Beet, Bull’s Blood  Beta vulgaris (65 days) Intensely dark purple-red leaves add pizzazz to salads.  Don’t disregard the deep red 2-3” roots as they make a nice table beet, steamed, boiled or grated raw on the aforementioned salad.  Selected by seedsman Frank Morton.  WGS Packet (1.5 g. ≈ 200 seeds)            Ounce ...

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Beet, Touchstone Gold,  Beta vulgaris     A much improved golden beet that makes nice round roots with gold skin over a yellow and white zoned interior. Flavor is remarkably sweet and mild with less bite than red beets. They are somewhat less vigorous than red beets so treat them well for good harvests. Tops are glossy green with gold veins. Color does not bleed like red beets so they play nicely in salads. WGS Packet (1.5 g. ≈ 200 seeds) Bulk: 1/2 oz ...

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Celery, Chinese Pink (100 days) Apium graveolens Brilliant, bubble gum pink stalks and veins with a stronger flavor than typical green celery that is more akin to parsley. Sits somewhere between an herb and a vegetable in terms of its use. Can bolt erratically, so consider making multiple sowings.  A real stunner! WGS. Packet (1/4 g ≈ 200 seeds) ...

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Chicory, Palla Rossa Raddichio   (70 days)  Chicorium intybus This is a really good OP variety for spring planted red raddichio, making a high percentage of well-wrapped dense heads. Also works well for normal autumn production from July plantings. Way more uniformity than we’ve found in other classic OPs.  WGS  Packet (1/2 g ~ 350 seeds) * thanks to Karen Morton for the picture...

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Cress, Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled (35 days)  Lepidium Sativum Twisted, crisped and savoyed leaves gives these leaves unexpected heft and toothsomeness for a little garden cress. The loft and textural interest make this cress a wonderful filler for fresh garden bouquets. Bred by Frank Morton, a cross between Persian and Curly cress, the leaves of this unique variety are held erect for easy cutting. Late bolting.  WGS Packet: 1 1/2 g ...

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FENNEL SEED Foeniculum vulgare – PERENNIAL Forb in the Apiaceae family hardy to zones 4-9. Yellow blooming umbels in June and July that attract butterflies to the garden. Direct sow in the Spring. The aromatic seeds and feathery foliage are used in culinary applications as a carminative and digestive. Leaves emerge as copper-red then change to bronze as chlorophyll develops. WGS Packet (1g) ...

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Fennel, Perfection  Foeniculum vulgare (75 days) An excellent quality European bulbing fennel.  Matures quickly, even in cool weather.  Sow spring through autumn.  Produces a large, round, succulent bulb with an anise flavor that is sweet and mild.  Our children love this raw.  Also great steamed, baked or fried.  HOO Packet: (1 g ≈ 250 seeds) Bulk: 10 g....

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KALE, Dazzling Blue Lacinato (75 days) Brassica oleeracea   NEW FOR 2016 from our friends at Wild Garden Seeds! "This stunning new blue kale comes from our own Hank Keogh’s inspiration to backcross a ‘Rainbow Lacinato’ variant with its ‘WGS Lacinato’ ancestor. The result, a dazzling blue-green savoyed strap leaf with underturned margins, upright growth, and a striking pink midrib. Eye-catching at the market, and the flavor is “very lacinato.” More winter hardy than any other lacinato-type, as demonstrated in the kale-killing freeze-out of 2013–14. Nice work!" Packet (1/2 g) 1/2 oz-...

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Parsley, Splendid  An Italian flat leaf variety with strong stems, high yield, and good harvest recovery. Winter hardy.  Excellent bolt resistance.  Packet :1/2 g (~50 seeds) ...

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Phacelia, Bee's Friend  Phacelia tanacetifolia (80 days)  Wonderful annual cover crop that can be grown anytime from March through November at most latitudes.  Bee's Friend attracts bumblebees in droves with their beautiful lavender purple fiddlehead plumes festooned with blooms.  Succulent growth can reach 4’ tall, so it works well as a cover crop that can be incorporated into the soil to add organic matter.  Attracts beneficial insects. In our pollinator trials performed in conjunction with the BeeGirl non-profit in Ashland, Oregon, Phacelia was the first to bloom and most favored flower for bumblebees and native sweat Bees.  WGS.  PH1: Packet ~0.4g (~80 seeds) ...

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Quinoa, Wild Garden Mix, Chenopodium quinoa (100-120 days)   A very easy to grow grain crop related to lambsquarters, beets and spinach. Grows to 4-6 feet tall with an attractive plume-shaped seed head that is clipped and dried at summer’s end. This mix is part of a 5 year breeding project at Wild Garden Seeds, and offers a diverse mix of genetics to help you find a suitable variety for your locale.  2 1/2 g(~230 seeds)  ...

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Misato Rose Raphanus sativus ( 60 days)  Also known as Chinese Red Heart. Watermelon radish is characterized by scarlet red flesh with a green/white skin, grown from late-summer planting (throughout August) for autumn harvest and storage for winter use. The flavor and texture of 'Misato Rose' is sweet and turnip-like, with a mild radish finish. Spaced 4" apart, these roots get 4-6" in diameter, and make some serious winter food that is strikingly colorful and nutritious. Makes a fantastic ingredient for kim chi, is beautiful when shredded with cole slaw and carrot, or sliced and slivered into winter salads. Not suitable for spring planting.  A beautiful radish! Packet ( 2 1/2 g ~ 250 seeds) * photo by Karen Morton...

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5Rutabaga, Gilfeather's Turnip Brassica napus (85 days)  This is from an accidental cross between a rutabaga and a turnip; two different that don't usually cross-pollinate. Here's a description from the grower, Frank Morton, " It's leaves have the color and shape of rutabaga, with a good kale-like flavor. The root is shaped like a football rather than a sphere, lacks the purple top of both common turnips and rutabaga, has the color of a white turnip (as opposed to the yellowish flesh of common rutabaga), with a texture and flavor intermediate between the two. When cooked and mashed, the color and texture would mislead many to think of mashed potatoes. The flavor is mild, with less of the sulfurous taste that we associate with the Brassica family." Packet (1 g~ 300 seeds) ...

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Shungiku, Double Garland / Edible Chrysanthemum (30-50 days)  Glebionis coronaria Lovely, finely dissected, aromatic Chrysanthemum leaves are used fresh in salads, as a tangy garnish, pickles, sushi or fresh vegetable dishes.  Direct sow thickly and cut repeatedly when 4-8" tall for a continuous supply.  If left to flower the plant grows to about 36" tall with pretty 1" golden yellow blooms that may also be used as an edible flower. Avg. 12,500 seeds/oz. Packet: 230 seeds. 0.6g ...

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Spinach, Long Standing Bloomsdale, (50 days) Spinacia oleracea  One of America's longest standing commercial OP varieties found in wide field-scale production since 1925. That is until just lately . It has been pushed aside in seed production areas by hybrid spinach, which the seed industry finds more profitable. But for eating, nothing compares to Long Standing Bloomsdale. Darkest green, savoyed oval leaves are held erect by sturdy stems, and are highly productive from spring plantings. An adaptive workhorse variety of old. Packet (2 g~ 200 seeds) 1 oz  (~2200 seeds) ...

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Spinach, Winter Bloomsdale  (45 days) Spinacia oleracea  A classic open pollinated strain introduced in 1925 that is well-selected in the Skagit valley of Washington for its upright, dark-green savoyed leaves and terrific spinach flavor.  Performs better than most varieties in the heat, but really excels in spring and fall plantings.    Packet (2 g ≈ 200 seeds) One Ounce (≈ 2200 seeds) ...

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Golden Beta vulgaris (50 days)  A nice heirloom strain originally from Abundant Life Seed Foundation. Emerald green baby leaves with yellow stems are especially mild and sweet cut salad. Stem color intensifies to almost orange with age. Provides a really nice color contrast as baby leaves in salad. Packet (2 g ≈ 100 seeds) ...

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Pink Passion Beta vulgaris (50 days)  Resurrected from obscurity by Wild Garden Seeds this striking chard has the brightest pink, wide petioles you can imagine, and unusually smooth dark green leaves that you are bound to love. Remarkably lovely – this is edible ornamental landscaping at its finest! Packet (2 g ≈ 100 seeds) Ounce (≈ 2,100 seeds)...

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Delicata, Zepplin  Cucurbita pepo (100 days)  A much loved 1894 heirloom winter squash that is just the right size for a side dish with dinner. The fruits are 7-10” long, weigh about a pound and possess flesh that is finer-textured, sweeter, and significantly longer keeping than other strains. Packet (2.5 g ≈ 40 seeds) ...

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