Seed Saving Circle 2026

[galina]

I'm very keen to grow this again. Its keeping qualities are amazing and so good to keep it going. Great that you've managed to hand pollinate it, Galina.

This is how the fruit starts off, a rich forest green on a young fruit.  Its neighbour has almost reached full storage colour.   My two plants have long outgrown their allocated bed and they are scrambling over the adjacent grass area.  This squash is vigorous and needs its space. 

[galina]

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Thanks for the references. I don't get a photo of peppers hanging down; just two picked peppers. Am I missing something? Interestingly the peppers in the two sources look rather different, the first smoother that the second.
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https://www.ukchilliseeds.co.uk/Dong-Xuan-Market-Rare-Chilli-Pepper-Seeds-x-10

Sorry I forgot to answer.  Scroll down a bit and click on the second photo with the yellow fruit.

[Elfeda]

I've now found a photo of yellowish peppers which then apparently eventually ripened to red. Perhaps yours will still change colour?

These are similar to Tabasco-type chillies.

[galina]

Bosnian Yellow.  Another bean received originally from Dutch seed saver Jaap Vlaming, which he spotted in a garden on a journey to Bosnia.  He admired them and ended up asking and receiving seeds.  A slightly later bean, but a beauty worth waiting for, with pale lilac flowers and long and broad delicious pods.  These are for fresh eating, but the seeds are not small and any left over can be used as drying beans too.  The beans inside develop relatively quickly, a bit like the Appalachian beans where we eat both beans and the beanies inside together, but the pods stay good for eating a long time.   

[markfield rover]

I know I added these last year but would anyone like some cinnamon aerial tubers?

[JanG]

I'd like to try again with the Cinnamon vine tubers please. Mine didn't succeed this last year

[JanG]

We're getting into late September and hopefully some serious seed gathering. And then of course our deadline of the end of November will quickly be upon us. I've gone through what participants have mentioned being able to contribute. If all those who have expressed interest do still wish to contribute, we are nine participants, ie. we all make up eight small packets of each variety to be shared out.

So below is the list I've gathered of participants and their hoped-for contributions. Now seems to be a good time to either commit to the varieties you've mentioned or make changes, or indeed to provide a list if you haven't already.

To be certain that we aren't asking participants to make up more packets than is necessary, I'd like to ask all those would-be participants below to get back in touch within the next three weeks, ie. by 15 October, to update us on your lists of donations. Apologies if I've left out any varieties already mentioned.



Galina

Courgette
Striato d'Italia

Pea
Swedish Yellow which was once shared in the very early days of this seed circle from Goodlife
Visionary with its very unusual flower colour, named by Silverleaf from a seedbank
Lliberation -  with dark royal purple flowers.
Purple Podded from Heritage Seed Library,
Kent Blue the mangetout with the intensively blue coloured flowers,
Doug Bray of Grimsby

Squash
Whangaparaoa Crown
New Zealand Blue
Old Timey Cornfield - from George McLaughlin via Vetiver

Climbing French bean
Kentucky Blue
Simmen
Stangenbohne Simmen
Musje Eikes
Neckargold
Bosnian Yellow

Aubergine.
Striped Nigerian

Tomato
Old Wyandotte
Onkel Gustav
Arany Alma
Reisetomate


Juliev

Broad bean
Reina Mora - dark purple

Pea mangetout
Frieda Welten


Ruud

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Elfeda

Tomato
Principe Borghese 

Python and Indian - beans ? What kind? Dwarf or climbing? Dalichos?

Garrett

Sweet pepper
Lipstick

Tomato
De Barao Black
India Stripe
Yellow Clementine
Whippersnapper  - dwarf
Velvet Night - dwarf

Dwarf French bean
Deuil Fin Précoce

Vetivert

Debs
*Pea Blauschokker (purple podded)
*Climbing French bean 'Viola Cornetti'
received from Galina in the seed circle 2016 (grown & seed collected last year)
*Tomato 'Gazzi yellow egg' ( grown and seed collected last year) received from Markfield Rover in the seed circle 2016
*Sharpe's express?

Markfield Rover

Mustard
Mr Hongs Vietnamese
Mints
Huacatay
Superior Licorice Mint

Tomatoes
Father Frost
Honey Bubbles Tomatoes

Dwarf French bean
Hildago

Climbing French bean
Earlipol

Tomato
Orange Hat - micro dwarf
Orange Hat - micro dwarf
Fat Frog - micro dwarf
Vlatava
Anna Russian
Orange Banana


Jang

Chilli
Champion

Sweet pepper
Orange Bell

Tomato
Ince Kabuk
Buratino,
Mushroom Basket
Vintage Wine
Yusupovskiy S. Fergany
Indigo Fireball

Lettuce
Lunix
Flashy Troutback
Tennis Ball
Relic
Spotted Aleppo
Flashy Butter Oak
Brown Dutch

DFB
Roja de Seda
Harvester Mangiatutti
Chevrier Vert
Rosinha
Fasan
Roxhino?

CFB
Borlotto Bonariva
Slavonski Zelena Grah

Semi
Red Ryder

Pea mangetout
Bijou
Golden Sweet

Pea podding
Freer's Mummy

Chard
Peppermint

Flowers
Sweet William

Garlic bulbils - Floha?

[galina]

Courgette

Striato d'Italia

Peas

Swedish Yellow, which was shared in the very early days of this seed circle from Goodlife, a soup pea, the traditional pea soup pea.

Purple Podded, from Heritage Seed Library, very early shelling pea.

Kent Blue, the mangetout with the intensively blue coloured flowers.

Doug Bray of Grimsby, a medium height shelling pea which was the one that lasted the longest into the intense summer heat.


Winter Squash

c maxima New Zealand Blue

c moschata Old Timey Cornfield - from George McLaughlin via Vetiver


Climbing French beans

Kentucky Blue

Stangenbohne Simmen

Musje Eikes

Neckargold

Bosnian Yellow


Aubergine

Striped Nigerian


Tomato

Old Wyandotte

Onkel Gustav

Arany Alma

Reisetomate


Lettuce

Cressonette Maroccaine

which appears to have several videos in French.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIy87pejZwk


This is my list so far JanG.  There may be minor alterations, but I will let you know.