William cress sizewise4/19/2023 This would also fit my harvest schedule since I tend to ignore most leafy green veggies in the summer but want them when the weather gets cold. Even if it doesn't perennialize it can last through the year if started early, producing a spring crop of greens, then going dormant in the summer after it blooms, then reemerging in the fall to produce another crop of greens. This one sounded very interesting to me since it has the potential to be a perennial in my climate. And with a name like Mizunarubasoi how could I resist.Īnother mustard I purchased is an endangered (from over gathering) wild Mediterranean variety from the Cape Greko National Forest area of Cypress, thus named Cape Greko Mustard ( Enarthrocarpus arcuatus). It's supposed to be good for both salads and stir-fries. There's always room for greens in my garden especially in the winter so I'm trying Mizunarubasoi, a cold tolerant cross of Mizuna/Tatsoi/Maruba that should be a good overwintering green. So I was very interested to learn that he's trying to make more of his collection available. But one of the most frustrating things about these books is that seeds for many of the vegetables that he describes are not available or extremely difficult to find. I've grown a number of vegetables based on his descriptions in those books. Both books are full of stories and descriptions of heirloom and unusual vegetables. And then a few years later his book 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From was published and of course I immediately purchased a copy. I've been an admirer of William Woys Weaver ever since I purchased his book Heirloom Vegetable Gardening not long after it was published in 1997. But 4000 varieties! For a seed junkie like me that is the Mother Lode and I find it exciting that more of it will become available if the Roughwood Seed Collection can make a go of it. The one seed that I offer through SSE, Golden Corn Salad, I originally obtained from Mr. Weaver used to offer seeds through SSE but hasn't for the past few years, don't ask me why, I don't know. But when I learned that William Woys Weaver is trying to start a seed company to make some of the nearly 4000 varieties of food plants in the Roughwood Seed Collection available to the gardening public I figured that the best way to support his project is to buy some seeds and while I was there I added a tax deductible donation as well.Ī tiny fraction of his vast collection of rare and unusual edibles is already available through Baker Creek and Hudson Valley Seed Library and some are available through the Seed Savers Exchange Yearbook by members that obtained seeds from Mr.
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