Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Order Is In!

Well after several hours of Amanda and I working together to decide on seed varieties and then me staying up until 1am deciding (guessing) on quantities and actually ordering the seed we finally have all of our orders in. Picking seeds this year was mostly about educated Guesses (with a capital G). Not really knowing how much this acre will yield and not knowing how various products will do at market we strolled through the catalogs and picked things that were interesting (as well as some staples). I think we are both quite happy with the order and are very excited to see the seeds come in so without further ado (and with the disclaimer that we have no idea what we are doing) here is our 2010 vegetable list (87 different varieties):

Beans:
Dragon Tongue
Black Calypso
Valentino
Bush Blue Lake 274
Dusky
Rodcor
Gold Rush
French Horticultural Bush
Royal Burgandy

Beans (Lima):
Eastland
Fordhook Bush 242

Beets:
Albino
Early Blood Turnip
Mona Lisa
Burpee's Golden Beet

Broccoli:
Eureka
Everest
Romanesco
Purple Sprouting Broccoli

Cabbage:
Blue Vintage
Quisor
Red Dynasty
Providence Savoy

Carrots:
Paris Market
Cosmic Purple
Red Atomic
Cream de Lite
Minicor
Coreless Amsterdam
Evora

Cauliflower:
Snow Crown
Accent
Violet Queen
Cheddar
Verdi

Celery:
Utah 57-70R
Monterey

Corn (Popping):
Strawberry Popcorn

Eggplant:
Bride
Birgah
Black Bell II
PS1893 (what a great name)

Kale:
Winterbore
Redbore
Westland Winter
Red Russian

Leeks:
Bleu de Solaise
Tadorna

Onion (Green):
White Gem
Green Banner

Peas:
Cascadia
Paladio
Sugar Ann
Sugar Daddy
Sugar Lace II
Winged Peas

Radishes:
White Icicle
Round Black Spanish
Minowase Summer Cross #3
Sparkler
Red Velvet
FireBall

Squash (Summer):
Ronde de Nice
Woods Prolific Bush Scalop

Squash (Winter):
Grey Ghost
Sunshine
Vegetable Spagetti
Honey Boat

Tomatoes:
Burgess Stuffing
Brandywine Red
Black Prince
Zapotec Pink Ribbed
Copia
Mule Team
Cherokee Purple
Arkansas Traveller
Stupice
Plum Lemon
Kellogg's Breakfast
Green Zebra
Yellow Pear
Sun Gold Hybrid
Black Cherry
Green Grape
Isis Candy
Snow White
Sweet Baby Girl Hybrid

2 comments:

Allison said...

Exciting! I can't wait to see pictures of them as they grow.

Are any of those pea varieties the blue ones?

Stuart said...

Dear Amanda and Ryan,

I'm glad that your trip back to Canada went well jet-lag wise. Thank you for the new pub guides book. I hope that you enjoyed your trip here. If It's any consolation it's still raining here so altering your schedule would have been no benefit!

See you in July

Stuart