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gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
unusual veg
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March 09, 2008, 17:39:12 »
Can anyone help me?
Where is the best place to get hold of rare or unusual veggie seeds?
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gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #1 on:
March 09, 2008, 17:42:48 »
LOL yes that would make an unusual veg ;D
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gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
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Reply #2 on:
March 09, 2008, 17:46:26 »
I did wonder where I would find garvel LOL ;D
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Jeannine
Hectare
Posts: 11,447
Mapleridge BC Canada
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Reply #3 on:
March 09, 2008, 17:52:25 »
What kind of unusual veggie are you looking for
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gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
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Reply #4 on:
March 09, 2008, 18:01:03 »
Anything really just something that isn't available in the shops, varieties that have been forgotten, things that may not appear nice but taste wonderful.
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raisedbedted
Hectare
Posts: 506
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #5 on:
March 09, 2008, 18:10:12 »
I would recoomend Real Seeds address
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/
They always have things a little unusual to tempt the credit card once again :)
RBT
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Jeannine
Hectare
Posts: 11,447
Mapleridge BC Canada
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #6 on:
March 09, 2008, 18:10:19 »
Hard to advise one man's unusual is abother commonplace. Tell me what you are already growing and I can help better.
? Purple cauliflower, orange cauliflower, schorzona, salsify, orach, white carrots purple carrots,ocra,some odd beans and peas,certainly some of the rarer squash,coloured and frilly lettuce,red spring onions, white pumpkin, minature pumpkin, lentils, garbanzos,white cukes, round yellow cukes ,all different colours and sizes of eggplants,popcorn, red or multi coloured corn, white beetroot, striped beetroot,kohlrabi, fakir,black or white radishes,jicama,red brussels sprouts, collards,edible flowers.
XX Jeannine
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When God blesses you with a multitude of seeds double the blessing by sharing your seeds with other folks.
gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #7 on:
March 09, 2008, 18:15:13 »
Wow well I've never heard of garbanzos, orach, fakir or jicama, can you give me some idea of what sort of vegetable they are please.
Thanks raisedbedted will go and have a nosey.
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Vortex
Acre
Posts: 296
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #8 on:
March 09, 2008, 18:32:42 »
If you want varieties that have been forgotten you'll need to join HDSL. You should also check out Garden Organic (
http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/index.php
), which is their commercial arm, and Thomas Etty (
http://www.thomasetty.co.uk/index.html
). If you're happy just picking seeds with pictures and growing instructions you may also like to try Seeds-by-Size (
http://www.seeds-by-size.co.uk/
). If you're into giant veg then try W Robinson & Son (
http://www.mammothonion.co.uk/
).
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gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #9 on:
March 09, 2008, 18:35:38 »
ohhh thank you :)
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Rhubarb Thrasher
Hectare
Posts: 2,713
Dark Side Of The Rhubarb
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #10 on:
March 09, 2008, 18:58:10 »
fakir is just a turnip rooted parsley? trying that this year
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,898
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #11 on:
March 09, 2008, 19:02:28 »
Para Cress is about as weird as it gets... like eating local anaesthetic... makes your mouth tingle and then go numb...
;D
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gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
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Reply #12 on:
March 09, 2008, 20:13:09 »
so we need to eat that one before a hot madras then ;D
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Suzanne
Hectare
Posts: 1,507
sun is shining
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #13 on:
March 09, 2008, 20:48:22 »
Or after?
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Jeannine
Hectare
Posts: 11,447
Mapleridge BC Canada
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #14 on:
March 09, 2008, 21:17:09 »
Jicama is an odd one, it is a tuber, looks like a turnip, belongs to the bean family, used as an alternative fro water chestnuts or eaten raw, similar to an apple or pear.
Orach, used in salads or anywhere you would use spinach, like spinach it bolts in a hot summer. Comes 4 colours, white, green, bronze and red. Grows to 4 feet.
Gabanzo also know as chick pea,small round bumpy beans, light brown, fairly common in tins.
XX Jeannine
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gardening-gal
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #15 on:
March 09, 2008, 22:03:35 »
Ahhh thank you :)
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sawfish
Hectare
Posts: 1,059
glasgow dreamer
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #16 on:
March 09, 2008, 23:12:35 »
Try
http://www.thomasetty.co.uk/vegetables/index.html
lots of strange victorian stuff.
Or
http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/
Or
http://www.tuckers-seeds.co.uk/
more old odd stuff
Or
http://rareseeds.com/seeds/
in America but cheap shipping and some funky stuff!
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GodfreyRob
Acre
Posts: 470
Good Boy!
Re: unusual veg
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Reply #17 on:
March 10, 2008, 08:50:39 »
Here's an online database that contains a lot of unusual vegetables/herb/fruit plus pictures and cultivation instructions:
http://www.thevga.co.uk/the_shed/sindex.cgi
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