Lezlie's Seeds

Lezlie's Seeds for 2007

Here is the list of all our seeds for 2007. All our tomatoes are indeterminate. Regular leaves unless noted otherwise. All our vegetables are open pollinated, heirloom non-hybrids. You can save seeds from them and they will come true. All our tomatoes are our own originals and are not copies of any one else's. All grow well in the hot dry climate of the Coastal Range mountains of Northern California at an elevation of 1800 feet. Some afternoon shade is helpful in preventing sunscald when the UV level is high and summer temperatures soar. Limited quantities available. I am holding to the Seed Saver's Exchange rules for non-members and unlisted members, as well as listed members for my prices. Prices include postage and handling. Quantities in a packet: All tomatoes, 25 seeds. Corn, 200+ kernels. Beans, 30 seeds. Squash, 15 seeds.

Seed Summary

Casper Cherry Large red fruits, 11/4 inches in diameter, 0.5 ounces. Red fruit, potato leaves. Caspian Pink and Red Currant parentage. I plan on working with this one further to refine it.

Chudo Rynka A small, early, red tomato from Russia.
Reine de Hatives A small red early tomato from Russia.

Costa Luta De Marmande Is a red, flattened globe, about 6 oz, I think. Great flavor and texture. The seed came from Italy to my penpal in Ozland, and from him to me in 1998. Some time in the late nineties, legendary TV gardening celebrity Don Burke did a special program on Italy. He then bought some tomato seeds back to Australia and viewers could write in and get a packet. One of them (Costa Luta De Marmande) won a tomato taste test, and from then on, was referred to as the Burke's Backyard tomato. It went on to become one of the biggest selling home garden tomatoes ever sold Australia. It is still one of the biggest selling tomatoes today. A rich meaty flavoured tomato, it is an Adelaide type, with ribbed fruit. It also fruits early, and if planted a bit later, is also a good fruiter running into late Autumn. Indeterminate.

Mt Hood Cherry Small red fruits, 0.2 ounces, 1/2 to 3/4 inches in diameter. Extremely tasty, bite-sized. Vigorous, beautiful plants. We think it is the best tasting cherry of all. Indeterminate.

Siskiyou Plum Absolutely great flavor, sweet but tangy. 0.9 ounces, 11/4 x11/2 inches, red. Very productive, attractive plants. Stupice and Principe Borghese parents.

Surprise Gorgeous round red fruit, great flavor, 4 oz, 2.5 inches diameter. 100% Italian parents. Good rich tomato flavor, great for sauce, salad or slicing. Good mouth feel. Surprise's parents are Costa Luta de Marmande and San Marzano.

Grosse Lisse is an open pollinated indeterminate that will grow to 2 metres. I've even seen it over 3.5 metres high up a trellis! It has been the standard by which most Australian home gardeners in southern states have measured their Tomato growing prowess for the past 50 years. It sets fruit in very hot conditions for mid to late season, after 100 days from seed or 80 days from seedlings. The fruits are tasty 6-10cm oblate and smooth, best picked with a hint of pink and ripened indoors or the acid levels rise, however if you like the wild taste, then you leave them to sun ripen. May have good fungal resistance for problem climates.

Teton Pear Large red fruits, sweet, full tomato flavor, 1.5 inches long, 0.5 ounces Very productive plants. Yellow Pear and Stupice parents. Has some susceptibility to blossom end rot. Not perfected.

Pink Saladette Our favorite for fresh eating or salads. Fruits weigh 3 to 5 ounces. Spritely flavor, creamy flesh, great in salads and salsa. Found in a garden of Brandywines in 1997. Indeterminate. The photo on this site's index page is of these deeply pink ripe fruits, about life size.

Dwarf Blue Jade Sweet Corn Grows to 3 feet tall, 8-10 rows, matures to deep blue color. Neat, productive plants. Grow isolated from other corn. Eat when the kernels are just barely turning pale blue.

Jarrahdale Winter Squash 30 foot vines, 2 fruits per plant, large, flattened blue fruits with thick ribs, tasty orange flesh. An Australian native. Great for pies. I make all my pies from scratch and this squash is tasty and fiberless. 15 pound fruits.

Case Knife Pole Bean Tall, vigorous climbing plants, productive. Flat green pods 7.5 inches long, white seeds. 60 days. Dates to before 1820 in the US, one of the oldest beans in America. Described by Fearing Burr in "Field and Garden Vegetables of America" published in 1865.

Burpee's Golden Wax Pole Bean Beautiful golden flat pods on vigorous grower, early, productive, great taste. My favorite this year. Vines get 6 feet tall. Sorry, I harvested way less seed than I had expected, so I can't fill any orders for it this year. I do have Golden Lake Wax Pole seed instead. It is a round-podded, white seeded variety, tender and flavorful.

Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe 80 days. Developed by a Japanese market gardener in California around 1920, this muskmelon became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. Hale's Best is a beautiful oval melon deep green skin with golden netting. The flesh is an appealing salmon color, aromatic and sweet.

Purple-Podded Pole Bean Heirloom variety discovered by Henry Fields in an Ozark garden in the 1930s, probably northern European origin. Plants climb vigorously to 6' and are extremely productive. High quality, meaty, stringless 1/2" thick by 5-7" long reddish-purple pods that blanch to light green. 68 days.

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All seed packets are sized and priced according to Seed Saver's Exchange rules. For tomatoes I'm giving out 25 seeds per request, beans 30 seeds, and corn 200 seeds, squash 15 seeds. Some are in limited quantities this year, but I have plenty of tomato seeds on hand.

I hope people like my tomatoes and will grow them and reoffer the seeds. If you are a SSE member, please reoffer my seeds next year, as the Case Knife pole bean is no longer available from the specialty bean seed vendors; the place that I got mine from a few years ago discontinued them abruptly, and I cannot find any other commercial/retail source for them, anywhere. So I am one of maybe 2 Seed Saver's Exchange listed home gardeners still growing this bean and offering seeds through SSE. This is how close to extinction some varieties get! This is why I decided to become an active seed saver.

My bean seeds and plants perfectly match Fearing Burr's description of them in his book, "Field and Garden Vegetables of America", back in the 1860's.

Email me at lezlie@saladette.com with your seed request and I will get back to you quickly. Below are the SSE prices for the US and Canada.

	Listed Members	Non-Listed Members and Non-Members
Small seeds	$2.00	$3.00
Large seeds (beans, corn, and squash)	$3.00	$4.00

Want to make a comment or suggestion? I welcome them! Just email me. I check my email regularly from 9am to 9pm Pacific time zone. I accept payment for seed via personal check, PayPal, stamps, or cash. Please furnish me with your SSE Listed Member's Code, too.

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