Root vegetables
Here we list anything that grows below the ground – beets, carrots, parsnip, turnip, radishes, etc..
Beets (Beta vulgaris) - 50 seeds per pkg. – $3.00
201. Detroit Dark Red – 60 days Producing consistent, dark red beets with good size and storage capability. Flavor is robust and sweet.
202. Cylinder – 65 day. NEW FOR 2012!! Long slender beets, good dark red color and flavor, stores very well. Excellent variety of beets for pickles and fresh eating, as well as juicing.
Carrots (Daucus carrota var. sativa) 100 seeds per pkg. approx. – $3.00
New for 2012!
231. Sweet mix – 65-70 days. These seeds provide a mixture of long, large, sweet and flavorful roots that always keep well into April for me. Over-winter roots in the ground for seed the next year.
232. Danvers#2 – 65 days. NEW FOR 2012!! Long tapered carrots that do well in all soil types, sweet and reliable. Good keepers.
233. Vita Treat type – 70 days. NEW for 2012!! Very long carrots with higher vitamin content than regular type. Good for storage, fresh eating and juicing.
234. Long John – 70 days. NEW!! Great carrots for storage and hard soil types. ADanvers type, producing 7-8 inch roots, or longer. Good sweetness.
235. Scarlet Nantes– 70 days. NEW!! Good tapered roots, long 10” roots for compact soils. Sweet and juicy. Limited quantities.
236. Long Mix – 65-75 days. NEW!! Selection of the above varieties of long roots with color and taste in mind. Mixed colors.
238. Baby – 55-60 days. NEW!! Small stubby roots, good for baby carrots, salad and fresh eating. Will store well. Chantenay type.
239. Red Core Chantenay – 60 days. NEW Offering !! Short blunt roots, useful in fresh eating. Stores well.
240. Purple Haze – 65-70 days. NEW Offering this year! I love growing these colorful and tasty roots. They are deep purple, almost black on the outside and a normal carrot color on the inside. They lose the purple on cooking, but are great for fresh eating and surprising visitors. Unique and different, they have excellent storage qualities as well. Enjoy them all summer long.
241. Shorty Mix – Favorite mix of fingerling type early eating carrots. NEW!!
Onion (Allium cepa) 50 seeds – $3.00
350. Kelsey – 90 Days. Limited offering of these good flavored onions. Not the best storage onion, but productive. Start early indoors for fall harvest. Leave in ground over winter for seed production the next year.
351. Home Run – 90 days. A variety of onions open-pollinated in the garden and producing good sized round roots that keep or can be used for fresh use as bunching onions.
352. Norstar Type – 80 days. NEW!! Earlier variety of keeping onions, good size and taste.
353. Copra type – 90 days. NEW!! Good keeping onions that are round and yellow. One of our favorites for years. Sold out
354. Candy type – 90 days. NEW!! Limited availability. For eating or cooking. Does not keep as long as others in this category, but it will keep for a few months. Sold out.
355. Multiplier Onion – 70 days. Seed from the common multiplying onion types. Now you can grow them from seed or keep for future use. See also sets.
356. Superstar type – 70 days. NEW!! A larger variety of white eating onions. They are good keepers, large and juicy.
357. Vespucci – 80 days. NEW!! An Italian heirloom onion, red and juicy. Good for keeping, fresh eating and cooking.
358. Dulce Grande type – 80 days. NEW!! Large variety of eating onion, grows well if seed is started indoors first, 6-10 weeks before last frost. Sold Out.
359. Chives – 50 days from seed. Perennial after that. The common garden green onions, used fresh or dried. Purple flowers produce next years seed stock. Sold out for this year.
360. Garlic Chives – NEW!! 60 days from seeds, perennial thereafter. As with chives, these plants are perennial once started. The leaves are flatter and thicker, with true garlic flavor. Can be added to salads or stir fries. Limited seed for 2012.
361. Welsh Perennial Bunching Onions – 55 days. NEW!! Once started these onions continue in the garden plot, producing like bunching onions and forever seeding for the next years growth. Good sized onions, tall, thin, small white base. Limited quantities.
See also Onion sets
Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) 50 seeds – $3.00
360. Hollow Crown type – 115 days Old favorite makes enormous parsnips that drill down even into the clay pack. Sow in the fall for early spring start. Self seeds second year. Roots can be left in the ground over winter and dug intermittently or left to seed. Do not dig until well past fall, but before winter hard freeze or deep snow.
369. Arrow type – 110 days. NEW!! From commercial source. Seeds produce fine shaped, long roots, smaller than Hollow Crown but store well and taste good.
Radish (Raphanus sativus) 50 seeds per pkg. – $3.00
425. Cherry Belle – 26 days. Limited offering. Typical red skinned white fleshed radish of good holding capacity and flavor. Water in dry years to keep mild.
426. Champion – 26 days. Limited offering. Similar to Cherry Bell, bright red outer flesh and sparkling white interior. Good flavor. Pick small for best flavor and keep well watered. Like to grow in moderate heat.
427. Altaglobe – NEW!! 28 days. Round red roots with sweet firm texture. Great for salad or fresh eating.
Rutabagas & Turnips- 50+ seeds – $3.00 NEW!!
224. Laurentian Turnip/Rutabaga – 90 days. A very good keeping root vegetable, used fresh or cooked and mashed as ‘turnip’ in Christmas dinner preparations. A heritage favorite, this turnip is large, up to 12” across and dark purpley red on top and yellow beneath, yellow flesh.
225. Purple Top Milan– summer turnips. 50-60 days for roots. Some people eat turnip greens in the spring and these provide a quick harvest. Leave the tops to grow and provide nourishment for the smaller two tone roots, purple top, white beneath, with white flesh roots. An open pollinated, French variety providing a good supply of tasty summer turnip without the wait.
Asparagus – 25 seeds per pkg. – $3.00
10. New Jersey Giant – People either love or hate asparagus. If you love it you can never get enough. These seeds will produce shoots in pots the first year, and can overwinter in pots with adequate protection, or be dug in to the garden in late fall. Dig in deeper than you would think, and as they grow, fill in the dirt around the roots gradually every year. Can be harvested at 30% the third year, and then fully on the fourth and subsequent years until the 1st of July. Do not harvest after that, as the roots need to be strengthened for the rest of the season to ensure good survival. Leave the tops also until you are sure all growth is finished for the season or they will dry out and kill the roots. Always harvest asparagus below the surface of the soil for the same reason.
11. Martha Washington – a heritage variety known for its hardiness in our area and production of tender, green shoots in the spring. Grow from seed as above. Expect harvest starting in the third season.
