Category Archives: Varieties to Grow

Sweet Georgia Brown Onion

Details Day Length Requirement: Short day onion Open-Pollinated: ? Type: ? Shape: ? Color: ? Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: Recommended short day onion (RIEOG) Sources: Results from My Garden:  SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE         […]

Exhibition Onion

Details Day Length Requirement: Long day onion Open-Pollinated: ? Type: ? Shape: ? Color: ? Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: Recommended long day onion (RIEOG) Sources: Results from My Garden:  SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE       […]

Copra Onion

Details Day Length Requirement: Long-day onion Open-Pollinated: ? Type: ? Shape: ? Color: ? Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: Recommended long day onion (RIEOG) Sources: Results from My Garden:  SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE         […]

Oaxacan Pink Tomato

Oaxacan Pink tomatoes from 2011 harvest

Details Lycopersicon esculentum Rare Open-Pollinated Type: indeterminate Shape: flattened, pleated tomatoes Color: light pink Maturity: 75-80 days Size:  6-8 oz (SoC website) 5-7 oz (SoC seed packet) 1-2 oz (my results) Yield: produces well Taste: pretty darn good Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: prone to radial splitting susceptible to Verticillium Notes: selected in 1986 from […]

Nepal Tomato

Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: ? Shape: beefsteak Color: ? Maturity: early season Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: “great taste” (TKG) Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: “good in cool areas” (TKG) Notes: Recommended in The Kitchen Garden Sources: Results from My Garden:  SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE     […]

Myatts Offenham Cabbage

Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: spring cabbage Shape: ? Color: ? Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: Recommended spring cabbage (Grow Vegetables) Sources: Results from My Garden:  SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE 2010               […]

Micado Violettor

Details Lycopersicon esculentum Rare Open-Pollinated: ? Type: indeterminate, potato-leaf type Shape: slicer Color: purple Maturity: 75-85 days Size: 4-6 oz tomatoes Yield: “vigorous vines” Taste: “excellent quality & flavor” just okay flavor, in my trials Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: potato-leaf tomato plants are usually better for hot, sunny climates Notes: Sources: Seeds of Change […]

Mastercut First Early Market 21 Cabbage

Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: spring cabbage Shape: ? Color: ? Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: recommended spring cabbage (Grow Vegetables) Sources: Results from My Garden:  SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE 2010               […]

Martian Giant Tomato

Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: ? Shape: round beefsteak Color: red with very faint strange striping Maturity: 90-100 days Size: 10-16 oz tomatoes (per SoC website) 7-12 oz tomatoes (per SoC seed packet) Yield: ? Taste: “rich…perfect acid/sweet balance, making it an exceptional slicer” Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: Seeds of Change developed this […]

Varieties Template

Details Open-Pollinated Heirloom Type: ? Shape: bumpy ribbed beefsteak Color: red Maturity: ? Size: large Yield: “lots of tomatoes just 2 months after planting out” “good production even in cool summers” Taste: meaty, few seeds, good flavor, smooth texture Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance:  V & F resistance sets fruit at low temperatures Notes: Sources: […]