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ysabetwordsmithFolks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. The current batch features landrace gardening.
Landrace Gardening: Naming The New Varieties
When I started landrace gardening, I had to relearn how to name the plants in my garden. I was used to keeping varieties separate, and to taking great pains to insure that they remained pure. I was pretty much of the mindset that a variety has one name that it carries with it forever. As a landrace gardener, names have become more fleeting. These days, in my garden, plants are more likely to be called something like “Dry Beans”, or “That Dry Bean With The Pretty Purple Flowers.”
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A landrace may be named for a handful of different things. Often several elements combine. A good mix of terms should pin down a given landrace well enough to remember. Options include but are not limited to:
* basic type of produce (e.g. tomato, squash)
* distinguishing traits (e.g. large, red, early, bush)
* purpose (e.g. dry bean, slicing tomato)
* locale of adaptation (e.g. prairie, mountain valley, Florida, Ozark, Jamestown)
* reproductive strategy (.e.g Floozie Flour Corn for promiscuous pollination, or just landrace)
* breeder (e.g. Smith, La Paz, Turtlekiller)
* any memorable word or name (e.g. magnificent, Gilgamesh)
Landrace Gardening: Naming The New Varieties
When I started landrace gardening, I had to relearn how to name the plants in my garden. I was used to keeping varieties separate, and to taking great pains to insure that they remained pure. I was pretty much of the mindset that a variety has one name that it carries with it forever. As a landrace gardener, names have become more fleeting. These days, in my garden, plants are more likely to be called something like “Dry Beans”, or “That Dry Bean With The Pretty Purple Flowers.”
Read more of the article.
A landrace may be named for a handful of different things. Often several elements combine. A good mix of terms should pin down a given landrace well enough to remember. Options include but are not limited to:
* basic type of produce (e.g. tomato, squash)
* distinguishing traits (e.g. large, red, early, bush)
* purpose (e.g. dry bean, slicing tomato)
* locale of adaptation (e.g. prairie, mountain valley, Florida, Ozark, Jamestown)
* reproductive strategy (.e.g Floozie Flour Corn for promiscuous pollination, or just landrace)
* breeder (e.g. Smith, La Paz, Turtlekiller)
* any memorable word or name (e.g. magnificent, Gilgamesh)
