S o u t h e r n H e r i t a g e S e e d C o l l e c t i v e Collection S 2020 Spring & Summer E E D W e a n r d t y b F y r e e it, as it comes up readily on its own! It’s a flowers reliable flower, food, and pollinator plant in Blazing Star our summer gardens, and gets plenty of Liatris tenuifolia attention when visitors tour the gardens. ~100 seeds Grow a bunch one year and you may never A stunning native plant with long 3-6’ spikes of have to get seed again from us! For continuous tufted lavender-colored flower heads. Very harvest, plant every 2-4 weeks attractive to pollinators. Seeds come from Linda Duever of Mockernut Botanical Garden These are traditional greens throughout in Shiloh, Florida. She sows into fresh burns western and central Africa and the most regardless of season, or disturbed soil widely eaten greens in Nigeria. Leaves, tender whenever there is a chance. Nature typically stems, and young flowers can all be used like scatters the seeds November-December spinach. Closely related Callaloo with similar which is the ideal time, but we are distributing growing requirements- easy! Locally saved by these now anyway as spring planting is still ok. SHSC at Grow Hub You can also hold onto these and scatter early fall when cooler temperatures arrive. Do not Cosmos over fertilize or water, these are native plants Cosmos bipinnatus that will actually suffer with too much care! ~45 seeds Locally saved by Linda at Mockernut Hill 52 days. An easy to grow spring, summer, and Botanical Garden in Shiloh fall flower that readily produces seeds and volunteers year after year, while attracting Cockscomb Purple Celosia loads of pollinators. Mostly orange but some Celosia argentea occasional yellows show up. Carefree, wispy ~300 seeds and drought tolerant. They show up in our 60 days. A stunning and long-lasting garden gardens every year. The latest seed batch flower in the amaranth family. Wonderful in came only from volunteers- the toughest and bouquets and irresistible to pollinators with most resilient plants! Cosmos hate being showy bright pink flowers. The leaves are also soggy, and have struggled in really wet edible and nutritious, prepared like any summers, but still produce and send out lots of cooked green. Plants reach about 5’ tall or seeds and volunteers. Prefers full sun but more depending on soil fertility. Drought tolerates some shade. Once established, tolerant. Sow very shallowly and somewhat cosmos seem to tolerate poor soils and thickly (to accommodate for naturally lower drought conditions. Sow 1/4” deep about 12” germination of the tiny seeds), about 12” apart. Can be direct sown after last frost. Grow apart. Can be direct sown, and will likely self- a bunch one year and you may never have to sow in the garden, if left to go to seed. We get seed again from us! Locally saved by SHSC originally acquired this seed from Michael at Grow Hub Adler’s Edible Plant Project many years ago, and have been growing and saving it for over 7 years. Many years we don’t intentionally grow 1 Mexican Sunflower Intensely flavorful. The flowers are fragrant Tithonia rotundifolia and very attractive to pollinators. We find that ~65 seeds Lemon, Thai, and Tulsi basils do not get downy 80 days. A wonderful and hardy plant reaching mildew that afflicts the sweet Italian basil 6-7’ tall, with bright neon orange flowers. One varieties. Grows to be 20-24" tall. Sow ¼” of the most attractive flowers for our local deep, 18” apart. pollinators and other beneficial insects. Sun- loving and drought tolerant once established. Roselle They can get a bit lanky in appearance, so if Hibiscus sabdariffa you keep a tidy garden this tough plant may ~35 seeds not be for you, or better planted along a back 150-200 days. Beautiful large hibiscus shrub fence where it can still receive good sun and be with showy flowers and edible red calyxes. admired. Sow ¼-1/2” deep, spaced 9-12”. Can Roselle was called "Florida cranberry" in the be direct sown after last frost. Will self-sow. 1890s and is also known as sorrel or Jamaican Locally saved by SHSC at Grow Hub sorrel. Harvest the red calyxes anytime. Use fresh or dried to make faux cranberry sauce, tea (red zinger), jelly, sauce, vinegars, candies, herbs shrubs, fire ciders and so much more! Judith Eleonora Basil adorned a chocolate cake with a decadent Ocimum basilicum roselle sauce one year that was gorgeous and ~200 seeds delicious. The immature green seed pods 65 days. This variety exhibits some downy contain natural pectin which assists in the mildew resistance, although with the gelling process of jam and sauce making. prevalence of this disease here, we’ve noticed Space 5’ apart or more. They require little care this one eventually gets it too. It’s upright form once established, but will thrive in full sun, and with more elongated stems allows for better good soil fertility. Susceptible to frost. We are airflow which reduces the incidence of not sure if this is the early or late fruiting disease. However it is not as bolt tolerant and variety, sometimes it is mixed. A must have may need more trimming. Large, medium Florida garden plant. Easy to save seed from. green, lightly serrated leaves with good old Locally saved by Kathy Paterson & Bruce sweet Italian basil flavor. A must have to pair Proctor at Lost Valley Farm in Shiloh with your tomatoes. Sow very shallowly, spaced 12” apart. Continual sowing through the spring and early summer ensures plenty of melons basil. Jelly Melon/African Horned Melon Cucumis metuliferus Mrs. Burns Lemon Basil ~20 seeds Ocimum basilicum 120 days. We grew this one time only when we ~100 seeds had the farm out at Prairie Creek and it 60 days. Sweet and tangy lemon basil. Very was….wild! Be warned! Climbing, vigorous, bright green small leaves, with white blooms. spiny vines are very productive and should be 2 trellised. Don’t plant this where you can’t have the same family farm for over 100 years and it take over! If you have some extra room and have definitely adapted to growing conditions a sturdy fence in the sun, go for it. They will there. If you succeed with these monstrosities out- perform any cucumbers, resisting wilt and (up to 40lbs each), start saving your seeds and extreme heat. Early when green, they taste a selecting for the best under your conditions! lot like cucumbers. When they further ripen to Nat has some very specific and helpful a yellow/orange they were a bit sweeter, even planting information on the Sow True Seed fruity. The fruits are spiny and the leaves a bit website. One packet of 12 seeds is $8.95 on prickly, so garden gloves are recommended. the market so get these while you can. Not for the faint of heart. **Please save your own seeds for future use. Very limited supply.** Melon, Edisto 47 Cucumis melo Crimson Sweet Watermelon ~ 20 seeds Citrullus lanatus 90 days. A great variety for hot and humid ~20 seeds conditions like ours. It exceeds disease 95 days. A classic and favorite melon, crisp and resistance of many hybrid cantaloupes, with sweet, medium-red flesh, mild flavor. A resistance to alternaria leaf spot, powdery favorite for flavor of farmer Jordan of Family mildew, and downy mildew. Mildly sweet Garden (although he has not tasted a fresh flavor. A favorite of seed producer and farmer Bradford!). Fruits are about 15-20 lb. The breeder Edmund Frost. Fruits are 6-7” in plants have some disease resistance to diameter. Plant ½” deep with 18-24” spacing fusarium wilt and anthracnose. Watermelons between plants, with rows 4-5’ apart. are heavy feeders, be sure to fertilize and keep well-watered. Sow 1/2” deep with 12-18” Bradford Watermelon spacing between plants, with rows 6’ apart. Citrullus lanatus *Very limited supply.* ~20 seeds 85 days. If you haven’t heard about the legumes Bradford Watermelon please go Google it now! This legendary sweet heirloom melon Dade (Pole) Bean from South Carolina was once known as one of Phaseolus vulgaris the sweetest melons ever grown. Its thin rind ~10 seeds can easily crack, so it lost favor in the A favorite of Renee Ward’s mother, who has commercial market in the early 1900’s since it been growing and saving them for the last couldn’t stand up to shipping. It truly is three years. “Mom loves them! Not much of a delicious, we’ve had the chance to taste them string on them. Very easy to grow with no in peak season and it blows all other melons issues growing them at all.” Originally Renee out of the water. Full disclosure, we have tried acquired through Wright Heirlooms, a source growing it here a couple of times and didn’t for Appalachian bean seeds. It’s a beautiful get them as awesome as Nat Bradford does up long-podded and white-seeded pole bean. in South Carolina. They have been grown on 3 Tender beans bear heavy over a long period of time. Pods are 8-9” long. Tim Noyes grew Magic Velvet (Pole) Bean them out for seed increase so we could share Mucuna pruriens var. utilis them with you this year. Limited supply. If you ~3 seeds like them, save your own seed and share it! 200+ days.