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I also grew Freckles a couple of years ago from 2013 seed from @Blue-Jay . And had a similar or even greater contrast in seed coat colours but the other way round. I received very red seeds and produced much whiter seeds

Sultan’s Gold Crescent came immediately into my mind. I was hoping I had a photo but unfortunately not. Perhaps later today.

Hope this helps

In UK it’s quite easy to find a mix of open pollinated double flowering hollyhocks called Chaters Mix. I don’t know how easy they are to find in Canada. I’m not aware of any single colour double strains.

Out of your list, there are several I haven’t grown but a couple stood out. One was Old Joe Clark which I’ve also found particularly early and high yielding. But I have a different experience of Fat Man. I’m growing it this season - thank you! - and it’s only in flower now. I was thinking of it...

I very much like Bragançano too but I think of it as quite a late bean so I think yours is doing quite well to be producing now. For a number of years I grew it to have a snap bean for eating when many other varieties were past that stage and it worked well in that way.

An interesting exchange. I hadn’t realised sunflowers are prone to inbreeding depression. Thanks @heirloomgal. I have a liking for the bronze coloured sunflowers, the darker the better. They self-seed readily in my veg garden and I have quite a lot, so perhaps that mitigates any effect of...

I hope you don’t mind me stepping in here but I think the link doesn’t have all the information. This one might lead to the fuller page https://www.bohnen-atlas.de/sorten/b/2022-bela-putersnica Sorry of if I’ve created confusion though. Links are a bit chancy sometimes.

I can also confirm that I had pure white flowers last season from seed donated by P. Suckling. Thank you,P.S.

I grew Rose last year and found it to be late. I failed to harvest any good seed. I’m trying again this year and sowed it particularly early. I’ve been away for a couple of weeks so can’t report on progress but hoping for a good surprise when I return! I also found Succotash to be late but it...

Yes, I echo that and have had a similar experience. Perhaps not as many but certainly quite a few. I’m wondering about my planting mixture/mulches. Most of mine were transplants. I direct seeded only where I had a few losses due to a freak late frost.

A wonderful parade of colours, @Oxford . I love the unusually deep purple of Blue Adliswil. Worth growing for its flowers alone! I photographed yesterday what I thought was an unusually dusky pink in Princess flowers. It’s a little darker and deeper than it looks here.

Thank you @heirloomgal. That is very interesting. Did you receive any response from Prairie Garden Seed? The main diagnostic difference between Blue Gold, which you mentioned, and Wagner Blue Green seems to be the colour of the inside flesh which is red-yellow in Blue Gold and definitely green...

I’d love to be able to identify this mid-sized tomato. I received it several years ago labelled ‘Wagner Blue Berries’. I think this was a guess from a vague memory. As far as I’m aware, varieties with ‘berries’ in the name are Brad Gates, not Tom Wagner. The nearest I can get to a Wagner variety...

My instinct and horribly basic understanding of genetics suggest that you wouldn’t get separate strains but would have the same happen again from both batches, ie. pale flowers until the plant is moving into older age. A rather lovely thing to happen - two treats in one.

It is my experience too that it’s very early. It’s a favourite with me. I love its cheerful earliness and also very much like its lovely frosted seeds.

It looks a great crop. And I was about to ask the same question. In England there aren’t very many different varieties of garlic available, except for one well known source based on the Isle of Wight. But I don’t like the fact that they have selected and renamed all the varieties they offer...

That is very similar to the random plant sickness I’ve been experiencing. I’m thinking some varieties are particularly prone to it. I had it quite big-time last year with Ruth Bible and this year, from a different source of seeds, I’m experiencing it again. And yet other growers seem to...

That’s beyond awful @heirloomgal. My heartfelt sympathies. It makes the one or two giving up the ghost, which I was worrying about, seem very minor. Have you identified the destructive caterpillar? You seem confident the attack is under control now, thank goodness. Have they moved on, or into...

I’m heartened to find I’m not alone in this phenomenon. It’s natural to either feel one has done something wrong - any manure in the soil wasn’t well enough rotted was one thought I had - or fear a disease which will spread or be in contaminated soil etc. It has been unusually hot here too. No...