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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

thats the way to go - fermenting those interesting market tomato seeds.

Hi 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...

loving seeing the pea varieties too

One of the ones I really like is Potager St Catherine - nice list

I believe my seed orders bred in the postvan. There are twice as many tomatoes as I remember ordering! @jbrobin09 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...

Hip Hip Hooray indeed my german seed order arrived this morning - it is so exciting. Good reason to celebrate

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...

really liking the look of these - not seen the name about.

Ooh I spotted that on my peruse this evening . I'd like to know more about it too

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...

thank you

thank you for this clarity. That's clearly problemmatic, when misread it as 'OP no ties' - and have long thought that the case. Ummm thinks again. :(

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 ) . 🤩

Thanks - Ill take a look

princess precious - I 'll take that! Grex to me was not so much cross pollination (reasons you give) but a handful of each of what did well last year all thrown in the seedtin. I imagine family beans are whats left at the end of the season, suddenly remembering you have to grow some next...

Am chuckling loudly. (Oh my god - here I go with no boundaries & over-sharing). I have to admit I am never knowingly without Beans. So precious are they, that I have some in a 'medicine pouch', with Hazel seeds from a scared spring (celtic mythology), hard red corn & heritage white corn ... a...

I've seen german regional varieties listed as "Speck" beans, and assume these are a similar type . ( Speck being dry cured 'bacon' ). I think I've got one coming my way soon. The greasy types, I am wondering if the german Kipfler beans might also turn out to be shiny. ( Curved and lumpy ) These...

I am of two minds - which I'd appreciate serious conversation around - probably will start a thread on it after midwinter, if I am lucky enough to remember to post it. First - outgrowths of notable and consistently arising variables ( spontanteous mutations/throwbacks/ double recessives , I...