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Pass along Southern Seed (PASS) is an initiative to promote the conservation through use of both cultural knowledge and heirloom plants of the American South. PASS is open to all SSL members. If you are interested, please join us in this effort

By receiving seeds from Southern Seed Legacy (SSL), you agree, to the best of your ability, to meet the following conditions:

1. save seeds from successful grow-outs and keep one-third for yourself, pass one-third to another gardener/farmer, and return one-third to SSL, and
2. keep detailed records of your growing methods, general environmental conditions, and qualitative and quantitative descriptions of plant performance (i.e.- height, color, quality of produce, taste, variation between plants, disease and pest resistance, and length of growing season...anything you can think of).
3. To the best of one's knowledge, refrain from providing member seeds to individuals or organizations that will market the seeds for profit.

If you are interested in participating in PASS, please browse through our list of available seeds available through PASS and contact us to let us know which seeds (please give accession number, located at the left of seed name) you would like. Don't forget to give us your address! Seed packets will be sent when we receive your order. As some accessions are limited in number, we suggest you choose more than one variety.

Currently Available (as of 6/5/07)

To see descriptionss of these seeds, please go to the complete seed catalog

VARIETIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE (127 TOTAL)

5. Keener Corn
7. Whipporwill Peas
12. Quincy Green Beans
16. Dark Pot Liquer Butter Beans
23. Coon Corn
24. 6 Week Pea, Antique Crowder
28. Calico Pea
30. Elwin Hannah Tomato
34. Red Crowder Pea
38. Black Crowder Pea
39. Whipporwill Pea
43. Cushaw Melon
45. Unknown Cupboard Peas
53. Myrtle Garmon Pea
54. Canteloupe
75. Rev. Taylor Butterbean Mix
76. South Carolina Red Stick Pole Bean
79. Purple Hulled Pea
92. African Squash
93. Holstein Cowpeas
110. Bloody Butcher Corn
114. Lynch Butterbean Collection
116. White Half Runner
117. Cutshort Bean
125. Tennessee White Crowder
126. White Crowder Pea
127. Hastings Cornfield Bean
128. Big Boy Pea
129. Martin Gourd
130. Unknown Pea
132. Hickory King Hastings Corn Mixed Bean
133. Hercules Pea
135. West 6 Weeks Pea
136. Pink Eye Pea
137. Colossus Pea
138. Pink-Eye Purple Hull
139. Cantaloupe
145. Johnny's Red Butterbeans
146. Colored Willowleaf Butterbean
147. Texas Longhorn Field Pea
149. Yardlong Pea
158. Red Corn
162. Neal's Paymaster White Southern Dent Corn
163. Jellicorse Southern Dent
188. Peking Black
197. Arkansas Traveler Crowder
198. Jet Black Pea
199. Washday Pea
200. Whipporwill Pea
201. Gray Palapye Pea
202. Diawa Pea
203. White Field Pea
204. Zelma Zester Bean
205. Walt Qualtebaum Bean
206. Tobacco Worm Bean
207. Purple Eye Butterbean
208. Lynch Butterbean
209. Colored Willowleaf Butterbean
210. Soybean Butterbean Edamame
211. Yellow Soybean
215. Calabasa Squash
219. Okra
245. Butterbeans
248. Okra
263. Black Crowder
266. Bandy Black Bean
268. Jacob's Cattle Bean
269. Cherokee Trail of Tears Green Bean
278. Sunflower
282. Red and Black Field Peas
284. Tennessee White Greasyback
288. Moon and Stars Watermelon
291. Birdhouse Type Gourd
299. Plumgranny
336. Scarlet Runner Bean
345. Fred Hayes Seiburn Peas
352. Clara Half Runner
409. Little Marvel English Peas
410. Jackson Wonder Speckled Butterbean
411. Sugar Snap Peas
413. Dwarf Essex Rape Greens
416. White Half Runner Beans
417. Haricot Rouge
421. Purple Peacock Pole Snap Bean
426. Betty's White Okra
430. Hickory Cane
431. Lynch Butterbean Collection
432. Jacob's Cattle Bean
442. Whippoorwill Pea
445. spaghetti squash
446. butternut squash
447. crook neck squash
458. hastings cornfield bean
460. red ripper southern pea
462. tender green bush beans
465. turkey eye bean
466. Edamame Butterbean Soybeans
468. san marzona tomato
473. Akers West Virginia Tomato
474. German Johnson Tomato
475. Old Brooks Tomato
476. Box Car Willie Tomato
477. Aunt Ginny's Purple Tomato
478. Cherokee Purple Tomato
479. Cherokee Ceremonial Tobacco
480. Bullface Tobacco
482. Velvet Bean
484. Turkey Craw
488. Black Butterbean
493. Red Ripper Pea
495. African Field Pea
500. Louisiana Nankeen Cotton
501. Brown Bunch Bean (2)
502. Mama Byrd Shelly
503. White Shelly
504. Old-Timey White Bunch Bean
505. Half Runner Turkey
506. Half Runner
510. Medium Sized Greasy Bean
514. Greasy Cutshort
516. Big Greasy
518. Pink Tip
520. White and Brown Greasy Cutshorts
521. Granny Bradley
524. Bradford Parsnip
527. Cherokee Blue Mustard
528. Hickory King Corn
529. Coushaw Squash

Genetic seed purity has become a debatable topic among seed savers. To preserve the genetic purity of the seeds, so that their progeny will bear similar characteristics, some seed savers feel it is necessary to take measures to prevent cross pollination with other varieties. But these seeds developed their uniqueness through years and years of natural and farmer selection (conscious or not). Seeds are dynamic by nature. If you choose to grow your seeds to preserve their genetic heritage (tips are available), we can then pass them on by their original name. If not, enjoy the adventure of cultivating a truly unique seed!

An article on seed saving techniques from Seed to Seed by Susan Ashworth

Here is an article by John Coykendall about maintaining seed purity.