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trolleydriver
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Favorite Heirloom Seeds
Here is an opportunity to let us know your favorite (favourite) heirloom veggies to grow from seeds.
I have to admit that I have a selfish reason for asking for this information. I've been going through the Baker Creek catalog and I am overwhelmed. Personally I am looking for ideas on what will grow well in the northern USA and Canada but don't limit yourselves to those regions.
Over the past year many of you have made suggestions concerning your favorites in various forum threads. But those suggestions are buried deep in those threads and across many threads. This is an opportunity to bring some of those ideas together in one place.
So far I've picked out the following in the Baker Creek catalog to try in 2017:
- Tomato - Brandywine
- Squash - Canada Crookneck
- Summer Squash - White Scallop
- Kale - Blue Curled Scotch Kale
- Peas - Sugar Ann Peas (bush)
- Beans - Beurre de Rockencourt
- Oriental Greens - Tatsoi
- Salad Blend - Siamese Dragon Stir-Fry Mix
- Purslane - Green (NOTE: Decided against this one since it is invasive)
- Amaranth - Elephant Head (outside the SFG)
- Zucchini - Golden (outside the SFG)
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Additional Information:
Among the other things I will try to grow in the SFG and other veggie garden are a variety of herbs, other type of tomatoes, peppers (sweet and hot), carrots, radishes, melons, cabbage, cucumbers, ground cherries, potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, swiss chard, lettuce, tomatillos, scarlet runner beans, sunflowers.
The maybe veggies for 2017 include kohlrabi, spinach, eggplant. I grew those things with limited success in 2016.
Already planted are garlic, strawberries and raspberries.
Maybe I should focus on fewer things but grow more of each of those things. Looks like I will have to expand the SFG yet again!
I have to admit that I have a selfish reason for asking for this information. I've been going through the Baker Creek catalog and I am overwhelmed. Personally I am looking for ideas on what will grow well in the northern USA and Canada but don't limit yourselves to those regions.
Over the past year many of you have made suggestions concerning your favorites in various forum threads. But those suggestions are buried deep in those threads and across many threads. This is an opportunity to bring some of those ideas together in one place.
So far I've picked out the following in the Baker Creek catalog to try in 2017:
- Tomato - Brandywine
- Squash - Canada Crookneck
- Summer Squash - White Scallop
- Kale - Blue Curled Scotch Kale
- Peas - Sugar Ann Peas (bush)
- Beans - Beurre de Rockencourt
- Oriental Greens - Tatsoi
- Salad Blend - Siamese Dragon Stir-Fry Mix
- Purslane - Green (NOTE: Decided against this one since it is invasive)
- Amaranth - Elephant Head (outside the SFG)
- Zucchini - Golden (outside the SFG)
============================
Additional Information:
Among the other things I will try to grow in the SFG and other veggie garden are a variety of herbs, other type of tomatoes, peppers (sweet and hot), carrots, radishes, melons, cabbage, cucumbers, ground cherries, potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, swiss chard, lettuce, tomatillos, scarlet runner beans, sunflowers.
The maybe veggies for 2017 include kohlrabi, spinach, eggplant. I grew those things with limited success in 2016.
Already planted are garlic, strawberries and raspberries.
Maybe I should focus on fewer things but grow more of each of those things. Looks like I will have to expand the SFG yet again!

Last edited by trolleydriver on 12/20/2016, 11:30 pm; edited 2 times in total
trolleydriver
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Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
Categorically
Peppers: King of the North and Big Red and Sweet Banana
Maters: Brandywine, Cherokee Purple. Sungold for cherry type
Peas: Super Sugar Snaps
Cukes: Beit Alpha , the best I have ever eaten. Not a pickling type
Ground cherries: Got them from Cape Coddess; yum.
Turnips: Tokyo Cross
Beets: Chiogga and Detroit Red
Squash: Patty Pan; early white, and green
Swiss Chard: Bright Lights
Lettuce: Black Seesed Simpson, Matchless
Radishes: Icicle, English Breakfast, and Chinese Red Meat
Spinach: Yeah. Bloomsdale longstanding
Potatoes: Yukon Gold
Melons: WOW, unexpected surprise! Sakatas Sweet, Minnesota Midget, and Blacktail Mountain all Justus super cool and delish....and in OHIO!????? YES!
All of the above excellent producers. I had some tomatoes that I did not mention that were not good producers or I just did not manage well.
Peppers: King of the North and Big Red and Sweet Banana
Maters: Brandywine, Cherokee Purple. Sungold for cherry type
Peas: Super Sugar Snaps
Cukes: Beit Alpha , the best I have ever eaten. Not a pickling type
Ground cherries: Got them from Cape Coddess; yum.
Turnips: Tokyo Cross
Beets: Chiogga and Detroit Red
Squash: Patty Pan; early white, and green
Swiss Chard: Bright Lights
Lettuce: Black Seesed Simpson, Matchless
Radishes: Icicle, English Breakfast, and Chinese Red Meat
Spinach: Yeah. Bloomsdale longstanding
Potatoes: Yukon Gold
Melons: WOW, unexpected surprise! Sakatas Sweet, Minnesota Midget, and Blacktail Mountain all Justus super cool and delish....and in OHIO!????? YES!
All of the above excellent producers. I had some tomatoes that I did not mention that were not good producers or I just did not manage well.
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Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
SR ... I'm looking forward to trying those Sakatas Sweet melon seeds that you sent to me.
Thanks for your list. I see in your list some that I grew last year like icicle radish and bright lights swiss chard.

Thanks for your list. I see in your list some that I grew last year like icicle radish and bright lights swiss chard.
trolleydriver
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Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
The SFG Foundation posted this on their Facebook page this morning. http://www.realfarmacy.com/131-heirloom-seed-companies-by-region/
Seed Catalogs
Thanks for the list. I don't do Facebook. I sure hope that they don't get my address! I see about 6 of these that I already get. From Dec 1 til today, I have rec. 50 catalogs. The days are full of looking at cats.
I have favorites, but a lot will not do well in the north.
Jo
I have favorites, but a lot will not do well in the north.
Jo
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Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
Gbertie tomato, San Marzanos tomato, rattlesnake beans.
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
sanderson wrote:Snow Fairy tomato, but no one is carrying the seeds this year.![]()
Even Seeds Trust is sold out of their Snow Fairy seeds. How sad is that!?! Must be hard to reproduce, eh?
I did see some for sale on Etsy, but you never know anything about the seller on that site. (Etsy Snow Fairy seeds)
Never plant without a bucket of compost at your side.
Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
My first seeds were gifted and then I went on to buy some from Baker Creek. If I had known that there wouldn't be any seeds for sale this season, I would have definitely saved some from the tomatoes. Yes, I saw the Etsy ad but don't trust them at all. So far, 4 of 8 have germinated.
Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
Not sure if it’s Heirloom, but I grew kohlrabi last year, and they were beautiful and delish; purple variety Kolibri! Wonderful.
Eggplant which blew my mind because it is soooo different than grocery eggplants:
Ping Tung. Heavy feeder, great producer in MM. Game changer.
I use Superseeds (Pinetree) but these varieties are pretty common!
Eggplant which blew my mind because it is soooo different than grocery eggplants:
Ping Tung. Heavy feeder, great producer in MM. Game changer.
I use Superseeds (Pinetree) but these varieties are pretty common!
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Re: Favorite Heirloom Seeds
SR, Was the ping tung sweetish? The Japanese Millionaire I like to grow is sweetish, doesn't need to be salted for a while.

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