Garden Planning 2015 – Seed inventory

And the adventure begins! This is a very technical read, I’m sorry… But I’ve never really found a way of making inventorying sound poetic. 🙂

As promised, here you’ll find all the seeds we possess and intend on growing this year. It may seem like a lot, but we have over 800 sq.ft of actual garden beds and will be doing container plantings in addition to trying our hand at straw bail planting for the winter squashes. We have estimated that our final square footage should be about 850 sq.ft. Many of the herbs, medicinal plants and pollinator-attractors will be spread around all the beds and the sunflowers and corn will mostly be planted as a living fence between us and our neighbor. The trench will be 2 feet wide by about 30 feet long.

For each sections, you have the websites of the companies we used.

We plan on trying smaller quantities of all these to determine next year which ones to plant most of (we usually order seeds once every 2 years). Most varieties have been chosen for days to maturity (the shorter, the better), productivity/yield, hardiness and preservation qualities.

Any comments, suggestions, experience with some of these varieties? Please let us know!

Here goes…

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Annapolis Seeds (Nova Scotia) http://www.annapolisseeds.com

Beans :

– Tonello Pole Bean
– Lazy Housewife Pole Bean
– Grandma Nellie’s Yellow Mushroom Pole Bean

Kitchen Herbs :

– Red Rubin Basil
– Lettuce Leaf Basil
– Cutting Leaf Celery

Medicinal Herbs/Pollinator attractors :

– Elecampane
– Motherwort
– Tulsi (Holy Basil)
– Catnip

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West Coast Seeds (British Columbia) http://www.westcoastseeds.com

Root vegetables :

– Javelin Parsnip
– Napoli Carrot
– French Breakfast Radish

Greens :

– Roquette – Arugula
– Winter Blend Kale
– Winter Blend Mesclun
– Mâche – Corn Salad
– Tyee Spinach

Medicinal Herbs/Pollinator attractors :

– Borage
– Sweet pea

Fruit trees/bushes :

– Goji

Cover crops :

– Winter wheat
– Mustard White

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The Cottage Gardener (Ontario) http://www.cottagegardener.com

Kitchen Herbs :

– Cilantro
– Garden Sage

Medicinal Herbs/Pollinator attractors :

– Lemon Balm
– Vervain
– Purple coneflower (echinecea)
– German Chamomile

Root vegetables :

– Yellow Solar Carrot
– Speciality Radish Mix
– Mammoth Red Mangol Beet

Greens :

– Heirloom Romaine Lettuce Mix

Other veggies :

– Early Jalapeno Hot Pepper
– Long Island Improved Brussel Sprouts
– Cocozelle Zucchini (a very favorite in our home!)

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Seeds from varied local vendors (leftovers from last year’s seed fair) :

– Bee Balm (Agastache foeniculum)
– Calenula Officinalis
– Comfrey
– Winter Green Mix
– Nantes Carrots
– Green Zebra Tomato (Another favorite here!)
– Frisé Darki Triple Parsley
– Giant Mammouth Sunflowers

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Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company (Missouri) http://www.rareseeds.com

Squash & Pumpkins :

– Red Kuri (Hokkaido)
– Hubbard True Green Improved
– New England Sugar Pie
– White Bush Scallop
– Rouge Vif d’Étampes Pumpkin

Tomatoes :

– Blue Gold Berries (cherry tomato)
– Violet Jasper (cherry tomato)
– Break O’ Day (red canning tomato)
– Amish Paste (roma type canning tomato)

Root Vegetable :

– Lutz Salad Leaf Beet
– Bull’s Blood Beet

Beans :

– Bush Bean Dragon’s Tongue
– Bush Bean Cantare

Peppers :

– Chinese Five Color Hot peppers
– Orange Bell Pepper
– King of the North Sweet Pepper
– Friariello Di Napoli Pepper (Frying pepper)

Chards, Kale & Cabbage

– Flamingo Pink Swiss Chard
– Bionda di Lyon Swiss Chard
– Oriole Orange Chard
– Blue Curled Scotch Kale
– Nero Di Toscana (Black Palm) Cabbage

Cucumber :

– Suyo Long

Lettuce :

– Merveille des Quatre Saisons
– Red Romaine
– Rouge d’Hiver
– Slo Bolt

Corn :

– Golden Bantam 12-row

Herbs/Pollinator attractors

– Spearmint
– Stinging Nettle
– Tall White Alyssum
– Distinto Dwarf Sunflowers
– Dill Bouquet

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Saved seeds we intend to use this year :

Tomato :

– Red Pear Cherry Tomato

Beans :

– Irelan Creek Annie Bush Bean
– Sunset Runner Bean

Squash & Melon:

– Butternut Squash
– Kabocha Squash
– Yellow flesh watermelon (unsure of the variety, but one of our farmer’s market faves)

Flowers & Herbs (medicinal and other)

– Sunflower (unsure of the variety)
– Calendula
– Agastache (Bee Balm)
– Basil Mix (Mix of Thai, red leaf and genovese)
– Wild Canadian Rose
– Blue Vervain