Returning Seeds to the Library

The Purple Podded Peas the Hudson Valley Seed Library “lent” me earlier this year are ready to be returned to the library.

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Where else can you get a vii - fold comeback on your investment ?

That ’s the return on investment from the packet of Purple Podded Pea seeds the Hudson Valley Seed Library sent to me earlier this year . Each pea pod contained about seven ejaculate .

I was able-bodied to return 40 seeds to the library , while keeping a nice provision to use in a limited soup this winter .

My seed - rescue began in April when I received a free membership to theseed library . The membership kit included about 20 seeds and instructions for planting , growing , harvest home and return seeds to the library .

In July I write anupdateon the planting ’s advance , just as the pea pods were begin to senesce .

This month I began gather the dried seedcase from the vines as they started to split open . I want to check that I did n’t lose a single dry pea .

These soup peas are an heirloom Dutch grey pea that ’s stand for to be harvest when completely dry . The pea are stack away until it ’s sentence to soak them in water and cook them into pea soup . Because dry out peas stack away easily , they are another way for gardener to preserve their summertime harvest .

The Hudson Valley Seed Library select this variety for saving because many heirloom soup pea variety have already vanish from the landscape .

These peas are n’t only fun to mature , but they offer an interesting chronicle deterrent example , too .

accord to the depository library , this pea variety was one that made it to New York from Holland in the 1800s .

“ They were an ideal food for long Dutch ship voyages . In fact , one of the featured dishes discovered in old ship menu from the Holland - America rider credit line was called the Captain ’s Dinner , made with Purple Podded Peas ( also eff as kapucijners or blauwschokkers ) , ” accord to the cum library ’s information on the peas . “ That means that some of the 400,000 European emigrants in the late 1800s traveling from Rotterdam to New York were hold up by these peas . ”

It ’s a unspoiled opinion to know that the seeds I grew this summer will be planted in other vegetable garden next year . And the twelvemonth after that .

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