Dropped Varieties for 2017
Last Chance in 2017
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New Seed Varieties for 2017
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288 | Purple Podded pole bean: From the Ozark Mountains to you! |
368 | Croissant pinto bean: Companion to French Breakfast radish? |
506 | Cafe hybrid sweet corn: Start off your corn season with a cob of Cafe! |
520 | Inferno hybrid sweet corn: A new selection adapted for global warming? |
572 | Latte hybrid sweet corn: What do coffee and corn have in common? |
590 | Cappuccino hybrid sweet corn: We have no idea! |
927 | Mayor hybrid canary melon: A major new taste treat! |
1629 | Bonbon hybrid buttercup squash: The creamy filling is in its texture! |
1686 | Little Dipper hybrid butternut squash: Defies powdery mildew! |
1744 | Tom Fox pumpkin: Bet your jack-o’-lantern program can handle this! |
2028 | Coral carrot: Coral reefs may be endangered; this carrot is not. |
2273 | Hild’s Blauer winter radish: For when the winter winds blauer! |
2285 | Saitaro daikon radish: To the rescue as dusk extinguishes Winter Light! |
2433 | Ramps: Another addition to our ramped-up permaculture selection! |
2441 | Ed’s Red shallot OG: For those who want an open-pollinated shallot! |
2445 | Cabernet hybrid red onion OG: Let’s drink to an early red onion! |
2472 | Patterson hybrid onion: A knock-out of a replacement for Copra! |
2487 | Talon hybrid onion: A successor for Varsity and not a bench-warmer! |
3049 | Puntarelle chicory: Discover a new form of vegetable! |
3282 | Kaori green shiso: A thrilla of a perilla! |
3334 | Hestia brussels sprouts: So easy to grow will become a household name! |
3449 | Scarlet kale OG: Listed on web last year, now comes into the catalog! |
3647 | Mars celeriac: Is there life on Mars? Only a short life in this catalog! |
3737 | Chocolate Cake pepper: Another great farmer-breeder project! |
3769 | Aconcagua pepper: Fedco finally scales the peak, finds the pepper! |
3829 | Chimayo hot pepper OG: Festoon your kitchen with ristras! |
4041 | Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye tomato OG: Best of the Boar Series tomatoes! |
4051 | Jaune de Flammé tomato: My new flame in the early orange class! |
4241 | Momotaro hybrid tomato: Japan’s favorite fresh market tomato! |
4310 | Akamuro rice: Another gift from Japan; grow rice in Maine! |
4311 | Hayayuki rice: For the wet spot at the bottom of the garden! |
4313 | Titanio rice: Upland rice from Italy for the best risotto! |
4518 | Santo cilantro: Saints alive, the slowest bolter! |
4815 | Red Flint ageratum: Strike a spark in your flower bed! |
4860 | Super Andrella aster: Super-size me! |
4936 | Purple Kisses carrot: The Daucus carota that bolts quickly for pleasure! |
5072 | Drumstick flower: A drumstick that can be embraced by vegetarians! |
5226 | Court Jester marigold: For poets, troubadours and jugglers everywhere! |
5934 | Freed Seed collection: A collection of OSSI-Pledged freed seeds! |
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335 | Tiger Eye bean: Tiger, tiger burning bright? Shall I bake you up tonight? |
516 | Ashworth open-pollinated sweet corn OG: It’s rat selected! |
692 | Hopi Blue Flint corn OG: Beautiful blue kernels, easy to grind! |
896 | Opal Creek snap pea: Delicate yellow snap pea so good young & tender! |
1392 | Telegraph Improved cucumber: Word is out on this hot cuke! |
2018 | Tonda di Parigi carrot: For those without tilth who still want carrots! |
2051 | Nantes Fancy carrot: Our favorite OP carrot in a long-awaited return! |
2481 | Red Wethersfield onion: Storied OP red last offered in 2007! |
2907 | Sierra lettuce OG: About the longest standing lettuce in summer heat! |
3325 | Umpqua broccoli: Put some Umpqua oomph into your broccoli patch! |
3442 | Cascade Glaze collards: For tolerance to temperature extremes! |
3457 | Rainbow Lacinato kale: The best of Redbor & Lacinato in one package! |
3645 | Diamante celeriac: Despite the name, these jewels are the real deal! |
3744 | Tangerine Pimiento pepper: Little lights of sweet juicy pimientos! |
4324 | Utrecht Blue wheat: Is this the most beautiful wheat on Earth? |
4698 | Sweet Woodruff: Fragrance so rich it was strewn in medieval churches! |
5539 | Selma Suns sunflower OG: Polyheaded plethora of colors! |
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508 | Spring Treat hybrid sweet corn: Being replaced by 506 Cafe. |
985 | Delicious 51 muskmelon: Possible replacement in the wings. |
987 | Rocky Ford muskmelon: Sales have been slow. |
1619 | Pink Banana squash: Slow sales doom this large squash. |
1965 | Baby Bottle gourd: The demand is baby, too. |
2094 | Sugarsnax carrot: Bayer item. Bayer is buying out Monsanto. |
2124 | Albino beet: This year it gets its final reprieve unless sales pick up. |
2418 | Megaton leek: Another Bayer item. Bayer to be a mega-corporation… |
3370 | Super Red 80 cabbage: Supplier is dropping this super cabbage. |
3647 | Mars celebriac: Bayer again. …if the $66 billion merger goes through. |
4061 | Black Krim tomato: Two candidates are battling it out to replace Krim. |
4218 | Bobcat hybrid tomato: We don’t think this cat has enough flavor. |
4236 | Heather hybrid tomato: 4241 Momotaro bests it in flavor and texture. |
4273 | Aria tomato: Swan song for Aria unless sales pick up. |
4467 | Sacred basil: A superior replacement waits its turn. |
4813 | Leda ageratum: Slow sales doom this ageratum. |
4832 | Green love lies bleeding: Sent to us by mistake; to be sold out. |
5411 | Gentian sage: Another with slow sales. |
5548 | Sungold Dwarf sunflower: Too much variation in the type. |
5734 | Swirls zinnia: Lot grow-out was off-type; trialing for a replacement. |
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Dropped
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247 | Montpelier bean: No crop this year. |
265 | Indy Gold bean: Its final checkered flag. Check web for 265 Gold Rush. |
295 | Blue Coco bean: No crop. |
307 | Black Kabouli bean: Crop failure. |
321 | Mitla bean: No crop. |
366 | Agate pinto bean: Replaced by 368 Croissant. |
558 | Sumptuous hybrid sweet corn: See the catalog for many new selections. |
588 | Luscious hybrid sweet corn OG: Dropped by its supplier. |
602 | Lancelot hybrid sweet corn: A revamped sweet corn selection awaits. |
626 | Spring Snow hybrid sweet corn: 622 Sugar Pearl is a delicious sub. |
764 | Magical Mystery Pea: We’ve been dying to take you away. |
885 | Mega sugarsnap: This year’s modest crop became stock seed. |
943 | Prescott Fond Blanc melon: Crop failure this year. |
950 | Sweet Freckles melon: Slow sales brought about its demise. |
986 | Montreal Market melon: Our search goes on for this storied heirloom. |
1021 and 1022 | Early Moonbeam watermelon: Total eclipse for this season. |
1520 | Lemon squash: Customer sales indicated that this was a lemon. |
1615 | Squisito squash: Crop failure squeezes this out of the catalog. |
1952 | Shenot Crown of Thorns gourd: Slow sales the thorn in its side. |
1963 | Speckled Apple gourd: Slow sales indicate not the apple of your eye. |
2091 and 2092 | Nelson carrot, pelleted and not: Its supplier dropped Nelson. |
2095 | Jeannette carrot:Also dropped by supplier. We hardly got to know you! |
2282 | Shinden Risoh daikon radish: Also supplier dropped. |
2327 | Skirret: A hard seed crop to grow successfully. Not done this year. |
2472 | Copra onion: Discontinued by the supplier; this one hurts! |
2768 | Lingua di Canarino lettuce: Tongue tied by crop failure. |
2841 | Nancy lettuce: Another crop failure that hurts. |
2859 | Kalura lettuce: We like this one a lot; hope to have back in 2018. |
3316 | Purple Peacock broccoli: Peacock doesn’t spread its fan. Crop failure. |
3318 | Thompson broccoli: For a good OP try 3325 Umpqua. |
3336 | Roodnerf brussels sprout: How rude of it to be dropped by supplier. |
3458 | Baltisk Purpurkal kale: Multiple crop failures postpone for a year. |
3645 | Brilliant celeriac: Catalog offers two alternatives. |
3752 | Superette Banana pepper: Anna Banna ain’t got a banana. |
4008 | Husk Cherry: Replaced by 4005 Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry. |
4015 | Verde Pueblo: Replaced by 4012 Purple Blush tomatillo. |
4032 | Ida Gold tomato: Replaced by 4051 Jaune de Flammé tomato. |
4071 | Soldacki tomato: Seeking a grower for this variety. |
4084 | Schmmeig Striped Hollow tomato: Crop failure. |
4106 | Honeydrop cherry tomato: Crop failure. |
4136 | Vilms tomato: No crop this year. |
4141 | Hog Heart tomato: We need a grower for this variety. |
4146 | Blue Beech tomato: No crop this year. |
4293 | San Diego paste tomato: Replaced by 4296 Pasta. |
4441 | Aromato basil: Supplier increased price fourteen fold. |
4448 | Lemon basil OG: We found off-types in the production. |
4456 | Red Rubin basil: Replaced by 4459 Midnight Ruffles. |
4959 | Startrek celosia: Dropped by the supplier. |
5107 | Las Vegas White globe amaranth: Dropped for microscopic sales. |
5173 | Tanagra lavatera: Another lovely but pokey seller; deserves better. |
5236 | Tashkent marigold: Replaced by 5226 Court Jester as we juggle list. |
5304 | Blueberry Glow pansy: Our supplier has permanently dimmed it. |
5366 | Drama Queen poppy: Enough drama for one year: crop failure. |
5371 | Fluffy Ruffles poppy: Don’t get ruffled, these poppies will be back. |
5530 | Pro-Cut Lemon sunflower: Didn’t make the cut; crop failure. |
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