Month: February 2008

I stocked up on a variety of seeds at the local supermarket. As usual, I waited until the half price sale, which occurs every spring. These are Ed Hume seeds. Ed Hume is a locally based seed supplier, which specializes in seeds suited to the Northwest. I supplemented these with the following seeds ordered from Territorial Seeds Company.

Basil-Aroma 1/4 gram
Boothbys Blonde Cucumbers – 1 gram
Cannellini Bean – 1 oz
Casper Eggplant – 1/8 gram
Derby Day Cabbage – 1/2 gram
Dusky Eggplant – 1/8 gram
Fastbreak Melon – 1 gram
Garland Round Leaved Edible Chrysanthemum – 1 gram
Lemon Cucumbers – 1 gram
Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucumber – 20 seeds
Misono Green Bean – 1 oz
Rubine Brussels Sprouts – 1/4 gram
Señorita Pepper – 25 seeds
Staddon’s Select Pepper– 1/4 gram
Stein’s Late Flat Dutch Cabbage – 1/2 gram
Violetto Artichoke– 2 grams
Watercress – 1/4 gram

This year I decided to trial a wide variety of heirloom tomato varieties. I purchased these.

TomatoFest

• Black Prince-Tomato Seeds
• Alicante – Heirloom Tomato Seeds
• Camp Joy-Tomato Seeds
• Fred Limbaugh Potato Top
• Ilse’s Yellow Latvian
• Lahman PinkLong Keeper-Tomato Seeds
• Purple Russian
• Russian Big Roma-Tomato Seeds
• Slava-Tomato Seeds
• Beam’s Yellow Pear-Tomato Seeds
• Brandywine-Heirloom Tomato Seeds
• Elbe
• Italian Tree
• Neves Azorean
• Red Poland II

Heirloom Tomatoes

• Amish Paste
• Anna Russian
• Costoluto Fiorentino
• Manyel
• Martino’s Roma
• Napoli
• Eva Purple Ball
• Old Brooks
• Red Siberian
• Saint Pierre
• Stupice
• Tommy Toe

And I saved these seeds from last years crop –

• Ananas Noir
• Delicious
• Tiffen Mennonite
• Legend
• Gill’s
• Marzano
• Yellow Mutant (also known as Old Yeller, a sport that appeared in my garden in 2006 from who knows where).