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VEGETABLES 26 RHUBARB, SPINACH & SQUASH RHUBARB FOR PIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rheum rhabarbarum Family: Buckwheat (Polygonaceae) Hardy to -10° F. Herbaceous perennials prefer part shade to full sun, well-drained soils. Sow in spring. Average germ 13 days. Plant 2 to 3 feet apart. Garden Rhubarb—Fraulein Sharfer Torte . Produces very fat, red, tart leaf stems for use in pies and crisps. 50 seeds/pkt $2.95 $17.85/10 g (~700 seeds) Garden Rhubarb—Victoria Standard market type with sweetish, greenish stems, producing heavily in first year. This is the Rhubarb, Garden we’ll send if you don’t specify preference 50 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic See also RHUBARB under MEDICINAL SPINACH Red Orach . . . . . . .Atriplex hortensis rubra (Mountain Spinach) Family: Goosefoot (Chenopodiaceae) Self-seeding annual suitable for all temperate gardens. 30 to 50 days to maturity. A choice Italian cultivar. Cooked leaves are nutritious and buttery to the taste. Plant prefers full sun and thrives in regular garden soil. Sow directly in garden bed in the spring. Easy. 50 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic Malabar Red Spinach . . . . . .Basella rubra Family: Madeira Vine (Basellaceae) Perennial climbing vine native to Africa and Southwestern India (the Malabar coast). Protect from frost. Very quick-growing heattolerant Spinach substitute can be grown as a summer annual in the temperate US, producing edible leaves in as few as 55 days. Highly recommended for warmer zones, where growing standard Spinach can be quite challenging. 20 seeds/pkt $2.95 Red Aztec Spinach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chenopodium berlanderi Family: Goosefoot (Chenopodiacea) Native to Mexico, the plant is distinguished by the tasty edibility of its leaes that blush red. Flowering to 5 feet, we suggest that the plants be kept cut back (into the salad bowl). Losing the battle against flowering, one can always resort to the Mexican practice of battering and deep frying the flower buds. 300 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic Revolution Spinach . . . . .Spinacia oleracea Family: Goosefoot (Chenopodiaceae) Annual greens native to SW Asia and widely cultivated. Rich in Vitamin C, A,.E, B 6 , thiamin, riboflavin, folate, magnesium and potassium, consumption of Spinach is tantamount to taking a vitamin pill, and is more bioavailable and tastier, too. Ours is a slow bolting, medium savoyed type that makes crops in the spring and in the fall. Sow densely, harvest whole. It’s easy to save seeds from Spinach! 200 seeds/pkt $2.45, $5.85/10 g (~800 seeds), Organic SQUASH Family: Cucurbitaceae Native to the New World. Squash likes full sun and regular garden soil. Sow directly in the garden in the spring after the ground warms up. Make hills 3 feet apart, press the seeds into the soil, and thin to 3 best seedlings per hill. If row cropping, thin to 1 plant every 2 feet. Once the plants are up, weed around them and apply compost. Do not overwater the plants— let them go a bit dry between waterings. Winter Squash, Delicata Zeppelin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cucurbita maxima 80 days. Annual vining winter squash making medium sized fruits, yellow with forest-green stripes and orange flesh, very high in sugar and Vit A. Stores cool and dry for about 100 days. 30 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic Summer Squash, Midnight Lightning Zucchini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cucurbita pepo 55 days. Annual bush type that produces long, dark green (think midnight at the oasis), exceptionally well-flavored Zuks. 15 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic Winter Squash, Red KuriCucurbita maxima (Hokkaido Squash, Uchiku Kuri) 100 days. Annual. Naturally nutty and sweet, one adds nothing but ends up feeling like one has had everything. 15 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic Summer Squash, Yellow Crookneck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cucurbita pepo 60 days. Annual. All-time favorite Summer Squash, loved by kids and adults alike. Best when harvested at early stage when fruits are nearly solid and the skin is soft and delicious. 30 seeds/pkt $2.45, $21.25/100 g (~1,000 seeds), Organic More seeds available beyond this list! Check horizonherbs.com or call (541) 846-6704.
27 VEGETABLES TOMATO TOMATO Chadwick’s Cherry Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . Family: Nightshade (Solananceae) 60 days to fruits. Indeterminate vine likes a All are Lycopersicon esculentum trellis, to 3 feet. Bright red, large sized Cherry Annual vines. The essence of summer. Tomatoes are produced early in the season. Consuming fresh Tomatoes and Garlic pro- They are presented as sturdy clusters of 6. We vides the full spectrum of amino acids needed rate this tomato 5 out of a possible 5 on the for human nutrition. Excellent source of the basis of taste. Excellent consumed fresh or carotenoid compound known as lycopene, halved and sun dried. which is a potent antioxidant and may amelio- 50 seeds/pkt $3.95, rate aging, cancer diabetes, osteoperosis and $9.95/g (~350 seeds), Organic male infertility. Sow indoors 60 days prior to Doucet’s Plum Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . last frost. Sow in a flat using a very shallow Heirloom producing mid-sized, bright red slic- furrow, barely cover, tamp securely, and keep ing Tomatoes on indeterminate vines. Early evenly moist, warm and in the light. Thin and late producer, with excellent taste. seedlings to 2 inches apart and grow to second 30 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic set of true leaves, then pot up to larger pots. Jiggle seedlings occasionally to encourage Large Yellow Pear Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . thick stems. Give strong light and warnth. When the garden soil warms up, plant in rich 60 to 70 days to fruits. Extremely fast growing soil in full sun and stake or trellis. Leave 2 to and early flowering indeterminate ine, a low- 3 feet between plants so they don’t shade each acid classic, ideal for garden snacking and for other too much. Give compost at planting and salads. This cultivar is larger and less likely to again at first fruit set. Water deeply and infre- get mushy compared to others we’ve grown. quently. Determinate tomatoes have a main Provide a cage and keep the fruit picked clean. axis that ends in a flower bud. These tend to It will keep on coming! be shorter and they make their fruit all at once. 50 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic They benefit from staking. Indeterminate Principe Borghese Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . tomatoes vine out and can grow quite large. They produce until frost, and benefit from a 75 days to fruits. Italian heirloom drying toma- tall stake or trellis. Canners tend to like deterto. Very fast growing, determinate vines like to minates while salad makers and browsers tend spread wide. Fruits on the individual spray to be more attracted to indeterminate types. tend to ripen evenly, making a double handful Amish Paste Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of large cherry tomato sized fruits each deli- cately nippled at the base. Once they are com- 80 to 90 days to fruits. Indeterminate vines pletely ripe, pick them and slice them in half produce sparse, very large, meaty, pendulous, and lay out on trays in the sun. Fruits are best oblong fruits that are excellent used fresh, covered from the dew at night and allowed to canned, or made into a thick sauce. Very smile up at the sun all day long. In this manner sparsely seeded. Commonly rated among the they dry down to storeability in about 4 days. most tasty of all tomatoes. We love these dried tomatoes; they dress up our 30 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic diet with something sweet and chewy. 50 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic Black Cherry Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Rock Paste Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 days to fruits. Vigorous, sparsely leaved Heirloom exhibits the impressive productivity yet heavily fruited indeterminate vine to 5 feet of a paster coupled with good fresh edibility. does best when trellised. Fruits are 1 inch plus Determinate. Cooks down to a rich sauce. diameter, very round, dusky in color and 30 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic posessed of superb tomato taste. We also Stupice Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . observed that these are very firm, making An heirloom Czech cultivar producing vigor- them long-lasting on the vine and potentially ous and disease resistant indeterminate vines quite durable in transport. with wide leaves that look a bit like the leaves 50 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic of potatoes. Gives high yields of 2-inch, round- Black Krim Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ed fruits that are very tasty and keep well for table or market. Very cold tolerant—an early 75 days to fruits. Indeterminate vine, very producer (65 days from seeding to red fruit) stocky, to 3 feet tall. Originally grown on the that keeps going strong until frost. Isle of Krim in Russia’s Black Sea, these beef- 30 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic steak type tomatoes are large, somewhat flat- Tree Tomato . . . . . . .Cyphomandra betacea tened, soft, green-shouldered, posessing a Protect from frost, although a quick freeze will dark and delicious interior, somewhat salty, not much harm it. . Subtropical evergreen very juicy. I’ve been wanting to grow “beef- shrub to small tree that bears red, pendulous steaks” for some time and must say this was fruits that taste like a blend between kiwi and the slicer that ended up most often in my sum- tomato. Passers-by gawk and ask for some. mer sandwiches. Sow warm, germ in 30 to 90 days. 30 seeds/pkt $2.45, Organic 10 seeds/pkt $2.95, Organic $10.00/tree, Organic
Page 1 and 2: Self Heal (Heal-All) Prunella vulga
Page 3 and 4: Dear Seeders, Welcome to the Spring
Page 5 and 6: 3 NEW SEEDS NEW SEEDS Our offerings
Page 7 and 8: 5 TINCTURE PRESS HORIZON HERBS TINC
Page 9 and 10: 7 BOOKSTORE CONTINUED First grow th
Page 11 and 12: 9 SEED SCREENS, TAGS, SOAP, PALO St
Page 13 and 14: 11 PLANT & SEED COLLECTIONS My Moth
Page 15 and 16: Alfalfa . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Page 17 and 18: ANDEAN TUBERS These plants offer th
Page 19 and 20: ASPARAGUS, BEETS & BROCCOLI 17 VEGE
Page 21 and 22: CORN Family: Grass (Poaceae) Annual
Page 23 and 24: Mixed Salad Greens Mixed salad gree
Page 25 and 26: ONION AND LEEK Family: Onion (Allia
Page 27: PEPPERS, PUMPKINS & DAIKON 25 VEGET
Page 31 and 32: Cumin . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cu
Page 33 and 34: THYME Family: Mint (Lamiaceae) Long
Page 35 and 36: Andrographis . . . .Andrographis pa
Page 37 and 38: Ayurvedic Herb Collection Seeds of
Page 39 and 40: 37 Bowman’s Root . . . . . . . .
Page 41 and 42: Calamus . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Page 47 and 48: Echinacea paradoxa (Yellow Coneflow
Page 49 and 50: FOUR O’CLOCKS Family: Four O’Cl
Page 51 and 52: Gopher Spurge . . . . . . . .Euphor
Page 53 and 54: Henbane, Black . . . . . . . .Hyosc
Page 55 and 56: French Lavender . . . . . .Lavandul
Page 57 and 58: MANDRAKE Family: Nightshade (Solana
Page 59 and 60: MINT Family: Mint (Lamiaceae) On th
Page 61 and 62: Ox-Knee . . . . . . . . . .Achyrant
Page 63 and 64: Pulsatilla . . . . . . . . . . . .
Page 65 and 66: Saint John’s Wort . .Hypericum pe
Page 67 and 68: Stevia . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Page 69 and 70: TULSI SEED SET (1 seed packet each
Page 71 and 72: WILDE DAGGA Family: Mint (Lamiaceae
Page 73 and 74: ALOE Family: Asphodel (Asphodelacea
Page 75 and 76: HOODIA Family: Milkweed (Asclepiada
Page 77 and 78: 75 TREES, SHRUBS & WOODY VINES SEED
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Cinnamon, True . .Cinnamomum zeylan
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HAWTHORN Family: Rose (Rosaceae) De
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Osage Orange . . . . . . . . .Maclu
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Tea Tree, Australian .Melaleuca alt
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Seeds Packets ONLY: Up to $15: ...
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