You wouldn't think it had been planted in November. I'm not really sure why the fennel failed to thrive. They really didn't start growing well until February, when unseasonably warm temperatures showed up.
Ditto the turnip greens. They're going gangbusters NOW.
In the house the green beans and tomatoes have sent up tiny shoots. They'll stay inside for a bit longer, the tomatoes only sprouted a couple days ago.
LESSON: Start seeds in the house in March, no matter how unseasonably warm it may be.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Different ways to start seeds
Some seeds, like those from Seeds of Change, are very expensive. In this case, I try to maximize every seed and get as many to germination as possible.
Any home pot grower will tell you that the best way to start seeds is to place them between sheets of moist paper towel in a plastic zipper bag.
THIS IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO START SEEDS.
The problem with paper towels is that the wood pulp fibers have a very loose weave. Once the seeds sprout the root tendrils get snarled in the paper fibers. When you try to remove the seedling for transplant, the roots get all ripped up. Instead, place seeds between 2 wet paper coffee filters, the round fluted kind, in plastic zipper bags. A note scrawled in Sharpie tells you the plant, the date, and the expected days to germination. This technique is well suited to bigger seeds like cucumbers.
Some seeds are so small that the coffee filter trick doesn't work so well. Take lettuce seeds. Tiny! I start them indoors to give them a fighting chance against slugs. For seeds like this I reuse cardboard egg cartons as mini planters, and clear plastic bins that held baby lettuce as a mini greenhouse (approx 6 quart container, with tight fitting lid).
Step one- soak a small amount of seeds, say a half teaspoon, in lukewarm water for a few hours or overnight.
Step two- cut the top half from away from a clean cardboard egg carton
Step three- fill the egg carton with damp potting mix
Step four- stir the seeds in their bath water and scoop out a tiny amount of seeds and water. If you use a 1/4 teaspoon measuring spoon, you should get just a few seeds and a little bit of water.
Step five- tip the seeds into one of the egg hollows
Step six- stir, scoop and tip into the next egg hollow. Repeat until all sections of the carton have seeds
Step seven- place the egg carton into your plastic bin. It should just fit. You can add up to a quarter cup of water, so that the egg carton is well dampened without sitting in water
Step eight- close the lid tightly and put the bin an area that receives a constant cool temperature, away from drafts and direct sunlight
Step nine- use a piece of masking tape to identify the seeds, the date, and the expected number of days to germination.
Step ten- once the seeds have sprung up and sprouted leaves remove the lid to prevent fungus or damping off.
After seeds are a few weeks old, you can plant them directly into bigger containers, or into the ground, weather permitting. The cardboard will disintegrate with time. The earthworms in my garden love munching the cardboard I put out as a mulch and weed inhibitor.
Any home pot grower will tell you that the best way to start seeds is to place them between sheets of moist paper towel in a plastic zipper bag.
THIS IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO START SEEDS.
The problem with paper towels is that the wood pulp fibers have a very loose weave. Once the seeds sprout the root tendrils get snarled in the paper fibers. When you try to remove the seedling for transplant, the roots get all ripped up. Instead, place seeds between 2 wet paper coffee filters, the round fluted kind, in plastic zipper bags. A note scrawled in Sharpie tells you the plant, the date, and the expected days to germination. This technique is well suited to bigger seeds like cucumbers.
Some seeds are so small that the coffee filter trick doesn't work so well. Take lettuce seeds. Tiny! I start them indoors to give them a fighting chance against slugs. For seeds like this I reuse cardboard egg cartons as mini planters, and clear plastic bins that held baby lettuce as a mini greenhouse (approx 6 quart container, with tight fitting lid).
Step one- soak a small amount of seeds, say a half teaspoon, in lukewarm water for a few hours or overnight.
Step two- cut the top half from away from a clean cardboard egg carton
Step three- fill the egg carton with damp potting mix
Step four- stir the seeds in their bath water and scoop out a tiny amount of seeds and water. If you use a 1/4 teaspoon measuring spoon, you should get just a few seeds and a little bit of water.
Step five- tip the seeds into one of the egg hollows
Step six- stir, scoop and tip into the next egg hollow. Repeat until all sections of the carton have seeds
Step seven- place the egg carton into your plastic bin. It should just fit. You can add up to a quarter cup of water, so that the egg carton is well dampened without sitting in water
Step eight- close the lid tightly and put the bin an area that receives a constant cool temperature, away from drafts and direct sunlight
Step nine- use a piece of masking tape to identify the seeds, the date, and the expected number of days to germination.
Step ten- once the seeds have sprung up and sprouted leaves remove the lid to prevent fungus or damping off.
After seeds are a few weeks old, you can plant them directly into bigger containers, or into the ground, weather permitting. The cardboard will disintegrate with time. The earthworms in my garden love munching the cardboard I put out as a mulch and weed inhibitor.
Time to think of spring
The yard has sat quietly the last 2 months as the winter crops finished up. The broccoli bolted without forming much in the way of edible heads. Everything was started much too late. Then we had the warmest January on record. The parsnips still have their baby leaves. The turnips are the right size for edible baby greens, but that's about it.
Which is fine, because the middle of March is the time to start the spring/summer garden.
Seeds started today:
bush beans
tomatoes
sugar pie pumpkins
Tomorrow I'll start dill, basil and scallions.
Which is fine, because the middle of March is the time to start the spring/summer garden.
Seeds started today:
bush beans
tomatoes
sugar pie pumpkins
Tomorrow I'll start dill, basil and scallions.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Quarterly overview
Here we are the first full month of winter. Sadly, we've had very little rain. It's sunny and 76 degrees outside. That smashes 60 year heat records.
Clean up:
The last of the cherry tomato plants were pulled out of their planters on December 20th, along with most of the pepper plants. Although they still bore fruit, nights of near freezing temperatures had killed the plants.
The last pepper plant came out of the half whisky barrel today. It was covered in small green anaheims.
Constant weeding of the wood sorrel is keeping it to a dull roar in the areas planted with broccoli and fennel. Everywhere else it's going like gangbusters. It would be great to hit it with the weedburner and then dig under the ashes.
Planting:
New plantings of parsnips, turnips and radishes were sown directly in planters outside on January 12. Successive plantings of broccoli and fennel were started on January 9th. Still to be planted are garlic, onions, lettuce, kale and chard.
Growing:
The fennel is still limping along. The broccoli still looks great. The biggest plants appear to be on the verge of sending of flower stalks. Very little of the interspersed dill seems to have germinated. New seeds were added in the first week of January, but no new growth is apparent. Peas in the pea barrel are small but healthy looking. The onion seeds all germinated and a thin, green chivey line stands erect in a shallow planter. Many of these will get used like scallions.
The pale purple icelandic poppy has emerged from underneath the white carnation in its flower pot. The carnation is sending up some small white blooms.
Looking ahead:
Towards the end of February, Scarlet runnner beans will be heavily sown over the long strip to fix nitrogen and choke out weeds. Also to be planted are freesia and perhaps some gladiolus bulbs.
Clean up:
The last of the cherry tomato plants were pulled out of their planters on December 20th, along with most of the pepper plants. Although they still bore fruit, nights of near freezing temperatures had killed the plants.
The last pepper plant came out of the half whisky barrel today. It was covered in small green anaheims.
Constant weeding of the wood sorrel is keeping it to a dull roar in the areas planted with broccoli and fennel. Everywhere else it's going like gangbusters. It would be great to hit it with the weedburner and then dig under the ashes.
Planting:
New plantings of parsnips, turnips and radishes were sown directly in planters outside on January 12. Successive plantings of broccoli and fennel were started on January 9th. Still to be planted are garlic, onions, lettuce, kale and chard.
Growing:
The fennel is still limping along. The broccoli still looks great. The biggest plants appear to be on the verge of sending of flower stalks. Very little of the interspersed dill seems to have germinated. New seeds were added in the first week of January, but no new growth is apparent. Peas in the pea barrel are small but healthy looking. The onion seeds all germinated and a thin, green chivey line stands erect in a shallow planter. Many of these will get used like scallions.
The pale purple icelandic poppy has emerged from underneath the white carnation in its flower pot. The carnation is sending up some small white blooms.
Looking ahead:
Towards the end of February, Scarlet runnner beans will be heavily sown over the long strip to fix nitrogen and choke out weeds. Also to be planted are freesia and perhaps some gladiolus bulbs.
January planting
Where once there were cherry tomatoes... I put parsnips in one big gray planter and turnips in the other. Radish seeds went into a long, shallow box. The other long, shallow box has onions planted last month. A skinny line of green has erupted like single chives all in a row. Since these are meant to be bulbing onions, quite a few will get plucked and used like chives or scallions to give the others room to grow.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Indian Summer continues
The unseasonably warm weather has held for the past week. Tomatoes are continuing to ripen on the vines, as are red peppers. The basil which was heavily pruned has put out lots of new growth. I may get another batch of pesto out of this.
The broccoli plants are now just about a month old and are looking good. Several nights ago I added Dill seeds to the troughs between the plants. No sign of seedlings yet. The soil has been warm and I've done a good job of keeping the soil moist.
The fennel, also a month old, is not developing as quickly as I thought it might. One of the plants got munched by slugs, although not enough to destroy the plant. Sometimes I wish I could rent a chicken.
The broccoli plants are now just about a month old and are looking good. Several nights ago I added Dill seeds to the troughs between the plants. No sign of seedlings yet. The soil has been warm and I've done a good job of keeping the soil moist.
The fennel, also a month old, is not developing as quickly as I thought it might. One of the plants got munched by slugs, although not enough to destroy the plant. Sometimes I wish I could rent a chicken.
Onions
Onion seeds went into planting troughs today. I think I may germinate some in coffee filters as a test group. I found a packet of seeds called Candy. They're supposed to be a short season onion, which is in keeping with the higher water content, sweeter onion types. I'm dubious of the packet which promises maturity in 80 days. Everything else said 100+. I'll know when the tops fall down.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Late fall planting
It's been unseasonably warm the past couple of days. I took the opportunity to work in the sun and get the seedlings into the ground.
12 bulbing fennel plants went in where the green beans had been this summer. It's a nice rich soil mix there.
18 broccoli seedlings went in to the north of the remaining basil. They'll get good sun there, and will have enough space to develop. I'm thinking I'd like to plant a fair number of garlic and onions, but where to put them?
TheRoommate wants to put in bulbs, but I'm not sure how to square that with the available sunlight and all of that. Ranunculus are my favorite, but I don't know of the corms are squirrel fodder.
12 bulbing fennel plants went in where the green beans had been this summer. It's a nice rich soil mix there.
18 broccoli seedlings went in to the north of the remaining basil. They'll get good sun there, and will have enough space to develop. I'm thinking I'd like to plant a fair number of garlic and onions, but where to put them?
TheRoommate wants to put in bulbs, but I'm not sure how to square that with the available sunlight and all of that. Ranunculus are my favorite, but I don't know of the corms are squirrel fodder.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
dwindling harvests
Cut down most of the basil today. Will make pesto later.
The cherry tomatoes have cascaded out of their giant pots, to twin on the ground. I pinched off every new sprout that I could find. I want the last tomatoes to ripen and then be done with the things. Next year, no more than one or two plants. More of the bigger fruits would be fine.
I did get a couple more pints of cherry tomatoes. What I'll do with them is anyone's guess. I also got about 7 more red chile peppers.
The cherry tomatoes have cascaded out of their giant pots, to twin on the ground. I pinched off every new sprout that I could find. I want the last tomatoes to ripen and then be done with the things. Next year, no more than one or two plants. More of the bigger fruits would be fine.
I did get a couple more pints of cherry tomatoes. What I'll do with them is anyone's guess. I also got about 7 more red chile peppers.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
First rain
We've had 18 hours of rain and no real signs of abatement. The ants are going crazy swarming out of their flooded nests. No better time to get the hose and the boric acid.
Meanwhile, many of those little broccoli seeds that I planted about a week ago have sprouted!
Meanwhile, many of those little broccoli seeds that I planted about a week ago have sprouted!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Paper towels are bad for germinating
Despite what any novice pothead will tell you, paper towels suck for germinating seeds. Oh sure, the little shells do seem to love the ratio of water, light and air. However, once the roots start to develop they intertwine themselves with the loose fibers in the towel. When it's time to pull the layers apart, the tiny seedling gets shredded.
Fall harvesting, cleaning & planting
Harvesting:
As per usual, the tomato plants did not get the memo suggesting that as November looms they should stop blossoming. I picked 2 dry pints of cherry tomatoes and nearly 3 gallons of red slicers, the crimson carmellos. A batch of tomato sauce made from a mix of the cherry tomatoes and slicers was very tasty.
The basil is flowering madly, but was too dry to harvest. I'll give it a gentle deep watering and pick most of it in the morning.
There are quite a few red peppers on the pepper plants. The lone pepper that was in with the cucumbers is trying to make up for lost time. It's covered in blossoms and is setting quite a bit of fruit. I'll feed it a bit today as well.
Cleaning:
Today I tore down all the forlorn corn stalks that had been decimated by squirrels. The spent sunflowers came down as well. The trumpetvine which cascades over the eastern fence was blocking a lot of sunlight to the ground, so I cut that back very aggressively.
There was quite a bit of wood sorrel choking the basil, that's now gone too. However, the backyard is generally looking like an episode from Weeds Gone Wild. I'll have to convince TheRoommate to bust out his weedburner.
Planting:
The seeds that germinated at the beginning of the month have yielded some results. I sucessfully transplanted about 6 of the fennel seedlings, but only 2 of the broccoli seedlings.
Today I'm going to direct sow broccoli into a long planter box. When the fennel seedlings get bigger they'll go into the barrel where the sweet peas had been previously. I added a few seeds to the planting box where the bigger seedlings are. Hopefully, they'll germinate.
As per usual, the tomato plants did not get the memo suggesting that as November looms they should stop blossoming. I picked 2 dry pints of cherry tomatoes and nearly 3 gallons of red slicers, the crimson carmellos. A batch of tomato sauce made from a mix of the cherry tomatoes and slicers was very tasty.
The basil is flowering madly, but was too dry to harvest. I'll give it a gentle deep watering and pick most of it in the morning.
There are quite a few red peppers on the pepper plants. The lone pepper that was in with the cucumbers is trying to make up for lost time. It's covered in blossoms and is setting quite a bit of fruit. I'll feed it a bit today as well.
Cleaning:
Today I tore down all the forlorn corn stalks that had been decimated by squirrels. The spent sunflowers came down as well. The trumpetvine which cascades over the eastern fence was blocking a lot of sunlight to the ground, so I cut that back very aggressively.
There was quite a bit of wood sorrel choking the basil, that's now gone too. However, the backyard is generally looking like an episode from Weeds Gone Wild. I'll have to convince TheRoommate to bust out his weedburner.
Planting:
The seeds that germinated at the beginning of the month have yielded some results. I sucessfully transplanted about 6 of the fennel seedlings, but only 2 of the broccoli seedlings.
Today I'm going to direct sow broccoli into a long planter box. When the fennel seedlings get bigger they'll go into the barrel where the sweet peas had been previously. I added a few seeds to the planting box where the bigger seedlings are. Hopefully, they'll germinate.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Fall planting
It's only been about 5 days and all of the kale, fennel and broccoli seeds have gone to town germination. The rainbow chard sprouts are very pretty. I don't have time to get them situated into little pots this morning. Tomorrow, tomorrow.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Fall Garden
Cucumbers are done.
Sunflowers have peaked.
Perennial herbs are flowering. Basil is trying to bolt.
Dahlias took too much damage to survive, am going to pull them.
Bed of cutting flowers is leggy but still blooming.
Container pots look terrible. Will try to save the white carnation, and take seeds from the forget-me-nots, but will pull the pinks, the white lobelia, and the powdery mildew covered salvia.
Started seeds:
Broccoli, fennel bulb and rainbow chard. Guess I'd better learn to like chard.
Sunflowers have peaked.
Perennial herbs are flowering. Basil is trying to bolt.
Dahlias took too much damage to survive, am going to pull them.
Bed of cutting flowers is leggy but still blooming.
Container pots look terrible. Will try to save the white carnation, and take seeds from the forget-me-nots, but will pull the pinks, the white lobelia, and the powdery mildew covered salvia.
Started seeds:
Broccoli, fennel bulb and rainbow chard. Guess I'd better learn to like chard.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Fertilizer burn
Ooops. I guess buying the cheap fertilizer should have been a more obvious bad plan.
I bought a granulated 5-10-10 granulated fertilizer a few weeks ago and burned the string beans with it.
Elsewhere in the garden the NM anaheims are continuing to do well. Each plant has at least 4 peppers on it. There are a couple that are getting dangerously big enough to harvest. Patience, gardener, patience.
Meanwhile, my tomatoes confound me. The plant getting the least full sun & water is the biggest and healthiest looking. The plant getting the most sun & water & was the first to have the most blossom sets, but isn't doing so great otherwise. I did finally dig those poor cherry tomatoes out of the tiny plastic bin they were in. I didn't have a shady spot to put them in while they recovered from transplant. I hope they make it.
All the flowers have taken off , the zinnias have buds and the sunflowers are starting to form flowerheads.
4 of the corn stalks have ears and about half are tassleing? The cucumbers continue to deliver every week or so. I haven't figured out what to do with them all yet?
I bought a granulated 5-10-10 granulated fertilizer a few weeks ago and burned the string beans with it.
Elsewhere in the garden the NM anaheims are continuing to do well. Each plant has at least 4 peppers on it. There are a couple that are getting dangerously big enough to harvest. Patience, gardener, patience.
Meanwhile, my tomatoes confound me. The plant getting the least full sun & water is the biggest and healthiest looking. The plant getting the most sun & water & was the first to have the most blossom sets, but isn't doing so great otherwise. I did finally dig those poor cherry tomatoes out of the tiny plastic bin they were in. I didn't have a shady spot to put them in while they recovered from transplant. I hope they make it.
All the flowers have taken off , the zinnias have buds and the sunflowers are starting to form flowerheads.
4 of the corn stalks have ears and about half are tassleing? The cucumbers continue to deliver every week or so. I haven't figured out what to do with them all yet?
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
back to square one
The lettuce germination did not go as planned. The root talks poked through the paper toweling and couldn't be easily removed.
Will have to try again, but probably not for several weeks.
The pumpkin seeds have sprouted, and will be transplantable soon. The fennel seeds are doing nothing. I bought a fresh pack of seeds and will start them soon.
Will have to try again, but probably not for several weeks.
The pumpkin seeds have sprouted, and will be transplantable soon. The fennel seeds are doing nothing. I bought a fresh pack of seeds and will start them soon.
Friday, July 18, 2008
basil overgrowth
Fresh basil is on of summer's quintessential pleasures.
Last month the local grocery store had one gallon containers on sale, so I picked up a couple and dropped them into the ground next to one of the tomatoes for a little companion planting goodness. The tomato plant seems to approve, as it's got more flower clusters in bloom than all the other plants combined.
Last week's lovely, warm weather turned the basil into some decent sized shrubs. I was afraid the plants would flower and bolt, so I conducted a mass pruning earlier this week. Although a few leaves would find their way into my weekly caprese salad, it wasn't really doing much but taking up counter space. Apparently, I'd harvested close to 7 cups of basil.
The only real solution for that is pesto. Instead of the Italian pine nut version, I went with the nut-free French version called pistou. Unfortunately, I went a little heavy on the garlic (read: severe gastric distress quantities of garlic). This evening I went out and hacked off another 4-5 cups of leaves off the leggier plant and made a garlic-free version to mix into the pain inducing stuff. Since the top layer had turned a really unappetizing brown (from oxidation), I didn't add the last two tablespoons of oil, and instead poured them over the top to create an oxygen barrier. Let's hope that keeps everything green.
I'm considering freezing quarter cup servings of it in the little snack size ziploc baggies. That's an easy size to give away, or to take to Bettie May's cookoff come September.
Last month the local grocery store had one gallon containers on sale, so I picked up a couple and dropped them into the ground next to one of the tomatoes for a little companion planting goodness. The tomato plant seems to approve, as it's got more flower clusters in bloom than all the other plants combined.
Last week's lovely, warm weather turned the basil into some decent sized shrubs. I was afraid the plants would flower and bolt, so I conducted a mass pruning earlier this week. Although a few leaves would find their way into my weekly caprese salad, it wasn't really doing much but taking up counter space. Apparently, I'd harvested close to 7 cups of basil.
The only real solution for that is pesto. Instead of the Italian pine nut version, I went with the nut-free French version called pistou. Unfortunately, I went a little heavy on the garlic (read: severe gastric distress quantities of garlic). This evening I went out and hacked off another 4-5 cups of leaves off the leggier plant and made a garlic-free version to mix into the pain inducing stuff. Since the top layer had turned a really unappetizing brown (from oxidation), I didn't add the last two tablespoons of oil, and instead poured them over the top to create an oxygen barrier. Let's hope that keeps everything green.
I'm considering freezing quarter cup servings of it in the little snack size ziploc baggies. That's an easy size to give away, or to take to Bettie May's cookoff come September.
Ziplock germination
I found a great seed germinating technique over at Uncle Tom's garden.
Sprinkle your seeds between two coffee filters, dampen and slide into labeled ziplocs. I don't have the appropriate kind of coffee filter, but I'm guessing that 2-ply paper towels that have been separated will provide the same effect. Currently I have 10 year old fennel seeds, the 4 recently purchased lettuce varieties, and 5 pumpkin seeds lounging on an end table in the living room.
3 of the 4 lettuces are growing squirrly white tails (roots). Soon I'll pack the plastic veggie bins that I've been saving with potting soil and poke them into dirt. I think I'll have to pick up some sort of copper flashing (a construction material) to rim the planned knot garden. Snails and slugs go crazy for tender lettuces.
Sprinkle your seeds between two coffee filters, dampen and slide into labeled ziplocs. I don't have the appropriate kind of coffee filter, but I'm guessing that 2-ply paper towels that have been separated will provide the same effect. Currently I have 10 year old fennel seeds, the 4 recently purchased lettuce varieties, and 5 pumpkin seeds lounging on an end table in the living room.
3 of the 4 lettuces are growing squirrly white tails (roots). Soon I'll pack the plastic veggie bins that I've been saving with potting soil and poke them into dirt. I think I'll have to pick up some sort of copper flashing (a construction material) to rim the planned knot garden. Snails and slugs go crazy for tender lettuces.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Knot garden a go
I biked over to the nursery this morning and picked up 4 varieties of lettuce: red deer tongue, merlot, winter density and emerald oak. I couldn't find any frisee seeds. The pattern I'll use is a 3 foot square divided into four smaller squares in a window pane pattern overlaid with a 3 foot square set diagonal, like a diamond. The squares will be green, the diamond red. I hope it comes out okay, those seed packs weren't as cheap as I'd like. The instructions for sowing the nut garden indicated seed should be broadcast very densely.
I raked out a square of garden between the basil and the corn. There's still a fair amount of torn up cardboard that had been serving partly as mulch and partly as a barrier between the good soil and the bad. I'll keep it moist and keep turning it for the next week until the seeds have all germinated, but after that, any loose cardboard is going into the dumpster.
I raked out a square of garden between the basil and the corn. There's still a fair amount of torn up cardboard that had been serving partly as mulch and partly as a barrier between the good soil and the bad. I'll keep it moist and keep turning it for the next week until the seeds have all germinated, but after that, any loose cardboard is going into the dumpster.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Lettuce knot garden
I'm all excited about doing a knot garden. But honestly, if I do it in herbs, it will have to wait until next year.
However, lettuce is a fall crop that I can start germinating any time now. I looked up various types of lettuces, and there would be plenty of different colored and textured greens to do this project with. I'd like to keep it simple, limit myself to straight lines and not more than 4 or 5 kinds of lettuce. A mix of cos heads, a mix of leaf lettuces and some fancy greens like curly endive (frisee) should look nice and keep me in greens for quite some time. There are some deeply colored reds available now including a very dark one called merlot. Rumor has it there is a black cultivar called Black velvet, but I'll believe it when I see a seed packet.
However, lettuce is a fall crop that I can start germinating any time now. I looked up various types of lettuces, and there would be plenty of different colored and textured greens to do this project with. I'd like to keep it simple, limit myself to straight lines and not more than 4 or 5 kinds of lettuce. A mix of cos heads, a mix of leaf lettuces and some fancy greens like curly endive (frisee) should look nice and keep me in greens for quite some time. There are some deeply colored reds available now including a very dark one called merlot. Rumor has it there is a black cultivar called Black velvet, but I'll believe it when I see a seed packet.
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