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This Atlas is a Polish commercial variety introduced by the Polan company from Krakow. The seeds are no longer available for sale...

Successful & not so successful adventures in winnowing. 🌬️ I made quite a few mistakes with how I proceeded this year with the few...

I find beds of lettuces extremely satisfying, alternate rows of green and red-flushed, of smooth leaved and crinkly leaved, for example...

I'm located in central WV with an elevation of just over 1,700'. My in-laws live five miles away in the next county and at a lower...

That’s extremely impressive. A great achievement.

I do find that they’re late but they have made it in time reasonably comfortably. In a cool season it might be quite borderline.

That’s a huge amount of varieties in your seed crop, not to mention a host of other life pressures. I feel at full stretch doing...

I'm delighted you had good true-to-type seed as I grew them myself and had some off-types - plain black. Were all yours true St Anthony?

It seems that the term is used differently in UK from in US. I think @flowerbug is right in suggesting a connection with size but in...

As far as I’m aware, the most common European varieties with roughly that patterning but not that colouring are pea beans which come...

Your Chantenay Red look great. Beautifully healthy. It's a good standard in UK too alongside, in my case, Early Nantes, Amsterdam...

Interesting. Horseradish makes a large, strong vigorous plant eventually, and it is indeed invasive. Where I used to live a field of...

I've never grown Hamburg parsley root. It looks very interesting and I think I must have a go. Like celeriac it seems to benefit from a...

I’ve never grown celeriac as beautifully round as those in your link @digitS' but I usually get usable roots. I just wanted to add...

Please could you explain further, @Blue-Jay. I’m growing Rio Zape this year too. Some of the last of them are stained but I have plenty...