Seed Saving Circle 2020

[markfield rover]

Just had a look at the airtable, really useful , thank you.

[markfield rover]

[ruud]

Yes after been lost somewere on a postoffice i finally got my parcel full of intresting seeds.Thanks everbody for the contribution and specially jang for organising the seedcircle.

[Vetivert]

That's great new ruud 

Markfield, what's your typical spacing for the Syrian broad beans? Do they tiller a lot?
Cheers.

[markfield rover]

Vetivert, I space them about 10 inches apart , I start them of in pots early spring . Sorry not sure what you mean by tiller !  I tend to leave after care and eating to OH as BB are the one  crop I find difficult to eat 🙁🙁

[saddad]

Tillers are usually extra side shoots... sweetcorn does it a lot, broad beans less so but still quite common.

[markfield rover]

Ah , thank you saddad , I ll keep an eye , is it best to remove them?

[Vetivert]

Thanks for the tip! And no don't remove the tillers, or you'll be removing a lot of your potential crop too!

[pumkinlover]

Tillers is a new phrase for me.

[saddad]

Everyday is a school day!

[JanG]

I'm intrigued by Galina's Greek White squash.

​​​​​​​I sowed three seeds and had 100% germination. 
What intrigues me is that one plant has romped away and become quite large, and the other two remained much smaller. It seems a remarkable amount of variation.

I wondered whether Galina previously or anyone this season has experienced such a degree of variability. I suppose it could just be a cultural accident but as far as I know I've kept them in roughly the same conditions.

[galina]

Let's hope there has not been a hand pollination mistake and one seed is an unintended F1
hybrid, displaying hybrid vigor.  I seriously hope not and have been careful with isolating and hand pollinating and then reclosing the female, but hybrid vigor could be a possible explanation.

The resulting fruit will soon tell you.   

[JanG]

Rather late in the day, I can happily report that the Greek White courgette was indeed true to type. My large vigorous plant continued to prosper and produced perfect white courgettes. Thanks Galina.

[JanG]

I'm interested to know whether anyone else has grown Ruud's Pamplemousse du Grandpère this season. It's a lovely blushing largish, slightly beefsteak kind of tomato. It starts yellow, then develops a red blush when fully ripe.
I have only one plant which has the colouring shown in internet photos but mine have a pointed tip which I like very much, but which doesn't appear in any photos I've seen online. I imagine there's some variability in the tomatoes produced by this variety but I wonder whether anyone else has this pointed tip on their P du G.