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Crop Variety / Landrace nameSourced fromTypeSeed amount Seed cost Germination %When sown?When to harvest?Seed rate Area Establishment methodIntercrop / undersow?Harvest Processing End use?Info about the crop
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W Wheat YQ' ORC Wakelyns Population WheatMartin Wolfe
Cross composite population of mostly modern varieties5kg £079%Early DecemberMid august 200kg/ha JangScything / sickle / scissors Winnow / Thresh Flour / Straw for artwork?Developed by the John Innes Centre and the Elm Farm Research Centre team at Wakelyns (as the ORC was then known) - notably Martin Wolfe. Y stands for yield and Q for quality. Combines 20 varieties (19 x modern and x1 heritage) crossed 190+ times.
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W Wheat Millers ChoiceKatie via Andy ForbesMixed population of heritage varieties1 kg £050%Early DecemberMid august 250kg/ha JangScything / sickle / scissors Developed by Andy Forbes of Brockwell Bake combining milling quality landrace 'Lammas' wheats selected from a diverse winter wheat population developed by John Letts, then multiplied and mixed with 20% Spanish longstraw wheats for additional drought tolerance, before colour-sorting for red (as opposed to white) seed, emhpasising flavour, functionality and disease resistance.
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S WheatMulikaSeed company (donated in the end) Modern / 'improved' variety7th AprilMid august HandScything / sickle / scissors Planted for comparison. Shorter-strawed, developed for high yield and orange wheat blossom resistance.
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S Wheat3000 lines (Fred and cols heritage wheat mix)Fred price Mix of heritage varieties Mid august JangAlso planted in area where millers choice didn't establish? Scything / sickle / scissors A random
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S WheatPeachey population CornwallAlex at electric bakery - developed by fred and andy Mixed population19th MarchJangScything / sickle / scissors A mixture of the 8000 heritage varieties that Fred price and col Gordon got our of the seed banks that have been grown at gothelney farm for the last few years and Fred has made into a mix
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S WheatFred's mix Fred price Variety mix First part (closest to cabin) undersown with white clover. A handful of this and that heritage varieties from Fred's farm - he didn't give me a list but they are all milling wheats
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S Oat (strigosa / sativa - unsure)Ceirch du Bach (2 separate accessions planted together - O0327, O0765)MJIC seedbankModern / 'improved' variety40-60 seeds£24.0030th MarchHandCeirch-du-bach' meaning 'Small Black Oat' in Welsh was once a widely grown landrace in Welsh upland areas. Confusingly the term 'black oat' is interchangeably applied to both A. strigosa and A. sativa. This accession is recorded by the JIC as being strigosa but need to check this. The Welsh Plant Breeding Station produced the pure-line selection S.79 in the 1930s, and the seed we are growing is probably this 'improved' material.
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S Oat (strigosa)Cerich Llywd Bach (3 separate accessions planted together - O0326, O1972, O2080)MJIC seedbankModern / 'improved' variety60-90 seeds30th MarchHandCeirch Llwyd' means 'Grey Oat' in Welsh and is likely a C20th name for Avena strigosa, once grown on poorer upland soils in Wales. In the 1930s a breeding programme for A. strigosa was initiated by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station (now IBERS), and a pure-line selection of A strigosa (Ceirch Llywd S.75) was made, which eventually replaced most or all of the landrace Ceirch Llwyd previously cultivated. The accession held by the JIC is almost certainly this.
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S Oat (strigosa)Tirree Oat (3 separate accessions planted together - O2212, O02212, P02214)MJIC seedbankTraditional cultivar / landrace60-90 seeds30th MarchHandTraditional landrace(s) from island of Tiree, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
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S Oat (sativa)Black CornishSJIC seedbankModern / 'improved' variety20-30 seeds30th MarchHandRecorded as 'advanced / improved cultivar' in JIC seedbank but no further info available.
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S Oat (sativa)CornishSJIC seedbankTraditional cultivar / landrace20-30 seeds30th MarchHandMalting?Recorded as 'Traditional cultivar / landrace' in JIC seedbank but no further info available.
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S Oat (sativa)Old CornishSJIC seedbankTraditional cultivar / landrace20-30 seeds30th MarchHandRecorded as 'Traditional cultivar / landrace' in JIC seedbank but no further info available.
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S BarleyOld CornishSJIC seedbankModern / 'improved' variety20-30 seeds1st AprilHandMalting?Recorded as 'advanced / improved cultivar' in JIC seedbank but no further info available.
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S BarleyCornishMNick F + JICsmall packet
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S BarleyPadstowSJIC seedbank20-30 seeds
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S Oat (strigosa)Rouge de TithiviersSINRA FranceUnsure if improved20-30 seeds18th AprilHandLikely a mispelling of 'Rouge de Pithiviers' - Pithiviers = a commune in Loiret, north central France. Seems to be an old French landrace but minimal info available.
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S Oat (strigosa)Pied de MancheSINRA FranceUnsure if improved20-30 seeds18th AprilHandA mispelling of 'Pied de Mouche' (fly's foot) - An old French name of A. strigosa (presumably describing the shape of its awns). May have undergone breeding.
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S Oat (sativa, naked)Avoine Nue Rennes (large naked oat)BHarriet (via JIC)Modern / 'improved' varietynot calculated£01st and 7th April1 stripHandSpikelets stripped off then threshed using Harriet's adapted handmill (pushed naked seeds out of papery husk)Crop originates in China / Mongolia where it is still traditionally cultivated - often made into noodles. Inner Mongolia even hosts an annual naked oat noodle festival! It's a naked type of Avena sativa (common oat) and as such is 'hexaplid' (it has 6 sets of chromosomes). 'Avoine nue Rennes' is a variety presumably coming from Rennes or nearby in Brittany. The seeds were sent to Harriet's grandad and his wife in the late 80s by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station who mistook them for pillas.
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S Oat (strigosa, naked)Small naked oat (x 21 accessions)S+BHarriet (via JIC)
Presumed traditional cultivars / landraces
Various (details)£029th-30th March. Two rows outside tunnels transplanted 20th April1 120cm strips HandSame as aboveThe small naked oat appears to have been widely cultivated in medieval Britain, with records from England (particularly northwest), Wales and Ireland. It was also found in France - mostly the north. Historical sources describe its small yet high quality grain, which fetched the same price as wheat. In Cornwall - which remained a stronghold until the mid 1800s - it was fed to pigs, cattle and poultry; eaten as porridge (known as 'gerty-milk'); and its fine pliable straw was woven into bonnets. It thrived on marginal soils, growing where no other crop was expected to grow, and was often planted at the end of a crop roation on 'exhausted soil'. In Cornish it was known as "pillas", while elsewhere in the British Isles it was "pilcorn", and in Brittany "pilat".
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Lentils Olive Green Katie via Hodmedod's?500g 12th April1 stripHandHand pick Depodding Whole grain
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PeasBlue PeasKatie via Hodmedod's?500g 12th April1 stripHandHand pick Depodding
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Quinoa Duncan via?200g31st MarchLate August4kg/acre1/2 stripWhole grain
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Amaranth Duncan via?100g31st MarchLate August4kg/ha1/2 strip Whole grain
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WildflowerKatie via?
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