2020 seeds for you?

[elainegrey]

I've Baker Creek Strawberry Spinach (Chenopodium capitatum) and extra Baker Creek Salad Burnet seeds. The Strawberry spinach wasn't robust enough for this climate. The Salad burnet is doing just fins, but there's only so much i can use. Might be more interesting in alkaline soil than in my acidic clay.

Also, Tronchuda or Portuguese kale - https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/kale/tronchuda-kale -- if the plants take off this spring i'll have plenty. If the plants go to seed, well i am growing them hoping they will be perennial. And if they are freeze killed, sigh.

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

I've tried their strawberry spinach in Denver before and it did not even sprout (or something ate in the middle of the night)

[elainegrey]

I just looked at the website and there's a glowing review from someone in the next county over. Hrm: i just don't know if it's worth the bother. Rather eat sweet potato and okra greens.

[sonia]

Swiss giant pansies sound great! What color are they? And will they put up with acid soil?

[elainegrey]

I posted a photo -- and my soil is acid clay and they did beautifully.

[sonia]

Would love to have those, thank you! :-)

[amaebi]

I've never tried to grow strawberry spinach (the same as Malabar spinach?). I never had trouble with salad burnet in acid soil nor in alkaline soil, FWIW.

[elainegrey]

Strawberry spinach, Blitum capitatum, is related to spinach, so there's that. It's native to Colorado. Baker Seeds says "Native to moist mountain valleys of North America" so i assumed the Appalachians -- but the USDA https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CHCA4 doesn't have it native to anywhere in the south east. I realized that after they didn't do so well.

[zlabya]

If you want to trade I would love to try the sweet Thai basil. I can send you some "Strawberry Blonde" marigold seeds, though they might be a hybrid that won't breed true, and/or a handmade bookmark with a garden theme. Just PM me with your address or I can message you with my address first.

[elainegrey]

I was going to offer just as a gift -- freeing myself of the guilt of letting them grow old in my fridge and wasting the money -- but then i looked up those marigolds. Wow! I'd be delighted to see what their next generation looked like.