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Quote from: Dandytown on September 29, 2011, 15:48:40
Great and thank-you as I have just finished number 20 and am going to pull my hair out.  Not sure I have the attention span for small arts and craft stuff.  More a hammer and nail kind of person  :)

By the way, here is a neat little site for templatesa  http://tipnut.com/seed-packets/

I am using the childrens set for my peas

Don't forget to keep some for yourself, Dandytown!  :)  Those templates look great!

ooo those look smart!

I got a job lot of clear plastic bags, and cut some sticky labels in half  :-X  :-[  ;)


anyway here's a sneak preview  :D

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Sorry nothing fancy here. I will be using dinner money envelopes and a bic biro. ;D

My pea crop has been crap this year, but I'll have something. Some of the beans have plenty of pods ripening, though again the crop hasn't been good. I should have Black Magic and Cosse Violette, and hopefully Major Cooke.

Black Magic would certainly help  8)

Quote from: Dandytown on September 30, 2011, 15:33:42
Black Magic would certainly help  8)

LOL  ;D

Currently drying out tomato seeds - all the Prairie Fire and the first batch of Vova Yellow.  Very grateful for the mini heatwave to help finish off the tomatoes! 

Quote from: Dandytown on September 30, 2011, 15:33:42
Black Magic would certainly help  8)

Just don't ask me to turn out at midnight to pick the bloody things with vast ceremony. You can have your black beans, but no haggling!

Apologies for my lack of updates.A tale of two crops.
The Koralik have been fine and I am soaking and drying batches of seed on a weekly basis.
The Moonlight on the other hand have been a disaster.I think I might have had a duff packet.
I started a batch off in pots and a month later nothing had happened.
I did a second batch and got a couple of plants.
I sowed direct and nothing came up.
I have a couple of plants and am leaving them to see if I have any viable seeds.
So if it is alright with people I have a decent Anaheim chilli crop and would like to offer those instead.

Koralik and Anaheim chillis sound good to me  :)

I have spring cabbage (Durham Early) and sorrel (Belleville) and I'll also add lovage seeds, all packed and ready to be sent. No pictures, sorry, my laptop broke.

Before I get drummed out of the Brownies! My progress to date is-the King Tut pea is in- sadly not a huge crop but hopefully enough to go around.
Bonne bouche cfb ( great taste) -thinks it is still June  but looking good and as for Birds Egg cfb the crop is small but again I hope that a few seeds are better than none.
Cheers.

Looking good everybody!  :)

Forgot to mention if it is okay I will add sweet peas ! Just as a bit of pretty, give our circle a lovely scent.

Looking at what's drying I should have Madeira Maroon and Red and White (from HSL) to add. Phew!

Rightyo, I have 180 King Tut peas do you think this will do ? I have had bigger crops with others  maybe I expect too much from
'heritage' sorts  -perhaps heritage for a reason!
Cheers

Markfield - 180 sounds plenty.  For some seed swaps of heritage varieties I've only had 6 or 8 peas or beans, and that is usually good enough to start off with :)
Oh,, and I love the name King Tut!

Thanks 1066 - The King Tut pea is also known as Prews pea- there seems to be a bit of 'Mummy' history  to this one including
archaeology-tourists and locals who knew they were on to a good thing, nothing concrete but a  ' romantic 'tale.

MR,
Last year we had 5 seeds of Black Turtle bean.  Here 4 of them grew into strong healthy plants and produced seeds plenty enough for a proper 'grow, save and eat' in future years.  With beans, tomatoes, peas and squashes it is fine not to have a lot of seeds from many different plants, because we can save from just a few plants without creating a problematic genetic 'bottleneck'.  More is better obviously, but unlike sweetcorn, brassica, root crops and alliums, there is no big genetic deterioration, provided all plants are healthy and true to type.  If there is a chance to get more Black Turtles or 'Tuts' in years to come from another source, I shall grow those separately and compare to make sure they are the same, and then combine the batches.

In the meantime I cherish and save seeds from my Black Turtle beans, as I will cherish your King Tut peas, whatever the quantity.  We are all seedsavers here and can make more ;D

Thanks galina I guess every little does help. I also think every seed is a minor miracle!