{"id":1032,"date":"2005-09-08T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1032"},"modified":"2005-09-08T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T14:38:00","slug":"seed-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1032","title":{"rendered":"Seed Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just ordered the following seeds from an on-line company in Kansas called Skyfire Garden Seeds<\/a>. Cost me about $22 Canadian for them, but it means that next year I can have orange AND eerie pale green AND white pumpkins growing in my yard! And I can bake stuffed zucchini! And grow blood-red corn! Yee-haw, I’m a farmin’! They would only mail within the USA, though, so I regret to inform that I’ve taken advantage of his New York mailing address yet again. ‘Tis all the more insurance that I will come pay a visit soon.<\/p>\n

Ronde de Nice\/Eight Ball:<\/b> Beautiful foliage as well as cute little round zucchini-like squash. Eat the lacy pale green and tan squash when 2″ in diameter or wait until it grows into a pale orange Halloween pumpkin and make a Jack o’ lantern. Dual purpose squash! 40 seed<\/p>\n

Jarradale:<\/b> 100 days. Blue-grey skin on a slightly flattened, deeply-ribbed pumpkin from 6-10 pounds. Australian variety has thick, sweet orange flesh with very good flavor and long storage qualities. It is becoming more popular in the US. 15 seeds<\/p>\n

Lumina:<\/b> 90 days. The white skin makes it great for painting, so your Jack O’ Lanterns last a long time. Shape varies from round to slightly flattened and size 12 to 20 pounds. Stores well. Very sweet for great pies. PVP. 20 <\/p>\n

Burpee’s Butterbush:<\/b> 75 days. Back by popular demand! Bush plants are good for small gardens and 1-2 lb butternut squash are just right for small families. Will store until mid-winter. Good table quality and for pies. 25 seeds<\/p>\n

Bloody Butcher:<\/b> 100-120 days. Versatile heirloom can be eaten very young (like sweet corn) or used for cornmeal. This heirloom has been around since 1845 and is famous for its height (10-12 feet), beautiful red ears and fine flavor. 1.5 ounce<\/p>\n

Strawberry Popcorn:<\/b> The beautiful deep red kernels make it a favorite ornamental for wreaths and cornucopias or other fall decorations. Of course, you could also pop it and sit back and watch your favorite movie. 1.5 ounces<\/p>\n

Nasturtiums, Jewel:<\/b> Brilliant yellow, red, orange, pink, chamois, rose and some bicolor. Flowers are mild-flavored and beautiful in salads, while leaves are peppery like water cress. 35 seeds<\/p>\n

Rouge D’Hiver:<\/b> 55-65 days. Also called Red Winter or Cimmaron, this beautiful European heirloom lettuce will tolerate heat if kept watered. Color varies from greenish red to dark red. I grow it every year in my own garden. 2 grams<\/p>\n

Colorful Sweet Bell Mix:<\/b> It is rare to find so many open pollinated colors of sweet blocky bell peppers: green, red, yellow, orange, purple, lilac, violet and white. Colors will change as they mature. 35 seeds<\/p>\n

Banana, Pink Jumbo:<\/b> 105 days. Long, submarine-shaped squash wht pinkish orange skin to about 24 inches. This is used a lot for pumkin pies because of the excellent sweet, dry, fine-grained flesh. Wonderful storage qualities. From around 1900. 40 seeds<\/p>\n

There’s also this rad website called Kitchen Garden Seeds<\/a>, that has a beautiful graphic layout, and some really groovy theme-packages, like the ‘Edible Flower Garden’ mix, with six different types of edible flowers (nasturtiums, cottage pinks, batchelor’s buttons, etc). Anyone interested in gardening should check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just ordered the following seeds from an on-line company in Kansas called Skyfire Garden Seeds. Cost me about $22 Canadian for them, but it means that next year I can have orange AND eerie pale green AND white pumpkins growing in my yard! And I can bake stuffed zucchini! And grow blood-red corn! Yee-haw, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}