Once again this event was busy! While my photo was snapped in a lull because the rooms with the seminars was full, full! the parking lot told the truth, it was almost impossible to find a place to park, once again, this was a huge success!

I went with a budget and cash in hand, I had a list of a few things I wanted but I was also open to idea’s when I saw them..

First on my list to find was Brown Mustard and it was found easily and gotten, very full package of seeds as well, love It! Going in both the main garden and in the food forest.

Next on my list, a new hot pepper for Big Brother, and after looking at least a dozen plus of them, I went with White Habanero Hot Pepper, this is the key pepper in Jamaican “jerk” sauce.. its got a 300,000 scoville units.. o you don’t know what is coming your way Big Brother ;P (no telling SIL who reads the blog!)

Then a certain friend on the blog was bragging up lemon Basil, so it got adding into the mix, I am still up for swapping but this way we can compare the two together 🙂

For the Food Forest and the herb garden, I picked up a lovely old Garden Sorrel, these are a perennial native to Eurasia, good for fresh eating greens, good in soups and can be dried as a herb.

While it is part of the food garden, again this one was picked for the food forest and as one that can be more for the wildlife to a point and as fodder, Amaranth Red Garnet, it should add some lovely pops of deep tall red, and I have just the spot picked out for a them. I got 250 seeds worth, so I hope to get a goodly number of them for harvest.

I got a lovely and cheap package of Chioggia beet (pre1840’s) which if you have not grown them are the amazing red/white/red/white beets, yes I know they bleed but they are so pretty! Its a Italian heirloom and this kind is so sweet to my taste buds.

Took me a while and some asking but I finally found a Bush Bean that was a very! rare heritage bean that could do everything I wanted as the beans for on top the hay bale hugelculture, its called a Blue Jay Bush bean.

I paid a pretty penny for these, if fact it was the most costly of all the package I bought and it only came with 30 seeds, so I really hope these do well so I can save more for later, they can be eaten as a young snap bean but they are mostly used as a dried bean, I will try them both ways.

And then I hit the mother load.. the table was not as fancy as the others, no huge display cases, only one person working it, unlike others that had up to four, no banners and it was a box filled with big packages of seeds, a whole box of rare hertitage beans.. and her price was excellent, 3 dollars each..

As I stood there reading, she glanced my way and after she served the last one, she smiled at me and said, I can I help you and I said, the most old rare beans you got..

and here is what I came home with

Bean -Thousand to one

Bean-Hopi Black

Bean Cherokee Trail of Tears

Bean-Ocra/yin yang/Calypso

Bean-Provider

Bean-Wild Goose

And that is really pretty much it for my seed shopping, I have other things I am planning on adding, and a good amount of herbs, soft fruits etc but as amazing as it is to me, my seeds are pretty much all here and ready to go..

I love the look of the yin/yang and the wild goose, so pretty, if all goes as planned, I hope to be able to put together a really pretty and interesting mix of home grown beans for part of the homemade Christmas presents, everyone in the family loves their soups and their settler beans, it would be pretty awesome to be able to make some recipes with farmgal’s beans in the mix 🙂

If all goes as planned, I will be planting out a total of 17 different heritage beans this year 🙂