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Catalog: future seed emporium.
These seeds are some of the ones that I currently am growing and have obtained from the
Seed Savers Exchange and from older gardeners in order to preserve them for posterity. The commercial site will be put up some time in the future and be available linked from this site offering seed for sale at that time.
The Waif Bean was obtained from a neighbor lady who said her friend (the bean gardener) was ailing and in the hospital. She indicated that he had a special bean that his family had been growing for years, and there was no one to grow it. I asked her to see if he would let me have some to grow. He sent me an envelope full with the following message. My mother brought these beans from the Midwest in 1903, when she was 4 years old. She took them to Texas with her family and they grew them there for years. When I came to New Mexico I brought some with me and have been growing them up until last year when I became ill. Please insure the safety of these beans for me. He passed away before I was able to speak with him. It is a green pole bean that is fairly prolific and has a good flavor.
The Tiger Like tomato was obtained from the Seed Savers Exchange. It was sent from the Heritage Farms collection since no one was growing the tomato except Kent Whealy at Heritage Farms. I have been growing the tomato for about 5 years now and find it to be the best tasting tomato I have ever had. It is small and has orange stripes. The variety was developed in Eastern Europe and was collected there on one of Seed Savers Exchange seed collecting expeditions. The people of Eastern Europe like to pickle tomatoes like we do eggs so are partial to small sized fruit. My Sister-in-law was given some when she was laid up for a while and enjoyed them very much. When I had an extra seedling I asked her if she would like one. She asked if it was the same kind of tomato as she had had when she was ill. Upon discovering that it was, she couldn't obtain the seedling soon enough.
The Brandy Wine tomato is an early American development which has been around almost as long as the country. Its flavor and size are almost unparalleled in the world of the tomato, and we all have our favorites, but if you like American tomato varieties and you haven't tried this one you are doing yourself a disfavor. There is no long story about this one, just honest to goodness excellent flavor and size (it is a beef steak type). There are pink ones, red ones, and even yellow ones. It is keeper in my book, and I have grown tomatoes from all over the world.
The Easter Egg - EggPlant produces fruit about the size and color of hens' eggs. In the Middle East the eggplant is used as a condiment on curry dishes, julienned very fine. The large black or purple varieties are too bitter for that purpose for my taste. The small white varieties, however, are much more succulent and sweet. The small fruit are just right for a dinner for one or two and there will be no leftovers to deal with. It is much more delicious than the larger fruited dark skinned varieties. I don't know why they haven't caught on a long time ago because of their deliciousness and compact size.
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