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Crops of the Dutch settlers

 
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Evening folks! I'm looking for some historic ones from Holland from the 1600s to the 1850s after the Dutch landed in America by ship. I know there's a red onion, brown beans and a few others from North Holland, but looking for more as I explore ways to help restore my region's past from an horticultural perspective. You all heard of the early scarlet horn carrot before? Tried to find more seeds of that thing since the Dutch had ties to my region of my hometown. If any of you are from the Netherlands, please let me in post boxes below. My region has an underground railroad site to honor the memory of a Dutch man for saving slaves from bondage by their plantain owners in the South. Please help me keep history alive not only from my community in Chicago, but everywhere as well. Much love to all.
 
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The Dutch settled New York and New Jersey (The Garden State!) very early on. While trying to find answers to your interesting question of Dutch settlers' crops, I found a source for the related, opposite answer, what was already here when they got to America, and thought you might find it helpful:
Vegetation of Northern New Jersey Before European Settlement
 
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Cool! Any more types of potatoes and onions? I'm concentrating on the Midwest right now from the 1840s to the 1850s for the Dutch. Anything grown during these time periods?
 
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Two more useful academic journal links:
  • Agricultural Wetland Use and Management in the Dutch-Settled Northeast, 1620 to 1800
  • Indian Corn and Dutch Pots: Seventeenth-Century Foodways in New Amsterdam/New York
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    NOTE: Just wanted to bring up the fact that the Dutch who settled New York, New Jersey, etc., were really from the Netherlands,
                                                                                            ---whereas---
    the "Pennsylvania Dutch" are really the "Pennsylvania Deutsch" and of German heritage.
     
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    Have you all planted the early scarlet horn carrot which came from the 1600s by the Dutch? I've tried to grow some from my greenhouse, but came up short. How I plant carrots in the spring or fall for respectable results?
     
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