Getting to the end of the season, and I have most of my seeds ready to pass on for swaps or pass-it-forwards favours. Since the seeds are only available in limited quantities, purple moosage me with your request (and snail mail address to send to) first, so I can check whether I have seed left for you. These were all gathered fresh by me this year either from wild plants or my plants grown here on Skye.
Please be aware if you are outside of the UK there may be problems with restrictions on your country allowing imports of seeds, so any loss in transit is at your risk.
I'm looking for seeds to add to my landrace project, so if you have any saved seeds of Carrots, Parsnip, Broad (fava) beans, Runner beans, Swede (Rutabaga), Peas, leeks, Avena strigosa (blackoats, bristle oats japanese oats), Bere barley, rye, particularly any cool season, quick ripening varieties, we can maybe do a swap.
I have the following seeds available in limited quantities (first come first served):
Ribwort plantain (selected from longer seed heads)
Meadowsweet (filpendula ulmaria)
Udo (Aralia cordata) set berries for the first time this year! So seed gathered fresh this year from my plants
Udo spring shoots
Turkish rocket (Bunias orientalis)
turkish rocket spring leaves
True potato seed x pink fir apple the parent is an early maincrop with elongated waxy tubers.
True potato seed X "Skye blue" the parent is an early maincrop with floury tubers with dark purple skin, white flesh with a purple ring.
Skye blue tubers
Fava beans - wide mix of broad beans grown in close proximity to field beans.
Fava beans - mix of field beans grown in close proximity to broad beans.
some with colourful flowers
Flax X fibre type seed
Black oats (Avena strigosa) - mixture of varieties (no smut this year!)
Rye (Secale Cereale) fulltofta landrace - first year growing this and it did really well for me.
Bere barley (Hordeum vulgare)
rye barley and flax harvest
Ladies mantle (Alchemilla mollis) from Skye native plants
Good evening guys! Blake here to request some stuff from Britain and here's what he's targeting for his gardens next year in America.
1. Medieval German black carrot ( tried to acquire some from a seed company in Texas before a death in their family)
2. Gortark or Glendale cabbage ( need some for my Irish garden next year to commemorate my great grandpa)
3. Londonderry fava beans ( same as for the cabbage)
4. Tippary turnip ( same as above, it's an Irish turnip)
5. Viceroy parsnip (same as above)
6. Red stem leaf celery (same thing)
7. Irish black oats (same as above)
8. Kerry blue potatoes (same as above)
9. Moby Dick yellow cucumber ( trying to use that in my European settler garden next year)
10. More Bere barley ( wanna invest in more to honor the fur traders that passed through my community and settled elsewhere in my region)
11. Dutch Red cabbage ( tried to find those in America, but don't have any)
12. Serbian melon
13. Serbian white sweet pepper
14. Serbian Osmask white corn
15. Serbian giant red sweet pepper
16. Ancient Serbian pole beans
17. Slovenian red onion
18. Serbian onion
19. Early Polish watermelon
20. Gros artichoke
21. Common Flat Dutch cabbage
22. Irish green pea
Those are my targeted crops to grow next year in Chicago to honor my community's past and have done my very best to acquire them although the requirements are too difficult to bring these historic crops into America due to custom issues and things of that nature, and don't know or have anybody to aid me in my efforts to accomplish some of my goals to help my community and region remember their past and culture of their motherlands. Please reach me at my Purple Mooseage to discuss more ways to acquire these historic varieties and overcome the legal hurdles. Good night!
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Nancy Reading
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Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland. Nearly 70 inches rain a year
Maybe, but the story is that the seed came from the a survivors from the Spanish armada in the 16th century. Cabbages and kale do grow remarkably well here, considering the acidic soil - witness my sea cabbage; some of which has survived several winters with me.... Whether anyone still grows the original strain here, I believe not.
Blake - some of my starting seed for my bere barley and black oats did come from Ireland if you would like some? I know US customs are difficult at the moment, but we may get them through if you would like me to try.
Hey Nancy. I'd like some more Bere barley and black oats to advance my restoration of my grandfather's Irish past even though I never knew the full truth to his story. Also like some common Flat Dutch or one of the two giant cabbages, as well as the red stem celery, viceroy parsnip, Tippary parsnip, Londonderry or Celtic fava beans, Irish green peas and a few others if you have those besides the first two you mention. These two historic cabbages are extremely hard to find and obtain as well as a few others. I'm looking to make my Irish garden as historic and authentic as it can so it can resemble the classic motherland. Please share me more details on how I obtain these crops in a secure manner so I can handily have them for the coming growing season. Have a good day.
Can you tell me more about the Dutch cabbages you are looking for?
We've got quite few red cabbages in the Netherlands. They are often named after the area they are grown and so there are several. Would any of those do?
The giant flat Dutch doesn't ring an immediate bell as to it's equivalent in the Netherlands, so it's probably lost its name along the road and been renamed "Dutch" in either UK or America. Any details you can give me and I'll keep a lookout for you.
Nice idea, a settlers veg garden
Edit: looks like marysheirloomseeds is the US has a flat dutch cabbage.
Good morning Marieke! How are you? I'm looking for the classic Dutch red and purple cabbage from the 1600s or 1700s and is large. I've seen those being sold in Australia and New Zealand, but not America. I'm looking for an ancient red one that has stronger and sweeter taste or an Irish landrace of the cabbage as I'm trying to fulfill my grandparents Irish legacy, my great grandma and great great grandfather from my father's side. I'm looking for somebody in Europe who have those and able to send it to the U.S without trouble. Please let me know in the Purple Moosage about what to do to acquire the ancient red cabbages and other Dutch crops being potentially sent to America in the 1800s to escape from religious persecution at the time. My region has Dutch settlers back then and helped blacks escape to Canada from the slavery in America. Thanks!
Sorry! I mean Dutch settlers who at the time were escaping religious persecution back then and crops that have ties to them in America from their native Holland.
There's a mid 1800 heirloom that's still for sale that's Red drumhead. Which from the description is a larger keeping type, so that might work for you.
This seems to be the one that is currently available for sale in Ireland as well, so it may be developed from what you refer to as large Dutch.
The other possibility for you is Langedijker Bewaar, translates roughly to Keeper from Langedijk. Still available in the Netherlands.
If you've seen them in Australia/NZ, it might be worthwhile to find out if they are the same or related to any of the above. And if the NZ/Australia ones are the exact ones you want, you might be better off trying to get some seeds from there.
Let me know of you'd like one of the two named ones above and I'll see about getting some.
Good morning! I'd like the one that's closer to the classic one from the 1600s or 1700s and gives my gardens an medieval feel. Since I made my gardens more indigenous and aboriginal, I want to do the same thing for my European gardens to return them to their authentic and cultural ways for people to remember their motherlands and ancestry more daily. All of this is for edification and inspiration.
Have a good day.
By the way Marieke, I'm also interested in the common Flat Dutch cabbage that's being used as human and animal food and have goats at my community farm. By the way, you have classic Dutch fava beans and rutabagas? Also looking for more Node beans these white ones the Dutch grew years ago. All of these are a major effort to restore my region's European past in Chicago for edification. After I grow that stuff, I'll give some stuff back to folks of European descent to help them remember their ancestors and original homelands as I done with Native Americans and black settlers in my community and other parts of America where some of my family ancestry lie. Have a blessed day!
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