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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 11/15/09)

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

VARIETIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE (127 TOTAL)

5. Keener Corn
7. Whipporwill Peas
8. Meier Family Purple Hull Pole Beans
12. Quincy Green Beans
16. Dark Pot Liquer Butter Beans
23. Coon Corn
24. 6 Week Pea, Antique Crowder
26. Rattlesnake Beans
28. Calico Pea
34. Red Crowder Pea
38. Black Crowder Pea
39. Whipporwill Pea
44 Antique Pole String Bean
45. Unknown Cupboard Peas
53. Myrtle Garmon Pea
54. Canteloupe
73 back porch butterbeans
75. Rev. Taylor Butterbean Mix
79. Purple Hulled Pea
86. Hollister Peach
92. African Squash
93. Holstein Cowpeas
110. Bloody Butcher Corn
114. Lynch Butterbean Collection
116. White Half Runner
117. Cutshort Bean
124 Yellow Watermelon
125. Tennessee White Crowder
126. White Crowder Pea
127. Hastings Cornfield Bean
129. Martin Gourd
130. Unknown Pea
131. Whipporwill Crowder Pea
132. Hickory King Hastings Corn Mixed Bean
133. Hercules Pea
134. Red Ripper Pea
135. West 6 Weeks Pea
136. Pink Eye Pea
137. Colossus Pea
143 Purple Hulled Pea
147 Texas Longhorn Field Pea
153 Small white peach
158 Red Corn
160 Arkansas Red and White Dent Corn
161 Jarvis Prolific Field Corn
162 Neal's Paymaster White Southern Dent Corn
163 Jellicorse Southern Dent
169 blue carage dent corn
170 Alaquat dent corn
188 Peking Black
197 Arkansas Razorback
198 Jet Black Pea
199 Washday Pea
200 Whipporwill Peas
201 Gray Palapye Pea
202 Diawa Pea
203 White Field Pea
204 Zelma Zester Bean
205 Walt Qualtebaum Bean
206 Tobacco Worm Bean
208 Lynch Butterbean
211 Yellow Soybean
212 Yellow Bonnet sorghum
213 Salt's red Sorghum
214 Rox Orange Sorghum
230 Yarrow
245 Butterbeans
263 Black Crowder
269 Cherokee Trail fo Tears Green Bean
270 kansas canteloupe
281 Snow on the Mountain
282 Red and Black Field Peas
283 Speckled Field Pea
284 Tennessee Whtie Greasyback
288 Moon and Stars Watermelon
291 Birdhouse Type Gourd
299 Plumgranny
345 Fred Hayes Seiburn Peas
346 ??
372 Pie Pumpkin Seed
383 Pak Choi Cabbage
412 Texas Cream 40 Conch Peas
413 Dwarf Essex Rape Greens
414 Red Peanut Bush Beans
416 ?
417 Haricot Rouge
418 Calico Crowder Cowpea
420 Sadandy Cowpea
421 Purple Peacock Pole Snap Bean
422 Mississippi Silver Crowder Cowpea
423 Lady Finger Cowpeas
425 Black Turtle Beans
426 Betty's White Okra
434 Carolina Golden Rice
441 African Winter Squash
442 Whippoorwill Pea
458 Hastings cornfield bean
460 Red Ripper Southern Pea
465 Turkey Eye Bean
466 Edamame Butterbean Soybeans
468 San Marzona tomato
470 Ernie's nuts
473 Akers West Virginia Tomato
479 Cherokee Ceremonia Tobacco
480 Bullface tobacco
481 Greasy Greens Collards
493 Red Ripper Pea
495 African Field Pea
500 Louisiana Nankeen Cotton
501 Brown Bunch Bean
502 Mama Byrd Shelly
503 White Shelly
505 Half Runner Turkey
506 Half Runner
510 Medium sized greasy bean
514 Greasy Cutshort
518 Pink Tip
520 White and Brown Greasy Cutshorts
521 Granny Bradley
524 Bradford Parsnip
527 Cherokee Blue Mustard
620 Appalachia greasy pole beans
621 Appalachia tabocco Pole beans
622 White Okra
623 Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans
624 Neal's Paymaster Arkansas x Tennessee
625 Huffman Southern Dent
626 University of Kentucky whtie Dent
627 Drought Tolerant Tuxpeno Dent
628 white hastings cornfield bean
629 "Henry Moore" yellow hominy corn
630 love in the mist wild flower- pale blue
633 Maroon eye crowder
634 Loofah
635 Yellow Watermelon
636 poppies
640 Phil's beans polebean
641 Hopi Dye
642 Magic Evening Primrose
643 Rattlesnake crowder peas`
644 Cherokee Long ear Small 100 days
645 Blue Hopi Indian Corn
646 Dixie Lee Cowpeas
647 Holcomb Prolific
648 Orange Oxheart tomato
648 Hawkins Prolific
649 Pink Hungarian tomato
650 Texas Wild Cherry tomato
649 red white and blue corn
650 Ponderosa Pink tomato
651 Roma (Old Seed) tomato

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.