Friday, December 1, 2017

Korean Cowboy Kraut

This is some sort of a weird kimchi / sauerkraut recipe I came up with on the fly.  Tastes like traditional kraut with a kick and a little funkiness. Substitute red cabbage with green or whatever the hell you have available.

Required:
1 cabbage
1.5 tablespoons pickling salt (maybe a bit more)

Optional:
Peppers (hot and mild)
Garlic, lots of it
Gochugaru or some other dry pepper flake
A few Saeujeot (salty fermented shrimp)

Steps:
Chop and mix everything in a bow, let it sit for a few hours to release liquid, pack it all in glass jars, wait two weeks, eat.























Monday, August 21, 2017

2017-2018 Seeds for trade, exchange, sale




Nightshade (Solanaceae) family

Pepper (Capsicum annum):
(Biquinho pepper)

HOT
Candlelight 
Biquinho
Bulgarian carrot pepper
Red Cayenne
Yellow Cayenne
Yellow Scotch Bonnet

MEDIUM
Criolla Sella
Orchid pepper
Cherry Bomb
Greek Pepperoncini
Black Czech
Chi-Chien
Poblano


(criolla sella, cayenne)

SWEET
Jimmy Nardello
Purple Beauty
Shishito (occasionally hot)
Habanada (aka heatless habanero)
Pretty N Sweet (F2)
Corno di Toro
Petit Marseillars
Round of Hungary
Napoleon


Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum): 

(green zebra)

LARGE
Pink Berkeley Tie dye
Cherokee Purple
Mortgage Lifter

MEDIUM
Rutgers
Jaunne Flamme
Green Zebra
Black Prince




(indigo rose)

CHERRY
Gold Nugget
Indigo Rose
Black Cherry
White Cherry
Tiny Tim
Yellow Pear
Sunrise Bumblebee

Hybrids undergoing segregation / stabilization
Sungold F2
Fantastico F2
Rapunzel F3 (from Praxxus55712)


Ground Cherry (Physalis peruviana): 
Aunt Molly's ground cherry

(ground cherry)

Mint (Lamiaceae) family


Basil (Ocimum basilicum): 
Sweet Italian basil
Thai basil
Holy basil
purple basil 

Mint (Mentha balsamea):
peppermint
Anise Hyssop

green shiso (japanese)

Daisy (Asteraceae) family



Lettuce:
Forellenschluss Romaine (red speckles on green)
Prizehead leaf lettuce (green/maroon loose leaf)

Marigold
White
Sparky mix 

Zinnia:
mixture of crimson, orange, bright pink

Cosmos:
Cosmic Orange

Sunflower:
Autumn beauty (mix of dark red, orange, yellow)
Dwarf Teddybear (yellow only)
Black oil sunflower

Cruciferous (Brassicaceae) family 
Broccoli raab / rapini
Slow-bolt arugula 
Early scarlet globe radish
Bok choi



Cucurbits family

Pie pumpkin
Cucamelon  

Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) family 

Bouquet Dill
Cilantro

Zea mayz (corn)

Glass Gem
Early Golden Bantam
Blue Hopi
Black and Gold (new, possibly unstable)
Bubble Gem (new, possibly unstable)
(Black and Gold,  Bubble gem)



Miscellaneous

Swiss Chard (mostly red, might be mixed)
Chives
Sugar Ann snap peas
Green peas 
*Note: Seeds are manually saved from my own plants. All plants are pollinated naturally by wind, insects, etc, and may have been crossed with other varieties or species. Some new varieties may be unstable. I am not a professional plant breeder.




My wish list (let me know if you have them!) - heirloom / unusual pepper, tomato, herb and edible flowers - blue/indigo tomatoes (blue gold, blue berries, blue cream, indigo apple) - multicolor peppers (Fish pepper, Chinese 5 color pepper) - blue/black carrots (especially looking for Pusa Asita Black carrot) - stabilized Sungold tomato (such as Sungold Select II, or newer version)