On the BYH forum they have a seed swap going, is anyone here interested in doing the same? I'll start with what I have:
Heirloom tomato seeds:
-Cherry types
Reisentraube ( so prolific it looks like a bunch of grapes)
Tangella (orangy colored when ripe)
-Pink type
Eva Purple Ball
-Red
Ceylon (oddly shaped smallish fruit, tasty)
Yorkbec (very early type developed in Quebec)
Olomovic (early, and a "huge producer")
Doucets Plum Red (early, developed in Quebec)
Silvery Fir Tree (small fruit but tasty, and gorgeous foliage)
Rutgers (pretty tomato-looking tomato
-Paste
Hungarian Italian ("very prolific" with few seeds)
Martino's Italian (late, very meaty)
-Keeping
Yellow Out Red In (Keeping tomatoes are no good just off the vine, you have to store them a few months to ripen, making them the perfect tomato for when you're desperate for the taste of something fresh in the winter)
Herbs/Flowers
Lemon-Lime Basil (smells really lemony!)
Genovese Basil ("regular" basil)
Sweet Italian Basil
Oregano
Catnip
Spearmint
Southern Giant Curled Mustard
Red Sunflowers (brilliant red petals on smaller heads, but multiple heads per stalk)
Red-Blue Spectrum Zinnia
Fruits/Veggies
Pingtung Long Eggplant
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon
Sugar Baby Watermelon
Lemon Cucumber (yellow round cucumbers, I planted these in a friend's garden and didn't tell him as a joke one time ;D )
Scarlet Nantes Carrot
Connecticut Field Pumpkin
Hungarian Paprika (dry them and grind them up to make your own spice!)
Silver Edge Squash (apparently the flesh is nothing exciting, but has a ton of large seeds that poultry like)
All of these are non gmo and heirloom seeds. I've started my tomatoes from these seeds already and I've had excellent germination rate.
I'm interested in non gmo (not necessarily heirloom though as long as I know it's a cross), preferably in stock that has a shortish growing time since Iowa can be unpredictable with frost dates. I'm particularly interested in plants that will do well in shade (my back yard is loaded with trees and is a steep hill to boot, so wildflowers/plants that don't need attention are welcome there) tomatoes of kinds I don't have listed, (yes I'm a tomato fiend), or plants that my chickens would like. I have a 10 x 40 foot plot that I'm renting so I have LOTS of space, even with all the tomatoes I'm growing and I like seeing what will grow, even if I don't personally eat it.
Heirloom tomato seeds:
-Cherry types
Reisentraube ( so prolific it looks like a bunch of grapes)
Tangella (orangy colored when ripe)
-Pink type
Eva Purple Ball
-Red
Ceylon (oddly shaped smallish fruit, tasty)
Yorkbec (very early type developed in Quebec)
Olomovic (early, and a "huge producer")
Doucets Plum Red (early, developed in Quebec)
Silvery Fir Tree (small fruit but tasty, and gorgeous foliage)
Rutgers (pretty tomato-looking tomato
-Paste
Hungarian Italian ("very prolific" with few seeds)
Martino's Italian (late, very meaty)
-Keeping
Yellow Out Red In (Keeping tomatoes are no good just off the vine, you have to store them a few months to ripen, making them the perfect tomato for when you're desperate for the taste of something fresh in the winter)
Herbs/Flowers
Lemon-Lime Basil (smells really lemony!)
Genovese Basil ("regular" basil)
Sweet Italian Basil
Oregano
Catnip
Spearmint
Southern Giant Curled Mustard
Red Sunflowers (brilliant red petals on smaller heads, but multiple heads per stalk)
Red-Blue Spectrum Zinnia
Fruits/Veggies
Pingtung Long Eggplant
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon
Sugar Baby Watermelon
Lemon Cucumber (yellow round cucumbers, I planted these in a friend's garden and didn't tell him as a joke one time ;D )
Scarlet Nantes Carrot
Connecticut Field Pumpkin
Hungarian Paprika (dry them and grind them up to make your own spice!)
Silver Edge Squash (apparently the flesh is nothing exciting, but has a ton of large seeds that poultry like)
All of these are non gmo and heirloom seeds. I've started my tomatoes from these seeds already and I've had excellent germination rate.
I'm interested in non gmo (not necessarily heirloom though as long as I know it's a cross), preferably in stock that has a shortish growing time since Iowa can be unpredictable with frost dates. I'm particularly interested in plants that will do well in shade (my back yard is loaded with trees and is a steep hill to boot, so wildflowers/plants that don't need attention are welcome there) tomatoes of kinds I don't have listed, (yes I'm a tomato fiend), or plants that my chickens would like. I have a 10 x 40 foot plot that I'm renting so I have LOTS of space, even with all the tomatoes I'm growing and I like seeing what will grow, even if I don't personally eat it.
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) The Boston lettuce sounds good too.
