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Great. I'll email you the list of those.

Got to love a challenge! Tomatoes and cues please !

You might remember that Ruud mentioned a few weeks ago that he has come by a lot of seed which is rather old. He is sending me a lot of this seed, in particular a very large number of squash varieties and quite a few tomatoes, chilli and sweet peppers, and a few cucumbers and melons. Some of these seeds will germinate and some won't. I would love to pass on as many of these seeds as anyone would like to experiment with. Ruud is keen that they shouldn't go to waste and is hoping that it will be possible to keep many of these varieties going.
As this is not really the realm of the seed circle, if you'd like any of these seeds, please do message me or indicate here and I will send you a list of varieties or simply choose for you at random if you prefer.

A late addition to the seed circle. I've saved seeds of Red Carpet' mustard. It's a variety I like, a deep red, less frondy than some but quite a pretty leaf. I did a germination test to check that they came true to type. They did but I fancied the germination rate wasn't as good as it might be. So you might want to sow a few more than usual. Original source was Nicky's Seeds.

Two more parcels have arrived today including Ruud's, so great that international post has done so well.

I have some spare seeds of Green Apple aubergine. It might well be that not everyone grows aubergines or if they do would want to grow a green one. It has dome well for me over a number of years and I managed to isolate a flower to get true seed.

I'd love to pass on a few seeds to anyone who would like some so please do say and I'll include some in your parcel.

Fantastic!

Will be in the post by Monday!

I hope everyone's packeting etc is going well. Two members' contributions are with me and Ruud has despatched his, which I'm very grateful for as with luck it should arrive in good time.

There's another climbing French bean which I'd like to contribute to the seed circle. It's called Panzaredda and was amongst the varieties which were in very short supply in the Bohnen atlas collection. I was trusted with some 2018 seed and very pleased to have reasonable germination. The four plants I was able to grow were vigorous and very productive of quite large flattish pods. Although I mostly wanted to keep them for seed, one I tried raw seemed very promising as a good green snap bean.

It feels important to encourage this variety to be grown more widely so that there's less danger in future of it dying out. It is quite a late variety but actually did very well towards the end of the season and produced good quality seed, which is not always the case with late varieties

Why can't I post pictures? 🤯
I've done it once but now message says
sorry you're out of attachment space??

Can anyone help?

Deb 🙈

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