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Wow are we ever excited about this page!  We are going to be offering a few of our favorite things, from books and farm implements to seeds and sayings to inspire our fellow gardeners.  Check back with us, we hope to add new things often.  Right  now we have seeds for sale!

Seeds for 2010

The big question we get is whether our seeds are heirlooms, organic, and GMO. Our seeds are not GMO! They are not organic certified. Many do fit the ”Heirloom” definition: An heirloom plant, heirloom variety, or heirloom vegetable is a cultivar that was commonly grown during earlier periods in human history, but which is not used in large scale agriculture today. Many heirloom vegetables have kept their traits through open pollination (sexual), while fruit varieties such as apples have been propagated over the centuries through grafts and cuttings (cloning… Asexual).

We grow everything on our farm utilising natural organic methods in the tradition of  the early American farmer. We feel that our growing methods are superior to the modern definition of “Organic” which has recently become a means of promotion and propaganda and by law allows a certain percentage of non organic substance to be allowed into the operation. So we like to say we are better than “Certified Organic” becuase we do not want to lower our quality standards to meet the requirements for this marketing slogan. That said; Organic is still a really good choice but the labeling of the word “Organic” by no means replaces the responsibility of the customer to know their farmer and have a personal relationship with him/her to understand the quality of their food! 

As for our seeds we raise some of them, and get the rest from other farmers and seed companies who have healthy farming operations.

We are offering some of our favorite varieties for sale.

All seed packets are $1.00

 Species           Variety                Number of seeds per packet

Alfalfa            for fertilizer             Approx 3000 per packet

 I like to grow a small patch of alfalfa and cut it when it  blooms to make either a foliar spray fertilizer or simply add it to the irrigation water. It is easy to whiz up in a vita mix with a little water.

 In the 1970’s Michigan State discovered triacontanol  in alfalfa  which  is a growth stimulator and helps gardens grow nicely. Grow your own fertilizer!

 Open-pollinted  Good for saving your own seed

Basil                Large Leaf          Approx 200 seeds per packet

 We love basil in many tomato dishes such as Italian cooking. Basil is delightful with tomatoes as it enhances the flavor very much. It dries well and can be used in the winter time when dehydrated tomatoes are reconstituted.

This variety is very fragrent and productive. Pinch the tops over and over as they grow to get the bushiest plants.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Bean bush       Roma II               Approx 100 seeds per packet

 This has been a fun variety for our family becuase the productive vines make harvest a joy for kids. Wide flat pods are tender and flavorful making a great fresh raw treat and a great steaming vegetable for the dinner table. Try Roma Bean as a pickle! Just bottle them like cucumbers using your favorite pickling recipe.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Bush Bean           Blue Lake          Approx 100 seeds per packet

 Bush blue lake make a great green bean, have great flavor and are simply beautiful in bottles on the root cellar shelf. This is the variety for those who want to win first place in the local county fair for growing the nicest looking beans!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

    Bush Bean     Top Crop         Approx 100 seeds per packet

 Top Crop is an AAS winner and one of my favorites. I will always grow this green bean in my gardens. It is productive and a great yielder of stringless beans. 

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Bean pole        Blue lake                 Approx 100 seeds per packet

 This is a popular pole variety for many gardeners across the country. We sent out many bags of these in the 2009    growing season to our customers. Very productive and flavorful.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Bean dry    Bolita            Approx 100 seeds per packet

 This is the dry bean to make all those fun Mexican dishes  that call for refried beans.  Easy to grow and easy to shell. Put dried pods in a pillow case and beat on the cement to shatter the dry pods then remove hulls and store in a dry place.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

   Dry Bean    Anasazi                   Approx 100 seeds per packet

 These are a beautiful bean that ought to be eaten weekly for their calcium content. Use like pinto beans. The flavor is really good!!!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Beet     Early Wonder Tall top            Approx 200 seeds per packet

 I love beets! They are fun to grow and there are so many different kinds that it never gets old. They taste good, sweet and happy!

Early wonder grows the tops quickly.  If you like early beet greens… This is the variety for you. Makes a nice beet too.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

  Beet   Cylindra                  Approx 200 seeds per packet

 

 Cylindra is my favorite for making pickled beets…. we like a bread and butter pickling spice recipe. Very sweet variety! They fit in the bottles without cutting… just slip the skins after boiling and pickle them whole. UMMM they are Sooooo Gooood!!!!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Broccoli           Waltham 29        Approx 150 seeds per packet

 This is a great variety for cutting and letting the side shoots keep growing. That is why I like this variety.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Cabbage          Golden Acre       Approx 150 seeds per packet

 Matures quickly and produces small manageable heads just right for dinner.  Great in the greenhouse for out of season production. Flavored really good.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Carrot              Chantenay Red Core       Approx 300 seeds per packet

 Dark colored, great all purpose carrot!  I love growing these… they are really beautiful.  So fun to pull them and see the suprise when they come out of the soil!!!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Carrot      Danvers 126                  Approx 300 seeds per packet

 Popular carrot widely planted across the country in thousands of gardens. The ones I grew in our 2009 garden were AWESOME they got big and they tasted good fresh or cooked.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Carrot     Imperator 58                   Approx 300 seeds per packet

 This continues to be my favorite variety becuaes they are LONG.  I raised some in our 2009 garden that were 11 inches long. In 2005 I raised hundreds of them on our Missouri farm and the biggest ones were 13 inches!  I’m going for 12 inchers this year! Let me know how long yours get.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Cauliflower     Self Blanche          Approx 150 seeds per packet

 This is the best variety I have grown over the years. It developes a big solid beautiful head that is scrumptious when steamed and smothered with your favorite cheese.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Chard              Rainbow           Approx 200 seeds per packet 

 We love chard and the bright fun colors of these varieties in a nice little blend give  it the visual pizzaz that ought to be present in the garden.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Collards       Georgia Southern       Approx 150 seeds per packet

 We are currently (winter2009) sending this out to our customers weekly. It is very sweet and a delight to eat at this time of year. The cool weather in the greenhouses make it sweet as candy…..   well…. almost.   It is good raw in a salad and steamed tender as a cooked green and great when fixed like wilted lettuce with bacon.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Corn Sweet     Iocheif Approx 100 seeds per packet

 This is a hybrid corn that makes a great roasting ear.   

 Hybrid varieties should not be raised for a seed crop.

Cilantro           Slow bolt          Approx 40 seeds per packet

 We have been growing cilantro in the greenhouses all winter! It has done well! The tops were frozen to the ground when it got below zero two weeks ago (Early Dec. 2009) but it appears to still be alive. I’ll update the progress later.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Cucumber        Armenian yard long    Approx 20 seeds per packet

 For all intents and purposes this is a cucumber, used like a cucumber, tastes like a really great cucumber, makes gourmet cucumber dishes becuase of it’s beautiful shape but scientifically it is a melon! But if we called it a melon then nobody would eat it becuase for all intents and purposes it sure as heck isn’t a melon!!!

If you have never grown this cucumber then you should! This is my favorite!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Cucumber       Burpless 26   Hybrid             Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Superior!!!!!  That is all I need to say for this excellent slicer!

 Hybrid should not be saved as a seed crop.

Cucumber      Wisconsin Pickling        Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Makes the best tiny pickles. Plant many plants to get a large enough harvest to do a batch of pickles at one time.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Dill                  Mammoth             Approx 30 seeds per packet

 Here is the dill for making pickles!  You would be in a pickle without it.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Eggplant          Black Beauty        Approx 30 seeds per packet

 Big beautiful fruits for lasagna. Slice the fruit thinly and use in place of  lasagna noodles.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Leeks          American Flag     Approx 250 seeds per packet

 My garden is never complete without leeks. They are so flavorful and make the food we cook with them delightful!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Lettuce          Romaine            Approx 200 seeds per packet

 FUN!!!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Lettuce           Black Seeded Simpson     Approx 200 seeds per packet

 Growing right now (Dec 18) and survived the bitter below zero temps two weeks ago in the greenhouse  under row cover…  no additional heat.  I was supprised!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

 Lettuce            Mix                                        Approx 200 seeds per packet

 Make your salad look colorful!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Melon              Crenshaw                  Approx 30 seeds per packet

 Tasty summet treat! And nutritious.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Melon           Honeydew Green Flesh     Approx 30 seeds per packet

 My favorite melon!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Melon            Casaba                            Approx 30 seeds per packet

 My favorite Melon when I’m not eating a green honeydew.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Melon          Hales Best Jumbo              Approx 30 seeds per packet

 Let it ripen on the vine until it smells sweet through the skin and then it is done cooking. The meat of the Gods!!!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Onion              White sweet Spanish            Approx 250 seeds per packet

 Good for at least 101 things!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Onion        Tokyo long white               Approx 250 seeds per packet

 Great green variety.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Parsnip         old variety grown in the area for years          Approx 600 seeds per packet

 This parsnip seed was given to me by a friend here in Paradox. The roots are flavorful and seem to grow easily. Plant early!

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pea      sweet   Little Marvel                                      Approx 100 seeds per packet

 Good for shelling and freezing.  This  is one of our absolute favorites.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pea     Lincoln                               Approx100 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

  Pea   snow    Oregon Giant           Approx 100 seeds per packet

 This is the pea for stir frys and fresh salads.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pepper Sweet  Sweet big red                 Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pepper Sweet Banana           Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pepper Hot      Anaheim Chili             Approx 20 seeds per packet

Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed. 

           Pepper Hot    Cayenne                       Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pepper Hot     Jalapeño                        Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pumpkin      Connecticut Field                          Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pumpkin       Jack be little                           Approx 10 seeds per packet

 Tiny ornamental. 4 to 5 inches across.

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Pumpkin       Orange Smoothie                   Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Radish             Easter Egg                          Approx 250 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Rutabaga         Laurentain                         Approx 150 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Spinach           Bloomsdale                       Approx 150 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Squash summer   Black Beauty Zucchini          Approx 30 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Squash summer   Yellow Crookneck       Approx 30 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Squash winter     Butternut                    Approx 30 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Squash winter  Hubbard                   Approx 20 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Tomato            Brandywine Pink                 Approx 100 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Tomato  Roma                         Approx 100 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Tomato Rutgers            Approx 100 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Wheat              Hard red Spring                  Approx 600 seeds per packet

 Open-pollinted.  Good for saving your own seed.

Thanks!

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