February 05, 2011

Other Purchases From Hampshire Potato Day

Visited the seed swap, got some Thomas Etty seeds and some Growing Old (heirloom) seeds. Plus some garlic, onions, beans and peas from the main potato section.

Garlic: 3 bulbs of 'pink' garlic (Nick forgot to note down the name!)
Onions:
* 2 x Snowball onions sets
* 1 x Red Baron onion sets

1/2 pint each of:
* Alderman 'tall' peas
* Oregon sugar pod mangetout (erm .. I think we already have a load of those, Nick!)
* tendergreen dward beans (yum!)
* Imperial white longpod broad beans
* Crimson flowered broad beans (had these last year - very pretty!)

Thomas Etty:
* Teton de Venus Jaune (tits of Venus!) tomato
* White Wonder tomato
* Red Pear tomato
* Mortgage Lifter tomato
* Cosoluto Genovese tomato
* Cream Sausage tomato

Growing Old:
* Yellow Rattle flowers (some kind of semi-parasitic plant!)
* sweet pea - Painted Lady (bi-colour)
* sweet pea - Henry (scarlet orange)
* sweet pea - Just Jenny (dark purple)
* sweet pea - Mumsie (crimson)

Seed swap seeds:
* Pea - heritage 'Jeyes'
* Pea - Magnum Bonum
* Pea - Stenu
* Pepper - corno di toro rosso
* Pepper - jumbo sweet f1 hybrid
* Tomato - pink potato-leafed
* Tomato - striped cherry
* Tomato - mr novak
* Tomato - Czar/Market King
* Tomato - yellow peach
* Aubergine - listada de gandia
* Melon - Jeny Lind
* Watermelon - sugar baby
* Fennel - bronze
* Welsh onion - red
* Pumpkin - patty ('fun to grow' range)
* Pumpkin - narley
* Squash - Red Kuri
* Pak Choi - white petiole
* Bean - climbing Madeira maroon
* Bean - French climbing, blue
* Bean French dwarf bean, Sonesta (yellow wax bean)
* Bean - Jicama Yam Bean
* Bean - runner, 3 varieties
* Cauliflower - all the year round

That should keep us busy! :-)

Posted by Andwynn at February 5, 2011 07:15 PM