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I’ve place the 2008 seed order, and together with the seeds left from ‘07, we have quite a line up:

Seeds left from last year:

• artichoke (saved seeds)
• arugula
• bean: royal burgundy snap, isar French fillet, genuine cornfield pole, Kentucky wonder pole (saved)
• bok choi
• broccoli: calabrese
• brussels sprouts: catskill
• cabbage: early jersey wakefield
• carrot: red core chantenay
• cauliflower: snowbell
• celery: conquistador
• chervil
• chives: garlic, purly
• cilantro
• cucumber: Boston pickling
• dill: bouquet (saved), hercules
• green onion
• kale: Hanover spring, vates
• kohlrabi: purple
• leek: American flag, blue solaize (very few)
• lettuce: black seeded simpson, parris island cos, sweet valentine, red salad bowl, green salad bowl, speckled bibb, oakleaf, Thai oakleaf, winter density, forellenschuss, anuenue, slo-bolt, ermosa, buttercrunch, jericho
• michihli
• muskmelon: Hale’s best, hearts of gold, old time Tennessee (4 seeds)
• parsley: curled, flat leaf
• parsnip: hollow crown
• peas: Amish snap, Little Marvel, Wando
• pepper: California wonder, serrano hot
• pumpkin: little pam pie, jack-o-lantern
• raab
• sage
• salsify: sandwich island mammoth
• sorrel
• spinach: long standing bloomsdale
• sweet potato: beauregard (gift from Nicolas)
• swiss chard: bright lights, ruby
• radicchio: verona red
• tatsoi
• tomato: (very few of each) sweet olive, gold nugget, sun gold, Amish paste, German red strawberry, Brandywine, green zebra, sweetie
• turnip: seven top foliage, purple top
• upland cress
• zucchini: black beauty

This year’s seed order:

• basil: sweet genovese
• bean: Louisiana purple pole, genuine cornfield pole, Cherokee cornfield, rodcor butter bean, provider, flagrano French bean
• bean, soup: Taylor’s dwarf, black valentine, sulphur
• beet: lutz, chioggia
• broccoli: di cicco
• carrot: Belgian white, purple dragon
• Chinese cabbage: bilko
• chives
• corn: double standard (old fashioned sweet, open pollinated), robust (popcorn—we tried “Tom thumb” and didn’t like it)
• cucumber: yamato, marketmore
• dandelion: clio
• eggplant: rosa bianca
• endive: totem, eros, rhodos
• escarole: pancalieri grado
• gourd: green apple, mixed small
• kale: vates
• kohlrabi: winner
• lettuce: dark lollo rossa, natividad (both reds)
• marjoram
• onions: cortland, redwing, purplette
• peppers: ace, sahuaro hot
• potatoes: red nordland, yukon gold, Russian banana
• radish: black Spanish, d’Avignon
• squash, summer: golden bush scallop, early prolific straightneck, costata romanesca,
• squash, winter: seminole pumpkin, cinderella pumpkin, sweet meat squash, winter luxury pie, table queen vine acorn, delicata, Waltham butternut, marina di chioggia
• swiss chard: rainbow
• tomato: Amish paste, Brandywine, striped German, green zebra, sweet olive, red grape, sun gold, gold nugget
• turnip: hakurei
• watermelon: Amish moon and stars, strawberry