A Seed Saver's Garden

[Decoy1]

So many lovely new peas for this year, thanks to some absolutely thrilling seed trades!

I used to be a crazy tomato grower but I honestly think beans have bumped them out of the #1 spot, and so have peas! I am really enjoying exploring the world of rare peas as well. Rare, for my area that is. It's all relative I suppose! Anyway, I will post a full list of all the neat new ones in the 2025 lineup, but here is a picture of a few packets I took today that were readily available.

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Very exciting! These are varieties I’ve not come across in England except perhaps Verdone.
What does Markerbse indicate, I wonder? Google translates it unhelpfully as ‘marker pea’

 

[heirloomgal]

Very exciting! These are varieties I’ve not come across in England except perhaps Verdone.
What does Markerbse indicate, I wonder? Google translates it unhelpfully as ‘marker pea’

I wish I could figure that out too! There are a number of categories of peas on Deaflora with mysterious titles, maybe related to the time of the season they're grown in? Like the 'winter' peas?

 

[heirloomgal]

Have been feeling the Daucus nudge to seek out many different varieties of carrot seed lately. I've found not all carrots are created equal, some taste far superior to others. It's been so long that I did side by side carrot growing in any volume, or even grew much carrots at all, that I forget the hierarchy of taste. Since electroculture has seemed to cure my carrot growing issues I feel a little empowered to dabble with a bigger grow out.

So went out today and got a couple packets, and had picked up a few here and there before that, but could not find Kuroda to put in the experiment. The price has really gone up for carrot seed too, $4 now. Scarlet Nantes, Nantes Touchon, Danver's Half Long, Lunga San Valerio, Gigante Flakkee so far. Staying away from Imperator cause my soil has too much clay, and I don't think those taste especially good. Also avoiding white, yellow and purple carrots, find those taste like animal fodder (to me anyway) and also steering clear of varieties bred to be small like Atlas. Going to try and find seed for Berlicum still, we'll see. And when this hunting is done I'll need to find another yard to fit all these carrots in.