Bustani

Seedlist 2009-2010

Welcome to my site. Because I have a few visitors that don't understand the information on this website in Dutch, I translated the seedlist and information.
The remaining pages are easy to translate with www.google.com/translate.

On this page you will find the seeds that I offer to buy or to exchange. You can use almost all the seeds for the garden or allotment (large or small), on the balcony or as terrace plants. Are you interested in seeds? If you send me an email, we will find a way to exchange or to buy.

This list represents a list of seeds available this year. Just a short explanation of how to read this list:
* The orangehiglighted vegetables / fruits are available (probably) as soon as I harvested the fruits/vegetables. It will probably be
   in October, November or December.
* I have also a few flowerseeds.
* For information how to order etc, please read this.
* For photos of different types of vegetables/fruit, you can take a look at the page From seed to ...

Vegetables & Fruits

Beetroot 'Chioggia' (Beta vulgaris Conditiva)
Small Italian round beetroots. Very early to harvest. The beetroots are on the inside white/roze-striped. (+ 100 seeds per packet).

Calebash / pumpkin: 
Decorative fruit in various forms and colors (not eatable!). (15 seeds per packet)

Corn - ornamental corn (small): A mix of blue, pink, red, white and yellow ornamental corn. (15-20 seeds per packet) 

Cucumber species:
- Cucumber Fatum: Outside Cucumber, bitter free, climber, high yield, fruit 15-20cm. 
  Because of the high demand for these seeds in 2009 and to keep the seeds fresh, I have bought this year original seeds.
  This cucumber is very suitable for outdoor growing. The cucumbers are harvested when they are 15-20cm. The thickness is
  about 5 cm. I have been good experiences with this firm cucumbers. (18 seeds per packet)
- Snackcucumber or mini-cucumber Crispy Salad F1: as the name says, a snack-cucumber. Allow the plant to climb,
  dozens of fruit per plant. (3 seeds per packet, seeds are from 2008)
- Mexican Mini-cucumber (melothria scabra): Funny little mini-cucumbre. Fruits are 2-3cm. Climbs up to 3 mtr. Cucumber-
  like taste with a touch of lemon. Suitable in order to nibble, but also for the preservation and use in salads. Growing in
  greenhouses or outside. These mini-cucumber has several names: Mexican (mini-)cucumber, West Indian Gherkin Sour,
  Mexican Sour, mouse melon, small Mexican Watermelon.
(12 seeds per packet) 
- Olive-cucumber (cyclanthera pedata): 
The edible fruits are delicious as they are harvested early at 3-4cm. The taste is a
  bit reminiscent of cucumber mixed with beans. You can also harvest when they are larger. Larger they are suitable to fill
  like peppers or to use in a sauce. The fruit is also known as the Inca Cucumber, Caigua or Achocha. (5 seeds per packet) 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Komkommer Fatum  

Lettuce

- Roman Minilettuce: Roman lettuce, but in small. Similar to the Little Gem. (+ 75 seeds per packet)
- Four Seasons: soft butterlettuce with a red edge (+75 seeds per packet)
- Milan: a soft butterlettuce , which is a dense crop. (+75 seeds per packet)
- Lollo Bionda: A bright yellow green with ruffled edged leaves.  (+ 75zaden per zakje)
- Oakleaf Red Salad Bowl: red oakleaf lettuce. (+75 seeds per packet)
- Saladin: a crispy salad (+75 seeds per packet)
- Winter Butterkopf: winterlettuce, sow in August / September harvest from February. (+75 seeds per packet) 


Melon (cucumis melo)
Galia:
sweet melon, cultivation in greenhouse. (15 seeds per packet)
Charentais: small sweet melon, according to som professionals the sweetest... (15 seeds per packet)
 

 

 

Melon-Pear or pepino (Solanum muricatum): This tropical fruit is still relatively unknown. The bush is about 1mtr high. The fruits are cream colored and have a purple indent when they are eatable.  (? seeds per packet) 
                                                                                                                                                                                          
Squash (Cucurbita pepo): Traditional green squash (8 seeds per packet).

Pepper
Note: The pepper seeds are probably available from October 1. If the pepper plants have been germinated, a pepperplant is easy to grow. The sweet pepperplants are about 50-60cm high and are easy to grow in a container. The plants are heat-loving, so growing in a greenhouse or sheltered spot is preferred.
- Sweet Pepper Merit: a red pepper (15 seeds per packet)
- Sweet Pepper Orange Horizon
: an orange pepper (15 seeds per packet)
- Hot pepper Cayenne Pepper: hot pepper can be grown in pot. (10 seeds per packet)
- Hot pepper Adjoema (red): Hot pepper (10 seeds per packet)
- Hot and ornamental pepper Bolivian Rainbow: a hot pepper, turns from white to purple to red (10 seeds per packet)

- Ornamental Pepper Medusa: a beautiful, small pepper plant (height 20cm), which is filled with small peppers. The fruits have a pepper flavor, but mild flavor. (7 seeds per packet)

A sweet snackpepperplant has the same care as an ordinary (sweet) pepper plant. The growth is similar to that of the 'normal' plants. The plants are just as big as a normal pepper plant, but there are many more small fruits. You may expect about 15-20 small peppers on the plant. You can eat the small peppers as a snack, in salads and they are delicious when you fill them with cream cheese. A delicious snack!
- Sweet Orange Baby: compact plant with small orange peppers. (10 seeds per bag)
- Sweet Red Patio: compact plant with small peppers. (10 seeds per bag)
- Romanian Antohi Pepper: This sweet pepper is a bit everywhere in between: size and yield is between snackpepper and ordinary peppers and the pepper in form is just they're between a block and a point peppers. Colored from cream to red. (seeds only available in peppermix 2) 

Pepper Mix
Sweet Patio Red, Medusa, Romanian Antohi Pepper (3speciesx5seeds packaged by species) 
The seeds are packaged by species. Due to packaging costs and quantity of seeds, a mix costs €1, 00.

Pineapple cherry (Physalis pubescens) 
The fruit is an orange, 1-2 cm wide, which remains enclosed by the light brown bowl. The juicy, bright-orange/yellow fruit tastes sweet. Height of the plant: 1mtr high and can easily be grown in a container. (+ 25 seeds per packet)

Pineapple cherry (Physalis peruviana): Same as the P. Pubscens, but a little bit larger (+ 25 zaden per zakje)
                                                                                                                                                                                             

Tomatillo Purple:
purple specie of the tomatillo's. (+ 25 zaden per zakje)
Tomatillo Toma Verde: green specie of the tomatillo's. (+ 25 zaden per zakje)


TOMATO
Determined Tomatoes:
- Tiny Tim: bush tomato with tiny tomatoes, delicious sweet, candy! You can plant in a hanging
  basket. The fruits will go hanging over the edge. Tomatoes range from small marbles to large cherry
  tomatoes. (20 seeds per packet)
- Pendulina Red: The smallest (40cm) and so far the earliest with many cherry tomatoes. The fruits
  are deep orange and they all have the same size. I think these tomatoes are a little bit softer in
  taste than the Tiny Tim. The plant is growing nicely and compact. It can be grown in a small
  container (18-24cm)  (15 seeds per packet)
- Balcon Star: The plant is small and compact, but is growing nicely with a tribe. This is a favorite of
  mine, by the compact growth (height 60cm), but also the delicious tomatoes. The plant doesn't need
  to be topped.   (15 seeds per packet) 

Indetermined Tomatoes:
- Money Maker: Success guaranteed. Uniform, delicious, red tomatoes. Large harvest. (20 seeds per packet)
- Red Pearl:  sweet, red tomatoe. Can also grow outside. (15 seeds per packet)
- Golden Egg: yellow tomato. Delicious sweet and juicy fruit (2-3cm), good yields.  (20 seeds per packet)
- Cherry Chocolate: Chocolate brown tomato. The color, flavor and name makes it irresistible! (20 seeds per packet)
- San Marzano Roma Tomato (small): solid structure, for soups, sauces and salads. Also suitable to make "sun dried" tomatoes. (20 seeds per packet)
- Golden Sunrise: these are the seeds of the tomato contest. Yellow, juicy tomato. (15 seeds per packet)

Photos of the various vegetables, fruits and flowers, take a look at From seed to ... , Flicr.com and at my garden blog.
                                                                                                                                                                               

Flowers

These flowers are for sale or for exchange for vegetable/fruit
- Aquilegia mix: pink and purple 
- Calendula Mix
- Campanula rapunculoides: a rare and shelterd species.
- Centaurea cyanus
- Dahlia Mix
-
Delphinium: mix wit, rose, paars
- Digitalis large: pink/purple (<2.00m)
- Digitalis small: pink/purple (<1.20m)
- Echinacea: purlpe
- Helleborus: I have a white one, a pink one and a dark purple one. I took the seeds from the dark purple one,
  but I can't be sure that these seeds all give dark purple flowers.
- Papaver somniferum mix: pink/purple/red  
- Passiflora: blue
- Tagetes mix (small <30cm)                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                 Aquilegia


Sunflowers (helianthus annuus)
I harvested them on color and height, but through cross-pollination I'm not sure that the colors or the height will be what you ordered or expacted.
- Sunflowers small (<100cm): yellow (with a little touch of red, see picture)
- Sunflowers large (1.50-3.00m): yellow (with a little touch of red, see picture)
- Sunflowers large (1.50-3.00m): yellow (with smaller leafs, see picture)

Information

 

  • Most of seeds are harvested in 2008/2009 or bought in 2008/2009. 
  • Seeds costs € 0.50 per package unless otherwise stated. That's exclusive the shipping.
  • Seeds are supplied in a small plastic bag/package. On request, the seeds are sent in paper bags.
  • Seeds will not be sent at (night) frost.
  • Growing information about the fruit / vegetables will be send with the seeds, but is only available in Dutch. On demand you can get the information by e-mail, so you can translate the text with Google Translate. I don't have growing information about the flowers.
  • About authenticity: Because of cross-pollination it is possible that a species is not really the kind of seed you ordered. I put everything in order to prevent cross pollination, but I can not guarantee. I like to hear from you if you have something of my seeds sown, which is not really the kind you ordered. to be. Because I am gardening on a small scale, I have original seeds of certain types.
  • Everything I do in my garden, I do it as environment- and animalfriendly as possible. That means I'm an organic gardener.