Monday, February 27, 2012

Planning our garden 2012

  Spring is almost here and we are scrambling to plan our garden. 80% of our seed is in hand and we just have a few more things to order. We haven't decided what kinds of potatoes we are going to grow yet, but we are gonna grow a lot of them. This is our current list of vegetables that we are planting. All of our seed are open-pollinated varieties and a lot of them are really rare. We are excited to help preserve the genetics of these plants and to offer you a little different variety than what you will find around here.

Grains:

Golden Giant Amaranth

Barley (for brewing)

Flax

Proso Millet

Biobo Quinoa

Dale Sorghum (for brewing)

Teff

Pika Triticale

Herbs:

Sweet Basil

Thai Basil

Sacred Basil (tea)

Sage

Summer Savory

Stevia

Dill

Echinacea

Roman Chamomile (tea)

Vegetables:
Beans:
Covelo reservation Bean
Envy soy Bean
Rattlesnake Bean
Taylors Dwarf

Beets:
Barabiettola de Chiogga
Bulls Blood

Broccoli:
Di Cicco
Piricicaba

Cabbage:
All seasons
Red Drumhead
Vertus Savoy

Carrot:
Scarlet Nantes
Dragon Purple
Juwarot

Cauliflower:
All the year round
Violetta Italia

Chard:
Fordhook Giant
Ruby Red

Georgia Collards

Corn:
Anasazi
Golden Bantam
Isleta Blue

Cucumber:
Beit Alpha
Marketmore 76

Long Purple Eggplant

Kale

Garlic Chives

Heirloom Lettuce mix
Buttercrunch lettuce
Little Gem Romaine

Red Bunching onion

Parsley

Parsnips

Peas:
Alderman Pole
Cascadia
Dwarf grey sugar

Peppers:
Jimmy Nardellos sweet frying
Yolo
Joes long

Pumpkin:
Winter luxury

Radish:
Cherry Belle
Rats tail

Squash:
Zapallo del Tronco
Cocozelle
Golden Zucchini
Butternut

Tomato:
Black Krim
Brazilian Beauty
Italian Heirloom
Stupice
Various others

Turnips

Watermelon:
Moon and Stars
Cream of Saskatchewan

That's most of them I believe.