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Seed Catalogue 2020
In the rush to return to normal, use this
time to consider which parts of normal
are worth rushing back to.
Dave Hollis
Take a moment to remember Our Mission
Rongoa Marae Roa The vision of the Koanga Institute was born out of 30 years of collecting heritage
The gardeners
fruit trees, vegetables and flowers by Kay Baxter and others, in association with
the Koanga Institute. This nationally important collection is in turn built on the
The cooks foundation of hundreds of generations of gardeners and farmers who have nurtured
The families we share our meals with the biodiversity and cultural heritage upon which civilisation has developed (we
The seeds that bring us the spirit of the earth and the sky to give us life; have co-evolved with our food plants).
And to especially thank all those thousands of generations of gardeners
who grew the seeds, loved the seeds, listened to the seeds, talked to the seeds,
and selected and saved the seeds for the survival of their families,
M uch of Koanga Institute’s work was in response to the fact that in the last 100 years much of
the genetic biodiversity in food plants, all over the world, has disappeared as a result of the
industrialisation of our food production.
communities and ancestors.
In the process of “saving the seeds”, all those involved have come to the wider realisation that not
We are all living on the love our ancestors gifted us. just the ecology of our “food evolution” has been compromised by industrialisation, but many
It is our turn to be the ancestors. other aspects of our “human ecology” have likewise been compromised, and we can’t address the
one issue (e.g. seed saving) in isolation. Seed saving is one aspect of the broader need to address
It is our responsibility. our “human ecology”. Thus, while an immediate priority for the Institute is seed protection and
It is our opportunity. conservation, it is also committed to contributing practical holistic solutions in the wider field of
sustainable living:
Contents
• Protection, conservation
and development of NZ’s
genetic and cultural heritage
Our Mission 3 Chenpodiaceae 21 food plants.
Heritage Seeds Speak 4 Cucurbitaceae 22 • Understanding the
Membership Information 5 Fabeaceae 24 connections between soil
Editorial by Gail Aiken 6 Grammineae/Grains 27 health, plant and animal
health and human health.
Beginner Gardener by Kay Baxter 8 Labitaceae 29
Education 10 Portulaca 29 • Research into the practical
Business Sponsorship 12 Solanaceae 29
strategies and techniques
required for communities and
Bequests 12 Valerianaceae 33
individuals to be self reliant,
Life Members 13 Flowers 34 with a focus on regenerative
How to order from Koanga 14 Herbs 40 land use, nutrient dense food
Seed Catalogue 2020 15 Preservation Packs 43 production and processing,
Alliacea 16 Koanga Bookshop for Regenerative Living 50
appropriate technology and
community development.
Amaranthaceae 16 Perennials 52
Apiaceae 16 Seed Collections 60
Asteracaeae 17 Online Workshops - Regeneration Productions 63
Brassicaceae 18
Photo credits: Kay Baxter and Gail Aiken, Koanga Institute and Vitor Crispim, Regeneration Productions
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Membership
Join us and help save New Zealand's Heritage Food Plants!
Over the past 30 years Koanga Institute has been instrumental in collecting and
saving over 700 heritage vegetable seed lines and over 300 Northern heritage fruit
tree lines and we could not have done it without our members!
Our nationally important collections are built on the selected for the qualities home gardeners are looking
foundation of hundreds of generations of growers who for, like a long cropping season, great taste, nutrient
have nurtured biodiversity and cultural heritage. We density and many other qualities that commercial seeds
not only collected the plant material and the seeds, but are not selected for.
also the stories and whakapapa of our food plants and Regenerative land use
the old people who carried them to today. Growing
Along with protecting our collection of New Zealand
out these food plants makes them available to both our
heirloom plants we are a Centre for Regenerative
members and the general public. The beautiful diversity
Heritage Seeds Speak…
Living, aiming to inspire, educate and support
that we see in our heritage collection – in the flavours,
people to develop the skills to manage their land in
shapes and colours, is a glimpse of the past varieties of
a regenerative way. We have a wealth of experience,
all the vegetables.
W
knowledge and resources to share with the world and
e are the seeds of your ancestors, the seeds that have nourished you forever, Heirloom collections this work is more important now than ever before
the seeds that give you life, the seeds that you pass on down as your Keeping the whole collection of these incredibly as urgent action is required to deal with the Climate
important New Zealand heirlooms alive and available Emergency. Help us to safeguard the future for coming
responsibility to the next generation, the seeds that speak to your DNA , the seeds for the people of New Zealand is a complicated and generations by supporting our work.
that are able to nourish you more fully than any body elses seeds… and more fully expensive process and we receive no government NEW Members Benefits
than hybrid seeds, and especially genetically engineered seeds, and critically seeds funding. We are a Charitable Trust and one of the only
Being a member of Koanga is an excellent way to
organisations in New Zealand who grow out our seeds
containing glyphosate. locally (mostly in the sunny Hawke’s Bay), so they are
support our important work but also brings a range of
membership benefits
We are the seeds capable of living with you through climate change. adapted to NZ soils and climates. These seeds are then
We are part of your inheritance, part of your body, your link to
the stars and the earth, your link to life itself.
We require alive, highly mineralized and microbially active soil
in order to grow to our potential, to enable us to build soils while
we grow and in order to be nutrient dense enough to nourish you.
We need humans to listen again, and learn to regenerate the ecology
in order to support our survival… we don’t survive on dead soil.
We are on the knife edge of extinction and have already lost over
90% of our brothers and sisters.
It is time for you to reconnect with us in order to reclaim your
health and it is time to hold us close and ensure we are kept safe Now is the time
for the coming generations.
Please consider giving us a donation or become a member of Koanga to support our work saving our
own heritage seeds, or supporting somebody else to become a member and join us on the journey.
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lunch afterwards. It brings people together to There’s a very good documentary from Happen
Editorial July 2020 − Gail Aiken support each other in growing food and even
a few people working together for a couple of
Films called “Living the Change” where a guy
called Shane Ward (Action Ecology) makes a
hours can transform large jobs from being very insightful comment. “Being sustainable is
Welcome to our 2020 Seed Catalogue. Well, it’s been quite a year and we find ourselves incredibly daunting to great fun as many hands not just a nice thing to do. Being unsustainable
in a somewhat changed landscape with a huge increase in seed sales and upsurge in really do make light work. We’re planning to isn’t just a bit unfortunate but is an existential
interest in home gardening triggered by the Covid crisis. This is fantastic but also relaunch the group in August and see if there is threat to our species.” That’s what the ‘new
challenging as we work to meet the increase in demand. We are of course working hard demand from new gardeners in our area. This normal’ at societal level needs to be based on, an
to increase production in all areas but growing seeds and plants inherently involves a model could easily be applied in other areas understanding that sustainability is fundamental
and is a fantastic and easy to organise way for and that it’s opposite is ‘unsustainable’ which
time lag so please be patient if particular varieties sell out quickly. established gardeners to share their skills, to means that it can’t continue. Of course now we
T he current situation has brought many new
people into gardening and growing who don’t
have knowledge and experience and we are acutely
The dominant paradigm has ignored these limits
and a pandemic was not unexpected. If it hadn’t
been Covid 19 it would have been something
support new gardeners to be regenerative and to
build community in the process.
need to go beyond what at one time would have
been sustainable and be regenerative to repair the
damage already done.
On a political and societal level there are also some
aware that success is important so that people else, maybe a different pandemic or maybe one positives. The notion that the economy has to So moving forwards lets create a new normal not
don’t become disheartened or turn to harmful, of the other issues looming such as biodiversity come first and that governments can’t intervene based on short term economic gain. One which
chemically based practices. In Kay’s Beginner collapse or the climate crisis. So if ‘normal’ has has been seriously challenged to differing degrees is based on an understanding that we are part of
Gardener article she shares her thoughts on how created these problems then rushing to get ‘back around the world and the neo liberal free market the earth and her systems; where food is produced
best to get started with your garden. to normal’ is unwise. This is our opportunity to model of capitalism which puts profit before both regeneratively and as locally as possible; where
create a ‘new normal’. people and the environment has been significantly we once again have healthy, swimmable rivers
Each year we run a 5 day Gardening
Masterclass which might sound as though it At an individual or family level this seems to undermined. It feels important that politicians and oceans; and where wise use of the earth’s
is only for experienced gardeners but that isn’t be happening with more people starting to and corporations aren’t allowed to push things abundance ensures that future generations can
the case. Gardeners of all levels of experience grow their own food and being awakened to back to normal when normal isn’t sustainable. We thrive on this beautiful, vibrant and complex
can benefit from this workshop and it’s a great the inherent fragility of our current system. can’t continue to operate outside ecological limits. planet that we are fortunate to inhabit.
opportunity to take 5 days out of everyday life Increasing resilience in this way is hugely
and be immersed in gardening and really up important but growing plants and food also
skill. An investment for the future and we offer brings many additional benefits. It is about
the option of paying in installments for all of reconnecting with the earth and it’s systems
our workshops. This year we are planning a 1 in a way that all earlier cultures did but has
day Introduction to Seed Saving workshop to largely been lost in mainstream culture today.
support people taking that additional step of Getting your hands in the earth, planting seeds,
growing their own seeds. becoming immersed in the cycles of life is very
powerful and lets hope that becomes the new
Reflecting on the Covid crisis, and in no way
normal for many, many more people.
minimising the negative impact it has had on
individuals, families, and communities, it does It’s also important to start creating a new
feel that it provides an opportunity. Maybe this normal at community level. Here in New
is this our chance to change and to reconnect Zealand we are in the fortunate position of
with the earth and what is really important, being able to reconnect with our communities
rather than continuing on the path of separation, and there are loads of amazing projects
endless growth and unfettered consumerism. around the country. Simple things can be
very powerful. We live in Hokianga and years
Permaculture is pretty central to our lives and
ago started a very basic garden group where
inherent to permaculture is the understanding
we meet once a month at a different persons
that humanity needs to work with the ecologies
property to have a working bee and shared
that we are a part of and within ecological limits.
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All new Koanga members get a free online The Beginner Gardener booklet takes you
Beginner Gardener by Kay Baxter Growing Great Seedlings workshop. That
workshop is mind-blowing because it shows you
through making a whole heap of sensible
decisions before taking any action at all, e.g.:
how easy it is to get this right, to go from doing
Empower yourself towards personal and things in a way that often doesn’t work and ends
1. How big a garden can you really take care of?
up creating degeneration into a space where you 2. Where is the best place to put it?
family wellbeing and food security! can see it is easy, step by step, to move in the
3. How much shelter do I need?
other direction and successfully grow nutrient
Kia Ora, judging by the amount of seed we dense veg whilst creating/building life all 4. How do I aerate the beds?
sold in the few weeks during and since lock around you. 5. How much water do I need per sq m?
down, there are many, many new gardeners
out there. I keep having visions of what will If you can’t afford to become a member 6. How can I feed the soil and plants?
happen to the seed if all of you new gardeners please apply for a sponsored membership,
we constantly have others paying forward to 7. Which seeds should I use?
don’t understand ways to grow strong seedlings,
when to plant the seeds, and how to feed them support those who need it. If you would like to 8. How much will this cost?
so you get a good result. I hate to think of all support somebody else to become a member
please also go to our website and gift forward. 9. How much time will you really have to
the hard lessons that could be involved. I have do this?
already heard many stories of long, lanky Our e-booklets are very cheap as well, another
seedlings and seedlings planted in the cold that way to get engaged. Once all these decisions are made it gives
need the heat etc. you a simple calendar and takes you through
All of our booklets, books and charts are everything you need to do to put in a specific
On the other hand this is an amazing designed to fit together to make an integrated 40sq m garden plan, capable of providing
opportunity for all of us. In a way the thing whole picture covering all the bases and areas of salads, stir fries, soups and stews year round.
that has created such a hard situation in the food production that we need to be learning if
world right now is our disconnection from the we are committed to growing our own nutrient You will get far more veg out of a new garden if
natural world. Gardening is one of the best dense food and being part of the solution. you spend time learning first.
ways to reconnect. Even if we are just setting
out to grow some food, save some money, or
The online workshops cover all of the same Now is the time to do that!
ground, and include the material in the
reclaim our fitness, resolve our lack of action
booklets but you get to see things visually This is the only time in a gardener's year you
or shift our depression, it is inevitable that
a reconnection process will begin as soon as Koanga exists to support you on as well as monthly management details. The have the luxury of being able to read and learn
Koanga Garden Guide covers that well in book
we put our hands in the soil and watch our this journey we are all on! form too.
and absorb new ideas. Even the oldest of us and
seedlings begin to germinate. I can’t begin the most experienced use this time to remember
to tell you how incredible the journey of Please take the time to check in with our My best suggestion for beginner gardeners our lessons from the previous years and decide
reconnection is…it reminds me of the words free knowledge base on the Koanga website, though is to get a copy of the Beginner Gardener on the changes we wish to make in the new
from Beautiful Boy by John Lennon, 'Life is as well as the things in our shop, our books, booklet, and to follow that step by step. That season about to begin.
what happens to you while you’re busy making brochures and booklets, our workshops and booklet covers all the bases, in a simplified Enjoy your garden! Kay
other plans.' We’re growing food, but really, we our online workshops. form, and move on from there as you feel
are unfolding inside, building bridges with the confident and achieve success.
All of these things are there for you to use as a
natural world and growing in ways we may have
resource to take you into a regenerative future,
no words for, finding out who we are or maybe
to support you step by step to grow your own
for the first time feeling as though we have a
nutrient dense food in ways that build soil,
place to stand strong in this world and to go
sequester carbon etc.
out from. Whatever it is, for us gardening is the
beginning of a wonderful journey. Keep taking
the small steps.
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Permaculture Design Course Fruit Tree Propagation
Education 12 Days
7th to 19th February 2021
1 Day
3rd July 2021
Guided Tours
An excellent way to find out more
about our work, see our amazing
Tutors: Kay Baxter, Bob Corker, Stephen Tutors: Kay Baxter, Ben Callander
gardens and meet the team!
Here at Koanga we are learning to live simply and in a regenerative way. Our Anderson Clay & Ben Callander. $290 (Early Bird $261)
$2400 (Early Bird $1900) Find more information and book
workshops and internships have regenerative practices at their core and are for anyone Introduction to Pruning online via www.koanga.org.nz.
interested in gaining the skills and knowledge to redesign their lives to live in a Introduction to Seed Saving 1 Day
regenerative way and to empower change in their community. 1 Day 4th July 2021
O
6th March 2021 Tutors: Kay Baxter, Murray Neverman
ur education program of cutting edge We’re Committed To: Tutor: Michele Griffiths $130 (Early Bird $117)
workshops along with internships and guided • Inspiring and supporting regenerative living $130 (Early Bird $117)
tours, is one of the ways that we share the essential in New Zealand through education
skills and knowledge that we have accumulated
• Empowering home gardeners to develop
over decades in order to support people on their
efficient gardening skills, build top-soil and
path to regenerative living. This year we are excited
improve their health through enjoying their
to be able to announce several new workshops that
own quality, nutrient dense produce.
have been added to our range.
All food served on our courses is:
Empower yourself with the practical skills to
turn your dreams of self-resilience into your • Locally sourced
reality. We use the Permaculture design process • Organic
to design and teach solutions for all aspects of • Unrefined
our lives and environment. Our guided tours, • Nutrient dense
workshops, permaculture design courses,
internships and apprenticeships are all great • Traditional
ways to create your lifestyle or career path in a • Prepared following
regenerative way. Weston A. Price principles
See our website for more detailed information on our workshops, www.koanga.org.nz
Butchery and Meat Processing Biointensive Gardening The Forest Garden Intensive includes
5 Days 3 Days the following two workshops which
can be done as stand alones:
17th to 21st August 2020 20th to 23rd September 2020
Tutor: Taiamai Corker Tutors: Kay Baxter & Michele Griffiths Forest Garden Design
$920 (Early Bird $828) Can be done as a stand alone workshop.
2 Days
$580 (Early Bird $522)
Gardening Master Class 27th to 29th September 2020
Growing Nutrient Dense Food Tutor: Kay Baxter
5 Days
Can be done as a stand alone workshop.
20th to 25th September 2020 2 Days
$380 (Early Bird $342)
Tutors: Kay Baxter & Michele Griffiths 24th to 25th September 2020
$920 (Early Bird $828) Tutor: Kay Baxter Forest Garden Management
Gardening Master Class includes the Can be done as a stand alone workshop. Internships
3 Days
following two workshops which can $380 (Early Bird $342) Internships are opportunities
be done as stand alones: 30th September to 2nd October 2020
for students who have done
Forest Garden Intensive Tutors: Kay Baxter & Murray Neverman permaculture learning, workshops
Can be done as a stand alone workshop. or courses here at Koanga or
5 Days
$580 (Early Bird $522) elsewhere, to further their learning
27h September to 2nd October 2020
by gaining practical experience
Tutors: Kay Baxter & Murray Neverman
in their field of interest. E-mail
$920 (Early Bird $828) contact@koanga.org.nz
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Business Sponsorship Life Members
Purchasing a Lifetime Membership demonstrates a significant commitment
to Koanga Institute and our kaupapa and the financial contribution is greatly
appreciated. All of the people below have supported us in this way and we are
eternally grateful to them. You can find out more about becoming a Life Member
on our website.
Guillermo Aldao-Humble Dene Fowler Jo and Bob Munro Morley West
Lorna Alden Noeline Gannaway Annette Nixon Yvonne and Jim Wheeler
Peter Alexander Kirsten Garrabrant Richard Noke Tania Williams
Randell, Tutton and Bell Monika Geister Pip Norvell Alison Wilson
Diana & Justin Anderson Simon and Stacy Griffiths Alison Nuttall Ritz Wood
Barbara Baragwanath John Griggs Lesley O’Callahan Richard Worthington
As a Charitable Trust Koanga relies on its members and supporters to continue its
John Billings Jo Hainsworth Phoenix Organics Rachel Yeats
important work. The reality is that resources and funding are always a limitation on
Nick Blennerhassett Joanne Hamlyn Viola Palmer Doug and Jane Russell
what Koanga Institute can achieve and to help secure our future we are looking to Helen Boyd-Alspach Rob Hammington Craig Palmer Kahukuri Bloodstock Ltd
develop relationships with ethical businesses that can provide financial support to R. Burgess Jaquie Harding Marco and Teresa Partridge Banyan
enable us to reach our goals and that also provide benefits for the supporting company. Donna Campbell Sonja Hay Jane Penberthy Natalie Dromgool
T hese will be special relationships with Our previous sponsors are: Brian Cartmell Grace Heart Jenny Quilliam Melissa Hartley
businesses and organisations that we respect Centrality (https://centrality.ai/) who assisted Barbara Chapple Liz Hodgson Jan Rata Joanne Hedge
and that we are happy to be associated with us to purchase a new tunnel house. Gwenda Costello Barry Hutchings Betty Rawley Vivienne Hill
for our mutual benefit. If you are linked with a Scott Dalziell Murray Joyce Carla Roberts Michael Kelly
Hansa (https://www.hansachippers.co.nz)
business that could provide support then please Emma Darke Murray and Rob Joyce Daphne Ross Jane Lenting
who provided us with a chipper for use in the
get in touch with contact@koanga.org.nz or Karyn Davis Elizabeth Keet Robyn Scanlen Suzanne & Andrew McLeod
forest garden.
check out our business sponsorship area https:// Bryoay De Boer R Kent Dick and Bertha Schoneveld Kirsten Rudolph
www.koanga.org.nz/business-sponsorship/. We are very grateful for their support.
Robyn Diamond Jennifer Kerr Roy Shackleton Annina Rueegger
Cherry E Dibley Susan King Pam and Brett Shand Sandra Sheard
Bequests Inge Diks
Greg Dillon
Lyn and Fred Kingdon-Sanders
Wendy Klink
Yvonne Shanks
Richard Stoks
Anita's Shop
Maara White
Sabiay and Drueckler Jude Knights Rox Sutherland-Valentine Alistair McKay
B y making a bequest to the Koanga Institute you will be
supporting us to continue our important work. This gift is one
that you may not be able to make during your lifetime, but will
Drueckler-Hiepe
Robyn Dyer
Mavson and KA Early
Pat Knuckey
Heike Koester
Jenny Tait
Lisa Talbot
Jan McKenzie
Virginia Sharplin
Susan Lane Lynelle Taylor Grant Croft
ensure that our heritage plants are available for future generations Emily Eile Kay Langdon Elaine Taylor Sonya Bennett
as a resource for cultivation and genetic diversity. The Institute relies Bridget Elworthy Chris Livesey Phyllis Tichinin Susan Morrison
on generous contributions, and our membership fees. In these Angela Emery Ingrid Losch Martin Ulenberg Tricia Joe
changing times it feels very important that we continue to flourish
Susan Erskine Pauline Macdonald Melita Van Wordragen Matt and Debbie Sutcliffe
and grow. We are very good at making a little money go a long way.
Brett Fallen Anne MacLennan Chris and Julene Wake Te Awhina Savage
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to know more.
Bedford Mackay Family Trust Tania McLean Nate Walker Denise Twentyman
Our vision is to be able to save all of our NZ heritage seeds so that
Faye Fausett Jenni Kent
they can become the seeds our future food is grown from. Fiona McQueen Yannick Walrelam
Maara Foster Chris Morrison Dave Webster Maggie Dawson
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How to order from Koanga Seed Catalogue 2020
The easiest way to order anything Please order via the website if you can as Koanga Gardens seeds are very special seeds
from Koanga is to visit our website this reduces costs and pressure on staff
• They are the seeds of our own ancestors. That means they have been grown,
time for us but if you are not able then
https://www.koanga.org.nz/gardens/ selected and saved by, and in turn supported many generations of, our own
you can e-mail your order to contact@ ancestors. We hold the biggest collection of these sacred seeds in the country,
and place your order and pay there. koanga.org.nz or phone 06 838 6269. with your support!
• They are 100% grown in New Zealand, and 100% open pollinated , building
resilience, reclaiming skills and connection in this land.
• They have always been specifically selected for their unique qualities, including
nutritional density, specific flavours, and end uses in the kitchen by the many
generations… and through our intuition.. supported by the new science of
epigenetics we now know that this means they are far more capable of fully
nourishing us than other seeds.
• They are adapted to New Zealand soils and climates (in some cases this is critical,
(especially with tomatoes).
• Koanga is committed to regenerative and organic growing methods that produce
high quality, nutrient dense seeds. We are actively working to educate ourselves
and learn as much as we can, understanding this is a life process and will be
different for all of us.
The following codes tell you the Heritage Status of each seed line:
NZ New Zealand heritage seed OS Overseas heritage seed
EC Early commercial seed (100) Approximate number of seeds in each packet
Carbon crop P Perennial
To find the bioregion, or place of origin off our NZH seeds look online (the descriptions in the shop), where we have
the space and have listed them all.
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Vegetable Seeds
Asteracaeae
Alliacea
Artichoke Purple de Jesi P cardoon P Lettuce Devils Ear (aka: Devils Bit)
Cynara scolymus OS (15) Cynara cardunculus NZ (15) Lactuca sativa OS (150)
Amaranthaceae
Purple globe artichokes have a sweet 1.3m stunning looking, silvery leafed This is an outstanding, hardy, easy to
exquisite flavour and are one of the most mineral accumulator that does very grow, small hearting lettuce with red
Leek Lyon Amaranthus Golden Giant Amaranthus Pygmy Torch nutritious vegetables we can eat. If picked well in dry Mediterranean climates. outside pointy leaves and a green heart.
Allium ameloprasum OS (300) Amaranthus hypochondriacus OS (600) Amaranthus spp OS (600) regularly and not left to go to seed they Purple scotch thistle tip flower Stands well in heat.
Lyon leeks came to New Zealand with our Can easily reach 2m plus. The plant has Stunning plant with deep burgundy will crop over a very long period from heads a lot like globe artichokes and
English ancestors and is known for it’s golden stems and leaves with beautiful leaves and large black jewel like early Spring to early winter. Cut flower the bees love them. Excellent in a
long pure white stems and it’s mild flavour, upright, intense, bright, golden flower burgundy drooping seed heads. When stalks back after harvesting the globes and Mediterranean forest garden situation,
it is still a favourite for many winter dishes heads. Good carbon crop. Grain variety. popped they are black and white and new shoots will come up from the bottom. excellent carabon crop.
today. The phytonutrients are mostly in Pops well. very crunchy. A very ornamental grain
the dark coloured parts so be sure to eat variety. Grows to 1m only, making it
the greens and well as the stem. easier to net than taller cultivars.
Apiaceae
Lettuce Finger Lettuce Joe's Winter Lettuce Mignonette
Lactuca sativa OS (150) Lactuca sativa NZ (200) Lactuca sativa NZ (150)
Amaranthus Tampala Carrot Oxheart Carrot Touchon
We've had Finger lettuce in our This is an outstanding hardy, easy This is one of the old lettuces of New
Amaranthus tricolour NZ (300) Daucus carota OS (400) Daucus carota EC (400)
collection for many years, it is to grow, open hearted, lime green Zealand, that has survived because
An NZ heritage green leafy heat loving This variety was introduced to the seed A high quality French Nantes type, 14- often called Green Oakleaf in other coloured crinkly leafed lettuce. they do not cross and self seed easily. It
vegetable,common throughout Asia trade in 1884 and is a uniquely shaped, 17 cm long, cylindrical, and coreless. catalogues. It is an easy to grow reliable is a Buttercrunch lettuce with a loose
and well known as a super nutritious short (12 cm), very wide (8 cm) carrot that It has an intense deep orange colour, oakleaf shaped leaves leaf picking light green heart and red tinged outer
green especially when lightly steamed grows very fast to over 500gm. Outstanding is sweet and juicy, making it ideal for lettuce with densely packed leaves in leaves, all leaves are butter/tender with
or sautéed. High in calcium, iron and quality, flavour, colour, sweet. Stores well, eating raw, cooking or juicing. the middle, a lighter green than the a flavour modern lettuces don’t have.
other minerals it grows to 1m high and good cooked or raw. Good for heavy soil, outside, but not a heart as such. This one came to us from Helen Boleyn
has red and green, crinkled leaves that container gardens and raised beds. of Palmerston North in 1997.
can be picked all summer.
Lettuce Odell's Lettuce Winter Puha Prickly Leaf
Carrot White Belgium Celery Nutty Parsnip Avon Resister Lactuca sativa NZ (150) Lactuca sativa NZ (100) Sonchus oleraceus NZ (100)
Daucus carota NZ (400) Apium graveolens EC (200) Pastinaca sativa EC (300)
Odell’s was sent in by Howard Farr of From Kaiwaka Northland. It has curly, We have been told that this puha
Originally a Dutch heirloom. This A favourite of ours for 30 years. It is We think this was an early commercial Upper Hutt. It is the best little green long green finger leaves, which can was already in this land when the
cultivar came from the Henry excellent for harvesting one stalk at a variety in New Zealand, kept alive in the cos lettuce, with small sweet crunchy be picked all winter, and is a finger/ great migration occured. It has been
Harrington Collection, and Henry has time all winter and spring. The stalks South Island, and passed to us by Henry midribs and leaves, a tight little heart endive type lettuce. It is best planted to regarded as indigenous by East Coast
been growing it since the war years. It are crunchy, juicy and have a nutty taste Harrington. It is extremely rare and and very fast (10 weeks from seed) and mature around May in warm climates Maori. It is also regarded as far better
is a large, white, long, tapered carrot and it’s so easy to grow we have selected unavailable elsewhere as far as we know. easy to grow. Great for small families. and March in cold climates for winter tasting than the Scottish cultivar that is
with green shoulders that raise a little it fora strong growth over winter in a It’s an easy to grow, classic looking They do best in Spring and Autumn. picking. Open hearted, darker green the common one, albeit more difficult
above the ground. At their best cooked, cold climate. parsnip that tastes great. Grows well all This is our favourite lettuce! lettuces contain by far the most nutrition. to prepare!
stunning for flavouring soups and stews. over New Zealand.
16 | Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue | 17
raddichio Endive Rosso Raddichio Indivia Scarola P salsify Oyster Vegetable Cabbage Dalmatian (aka: Collards Cabbage January King Cabbage Red Rock Mammoth
Cichorium endivia NZ (100) Cichorium endivia NZ (100) Tragopogon porrifolius NZ (100) or Loose-leafed Cabbage) Brassica oleraceae OS (100) Brassica oleraceae OS (100)
The plant grows about 1m high and is An old Italian variety that has been in This salsify is a NZ heritage cultivar Brassica oleraceae NZ (100) January King is a beautiful flat headed A heritage red cabbage, that has huge
very resistant to cold, as well as pests New Zealand for many years. It has found outside a South Island Retirement Once widespread around the North. savoy that has becomes purple tinged red/purple leaves and heart, sits well over
and diseases. It is usually grown from quite a flat shape with a quartered heart Village that is a fantastic addition to the These super nutritious leaf cabbages on outside leaves with crinkled leaf edges. winter, makes wonderful sauerkraut, and
seeds, but may also be started from root like many old roses. It is beautifully vege garden. Plant in Spring and harvest need to be planted in time to have them They sit well when planted in early Autumn tastes great. Red/purple veggies contain
divisions. Lack of moisture makes the ornamental in the garden and has a all Winter. These unusually long and fully grown by the time it gets cold. They and are great for all uses. Excellent flavour high levels of phytonutrients!
root more fibrous. very mild delicious taste, tender leaves thick roots taste like kumara and . the are picked throughout the Winter and and savoy cabbages contain higher
with a lime green colour, lighter in the flowers are also edible and a beautiful Spring (until October, when they head levels of nutrition than others.
heart. Sits well over winter. mauve star like flower. up to seed). Taste is great.
Brassicaceae
Arugula Wild Rocket Asian Greens Mesclun Mix Broccoli de Cicco Cauliflower Ruapehu Chinese Cabbage Chi Hi Li Cress Garden
Diplotaxis ericoides OS (100) Brassica rapa NZ/OS (200) Brassica oleraceae NZ (100) Brassica oleraceae EC (100) Brassica rapa EC (100) Lepidium sativum NZ (200)
A traditional European wild form of A mix of salad greens including HH An outstanding home gardeners variety This is an outstanding large, white This is a traditional Chinese type An easy to grow, cool season salad green
rocket that can be picked for a whole Chinese cabbage, Ruruhau, Purple that travelled the world with Italian cauliflower, with amazing texture and cabbage. A type of Bok Choy. One from the Harrington Collection. It can
year. It has narrow wavy leaves that mustard and Mizuna Red Coral, for immigrants late in the 19thC. It produces flavour when grown well. It grows well of the few open pollinated hearting be picked a leaf at a time over a long
are picked a leaf at a time and they are growing and cutting as a mesclun mix medium sized delicious early heads all over New Zealand (in the North Chinese cabbages left. This one is a tall period . The leaves are tasty sweet and
sweet tasty and a little peppery. If well salad, all leaves are great in soup or followed by multiple side shoots. Leaves plant only in Autumn) however it is one with an elongated heart. Excellent quite light. Self seeds prolifically like
grown they are not too hot. Self seeds stew when larger. and stems are very edible. WE’ve been a long season cultivar, requiring 4-5 flavour and texture. Will not heart Upland Cress. Rare variety and as far as
freely, easy to grow. keeping this line alive for over 30 years months to maturity. up in the heat over summer. Plant in we know the only line in New Zealand.
and have improved the line vastly from autumn in the North, or early spring. Sometimes known as Lebanese Cress.
it’s original NZ state.
Broccoli Purple Sprouting Broccoli Romanesco Brussels Sprouts Fillbasket Cress Upland Cress Watercress Kale Borecole
Brassica oleraceae OS (100) Brassica oleraceae NZ (100) Brassica oleraceae NZ (100) Barbarea verna NZ (300) Rorippa nasturtium NZ (200) Brassica oleracea NZ (100)
Initially cultivated by the Romans, A rare New Zealand heritage brassica. Another rare NZ heritage variety. An easy to grow self seeding green that If you have somewhere wet that holds This kale is a well known classic variety,
Purple Sprouting Broccoli is an These Romanesco broccoli are This is one from the Harrington should be in all gardens. Delicious salad water or remains moist over the winter very ornamental with strong tasting dark
outstandingly nutritious vegetable, all stunning if well grown, producing a Collection. An old Southland variety green, that grows all winter and tastes months you can grow watercress, a green healthy open leaves, with very curly
parts are edible but it only performs spiral conical whorl, that is a piece of renowned for it’s large sprouts and the a lot like watercress, but growing in highly nutritious cold season green edges. The plants are compact. It tastes
well in areas with cold winters. When art and often hard to pick. Delicate and long harvesting season. Our Grower rosettes like a lettuce. Highly nutritious. either raw or cooked. It can be harvested best after the frost has been on the leaves
well grown it produces broccoli shoots tender and eaten as broccoli. has been selecting for heavy, reliable from around May until Christmas. but you can always pick the kale and put
for months from large plants. cropping and we are very proud to be it in the freezer overnight then cook it to
able to offer you this super rare seed. get the best flavour!
18 | Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue | 19Chenpodiaceae
Mizuna Red Coral Mustard Greens Deep Purple Mustard Greens Ruruhau Beetroot Bull’s Blood Beetroot Chioggia Beetroot Cylindrical
Brassica rapa OS (150) Brassica juncea NZ (200) Brassica rapa NZ (150) Beta vulgaris OS (150) Beta vulgaris OS (150) Beta vulgaris NZ (150)
Deep maroon coloured, highly Purple Mustard greens look incredible Fast growing green, easy to grow early Selected by seedsman Kees Sahin in the Spread around the world in the 1840s from An NZ heirloom originally from Denmark,
ornamental mizuna that has feathery in the garden, the colder it gets the Spring and Autumn. Eat raw when Netherlands from the French variety Italy, this is a uniquely beautiful flesh has famous for slicing with it’s long cylindrical
leaves, with crunchy tasty ribs, tender deeper the purple gets. They are a young or add to boil ups casseroles Crapaudine for the darkest coloured alternating red and white concentric rings roots. Produces much more uniform slices
and easy to grow classic salad green, classic mustard green, to be eaten etc. when older. Excellent with corned leaves. The juice from this beet is used to that resemble a bulls’ eye. Very tender, good than round beets. This tender and sweet
also suitable for wok dishes and stir wilted or lightly cooked., or cooked in a beef, stews, casseroles and ‘boil ups’. A make the only red food colouring allowed for eating raw and pickling. Thick medium variety is great raw or cooked, young leaves
frying. Flowers are edible too. boil up, renowned for their flavour and traditional Maori vegetable. by Swedish law. Very sweet 35 days for green leaves are also excellent cooked as also edible. This is the most productive
nutrient density edible leaves, 55 days for edible root. greens. Retains markings if baked whole beetroot per sq m of ground, and in our
and sliced just before serving. opinion tastes the best as well!
Radish/Daikon Aomaru Koshin Radish White Icicle Rocket Beetroot Golden Beetroot Golden BX Manglebeet Chard Giant Fordhook
Raphanus sativus OS (100) Raphanus sativus NZ (100) Eruca sativa OS (600) Beta vulgaris OS (150) Beta vulgaris OS (50) Beta vulgaris NZ (50)
An outstanding round easy to grow Gifted to the Koanga Collection by Rocket is the mainstay of salads during Golden beetroot grow fast in good Similar to beetroot but sweeter, more An old favourite that many of you will
Daikon, with a green shoulder on the Henry Harrington from Southland. Spring and Autumn. It is easy to grow conditions, and are smaller plants, tender, and grow far larger, with a bright remember. Silverbeet that grows well
topside above the ground, white skin This is the best radish we have ever fast to the eating stage and delicious, with smaller leaves than most other golden colour. Doesn’t have the earthy taste and is reliable in all areas. Introduced
and white flesh below the ground and a tasted! It is very juicy, tender and crisp even at the flowering stage when you beetroot. They have beautiful golden often associated with beetroot, used in all in 1934 by Atlee Burpee and Co. Broad
bright red mandala in the flesh. When and easily grown in Autumn and can add the nutty tasting flowers to coloured roots, that I think are at their ways as you would beetroot. The leaves are dark green heavily crumpled leaves
you cook them the inside goes pink, Spring. It looks like an icicle in that it is salads. Larger leaves are also very tasty best roasted when young and served in also very sweet and excellent raw or cooked. with white veins and stalks. Crops well
with the green skin. They taste great long and tapered and translucent white when stir fried. a hot winter salad with vinaigrette. I love to cube them once cooked, and serve all year round even after light frosts
raw, pickled or cooked as other Diakon. inside. Cool season fast growing radish. in a hot salad with vinaigrette.
Swede Lawes American Purple Top Tatsoi Turnip Ohno Scarlett Chard Margaret Dale Chard Perpetual Spinach Chard Rainbow
Brassica napus NZ (200) Brassica rapa OS (100) Brassica rapa OS (200) Beta vulgaris NZ (50) Beta vulgaris NZ (60) Beta vulgaris NZ (50)
Sent to us by Ron Kidd in the Nelson An easy to grow, fast growing Autumn, This is a very stunning looking red The Dale family heritage silverbeet sent This mid green spinach with light Rainbow Chard is a super colourful mix
area many years ago. Excellent quality Winter and Spring green. Tatsoi has skinned, white fleshed turnip with a red to us by Margaret Dale of Ruakaka. green midribs was once widely grown of chard with the stems ranging in colour
traditional swede with a distinct small, dark green, spoon shaped leaves mandala inside the white flesh. It has It has very dark green leaves with a and known for it’s ability to keep on from yellow to red to pink and some
purple shoulder, excellent for soups, with white stems, that are great in been in our collection for many years wide midrib that is light green and producing in difficult situations eg. striped mixes of in between colours,
stews, mashing and casseroles. Must salads, stir fries and soups. and is an heirloom from Asia. It is great sometimes white. Strong grower, Too hot, not enough water or nutrients many are almost neon they are so bright!
be planted mid summer to get large raw or cooked, also stunning for lactic excellent health and taste. etc. A reliable hardy cropper for all Rainbow chard is popular all around the
swedes for winter soup, will do and pickling, as the red skin dyes the entire situations, that tastes great! world but it is a heritage line that came
taste better in cooler areas. jar bright pink! Leaves are very edible too. originally from the Nelson area of NZ.
20 | Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue | 21Lamb’s Quarters Magenta Spreen Lamb’s Quarters Wild Crafted Orach Red luffa Smooth Skinned pie melon Dargaville Green Seeded Pumpkin Austrian Hulless
Chenopodium album OS (200) Chenopodium album NZ (200) Atriplex hortensis NZ (40) Luffia aegyptiaca Unknown Citrulis lanatis NZ (15) C. maxima OS (20)
A stunning looking version of the wild Lamb’s Quarters are an ancient green A real stunner in the garden and Luffa's are frost tender but will grow This melon came from Mr Chapman These seeds came to NZ with our dear
Lamb’s Quarters. This one has brilliant leaf vegetable that are second only to like the green version is an ancient successfully in a wide range of climate of Dargaville who grew them friend Joe, from his Austrian village
florescent magenta colouring on all dandelion leaves as a source of the vegetable that is highly nutritious. zones. They grow like a cucumber with commercially until 1990's for their where they traditionally were pressed
new growth. Lamb’s Quarters contain vegetable precursor to Vitamin A, beta This one has magenta leaves. Pinch out intriguing upright flowers, and once pickling and jam making qualities!! It to make oil. They are larger and better
the highest vegetable levels of beta carotene. They are delicious cooked at growing tips continually and eat as autumn comes they can be picked and left is not amelon to eat like watermelon and tasting than all other varieties we have
carotene the precursor to Vitamin A. any stage of growth and are one of the spinach, raw or cooked. Small leaves to dry out. Once they are dry, you can peel a rare endangered cultivar in this land. tried, mature in short growing season
Continually Pick tips for long picking most nutritious greens we can eat. It best raw. Self seeds easily. off the skin and shake out the seeds to use They are super vigorous growers and areas, and if you have a longer season
season. Excellent cooked like spinach. grows as a weed in many places and is a as a pot scrubber, body scrubber etc. croppers far easier than watermelons. they just keep on producing.
great summer green.
Cucurbitaceae
Quinoa Colorado Courgette Cocozelle Bush Cucumber Deka Pumpkin Butternut NZ Heritage Pumpkin Iron Bark Pumpkin Queensland Blue
Chenopodium quinoa OS (600) C. pepo OS (20) Cucumis sativa OS (20) C. moschata NZ (20) C. maxima NZ (10) C. maxima OS (15)
Colorado is a dependable favorite- A traditional long, green skinned An old Russian pickling cucumber. They This is the first New Zealand heritage One of the best remembered old Queensland Blue is another well known
easy to grow, beautiful, and with great courgette but hugely productive of are the traditional outdoor green type butternut seed that we have had sent in pumpkins by the very elderly gardeners heritage, long keeping pumpkin, very
flavor. 5-6 foot plants with multicolored better flavoured courgettes than shop and make excellent gherkins and pickles, to us that has proved to be still viable. of today. They have a rough bumpy skin similar to Crown, with dense deep
seedheads and tan/gold seed. varieties. The skins are marked with (including lactic pickles which is how It’s a lovely small, sweet, excellent which turns from green to grey (iron) orange flesh but seem to grow larger,
lighter stripes and patterns and they they were traditionally pickled). They flavoured butternut, and it came from when fully mature, they are round and and with a more ribbed pattern on
are very easy to grow. Male flowers also are also good for eating as cucumbers Ross Stringer in Helensville. Being a flat, and they keep very well. nd they are the skin.
edible and delicious. when larger. A really hardy, thick green very good keeper is a bonus. have super tough skin to get through!
skinned variety and a heavy cropper. The flesh is orange, dense and sweet
with a good flavour all of their own.
Cucumber Green Apple Cucumber Port Albert Gourd Mix Pumpkin Red Kuri Rockmelon Amish Rockmelon Heritage Mix
Cucumis sativa NZ (20) Cucumis sativa NZ (20) Lagenaria siceraria NZ (30) C. maxima OS (20) Cucumis melo OS (20) Cucumis melo NZ/OS (30)
Gifted to the Koanga Institute by Mrs Port Albert cucumbers are famous A mix of both the large Ruka Gourds, Excellent as an early summer pumpkin, These Rockmelons are one of the A mix of selected easy to grow rock
B Wilson of Motueka years ago, this around the Kaipara Harbour where traditionally used to carry water and ready to eat Jan-Feb, keep until June. easiest to grow and one of the best melons... Jenny Lind, a round green
has proven to be a favourite. It is round the Abertlanders settled, also around store food, and the Bird's Nest Gourds, Small/medium round, beautiful shape, tasting. The flesh is super sweet and fleshed super sweet variety, Banana,
with a thin, sweet green skin, is easy to Northland. (German immigrants shaped with a narow middle and used with bright orange skin, turning red deep rich orange colour and flavour, a banana shaped NZH melon from
grow, produces prolifically and they are settled in the 1860’s). They are the best! to create bird nests. Both require a long when fully ripe. Great for steaming with and being disease resistant they are the Eastern Bay of Plenty and Ruawai
sweet and tender to eat. Stubby torpedo shaped with tender warm growing season and are super summer veges and soup. Sweet, moist, heavy croppers. They are round with a areas, the classic Charantais, and
yellow skin, with small black spines. vigorous growers. and full of flavour, hugely productive, yellow heavily netted skin. Amish Cross.
They never go bitter, always tender, and vigorous vine. happy to grow up a fence.
produce enormous crops.
22 | Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue | 23Rockmelon Jenny Lind Squash Crookneck Squash Table Queen Acorn Bean Climbing Cherokee Corn Field Bean Climbing Emu Bean Climbing Gila Indian
Cucumis melo OS (20) C. pepo OS (10) C. pepo NZ (15) Phaseolus vulgaris OS (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris OS (20)
Jenny Lind is vour easiest to grow rock A stunning looking compact, productive These squash have been in New Zealand Green snap, dry beans. They are Gifted to the Koanga collection by Climber, green snap, shellout, dry bean
melon.It is a very sweet and juicy, small yellow squash with roughish skin for a long time. We were sent a very old obviously a selection of many different Ruth Perry of Fielding this outstanding that has been in the Koanga Institute
to medium round, netted, green fleshed which turns to a wart skin after the best packet of this seed many years ago by bean cultivars selected to achieve climbing green snap bean is 12 cm long, Collection since 1986. These ancient
melon, with a distinctive knob on the eating stage skin. Better tasting than all a member and it has turned out to be maximum diversity of maturation times round podded, very tender and juicy with beans are a kidney shape and flat, either
blossom end. It is an heirloom melon other courgettes except perhaps young quite a beauty. Small weighing 1kg and and other qualities as a insurance policy. an excellent delicate flavour. Takes longer black and white or red and white, they
from Philadelphia before 1840, named Kamokamo. Swan necked fruit are eaten mature early. Have a delicious texture, to begin cropping than other beans but have always been mixed, with saddle like
after a singer of that era! sautéed when very young or baked if left sweet and nutty. They are at their best crops longer. The green pods have a coloured patches. They are great eaten as
until larger and the skin is harder. when still dark green. beautiful purple blush when in the sun. you would dried beans.
Squash Zimbabwe Watermelon Od’ham Yellow Meated Watermelon Souters Bean Climbing Good Mother Stallard Bean Climbing Henry’s Yellow Bean Climbing Holy
C. pepo NZ (20) Citrullus lanatus OS (15) Citrullus lanatus NZ (15) Phaseolus vulgaris OS (20) Butter (aka: Yellow Pole) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20)
Very similar to Zambesi Gem, but Unless you’re in a very special area A super rare NZH melon that may have Ancient bean from the Mid-western Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Shellout, dry beans. We received these
their skins do not turn orange, they watermelons are hard to grow because originally come from the Souters family United States. A large oval seed with Yellow snap bean. From the Henry beans with a picture of a monstrance
stay green. These small (large orange we have short seasons and not a lot who were well known gardeners around maroon and white colourings. A very Harrington collection in southland, on them in 2014 from Anne Handley of
size) round pumpkins came with our of heat. This is one that we selected the Tokomaru Bay area East Cape. It is productive, drought-resistant variety. this is one of our surprise finds from Omaka Wanganui and a story to go with
ancestors on the early ships, and were because it was reliable in our difficult round with light green skin that goes Wonderful rich meaty flavour, great for the bean trials we’ve done. It has been them. They have been in New Zealand
picked up in South Africa on the way conditions. It is a small round melon lighter when ripe with a light red flesh, soups and chillis. a consistent winner, in terms of looks, a long time but came originally from
with yellow flesh and is a sweet reliable and very black seeds. They have excellent taste, size of crop and length of harvest!
around the Cape! They are sweet, but France. Read their amazing story on our
cropper, all the way from the Od’ham flavour however are at their best when It is a yellow, wide, flat podded bean,
moist and nutty, and well worth trying. website. Outstanding crops and flavour.
Indian tribe in the USA. picked and stored for up to 3 months. about 30 cm long with excellent flavour!
Fabaceae
Watermelon Sweet Siberian Bean Climbing America Bean Climbing Blue Lake Bean Climbing Market Wonder Bean Climbing Norridgewok Pean Bean Climbing NZ Heritage Rainbow Mix
Citrullus lanatus OS (15) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20)
Medium sized, round melon. Apricot Green snap, beans gifted by Helen Van Sent to us originally by Shane Caley, Green snap, vigorous climber, it has a Green snap, shellout or dry. Gifted A mix of our favourite climbing ‘snap’
coloured flesh, full-bodied, good Ash. These beans are really stunning, these green snap beans produce huge crop of stringless and hairless beans to us by Mary Vinnicombe of New beans, with varying flowering and
flavour, and sweet. An excellent huge flat wide green beans with a fine straight stringless dark green beans over a very long period. It can be picked Plymouth who knew them as Peans, maturing times. Includes the super sweet,
Heirloom melon that grows in purple spotty covering where they are in bunches. They are excellent for over 3 months if you have made sure and describes as a medium growing fat, juicy, rare Dalmatian bean (light
marginal melon growing seasons and in the sun. They are really good tasting freezing. The pods are round tender they have good soil and water. If you’re bean/pea, with small white flowers. green with dark purple streaks), the wide
places because it’s a short season, cold beans as well, they will become a hit. and meaty and 15-18 cm long. The looking for an old bean that you can crop Pods are thickened pea-shaped. The green podded America bean (which has
climate cultivar. They crop over a very long period and plants are vigorous and yield heavily. for CSA’S, farmers markets and the like beans are beautiful maroon and white purple streaks in the sun), Purple Pod,
are the first and last to crop. this would be a good one for you to chose. when first matured. Emu, Blue Lake and Market Wonder.
24 | Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue Koanga July 2020 Seed Catalogue | 25Bean Climbing Polish Bean Dwarf Bobica Bean Dwarf Fred’s (aka: Tiger) edible lupin Tarwi Pea Amish Snap Pea Giant Alderman
Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Lupinus mutabilis OS (20) Pisum sativum OS (20) Pisum sativum NZ (20)
Gifted to our collection recently this is These dwarf, green snap were gifted by Sent to us by Chris Piper who saved the A large white seeded flat edible lupin Superb snap pea reportedly grown in Traditional Heirloom shellout
an outstanding shellout and drie bean. John and Maregaret Sumich, of Forrest seed that his father grew in christchurch known in South America as Tarwi, the Amish community long before pea, gifted to us by John Lambly of
The beans are super large at shellout Hill. This bean came with the Dalmatian since the 1960s. Far more hardy than where it is a staple food crop, grows present snap pea types. Vines grow 5-6' Whangarei. Each pod contains 8-10
stage and still large as dried beans. the gum diggers to the Northern Gumfields modern dwarf beans so can be planted best when planted in Spring, makes tall and are covered in 2" translucent very large dark green peas. Vines
lrgest I’ve ever seen and the crops are in the 1800s. It is an excellent green bean earlier and later. Stunning dwarf, green excellent humus! green pods. Yields over a 6-week period grow to almost 2 metres. Does well in
huge. They are a tan bean with dark with yellow flowers which produces snap bean, flat green with a curly tail and if kept picked. Delicate and sweet even Northland unlike most other shellout
brown stripes similar to Bob’s bean but numerous thin pointy tasty beans. The lots of purple streaks on the pods. They when the seeds develop. peas. Large leaves and white flowers,
far larger. taste and texture is excellent name is pronounced ‘Bobitza’. are very tasty, but must be eaten when large pods and peas.
young to avoid the strings and toughness.
Bean Dwarf Henry's Dwarf Butterbean Bean Dwarf Kaiapoi Pink Seeded Bush Bean Dwarf Mother In Law Pea Picton Sno Pea Southland Sno Pea Whero
Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (25) (aka: The Prince, Canadian Wonder) (aka: Sianic, Haricot Dry Dwarf) Pisum sativum NZ (20) Pisum sativum NZ (20) Pisum sativum NZ (20)
From the Henry Harrington Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (20) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (30) This seed was gifted to us by Lois Askew, a Gifted to the Institute from the Henry Dwarf, dry, small almost round with
Collection, this is a very old fashioned Dwarf, green snap bean, all time favourite A true French haricot bean, preferring Picton member in 1997,and has proved to Harrington Collection; a heritage pea khaki colour, grown to be eaten as dry
yellow dwarf butterbean. Great flavour in the past in this land. It has come to us dry summers and light soils it produces be an excellent variety. It is a very old line of our Southern ancestors. This is low peas for soups stews, or humus type
but they must be picked when young from several sources, with different names. excellent crops of small white seeds with amazing round spotty purple seeds, growing pea to 1m that has purple dishes, great when sown with oats
and tender and delicious, or they go We are going with Kaiapoi Pink Seeded, that make oustanding baked beans! bi-colour purple flowers and produces flowers and produces prolific quantities or grains in winter carbon crops as
hard and stringy! for our name. It is a green, flattish, very really sweet prolific crops of fat Sno peas. of flattish pods with round seed bumps, nitrogen source.
hardy, with good flavour great early and late Grows all year round in Christchurch harvested over a very long period. They
season bean in long growing season areas apparently. Plants can grow over 1.2m. are at their best in a stir fry or we enjoy
and main crop in short season areas. them in a Thai Green curry soup!
Grammineae
Bean Dwarf Perfect Stringless Bean Dwarf Sinton (aka: Hutterite Broadbean Scottish barley Black Hulless barley Hulless Milmore Corn Early Gem
Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (10) Soup, Ireland Creek Annie’s, Arikara Vicia faba NZ (20) Hordeum vulgare OS (300 enough to Hordeum vulgare NZ (200 enough to Zea mays NZ (50)
A dwarf green snap bean that came Yellow) Phaseolus vulgaris NZ (15) This bean came to the Koanga plant 3 sq m biointensive bed) plant 2 sq m at .1 diagonal spacings) An excellent short season sweet corn
to New Zealand with the Dutch Green, dry beans aka Hutterite Soup Collection from Jack Watts of Black seeded hulless barley. It is a great This barley has been grown for many variety with good flavour that we've
immigrants, and to our collection from Bean, Ireland Creek Annie’s, Arikara Waimate, Southland, who said it came cultivar for home gardeners to grow years in this land at Milmore Downs been growing for over 20 years. It is
Dr Denis Hannah of Mangere. They are Yellow. They are a kidney shaped mustard to New Zealand with the Scottish for eating as a grain, and is an excellent a Biodynamic farm where they pay being selected to grow in marginal
excellent tasty little stringless beans, yellow colour with a dark brown patch settlers in 1863. It is a very good carbon crop as well particular attention to seed qualitry areas, so can be used as a main crop for
and prolific croppers, however they do around the eye where they were attatched cropper, and taster, and stays green and breeding. It has been selected as an those in short season climates.
not do well in the rain when cropping, to the pod.Traditionally known as a soup when cooked. A top variety that grows Autumn planted barley that has excellent
dry summers and light soils are best. bean, but also a great green bean. all over New Zealand. eating quality.
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