Topic: Seed Sharing Circle 2012

[Debs]

OMG  what a treasure trove of seeds !!!

A huge thankyou to everyone ( especially Jayb x ), the variety of seeds & the beautiful artwork of some of the seed packets is really appreciated

Second cup of coffee & seed planning weekend is forecast

Debs 

[aj]

Glad you liked the packets  I painted each one as the contents was so lacking had to make up for it somehow! Enjoyed it though. Jayb's were clever ,a couple of years ago I started a collection of seed packet examples so I will popping a couple into that.

I showed one of your packets to the team at HSL today - and they were bowled over; and they have taken one for inspiration. So well done!

[markfield rover]

Ooh- aj I am blushing! But glad you like them,if there is a next time I shall try and be a might more creative.

[galina]

An afternoon spent going through my packet.It may save somebody else typing the list out.

Variety
Blackpod Runner Bean
Giant Yellow Tomatillo
Bay Tree (Laurus nobilis)
Helsing Junction Blue Tomato
Betimes Macbeth Tomato
Blush Tomato
Skagit Magic TPS
Baun Onion
Redlands Greenleaf Dwarf FB
Dobbie's Purple Beetroot
Aranyalma Tomato
Mr Brooks Blue DFB
Old Homestead CFB
Queen of Hearts Tomato
Eat Me Early Mange Tout
Blauwschokker Peas
Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean
Cosse Violette
Mrs Fortune's Climbling Bean
Major Cook's Bean
Red Pear Tomato
Terhune
Pretty in Purple Chilli
Yankee Bell Pepper
Henderson Lima Bean
Madame Jardel's Black Tomato
Cherokee White Eagle Corn
Fordhook 242 Lima Bean
Black Jet Soya Bean
Miniature White Cucumber
Pepperdew Chilli
Great White Tomato
Butterbean Soya Bean
Tohya Soya Bean
Wieringer Boon DFB
Reade Krobbe DFB
Swedish Yellow Pea
Kaulion's White Broadbean
Luang Prabang Mangetout
Ragged Jack Kale
Eeuwig Moes
Mystery Tomato
White Zebra
Turkish Pepper
Black Icicle Tomato
Florence Fennel
Scorzonera
Flavert DFB
Numex Twilight Chillis
Tropaleum Peregrinum
Kool's Langstro Rozijn Erwt Pea
Oldambster Wierboon Broad Bean
Elisabeth Pea mangetout
Spring Blush Tall Snap pea
Alma Csipos Pepper
Opal Creek Tall Snap Pea
North Carolina Speckled Cutshort long Greasy Bean
Lattughino Biondo Ricciolino di Trieste Lettuce
Georgian #2 Dwarf French Bean
Pea Parsley
Greek Cress
Dwarf Grey Sugar Mangetout Pea
Ground Cherry Cossack Pineapple

Sorry Poolcue, just being a bit (a lot) anal about spellings of variety names and have updated the list.  Hope you don't mind and thank you for typing it out which is very useful for everybody.  Incidentally correct names can be found here - some with descriptions and photos:

https://sites.google.com/site/seedsharingcircle/seed-parcel/seed-parcel-2012

It would be lovely, if we could get descriptions for all of our varieties to complete the super e-booklet on this (and past) seed circles that Jayb set up.  We can help get text onto the site, if assistance is needed or describe how to do it.  This is really a collaborative effort.

There is also a really nice summary page of all the varieties we have been exchanging.  This is where growing reports can be placed and also any photos taken during the growing season:

 https://sites.google.com/site/seedsharingcircle/blog/seeds-shared

I just love looking through these pages and send thanks to all of our seed donors.  Also many thanks to Jeannine who has very generously contributed to this year's parcel.

[Poolcue]

Galina thanks for the corrections I was working off of packets and the correct spellings make internet searches easier

[aj]

Ooh- aj I am blushing! But glad you like them,if there is a next time I shall try and be a might more creative.

No - those were perfect!

We all loved them. Shame to have to open them really...

[galina]

................ and we have lift off!

First tiny seedlings of Pepperdew have sprouted this morning 

[Nigel B]

Just a quick update on the Blauwschokker Peas.

My mate Marc grew some too last year. By the end of the season though he'd collected quite enough peas to fill the freezer, and so knocked down all the sticks and stuff and rotavated the ground in November last.......

No sooner had he done that
Than they started to appear.
Baby Blauwschokkers,
Everywhere..........

They've shrugged off the low temps,
The ice and floods.
Ignored hungry mice
Trying to savour their buds.

They just won't be beaten
Those little Blauwschokkers.
They'll tough out the worst
They'll roll with wind-rockers.

So set them off now
and if they fail to come through.
I'll eat my own hat
Yes that's just what I'll do.








Pic0051 by Nefariousenator, on Flickr


Pic0037 by Nefariousenator, on Flickr

[ruud]

Hi galina,great to read your story,if you told me that jaap vlaming was the man behind the curtains. :toothy10:I have done some swaps with jaap in the past he is a famous person in the dutch seedswap scene.That side you mentioned is started by jaap,great to see and hear that seed intrested people are all the same were ever you live.By the way mechelse trots sounds intresting.

[aj]

Yay - half the toms sown on Friday are up - some not even in the heated prop.

Don't ya love fresh seeds!!!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Did you get my PM, JayB?

[Jayb]

Did you get my PM, JayB?

Yes, I've just pm'ed you.

[Robert_Brenchley]

The seeds just arrived, thanks. Lots of stuff there, and the near-absence of squashes suggests that everyone else struggled as much as I did last year! I'm particularly glad of the broad beans, since I'm trying to develop my own grex, and they look like useful additions.

[Jayb]

Glad they are finally there 

[galina]

Glad they are finally there 

Has everybody had their envelope?  hope so 

[Debs]

Hi Jayb,

Do you have any advice for sowing the bay tree seeds?

I soaked them and put on damp kitchen roll but they became mouldy :(


Any advice appreciated

Debs x

[goodlife]

Hi Jayb,

Do you have any advice for sowing the bay tree seeds?

I soaked them and put on damp kitchen roll but they became mouldy :(


Any advice appreciated

Debs x

Have a look at page 17 on this thread..we had little 'chat' about how to do it..

[galina]

Correction - on page 18 of this thread I said that 'Mechelse Tros' bean is a Dutch variety of Climbing French Bean.  Actually, it is BELGIAN!  Apologies to Belgians on the forum.  Mechelen where this bean originated, is a town in Belgium. 

[Nigel B]

A question or two about the "Kaulion Valkea (Kaulion's White)"

It (You) say(s) they are very frost tolerant..   "..but coming from Finland, their 'frost' is UK 'FREEZING COLD!..so should be able to take our weather."....

Can you recommend the best time to sow ?

Cheersees. :-)

[Debs]

So from advice given, I should remove seed casing, soak seed for 24 hrs & then put seed into slightly moist compost into a plastic bag and into the fridge for 2 weeks?

THEN grow on in temp of 21 C ??

Debs