Seed Saving Circle 2021

Started by JanG, March 11, 2021, 09:52:04

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markfield rover

ruud , that sounds exciting, thank you.

markfield rover


JanG

This might be the last list, but do feel free to add any last minute finds!

Silverleaf
TOMATO: Saart Roloise, Pink Painted, Coyote, Black Cherry, Hellsing Junction Blues
PEA: Kentish Invicta, Unity, Blauwshokker

Vetivert
BROAD BEAN: El Beano
CFB: Angel/Engelsbohne/Monstrance, Oude Sloveense Boterboon, Grand-mère;
LETTUCE: Bronze Arrowhead, White-seeded Samara;
SENSOPOSAI: (European Cabbage x Komatsuna);
RUNNER BEAN: Boerentenen

Galina
CFB: Hewitt, Phil's, Reading Purple, Mazlenk Visok Dolgi Stroki, Zelma Zesta;
TOMATO: Old Wyandotte
PEPPER: Sipka Belaja
TOMATILLO: Purple
GROUND CHERRY

Ruud
CFB:  strecour del piemonte pole variety of merveille de piemonte, , paarse johan dutch variety,purple pole bean , blue coco purple pole bean from french very old variety dated 18 century.
DFB:noir de belgique, dwarf bean very old Belgian variety of snap bean, picked young.
TOMATOES: ayas turkish red tomato indeterminate seize golf ball,great crop, rosamax big red tomatoes indeterminate, kozula 125 red with green flames indeterminate from poland golf ball seize
PEPPERS:phrik key nuu one of asian famoust peppers great crop, dulce pestisor yellow sweet pepper from romania, sweet pepper shaped sweet pepper, turkish snake hot pepper long red one can be 20 cm long
TOMATILLO: queen of malinalco very big long shaped yellow tomatillo, tastes great fresh.Originally from malinalco mexico
CORN: Black Aztec

JanG
TOMATOES: Azoychka, Sweet Aperitif, Jen's Tangerine, Primabella
PEAS: Rosakrone, Opal Creek, Champion of England;
DFB: Saint Esprit d'Oeil Rouge
LETTUCE: Bijou, Brown Dutch

Markfield Rover
BEETROOT: Long Blood Red:
LETTUCE:Northern Queen
TURNIP: Veitch's Red Globe:
CIME DI RAPE , Quarantina,
RUNNER BEAN: Judion,
ROCKET/Rochelle

galina

Forgot to add Climbing French Bean Mantra.  Very early, wide, long and flat seedless green pods of the Romano type bean.  Original seed received from Jeannine's and Jayb's magical seed parcel. 

JanG

They sound very appealing. I've come to really like Romano type beans lately.
And rather nice to have a variety that originated from that legendary seed parcel.

Vetivert

They look wonderful galina, thank you

ruud

this one is new for me,thanks galina

ruud

It is on his way to the other side,hope it will arrive safe.Everybody stay safe and a great weekend.

JanG

That's wonderful, Ruud. Fingers crossed.

And lovely to have already received two exciting boxes bursting with very interesting seeds - from Galina and from Markfield Rover. Many thanks to both for their care in saving, packaging and posting.

JanG

Having just finished sorting out my bean seeds,  I can add three more varieties which have done very well for me this year.

Squaw - one of my most productive dwarf beans this year with attractively patterned seed. I found it good to eat as a shelly/demi-sec or as a dried bean
Rosso di Lucca - this was amazingly productive for a dwarf bean. It's an Ark of Taste Heirloom from Italy
Gialét- also from Italy and also adopted by the Slow Food Foundation's Ark of Taste. It's known for its delicate taste and is still grown using traditional methods in the Valbelluna district.

JanG

Another photo (Haven't found out how to attach more than one at a time)

Silverleaf

Mine will hopefully be posted tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm afraid I've been delayed by snow and chilblains and a dog show!

JanG

Thanks for updating. Nice to know they're nearly on their way. Hope the dog show went well and good luck with the chilblains!

Vetivert

Don't know what I'm going to do with all of these beans! Thanks for these additions JanG, good to have some productive drying varieties. Gialét is a climber or bush? Looks similar to Zolfino.

Silverleaf

I've added 5 more beans to my contribution so I'm not exactly helping, sorry Vetivert! ;)

JanG

Good to have your extra beans, Silverleaf. I'm sure Vetivert will cope!

Zolfino does seem similar in colouring and tenderness to Gialét, but Gialét is climbing whereas Zolfino is dwarf. Also confusingly an alternative name for Gialét seems to be Solferino. I think all these names relate to the yellowness of all three.

galina

Any not grown in 22 will happily wait a year.  Bean seeds stored dark and dry stay viable for 5 or 6 years or even longer.  But I can't wait to get to know my new beans, thank you all. 

Silverleaf

I'll update with the final list later as I can't remember all the beans without looking them up, but I added one of my seed bank peas. I nicknamed it Beacon and it has gorgeous cerise/apple blossom flowers which  look like someone painted them in with cherry pink watercolour paints. It's another soup type pea like Unity, not quite so productive but the flowers are definitely worth it.

Silverleaf


JanG

That's a lovely addition, Silverleaf. So delicate.

And the good news is that all seeds have now safely arrived. I'm actually away for a short stay but hope to get parcels despatched by the middle of next week - which hopefully will beat the bulk of the Christmas rush.

Thanks again to everyone. It's a pretty impressive selection altogether!

markfield rover

 I was given a Seed Advent calendar this year , I will keep the envelopes and use some of the parcels contents to grow and refill for someone else next year . Utter joy!

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