Category:AB GI K
Operator of the Populuxe Seed Bank.
While I've always had a place with a garden since a kid, I really grew crazy for gardening when I moved out to my own place and my landlord gave me a plot in his yard. That first year I grew a few herbs and zucchini, as well as a few tomatoes. When I learned the tomatoes I had picked up wouldn't give me seed for next year, that's when I fell down the rabbit hold of heirloom and OP varieties and seed saving.
In 2007 I started the Populuxe Seed Bank, after I had amassed a large collection of tomatoes and thought to myself "well, now what?". What could I do with some of these varieties I had acquired? What's the good of me just growing them? So I decided to make a concerted effort with the varieties I had in stock to grow out, and share as many of these varieties as I could.
In late 2020 we moved to a new location, and 2021 began a new adventure in gardening in a new space.
Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Zone: 4a (approx. 130-140 frost free days)
Land type: Urban
Soil: Clay/loam. Amended with sheep/cow manure.
Elevation above sea level: 2200ft
2024 Grow Out
Listing isn't final, some changes may occur up to May 2024
Tomatoes
- Canadian Dwarf
- Canadian Heart *
- Deep Space
- Dubrava *
- Dwarf Wild Fred *
- Hahm's Gelbe Topftomate
- Italian Winter
- Martino's Roma
- Nina Neutron
- Orange Tree
- Salt Spring Sunrise
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Siniy * -
Sweet Baby Jade- Contaminated seed, is regular leafed instead of potato leaf, died after transplant - Turks Muts * - partially contaminated - about half the starts are regular leaf, the other half potato leaf
(*) From the collection of Dan & Val McMurray
Peppers
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Chocolate Habenero<del> - crop failure - Golden Greek
- Grandpa's Siberian Home
- Pepperoncini
- Shishito
- Trinidad Scorpion Yellow x Apocalypse
- Weaver's Mennonite Stuffing
Beans
Other Vegetables
- Beet 'Cylindra Formanova'
- Carrot 'Early Scarlet Horn'
- Corn 'Golden Bantam'
- Slocan Snow Peas
- Squash 'Futtsu'
- Turnip 'Gold Ball'
- Zucchini 'Fordhook'
Dye Plants
- Coreopsis Dyer's
- Cempoalxochitl (Aztec marigold, T. erecta)
- Chamomile, Dyer's
- Japanese Indigo (Persicaria tinctoria)
- Madder, Dyer's (Rubia tinctorum, third year plant)
- Scabiosa 'Black Knight'
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