Corn Salad - 68RW
cornflower - blue - 268RS
Toconjoin - corn - 180RW
Over 200 plants are first used to achieve as much cross pollination as possible. The photo shows a selection of the best cobs from that 2020/21 crop.
13/7/2022 - During the growing season of 2020/21, one singe plant produced slightly purple kennels, those seeds were separated and grown 2021/22, this crop went on to produce around 10 plants with white kennels. No other maize or corn was grown nearby, there for there would not have been any contamination from outside of the garden. By combining a large pool of genetic diversity together, it can help in releasing genes that have been locked away from expressing themself, its possible that could go back 40-50 years.
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Glass Gem Popping Corn - 100CMK
Leek - Perennial Leek - 93RW
Kascade Korn - 85NS
Maize - Sola - 79NS
Bloody Butcher - 202ALB
Miners Lettuce - 163RG
Blue Hopi - Maize - 74RG
Early Gem - 84RW
Maize - Billard - 122RW
Corn Maize Seed Sweet corn, with its high sugar content, ...
Kohlrabi - Early Purple Vienna - 105SS
Propagation: Sow Purple Vienna Kohlrabi seeds directly onto a firm bed of seed raising mix and press in well. Cover with a light layer of mix. Seedlings usually appear in 7-14 days.
Kowhai dwarf - 145RW
Flax harakeke - 218RW
Indigenous to New Zealand and Norfolk Island. Grows in a wide range of locations from lowland and coastal areas to mountain forest, will grow happily in very dry spots also. Seed needs stratification either by sowing in autumn in areas that get frosts, or 6 weeks in the fridge in frost free areas.
Flax will cross pollinate with other cultivars, Richard has only one cultivar so this seed will grow true to type.
Turkish sage - 262SPH
Fennel - Bronze - 271CMK
Onion - Red Bunching - 76SS
Parsnip - Hollow Crown - 63RG
Scottish - 38RW
Melon - Tigger - 237SPH
Spinach - English - 178RG
Cork Oak
Broccoli - De Cicco - 170SS
Propagation: Sow De Cicco Broccoli seeds in trays of potting soil in late summer - early winter, plant out when 2nd leaves have developed.
Wormwood - 269RS
Yellow Pear 143RG
Rudbeckia - dwarf - 275RS
Kowhai, North Island - 203SS
Meadow Rue
Thalictrum is a clump forming herbaceous perennial growing to 60-90cm tall. It grows well in rich, medium moisture soils in full sun or part shade. Grows easily from seed or can be divided in spring.
Flowers in late spring early summer, with lacy pinky purple flowers and aquilegia type foliage that is greener in colour and slightly finer than aquilegia.
Kauri - 194CMK
Regal Lily - 149RW
Richard was fortunate to be given two bulbs from an old strain of highly fragrant Regal Lily that produces compact flower heads that all open at about the same time. All bulb production will be grown from seed and not from cloning scales or splitting up of the bulbs. He will be able to do selective breeding from the best performing plants.
Dill - 217NS
Strawflower - pink - 263SPH
Mullein- 250SPH
Orach - red - 29RG - Red
Hopi Yellow Bean - 257SS
Hopi Yellow Beans are a high-yeilding tasty, early maturing, pole green bean that can be eaten as a fresh green bean or a dried light yellow/beige bean. From Hopi Indian, also called "grease beans".
Propagate: Plant Hopi yellow bean seeds in spring either inside in trays for later outside transplanting or outside where you wish to grow, watch for slugs and snails.
Purple Snake - 234CMK
Chatreuse Green Snake - 244CMK
Toi toi - South Island - 241RW
Purple Sprouting Broccoli - 242SPH
Toi toi - North Island - 264CMK
Rhubarb - 162RW
Sow seed in a seed raising in small pots and plant out once seedling are 10cm tall
Purau Sweet Cherry - 99RG
Tobacco - 175RW
This is a pink flowered variety that can grow to close on 2m and flowers from Dec till late autumn. It attracts bumble bees big time. The second year after the plants have died they become quite useful for growing peas as the stems remain sturdy in the ground. Tobacco is very good as a carbon crop given its extensive root systems
Wild Aster - 131RW
Candytuft - 270RS
Asparagus - Pacific Purple - 82RW
Hollyhock - Mixed colours - 248CMK
Celtuce - 242RW
Perennial Sweet pea - 126RW
Onion - Pukekohe long keeper, Mammoth Improved cross - 36RW
When growing seed from this early cross expect diversity in type.
Fennel - Sweet/common - 239SPH
Caigua 1RW
Kowhai - South Island - 207RW
Seed is best sown in autumn to allow for stratification, or this can be done by placing in the fridge for 6 weeks, then a chip removed from the side of the seed with something like a steak knife, this allows moisture to enter helping germination, .
Sweet William - 277RS
biennial or short lived perennial with densely packed clusters of small flowers coming through in late spring/early summer. Coming in a wide range of colours, this selection includes, light and dark pink, red, white, pink/white, red/white and various other
shades. Likes full sun and rich soil, great in containers or beds and borders. Propagate by seed, cutting or division. Seeds will not breed true but you’ll still get a nice mix of colours. An old fashioned favourite, has flowers with shades of pinks all summer. Great as a vege companion.
Onion - Mammoth improved - 231RW
Sow seed early spring in the South Island, North Islanders may be able to sow autumn through winter as well, feedback from customers would be appreciated
https://www.mammothonion.co.uk/product/seeds-plants/onion-family/onion/mammoth-improved-onion/
Balm of Gilead - 95-SPH
Mangelbeet - 66RW
Best eaten when small, while still sweet. Larger roots can be used as animal feed. Sow in late summer for winter harvest. They can bolt to seed if sown too early.
Anise Hyssop - 164NS
Sunflowers - Giant Russian - 103RW
Sow in spring in colder areas, year round in warmer locations.
Oregon Spring - 97RG
Purau Gardens
Rick Gender's Purau Gardens is located in Purau by the Lyttleton Harbour. Well known as an historic early market garden for Christchurch with a great climate and rich volcanic soil. No chemicals or fertilisers are required for the production of fantastic fruit and vegetables and its relative isolation makes this a great area for specialist seed production and development.
Nev's TPS - 136NS
Even from a relatively early stage when they may only be 100mms tall, differences will be discernible between these individuals. They truly are individuals. They may not all prosper. They will each possess their own degree of disease resistance and vigour. As a propagator you will be rewarded, by those that flourish, with crops of distinctly unique potato tubers; diverse in both form, colour, flavour, texture, maturity and keeping qualities. This is a pursuit I have been involved in for at least 20 years. It is an exciting enterprise (if you are a potato Nerd!), and can result in the coming into being of very worthwhile, totally new, delicious cultivars that you can then continue into the future via the usual system of growing from tubers. But don't forget to keep seed from the best of them and continue the exploration of potatoes from true seed.
El Beano -138NS
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Pink Raspberry - 5RW
Cuttings will be available during winter, hit the watch tab and a notification will be email out.
Capsicum - Czech Beauty - 11NS
Yellow current - 15RW
Wild Chicory - 134RW
Seed extraction and processing is extremely difficult and time consuming which reflects in the price of this seed
Scabiosa - Pink - 278RS
Valerian - 59SPH
It produces umbrella shaped flowers of pure white borne on tall hollow stems with thick fern like foliage. Valerian has been used medicinally for centuries by many different cultures as a sedative and nervous system relaxant. Harvest roots in the winter during dormancy. Grows naturally in damp grasslands but can tolerate a wide range of soils. Flowers in late spring early summer.
Passionfruit - Black Beauty - 119CMK
Orach - green - 256RS
Leek - Purau - 91RG
Leek - Portage - 94RW
Suggested growing method is to aim for a long length white stem of up to 40cm, sow seed late winter/ early spring close enough together aiming for a spacing of 2cm apart, by mid summer the plants should be up to 30cm tall, dig them up trying not to damage the roots too much and place in a bucket with enough water in it to cover the roots. The soil these plants go into needs to be deeply dug over then using a rake or shovel handle poke it down into the soil as deep as 40cm, wriggle it around to make a shaft to which a leek plant is dropped down, then pour a small amount of water down, its just then a matter of insuring that the growth tip can grow up and out of the shaft
Haricot dEspagne - 65NS
Marmande - 58RG
Spilanthes - 71RW
Given it is an annual native to the tropics care is needed against frost. Flowers from Dec through to winter.
Read more at Gardening Know How: Spilanthes Herb Care: How To Grow Spilanthes Toothache Plant https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/spilanthes/growing-spilanthes-plants.htm
Read more at Gardening Know How: Spilanthes Herb Care: How To Grow Spilanthes Toothache Plant https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/spilanthes/growing-spilanthes-plants.htm
Read more at Gardening Know How: Spilanthes Herb Care: How To Grow Spilanthes Toothache Plant https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/spilanthes/growing-spilanthes-plants.htm
Poppy - Pink Pom Pom - 191RW
Amaranth - Pygmy Torch - 276RS
Onion - Medbury Red Longkeeper - 35RW
Sow seed early spring in the South Island, North Islanders may be able to sow autumn through winter as well, feedback from customers would be appreciated
Matricaria chamomilla - 144RG
Gooseberry - Yellow Central Otago - 112RW
Crownchestnut - 90aRW
Radish - Pink Beauty - 96RW
Richards selection work with this cultivar involves sowing earlier than normal for this summer radish, this way it helps expose the plants that want to go into reproduction in its first growing year, as they are considered a biennial , this means any plants that bolt early sees a one way trip to the cold composting heap, what plants do make it through a Amuri Plains winter without going to seed or rotting are saved for seed production the following summer
Sub-Arctic Maxi - 13NS
Richards mix- 129RW
Seed is best sown in autumn then transfer the tiny seedlings to pots and grow through winter in a frost free area, In areas that get frosts even green houses can freeze inside. Springtime plant out and allow each of these new varieties to grow till their tops die down late in the season, then its a matter of digging up each plant and assessing which plant has produced the best yield and for desirable shape and colours. The first year tubers are not always the largest but instead its normally when they are replanted in the second season that they will produce far greater yield. It's worth remembering that new TPS cultivars are virus free.
Red Rascal seed is the latest to be added to Richards potato gene pool
Pean bean (white) - 44NS
Mini Bell Peppers - 211CMK
Golden Rod - 25RS
Red Seeded broad - 150RG
Epazote - 154RW
Various native peoples in the American and Mexican West today drink epazote tea or eat the plant to facilitate childbirth and ease painful menstruation as well as to expel worms and relieve gastrointestinal disorders (some of which might be brought on by the worms). Epazote leaves can be poulticed on arthritic joints, athlete’s foot, and insect bites.
Toi toi - Mini - 91aCMK
Lettuce - Mescher - 25RW
Spring Onion - 61ASS
Millet - foxtail - 247RS
Why you should grow your own
So maybe you're wondering if now is the time to start to grow a few for your self and see what all the fuss is about?