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Transcript of Annadana Catalogue 2008 09
Annadana Soil and Seed Savers
(Regtd Trust: BNG (U) BYP /27 – 2007-2008)
Organic Seed Catalogue July 2008 – April 2009
Annadana Soil and Seed Savers Network Registered office: ‘Ishana’ Gopathi farms, Singapura village, Post Vidyaranyapura,
Bangalore – 560097, Karnataka, India.
Annadana Agro Ecological Center Vilpatty village, Kumburvayal (po), Ganeshpuram road, Kodaikanal – 624104,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Annadana Seed Bank Auroville Botanical Gardens, Auroville, Villupuram (dt) – 605 101
Tamil Nadu, India. Phone ‐ 0413 2622667
E‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.annadana.com
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Dear Friends Annadana is a non‐profit organization, whose registered office is in Bangalore, an Agro‐ecological center at Kodaikanal and a Seed bank at Auroville in Tamil Nadu.
We present to you our fresh and latest collection of time honoured, established open‐pollinated vegetable seeds. We are delighted to share our wide range of heirloom varieties like capsicum, cucurbits, ttuce seed varieties…. and of course our all‐time favorite –
multicolored tomatoes. ladies fingers, corn, le
Prior making your seed selections from our descriptive seed catalogue; we share our purpose to overcome the current ecological, social and economic disasters.
Agriculture collapse ‐ The deep rooted problems associated with hybrid seeds and genetic modified seeds for instance escalating costs, dependence, segregation of characters or traits in the succeeding generations causing nutrition decline, environmental hazards, resistant to pest and diseases, drought and extreme vagaries of nature. The modern agricultural practices are unsustainable as both hybrids and GMO seeds are degenerative and cannot be replicated. They require intense chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmer’s debts and deaths is primarily the outcome of farmers having to adopt these intensive corrosive methods.
Solution providers ‐ We promote integrated organic nutrient management farming practices by increasing soil organic matter and microbial biomass which is a fundamental principle to support agro‐ecosystem stability. Farmers imbibe our soil regeneration techniques and have access to open pollinated seeds that are replicable, varieties strengthened, knowledge sharing is promoted, incomes are raised, production increased, environmental and health protection is improved, natural resources conserved and outward rural migration is reversed thus releasing farmers from debts.
• Our Vision – Control and preserve the natural bio diversity of seed production which is the forefront and central to National food security.
• Our Mission ‐ Ensure self sustainability of marginal farmers by promoting soil fertility, produce replicable organic heirloom seeds, revive the ancient practice of seed saving, sharing, and seed keeping thereby unfold bio – diversity ecologically.
• Our Objective ‐ We continue, learn, adapt and share knowledge. Since 7 years, we have researched, applied and promoted in our centers, farms and gardens, the practice of low cost sustainable farming inputs on a wide range of soil and climate typologies. Some of these are intensive soil regeneration techniques like
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raised beds, composting, systematic green manuring, on‐farm organic growth promoters and immunity boosters, efficient micro organisms and bio pesticides.
• Our Activities ‐ We propagate, conserve, multiply and disseminate open pollinated vegetable seeds, non‐genetically modified, non‐hybrid. Prior to release of our varieties, we multi‐test them in different locations and altitudes in India, after which we carefully select those varieties most suitable for their productivity, resistance, nutritional value, aesthetic features and savoring qualities.
Well‐wishing associations have been requesting us for a way to contribute to our efforts and share our technical expertise. As of July 2008, we introduce membership packages giving you access to technical know‐how acquired over the years, along with complimentary seeds to facilitate farming communities. We encourage you to exchange traditions seeds for us to multiply and share them with farmers. The arduous efforts by our technical team to research, collect, select, conserve, produce, multiply, package and label seeds are a time consuming and back‐breaking process. Please order what is truly required and do not waste seeds. We have enclosed an Annadana Membership Packages with Seed Selection Form July 2008 – April 2009; please revert with your requirements of seeds, based on our descriptive seed list and mail back to us.
“The diversity that feeds the world was created through the exchange of seeds by farmers within and between communities, countries and continents.” (UNFAO)
Why open pollinated varieties of vegetables?
A. Benefit for small farmers. Open pollination induces “varietal purity” that adapts well to low input farming
using organic principles.
The advantages of open pollinated seeds are many: • It insures seeds for the small scale farmers for their next season • Our time established heirloom seed varieties are not suitable to industrial
chemical farming but to small scale farming which rely on crop rotation, crop diversification and systematic varietals mix up of crops from different genetic make up.
• They are characterized by polygenic resistance to pest and diseases being genetically diverse (multi gene resistance) and ensures the farmer against pest outbreak, crop losses, biotic and abiotic stresses.
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• They contain more micro nutrients which combat malnutrition and micro nutrient deficiency in the diet of rural/poor people. They are suited to home gardening which is at the forefront of the struggle against malnutrition and can provide approximately half of the nutritional requirement for the marginalized population.
“Conventional seeds cost the farmers 1/3 of their total investment for Cultivating a crop”.
B. Benefit for the National Food Security • The systematic in situ cultivation of open pollinated varieties, ensure us against
bio diversity losses, conserving myriads of varieties which are essential for food security.
• Open pollinated varieties are the gene pool used for conventional breeding; the native seeds are used to “produce” the new seeds (High Yielding Variety ‐ HYV, Improved variety and Hybrids). Without the traditional variety, no varietal progress is possible and no conventional breeding is possible as they are the base‐ genetic‐ material that conventional breeder use to develop new varieties.
• By conserving open pollinated varieties, we ensure a future seed production “The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimate that more than 90 per cent of crop varieties have disappeared from farmers’ fields in the past 100
years”.
Clarity on Indigenous vegetables varieties We dissect the concept of Indigenous plants, it is appropriate to speak of indigenous forest species of India, Indigenous medicinal plants, Indigenous rice, millet and pulse cultivars and indigenous knowledge ‐ the same parallel cannot be applied to vegetable crops as it makes little practical sense.
For example – if we are to consume vegetables whose origins are only from the Indian sub continent, then we need to bid farewell to a variety of vegetables like potatoes, tomatoes, capsicum, chilies, all of which are from South American origin, to cabbage and cauliflower whose origins are from Western Europe (England; North‐West France), also to chapati, roti, naan and parotha made from wheat (whose origin is from the fertile crescent –Middle East) that makes Indian cooking that much more delicious!
Although we believe in the concept of “vasudeva kutumbakam’, the entire globe as one family, to throw light on what is indigenous to India and avail of her bio‐diversity, then wheat and the above vegetables to exist on few indigenous varieties like paddy, bajra, and few pulses like black, green gram amidst a few others.
Professional breeders, horticulturist and agronomist from the private or government sectors know this fact very well. They rely for their breeding program from genetic resources from planetary heritage and origin. It is our attempt to make available
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wide varieties of vegetables so well relished by our Indian population. Heirloom varieties of vegetables and grains are a vital heritage: they are the key to our food security in the future. Where hundreds of varieties of one crop were once grown, now there may be only two or three!
Annadana Open Pollinated Seeds Catalogue July2008 – April 2009
Amaranth Chilly Ladies Finger Peasant Green leaf Bulldog Hungarian Spice Alabama Red Santiam Red Leaf Cayenne Clemson Spineless Stupice
Habanero Orange Emerald Pink tomato Beans Jalapeno Silver Queen Olirose of St Domingue
Long cow pea Santo Domingo Pueblo Tuticorin Pink of Berne Wing beans Tabasco Short Yellow Black tomato
Lettuce Black Krim Brinjal Corn Cimarron Black Prince
Apple Green Inca Rainbow Orange tomato China Long Martian Purple (sweet) Squash / Pumpkin Auriga
Dark Long Red Pop Corn Purple Spp: Cucurbita maxima Caro Rich Diamond Rainbow Sweet Black Forest Orange Queen
Early Long Purple Buttercup Burgess Yellow tomato Imperial Black Beauty Cucumber Golden Delicious Golden Delight Indonesian Pink Blush Coromandel Coast Green Hokkaido Mountain Gold Long Purple of Napoli Marina de Chioggia Green toamto
Purple Cluster Kiwano More Gold Green sausage Rosita Potimaron Multicolored tomato
Thai Long Green GOURDS Spp: Cucurbita moschata Stripped Abundant Snake gourd Long Nice CHERRY TOMATO
Capsicum Snake gourd short Old Fashioned Red cherry tomato Banana Early Sweet Tromba d’Albenga Tommy Toes
Bull’s Horn Red Bottle gourd Red Pear Calwonder Golden EDIBLE Tomato Washington Cherry
Chinese Giant Cucuzzi Red tomato Pink cherry tomato Goldie Long Edible Burbank Podland Pink
Italian Sweet NON - EDIBLE Bonny Best Yellow cherry tomato Jupiter Bird Nest Double rich Broad Ripple Miniature Chocolate Bell Corsican Flat Early Siberian Galina
Miniature Red Bell Giant High Country Yellow Pear Nu Mex Conquistador Large Dipper Imur Prior Beta
Prima Belle Swan Neck Odessa Watermelon Purple Beauty Orenburg Giant Sugar Baby
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Amaranthus Scientific name: Amaranthus spp
Family: Amaranthaceae
1. Green Leaf A black seeded variety cultivated especially for its leaves. A local variety of amaranth (keerai) with green leaves white striped, hardy plant, self sowing, which can reach 1 m in height. The inflorescence is pale green, yellowish. The leaves are extremely nutritious. 2. Red Leaf A white seeded variety cultivated mainly for its seeds. A local variety of amaranth (keerai) is inflorescent with beautiful dark red leaves. Vigorous growth, the plant can reach 2 m in height. The leaves are extremely nutritious.
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Beans Scientific name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Family: Fabaceae 1. Long Cow Pea Long thin Beans from 20 to 30 cms long growing in bunches. Plant is a climber, very productive, adapts better to warm climates. Beans are very delicious when harvested tender. 2. Wing Beans A very hardly local bean which displays 4 wings. It produces very long beans up to 10 to 30 cm long, nevertheless the young beans only are harvested for cooking.
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Brinjal Scientific name: Solanum melongena
Family: Solanaceae 1. Apple Green This fine variety is very early and perfect for cool climate, although it does well in warm climate. The ovals to round fruits are light green in colour, and weigh around 120gms. The flesh is white, tender and mild‐flavored. The skin is very thin and does not need to be peeled. Good for cooking as the fruit bear few seeds. The plant grows 60‐90cms tall and is pretty productive.
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2. China Long This unusual variety produces 15 to 20 cm long black‐purple fruits which taper to a sword‐like point. The flesh is white, very tender and of nice flavor. This vigorous and productive plant is disease resistant. This variety is originally from China. It is also known as “Chinese Long Sword” or “Chinese long”.
3. Dark Long Red
This variety produces fruits of 10 cm long and 3‐4cm in diameter. They are born in clusters. The skin is purple and turn into golden yellow often maturity. The one meter plants are vigorous, drought resistant and producti 4. Diamond This very early variety produces 30 cm long dark purple fruits weigh around 170 g and have an excellent texture and flavour. The flesh is firm without bitterness. The plants are 45‐60 cm tall. 5. Early Long Purple The long slender fruits are about 30 cm in length and 8 ‐ 10 cm in diameter. The skin is dark violet. The flavor is excellent. The plants are bushy and productive and up to one meter high.
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6. Imperial Black Beauty This popular variety produces between 4 and 6 fruits (even more when they are regularly harvested). The fruits are round, oval and black and weight between 400 and 1200 g. They keep very well and they do not have the usual spiky stems. The plants grow to a little under a meter and so some support is required.
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er. This ariety is originally from China. It is also known as “Chinese”.
kin is lavender purple. he flesh is one of the whitest and sweetest of all.
frosts. The flowers are deep lavender with green soft spineless caly
7. Indonesian Pink Blush The fruits are oblong and 15 cm long. The skin is pink. The fleshy fruits reach an appreciable size and a weight of 150 gr. Good flavor. The plant grows 70 to 80 cm tall. 8. Long Purple of Napoli The slender fruits are about 20 cm in length and 5‐8 cm in diameter. The skin is violet. The plants are bushy and productive up to 1 meter h 9. Purple Cluster This variety is very productive of black purple fruits born in cluster of 4, each pretty fruit of 10 to 15 cm long are only 3 cm in diametv 10. Rosita The fruits in a drop shape are 20 cm long. The sT 11. Thai long Green
The fruits are 30 ‐ 35 cm long, slender and cylindrical. The thin skin is light green. The flesh is tender and mild. The plants are hardy, vigorous, drought resistant and productive. They are 60 cm tall and mostly spineless or soft ‐ spine. They tolerate light
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Capsicum Scientif nuum
amily: Solanaceae
ket garden. Compact and a heavy producer of upto 50 fruits per lant.
resembling e horn of a bull. They are very juicy and delicious.
ry long season. The leafy good scald protection.
d compact. This variety is absolutely perfect for making stuffed peppers.
utiful variety, compact and productive. Excellent for market arden.
ety is resistant to aic virus. Excellent for market garden.
ic name: Capsicum anF
1. Banana Early Sweet The tapering wax fruits are 12‐15cm long. They start out pale green, ripening to yellow and then red. The flesh is sweet and mild. Excellent for marp 2. Bull’s Horn Red The vigorous and branching plants produce good yields of 15‐22cm long by 4 cm wide sweet peppers. The fruits turn from green to gorgeous red when mature. They taper to a curved point,th 3. Cal Wonder Golden The 3‐4 lobed bell peppers grow to 10 cm by 10 cm. They turn from green to red when mature. The flesh is thick and crisp and the flavor is sweet. The 70 cm tall plants are tobacco mosaic virus resistant and produce an abundance of fruits over a veplants habit provides 4. Chinese Giant The giant bell‐shaped fruits are blocky and measure up to 15 cm across by 12 cm deep. They are green when young and mature to a dark cherry red. The flesh is thick, sweet and mild. The plants are bushy an
5. Goldie The 8‐ 12 cm long bell pepper may weigh up to 120 g. They mature from green to yellow to orange to bright red. The plants are 50 cm tall. It is a beag 6. Italian Sweet The 15cm long fruits turn red when fully mature. The flesh is not very thick. The flavour is sweet and delicious. The varitobacco mos
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7. Jupiter This variety produces good yields of large 4 lobed sweet bell peppers, which turn from green to red when fully mature. They locky and have thick walls. The vigorous and upright plall.
m long. They are reen turning brown when fully ripe. The flesh is thick and very sweet. he plants are 40cm tall and may bear up to 60 fruits.
e 5cm long. They are reen turning red when fully ripe. The flesh is thick and very sweet. The lants are 40cm tall and may bear up to 60 fruits.
ick flesh and are very tasty. They can be arvested when green or red, at full maturity. The plants are 60‐80 cm ll. Very productive variety.
een turning bright red when lly mature. Flesh is thick walled and sweet. The variety is resistant to bacco mosaic virus. A beautiful variety.
d are thick walled and meaty. They ripen from green to dark urple, and to deep red when fully mature. They turn green when ooked.
are extremely nts are 70 cm b
ta 8. Miniature Chocolate Bell It is a miniature bell pepper. The 2‐3 lobed fruits are 5cgT 9. Miniature Red Bell It is a miniature bell pepper. The 2‐3 lobed fruits argp 10. Nu‐Mex Conquistador The 16cm long fruits have a thhta 11. Prima Belle The large blocky 3 to 4 lobed fruits are grfuto 12. Purple Beauty The 4 lobed fruits are 9 cm wide by 9 cm long. They have a mild sweet flavor anpc
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Chilly Scientific name: Capsicu & C. frutescens
Family: Solanaceae
hot. This early variety matures fast d makes great paprika powder.
red pepper akes and ground pepper. A well known branded variety.
ly raw as it loses its subtle texture, when ooked. A well known branded variety.
climates. The plant may grow to 1m. A well nown branded variety.
produce 8 cm long fruits hich turn from green to red when ripe.
e when mature. The plant is 1m high. A well known branded variety.
m annum, Capsicum chinense,
1. Bulldog Hungarian Spice The fruits are double lobed and tend to measure 15 cm in length. They are smooth, pendant and deep burgundy when fully ripe. The flavour is sweet and spicy and may be mildlyan 2. Cayenne The 10‐15cm long, slim, tapering fruits turn red when ripe. The plant may reach 1 meter. This variety is used to make crushedfl 3. Habanero Orange Very aromatic flavorful variety. The fruits turn from green to orange when mature. This variety grows into vigorous 1 meter large‐leaved plants and is specifically recommended for areas with long hot summers. It is eaten mainc 4. Jalapeno The conical‐shaped fruits are thick walled and juicy and measure 5‐7.5 cm long. They are red when fully mature. It is the perfect variety for stuffing. The smoked chipotle peppers are made from this. This variety is totally adapted to cool k 5. Santo Domingo Pueblo These plants grow up to 1 meter high andw 6. Tabasco Short yellow Yellow, a very hot variety, the 2.5 cms long fruits turn from yellowish‐green to yellowish‐orang
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Corn Scientific name: Zea mays
Family: Graminae 1. Inca Rainbow One of our very favorite varieties of sweetcorn. The fresh kernels are white and yellow. The cobs are 30 cm long and are totally multicolored when fully mature. The stem of this plant can reach 3 meters and is sometimes coloured red. A spectacular variety developed by Alan Kapuler in USA. 2. Martian Purple This highly recommended sweet corn is purple. 3. Pop Corn Purple A very unique and original variety with 12‐30 cm long cobs. Every Kernel of the corn and each cob is covered by a tiny husk or glumes. The colour of the glumes on each ear can be delicious white, cream, red, brown or purple. 4. Rainbow Sweet The fresh kernels are white and yellow. The cobs are 30cm long and are totally multicolored when fully mature. The stem of this plant can reach 3 meters and is sometimes colored red.
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Cucumber Scientific name: Cucumis sativus
Family: Cucurbitaceae 1. Coromandel Coast The 15 to 20 cm long fruits are light green, very sweet, even the over mature fruit are fully edible juicy and crisps. A vigorous producer.
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Kiwano Scientific na metulliferus
The fruits are very juicy with green esh. The skin is very thin, coloured
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Scie cucumerina
1. Snake Gourd Short rows upto 3‐5 meters. The fruit is about 20‐25
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Scientif ceraria
dible Gourds
er long fruits are edible. They are best harvested when 30cm
. Long Edible local variety of gourd can reach 60 cm long and 10cm
me: CucumisFamily: Cucurbitaceae fl
yellow and green turning to red‐bronze at maturity. It is cultivated like melon or cucumber and can be trained up a trellis. Good resistance to drought.
Snake gourd ntific name: Trichosanthes
Family: Cucurbitaceae
The plant is a climber gcm in length and 4‐7 cm in diameter. One plant can produce about 10‐15 fruits.
Bottle gourds ic name: Lagenaria si
Family: Cucurbitaceae
E1. Cucuzzi The one metlong, like zucchini. The long dry fruits look like snakes. This heirloom variety is originally from Italy.
2The fruits of thisdiameter. The skin is light green almost white. The taste is sweet.
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Non – Edible Gourds 3. Bird Nest The fruits are 35cm tall in the shape of a bottle. 4. Corsican Flat The fruits are round and flattened. They range in size from 15 to 20 cm in diameter. This heirloom variety is originally from Corsica, France. 5. Giant The fruits are 70 cm in the shape of a big drop. 6. Large Dipper The fruits are round with a straight handle. 7. Swan Neck The fruit, medium sized, can take a shape of a bird, especially if you grow it on the ground.
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Ladies finger Scientific name: Abelmoschus esculentus
Family: Malvaceae
1. Alabama Red This variety yields abundant harvests of deep red fruits, which are 7‐10 cm long. The stems are red and the leaves are green with red veins. Best to harvest at early stages. 2. Clemson Spineless The very vigorous plants may grow upto 1m‐1m60. The fruits are deep‐green, smooth, pointed and slightly ribbed. They are 15 ‐ 18 cm long. (Variety also known as “Spineless”).
3. Emerald The fruits are dark green, smooth, spineless and perfectly round. They grow to 18‐20 cm. The plants have vigor and may reach 2 meters. 4. Silver Queen The fruits are pale green, rounded, 15 cm long and great flavor. The plants have vigor and wide spreading and reach 2 meters in height.
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5. Tuticorin This variety has green coloured fruit. Good for the Coromadel coast climate.
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Lettuces Scientific name: Lactuca sativa
Family: Asteracea
1. Cimarron The leaves are a wonderful mix of green, red and bronze. They are loosely folded on heads and are very tender. The heads are 25 cm tall.
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Squash Scientific name: Cucurbita spp
Family: Cucurbitaceae Cucurbita maxima 1. Black Forest It is an early maturing type. The medium‐dry, dark‐orange flesh is rich and sweet. The green, flattened, round fruits are similar in size to buttercup and 12‐16cm in diameter. Each vine produces 4 or 5 fruits which weigh 1 to 2 kg. This variety is an excellent keeper. 2. Buttercup Burgess The fruits are shaped like a flattened turban with a blossom end button. They range from 1,5 to 2.5 kg. The orange flesh has fine flesh with a rich and sweet flavour. This variety produces an average of 4 fruits per plant. Under optimum conditions, the vines can reach 5 meters and each plant can set 20 or more fruits! The rind is dark green with slight ribs.
3. Golden Delicious One of our favorite. It is a smooth skinned variety of Golden Hubbard. The fruits are heart shaped and weigh from 3 to 8 kg. Their rind is shiny red ‐ orange. The flesh is very smooth, fine textured and orange. The flavor is delicious and the vitamin C content is very high. Each vine can produce 2 to 4 fruits. It is a good keeper. This variety is frequently used for baby food. Excellent for market garden.
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4. Green Hokkiado Each plant of this variety bears 1 to 3 grey‐green fruits, which average 1‐2.5 kg. The yellow flesh is very sweet, non‐fibrous and dry. The fruits keep excellent for up to 1 year. 5. Marina di Chioggia A magnificient variety. The vigorous vines produce large turban shaped fruits that are dark‐green or green‐ bronze with numerous ribs formed by deep grooves. They weigh around 5 kg. The rich, sweet flesh is a deep yellow‐orange, of good quality, delicious when baked or in pies. 6. More Gold The fruits are slightly flattened in the shape of a drum. They are very uniform in size with a very small seed cavity. They weigh 2 to 2.5 kg. Their colour is bright orange with indistinct salmon stripes. The flesh is smooth orange and highly flavoured. The fruit in full maturity has high quality but the immature fruits may be eaten. This variety keeps good for 100 days. (Variety also knows as “Moore Gold”). 7. Potimarron The beautiful red‐orange fruits have a chestnut flavor. They average 2‐4 kg. The flesh is orange,sweet and delicious. A good keeper,from 4 to 8 months. Cucurbita moschata 8. Long Nice The very fine flavoured fruits can attain 1 meter in length! They can be eaten young or at full maturity. Their weight ranges from 2 to 10 kgs and their diameter from 10 to 18 cm. The skin is pale green and ochre at maturity. The orange flesh is firm, slightly musky and slightly sweet. Excellent for market garden and highly recommended. (Variety also known as “Longue de Nice”). 9. Old Fashioned. Big Oval fruits weighing 6 to 15 kg. Ochre skin with Orange flesh, very delicious. Variety with a very vigorous growth. (Variety also know as “Old Fashioned Tenesee Viking).
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10. Tromba d’Albenga The fruits, variously twisted with a bulbous end, can grow upto 1 meter long and may be harvested anytime, from just 10cm through their full size. They turn from light yellow‐green to tan when fully ripe. The flesh is bright orange, rich and is very sweet. The nutty flavour is wonderful. The fruits can be steamed, grilled or sliced raw. Excellent for market garden and highly recommended.
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Tomato Scientific name: Lycopersicon lycopersicum, Lycopersicon esculentum
Family: Solanaceae Red Tomatoes 1. Burbank This is very sweet and juicy, heavy yielder. The fruits are 100 gms in weight and have a very deep red colour. This variety combines disease resistance, high in amino acids with high productivity. Excellent for market garden and highly recommended. 2. Bonny Best This variety requires no staking. The fruits are medium size, 150‐200 g, round, with a bright red colour and very firm flesh. It is an ancient variety that is particularly adapted to the colder regions. It is very vigorous and productive and has sparse foliage.
3. Double Rich The fruits weigh up to 500 g and have twice as much vitamin C than most tomatoes, that is as much as an orange ( from 50 –60 units of vitamin C when the normal for tomatoes is from 12‐ 25 units). The flesh is firm and has few seeds. It is well adapted to regions with a short season. It is delicious and productive; a good variety for juicing and for conserves. 4. Early Siberian This variety bears clusters of 10 or more medium sized fruit. Very good to excellent flavour for an early tomato. Compact flesh, keeps well. Indeterminate growth. This variety is originally from Siberia.
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5. High Country Each single plant produces over 100 tasty scarlet fruits which average 90 gms. The growth is determinate.
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6. Imur Prior Beta The plants are adapted to short seasons and high altitudes. This is a potato leaf variety with indeterminate growth. The fruits average 60 g. This variety was developed in Norway. 7. Odessa The compact plant produces 20 to 30 fruits which are juicy and average 120 to 180 g. The growth is determinate. This variety is originally from Odessa in Ukraine. 8. Orenburg Giant Nearly round, beautiful crimson fruit weighs from 300 to 1200 gm. Wonderful mild sweet flavour. Growth is indeterminate. 9. Peasant The plants will set 100 classic roma‐shaped tomatoes from each plant. The 100g fruits with thick walls are nevertheless fresh and juicy with a very good flavour. Also makes good sauce. 10. Santiam The red and round fruits average 120 gm and have a rich and excellent flavour. The plants are resistant to fusarium and verticillium. The growth is determinate. 11. Stupice The 1m20 tall, potato‐leaf plants are loaded with 60 gm fruits, borne in clusters of 6 to 8. The juicy fruits have a depth of flavor with a wonderful balance of sweetness and tartness. They ripen to red, with an orange undertone, with some tendency for green shoulders later in the season. The variety is blight resistant. The growth is indeterm
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Pink Tomatoes 12. Olirose of St Dominque The vigorous vines give abundant harvests of pink, oval shaped, medium sized fruits. The flavor is very sweet and rich. The variety is well adapted to adverse conditions. Indeterminate growth. 13. Pink of Berne The 180‐240gms dark pink fruits are shaped like a perfect globe, smooth and round and very productive. They are juicy and have a very thin skin and soft flesh. The flavour is delicious. Indeterminate growth. (variety also know as “ Rose de Berne”). Black Tomatoes 14. Black Prince The plants stay fairly small, but are loaded with deep garnet 5cm round fruits. These nice slicers are very juicy and have incredibly rich fruity flavour. The colour of the flesh varies from dark red to a translucent chestnut brown. The fruits should be harvested when the shoulders are dark and still showing a trace of green. Indeterminate growth. 15. Black Krim The fruits ripen from deep mahogany to black‐brown. The colour develops best when the weather is sunny. The 350‐500 gm fruits have a deep reddish‐brown flesh with a green tint and a green gel around the seeds. They are richly flavoured with a hint of saltiness and smokiness. This variety is productive and slightly prone to cracking. Indeterminate growth. Orange Tomatoes 16. Auriga The fruits are of bright orange colour with a firm flesh and thick skin. Compact and productive. 17. Caro rich A 120‐150 gms deep orange fruits which offer a extremely high level of provitamin A: 10 times as mush as most other tomatoes. This variety is delicious and very productive. Highly recommended. Indeterminate growth.
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18. Orange Queen This variety is a heavy producer of bright orange fruits of 120‐180 gms and of beefsteak type. The flavour is sweet. Excellent for market garden and highly recommended. Determinate growth. Yellow Tomatoes 19. Golden Delight One of the very best early yellow tomatoes. The fruits of 90‐120g have few seeds. The flavour is sweet. This variety has thick skin resistant to splitting. It is compact, vigorous with determinate growth. 20. Mountain Gold The fruits are uniform, deep yellow‐orange, and very large. They are mild and resistant to splitting. The variety is very vigorous and resistant. A beautiful variety. Determinate growth. Green Tomatoes 21. Green Sausage The 8‐10 cm fruits have the shape of a sausage or a small banana. They weigh about 50 to 70 gms. Compact and very productive plant. Unusual variety. Determinate growth. Multi ‐ colored Tomatoes 22. Striped Abundant This variety is highly productive of 5cm diameter round reddish orange fruits. They have clearly defined yellow‐orange stripes and have a rich tangy flavour. Indeterminate growth. Excellent for market garden. (variety know also as “ Mr.Stripped”. Cherry Tomatoes ‐ Red cherry tomato 23. Tommy Toes The plants have the wild tomato look and produce apricot‐sized fruits on trusses of 6‐10 fruits each. Rather late‐maturing for a cherry, but they have an excellent full rich tomato flavour and a bright red colour. Also said to be resistant to early and late blight. Much appreciated by children as “garden candy”. Indeterminate growth.
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24. Red Pear The plants tend to sprawl all over the place and are loaded with large clusters of red pear shaped fruits. Growth is indeterminate. Excellent for market garden, highly productive. Much appreciated by children as “garden candy”. 25. Washington Cherry The vigorous vines produce an abundance of big cherry tomatoes which average 25‐30 gms. Their flesh is dense and great flavour. They keep well. A well know branded variety. Excellent for market garden and highly recommended. Pink Cherry Tomatoes 26. Podland Pink The vigorous vines produce abundant trusses of small oblong fruits. The fruits have a unique colour: they turn from pale yellow to pink when fully ripe. This variety is fully drought resistant. Excellent for market garden and highly recommended. Yellow Cherry Tomatoes 27. Broad Ripple This variety produces hundreds of tiny orange‐ yellow cherry tomatoes. A heavy producer of unusual cherry tomatoes. Highly recommended. Indeterminate growth. 28. Yellow Pear The plants are loaded with hundreds of small 2‐4 cm long yellow pear ‐shaped fruits. They are delightfully sweet, very much appreciated by children as “garden candy”. This variety is fairly cold tolerant and bears fruits up to the frost. Indeterminate growth. 29. Galina This early variety produces heavy clusters of round golden yellow cherry tomatoes. The flavour is complex, sweet and acidic in the same time. The plants are very vigorous. Indeterminate growth. This variety is originally from Siberia.
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Watermelon Scientific name: Citrullus lanatus
Family: Cucubitaceae
1. Sugar Baby The vines grow to 2 meters and set 4‐6 fruits roughly 15‐20 cm across. It is one of the sweetest and earliest melons with very small seeds. The hard rind turns green‐black when ripe. The flesh is red.
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us to conserve them and make them available to others.
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