Cultivars 2010

[bluesgarden]

*looks at list* Um... the good news is that I have a layout drawn up? It's scanned in even!

(Note for the scanned image: the melons, watermelons, and pumpkins will have their own ridge - one long hill - just along/past the left edge. There will be 10 plants in each of the 4 tomato rows for a total of - *multiplies* - 40 plants. Can we say spaghetti sauce? The top edge is south and towards the road while the bottom is north and next to the sheds. Click here for a photo for reference.)

The 2009 Cultivars List

List of Cultivars for 2010

• Beans, Dry


• Kenearly Yellow Eye * - The beginning of the dry bean obsession, I just know it.


• Ireland Creek Annie *


• Beans, Snap


• Empress *


• Provider *


• Beets


• Golden ^ - I decide to try a new vegetable so do I go to the store and buy them like a normal person? Or maybe shop the farmer's markets? Nooooo, I grow them.


• Carrots


• Bolero ^ - There will be at least a couple waves of carrots, and maybe some that will be planted in the fall for over wintering. This is one of the winter candidates.


• Hercules ^ - The other winter candidate.


• Mokum **


• Sweetness III +


• Corn


• Mandan Red (Field/Grinding Corn) ~


• Supai Red (Parching Corn) ~


• True Gold (Sweet Corn) ~


• Cucumbers


• Diva + - The same AAS winner I grew last year, but it's a hybrid so I can't save the seeds. I may try an open pollinated variety in 2011.


• Herbs


• Basil


• Italian Large Leaf +


• Sweet Genovese #


• Cilantro


• Santo +


• Mint


• The various types of mint don't grow true from seed (without complete isolation and controlled pollination) so I'll purchase two plants.


• Oregano


• Greek +


• Sage


• Broadleaf +


• Thyme


• Plants from D's work sale probably.


• Leeks


• Bandit ^


• Tadorna ^


• Lettuces


• Jericho ^


• Valmaine **


• Victoria **


• Winter Density ^


• Melons


• Ambrosia **


• Charantais *


• Ha'ogen *


• Onions


• Pacific Pearl ** - I'll put a few of these bunching onions in, but not many.


• Talon ** - Excellent keepers; I'm still cooking with last year's crop.


• Peas


• Maxigolt ^


• Peppers


• Ancho Magnifico **


• California Wonder 300 **


• Dancing Spirits #


• Mulato Isleno **


• Peguis **


• Potatoes


• Carola * - Growing potatoes will be an experiment.


• Yellow Finn *


• Pumpkins


• Fairytale **


• Radishes


• D'avignon ^


• Red Meat ^


• Rutabaga


• Helenor ^ - See beets, above.


• Tomatoes


• Black Krim * - Nom nom nom! A couple of plants I picked up of these last year got me hooked on 'black' tomatoes.


• Black Plum ++ - A paste tomato that did well for me last year.


• Gill's All-Purpose **  - Just a couple of these as I'm concentrating on non-hybrids for seed saving, but it's a good cultivar.


• Nyagous * - Smaller black tomato than Black Krim.


• Opalka * - Paste tomato that was a last minute addition.


• Oregon Star ** - Somewhere between a paste tomato and a standard type; I think the catalog lists it as an 'heirloom', which is a phrase I find a little too open to interpretation to be particularly descriptive.


• Persimmon Orange ++ - A 'low-acid' tomato, so that I'm growing at least one.


• Purple Russian * - A paste type that's new to me this year.


• Red Zebra * - I've been flirting with these in the catalogs since last year.


• Speckled Roman * - Another paste type with a similar look to Red Zebra.


• Super Marzano ++ - These failed so spectacularly last year that I have to try again just for the heck of it. They were buried in the middle of the tomato jungle, so this year I'm growing one and it's getting a sunny edge spot.


• Sweet Million + - Just one, for the same reason as the Gill's All-Purpose.


• Tommy Toe * - One of the new cherry tomatoes I'm trying!


• Velvet Red * - The other new cherry tomato I'm trying!


• Watermelon


• Moon & Stars *


• Osh Kirgizia *


• Sugar Baby +


• Sunflowers


• Mongolian Giant *


• Ring of Fire *

Seed Sources:
# - Cooks Garden
^ - Johnny's Selected Seeds
+ - Jung's Seeds
~ - Seeds of Change
* - Seed Savers Exchange
** - Territorial Seeds
++ - Totally Tomatoes
The 2010 Seed Savers Yearbook from Seed Savers Exchange - which you get for becoming a member as I did a few weeks ago - has 190 pages of tomatoes. Mwahahaha.

Yes, it took me forever to put this post together.