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- (Lathyrus sativus) Lathyrus sativus is an interesting crop. Many of our food plants were domesticated in a few key regions around the world, from which they spread – the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, the area between the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in China, Mesoamerica, and the Andes Mountains in South America being the most influential. The oldest is the Middle Eastern centre of domestication. But humans are pretty…
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- (Arachis hypogaea) A red-skinned Valencia type which will immediately look familiar to peanut-eaters. Combines earliness with good productivity. I received this variety as ‘Garoy’ from John DeMarco of Sunny Island Farm in Kingsville, ON. Thanks, John! It is a special peanut for Ontarians. In 1978, the University of Guelph began developing peanuts as an alternate crop for tobacco farmers in southern Ontario. Naturally the main criterion they focused on was…
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- (Arachis hypogaea) The earliest peanut I have grown or heard of. White-skinned seeds are small, about half the size of regular peanuts, but powerfully flavourful. A bit of sleuthing turns up a fascinating pedigree. I received seed from John Sherck of Bristol, Indiana. He received seed from Nat Bradford. David S. Shields, Carolina Distinguished Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina, is an enthusiastic researcher…
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- (Cicer arietinum) A bushy plant about 14”/40 cm tall with striking, wrinkled black seeds. This chickpea is productive and easy to grow. 108 days to maturity. 35 seeds/packet.
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- (Lathyrus sativus) A plant with many common names also called khesari, cicerchia, Ethiopian lentil, and chickling vetch. If you find lentils too hard to grow in our climate this plant is a good substitute, but it is really its own unique crop. Tan/green wrinkled seeds look like a cross between a lentil and a pea and taste deliciously like that cross. The plants are great: short, bushy vines grow into…
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- (Phaseolus coccineus) Pole, 10-14’ tall. Enormous white seeds – 65 beans per cup! Despite their size, they cook quickly, have a smooth texture and are delicious -- mild and mealy, ideal in soup or sauces. They are also good as shelly beans, when the seeds are full-sized but the pods are still yellow or light green; cook like dry beans without the need to soak. On the day after killing…
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- (Phaseolus coccineous) Pole, 12’ tall. Brilliant red flowers, followed by beautiful beans which look rather like frosted pebbles. A landrace from the Tarahumara, an Indigenous people from northern Mexico, this bean can be somewhat variable in colour and size, but in my opinion, that only adds to its beauty. 110 days to maturity. 20 seeds/packet.
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