Saturday, January 20, 2024

The Great Seed Giveway

Finally got around to purging the seed collection by giving a bunch away to the local buy nothing group.

These were given away:

Basil: Genovese - two packs available (commercial)
Basil: Thai (home-collected)
Bok choy: Bietola (commercial) I find it bolted to seed quickly
Bok choy: unknown variety (home-collected) I find it bolted to seed quickly
Broccoli: Waltham (commercial)
Broccoli: Green Sprouting (commercial)
Carrots: Touchon (commercial)
Carrots: Nantes Scarlet (commercial)
Kale: Premier Forage (commercial)
Kale: Siberian (commercial)
Kale: White Russian (commercial)
Lettuce: Black-seeded Simpson (home-collected)
Lettuce: Tom Thumb Butterhead (commercial)
Malabar spinach: Green Vine - 4 seeds left - can be tricky to grow (commercial)
Parsley: Single Hardy Italian (commercial)
Rosemary: Unnamed variety (commercial)
Swiss Chard: Barese (commercial) - this is a dwarf variety bought last year - very similar to bok choy - I found it bolted to seed very quickly
Tomato: Sweetie - cherry variety (commercial)
Tomato: Rainbow Blend (commercial)
Tomato: miscellaneous cherry variety (home-collected)
Tomato: miscellaneous large variety (home-collected)
Tomato: miscellaneous medium variety (home-collected)
Zucchini: Golden - 3 seeds left (commercial)
Zucchini: Golden Rush - 7 seeds left (commercial)
Zucchini: Ronde de Nice (round) - 4 seeds left (commercial)

Flowers:
Marigold (home-collected)
Nasturtium: Peach Melba (commercial)
Poppy: Oriental Scarlet (home-collected)
Poppy: Oriental Scarlet (commercial)
Poppy: Flanders Field (commercial)
Purple coneflower (home-collected)
Sunflower: Mammoth (commercial)
Sunflower: Mammoth (home-collected)
Sunflower: Evening Sun (commercial)
Sunflower: miscellaneous (home-collected)


These are still left over as of when I'm writing this:

Flowers:
Bidens (home-collected)
Black-eyed Susan (home-collected)
Forget-me-not: cynoglossum amabile -- the flowers are fully blue with a blue centre (not the yellow-center variety) (home-collected) -- I love these and grow them every year from home-collected seed, have lots of seeds so would love to share
Hollyhock (home-collected)
Lupin (home-collected)
Wild evening primrose (home-collected

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