Seed bank



The following seeds are currently available to members of the CROP seedbank, this list is not comprehensive, we are continually swapping, buying, saving and gathering new seeds, if you can't see something you are looking for, ask, we may know where to get it, or split a bulk order with you. Seedbank membership costs 10 Euros/7 GBP per year including postage and packing. To join, please email
untamedrootvegetable@hotmail.com, let us know what you are interested in growing and we will send you a selection of seeds, with instructions about growing them for food or for seed. CROP apologise for this convoluted arrangement, it is purely intended to dodge evil EU/UK legislation which we will rant on about for hours, if you so desire.

Contents

Miscellaneous Vegetables
Brassicas (Cabbage family)
Legumes (Peas, beans etc.)
Roots
Fruits (including tomatoes, pumpkins etc.)
Herbs etc.
Grains
Green manures
Trees

Miscellaneous Vegetables

Asparagus

precoce d'argenteuil

Italian early variety

beet/chard/spinach beet

Perpetual spinach

Saved seed. Ultra hardy strain. Survived the extremely cold Bulgaria winter with little or no protection

Tonda di Chioggia

beetroot, tennisball size roots, with attractive white and red concentric bands

cardoon

gobbo di nizza

Italian variety. Attractive, huge silver grey foliage and stems

celery

d'elne verde

chives

chicory

grumolo verde

Rossa di Verona a Palla

spadona da taglio

catalogna

puntarelle

claytonia

(winter purslane/miners lettuce)

corn salad

vert de cambrai

Albarello di Sarzana

Cress

Land Cress

Para Cress Red

Florence Fennel

This variety is grown for its swollen leaf bases, often incorrectly called fennel root, not to be confused with the herb fennels also available on this page.

romanesco

Kohl rabi

purple delicacy

Lambs lettuce

leek

lettuce

little gem

attraction

Lollo biondi

autumn

Rossa

spring

Cherno gyumyuthingumyjig

Bulgarian variety, the name of which I can't quite remember off hand!

Flax

Okra

Louisiana Green

rhubarb

Burnton, garden

Saved seed from a garden in Ayrshire. Unknown parentage

Elmbank railway

Found growing wild in Aberdeen on old allotment site.

sorrel

french

?

Other variety name escapes me

spinach

matador

A true spinach variety

spring onion

Brassicas

broccoli

purple sprouting

Reliable and prolific. Ideal way to fill the hungry gap. Grown Aberdeen
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Ambassador F1

Don't know how this one slipped in. We are generally strongly opposed to F1 Hybrids

brussel sprout

cabbage

early/tempora drumhead

Reliable English summer cabbage

Cuor di bue grosso

Italian variety

cabbage summer

Saved seed of unknown origin, grown in Scotland and Bulgaria

Marner lagerot organic

As you might expect this is a large German red variety

Savoy

Gourmet variety with distinctive crinkly leaves

Balkan

Bulgarian variety. Hardy summer cabbage

cauliflower

Romanesco precoce

Romanesco variety early

kale

nero di toscana precoce

An Italian variety that survived the Bulgarian winter under plastic

Dwarf curled

Tried and tested Scottish variety for smaller gardens. Excellent flavour. Fresh young shoots in spring are sweet and delicious raw in salads

red russian

Looks similar (perhaps identical to?) the English variety ragged jack. Survived the Bulgarian winter with no protection whatsoever
Kale

Mizuna

Excellent cold tolerant salad brassica.

glasshouse strain for early and late planting

Outdoor ultra hardy strain

Grown from the plants which survived the Bulgarian winter

Mustard

White mustard is usually grown as a ghreen manure crop, but it's prolific and rapid growth makes it (in my book at least) one of the best green vegetables in existance. Cut repeatedly to prevent flowering, a few leaves will spice up a salad. Try pureeing it with lemon, salt, oil and garlic to make a tasty pesto. Store in sterilised jars as you would other preserves for the winter time

Outdoor strain

White mustard grown in Scotland and Bulgaria out of doors

Chinese, green in snow

Sow midsummer for a late crop of exotic greens

White glasshouse

Bred for glasshouse cultivation, Scotland

radish

Eat the roots. Eat the leaves. Eat the seedpods. Sprout the seeds and eat them too. Give them to kids to grow to get them interested in gardening. Plant wherever you have a bare bit of ground while larger vegetables grow

saxa 2

scarlet globe

perla rosa

Rocket

Swede

Hardy Scottish staple

Lizzy

Marian

turnip

the leaves are good to eat too. Very nutritious high protein greens. Some people plant them late in the year for the greens alone

di milano a colletto viola

snowball

golden ball

purple top milan

Legumes

(beans, peas, pulses)
To avoid confusion about the many names in use around the world, I have grouped legumes by botanical classifications, thus french and runner beans are Phaseolus, and broad beans are Faba.

black eye beans

Frost sensitive, sometimes called black eye peas. A distinct species, treat like dwarf haricot beans

chick peas

principe

Faba beans

More info at
Broad beans

Broad bean witkiem

Broad bean Jubilee hysor

Broad bean sutton

Broad bean bunyards exhibition

Broad bean optica

Broad bean red epicure

"corner shop"

saved seed

Field beans

Phaseolus

climbing french bean borlotto ramon

climbing french bean birds egg (heritage)

Purple french beans

Dwarf variety. Generally picked while "green" the purple pods are easy to spot. Could also be harvested fully ripe for dried haricot beans. These were grown intercropped with tomatoes on rich sandy soil in Bulgaria, under a makeshift cloche, although in 2005 they would quite easily have prduced ripe seed without protection.

haricot

Dwarf Italian white seeded variety grown on heavy clay soil in northern Italy. Intended to be grown for dry beans but could also be picked green.

Borlotti

Dwarf Italian variety with distinctive large, reddish brown mottled seeds, can be picked semi ripe if desired.

Cannelini

Dwarf Italian variety. Long thin white seeds .

dolico/dall'occhio

dwarf Italian green bean

borlotto di vigevano

dwarf Italian green bean

purple king

dwarf Italian green bean

unknown

Maxi

pinto beans

Grown Italy. Grown for the ripe seed

White Emergo

runner bean

Galaxy

runner bean

Red Flame

runner bean

lupin

dieta

(edible) Thrives on poor, acid sandy soil where little else will grow, but should do well in richer soils as well. Harvest seeds when pods are dry, cook in several changes of water. More info about lupins

Lentil

Unknown variety, Bulgarian, very heterogeneous.

pea

kelvedon wonder

dark skin perfection

wrinkled late variety

telefono

Wrinkled, late pea

Meteor

wrinkled late variety

Petit pois

wrinkled late variety

"sofia market"

Unknown variety

vatova

Sold as an early variety, this proved successful even when planted late. Grown on poor sandy soil in Bulgarian mountains

maple (carlins)

Bred for the UK. Brown skinned yellow pea

"Maincrop"

unknown variety

Rondo

"round hardy"

unknown variety

pea mange tout

gigante svizzero

Carouby de Mausanne

grown Aberdeen. Very prolific Peas

Sweetpeas

Mix

Root vegetables

Beetroot

Moneta

Mild flavoured variety with distinctive red and white rings when sliced.

Tonda di Chioggia

Italian variety

Detroit 2

carrot

beta III

heritage variety

"faslanian"

Found growing semi-wild, unknown parentage

James scarlet

Kuttiger

parabel

Miniature early carrot. Round roots

supreme chantonay red cored

Gigante Norfolk 2

This variety confounded expectations, growing well in extremely poor soil under harsh conditions, although not, in the circumstances quite as large as it might have been in Norfolk peat soil!

celeriac

Balder

Tellus

Garlic

Italian

unknown

Bulgarian

onion

rossa di bassano (Genova)

"Bouinovo"

Saved seed from unknown shallot type multiplier onion

Parsnip

Tender & true

Potato

unknown

true seed

salsify

Old fashioned vegetable of the dandylion family, rarely grown nowadays.

Scorzonera

Duplex

Black salsify, also called oyster root because of its unusual flavour

Fruits

Aubergine

Unknown variety, possibly bred from Violetta Lunga 2. Smallish fruits. These seeds were from plants grown on clay soil in an alpine region of Italy.

Cape Gooseberry

cape gooseberry

Cape gooseberry picture

Cucumber

pepino

Conqueror

Crystal Lemon

Marketmore

Marrow/Squash/pumpkin

see also pumpkin

Green striped

Reliable old British variety

"cream coloured"

Unknown Bulgarian variety, large oval, cream/green coloured fruits

Berretina di Piacentina

Italian variety

squash

berretina piacentina

Traditional Italian variety

Golden hubbard

Butter cup

Courgette

Gold Bush

Pumpkin

"Liz's saved Swiss organic" Unknown parentage possibly F2 hybrid, saved seed

Pumpkin Rouge vif d'Etampes

Pumpkin Bulgarian unknown

Orange and green medium sized round fruits

Nightshade

This is a spiky fruited member of the tomato family, but all details of its origins have been lost to me. If anyone can help identify it, let me know!

Pepper

zenzero?

Italian variety no details available

Habanero

Long Green Buddha

Cilegia Piccante

Small round hot red Italian variety

strawberry

Bred from relatively large fruited wild strain, excellent flavour alpine type

strawberry sticks

(strawberry spinach)

Tomatillo

Purple

tomato

moneymaker

pomodoro roma

pomodori lunghi

Long red

Nova

Pear shaped

Stupice

"Heinz 57"

Healthy happy mongrel

Atkins Stuffing

Carters Fruit

fablonelystnyj

jugoslavian

tomato picture

herbs etc.

Basil

growing basil

Basil needs frost free conditions and rich soil. Under some conditions, basil can grow perennially, it is more usually grown as an annual. A good companion for tomatoes, both in the greenhouse and on the plate.

Giant

An extremely large leaved variety.

Lemon

Distinctive flavour and good yields

Sweet

Reliable variety relatively easy to grow

Purple

Beautiful, great for garnishing, but lower yielding than the other varieties when we grew it.

Thai

Not basil at all, a totally unrelated plant. Tastes similar to true basil

chamomile

german

matricaria

Coriander

Echinacea

Purpurea

epazote

Mexican herb, goes well with beans and reduces flatulence!

evening primrose

Canadian

Bulgarian

fennel

bronze

Aberdonian

"Bulgarian semi wild"

Unknown variety

Marigold

mexican

Sweet

mint

pepe

Green

oregano

parsley

commune 1

commune 2

Moss curled

Japanese (Mitsuba)

Poppy

Himalayan

sage

St John's Wort

tarragon

russian

Thyme

Common

umbillifer

large fragrant unidentified, possibly Alexanders

Wormwood

Common

Grains

buckwheat

"Green manure/smooth seeded"

A standard green manure variety with pyramid shaped smooth seeds. Lower seed yield than the Medawaska when grown at high altitude in sandy soil

Medawaska

Good hardy variety for northern climates Buckwheat

Flax

maize

sisred

unknown variety

Strawberry popcorn

Oats

Amigo

Grown Aberdeen

Oats

Bulgarian unknown, short straw variety, grown on sandy mountain soil

sunflower

"dark seeded"

unknown variety

"light seeded"

"Bulgarian unknown"

large heads, suited to short season, mountain climate

wheat

"birdseed"

Unknown variety

Green manures

birdsfoot trefoil

wild (green manure)

birdsfoot trefoil

virgo

white clover

wild strain

red clover

Clover

legume

green manure unidentified

lupin

(green manure)

Ornamental lupin, beautiful flowers, prolific growth and a deep tap root make this an attractive green manure. These seeds are from semi wild plants found on wasteland in North East Scotland.

bolter

(green manure)

An ornamental lupin, selected for its tendency to flower in its first year of growth.

Mustard

phacelia

Vetch

Early english

(green manure) not fully identified yet

long pod

gathered from wild, not fully identified yet

small pod

gathered from wild, not fully identified yet

Trees/shrubs

Broom

Scottish

white broom

(cytisus alba) legume shrub

alder

"sumerau"

Collected Czech / Austrian border. Nitrogen fixing tree. Likes wet places.

cherries

plums

Assorted including damsons and wild varieties

Laburnum

Excellent nitrogen fixing tree, seeds from Scotland, Czech republic, Bulgaria and Italy

false acacia

Bulgarian legume

Honey Locust tree

legume tree, Bulgarian
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