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Just 8 hours to go,take off at 05.10 friday morning.Two weeks of sun and adventure,quiet beaches,some drinks ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D not to much ;D ;D ;D ;D.Just to do those things you want to do,so till two weeks from now i am off,bye,bye.

Have a fabby time, Ruud. Raise a glass or six to your friends here wont you? ;D

Hi everybody here a quick update from tropical crete.I have some nice seeds,tomato some kind of cucumber beans melons,so i have not come for nothing,bye it is to hot to stay behind the screen it is 38 degrees time for an ouzo yamas everbody till next week.

Ooooo Ruud, a gardener through and through!  Glad you are having a good hols and enjoying that sunshine!

Find a gardencentre overhere i am in heaven

You are as bad as me.  There we are holidaying in France, and we spent a fab afternoon poking around the local garden centre and nursery!  ;D

Know the feeling.  Spend my time on hols looking at other peoples gardens, (hubby getting as bad now, told you I'd make a gardener out of him yet).  G'kids had countdown on calendar for months as we go to Spain in 4 weeks, so will be on the lookout for Med. Veg seeds etc.  Never been to Spain before, I've been told my education is sadly lacking, but cash short this year (due to decorating, and spending all my spare money on the new lotty) and it's a cheapy all-inclusive from local airport.  Anyone got any tips on what seeds to look for that will grow here?

Hope you're having a great time.  Well ready for mine now.

Back home again,brrrr it is freezing outside consider that i was less than 48 hours back in tropical surrounding+38 celsius.Here is a picture of my harvest down there,got a lot of new variaties.

Welcome home Ruud!  A fab haul of goodies there!  So have you got a good tan?? ;)

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Looking good ruud! What are the seeds? I bought some tomato seeds when in France, have discovered now that they are a heritage variety...hurrah!!

Looks an interesting haul!

Yes e.j,i look like an indier.The neighbour asked me how long it was wenn i washed myself ;D ;D ;D ;D.Kathy the haul consists of two new varieties toms,cowpeas,long type of french bean,two varieties cucumber,two varieties luffa,greek broad bean,greek melon and lablab bean.

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Wow! What are cowpeas and luffa please? Should I google them?

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You can do that

That would be something, to grow your own back-scraper!

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I thought that Robert! What would you do with them? Fascinating!

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You boil them down (I think) and get rid of the flesh, leaving a sort of stiff spongy skeleton, which you use to wash yourself in the bath. This one came from the local Tesco's.

I tried to grow luffas this year, but the seed never germinated.  :-[  A lovely selection Ruud - should keep you well entertained!  ;D

That would be something my own back-scraper,cow-peas would be also a big challange to grow them overhere.