If you could only grow.....

[jackyspratty]

Ok I need to replenish my seed stash as mine was pinched off me step (my own fault!) and am on a strict budget (cheap as possible!) as I tend to be susceptible to seed seduction I thought I would ask.....

"If you could only grow 4 types of seed what would you choose and why?"

I would like a proper name please, not just "tomatoes!"

Please help conquer my seed addiction and replenish a new box with tasty additions! Either old favorites or new sensations

If its a weird variety say where you got it from!

[Bren In Pots]

Mine 4 would be :-

black kale.... it keeps us in greens all through the winter
Scarlet empero ...never seems to fail and freezes well
mixed lettuce leaves... nice tasting
Amish paste toms... a good all-rounder nice on salad and very good for passata

[jackyspratty]

I'm pondering what my 4 would be and what varieties, its quite hard isn't it! I think it would be a tom, a squash, a Kale, and a leaf. But need to think on the type......will get back once pondering has finished!

But then again a bean is always good!

I just need you all to stop me buying things like strawberry spinach!

[veggiechicken]

I'd have a tom, bean, courgette and mixed salad leaves. Not a clue on which variety though

[jackyspratty]

I think a jack be little squash is one for me, a keeper plus good for individual portions, good for stuffing and making decorations from!

Id like to do these at school next year, so each child gets a mini pumpkin to take home!

[Rhona]

Turks Turban pumpkin - excellent keeper, fab flavour/texture.
Tomato (sorry, I tried to narrow it down to one variety, but I have about 20 types in my seed box...I'm the wrong person to ask). Maybe a marmande type?
Merville de Quatre Saison/Red Besson lettuce - one of my favourites
Courgette Tondo di Nizza - round-type, nice flavour, kept going until October here

I probably have spares of some of the above to make up a tiny bit for getting your stash nicked! Feel free to pm me.

[Potstubsdustbins]

If I could only grow 4 of anything it would be.

Tomato Sungold, prolific and very tasty.

Mesclun, a peppery salad leaf, lots of different tastes from one sowing.

Runner bean Red Rum, again prolific, easy to grow and tasty.

Calabrese, Green Magic for the same reasons.

Potty

[Moopmoop]

For me it would be: cucumber - Marketmore as they taste so much better grown at home, tomato - Moneymaker can be used in so many ways, runner bean - Scarlet Emperor because a weeknight dinner isn't the same without them and courgette - Defender are so prolific you'll never go hungry. I like your way of thinking, I think I'll scale down in a few years when I've used the seeds I've got.

[binley100]

Tomato- amish paste , huge and useful ......
Beans - cherokee trail of tears , very prolific , freezes well and is multitasking (fresh and dried)
Cottagers kale - cut and come again , flat leaves easy to scrub the white fly off .......
Courgette-cn't remeber what it is but its yellow and very prolific ......

[Thelma Sanders]

Hispi cabbage because it crops for most of the year from sowings from Feb - September
Rio Grande tomatoes, for a generous yield of plum toms for storing for winter and eating fresh.
Bulgarian Giant leeks, I just wouldn't want to be without leeks through the winter months, and these are strong growers.
Alderman peas - just because

[Andromeda]

I'm with Potty on the Green Magic calabrese.
Also:

Golden Acre cabbage - easy and reliable
Fino Fennel - fantastic flavour
Banana shallots

[VirginVegGrower]

Impossible to tie it to four, so I won't

[julesapple]

Raspberries - Fallgold (yellow fruit)
Alpine strawberries - Mignonette (I still have fruit today)
Mixed salad leaves - any but not peppery
Haricot Vert - Atlantide

Ask me again and I'll have changed my mind.....I think I need a celeriac in there somewhere

[ancee]

What a good question! It'll be Beans for me! Runner and broad - I know broad are boring but you can make them into fallafel and into bean pots and anyway I like em! Courgettes (But don't tell my family, they still harp on about the courgette glut saga of 2009!) and lastly coriander - fab stuff, use it in an omlette with thinly sliced leeks heavenly!

[Scarlet]

I'd go for a french bean - tried cosse violette this year and loved that one. A tomato - if I had to grow just one I think it would be black cherry. Courgette - any as long as it is a green one, I'm not so keen on the yellow varieties. My fourth choice would be a lettuce - freckles or yugoslavian red.

If you send me a PM with your addres I can send you some tomato seeds and a few other spares - my seed cupboard is over flowing!