Copied from Texas Civilian Yahoo group. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
Here's the list I pulled from the 1857 Texas Almanac, which also did a month-by-month gardener's "to do" list. Sorry these are spaced out like this (or it looks like it in my email) but I'm cutting and pasting from my paper--
Asparagus Nutmeg Melon
Butter Beans Water Melons
Carolina Beans Butter Onion
Early Dun Beans Silver Skin Onion
Early Six Week Beans
Parsley
Lima Beans Parsnips
Blood Turnip Beet Black-Eyed Peas
Sugar Beet Early Frame or Washington Peas
Cape or Purple Broccoli
English Dwarf Marrowfat Peas
Battersea Cabbage English Peas
Drum-Head Cabbage
White or Gray Crowder Peas
Early York Cabbage
Red Peppers
Large York Cabbage
Irish Potatoes
Cantaloupes Sweet Potatoes
Early Horn Carrot Black Spanish Radish
Long Orange or Alfringham Carrot
Long Scarlet Radish or Salmon Radish
Long Scarlet Carrot
Red Turnip Radish
Dutch Cauliflower Scarlet Turnip Radish
Celery Rutabagas
Corn Salsify
Cucumbers Round-Leaved Spinage
Egg Plants Bush Squash
Endive Tomatoes
Eschallotes Early White Dutch Turnips
Curled Kale Scarlet Turnips
Kohlrabi Red or Yellow Top Dutch Turnips
Cabbage-Head Lettuce
Stone Turnips
Musk Melons White Flat Turnips
Copied from Texas Civilian Yahoo group. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
And here are the varieties suggested at Barrington Farm, Washington-on-the-Brazos, which portrays the years 1847-1856. They've really done their homework, and where they couldn't get exactly the right seed, they got as close as they could. They let me sit in their office with their research notebooks and books and take down as much information as I wanted.
Turnips—Seven Top; American Purple Top Rutabaga; Amber Globe
Tomatoes—Large Red; Yellow Pear; Red Cherry
Squash—Boston Marrow; Hubbard; Green-Striped Cushaw; Turk's Turban; Early Yellow Summer Crookneck; White Bush Scallop; Yellow Bush Scallop
Radishes—China Rose; Round Black Spanish
Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes
Pumpkins—Connecticut Field; Cheese Pumpkin; Small Sugar
Peppers—Long Red Cayenne; Red Squash; Bull Nose; Cherry Sweet
Cowpeas/Black-Eyed Peas—Calico Chowder; Big Red Ripper (Mandy)
Peas—Dwarf Gray Sugar; Prince Albert Pea
Parsnips—Hollow Crown
Onions—Red Weathersfield; White Portugal
Muskmelons and Watermelons—Casaba; Golden Beauty; Jenny Lind; Ice Cream Watermelon
Lettuce—Black-Seeded Simpson; Oak Leaf
Cucumbers—Improved Long Green; Early Cluster or Early Russian; West Indian Gherkin
Carrots—Long Orange Improved; Early Scarlet Horn
Cabbage—Early Jersey Wakefield; Late Flat Dutch; Early Flat Dutch
Beets—Early Blood Turnip; Mammoth Red Mangel Wurtzel (used for livestock feed)
Beans—Snap Bush--Black Valentine; Soldier
Dry Pole—Ruth Bible
Bush Lima—Jackson Wonder Butter Bean; Carolina or Sieva Lima Bean
Pole Lima—Christmas
Snap Pole—Kentucky Wonder
Horticultural or (Green Shell) Bush—Dwarf Horticultural or Wren's Egg
Horticultural or (Green Shell) Pole—Lazy Wife (White Cranberry)
Dry Bush—Black Turtle; Jacob's Cattle
Runner—Scarlet Runner; White Half-Runner
English or Broad Beans (Fava)—Broad Windsor; Early Long Pod
Copied from Texas Civilian Yahoo group. Posted August 2007 by Annette Bethke
I forgot all about the stuff from George Ranch I posted for Henkel
Square.
Here are the crops for 1860's as published by the Texas Commissioner of Insurance and Statistics, published August 1860. He reported that:
Corn
Cotton
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Rice
Potatoes ( Irish & Sweet )
Melons
All garden vegetables
are successful crops and can be grown profitably in this region.
Cotton, Corn, and Sugarcane were the larger of the crops grown.
Stephen L. Smith, a brother to Deaf Smith, wrote that between 1850 & 1860 he grew Sugar, Corn, Sweet potatoes, peas, and Irish potatoes. He also made Cane syrup and Molasses.
Here's the list I pulled from the 1857 Texas Almanac, which also did a month-by-month gardener's "to do" list. Sorry these are spaced out like this (or it looks like it in my email) but I'm cutting and pasting from my paper--
Asparagus Nutmeg Melon
Butter Beans Water Melons
Carolina Beans Butter Onion
Early Dun Beans Silver Skin Onion
Early Six Week Beans
Parsley
Lima Beans Parsnips
Blood Turnip Beet Black-Eyed Peas
Sugar Beet Early Frame or Washington Peas
Cape or Purple Broccoli
English Dwarf Marrowfat Peas
Battersea Cabbage English Peas
Drum-Head Cabbage
White or Gray Crowder Peas
Early York Cabbage
Red Peppers
Large York Cabbage
Irish Potatoes
Cantaloupes Sweet Potatoes
Early Horn Carrot Black Spanish Radish
Long Orange or Alfringham Carrot
Long Scarlet Radish or Salmon Radish
Long Scarlet Carrot
Red Turnip Radish
Dutch Cauliflower Scarlet Turnip Radish
Celery Rutabagas
Corn Salsify
Cucumbers Round-Leaved Spinage
Egg Plants Bush Squash
Endive Tomatoes
Eschallotes Early White Dutch Turnips
Curled Kale Scarlet Turnips
Kohlrabi Red or Yellow Top Dutch Turnips
Cabbage-Head Lettuce
Stone Turnips
Musk Melons White Flat Turnips
Copied from Texas Civilian Yahoo group. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
And here are the varieties suggested at Barrington Farm, Washington-on-the-Brazos, which portrays the years 1847-1856. They've really done their homework, and where they couldn't get exactly the right seed, they got as close as they could. They let me sit in their office with their research notebooks and books and take down as much information as I wanted.
Turnips—Seven Top; American Purple Top Rutabaga; Amber Globe
Tomatoes—Large Red; Yellow Pear; Red Cherry
Squash—Boston Marrow; Hubbard; Green-Striped Cushaw; Turk's Turban; Early Yellow Summer Crookneck; White Bush Scallop; Yellow Bush Scallop
Radishes—China Rose; Round Black Spanish
Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes
Pumpkins—Connecticut Field; Cheese Pumpkin; Small Sugar
Peppers—Long Red Cayenne; Red Squash; Bull Nose; Cherry Sweet
Cowpeas/Black-Eyed Peas—Calico Chowder; Big Red Ripper (Mandy)
Peas—Dwarf Gray Sugar; Prince Albert Pea
Parsnips—Hollow Crown
Onions—Red Weathersfield; White Portugal
Muskmelons and Watermelons—Casaba; Golden Beauty; Jenny Lind; Ice Cream Watermelon
Lettuce—Black-Seeded Simpson; Oak Leaf
Cucumbers—Improved Long Green; Early Cluster or Early Russian; West Indian Gherkin
Carrots—Long Orange Improved; Early Scarlet Horn
Cabbage—Early Jersey Wakefield; Late Flat Dutch; Early Flat Dutch
Beets—Early Blood Turnip; Mammoth Red Mangel Wurtzel (used for livestock feed)
Beans—Snap Bush--Black Valentine; Soldier
Dry Pole—Ruth Bible
Bush Lima—Jackson Wonder Butter Bean; Carolina or Sieva Lima Bean
Pole Lima—Christmas
Snap Pole—Kentucky Wonder
Horticultural or (Green Shell) Bush—Dwarf Horticultural or Wren's Egg
Horticultural or (Green Shell) Pole—Lazy Wife (White Cranberry)
Dry Bush—Black Turtle; Jacob's Cattle
Runner—Scarlet Runner; White Half-Runner
English or Broad Beans (Fava)—Broad Windsor; Early Long Pod
Copied from Texas Civilian Yahoo group. Posted August 2007 by Annette Bethke
I forgot all about the stuff from George Ranch I posted for Henkel
Square.
Here are the crops for 1860's as published by the Texas Commissioner of Insurance and Statistics, published August 1860. He reported that:
Corn
Cotton
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Rice
Potatoes ( Irish & Sweet )
Melons
All garden vegetables
are successful crops and can be grown profitably in this region.
Cotton, Corn, and Sugarcane were the larger of the crops grown.
Stephen L. Smith, a brother to Deaf Smith, wrote that between 1850 & 1860 he grew Sugar, Corn, Sweet potatoes, peas, and Irish potatoes. He also made Cane syrup and Molasses.
