FREE: Unknown & Excess Edibles - Garden Seed Collection 2 - 8 packs

The listing, Unknown & Excess Edibles - Garden Seed Collection 2 - 8 packs has ended.

Still cleaning out excess seeds.

1. Parsnip seeds - variety "Petrik" - They are traditional white roots. Parsnips are biennial, just like kale.

They make leaves & a usable root the 1st year. However, if a root is NOT harvested, & left to overwinter, the plant will send up a flower stalk the 2nd year of growth, & fresh seed can be obtained from them.

Parsnip seed, has a low viability life, of only 1 year.

So, if you like parsnips, & don't want to keep buying seed, it's advisable to leave at least 2 roots unharvested & left to overwinter EVERY YEAR, to set fresh seed for you the following year.

Also, Parsnip seed generally has a low germination rate, so I included 40 seeds. 5 out of 10 sown, came up in my germination test.

2. Red Russian Kale

3. unknown hot pepper - received in a trade - I don't like hot peppers.

4. unknown squash - the label "flew away" as they were left to dry.

5. Cantaloupe - Hale's Best

6. Sparkler White Tip Radish

7. Rhubarb - MAY OR MAY NOT GERMINATE - I harvested them because they were there, but didn't germination test them yet.

8. Hybrid red cherry - this is an open pollinated cross. It is the result of 2 tomatoes I grew the same year being cross pollinated. Most tomatoes are self pollinating, because they have completely enclosed stamens & pistil. Other tomato flowers, can have an opening at the end of the enclosure, & even sometimes a pistil extending through the opening. These 2 conditions, can allow cross pollination, in tomato plants.

That is what happened in this case. I know 1 parent was a yellow micro dwarf tomato, because it was the only yellow tomato I grew that year, & also because the extreme dwarfism, did show up in the 2nd generation, as well as heights of about 3 ft.

The other parent was a red cherry, because 2/3rds of the time, the fruit will be red cherries.

These will come in a reused bubble envelope.