Traditional
About me: Trying to live simply and sustainably. Making my city lot as productive as I can. I grow as many local varieties of vegetables as possible and save the seed. I have combo fruit trees, culinary herbs, medicinal herbs, dye plants, and useful native plants in my garden. My gardening philosophy is that the more uses a plant has, the better! I trench compost everything possible, including meat and paper, rather than maintaining a compost pile. I love dogs. I used to have chickens, but decided plants were a more productive use of my space. Might get bees in the future.
I maintain an old family heirloom bean from Mississippi called Bergin.
My favorite maritime Northwest varieties are:
Ozette Potato (heirloom from the Makah tribe in WA)
Nootka Rose, St. Helens, Japanese Garlics (heirlooms from western WA)
Walla Walla Onion (heirloom from eastern WA)
Deppe's Sweet Meat Squash (OR heirloom, strain selected by Carol Deppe)
Oregon Delicious Melon (heirloom from the Willamette Valley in OR)
Gill's All-Purpose Tomato (heirloom from Portland, OR)
Nooksack Potato (bred in 1973 by the USDA in the Skagit Valley in WA)
Nordic October Potato (bred by Tom Wagner formerly of Everett WA)
Green Zebra, Snowberry, Green Grape, Brown Berry Tomatoes (bred by Tom Wagner formerly of Everett WA)
Peacevine Tomato (bred by Alan Kapuler in Corvallis OR)
Siletz & Gold Nugget Tomatoes (bred by OSU)
Red Earred Butterheart Lettuce (bred by Wild Garden Seed in Philomath, OR)
Gatherer's Gold Sweet Italian & Stocky Red Roaster Peppers (bred by Wild Garden Seed in Philomath, OR) - I'm letting these cross and make an "Early Sweet Sunset" mix
Planning to stabilize these hybrid varieties:
Merlin Beet (bred in the Skagit Valley in WA)
Sungold Tomato
Hansel Eggplant
My zone is: WA/usda8/ahs2
I maintain an old family heirloom bean from Mississippi called Bergin.
My favorite maritime Northwest varieties are:
Ozette Potato (heirloom from the Makah tribe in WA)
Nootka Rose, St. Helens, Japanese Garlics (heirlooms from western WA)
Walla Walla Onion (heirloom from eastern WA)
Deppe's Sweet Meat Squash (OR heirloom, strain selected by Carol Deppe)
Oregon Delicious Melon (heirloom from the Willamette Valley in OR)
Gill's All-Purpose Tomato (heirloom from Portland, OR)
Nooksack Potato (bred in 1973 by the USDA in the Skagit Valley in WA)
Nordic October Potato (bred by Tom Wagner formerly of Everett WA)
Green Zebra, Snowberry, Green Grape, Brown Berry Tomatoes (bred by Tom Wagner formerly of Everett WA)
Peacevine Tomato (bred by Alan Kapuler in Corvallis OR)
Siletz & Gold Nugget Tomatoes (bred by OSU)
Red Earred Butterheart Lettuce (bred by Wild Garden Seed in Philomath, OR)
Gatherer's Gold Sweet Italian & Stocky Red Roaster Peppers (bred by Wild Garden Seed in Philomath, OR) - I'm letting these cross and make an "Early Sweet Sunset" mix
Planning to stabilize these hybrid varieties:
Merlin Beet (bred in the Skagit Valley in WA)
Sungold Tomato
Hansel Eggplant
My zone is: WA/usda8/ahs2
GardenWeb Member: 2003-01-07
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