Thursday, May 22, 2008

Seeds. Seeds. Wonderful Seeds.

05/16/08

My plea for seeds has been answered. Suddenly I now have a cornucopia of seeds from numerous sources. Thank you all.

Now besides seeds for the cash vegetables of Bok Choy, head cabbage, cucumbers, peanuts, Samoan Pumpkin, and long beans, which I know Samoans will eat and buy, I have seeds and/or now growing the following: (Those in Italics are either currently or have been under cultivation, not all successfully. Non-hybrid varieties may produce viable seeds for other farmers):

Leafy Green Vegetables
Bok Choy Hybrid, La’au Pele, head cabbage, head lettuce, Italian Endive and two types of Italian Cicoria (type of head cabbage), Silver Beet, Rocket, Broccoli, Celery
Legumes
Long Beans, Broad Beans, Pigeon Beans, Winged Beans, Short Beans, Butter Beans, Snow Peas, Peanuts
Corn
Samoan Sweet , Honey Sweet, Golden Bantam, Sun and Snow, Hybrid Sweet
Herbs
Basal, Coriander
Onions
Bunching, Spring, Leeks
Peppers/Tomatoes
Sweet Bell and Chili Peppers; Roma, Cherry, Beefsteak, and Moneymaker Tomatoes
Root Vegetables
Baby Carrots, Oriental White Radish
Melons
Hybrid Cantaloupe and the following varieties of watermelons: Charleston Grey, County Sweet, Crimson Sweet
Pumpkin/Squash
Samoan Pumpkin (unknown variety)
Cucumber
Moneymaker, Samoan (unknown variety)

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