odd things when you have different things from that (or how I wound up one year with a pumpkin with a woody gourd shell inside it.)
HA ! I think it was just hungry one night
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Technically Beans & Peas fall into notifiable plants for customs & DEFRA/ UK Government.
I think the person sending needs the phyto-sanitary certification, which costs to register etc. with the UK government.
Commercial growers I guess have to be big enough to warrant this.
Certainly my...
I believe my seed orders bred in the postvan. There are twice as many tomatoes as I remember ordering!
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not really a hidden gem - https://heritageharvestseed.com/collections/all Heritage Harvest ( carries Russ's Blue Jay :D. ) which you probably know of anyhow.
I have looked at...
Invasives - especially non indigenous ones.
Japanese knotweed ( luckily , Ive never had to deal with it )
Rhodedendron
Himalayan Balsam - that is an evil one ( I get involved in local river/riparian conservation projects )
Bamboos
things on road margins that get spread by tractor - the...
Although it is clearly so widely widely grown, globally speaking, I can find no source for it. It is likely one of those plants international agriculture advisors have taken around the world as herbal ley/ fallow/ soil improvement. Its naturalised in Australia (endemic to southern europe...
This makes very interesting reading .
Glad of your recording habits. - I know I have gotten away with long kept tomatoes
And mental note to grow out all peppers next year - see if ANYTHING from old hoarde actually makes it. (might do the 'if it floats in water its likely dead' and try sowing...
Read the article - 'accidentally' trawled several seed sites as consequence. Added 3 of Carol Deppe's to my list ( I think for another year ). ( King City Pink, Gaucho, White Candle ) . 🤩