Nero di toscona kale also goes by these other names: Cavolo Nero, Dino or Dinosaure kale, Tuscan Kale, Palm Tree Cabbage or Kale, Black Cabbage, Lacinato Kale. i know it most commonly as Dinosaur Kale and Lacinato Kale. Folks here grow it as a perennial, some plants are 2 years old! Always thought Kale was kind of tough and leathery but a friend just attended a vegan cooking class where a dish called 'Massaged Kale Salad' was prepared. She assures me it was tender and delicious sans cooking. i just purchased seeds yesterday and will be planting some soon. i placed a small order with PineTree a few weeks ago and was looking at the orange chard, very pretty! Ended up getting the usual 'Bright Lights' mix. i prefer a smooth leaved chard and Bright Lights comes the closest. In 9a you might get weather chilly enough to grow Mache or Corn Salad. i haven't been able to get it to sprout, suspect my soil temps might be too warm. A little off topic but want to add that i included something called Tronchuda Cabbage in my order. i think it might be the Portugese Cabbage that can still be found growing in some older neighborhoods. i am looking forward to comparing it with Kojisan 'Senposai' (an open leaved cabbage/komatsuna cross) from Evergreen Seeds. i enjoy supporting PineTree. They offer a nice selection of old standbys as well as a few more obsure, interesting varieties at good prices.

Chandra, As someone else already said, wait and see what you get in the swap. I bet there will be a variety of colors. And, to echo what Dorothy said, in our climate, it gets too hot too early for the shelling peas to give us enough of a harvest to make growing them worthwhile. Snap peas provide a big harvest most years. (Last year, with only Sugar Snap and Super Sugar Snap planted, I harvested 35 lbs. over about a 3 to 5 week period, and filled up one section of the freezer with them. I have been growing, "an edible rainbow" in my garden, ever since reading several of the books in Rosalind Creasy's Edible Rainbow Gardening series in the late 1990s or early 2000s. To add to what you already have, there's also these: CARROTS: White: White Satin, White Belgian, Snow White, Lunar White Red: Atomic Red Yellow: Jaune Obtuse Du Doubs LETTUCE: Yellow: Australian Yellow Green/Red Speckled: Flashy Trout Back, Forellenschuss For The Funniest Lettuce Name Ever: Drunken Woman RADISHES: Yellow: Helios Black winter type: Round Black Spanish, Long Black Spanish Other winter types (and their color is in their name): China Rose, Chinese Green, Chinese Red Meat PEAS: For what it is worth, my experiences are like Dorothy's in that shelling types do not produce enough peas to make growing them worthwhile. We get too hot too early for them to have a chance to make many peas. By contrast, the edible podded peas gave me 35 lbs. of snap peas last year. Peas in interesting colors: Yellow: Opal Creek Yellow, Golden Sweet, Golden India Edible Pod Pea Blue, dwarf: Desiree Dwarf Blauwschokkers Blue, pole: Blauschokker Podded Pea Pink: "Spring Blush" BEETS: White: Albino BEANS: Yellow: Soleil Filet Purple Roma Type: Sequoia LONG BEAN: Chinese Red Noodle Chinese Mosaic (pinkish-red mottled) EGGPLANT: Green: Apple Green, Lao Green Stipe, Louisiana Long Green Dark Purple: Black Beauty, Little Fingers Orange: Cookstown Orange, Turkish Orange Red: Korean Red White: Thai White Ribbed Bi-Color: Rosa Bianca, Listada de Gandia, Pandora Striped Rose CUKES: Green: endless varieties available, including Straight 8, H-19 Little Leaf, Spacemaster, County Fair, Marketmore Yellow: Lemon, Jaune Dickfleischige, Large Dutch Yellow White: White Wonder Brownish or Reddish: Sikkim, Poona Kheera SQUASH (SUMMER): Yellow: Early Prolific Straightneck, Lemon, Golden Zucchini Green: Cocozelle, Bennings Green Tint, Ronde de Nice White: Odessa, Lebanese Bush Marrow Purple: Black Beauty zucchini Bi-colored: Patisson Panache Blanc Et Vert, Patisson Strie Melange (mix of several bicolored ones) SQUASH (WINTER): White/Pale Tan: Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash Green: Marina di Chioggia, True Green Hubbard, Black Futtsu, Yokohama Red: Turk's Turban or Turk's Cap, Red Kuri, Red Warty Thing Orange: Gill's Golden Pippin Blue: Blue Hubbard, Queensland Blue, Jarradale Brown/light brown/buff: Musquee de Provence, Seminole, Long Island Cheese Pink: Jaune Gros de Paris (often described as a yellow, but skin is more pink than yellow), Australian Butter HOT PEPPERS: There are so many, and I chose mine first by type, then by color within the type, but here's a few: Chinese Red, Caribbean Red Habanero, Peach Habanero, Lemon Drop, Fatali (yellow), Thai Red Chili, Thai Yellow Chili, Bulgaria Carrot, Fish Pepper (has variegated foliage and variegated peppers), Brown Habanero, White Habanero SWEET PEPPERS: Yellow: Corno di Toro Giallo, Quadrato D'Asti Giallo, Golden Cal Wonder, Heavyweight, Golden Marconi Red: Corno di Toro Rosso, Quadrato D'Asti Rosso, Red Marconi, Chinese Giant Purple: Purple Beauty, Purple Jalapeno, Purple Cayenne Brown: Sweet Chocolate Bell, Chocolate Bell, Chocolate Mini Bell Orange: Orange Bell, Valencia, Yummy Orange MELONS: Green Flesh: Eden Gem, Green Machine, Jenny Lind, Green Nutmeg Orange/Salmon Flesh: Pike, Hale's Best Jumbo, Old-Time Tennessee, Sleeping Beauty Golden Rind: Golden Sweet, Golden Honeymoon (honeydew), Gaucho Bi-Color: Tigger, Rich Sweetness 123 WATERMELON: White/Cream: Cream of Saskatchewan, White Sugar Lump, White Wonder Yellow: Yellow Doll, Yellow Baby, Moon & Stars Yellow Flesh, Tiny Orchid Orange: Orange-flesh Tendersweet, Orangeglo Red: Blacktail Mountain, Crimson Sweet, Sugar Baby, Moon & Stars Pink/Pinkish-Red: Osh Kirgizia, Black-seeded Ice Cream For Golden Rind: Golden Midget, Royal Garden SUMMER GREENS: Malabar Spinach, Aurora Orach, New Zealand Spinach, Purslane, Golden Purslane CABBAGE: Red: Mammoth Red Rock, Red Acre Green: Early Jersey Wakefield, Caraflex, Savoy Express SWISS CHARD (cool and warm season, if continually picked): Neon Lights (color mix) Bright Lights (color mix) Five Color Silverbeet (color mis) Perpetual Spinach chard Orange Chiffon Golden Sunrise OKRA: Red: Alabama Red, Hill Country Red, Burgundy Red, Little Lucy (dwaf) Orange: Jing Orange Green: many many, including Stewart's Zeebest, Green Velvet, Clemson Spineless 80, Cowhorn, Baby Bubba (dwarf) Bi-Color: Eagle Pass, Pitre Short Bush Red Cowhorn TURNIP: Yellow: Boule D'Or, Golden Globe White: Early Flat White, Shogoin, White Egg Purple/White Bicolor: Purple Top White Globe Red: Round Red SWEET CORN: White: Country Gentleman, Silver Queen Yellow: Golden Bantam, Kandy Korn Yellow/White: Honey & Pearl, Peaches & Cream Blue: Jade Blue Red: Ruby Queen Black: Aztec Black POPCORN: Red Strawberry Mini-Blue Dakota Black KALE: Black: Italiano Nero Toscana Red: Red Winter, Red Russian, Ragged Jack, Redbor Blue (dark blue-green): Dwarf Blue Curled BUNCHING ONIONS: Red: Italian Red of Florence, Red Baron F-1 White: White Lisbon, Beltsville Bunching Purple: Mini Purplette Bunching OTHER GREENS: Amaranth Edible Red Leaf Mache Corn Salad Common Sorrel Bok Choy Tatsoi Strawberry Spinach (Chenopodium) Dandelion Lambsquarters Magentaspreen Lambsquarters Miner's Lettuce MUSTARD (for leaves, not seeds): Red Giant Ruby Streak Southern Giant Curled (green) Mizuna Dawn

LOWERS: •ACHILLEA/YARROW: • 'Heidi'***** • 'Moonshine'**** • 'Paprika'*****, • 'Peachy Seduction'**** • **any wine, burgundy, coral/apricot or pink shades •AGASTACHE: (ANY rose, hot pink, salmon, orange or yellow would fit in perfectly in my garden design!) • Ava********** • Black Adder** • Bolero******** • Double Bubble Mint**** • Firebird**** • Glowing Embers**** •Pallidiflora** • Purple Pygmy**** • Tango******** •AGERATUM: • Leilani***** •AGYRANTHEMUM: Molimba, or any PINK please**** •ALCEA 'Pastorale'**** •AMMI VISNAGA: Green Mist****** •AMMOBIUM ALATUM Winged Everlasting •ANEMONE: ANY!! This is my new great interest! (have Snowdrop) •ANGELONIA: White****, Serena Lavender**, Serena Lavender Pink** •AQUILEGIA see COLUMBINE •ARTEMESIA: Variegated*** •ASCLEPIAS/MILKWEED: • Asclepias Physocarpa aka Goose Milkweed*** • Asclepias Purpurascens aka Purple Milkweed** • Asclepias Sullivantii aka Smooth Milkweed or Prairie Milkweed**** • Blue Vined aka Honey Vine aka Sand Vine • Green Comet** • Ice Ballet** • Milk Maid*** • Poke** • SoulMate** • TWEEDIA************ •ASTERS: • Aster Cordifolius***** • 'Heartleaf' • 'Mary Gregory' • 'Opus'************ • 'Peachie's Pink'**** • 'Smooth'*** • 'Sky Blue'**** • 'White Woodland' Aster Divaricatus • ******any Fall flowering lovelies you'd like to share! •ASTILBE: ANY!!!!!!! fresh current year seed only please, I've not had any luck at all getting any to germinate so far. :( Looking for any pinks, and white mostly pls! •ASTILBOIDES TABULARIS*** •BACOPA: Snowtopia*** (white) •BAMBOO, CHOCOLATE: Fargesia Fungosa (from tradewinds) •BAPTISIA: 'Twilight' •BEE BALM / MONARDA: • Beauty of Cobham**** • Cambridge Red*** • Colrain Red**** • Emmy's Pink**** • Fireball**** • Jacob Kline**** • Pink Lace** • Raspberry Wine***************************** • **ANY pure White, Deep Red or Scarlet colors, please no light pink or purples, Bergamo**** •BEGONIA: • Dragon Wing Pink**** • GoGo Appleblossom*** • GoGo Cherry*** • GoGo Light Yellow*** • Gryphon************ • Illumination Apricot Shades********* • Illumination Golden Picotee****** • Illumination Pink** • Nonstop Appleblossom****** • Nonstop Fire********* • Nonstop Rose • Nonstop Rose Petticoat*********** •BELLFLOWER: • Dickson's Gold*** • Trailing Blue Waterfall** • **any TALL White varieties!***** •BELLS OF IRELAND: PIXIE only****(Dwarf) •BORAGE: Variegated******(I have blue and white thx!) •BUDDLEIA/BUTTERFLY BUSH: • Bi-Color***************************** • Ruby Red***** •CALLIBRACHOA / MILLION BELLS: ANY!! Especially Peaches or Rose**** •CAMPANULA: • 'Bowl of Cherries'***** • 'Cherry Bells'***** • 'Dickson's Gold'****** • 'Olympica'*** • 'Pantaloons'** • 'Rotundifolia' • 'Samantha'** • 'White Pearl'**** • **open to any blue, white or pink, , ANY Pixie!!**** •CANNA: Tropical Rose DWARF •CARYOPTERIS: 'Summer Sorbet' •CHIASTOPHYLLUM OPPOSITIFOLIUM 'Solar Yellow'**** •CHRYSANTHEMUM: any blue, pinks, yellows (ANY fall blooming varieties****) •CLEMATIS: Stans**, any white, baby blue or hot pink •COCKSCOMB: Bombay Pink***, any tall bi-colors - burgundy, pinks, yellows, reds, would LOVE some any coral bi-colors! •COLEUS: Really Really love the watermelon and sunset colors and the dragon/lacy variety of leaves! • Caramel** • Carefree Mix* • Dragon Sunset** • Fairway Orange** • Fairway Yellow** • Giant Exhibition Limelight** • Giant Exhibition Marble • Giant Exhibition Scarlet Magma*** • Kong Rose*** • Nottingham Lace***************** • Pineapple** • Rattlesnake*** • Sedona*** • Sunset** • Versa Crimson Gold** • Versa Lime** • Versa Rose to Lime** • Versa Watermelon** • Volcano •COLUMBINE/AQUILEGIA: • Clementine Blue**** • Clementine Salmon Rose**** • Corbett****** • 'Sunshine' or any long spurred pure yellow variety********* • **any tall varieties or any dark cherry/wine colored blooms •CONEFLOWER: See ECHINACEA •COREOPSIS: •Creme Brulee***** •Heaven's Gate*** •Moonlight**** •Pot of Gold******** •Red Shift**** •Sunshine Superman*** •Tigerstripe*** •Zagreb****** •CORNFLOWER: Emperor William**, Tall Red**** •CORYDALIS SEMPERVIRENS**********, Lutea********, ANY Blue*****, Blue Heron*****, any White*** •COSMOS: • Carmine***** • Dancing Petticoats*** • Happy Ring*** • Ladybird Scarlet** • Pied Piper Red****** • Seashells Red*** • Versailles Tetra******* • **any pink or burgundy, any DWARF mix****, any Fuschia colors**** •COW PARSLEY: Pink**** or White** •CROCOSMIA: Any Orange********, Any deep scarlet***, Emily McKenzie**** (already have Lucifer, thx!) •CROSSANDRA FLAME*** •CUP & SAUCER VINE: Key Lime**** •CYCLAMEN *** •DAHLIA: Watercolors*****, any really** •DAISY: • ***any unusual double or ruffled white variety** • ***any blue colored** • Aglaya*** or Aglaia**** • Clara Curtis** • Fiona Coghill**** • Fluff**** • Wirral Pride***** • Yellow Daisy***** • **(have Crazy & Snowdrift & Snow Princess) •DALEA FORMOSA: Feather Dalea •DAYLILY: ANY !! Would love to try any of your varieties especially doubles or 'spider' varieties! (except the typical ditch lilies please!) •DELPHINIUMS: • **ANY Rose***, any sky blue*** • Blue Pygmy** • Dusky Maiden**** • Galahad**** • Ghost • Green Twist****** • Magic Fountain Cherry Blossom**** • Summer Stars** •(have Blue Butterfly!, thanks!) •DIANTHUS: • Amazon Neon*** • Barbarini Red*** • Black Magic***** • Blueberry** • Dwarf Pineleaf Garden Pink**** (Dianthus Pinifolius) • Fenbow Nutmeg***** • First Love** • Gaiety** • Heart Attack**** • Ideal Violet*** • Ministicks** • Neon Star*** • Noverna**** • Raspberry Ripple**** • Raspberry Swirl*** • Red Rose***** • Stripes & Picotees*** • Ruby** • Victoriana** • Yellow Rainbow****** • **any super ruffled carnation looking type~hot pinks, reds, crimsons •DIASCIA: Diamonte Coral Rose**, Apricot Queen*** •DICENTRA: Golden Tears***, Any Pink or White** •DICHONDRA: Emerald Falls***** •DIGITALIS / FOXGLOVE: • **any pinks or rose colored, salmons, apricots, any pure white, variegated • Anne Redetzky**** • Apricot Faerie Queen*** • Camelot Rose**** • Cluster Flowering Floribunda*** • Grecian*** • Lutea* • Monster Purple** • Monstruosa* • Redskin** • Rosea Fiesta Time*** • Silver Fox* • Sutton's Apricot********* •DITHYREA: Spectacle Pod* •DURANTA: Any please! •DUTCHMAN's BREECHES: *********** •ECHINACEA / CONEFLOWER: • Amado*** • Black Sampson******* • Double Decker****** • Fragrant Angel (white)**** • Green Eyes******** • Green Jewel**** • Hula Dancer*** • Jade*** • Laevigata*** • Paradoxa* • Pink Parasol** • Razzmatazz**** • ****most any!!! •EPILOBIUM: Any! Angustifolium****, Dodonaei**** •ERIGERON: Blue Fringe Daisy*** •FELICIA****Felicia Rose*** •FIREWEED***************** •FLOWERING MAPLE: Crepe de Chine***** •FOXGLOVE: See DIGITALIS •FUSCHIA: Any Hardy variety for Zone 7 •GAILLARDIA: (NO 'Goblin', have those thx!) • Apricot**** • Arizona Apricot***** • Frenzy*********** • Georgia Sunset**** • Georgia Yellow*** • Sunburst** •GERANIUM/PELARGONIUM: • ANY scented!!********************* • ANY Black Velvet varieties***** • ANY!!!! • Black Prince******* • Black Velvet Rose*** • Black Velvet Salmon*** • Brookside*** • Dragon Heart**** • Elite Salmon • Elite White • Horizon Ice Orange*** • Ice Rose*** • Inspire*** • Inspire Appleblossom*** • Orange Appeal*** • Orbit Appleblossom*** • Orbit Deep Salmon*** • Pinto Pink** • Psilostemon*** • Raspberry Ripple***** • Ringo Rose Star*** • Rozanne*********** • Samobor******** • Summer Showers Mix**** • Summer Showers Rose*** • Stork's Bill Sweetheart*** • Tornado Fuschia*** • Yoshino Confetti******** •GEUM • Alabama Slammer*********** • Double Bloody Mary*** • Koi*** • Red Dragon******* • Totally Tangerine***** • Trifolium***** • ***ANY red, orange, bi-color/sunset colors • (have Rivale, Mrs. Bradshaw, Lady Stratheden, Blazing Sunset & Cooky) •GILIA: Scarlet*, I have Blue •GOMPHRENA / GLOBE AMARANTH: Fireworks******, Mardi Gras*** looking for any orangey-apricot color or mix that includes it please! •GRASSES: • Blonde Ambition****** • Blood Grass*** • Eyebrow** • Golden Miscanthus**** • Hakonechloa Naomi & Nicholas**** • Hedgehogs*** • Karl Forester********* • Little Hobbit Bearskin** • Panicum Shenandoah*** • Pink Paint Brush** • Sweet Flag**** • Sweetgrass*** • Zephyr •HEATHER: CALLUNA VULGARIS 'Firefly' •HELLEBORES: Any! •HELENIUM: • 'Coppelia' • 'Sunshine' • (have Lollipop and Mardi Gras) •HELIOTROPE / HELIOTROPIUM: Garden White***, Cherry Pie*** •HETEROPAPPUS BLUE KNOLL*** •HEUCHERA/or CORAL BELLS: • *** ANY!******* • Citronelle**** • Coral Bells* • Coral Sunset*** • Crimson Curls**** • Encore**** • Frosted Violet • Ginger Ale****** • Green Spice**** • Guardian Angel***** • Lime Ricky******* • Marvelous Marbles*** • Melting Fire**** • Mocha****** • Mystic Angel**** • Root Beer***** • Ruby Bells** • Snow Angel*** • Stormy Seas*** • Sweet Tea***************** • White Cloud*** •HIBISCUS: •Chattooga Gold**** •Cranberry Punch***** •Double Purple*** •Plum Crazy********* •HOLLYHOCKS/SIDALCEA: • **would be happy with any! tall, short, figleaf or not!** • Apricot Peach Parfait******* • Black Currant Whirl** • Chater's Maroon*** • Chater's Rose*** • Chater's Salmon*** • Country Romance**** • Fruity Mix** • Golden Yellow*** • Halo Apricot******* • Halo Mix • Halo Red*** • Happy Lights*** • Icicle*** • Majorette Mix*** • Powderpuffs Mix** • Queeny Lilac-Rose**** • Queeny Red* • Queeny Salmon** • Rosea The Bride*** • Russian Yellow • Salmon Queen** • Sidalcea 'Rosanna'***** • Spring Celebrities Lemon*** • Spring Celebrities Rose**** • Violet • **I'd love any! •HOPS vine: Variegated only please*** •IPOMOPSIS: Longiflora - Long-Flowered Gilly •JACOB'S LADDER/POLEMONIUM: Variegated*********** •JUPITER'S BEARD/CENTRANTHUS RUBER: White**** •LAMIUM: Orchid Frost*** •LARKSPUR: • Cherry Blossom*** • Kaleidoscope** • Parisian Pink**** • Splish Splash*** •LAURENTIA: Avant Garde White****, Sophia****, White or Blue •LAVATERA: Mont Blanc** (have Silver cup, thx!) •LAVENDER: • Blue Scent • Ellegance Ice****** • Ellegance Sky*** • Kew Red**** • Lacy Frills*** • Little Lady*** • Otto**** • Papillon**** • Spanish Eyes********* • Spanish Peaks**** • Stoechas****** • White Ice*** •**would love some dwarf varieties, too! •LEWISIA: Cotyledon Sunset Hybrids**** •LISIANTHUS: Lime***, any blue**, any Red/Dark Pink** •LOBELIA: • Monet Moment*************** • Ruby Slippers******** • Tupa******************************************* •LOVE IN A MIST / NIGELLA: Rose only, Mulberry Rose**** •LUPINE: •Lulu************* •Red Flame**** •Salmon***** •Silver •Sunset •LYCHNIS: Viscaria 'Snowbird'**** •MALTESE CROSS: Dusky Salmon only* •MARIGOLDS: • Golden Gem*** • Harlequin*** • Janie Flame*** • La Bamba • Mumsy Orange***** • Spun Lemon**** • Starfire • Sunburst Orange Splash**** • Zenith Orange**commercial only • Zenith Red**commercial only • Whopper Orange*** •MILKWEED blue vined (cynanchum laeve)**** aka Honey Vine or Sand Vine, TWEEDIA***** •MINA CITRONELLA** •MONARDA: See Bee Balm •MORNING GLORY: • Misty Morning** • Sunrise Serenade**** •NASTURTIUMS: • Cherry Jubilee**** • Copper Sunset*** • Creamsicle*** • King Theodore*** • Moonlight***** • Out of Africa*** • Strawberries & Cream**** • Terra Cotta*** • Vanilla Berry*********** • Whirlybird Cream****** • Whirlybird Mix** • Whirlybird Tangerine******** • Vesuvius** •NICOTIANA / TOBACCO: • Avalon Mix****** • Cream Splash (variegated)****** • Marshmallow*** • Perfume White** • Saratago Apple Blossom***** • Stonecrop* • Whisper Mix*** • ****would love ANY!!****(have Langsdorfii & Sylvestris) •OSTEOSPERMUM: • **ANY Spoon-leaf varieties*** REALLY REALLY Want!! • Akila White********** • Lavender shades**** • Zion Copper Amethyst*************** SUPER WANT! • Zion Orange***** • Zion Peach****** • Zion Pink Sand********** • **White with blue center**** •OWL's CLOVER •PANSY: • Antique Shades*** • Autumn Frills*** • Chianti** • Flambe Terracotta Shades*** • Flirty Skirts*** • Moulin Rouge**** • Pandora's Box********************* • Panola Sunburst** • Psychadelic Blue Butterfly*********** • Rococo Mix** • ***any Ruffled*** •PELARGONIUM: See Geraniums above^ •PENSTEMON: • Espirit**** • Husker Red Superior**** • Jamesii/James • Lilac Beauty*** • Mexicali Miniature Bells*** • Miniature Bells**** • Parry's/Parryi • Rydbreg's/Rydbergii • Scarlet Bugler, • Sidebelsl/Secundiflorus • Sunburst Ruby****** • True Blue* • Wandbloom/Virgatus • Whipples********* •PENTAS: Any Rose or Coral colors***** •PERSICARIA AMPLEXICAULIS 'Firetail'******* •PETUNIAS: •Aladdin Mix***** •Blue Daddy*** •Cascade Burgundy Plum Vein** •Debonair Dusty Rose*** •Dolce Flambe*** •Dolcissima Amaretto**** •Dolcissima Firenze**** •Dolcissima Roma***** •Dolcissima Sienna**** •Double Cascade •Rambling Neon Rose*** •Rose Pirouette** •Shock Wave Denim**** •Sonata*** •Sophistica Antique Shades**** •PHLOX: • 21st Century Rose Star***** • Dutch Tapestry*** • Emerald Blue*** • Flamingo****** • Midnight Candy** • Nicky*** • Peppermint** • Red Riding Hood*** • Starfire************** • Watercolor Memories Mix**** • ***would REALLY love the blue variety!!*** •PLECTRANTHUS: Emerald Lace***, Silver Shield* •PLUMBAGO: Blue*** and White*** (the bush varieties, not the creeping groundcover) •POLEMONIUM: 'Touch of Class'****, Variegatum**** •POPPY: • Angels Choir Mix*****(Shirley) • Ballerina Mix** • Cali Mission Bells** Mix, NOT just orange, pls! • Carmine** • Double Atlas • Double Cream** • Drama Queen*** • Fruit Punch*** • Fruit Splash**** • Moondance**** • Peony Frosted Salmon*** • Thai Silk Mix*** • Thai Silk Rose Chiffon*** •POT MARIGOLD: Citrus Smoothies** •POTENTILLA: Helen Jane***, Snowbird***** •PRIMULA/PRIMROSE: • x tommasinii You and Me Blue*********** • Beesiana**** • Candelabra*** • Florindae**** • Noverna Deep Blue** • Vialii********** •PULMONARIA: Any! Silver Bouquet, Mrs. Moon***, Raspberry Splash*** •RANUNCULUS: Any!! :) •ROSA STELLATA: Desert Rose •RUDBECKIA: • Chim Chiminee***** • Corona*** • (have Capuccino, Green Wizard, Indian Summer, Maya, Goldstrum, Chocolate Orange and Toto) •RUE: Jackman's blue**, Any! •RUSSIAN SAGE/PEROVSKIA: Little Spire****(dwarf) •SAGINA IRISH MOSS**** •SALPIGLOSSIS/PAINTED TONGUE: Bolero Mix*, Stained Glass*, Kew Blue****** •SALVIA/SAGE: • Apiana*** • Blue Angel*** • Cherry Blossom***** • Evolution White************ • Hummingbird* • Hummingbird Forest Fire**** • Maraschino***** • Patio Sky Blue*** • Purple Knock Out*** • Salsa Rose • Salsa Salmon*** • Sensation Rose**** • Strata • Twilight Serenade******************** • TX Sage Dwarf Hummingbird** • Victoria White*** •SAMBUCUS: 'Black Lace'**************, any golden foliage***************** •SANDERSONIA: Aurantiaca •SANTOLINA GREEN**** •SEDUMS: • Acre****** • Angelina******* • Autumn Delight** • Black Jack** • Brilliant**** • Dragon's Blood*** • Jellybeans******* • October Daphne******************************************* • Red Carpet** • Sea Star***** • Sieboldii******************** • Silver Frost** • Vera Jamison* • VooDoo*** • **any pink and/or bi-colored • **these are new to me, so I'm pretty much open to any (have Autumn Joy, thanks!) •SIDALCEA: (see also HOLLYHOCKS) •SILYBUM: VARIEGATED Milk Thistle** •SNAPDRAGONS/ANTIRRHINUM: • Apple Blossom****** • AROMAS~ANY!!****************************************** • Bells Frosty Lavender**** • Bells Pink** • Cascadia*********** • Chantilly Yellow** • Double Madame Butterfly***** • Freesong Pink • French Vanilla Aroma***** • Frosted Sunset***** • Jamaican Mist • Kim Bi-Color Mix • Lemon Lollipops**** • Lipstick **** • Magenta Mist**** • Oriental Lanterns** • Pallette Mix***** • Plumblossom*** • Red Spice**** • Renee's OP Mix**** • Snappy Bi-Color Mix**** • Sweet Pink Aromas****(hybrid-commercial only pls)******* • Tutti Frutti***** • Twinny Violet***** • Vining**** •SPIDERWORT: Red Grape***, White bi-colored one*** •SPIREA: Goldflame* •STACHYS: Coccinea***, Inflata****, Lavandulifolia******, Hummelo**, Stachys macrantha 'Robusta'******** •STRAWBERRY: Fragissimo****, Yellow Wonder****, White Wonder****, Roman, Loran, Merlan, Pikan, Tarpan, Temptation, Mignonette Alpine •STRAWFLOWER: any Deep Rose color***, any Orange color*** •SUNFLOWER: • Apricot*** any apricot shades! • Apricot Twist****** • Cherry Rose • Double Dandy • Golden Cheer • Italian Green Heart********** • Jolly Joker • Lemon Aura**** • Lemon Eclair**** • Music Box*** • Sole D'Oro**** • Starburst Blaze*** • Sunny Babe • The Joker • Van Gogh •***any dwarf other than Teddy Bear (have that one!) •SWEET PEAS: • Apricot Sprite******** • Blue Ripple**** • Butterfly** • Capt of the Blues* • Cream Southborne • Crimson Ripple**** • Floral Tribute* • Frolic** • King's High Scent***** • Lipstick • Orange Dragon*** • Saltwater Taffy Swirls*** • Snoopea* • Watermelon** • White Supreme** •SWEET ROCKET/HESPERIS: Alba (white)**** •TALINUM: Variegated***** •TIARELLA: any! (have Silverado) •TITHONIA: Fiesta Del Soul**** (shorter orange variety only) •TOADLILY/TRICYRTIS: Gilt Edge***, Samurai***, Miyazaki******* •VERBASCUM: • Adonis Mango***** • Clementine***** • Yellow/Purple*****(not sure of the name?) •VERBENA: • Adonis Mango*** • Appleblossom***** • Hastata Rosea**** • Mango**** • Moss*** • Obsession Lilac*** • Peaches n Cream** • Pink Spires • Quartz Purple* • Rigida*** • Tuscany Lavender Picotee*** • Tuscany Orchid Frost****************** • Tuscany Rose Eye** • Tuscany Scarlet*** • Tuscany White**** • Upright** •VERONICA: Blue Bouquet, Veronica Incana 'Blue Silver'****, Longifolia**** •THYMUS/THYME: Silveredge Argenteus****, Orange************* •WALLFLOWER: My Fair Lady, any mix •ZINNIAS: • Apricot Blush*** • Art Deco Mix • Benary's Giant Carmine* • Burpee Hybrids Mix**** • Burpeeana Giants******** • Carmine Rose**** • Dream • Giant Cactus White** • Granny's Bouquet*** • Little Lion*** • Magellan Persian Carpet** • Meteor • Miss Wilmott • Park's Candy Mix******* • Pumila Sprite********* • Raggedy Ann*********** • Rose Giant Cactus • Scabiosa Flowered*** • Senora*** • Zin Master Mix*** • Zinnita Rose** • Zowie Yellow Flame******** •HERBS: •BASIL: • Ararat**** • Amethyst Improved**** • Blue Spice**** • Clove • Danni**** • Dwarf Greek** • Globe** • Holy Red & Green • (RED) Lettuce Leaf**************** • Mammoth**** • Napoletano**** • Purple Delight***** • Siam Queen • Thai Magic • ***(any purple named varieties) •BEE BALM/MONARDA: ANY pure White***, ANY dark Reds, Ruby, Rose, Scarlet colors - no purples or light pinks please •CAT GRASS/CAT MINT/NEPETA: Variegated Cat Grass** •CILANTRO/CORIANDER: 'Confetti', or Delfino variety only****** •DILL: Vulgare***, Dukat***, Compatto Dwarf***** •FLAX: Linum Usitatissimum 'Golden Flax'**** •HIBISCUS: Any variety for tea***, Roselle******** •LAVENDER: Spanish Peaks*****, ANY Pink***, Lavandula Viridis (yellow)******, Purple Ribbon****, Leigh****, Vera***, Pink Perfume***, English, Silver Line**** •LEMON BALM** Citronella Lemon Balm*** only please •LEMONGRASS*** •MARJORAM* •MINTS: Grapefruit****, Fruit Cocktail******, Variegated**, Ginger*** •OREGANO: Just any culinary type will do!***, Greek***, Vulgare*** •ORIGANUM SYRIACA - Zaatar**** •PATCHOULI*** •SAGE: Culinary, Variegated******* •SAVORY: Summer *** •THYME: Orange********, Variegated********, Lemon*********, regular culinary varieties****, French or Summer Thyme**** •Broadleaf Culinary**** •VEGGIES: •AMARANTH: Green Calaloo***, Greek Giant**, Opopeo** •BEANS: • 'Almas Pa Dutch Purple Burgundy Lima Bean'** • 'Blue Lake'***** • 'Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco'********** • 'Cobra'*** • 'Grandma Nellie's Yellow Podded Mushroom Pole Bean'*** • 'Hutterite Soup'*** • 'Mayflower'*** • 'Mosaic Yard Long'** • 'Nickel' (french filet) • 'Provider' • 'Purple Marconi'** • 'Tongue of Fire' • 'Willow-Leaf Lima' •BERRIES: Strawberries****, Salmon Berry****, Thimble Berry***, Blackberry***, Raspberry***, Honeyberry***, Red Currants****** •BRUSSEL SPROUTS: Falstaff*** •CABBAGE: Filderkraut********, Jade Pagoda, Optiko** •CAULIFLOWER: Romanesco San Guiseppe***** •CORN: 'Pennsylvania Butter Flavored Popcorn'**, 'GEM' or 'Stained Glass'******************************************** •CUCUMBERS: • Alibi*** • Kyoto******* • Lime Crisp*** • Muncher** • National Pickling*** • Orient Express* • Paris Pickling or Cornichon de Paris***** • Pearl* • Richmond Green Apple***** • Tante Alice***** •FLAX: Golden only (Linum Usitatissimum) •GOOSEBERRY: Pineapple*** •'GREENS': Purslane***, Rainbow Baby •GROUNDCHERRY: Strawberry Husk Tomato***, Cossack Pineapple*** •KALE: • Blue Ridge*** • Cavolo Nero**** • Fizz* • Red Chidori • Redbor** • Wild Garden Kales • Winter Red** • Winterbor** •LETTUCE: • Blushed Butter COS • Cabbage Lettuce** • Devil's Tongue** • Drunken Woman Frizzy Headed** • Flashy Butter Oak** • Gentilina, Italienischer • Jericho***(good for heat) • Little Leprachaun** • Lollo Bionda** • Marshall • Mascara*** • Midnight Ruffles*** • Mignonette Bronze** • Monet's Garden Mesclun*** • Oaky Red Splash** • Petite Rouge*** • Queensland***(good for heat) • Red Sails • Red Wing Mix • Revolution • Rouge Grenoblais • Speckles*** • Strawberry • Sunset** • Tango*** •MELONS: **Any small, compact, less than 3lb fruit sized melons*** • Alvaro • Ambrosia******* • Early Silver Line • Emerald Gem** • Golden Jenny Muskmelon**** • Golden Sweet*** • Green Nutmeg**** • Icebox Rainbow Sherbert***** • Lambkin • Lil 'Loupe***** • Mango or Vine Peach******* • Petit Gris De Rennes* •OKRA: Eagle Pass, Star of David*** •PEPPERS: (under construction!) •Bell, any mini-bells except yellow and chocolate*** •Big Red •Blushing Beauty*** comm. only pls •Chablis •Cubanella •Fat n Sassy**** comm. only pls •Flavorburst •Giant Marconi*** •Golden Summer •Gypsy •Italia** •Jalapeno Gigantea ***comm. only pls •Kung Pao* •Mulato Isleno***** •Numex Joe E. Parker**** •Orange Sun*** •Pinocchio's Nose*** •Redskin Patio*** •Round of Hungary*** •Super Heavyweight*** comm. only pls •Tennessee Cheese •Tolli's Sweet*** •Trinidad Perfume •RADICCHIO: 'Firestorm'***** •RHUBARB: Victorian**, any •SQUASH/PUMPKINS - •Australian Butter** •Autumn cup •Baby Green Hubbard* •Bush Baby •Butta Zucchini*** •Butterstick** •Candy Roaster of N. Georgia****** •Cashflow**** •Cucuzzi***aka Serpent of Sicily*** •Fairy** •Futsu Black •Giambo*** •Hubbard Blue Magic F1**** •Latino •Long Island Cheese** •Orange Magic F1**** •Papaya Pear*** •Piccolo •Pomme D'Or aka Apple of Gold* •Rumbo Winter •Small Wonder •Sundance •Sungreen •Table Ace Winter •Table Gold Acorn*** •Tonda Padana**** •STRAWBERRY - ANY Alpine!*******, Red Wonder Wild, Sarian*** (have Mignonette & White & Yellow Wonder & Alexandria) •TOMATO: I love any pleated, ruffled and large heirloom varieties! (list currently under construction) :) •A Grappoli Corbarino •ABC Potato Leaf •Absinthe •Amana Orange •Amy Goldman Italian American •Arkansas Traveler*** •Aunt Gertie's Gold** •Barnes Mtn Yellow •Barnes Mtn Pink •Bellestar •Belmonte •Berkeley Tie Dye*** •Big Rainbow** •Brown Cherry •Bradley •Brandywine, Black •Brandywine, Yellow •Break O'Day •Broad Ripple Yellow Currant •Bushy Chabarovsky •Calf's Heart •Caspian Pink •Chapman •Cherokee Green GRAPE*** •Cherokee Purple Sudoku Potato leaf variety •Chico III •Chyornyi Prince •Costoluto Fiorentino •Costoluto Genovese •Cowlick's Brandywine •Currant •Dad's Mug Paste •Dr. Lyle •Earlibell** •Early Glee** •Egg Yolk •Emerald Evergreen** •Ester Hess •Farmstand Huge •Flame •Forest Fire •Fox Cherry •Galapagos** •Gardener's Delight*** •Gold Currant** •Golden Pineapple** •Golden Queen** •Grant Country Pink •Green Beefsteak*** •Grossee Cotelee* •Gypsy •Hahms Gelbe Topftomate •Hayslip •Hege German Pink •Hellfrucht •Hog Heart •Humph*** •Husky Pink •Indiana Baltimore •Italian Red Cherry •Italian Tomato Tree*** •Joe's Portugese* •Kanner Hoell* •KBX •KY Pink Stamper •Livingston's Gold Ball •Louisiana Pink •Lucky Cross***** •Lumpy Red •Madison County Pink •Malinowy Warszawski •Matina •Matt's Wild Cherry •Midnight Star** •Moldovan Green** •Monte Verde •Mountain - Mtn Gold •Mtn Pride •Old German •Old Kentucky •Old Time Purple •Olive Hill* •Omar's Lebanese •Opalka •Orange Van Goeijenbier •Orlovskie Rysaki •Pantano Romanesco •Pear - Red only •Pera d'Abruzzo *** •Pike County Yellow •Pink Pear***** •Polish Dwarf** •Polish Linguisa* •Ponderosa Pink •Ponderosa Seloro •Powers Heirloom •Precoce Marmende •Prescott •Principe Borghese •Purple Hillbilly** •Red Robin* •Rinaldo •Romeo***** •Rose Beauty** •San Marzano Nana*** •San Marzano 3**** •Sausage (not Cream) •Sibirskiy Skorospelyi***** •Silvery Fir Tree* •Slavic Masterpiece* •Snowberry •Snow White Cherry*** •Soldacki* •Sophie's Choice** •Strawberry** •Stump of the World*** •Sun Sugar****** •Super San Marzano******* •Sweet Home*** •Sweetie Cherry*** •Tiny Tim* •Top Sirloin*** •Two Timing Willie*** •Utyonok •Valencia** •Walter's Candy Stripe* •Whippersnapper****** •Wild Harry •Winter Grape •WATERMELONS: Black Seeded Ice Cream****, White Sugar Lump***, Petit Gris****, Icebox Rainbow Sherbert***** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Bon, Home-made seed tapes work just fine. You can find instructions all over the internet. Just be sure you let them dry thoroughly before you put them up to await the day you plant them. If you put them up wet, the flour/water paste can turn moldy. You can use newsprint (not the glossy inserts), paper towels cut in strips, toilet paper, etc. Rodney, It is nice to have you visit us from the land of ice and snow. I hope our endless conversations about the early arrival of warm weather (it arrives every week, stays a few days, and then turns cold again) doesn't make you too crazy. Spring may arrive early here sometimes, especially compared to how late it arrives there for you, but then the cold nights keeps coming back and coming back and coming back. I'll had the temperature go down to freezing when tomato plants were knee-high to waist-high and covered in fruit. Last year, we harvested our first tomatoes on the last day of April (from plants protected on cold nights with frost blanket type row covers), sliced up that tomato, made BLTs and enjoyed every bite. That night or maybe the next night, we had our last freezing temperature of the year. By then, I had tomato plants that were 4' tall and loaded with fruit. C'mon now, is that normal? Nope, but we have to deal with whatever wild, crazy ride the OK weather brings us in any given year. So, while we talk of planting early, we also have to protect plants relatively late. What a terrific grow list you have! I would have thought you'd have idea conditions for the brassicas and for potatoes. Even here, potatoes do well most years, but if we fail to harvest them in time, the heat and humidity can make them collapse into a soggy, rotted mess some years (not necessarily all). Bon, I agree with Rodney. To my taste buds, garlic tastes like garlic. I like it all and never have had any I haven't liked. Today's weather-related surprise (Rodney, you should skip this little announcement of mine if you love asparagus and if the thought of us harvesting it now is going to make you crazy): this afternoon, while working in the garden, in 70-something-degree heat, I harvested the first asparagus spear. I washed it off, pinched off the tip that had been in the ground, broke it in half, and Tim and I stood there and ate that tender, yummy taste of spring. We both were shocked. I am pretty sure we've never harvested asparagus in early February before. I'm not even sure if we've ever had any to harvest in late February. March is more typical. This needs its own thread, and maybe it will get one later, but here goes. Today, at the Wal-Mart in Gainesville, TX, across the Red River from us, they had all kinds of veggies. All kinds. Including tomato plants and a handful of pepper plants. It is far too early for tomato plants--even Gainesville's average last freeze date surely cannot be much earlier than mine (March 28th) and far, far, far too early for pepper plants. So, what's a gardener to do? Especially when their own tomato plants are just tiny sprouts? Yep, I did it. I bought one of each variety they had: Big Beef, Early Girl, Celebrity and Sweet 100. They were in small (maybe 3 or 4") round peat pots. I repotted them into gallon pots and they are sitting on a shelf in my mudroom. I was going to put them in the unheated greenhouse but we're headed for a low in the 30s tonight more than likely, and I had left the doors open all day until sunset so there was no build-up of heat to keep them warm. It is likely that the first tomato we harvest in April will come from one of these plants. I hope the folks at that store remember to cover up the plants this weekend when we're expected to get pretty close to freezing. And for anyone in my neck of the woods wondering if the Wal-Mart in Ardmore has any tomato plants in the store, they did not, as of yesterday. Usually Gainesville gets them at least a week or two before Ardmore does. Oh, and we had to go across the road to the Gainesville Home Depot to get something Tim needed. I made a beeline straight to the garden center and they had the exact same tomato plants and pepper plants that Wal-Mart had, as well as all the cold-season veggies and herbs and tons of flowers. After he found what he came for, he had to come drag me out of the garden center because I was going to stay out there with all those plants all day.