix  (TL)

 Corn heirloom
Golden Banton (yellow sweet)
True gold (yellow sweet) 80-90 Days

Hybrid corn
Peaches & Cream 
Early sunglow
Sliver Queen
double Sweet

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

EGYPTIAN WALKING ONION

Today I received the onions I ordered from Ebay. 
Listed as HEIRLOOM, ORGANICALLY GROWN, PERENNIAL EGYPTIAN WALKING ONION BULBS
I was so surprised with the addition of a gift. This kitty picture hand colored was wrapped around a seed head labeled 
Bonus: garlic seeds

 They are called
EGYPTIAN WALKING ONION
TREE ONION 
TOP SETTING ONION

They are also commonly called top onions, top setting onions, walking onions, or Egyptian onions(Allium cepa var. proliferum). Tree onion bulblets will sprout and grow while still on the original stalk, which may bend down under the weight of the new growth and take root some distance from the parent plant, giving rise to the name walking onion. It has been postulated that the name Egyptian onion is derived from tree onions being brought to Europe from the Indian subcontinent.

These onions make a nice PERENNIAL garden. They are harvested young as green onions or left to mature into bulb-lets. As the bulblets form at the top of the green onion-like foliage, they weigh down the stem pulling it to the ground where they can grow new plants.  They will continue to do this, literally walking across your garden, thus it got the name WALKING ONION.

Sets can be planted ANY TIME OF THE YEAR, OTHER THAN WINTER. As soon as weather cools a bit in the falll, plant the bulbs just below the soil  and water it as needed. Space them 3 to 5 inches apart. Next spring, you may harvest green onions or leave them to produce top sets in late summer. Harvest sets after the skins begin to dry. 

Every part of the plant is edible.
Green leaves used in salad and with many dishes, much better than the normal onion. Gives a very pleasant taste, color and smell.
Onions from the top are edible. Very good natural medicine for common cold when eaten fresh and raw. Can be added with salad and other dishes
Onions from the bottom of the plant is also edible.


The bulb-lets should produce flowering tops in their first year if planted in the fall, but we cannot guarantee this as conditions vary from our garden to yours. We will happily replace any onions that do not send up a green onion, but cannot replace those that come up but do not produce a flower. They will produce a flowering top the following year if left in the ground.