Brilliant Blog

[barkingdog]

Follow this link to the Daughter of the Soil blog. A brilliant blog with excellent reviews of heritage veg!

http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/

[barkingdog]

[saddad]

Very impressive, I grew Salmon flowered this year to bulk up... it was very pretty and the seeds are speckled. Magnum Bonum is my all time fav. get much better results than from Alderman!
;D

[mikey]

very well put together, looks professional, good stuff.
will need to go back and read some more when the Tattie Peeling tasks are over

Thanks for the tip barkingdog

[Barnowl]

Very impressive, I grew Salmon flowered this year to bulk up... it was very pretty and the seeds are speckled. Magnum Bonum is my all time fav. get much better results than from Alderman!
;D

I need a tall pea variety but I can't find a source for Magnum Bonum - how would you rate Telephone vs Alderman?

[Robert_Brenchley]

Alderman's good, I haven't tried Telephone. Ne Plus Ultra is another one worth looking at; get it from Robinson & Son. If anyone knows a source for Magnum Bonum, please share it!

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

I'll be growing Telephon next year. Isn't it right that the telephon pea was named years before the telephone was invented - the name comes from the wires used in an early form of electro-therapy??

[saddad]

If my wife isn't reading over my shoulder I could send you 20 Magnum Bonum to bulk up...
Telephon (Real seeds) was good but still MB did better for me!
;D

[Barnowl]

Wouldn't want to get you into trouble Saddad :) 

I'm pretty new to peas anyway, so I'll be happy to try Telephon and Ne Plus Ultra this year because I won't know what I'm missing (provided you don't go on about it too much ;D)

[The Amateurs]

Hi Saddad & Barnowl
Cheers for the Pea tips off to see where I can source them from
C :)

[Baccy Man]

You can get Magnum Bonum pea seeds from The Irish Seed Saver Association â,¬ 2.50 per pack, you don't have to be a member to make a purchase.

http://www.irishseedsavers.ie/proddetails.php?proid=276&catid=30

I think they are available through the HSL catalogue too but that is members only.