This year has been a reminder that fall is always full of surprises including a lot of new crops that we trialed and a lot of improvements done with our propagation last year.\u00a0 Here are a few:<\/p>\n
Diversity Perpetual Potato:\u00a0 \u00a0I heard a visitor say, “I didn’t know you could grow potatoes in the shade.”\u00a0 I kept quiet but I was thinking, ” I didn’t either”.\u00a0 Wedged on the edges of our tree crops, our diploid open pollinated seed potatoes grown from true seed produced a small but vibrant crop of small potatoes.<\/p>\n
The Pawpaw Crop:\u00a0 The late season combined with the good rain really improved the size and quality of the\u00a0 seeds this year. You can really see the size of the fruits from our seed selections made over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
American Persimmons:\u00a0 This year the early ripening seedlings are about three weeks behind normal but seem to be catching up. The seedlings from the Early Golden groups are the best with a sweet creamy texture. We are producing a lot of seed of them now with the Dybvig going full blast.<\/p>\n
The Perennial Thicket Bean:\u00a0 This late season has reduced the seed crop to an all time low. The seeds we saved last year went towards the production of roots of which we were very successful. You can now purchase\u00a0 in bulk should you need a perennial bean forest.<\/p>\n
Sunchokes:\u00a0 \u00a0Here are a couple of new ones worth growing-<\/p>\n
Homestead: This large leaved stout sunchoke comes from the northern part of its range. From Vermont this seedling was found near an old homestead. It has the largest leaves I have ever seen on a sunchoke being almost twice that of most selections.\u00a0 Nice\u00a0 smooth easy to clean<\/p>\n
Weisse Truffel:\u00a0 A small round sunchoke from Germany, Weisse Truffel is a perfect round tuber clustered in small pockets just under the soil. Plants tend to be compact growing.<\/p>\n
Enjoy the fall into winter with these new crops shippable this fall yet or next spring. We will be harvesting until mid November. Our seeds are available throughout the winter as well.<\/p>\n