Seeds and Plants to Trade

Seed Savers Exchange The Seed Savers Exchange is a non-profit international non-governmental organization that maintains what is probably the largest publically available collection of heirloom seeds, bulbs, roots, tubers, scionwood, and grains in the world.  Membership is $30 a year and provides access to an incredible wealth of the remaining fraction of heirlooms.  More information

Other Seed Savers and Gardening Sites on the Web There are other seed savers on the web, as well as an amazing wealth of information on apples, gardening, raising poultry, genetic manipulation of crops, grafting... you name it.  If you are interested, see my   Annotated List of Links

I enjoy gardening and like trading seeds and plants.  What I have  available is listed below.  There is also a list of things I want, but that is just a starter.  In general I am looking for veggies although I am interested in a lot of other weird things like carnivorous plants, heirloom fruit trees, basswoods that produce a lot of flowers, disease-resistant american elms and chestnuts, herbs that are used in cooking, sunflowers, and even some ornamentals.

If you don't have anything to trade you can send me a SASE and I will send you what you want if I have any extra.  If not, you will get substitutions.  You must send enough postage to ship to you or your request will not be filled.  For example, a 32 cent stamp is not sufficient to cover postage on a bunch of potatoes.  If you do have seeds to trade, don't worry about postage.  I am located in the USA.  I like to trade with people outside the USA.  However, many countries have import restrictions on live plants like potatoes so be sure to check your import laws before requesting live plant material. In the future more of the seeds I have to trade will have images available, so check back occasionally.  (All the photos were taken with Olympus digital cameras. The older grainy photos were taken with an Olympus 320 and the newer, good-looking ones were taken with an Olympus C2000-Zoom. The photos were downloaded to a PC running under Red Hat Linux using GnuPhoto and were touched up and further compressed using the GIMP.

Note to the media: If you would like information, quotes, pictures, or interviews, it would help me greatly if you ask specific questions and give me a deadline by which you need my input for your piece. Emailing me photos of you in your garden or public domain pix I can use here are guaranteed to get you a speedy response even during the height of gardening season. :-)

Organic! All my seed is organically grown, as are my potatoes, horseradish, and jerusalem artichokes. Most of this year's garlic came from a commercial source and may not be organic.

Of some seeds I only have Limited Quantities.  Of others I have only limited quantities and they are very rare, in which case you Must Reoffer them to other gardeners next season. To get "LQ" or "MR" seed you must be either a listed Seed Savers Exchange member (send me your SSE code) or have something special I really want.

To set up a trade, send email to atman@ecst.csuchico.edu

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Carrots

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Tiptop	French Nantes Type, extra crisp, first rate eating and juicing carrot with sweet, brittle aromatic flesh adapted to a wide range of soils. Source: CV Shepherd's Garden Seeds

Gourds

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Apache Dipper(lageneria siceraria)	I am unable to grow these to maturity in my current zone and they are very rare.  Update: Native Seeds/SEARCH is offering these again so I now have some extra to trade.

Herbs

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Chives	Seeds only. Greens grow 8" high and produce very spicy pink flowers.
	Cilantro Coriandrum sativum	40 days. Leafy herb, edible stems and leaves are called cilantro, edible seeds are called coriander. Leaves are great in salsa, stir frys, and are used in southwest and asian cuisine. These seeds are a mix of "regular" cilantro, slo-bolt, and a cross between the two. Very easy to grow, frost tolerant, plant early in spring. Will self seed.
	Dill
	Fenugreek Trigonella foenum-graecum	The ripe, dried seeds of a quick growing annual leguminous herb, fenugreek has a strong, pleasant and quite distinctive odour similar to maple. The seed is rich in protein and contains volatile fixed oils. In India, fenugreek is often used as a cover crop in citrus fruit orchards to take advantage of fenugreek's nitrogen-fixing qualities. Harvest when pods turn brown. Source: Brian Pomerantz in Boise, Idaho
	Mustard	Available in small quantities or by the pound Source: Peaceful Valley Farm Supply, Grass Valley, California
	Rosemary	Specify cuttings or seeds.

Horseradish

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Haynersville	Robust plants, invasive and hard to eradicate, but great tasting, 2" thick roots, 4'+ long, heirloom from 150-year old farm. Source: NY RO B 1999

Jerusalem Artichoke

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Stampede	Description from source: Large, white, knobby extremely early setting tubers, always the first var. to flower, from CV Jo1, SSE JER ART 28 Source: ME BO W 1998
	Waldoboro Gold	Description from source: Very peculiar, yellow including flesh, , very long slender contorted tubers resembling milkweed roots a bit, plants stand out at a glance from all others in collection, very early flowering, smaller and more slender with different color and foliage texture, a bit difficult to use, forget about peeling them, I think this var. has potential as a soil-building permacrop. SSE JER ART 33. Source: ME BO W 1998

Onions

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Egyptian Walking	A multiplier/topsetting variety that produces bulbils on the end of a stalk. When the bulbils get too heavy the stalk falls over and the bulbils take root. This "walking" gives this type of onion its name. Source: Northwest Seed and Pet, Spokane WA 1999

Peas

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Golden Sweet Edible Podded	77 days. Edible yellow pods grace tall 4'-6' (up to 2m) trellised vines--easy to find against green leaves. Two tone purple flowers. Pick young to avoid strings. Good bearer. One 20 foot row will keep you in snow peas the whole year if you freeze them. Great in stir frys. Like other peas you can plant these early; this year they went in on April 18 in Zone 5. Originally collected in a market in India. Seeds are tan with purple flecks. The only yellow-podded pea in SSE's collection. I really like this pea and I have oodles of seed so give it a try! Source: IA SSE HF 1999

Peppers

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Hermosillo Select Chiltepin	from Sonora, Mexico. Capsicum annuum var. aviculare.  Pea-sized hot red peppers are very attractive to birds and grow on highly ornamental 2-3' plants. Source: CV Na2 Available NOW
	Jamaica Pepper	Very, very hot pepper from the Carribean island of Saint Martin.  Sold as "Jamaica Pepper" in supermarket.  Fruits are green->yellow, about 1 inch long and 3/4 inch across. OUT
	Hot Pepper	Very, very, very hot pepper from the Carribean island of Saint Martin.  Sold as "Hot Pepper" in supermarket.  I thought I was going to lose my significant other over a small mishap with this one.  They are about 1.5" by 1.5", green->orange, puckered at the bottom.  The hottest peper I have ever had.  Not a habenero. OUT

Potatoes

Image	Variety Name	Description
Big Big	Caribou	127 days. Tan with pink splashes. Quick starter, vigorous. Huge yield, of small to medium tubers, produced twice as much per plant as the next closest variety. Source: Greg in Nelson, BC, Canada.
Big	Daku's Round Purple	127 days. Purple with pink stripes--they look like easter eggs.  Large yield of huge tubers. Kids love digging them up.  Sources: OH SU F 99, CO AL T 99
	Hassan Abdullah	100 days, big potato, yellow skin and flesh, good keeper, very sweet taste, from Morroco, market in Agadir Source SWED TE P 1999 LQ
	Little Porker	Medium oblong round pink tubers. Good keeper. I bred this myself from potato seed balls (true seed). STC Potato #13. An OP cross between All Blue, another unknown blue type, Urgenta, Peanut, Daku's Round Purple and an unnamed variety I received in the mail. If you are a breeder or commercial grower: this potato is my invention and is available at no charge under the GNU General Public License. MR
	Peanut	101 days. From Alaska, originally Scandinavian, small to medium tubers, long oblong shape, golden skin, peculiar knobs around eyes, fairly vigorous plants. Fingerling, yellow flesh, good taste. Source ME BO W 99.
	Pink Pearl	Oblong pink skinned tuber, good keeper. Source ME BO W 99.
	Poorlander	153 days*. Red skin, yellowish dry flesh, excellent flavor, my source's favorite baker, elongated and flattened, some tendency to develop toes, *: plants continue to grow until killed by frost, crop will develop even if planted in July (my source's average frost date is Oct 3), old variety grown in southern Ohio since before 1900. Very rare. Source OH DE J 99.
	Quayle's Quandry	97 days. Round to fingerling shaped with dark purple skin. Good keeper. I bred this myself from potato seed balls (true seed). STC Potato #12. An OP cross between All Blue, another unknown blue type, Urgenta, Peanut, Daku's Round Purple and an unnamed variety I received in the mail. If you are a breeder or commercial grower: this potato is my invention and is available at no charge under the GNU General Public License. MR
	Steak Snuggler	Round flattened medium purple tubers. Uniform. Good keeper. I bred this myself from potato seed balls (true seed). STC Potato #17. An OP cross between All Blue, another unknown blue type, Urgenta, Peanut, Daku's Round Purple and an unnamed variety I received in the mail. If you are a breeder or commercial grower: this potato is my invention and is available at no charge under the GNU General Public License. MR
	Viking Purple	127 days. Medium yield of small to large round purple and pink tubers. Good keeper. Source: ME BO W 1999 LQ
	Urgenta	97 days. Pink skin and yellow flesh, good yielder, from CV Ron. Source OH SU R 1997
	Warba Pink Eyes	101 days. Medium size, round white tubers with pink eyes from CV Ron. Source OH SU F 99. LQ
	Wettstein White Crescent	153 days. Fingerling, white, long crescent shaped. Very tasty boiled.  Source: ME BO W 98

Potatoes are easy to grow and very productive--more people should grow them.

I have some potato "true seed" -- real seeds that will produce completely new potatoes.  Each seed will produce a different kind of potato: from no tubers at all to a new kind of prizewinner. These seeds are a cross between All Blue, another unknown blue type, Urgenta (red skinned yellow fleshed), Peanut (a fingerling), Daku's Round Purple (easter-egg looking potatoes) and an unnamed variety I received in the mail. If you would like some, just ask. Start them the same way you start tomatoe seeds.

Shallots

Squash, Winter/Pumpkins

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Atlantic Giant Cucurbita maxima	Monstrously huge pumpkins of varying size, shape, and color. Fruit can top 1,000 pounds each. All seeds come from orange/tan/cream colored fruit and should be suitable for competition. Info with each seed typically includes pedigree and weight of fruit that produced the seed. Number of seeds sent will be small as each plant requires up to 2500 square feet of growing space. If you want to grow really big ones, this is the variety to try, but do yourself a favor and do some research on the care and feeding of Atlantic giants, both so you will have a good chance of growing a big one and so you know what you are getting yourself into.
Big Big Big Big	Bohemian Pumpkin Cucurbita maxima	Mottled pink and blue-green, fairly large pumpkins. Rare. Source: Internet trader in Germany
	Casserta Crookneck Cucurbita pepo	57 days. Incredibly productive summer squash. Casserta x yellow crookneck cross. Extremely rare, please reoffer. Source: MO WA C 1997 Available Soon
	Cinderalla/Rouge Vif D'Etampes Cucurbita maxima	Old French heirloom pumpkin.  Flattened red-orange fruit, thick walls.  Good keeper, great for cooking.  One of my favorite pumpkins.  White seeds.  Beautiful and very decorative.  Source: CV Shepherd's Garden Seeds.
	Delicata Cucurbita pepo	Very tasty 6 - 12" elongated yellow squash with lengthwise green stripes that turn orange.  Pretty good keeper, sweet yellow flesh.  Easy to grow, and delicious--my favorite winter squash.  One of the few (the only?) winter squash with edible skin.
Big Big Big Big	Escondita Calabaza Cucurbita maxima	One of the few maximas Native Seeds/SEARCH has collected in south central New Mexico. From the village of Escondita at 5000 ft., somewhat low for a traditional maxima. These are relatively pure, perhaps due to the small number of truck farms left in this mainly alfalfa-growing region. Fruits are 4-15 lbs. oblong or rounded with slight ribbing, with cream to light orange skin. Flesh is yellow/orange. Irrigated from the Rio Grande by one of the last traditional Spanish farm families in the area. Source: Native Seeds/SEARCH
	Hindu Cucurbita mixta	Cushaw type from India.  Large pear-shaped squash, white with green stripes.  My three plants each yielded 4-5 squash, each of which contains 16-25 generous servings of tasty sweet yellow flesh.  I didn't think this variety was going to do anything for me and then it suddenly took over my lawn and now I have hindu squash filling my kitchen.  I gave several to the local food bank.  A really good squash.  I am very pleased with it.  Source: MO GE J 97
Big Big	Small Flat Cheese Pumpkin Cucurbita moschata	Dinner plate size, ridged, flattened, thick rich flavored flesh, prolific, 2 colors of skin on vine, dark green and buff, drought tolerant, old time cornfield variety. Fruit is light orange/buf and are amazingly good keepers. They keep practically forever, it is really amazing. Extremely rare--please reoffer if you can. Source: OH KN T 1997 Now Available!
	Spaghetti Squash Cucurbita pepo	Also called Vegetable Spaghetti. Tasty 8-12" winter squash that produces yellow spaghetti-like strands when cooked. Yellow shell, yellow flesh, seeds came from a squash that kept a whole year and was still fine. Source: supermarket squash (growout produced true-to-type). I like spaghetti squash with spaghetti sauce on it; it is also good with salt and butter, or you can use it in soups. A variety I grow every year. Extremely prolific producer. Plant three plants and stand back!

Sunflowers

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Tarahumara White	12-15' stalks with one primary head and numerous smaller ones.  Seeds are all white, not even a black or grey stripe.  Note: These are open pollinated and some of the seeds will be impure, meaning you may get some sunflowers with seeds that aren't all white. A growout of 25 plants will produce 1 with grey seed. I have been selecting for earliness, height, and large heads, plus white seeds of course.

Tomatoes

Image	Variety Name	Description
	Amish Paste	85 days.  Indeterminate paste type fruit with oblong oxheart shape.  8-oz tomatoes are solid with an outstandingly good flavor.  Source: Barbara Alden.
	Angora	Small to medium size red tomatoes, ok taste but not great.  Noticable fuzzy silver foliage (although it doesn't show up well in the picture.)  Indeterminate.  Source: Lynn Woosley, Marietta GA OUT
Big	Anna Russian	Large red beefsteak type. Source: Mark Scarinzi, Baltimore MD
	Arkansas Traveller	Indeterminate uniform tennis ball-sized pink fruit.  (The color balance is wrong in the photo, they really are pink).  Good taste, very productive.  Source: Mark Scarinzi, Baltimore MD
	Black Krim	Fist-sized flattened round fruits are blackish-brown. Seeds have green gel coating. Delicious taste. Russian variety.
	Bonny Best	Old time canning variety, indeterminate. Source: Seed swap in Nelson, BC, Canada
	Daybreak	Determinate plants.  Regular leaf, inserted stigma, irregular shape.  Flat round red fruit with green shoulders 3" diameter x 1.5" high.  Medium blossom scar, no cracking, SSE tomato 4110.  Source: IA SSE HF 97
Big Big	Caspian Pink	Color balance is wrong; this is a very pink tomato. (The photos look red).
	Giant Belgium	Pink to purple.  Source: Lynn Woosley, Marietta GA
Big	Green Grape	Round cherry tomato that turns yellowish-green when ripe. Very sweet and tasty! Well worth growing for the taste. Bred in 1985 by Tom Wagner of Tater Mater Seeds, a long-time tomato breeder currently in California. Source: Seed swap in Nelson, BC, Canada
	Indische Fleisch	Medium to large slightly flat dark purple with green shoulders.  Ugly inside but delicious.  Indeterminate, susceptible to cracking and rotting especially since the fruit can hide in the shadows.  Yummy.  Source: Mark Scarinzi, Baltimore MD
	Italian Black (may be "Black Plum")	Highly uniform 1.5 inch-long oblong fruit are dark red with green and black shoulders. Indeterminate, vigorous, highly productive. Great taste, dries wonderfully. Source: Dixie Eves 1999
	Liberty Tree	Pink indeterminate 4"+ fruit. Potato leaf. Source: KS TA E 1999
Big Big   Older photo	Lillian's Yellow Heirloom	Indeterminate potato leaf.  Low fruit set but absolutely delicious.  Large yellow tomatoes, the earliest of 20+ kinds I grew in 1997.  Save seeds as you pick the tomatoes all through the season as there aren't many seeds per fruit.  Really excellent taste. These tomatoes even taste fantastic when picked green and allowed to ripen indoors. You HAVE to try this tomato. I grow several of these plants every year and have plenty of seeds. If you are only going to try one kind of tomato, try this one!!!  Source: Mark Scarinzi, Baltimore MD
	Marizol Bratka	Pink to purple.  Source: Mark Scarinzi, Baltimore MD
Big Big	Marmande	Indet, clusters of medium flattened semi-lobed fruit. Second earliest red tomato I grew in 1999 of 20 varieties. Source: Seed swap in Nelson, BC, Canada
	Mortgage Lifter, Halladay's	Pink to purple, large tomato, regular leaf, good flavor, indeterminate.  Source: Mark Scarinzi, Baltimore MD
	Mortgage Lifter, Large Pink Cordon	Pink to Purple. Source: Petra Suckling, Northants, England
	Orange Cherry	Slightly elongated 1.3" orange fruit on vigorous indeterminate vines. Deep orange when ripe.  Produces lots of fruit. Tasty. Source: OR TH C 97 OUT
Big	Orange Queen	Prolific producer of racquetball sized fruit; regular leaf, indeterminate. Fruit are a deep glowing orange when ripe. Source: Seed swap in Nelson, BC, Canada
	Pineapple	Large red and yellow marbled fruit. Good fruity unique taste.  Regular leaf, indeterminate.  Good producer.  Source: Nina Waters, Strasburg PA
	Pink Brandywine	Extremely delicious large dark-pink fruits on indeterminte potato-leaved vines are some of the best, meatiest tomatoes I have tasted.  Source: OK ME D 97
	Pruden's Purple	75 days. Indeterminate, large (10 to 16 oz) dark pink fruits grow on potato-leaved vines and mature quite early for such large fruit. Delicious flavor and good production. Similar to Brandywine but earlier. LQ
	Reif Redheart	Slightly larger than baseball-sized fruits with pointed ends on lanky indeterminate vines. The vines are kind of weedy looking and don't have a lot of leaves but produce a respectable number of good-tasting tomatoes once they get going. Source: Seed swap in Nelson, BC, Canada
	Russian Persimmon	Orange persimmon-sized and shaped fruits. Source: Seed swap in Nelson, BC, Canada
Big Big Big	Sandpoint	Developed at the Univeristy of Idaho for the short, cold climate of northern Idaho, this tomato produces a heavy load of small red fruit quickly. It is determinate and very stocky but as you can see from the pictures even though it has strong squat stems the weight of the crop means it really needs to be caged. Source: Glenn Drowns of the Sand Hill Preservation Center (IA DRG 98)
Big Big	Sausage	A long paste type; very meaty, few seeds, little liquid. Great for sauces and salsa. Indeterminate, regular leaf. Great keeper too.
	Schimmeig's Striped Hollow	Racquetball size, four-lobed, hollow, prolific, vigorous, indeterminite, red fruits with attractive yellow streaks. Source: OR TH C 97
	Sintesi	73 days.  IPK LYC 1346, bush habit, 2-3" flattened irregular fruit on 3' determinate vines. From Romania. SSE Tomato 3202 Source: IA SSE HF 97. LQ
	Somesan	75 days.  IPK 649.  Bush habit, 2-4" round red fruit on 2' plant.  SSE Tomato 3203.  From Romania.  Source: IA SSE HF 97.
	Stambovyj 852	IPK, pole habit, 3' high, fruit red inside, yellow skin, green shoulders, flat round fruit, irregular in cross-section, large blossom scar, radial cracking, USSR, SSE TOMATO 3351 Source: IA SSE HF 1997 LQ
	Steakhouse	89-91 days.  Despite name, the tomatoes are small.  Very vigorous and productive, sweet, pole habit 6'5" high, fruit red inside, yellow skin, green shoulders, high round fruit, angular in cross-section.  1.5" high, 1.5" wide, small blossom scar, no cracking.  SSE Tomato 1184.  Source: IA SSE HF 97 Note: the tomatoes I grew don't match the description above (see photos).  May be a rogue.
	Stokesalaska	55-65 days.  Indeterminate regular leaf 1.5" round red fruit.  SSE Tomato 414.  CV STO.  Source: IA SSE HF 97
Big Big Big Big	Taxi	Earliest tomato out of the 26 I grew in 1999. Determinate, regular leaf, racquetball sized. The color balance in the photos isn't quite right; this is a bright yellow tomato. When ripe there is a slight pink blush in the center of the tomato--very pretty. Source: Seed swap in Nelson, BC, Canada
Big Big	Yellow Pear	Rampant indeterminate vines produce incredible numbers of small yellow pear-shaped tomatoes. Delicious, excellent in salads or for just eating off the vine. An American heirloom from the early 1900s.
	Zapotec Pleated	Pinkish-red oblong lobed fruit on indeterminate vines.  Visually very cool.    Source: Lynn Woosley, Marietta GA OUT
	Mixed	I have a large number of mixed seeds of all the varieties above collected when I was cooking with my tomatoes. If you want a grab bag of seeds (including some that aren't listed above) or are looking for any tomato that will grow in your difficult conditions, try this mix.

Dill's Atlantic Giant Pumpkin seeds from pumpkins above 800 pounds (debates rage in the ever-exciting world of giant pumpkins)...

Heirloom varieties of...

- winter and summer squash
- other tomatoes
- potatoes
- sunflowers
- squash
- artichokes
- asparagus
- peppers (both hot and sweet)
- garlic
- onions
- pawpaw seed/trees
- heirloom lettuces and greens

.. and any other rare, weird veggies you might have.

To set up a trade, send email to atman@ecst.csuchico.edu

Index

Other pictures

Image	Variety Name	Description
Big	Lemon Cucumber
	Jarrahdale Pumpkins Cucurbita maxima	One of my favorites! They are the three green-skinned ones in the photos. They originated in Australia and are rare in the USA. 110 days, 6-10 lb drum-shaped ribbed fruit, grey-green-blue skin, short vine, good keeper.

Legal Mumbo Jumbo:

I took all of the veggie photos on this page, both those reachable by the "(photo)" hyperlinks and the thumbnails. All of them are available for free use under the GNU General Public License. That means you can do anything with them that you want, without asking me, as long as you release derived works--works that include, incorporate, or are descended from these images--under the GPL as well. If you want to publish them in a book or a magazine article I have may have better quality, higher resolution versions available. I'd like a copy of whatever you include them in, if possible. Credit for photos or whatever else you take from this page should go to Shaun Case. If you can't send me a copy, a piece of email letting me know you found my stuff useful so I can track down a copy for myself would be appreciated. If you are feeling generous and want to give money to someone, join the Seed Savers Exchange. They'll send you a massive catalog of heirlooms and four quarterly publications that will provide lots of great information, ideas, and leads for future pieces.

Good luck and good gardening,

Shaun