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  • From: "Elise Lutrick" <seedsaverslist@gmail.com>
  • To: "Seed Keepers" <seedkeepers@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Seed Keepers] A collection of snippets of information about seeds & plants gathered from email and other sources - with some redundant listings
  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:35:27 -0600

Lawrence,

I don't have time to read this list really carefully right now, but
Seeds Blum is now defunct. A shame, because Jan had many, many unique
offerings.

Elise

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr.
<lflj@intrex.net> wrote:
>
> Restoring Our Seed - Abenaki Calais Flint CornTthe Summer That Froze to
> Death from
> Native American seed-savers in Vermont. Apparently a NA
> corn variety survived that summer and was shared with many Vermonters
> for their sole sustenance that harsh summer. The full story can be
> downloaded from www.growseed.org on the Seed Stewards curriculum page 12.
> The corn is sold today by FEDCO.
> <>
> For those of you who are looking for sources of different nitrogen fixing
> trees and shrubs (in USA), the two below have many different species and
> varieties.
>
> The first is Forest Farm Nursery, 990 Tetherow Rd, Williams, OR 97544-9599,
> http://www.forestfarm.com
>
> Their catalog is $4 and it's a book, well worth getting, lots of good info
> and thousands of species of Pc plants. Dozens of N-fixers (my current
> favorite, from them, is Lespedeza thunbergii, bush clover, a small N-fixing
> shrub that is covered much of the summer with fountains of pink-purple
> blossoms. They have several related species).
>
> For large orders, go to Lawyer Nursery, http://lawyernursery.com
> (downloadable .pdf catalog)
> Their minimum order is $200, so join with friends and get bundles of pea
> shrubs for $1 per plant, of several varieties. Many other N-fixers and good
> Pc plants. Try to order by New Years, cuz they sell out early.
> <>
> Forestfarm plant nursery
> <http://www.forestfarm.com/>
> <>
> Lawyer Nursery
> <http://lawyernursery.com/>
> <>
> Restoring Our Seed
> <http://www.growseed.org/>
> <>
> SPROUTING SEEDS
> The absolute best site on the web for sprout information is
> http://sproutpeople.com/
> http://sproutpeople.com/seeds.html
> <>
> Sand Hill Preservation Center: Catalog of Heirloom Seeds and Rare Poultry
> <http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/index.html>
> <>
> Heirloom Plants and Seeds Address List
> http://www.cog.brown.edu/gardening/cat16/f16cat.html
> The Garden Path, A Centre for Organic Gardening, Organic Plants and Seeds,
> Victora BC, Canada
> http://www.earthfuture.com/gardenpath/Winter_Vegetables.htm
> <>
> Tom Clothier, whose web site, "Tom Clothier's Garden Walk and Talk",
> has for many years contained the most comprehensive germination
> database on the web, as well as many excellent articles by himself
> and other authors, is retiring. His site is now archived on
> Mallorn.com's hort.net, so all this marvelous information will not be
> lost to the web horticultural community.
>
> The new URL is:
>
> http://tomclothier.hort.net/
> <>
> heirloom seed sources:
> http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/garden/seedsource.html
>
> Seed Sources for Specialty Vegetables:
> http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/specveg1.html
>
> seed/plant sources (extensive list)
> http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/lists/nov97/msg00175.htmlhttp://csf.colorado.edu/perma/lists/nov97/msg00175.html
>
> Seed Catalogs & Seeds w/ links to the urls of all: (very extensive
> list) http://whatsonthe.net/seedcatalogs.htm
>
> A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES FOR THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER AND SEED SAVER
> http://www.indiana.edu/~libwylie/wh-bib.html
>
> Agriculture and Horticultural Resources, Special Collections
> Department, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
> http://spec.lib.vt.edu/spec/horticul/bothrhp.htm
>
> Nichols Garden Nursery - herbs & rare seeds catalog: (Oregon)
> http://www.gardennursery.com/
>
> Willhite Seed - Online! (Texas - good commercial source)
> http://www.willhiteseed.com/store/asp/about.asp
>
> Seeds of Change: (New Mexico)
> http://www.seedsofchange.com/
>
>
> There are many more good seed companies (i.e. DV Burrell, Colorado)
> and links to many others (i.e. Otis Twillley, Stokes) on these lists
> many more than you'll be able to follow up on
>
> I strongly suggest you stick to sources in the Southwest (except for
> Nichols, which is in the Northwest), which are more likely to have
> seed that adapts to your area.
>
> Let me know if you have no luck. There were a few others that had
> things like white tomatoes, though that was only 35 years ago.
>
> Jung was one of them
> <http://www.jungseed.com/
>
> Henry Fields was another
> http://www.henryfields.com/aboutus.html
>
> And there was this one:
> Harris Moran Seed Company
> http://www.harrismoran.com/
> or was it
> Welcome to Harris Seeds
> http://www.harrisseeds.com
>
> And there was Park
> http://www.parkseed.wte.net/
>
> And Stokes:
> Stokes Seeds
> http://www.stokeseeds.com/main.ehtml
>
> These I don't know:
>
> Heirloom Plants and Seeds Address List
> http://www.mertus.org/gardening/cat17/f16cat.html
> Heirloom Seed Companies
> http://www.webslnger.com/wethepeople/heirloom/cmpnylst.htm
> HEIRLOOM SEEDS - over 300 varieties of non-hybrid seeds
> http://www.heirloomseeds.com/
> Heirloom Seeds - Seeds Blum
> http://www.seedsblum.com/w1_prhei.htm
> Heirloom Tomatoes - Best Tomatoes - Natural Gardening
> http://www.heirloomtomatoes.net/
> Heirloom/Open Pollinated Garden Vegetable Seeds
> http://www.seedman.com/heirloom.htm
> HeirloomEdibles.Com Online Seed Catalog
> http://virtualseeds.com/HeirloomSeeds.html
>
> Homegrown Tomatoes and Peppers Tomato Page
> http://www.homegrowntomatoes.com/tomato.htm
>
> Non-hybrid seeds for Independence Gardening
> http://www.seedsblum.com/i_hybrid.htm
>
> Oriental Vegetable Seeds
> http://www.evergreenseeds.com
>
> OUR FAVORITE GARDEN HERBS
> http://www.seedman.com/index/herbseed.htm
> OUR FAVORITE GARDEN VEGETABLES
> http://www.seedman.com/index/vege.htm
>
> Medicinal Plants & Seeds.
> http://www.seedcatalog.com/Cat1b.htm
>
> Johnny's Selected Seeds
> http://www.johnnyseeds.com
>
> Here's one in your area, just up more than a little higher: About
> Flagstaff Native Plant & Seed - About Our Seeds -- Tea Herb Farm --
> Over 4000 Exotic and Unusual Vegetable, Palm, Fruit & Nut, Bonsai,
> and Tree Seeds ttp://www.flgnativeplant.com
> <>
> For an interesting history of hybrids and plant breeding, see:
>
> Kloppenburg J. R. (1988) First the Seed: the Political Economy of Plant
> Biotechnology, 1492-2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge USA.
>
> It details the whole history of hybrid breeding and the alternatives that
> could
> have been followed.
> <>
> Published in Crop Sci. 43:1922-1929 (2003).
>
> REVIEW & INTERPRETATION
> Concepts of Intrinsic Value and Integrity of Plants in Organic Plant
> Breeding and Propagation
> E. T. Lammerts van Bueren*,a, P. C. Struikb, M. Tiemens-Hulschera and E.
> Jacobsenc
> a Louis Bolk Inst., Hoofdstraat 24, NL-3972 LA Driebergen, the Netherlands
> b Wageningen Univ., Dep. of Plant Sci., Crop and Weed Ecology Group,
> Haarweg 333, 6709 RZ Wageningen, the Netherlands
> c Wageningen Univ., Dep. of Plant Sci., Laboratory of Plant Breeding,
> Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PD Wageningen, the Netherlands
>
> * Corresponding author (e.lammerts@louisbolk.nl).
> <>
> I am a geographer studying the origins and spread of the collard greens
> as an important Southern winter vegetable. I am working with two other
> researchers, including a USDA geneticist, Dr. Mark Farnham, to
> investigate the development of the plant extending back to its arrival
> from either Eurasia and/or Africa. We believe North Carolina seed savers
> may hold the key to some early collard forms. We have therefore begun
> collecting collard seeds for the national seed bank. The seeds may also
> be useful for development of disease-resistant forms. Do you know of any
> vegetable seed savers who might have collard seeds with heirloom
> ancestry? If so, please contact me, so that we might visit them and
> request a small seed sample for our research.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Dr. Edward H. Davis
> Department of Geography
> Emory & Henry College
> Emory, VA 24327
> 276-944-6203
> ehdavis@ehc.edu
> <>
> November 26, 2003
> BioFinder - Image Database
> http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/BioSearch/bioinfo/getimage.cgi?whattodo=showall
>
> The "BioFinder Image Database" is a search engine-driven site that
> currently contains plant images representing numerous different
> families of plants. The selection is outstanding, so if you feel
> uncomfortable with scientific names, it might be time to convert! The
> links lead from the home page to family lists alphabetized by genus.
> The sources of images range from floras (frequently Prof. Dr. Thomé's
> "Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz"), to more recent
> digital images of frequently cultivated plants. Site and database by
> Karl-Friedrich Fischbach and Kurt Stüber, respectively. (***1/2) -S
>
> *BOT-LINX Home Delivery sends you the Botanical Link-of-the-Day
> from Scott's Botanical Link site at URL:
> http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/
> *To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit the listserv site at URL:
> http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/listserv.shtml
> or contact me by email: mailto:srussell@ou.edu
> Archived since 1996 at URL: http://lists.ou.edu/archives/botlinx.html
> <>
> Many of the seed sources for native plants offer GM free seed as well. For a
> list of seed companies that pledge non genetically modified seed, click on
> Safe Seed Sourcebook at the website below:
>
> http://www.gene-watch.org/programs/safeseed.html
>
> The articles on this site are eyeopening as well.
>
> Keep in mind that a research study on tomato seed had to be abandoned
> recently because seed thought to be GM free was contaminated. You can read
> about this
> and other news in biotech by subscribing to GM Watch based in the UK:
>
> GM WATCH daily
>
> http://www.gmwatch.org
>
> There's also a GM WATCH weekly.
>
> Sally Williams
> Editor, Garden Literature index
> <>
> I will be ordering seed taters next week from
> Woodprairie Farms in Maine. If you are familar with
> them, you know they put out a very good, double
> certified organic selection of taters. So far, this
> is what I am ordering:
> Carola - 50 lbs
> Cranberry Red (All Red) - 25 lbs
> All Blue - 25 lbs
> Caribe - 25 lbs
> Russian Banana fingerlings - 10 lbs
>
> The best price available for the regular taters
> above comes from ordering in 50lb increments.
> Therefore, its best to combine orders between people
> and order 50 lb boxes. Estimated price/lb is around
> $1.25. Fingerlings are closer to $2.75/lb. I would
> need payment up front if you would like your potatoes
> by mid-february, depending on the weather in Maine at
> time of shipment. If anyone has noticed, Johnny's
> Selected Seeds is not offering Feb. shipment in their
> catalog this year.
> For more info on varieties, go to
> www.woodprairie.com. Also, I will be ordering onion
> plants from Dixondale Farms (www.dixondale.com)
> <>
> Here's a link to the NC Sweetpotato Commission's listing of certified
> sweetpotato seed suppliers in NC:
> http://www.ncsweetpotatoes.com/growing.htm#commercial
>
> Click on section 3 at the bottom, then when the next page opens, click on
> "Link to Certified Seed Listing" (I can't just give you the URL because it
> is hidden).
>
> If they want certified organic sweetpotato slips, check the Grower Resource
> List on my website, under plant and bulb suppliers. Burch Farms provides
> certified, certified organic slips (twice certified!). For some reason Burch
> is not showing up on the NCSC listing this year, but they are still
> certified.
> <>
> raspberry
> bushes from Johnson Nursery, 1352 Big Creek Rd, Ellijay, GA 30540,
> 1-888-266-3187. I've had their Redwing Everbearing Red Raspberry.
> <>
> Let me first say that there are not really any recommended varieties of red
> raspberries for the piedmont, for commercial production. That being said
> they do grow here and will survive and make some fruit. For a home garden I
> would mostly recommend fall bearing/everbearing/primocane fruiting
> varieties. Heritage, Cherokee (from VA Tech), Redwing, or Nordic are going
> to be the best and easiest to manage. Two issues with raspberries in the
> piedmont 1) too hot for good cane growth. Good being tall canes with
> sufficient nodes for good fruit production. 2) too many wide swings in
> winter/spring temps that can produce winter vascular injury to further
> reduce production on spring/floricane fruiting varieties (the best of those
> being Mandarin (impossible to find), Latham, Boyne, Nova). Best sources
> will be mail order- Boston Mtn. Nurseries, Simmons Berry Farm, Nourse Farms,
> North Star Gardens.
>
> Excellent info at:
> http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/pdf/ag-569.pdf
> note the radical difference in yields between the mountains and piedmont
> trials.
>
> This was our experience after a decade plus of growing raspberries
> commercially and trialing over 20 varieties. We realized that red
> raspberries are just not adapted here. There is some potential in black and
> purple raspberries.
> <>
> Of the hundreds of varieties of veggies I've tried over the years, some
> have clearly earned overall high ratings in my
> book, and I'm sure some of you have a similar list. Let's share our
> favorites!
>
> I've been somewhat surprised to see how many of my long-time favorite
> varieties - that served me well in NY State - have
> continued to work very well for me in my first four years of farming in NC.
> This is especially true of many of the cool
> season crops, where (due to my move southward) the season of best growth
> for them has simply shifted 5-6 weeks earlier
> in spring and 5-6 weeks later in fall. Sadly, some of the slow-growing
> crops that hate the heat don't work so well
> here, it seems. This includes brussels sprouts, celery, and parsnips, all
> of which I HAVE managed to grow here, but
> with a lot of fussing, winter protection, etc.
>
> On the receiving end, I'm still looking for tips from other growers and
> gardeners on what has worked well for them in
> the Piedmont. I feel particularly weak in the categories of tomatoes,
> melons, and sweet potatoes.
>
> Even if you only mention one or two favorites, it could help us all. It
> would be nice if you could say why you like
> them so much, and where they can be obtained.
>
> So, here is my offering of 19 of my favorites out of the 150 that I'm
> currently growing, with info about the source
> company, and what I like about them:
>
> SOURCE COMPANY KEY: J=Johnny's Selected Seeds www.johnnyseeds.com ; F=Fedco
> www.fedcoseeds.com ; T=Territorial
> www.territorialseed.com ; W=Wild Garden Seed www.wildgardenseed.com .
> These are my favorite seed companies. The first
> 3 offer a very wide range of well-tested varieties, and they rigorously
> test and update their list and get feedback from
> growers. Wild Garden Seed is a small, farm-based company, whose owner,
> Frank Morton, has shown amazing creativity in
> developing many novel varieties that are now carried by many other catalogs.
>
> LL= HOME-GROWN SEED - We have plenty of seed of these varieties of kale mix
> and Red Bullhorn peppers -- seed grown at
> the Land Lab in Pittsboro - would you like some? Want to swap, or send a
> couple bucks for packing and postage?) I have
> lots of tomato seeds to spare, too: Ruby Gold, Green Zebra, Peron
> Sprayless, Goldie, Viva Italia, Plum Dandy, Eva Purple
> Ball. And lots of my own extra early sweet bell pepper selected out of
> Yankee Bell)
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> SPINACH - "Tyee" - (J,F) - Reliable savoy type (crinkled), productive in
> both hot and cold weather, very bolt-resistant,
> adaptable to various soil/nutrient conditions (hybrid)
>
> LETTUCE - "Dano" - (J) - Extremely slow bolting, also quite cold hardy,
> dark red "salad bowl" type, for baby leaf
> production for salad mix, can be cut many times and still looks and tastes
> good, slow to get bitter.
>
> LETTUCE - "New Red Fire" (J,F,T) - Red looseleaf lettuce, slowest bolting
> in all of Fedco's trials, also very cold
> resistant, slow to get bitter, can make a huge head.
>
> LETTUCE - "Ermosa" (J) - Beautiful, solid bibb (butterhead) type, dark
> green, sturdier than Buttercrunch
>
> KALE - "Wild Garden Kales" (T,W,LL) - Beautiful mix of sturdy "Siberian"
> type kales, very hardy but also taste good in
> heat; variety of leaf shapes and colors; can be crowded for baby leaf
> cutting for salad mix, or grown as large
> individual plants
>
> CHARD - "Bright Lights" (J,F,T) - Brilliant rainbow of colors, most
> visually striking vegetable I've ever seen.
>
> MILD MUSTARD GREEN - "Yukina Savoy" (J) - for salad mix, similar to Tatsoi
> but much larger and more productive. Very
> dark green, mild, crinkly surface.
>
> BEET - "Early Wonder" (J,F,T) - Fast growing, leaves are usually healthier
> than Detroit, the old standard. Stays in
> nice condition a long time, for those who like beet greens. Roots are
> sweet and good looking, too. Quite heat tolerant.
>
> BEET - "Burpee's Golden" (J,F,T) - Despite starting weak and growing
> slowly, and high seed cost, this one is worth
> growing for the beautiful, tasty golden roots that don't color your food
> the way red beets do. Red + Golden = Nice
> combo at market.
>
> CARROT - "Nevis" (J) - I've tried a dozen varieties since I moved here, and
> this one is the most productive, most
> consistent sweet flavor and brittle texture, smooth skin. It's of the
> Nantes heritage, but I do have to admit, it's a
> hybrid, in case you don't like hybrids. 7" long, quite resistant to
> alternaria blight which is a problem for us. AND -
> it is the very last one to bolt in spring, if you overwinter your carrots.
> As for that "consistent" flavor.......it
> still tasted good while it was bolting!
>
> CARROT - "Kinbi" (J) - Bright yellow, heavier at the shoulders, like a
> Chantenay, might do very well on heavy clays.
> Complex sweet flavor, fast maturing, big strong tops easy to pull. Note:
> Has anyone seen "NutriRed", the beautiful red
> carrot that seems to have disappeared from all the catalogs?
>
> CARROTS - "Nantes Fancy" (F) and "Nantaise" (T) - The two open-pollinated
> carrots that have produced the best flavor for
> us; both grow up to 8" long.
>
> ONIONS - "Superstar" (F,J) and "Candy" (F,T) - These are both day-neutral,
> meaning that, even though they are sweet
> onions and are much harder-fleshed (longer-storing) than "Vidalia" and
> other southern onions, they WILL mature here,
> which is not true of the hard "keeper" onions that can only be matured
> north of 38 degrees latitude (approx. Mason Dixon
> line). Superstar is snow white, very nice looking, AAS winner. Candy
> stores a bit longer. NOTE: To get decent size
> on these, you have to seed them in the ground or nursery bed in fall, or
> start them in January in the greenhouse.
>
> SNAP PEA - "Sugar Ann" (F,J) - Dwarf, no trellis needed, considered
> sweetest and most reliable of the dwarf snaps,
> matures 10-12 days earlier than "Sugar Snap", the original snap pea which
> remains unmatched for quality but needs a 5-6'
> trellis and finishes in the hot weather.
>
> CANTELOPE - "Ambrosia" (J,F,T, local plant sales) - The name says it all,
> except to add that it has that flavor very
> consistently under a variety of growing conditions, like when rainy weather
> dilutes the sweetness of the others.
>
> WATERMELON - "Yellow Doll" (F,T, called "Sunshine" in Johnny's) - Bright
> lemon yellow flesh, very sweet, 5-8 lbs, nice
> size for a small family or one very hot person. Good size for CSA
> marketing. Matures earlier than the big ones.
>
> SWEET PEPPER - "Corno di Toro, Rosso" (T, LL; called "Italia" in Johnny's)
> - "Horn of the Bull, Red" - Beautiful sweet
> big long red Italian pepper, big plant, prolific producer. O.P. I ate one
> ripe one each day and saved the seed. Want some?
>
> UNIQUE SPECIALTY PEPPER - "Aji Dulce" - Intense fruity smokey flavor
> similar to Habanero, but with NO HEAT!! Like
> cilantro, some folks love it, some hate it. Looks just like a red Habanero
> pepper. Want some seed?
>
> CUCUMBER - "Marketmore 76 (or 97)" (F,J,T) - Amazing quality, yield,
> slender length, and disease resistance, for an
> open-pollinated slicing cuke.
> <>
> I had great luck last year with the Black Plum Paste Tomato from Seeds of
> Change (also available from Territorial Seed
> Company) -- This produces smallish mahogany plum tomatoes with dark
> striping at the top, similar in color to other
> "black" tomato varieties. I usually find plum tomatoes to be somewhat
> bland, but this had a terrific flavor for fresh
> eating and grew well (and abundantly!) in my garden. It was also one of the
> earlier tomatoes to ripen for me. I hadn't
> grown it before, so this was a pleasant surprise. You can see a picture
> here:
> http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_center/product_details.asp?UID=2004012111472152&item_no=PS15462
> <>
> My penpal in Nicaragua recently wrote to me about
> planting potato seed (the actual seed, and not cut up
> tubers) and getting uniform results. I always thought
> potato seeds didn't breeed true to type. Maybe she
> just got lucky? I did a google search, and found TPS
> for sale at www.nicholsgardennursery.com
>
> Since they list several different varieites, I guess
> they claim it is possible to just get one type of
> potato from seed. Any thoughts or experience?
>
> I also found this interesting article on TPS at
> http://www.new-agri.co.uk/02-6/focuson/focuson2.html
> <>
> "Mooncake" Edamame
> http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep03/cake0903.htm
>
> http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/fnrb/fnrb1003.htm
> <>
> f> Does anyone know of a printable, online list of plants compiled
> f> solely for chicken forage? Does anyone have one they could summon up
> f> lacking an already available online source? Obviously there are many
> f> plants which fit the bill but I am looking for coastal temperate
> f> (USDA Zone 8b) perennials mainly. Pea shrubs to...? I wonder why
> f> PFAF doesn't list Permaculture forage plants for various animals.
>
> Chooks love all manner of berries:
> Red, white, black currant
> Blackberries
> Raspberries
> Worcesterberries
> Mountain ash (Sorbus sp.)
> Whitethorn/Hawthorn (Crataegus)
> fallen fruit from apples, pears, plums etc.
> Elderberries
> Mulberries
>
> Also:
> Stinging nettle (leaves and seed)
> Dandelion
> Comfrey leaves
> Sunflower seeds
> Buckwheat
> Evening primrose seeds
> Duckweed! (high in protein, needs open water and must be harvested)
> Garlic
>
> A German source on poultry in pc systems
> http://2012.org/publishing/gefluegel/index.html (have not checked
> link)
> gives loads of plants incl.
> Bunias orientalis (careful! in Europe this is an invasive alien! I'm
> not going to try it.)
> Lycium chinensis
> Myrrhis odorata
> Oryzopsis hymenoides
> Secale montana
> Secale sylvestris
> Astragalus glycyphyllos
> I have not tried these yet. I recently bought a Lycium barbarum
> (for berries, suggested by Bill Mollison) to see does it thrive here, and
> found
> seeds of Myrrhis odorata (leaves and seed) which I'll try this year. The
> Secale sp. are
> wild rye species which I haven't been able to get hold of.
>
> It is not easy to design systems that use many of these plants -
> timing of access, root protection, nutritional considerations (some
> plants contain anti-nutritional substances) have to be taken into
> account. But there would seem to be plenty of options for integration,
> e.g. chickens in orchards underplanted with buckwheat (timed access;
> buckwheat also attracts beneficials to orchard), chickens in woodland
> edge situations (their natural habitat) with berry crops, elderberries
> in chicken runs (they like high N situations) etc.
> <>
> Subject: global database of 28,000 herbs
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:07:31 -0600
> From: Tim Johnson <timjohnson@raw-food-community.net>
>
> <http://www.raw-food-community.net/herbage/index.html> -link is 404land-
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> (831) 419-0427
> <>
> RAMPS
> bear's garlic (ramsons). IF it grows in woods at all, it grows abundantly >
> and last > year was heavily sold to bakers
> as an ingredient to bread. no > "haute-cuisine-chef" > goes without it in
> spring. this plant might really be a "hot
> product" > for the market (esp. in farmer's markets in citites, where most
> people would > like > to collect it at their
> weekend trip, but fear to collect the toxic and > superficially > similar
> lily of the valley), unfortunately i have
> never seen it cultivated. > might be a > very nice niche market as soon as
> someone succeeds in seeding it in small >
> pots > for the kitchen. This early spring member of the lily family sounds
> mightily like ramp (Allium tricoccum). It
> grows wild and is collected in April in the mountains from West Virginia
> down into the Carolina Smokies. In West
> Virginia it takes on cult proportions, and is certainly the unofficial
> state vegetable. Some call it a wild leek, but
> it's not exactly of the onion tribe.
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cmnshtml/cmnshome.html
> http://www.callwva.com/news/apr11-02.cfm Eatin' don't get no better than
> ramp. The famous drawback to this instantly
> acquired vice is that for a day or two after feasting, you can't enjoy the
> polite company of anyone who hasn't also
> eaten of the ramp. This stuff will put a breath on you that would stop a
> wild boar in mid-lunge. I've never heard of it
> being cultivated, although there is enough of the wild bulb up in the hills
> that it appears on the local grocery shelves
> every spring. If you live in the UK, Australia or New Zealand, it's worth a
> trip across the water to taste some.
> http://www.main.nc.us/yancey/Ramps/ramps_or_wild_leek.htm This reference
> relates it in passing to the Birtish ramson, so
> named because it's ready to pick during the merry month of Aries (son of
> the ram-- get it?). They also claim it elevates
> your HDL-- the good lipids. They also mention that the Menominee in
> southern Michigan referred to a good place to find
> ramps as shekako, from which the name Chicago is derived. Shekako, of
> course, means "this place smells like a skunk".
> http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/alliumtric.html Cook it like
> any green or like pole beans. Take a big stew
> pot and cut up a bunch of ham hocks or bacon trimmings. Simmer for about
> six hours-- you make it in the morning and by
> three or so in the afternoon the fumes drive people wild enough to break
> into your kitchen and start serving themselves.
> If you have any "magic" you can perform it over the pot, but it doesn't
> really take much of anything beyond salt. You'll
> sweat this stuff out through your pores, performing a sort of spring
> cleaning on your musty old winter body. It's like
> an extremely organic sauna. A source for the seeds can be found here:
> http://www.cincypost.com/living/2000/ramps042900.html More good articles:
> http://www.doorbell.net/lukes/a050903.htm
> http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H449.htm
> <>
> MULTIPLYING ONIONS
> Garden Medicinals Catalog - Perennial Potato Onions, Topset Onions, and
> Shallots.
> http://www.gardenmedicinals.com/pages/onion.html-ssi
> http://www.cog.brown.edu/gardening/cat16/f16cat.html
> http://www.bloomingarden.com/Onions.html
> http://www.ginnysherbs.com/heirloomflowers.html
> http://www.earthfuture.com/gardenpath/Winter_Vegetables.htm
> Johnny's Selected Seeds
> http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/index.html
> Territorial Seeds
> http://www.territorial-seed.com/testcat/catalog.html
> Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
> http://www.southernexposure.com
> Perennial Vegetable Seed Company, POB 608 Belchertown, MA 01007
> Heirloom Plants and Seeds Address List
> http://www.cog.brown.edu/gardening/cat16/f16cat.html
> THOSE MARVELOUS MULTIPLYING ONIONS - bloomingarden.com
> http://www.bloomingarden.com/Onions.html
> Ginny's Herbs - Heirloom Vegetables and Flowers catalogue
> http://www.ginnysherbs.com/heirloomflowers.html
> The Garden Path, A Centre for Organic Gardening, Organic Plants and Seeds,
> Victora BC, Canada
> http://www.earthfuture.com/gardenpath/Winter_Vegetables.htm
> Seeds Blum http://seedsblum.com - FEDCO Moose ...
> BLOOMIN GARDEN CENTRE. THOSE MARVELOUS MULTIPLYING ONIONS. ... Multiplying
> onions
> are different; as the name implies, these onions multiply underground. ...
> www.bloomingarden.com/onions.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
> Spring Gardening 2001
> ... sometimes called storage onions. Green onions are the fresh eating
> onions and are referred to as bunching or multiplying onions. ...
> www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/specialty/onions01.html - 11k - Cached - Similar
> pages
> Mother Earth News: The other onions
> ... Less well-known are the fall-planted onions, including multiplying
> onions,
> shallots and bulbing leeks. ... Top-Setting Multiplying Onions. ...
> www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m1279/is_199/ai_105915718 - 17k -
> Cached - Similar pages
> Market Bulletin Category
> ... Crystal white multiplying onions for summer or fall, top quality, a
> heavy producer,
> lrg. size. ... White and red multiplying onions bulbs, specify color,
> $20/gal. ...
> www.agr.state.ga.us/mbads/CategoryAds.
> jsp?Category=Ag%20Plants%20for%20Sale - 3k - Cached - Similar pages
> Commerical grower of onions for the trade. Retail/Wholesale
> ... Top-set onions, tree onions, or walking onions are various names used
> to describe
> a family of very hardy perennial, multiplying, top setting onions. ...
> www.daylilies.net/onions.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
> Welcome to Filaree Farm
> http://www.filareefarm.com/
> Located in north central Washington State where we've been farming
> organically since 1977. Filaree offers over 100
> unique strains of seed garlic which we have collected from sources all over
> the world. We cater to small organic
> gardeners, plant nurseries and commercial farmers as well.
> Pinetree Garden Seeds, www.superseeds.com lists seeds of Evergreen
> Bunching HeShiko and Bunching Onion-Crimson Forest
> on page 37 of their 2008-2009 catalog.
> 2007 catalog of Seeds of Change, www.seedsofchange.com Lisbon White
> Bunching and Purplette Bunching seeds on page 31
> 2007 catalog of Peaceful Valley Farm Supply www.groworganic.com lists seeds
> of Evergreen Bunching on page 16 and Onion,
> Scallion, Bunching Ishikura (long-day Japanese bunching) on P. 33.
> Native Seeds/SEARCH www.nativeseeds.org lists Tohono O'odham I'itoi which
> they describe as prolific multiplier onions
> with a shallot-like flavor. At the farmers market, I bought what I believe
> to be these. (The farmer said they were from
> NS/S and that's the only onion I remember seeing in their catalog.) They
> are like large chives and my bulbs which look
> like small shallots didn't get more than about 1/4 inch in diameter. They
> are growing well right now and I like the
> tops as chives.
> http://www.gardenmedicinals.com/pages/onion.html-ssi
> http://www.cog.brown.edu/gardening/cat16/f16cat.html
> http://www.bloomingarden.com/Onions.html
> http://www.ginnysherbs.com/heirloomflowers.html
> http://www.earthfuture.com/gardenpath/Winter_Vegetables.htm
> Johnny's Selected Seeds
> http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/index.html
> Territorial Seeds
> http://www.territorial-seed.com/testcat/catalog.html
> Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
> http://www.southernexposure.com
> Heirloom Plants and Seeds Address List
> http://www.cog.brown.edu/gardening/cat16/f16cat.html
> THOSE MARVELOUS MULTIPLYING ONIONS
> by Ken Klotz, Charlottesville, VA
> reprinted from Flower and Garden, August/Sept. 1986
> http://www.bloomingarden.com/Onions.html
> Ginny's Heirloom Winter Flowers Catalog
> http://www.ginnysherbs.com/heirloomflowers.html
> The Garden Path, A Centre for Organic Gardening, Organic Plants and Seeds,
> Victora BC, Canada
> http://www.earthfuture.com/gardenpath/Winter_Vegetables.htm
> From An Earlier Google Search:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=multiplying+onions&btnG=Google+Search
> Mail order sources for multiplying and walking onions -----
> Seeds Blum http://seedsblum.com - FEDCO Moose ...
> www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/orgfarm/
> seeds+plants/sources/multiplying-onions - 1k - Cached - Similar pages
> BLOOMIN GARDEN CENTRE. THOSE MARVELOUS MULTIPLYING ONIONS. ... Multiplying
> onions
> are different; as the name implies, these onions multiply underground. ...
> www.bloomingarden.com/onions.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
> Spring Gardening 2001
> ... sometimes called storage onions. Green onions are the fresh eating
> onions and are referred to as bunching or multiplying onions. ...
> www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/specialty/onions01.html - 11k - Cached - Similar
> pages
> Mother Earth News: The other onions
> ... Less well-known are the fall-planted onions, including multiplying
> onions,
> shallots and bulbing leeks. ... Top-Setting Multiplying Onions. ...
> www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m1279/is_199/ai_105915718 - 17k -
> Cached - Similar pages
> Southeast Farm Press: Weather woes hit Vidalia onion crop
> ... When their spring growth resumed, the biennial onion plants
> mistakenly thought
> they were starting their second year of growth and began multiplying.
> ...
> www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0HEV/is_2002_June_5/ai_88700718
> Market Bulletin Category
> ... Crystal white multiplying onions for summer or fall, top quality, a
> heavy producer,
> lrg. size. ... White and red multiplying onions bulbs, specify color,
> $20/gal. ...
> www.agr.state.ga.us/mbads/CategoryAds.
> jsp?Category=Ag%20Plants%20for%20Sale - 3k - Cached - Similar pages
> [PDF] G A C : O , S G
> File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
> ... They are a key ingredient in many Cajun dishes. Shallots are similar
> to multiplying onions but have a slight garlic flavor. Although ...
> www.lsuagcenter.com/Communications/ pdfs_bak/pub2318alliumcrops.pdf -
> Similar pages
> Commerical grower of onions for the trade. Retail/Wholesale
> ... Top-set onions, tree onions, or walking onions are various names used
> to describe
> a family of very hardy perennial, multiplying, top setting onions. ...
> www.daylilies.net/onions.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
> Garden Medicinals and Culinaries™, GMED™
> http://www.gardenmedicinals.com/pages/onion.html-ssi
> -- Here's info from them on multipliers from their 2002 catalog:
> MULTIPLIER ONIONS
> Allium cepa aggregatum LILIACEAE
> HEIRLOOM POTATO ONIONS
> Allium cepa aggregatum LILIACEAE
> New! YELLOW POTATO ONION
> SHALLOTS
> New! FRENCH RED SHALLOT
> TOPSET ONIONS (EGYPTIAN ONIONS)
> Allium-cepa var. proliferum
> New! ALBEMARLE TOPSET
> MORITZ TOPSET
> New! NORRIS TOPSET
> http://www.google.com/search?q=multiplying+onion+sources&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
> The Other Onions
> Fall Onion Sources. Shallots are becoming easier to find on the commercial
> market, but multiplying onions and bulbing
> leeks still are rare. ...
> www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2003-08-01/The-Other-Onions.aspx
> - 83k - Cached - Similar pages
> ABOUT ALLIUMS
> Another perennial— Allium cepa solanium , known as a multiplier or potato
> onion—is propagated by a division of
> underground bulbs, with each bulb multiplying ...
> www.motherearthnews.com/Whole-Foods-and-Cooking/1987-11-01/About-Alliums.aspx
> - 85k - Cached - Similar pages
> The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book - Google
> Books Result
> by Carla Emery - 2003 - Gardening - 864 pages
> Mulching this onion variety can result in rotting. They do their dividing
> (and multiplying) in the spring. Harvesting.
> Like the tree onion, the potato onion ...
> books.google.com/books?isbn=157061377X...
> Southern Exposure Seed Exchange www.southernexposure.com p. 40 of 2006
> catalog lists Egyptian Walking onions (tree
> onions), Japanese multplier onion, Yellow potato onion, and White
> multiplier onion, all sold as bulbs, not seeds.
> Nichols Garden Nursery www.nicholsgardennursery.com 2007 catalog, page 34
> lists Evergreen Hardy White Bunching onion
> seeds.
> Territorial www.territorialseed.com 2007 catalog page 57 lists 4 varieties
> of seed under the heading of
> Scallions/bunching, but it isn't clear to me if they are multipliers.
> Maybe Purplette is.
> John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds www.kitchengardenseeds.com 2007 catalog
> page 23 lists seeds of Fukagawa (Japanese
> bunching) onions.
> Park Seed Co. www.parkseed.com 2007 catalog page 120 lists Egyptian Walking
> Onions (bulbils)
> Schumway www.rhshumway.com 2007 catalog page 4 and page 42 lists Egyptian
> Top Set Onion Sets.
> Johnny's www.johnnyseed.com 2006 catalog page 54 lists seeds of 4
> varieties under the heading of Bunching/scalions,
> including a fancy hybrid.
> Pinetree Garden Seeds, www.superseeds.com lists seeds of Evergreen
> Bunching HeShiko and Bunching Onion-Crimson Forest on page 37 of their
> 2008-2009 catalog.
> The 2007 catalog of Seeds of Change, www.seedsofchange.com lists Lisbon
> White Bunching and Purplette Bunching seeds on page 31.
> The 2007 catalog of Peaceful Valley Farm Supply www.groworganic.com
> lists seeds of Evergreen Bunching on page 16 and Onion, Scallion, Bunching
> Ishikura (long-day Japanese bunching) on P. 33.
> Native Seeds/SEARCH www.nativeseeds.org lists Tohono O'odham I'itoi
> which they describe as prolific multiplier onions with a shallot-like
> flavor.
> In North Carolina, a source for locating multiplying onions is the
> publication, AGRICULTURAL REVIEW published by the
> NCDA& CS. It can be found at...
> http://www.agr.state.nc.us/paffairs/agreview/
> Asparagus Gardener
> walking onions
> http://www.asparagusgardener.com/
> StinknRose@asparagusgardener.com
> <>
> GARLIC
> Welcome to Filaree Farm
> http://www.filareefarm.com/
> Located in north central Washington State where we've been farming
> organically since 1977. Filaree offers over 100
> unique strains of seed garlic which we have collected from sources all over
> the world. We cater to small organic
> gardeners, plant nurseries and commercial farmers as well.
> <>
> ONIONS
> Dixondale Farms 1-877-367-1015
> http://www.dixondalefarms.com/
> Dixondale Farms -- Specializing in high-quality onion plants since 1913.
> <>
>
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