Weedwhacker's Plant List

A note from Weedwhacker
Abbreviations used:
PSS: 2014 Piggy Seed Swap (Ella's Garden on Cubits) / Ptree: Pinetree Seeds / AHS: Amishland Heirloom Seeds
JSS: Johnny's Selected Seeds / Park: Park Seeds / TT: Totally Tomatoes / Burp: Burpee Seeds
Shum: Shumway Seed / Gurn: Gurney's Seeds / TF: TomatoFest / FYF: Forever Yong Farms /
HF: Henry Field's / LSC: Livingston Seed Company / SSE: Seed Saver's Exchange / S&S: Seeds 'n' Such

HH: Hoophouse / GH: Greenhouse

WS: Wintersown
V (i.e., "WS/V," "indoors/V): sown in vermiculite

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Sweet Annie (Artemisia annua)
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Have
O.P.
Herbs
ornamental
annual
2015: PSS
2018: Fedco

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Goat's Beard (Aruncus dioicus)
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Have
O.P.
ornamental
perennial
2016: seeds collected last year from plants in my perennial garden
Self sows readily.

Monarch caterpillar on milkweed leaf

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
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Have
O.P.
ornamental
Native plant

#Pollination

Blue Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis)
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Have
ornamental
perennial

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Beet (Beta 'Chioggia Guardsmark')
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vegetables
biennial
2015: Park
These beets are very sweet and mild, but bleed out to just a white color when boiled, which I don't find very appetizing. Nice tops for cooking.

52 days after planting

Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Crosby's Egyptian')
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heirloom
O.P.
vegetables
55 days to maturity
2014: Ptree
2015: Ptree (2014)

Young plants, 34 days after sowing seeds

Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Cylindra')
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Have
heirloom
O.P.
vegetables
58 days to maturity
Various sources.
My favorite variety, very reliable for me; nice to slice for canning.

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Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Golden')
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heirloom
O.P.
vegetables
55 days to maturity
Source: Ptree


Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Taunus')
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hybrid
vegetables
2020: Jung
Nice cylindrical beets for slicing, but didn't see enough difference compared to Cylindra to grow these again.

 Courtesy Harris Seeds

Beet (Beta vulgaris 'Touchstone Gold')
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vegetables

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Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla 'Bright Lights')
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Have
O.P.
vegetables
biennial
50 days to maturity
2014: Ptree
2015: PSS, Ptree

Huge roots!

Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla 'Fire Fresh')
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Have
vegetables
2021: Territorial

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Borage (Borago officinalis)
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Have
O.P.
ornamental
2015: PSS
Self sows

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Rutabaga (Brassica napus 'Helenor')
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O.P.
vegetables

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Rutabaga (Brassica napus 'Laurentian')
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heirloom
O.P.
vegetables
Source: Ptree

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Broccoli (Brassica oleracea 'Arcadia')
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hybrid
vegetables
70 days to maturity
2014: Ptree

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Kale (Brassica oleracea 'Dwarf Blue Curled Vates')
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vegetables
55 days to maturity
2014: Ptree


Broccoli (Brassica oleracea 'Fiesta')
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vegetables
2018: Fedco

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Broccoli (Brassica oleracea 'Green Magic')
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Have
vegetables
2021 Pinetree

Courtesy Harris Seeds

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea 'Gypsy')
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vegetables
2015: JSS

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