Fukuoka Grab Bag

Adaptation Projects 2023 Grow Reports: GTS seed mixes
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For discussions about how the Fukuoka Grab Bag grew for you.

Did you find anything you love?
What failed for you?

Are you growing any species that might be included in it next year?

Here is the list of what went into it:

Amaranth
Amaranth, grex
Arugula
Arugula
Arugula
Asparagus
Beans, climbing, mix/landrace
Beans, common, 11 varieties
Beans, Common, Beefy Resilient Grex
Beans, common, black mix
Beans, Common, Bush grex
Beans, common, bush-ish grex
Beans, common, grex
Beans, common, grex
Beans, Southwest grex
Beans, Common, Landrace
Beans, Common, Pole grex
Beans, cowpea
Beans, cowpea
Beans, Cowpea, bush and vining
Beans, most prolific, semi-climbing
Beans, runner
Beans, tepary
Beans, White Tepary
Beet
burdock
Calendula
Calendula
Calendula, mix
Carrot
Carrot
Carrot Grex
Catnip
Cilantro
Cosmos
Dill
Eggplant
Ground cherry grex
Huckleberry, garden
Lettuce
Lettuce
Lettuce, stem
Luffa
Marigold X 2
Morning Glory
Mustard
Okra
Onion, Bunching, Tokyo white
Orach
Orach
Perilla, 2 varieties
Pole beans
Poppy, breadseed
Poppy, breadseed
Primrose
Radish
Radish, black Spanish
Rhubarb
Sorghum
Sunflower, medium seeded
Sunflower, small seeded grex
Tomatillo, feral
Tomatillo, grex
Tomatillo, grex
Tomato, Peruvian
Turnip
Zenia

I added some of my grexes/landraces:
Agave
Amaranth
Barley
Chia
Cucurbita ficifolia
Fenugreek
Flax, Annual
Flax, Lewisii
Lettuce
Mustard spice
Oats
Parsnip
Rye
Teosinte
Turnip
Wheat

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Still snow on the ground so still waiting to plant. Great to know what the possibility’s are!

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Is this list for the 2023 “Everything Else” Fukuoka’s Grab Bag? It is coming in the mail to me now. I will know what to look for when they come up.
This is my first year with landrace mindset. But i have had almost a year to think on it and collect (buy) seeds.
Thank you for your part in all this.

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The beans, radishes, tomatillos, and ground cherries got separated out into their own mixes. The rest of the seeds went into the grab bag.

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Because of the extreme weather, we have three growing seasons over the Sonora dessert. I chose and received Fukuoka’s grab bag, Ground cherry, Tomatillo. hot weather beans, and everything else. Some will be planted during the monsoon season, the others will have to go in the winter season starting in late November and resembles many northern states summer season. I had also missed my spring season due to a medical pause…
For the super hot summer we grow okra, Malabar spinach, water melons, muskmelons, asparagus beans, Armenian cucumber, edible gourds, cucumbers, sunflower and zinnia. We enjoy edible flowers as much as vegetables.

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Here’s what went into the Fukuoka Grab Bag for 2024. I’m sure that I forgot to write down some things.

allium, mystery
amaranth
arugula
asparagus
barley, purple
bean, tepary
beans, common
broccoli rab
cabbage
calendula
catnip
chia
chrysanthemum, edible
cilantro x 2
corn, tarahumara
cosmos x 3
culantro
dahlia
dill x 2
flax
gamagrass
goldenberry
ground cherry
kale, russian
kenaf
marigold
mint
mouse garlic
mustard x 2
okra x 2
parsnip x 3
radish
rhubarb
rocket, turkish
rutabaga
rye
shisho, red
squash
sunflower
tobacco
tobacco, rustica
tomatillo x 2
watermelon
wheat x 2

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Ha ha, amazing! Can’t wait to get it. Last year’s was so much fun :green_heart:

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The Tarahumara corn sounds interesting.

Any idea if its one of the three known flour color varieties or is it a mixed landrace of all three?

White Flour for the corn milk drink they make, the Red Flour for the tortillas they make, or the Yellow Flour for the tamale and tortilla making?

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The Tarahumara corn was not any of those previously mentioned.

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Is there a recommended amount of space for the packet? Just scatter and let them fight it out or separate out some of the more obvious kinds of seeds (like plant the bean that looks like a Mayflower pole bean right next to the corn in the package)? I know not everything will do well or ripen in time in our zone, but this is gonna be fun.

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Well, I CAN tell you a 4x8 bed is not enough unless you like it really, really crowded. It didn’t seem like that much seed but some stuff got pretty big.

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