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Seeds I have to trade:

  • *Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris)
  • (The "bush" and "pole" categories are not absolute, often times bush beans will throw out some exploratory tendrils, or pole beans won't climb very much and stay pretty bushy and well-behaved.)
  • --bush "Indian Woman Yellow" - dry, early, gold seed
  • --bush "Kiswaukee Yellow Wax" - yellow-podded snap, unstable genetic mix of various colors of seed (black, dark brown, black-speckled grey, whitish, white splotched on black-speckled grey)
  • --bush "Lina Sisco's Bird Egg" - dry, tan with red streaks and speckles
  • --bush/twining "Mrociumere" - dry, beautiful bright lavender speckled seed
  • --bush/twining "Paint" - dry, seeds half gold & half white
  • --bush "Paiute Brown" - brown elongated seeds
  • --bush/twining "Red Peanut" (a.k.a. "Old Joe Clark" or "Pink Half-Runner") - snap, small red-brown seeds like a Spanish peanut, pods turn red as they ripen
  • --bush/twining "Royalty Purple Podded" - stringless snap, purple pods & flowers, off-white seeds
  • --pole "Blue Coco" - snap or dry, productive, off-white seeds, wide purple pods; lovely purple stems, flowers, and veins
  • --pole "Blue Shackamaxon" - dry, extremely productive, delicious, shiny black seed, pods turn purple as they dry
  • --pole "Calypso" (a.k.a. Yin-Yang) - dry, black and white seed patterned like a milk cow
  • --pole "Cherokee Trail of Tears" - snap or dry, purple pods, shiny black seeds
  • --pole "Doyce Chambers Greasy Cut-shot" - snap, white seeds
  • --pole "Flagg" (a.k.a. Chester or Skunk) - dry, productive, slightly flattened black-and-white seed
  • --pole "Frank Barnett Cornfield" - snap, pinkish brown with brown stripes
  • --pole Frank Barnett Cut-short" - snap, tan seeds
  • --pole "Greasy Back" - snap, white seeds
  • --pole "Mountain Pima Burro & Caballito" - dry, productive, early, brown seed with dark brown stripes and white splotches
  • --pole "Ojo de Cabra" - dry, good-sized fat seed, tan with brown stripes
  • --pole "Santa Maria Pinquitos" - dry, small pink seeds, haven't grown this one yet but it's one of my favorite for taste
  • --pole "Succotash" - dry, late, really unusual dark purple corn kernel-shaped seeds
  • --pole/bush "Taos Red" - dry, bright red pods, early, red seeds with red speckles
  • --pole "Tarahumara Burro & Caballito" - dry, very late, seeds look the same as Mountain Pima
  • --pole "Tarahumara Cafe" - dry, late, productive, shiny grey-brown seeds like unroasted coffee beans
  • --pole "Tarahumara Choliwame" - dry, late, greyish or purplish with black speckles
  • --pole "Tarahumara Dark Purple" - dry, very purple seed, good yields
  • --pole "Tarahumara Purple Ojos" - dry, early, productive, supposed to be red and orange striped but mine are all orange, perhaps they darken in storage?
  • --pole "Tennessee Greasy" - genetic mix with lots of variation in seed color and pod type/color (mostly pinto-like brown with black speckles)
  • --pole "Tiger's Eye" (aka "Ojo de Tigre" or "Pepa de Zapallo") - elongated seed, bright orange with red stripes
  • --pole "Tobacco Worm" - snap, fat pods, white seed
  • --pole "Brown Tobacco Worm" - snap, fat pods, brown seed
  • --pole "Trionfo Violetto" - snap, purple pods
  • --pole "True Red Cranberry" - dry, large round dark red seed
  • --pole "Turkey Gizzard" - dry or snap, seeds brown with white frosted on one end
  • --? "Peruano" - dry, seeds butter-yellow
  • --and some in limited quantities: Black Greasy, Bumblebee, Good Mother Stallard, Hill Family Greasy

  • *Tepary Beans (Phaseolus acutifolius)
  • --"Mitla Black" - bush, black seed

  • *Runner Beans (Phaseolus coccineus)
  • Runner beans can be used for snaps, dry beans, or to attract hummingbirds.
  • --"Insuk's Wang Kong" - mix of seed colors/patterns (black, pink with black speckles, pink with black eye/speckles)
  • --"Scarlet Runner" - the usual pattern of pink with black eye/speckles

  • *Lima Beans/Butterbeans (Phaseolus lunatus)
  • --"Dixie Speckled Butterpea" - bush, small round seeds, light red speckled with dark red
  • --"Loudermilk" - pole, seeds black with white mottling on one end

  • *Chickpeas/Garbanzo Beans (Cicer arietinum)
  • --"Black Kabuli" - solid black seeds, purple flowers

  • *Cowpeas/Black-Eyed Peas (Vigna unguiculata)
  • --"Early Lady" - bush, small white seed
  • --"Tohono O'odham U'us Mu:n" - bush, black and white splotched seed, like a milk cow

  • *Yard-long Beans (Vigna unguiculata)
  • --"Red Noodle" (long bright red pods, brown seed, likes hot weather)

  • *Fava Beans (Vicia faba)
  • --a mix of "Guatemalan Purple" (dark purple seed) and "MC's Best" (large green/brown seed). I planted them next to each other so they're quite interbred, not sure what the offspring are like yet.

  • *Peas (Pisum sativum)
  • --"Blauwschokkers" - soup, purple flowers and pods, brownish seed
  • --"Golden Sweet" - edible yellow pods
  • --"Tom Thumb" a.k.a. "Half Pint" or "Meteor" - delicious fresh, very dwarf bush garden peas (under 8"), smooth green or tan dry seed

  • *Miscellaneous Legumes
  • --Ethiopian Lentil (aka Grasspea) (Lathyrus sativus) - big flat green seed, traditional food in La Mancha, eaten fresh like peas or ground into flour. Should not be eaten as a staple food (e.g. as a major component of the diet for weeks on end).
  • --Hyacinth Bean (Dolchis lablab)
  • --Moth Bean (aka Mat Bean or Turkish Gram) (Phaseolus aconitifolius) - small shiny brown seed, drought tolerant, used for sprouts

  • *Hulless Barley
  • --"Tibetian Purple" - dark purple seeds

  • *Corn
  • --"Hopi Magenta" - parching, pink kernels
  • --"Orchard Baby" - dwarf (3-4') yellow sweet corn

  • *Cucumbers
  • --"Muncher"
  • --"Parade"
  • --"Zimmerman"

  • Eggplants
  • --"Kamo" - small round purple fruit, traditional Kyoto variety

  • *Herbs
  • --basil "Fino Verde" - dwarf with small leaves
  • --basil "Lime" - citrus scent
  • --basil "Minimum" - dwarf with small leaves, supposed to form a mound
  • --rue

  • Leeks & Onions
  • --"Blue Solaize" - leek, blue-green leaves, hardy overwintering type
  • --"Sherwood" - leek, mild sweet flavor, summer/fall type
  • --"Ed's Red" - shallot

  • *Melons
  • --"Blacktail Mountain" - early dwarf watermelon, dark green skin, red flesh, brown seeds
  • --"Minnesota Midget" - early dwarf muskmelon/cantaloupe, (both fruit and plants are dwarf), fragrant orange flesh, little to no netting on fruit. Grown in isolation.
  • --a mix of "Ha Ogen," "Green Machine," and possibly other dwarf/early muskmelons - spilled the seeds as they were drying so now they're all together. Likely also to be crossed, as I didn't hand-pollinate.

  • *Poppy
  • --cornfield/rememberance poppies (Papaver rhoeas) - most of them bright red with a black cross, some natural variations are all-red or have white crosses
  • --"Ziar Breadseed" - white flowers with a light purple cross, grey/black seed, pods ventless so seed doesn't escape

  • Radishes
  • --"Cherry Belle" - round and all-red
  • --"Edible-Podded" - used for the spicy pods, not the roots; goes immediately to flower, flowers white or pink, very productive.
  • --"Pink Beauty" - round and all-pink

  • Squash (Cucurbita moschata)
  • --"Milk" -flat cheese-type for pie, light orange skin, orange flesh, white seeds

  • Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus)
  • --"Hopi Black Dye" - all-black seeds, yellow flowers
  • --"Tarahumara White" - all-white seeds, yellow flowers

  • *Tomatoes
  • --"Gold Nugget" - bright yellow cherry tomatoes, regular leaf, productive
  • --"Kellogg's Breakfast" - juicy orange fruit, regular leaf, indeterminate. seeds are older but germinate okay.
  • --"Silvery Fir Tree" - light red medium-size fruit; unusual lacey leaves that look kind of like carrot leaves (or a fir tree I guess)
  • --"Speckled Roman" - elongated fruit like a Roma, red with orange stripes and swirls, regular leaf, indeterminate, productive, good for sauce. I didn't isolate the plants so there is a small chance they might be crossed with Big Rainbow.


  • "Freebies"
  • These seeds are 6-7 years old so might have a reduced germination rate, but if you'd like to try some anyway I'll include them as a "bonus" in any trade, or for postage/SASE. I've had 90% germination with 6+ year-old bean seeds in the past so these might well do splendidly.
  • --cowpea "Grey-speckled Palapye"
  • --cowpea "Old Timer" aka "Purple Hull Speckled"
  • --eggplant "Thai Green Pea" - pea-sized and -colored eggplants on tall plants, needs warmth and a long season. used in curries.
  • --kohlrabi "Early Purple Vienna"
  • --squash "Lakota" (C. maxima) - green and orange teardop-shaped fruit
  • --corn "Blue Jade" - sweet corn, dwarf plants with steely-blue kernels, supposed to be possible to grow in containers. These seeds are actually from this year, but I don't have a lot and they're pretty small. I don't want to bother with corn again, so rather than compost them, perhaps someone would like to experiment with growing corn on their patio?

Seeds I am looking for:

  • -cool-looking/productive/tasty beans and peas of all sorts
  • -Vigna subterranea
  • -"Triton" dwarf peppers
  • -double-flowered feverfew and chamomile
  • -native Australian flowering/edible plants

Plants I have to trade:

  • Vegetables & Herbs
  • --chives & garlic chives
  • --Jerusalem artichoke "Jack's Copperclad" - smooth copper-purple skins, plentiful yellow flowers every September, tubers crisp when raw
  • --garlic "Burgundy" - softneck creole with red wrappers
  • --onion "Tohono O'odham I'itoi's" - multiplier, small, each bulb about the size of a clove of garlic


  • *Carnivorous Plants
  • *North American Pitcher Plants
  • --Sarracenia alata "Giant"
  • --Sarracenia catesbaei (natural hybrid flava x purpurea)
  • --Sarracenia flava
  • --Sarracenia leucophylla "Titan"
  • --many others, will finish later
  • *Mexican Butterworts
  • --Pinguicula agnata "Scented"
  • --Pinguicula esseriana
  • --Pinguicula laueana
  • --Pinguicula x "Fraser's Beauty"
  • --Pinguicula x "Pirouette"
  • *Sundews
  • --Drosera capensis
  • --Drosera madagascariensis "Botswana"

Plants I am looking for:

  • -any information on red camellia "C.W. Clark" introduced by Roger Reynolds Nursery in southern California
  • -any triggerplants (Stylidium spp.)
  • -carnivorous plants I don't have -- email me for my full growlist. Particularly interested in Mexican pings, tuberous drosera, the large-flowered utrics, and any particularly dramatic sarracenia or flytraps
  • -Sarracenia purpurea "Sorrow"
  • -Sarracenia "Green Monster"
  • -true cinnamon
  • -allspice
  • -nutmeg
  • -clove
  • -finger lime (in other colors than Four Winds Nursery's)
  • -native Australian flowering/edible plants
  • -colchicum bulbs
  • -tree dahlia

 
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