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Tomato patches, Edmonton, AB. July 2014. ©Kelly

Garden plots, Edmonton, AB, May 2014. ©Kelly

TARDIS Garden, Victoria, BC May 2011. © Kelly

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 2009 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.

Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Zone: 3b (approx. 130-140 frost free days)

Land type: Urban

Soil: Clay/Sand. Amended with sheep manure.

Elevation above sea level: 2200ft

2015 Grow Out

Please note that this list is still being determined and isn't complete.

Tomatoes

• Aunt Ruby's German Green
• Azoychka
• Beauty King
• Black Sea Man
• Cuor di Bue
• DaCosta's Portuguese
• Giant Belgian
• Jack White
• Japanese Black Trifele
• Platillo
• Principe Borghese
• PSB-1
• PSB-3
• Rose
• Rozovyi Izumnyi
• Ruby Treasure
• San Marzano
• Tlacolula Ribbed
• Uncle Charlie's Giant Italian Pear
• Weißbehaarte
• Yellow Ruffled

Peppers

• Cubanelle

Beans

• Auntie Vi's Italian Pole
• Canadian Wonder
• Musica
• Norwegian Brown
• Poltschka
• Thibodeau du Comté Beauce

Other

Pea:

• Blue Pod Capucijner