f1 seeds??

[Snadger]

Thanks Nick...Been doing a bit of reading for myself..aparrently the so-called F1 clubroot resistant cabbage is a cabbage / Kale cross! I have four species of Kale growing on my allotment and they all appear to be free of clubroot. a All i've got to do now is get my rabbits taill out and cross polinate with a semi-resistant cabbage This is all said tounge in cheek (take note sfs) but if it worked for Cox's Orange Pippin ( a chance seedling) why not for me?

[Snadger]

F1 is partly a question of your ideology. Do you want a specially created cross or do you want an heirloom variety that can't be bought in the shops?

I thought the whole idea of an heirloom variety was that it was tried and tested (normally bread from 1700's to 1800's) and VERY available in shops?

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Snadger, We have trialed these seeds at our test grounds. We have grown these in both clubroot infested land and non infested land.
There isn't any other clubroot ressistant brassicas avalible yet, but you will have to wait and see if there are any clubroot rissitant brassicas coming out in the seed catalogues like everyone else

[Snadger]

Personally I never grow F1's if i can help it as they all crop at the same time and are uniform in size, taste is not usually an F1 requisite either.

This year I have grown Heirloom purple podded peas, golden podded peas, butter beans, borlotti beans, pink fir apple potatoes plus others i imagine.

None of the other 15 to 20 kinds of veg that i grow on my allotment are F1's

[Snadger]

Snadger, We have trialed these seeds at our test grounds. We have grown these in both clubroot infested land and non infested land.
There isn't any other clubroot ressistant brassicas avalible yet, but you will have to wait and see if there are any clubroot rissitant brassicas coming out in the seed catalogues like everyone else

Nuff said...say no more ...nods as good as a wink!!!!

[nick the grief]

Ye Olde feeds

Well s's were written as f's weren't they

Does anyone have seeds of a Yellow Podded Broad Bean? I've got the Crimson flowered one but Apparently there used to be a yellow podded one that sounds interesting.

What do you think of the purple podded peas Snadger, I was given some the other year & they tased awful. Not at all sweet so I didn't bother with them.

[Snadger]

Well s's were written as f's weren't they

Does anyone have seeds of a Yellow Podded Broad Bean? I've got the Crimson flowered one but Apparently there used to be a yellow podded one that sounds interesting.

What do you think of the purple podded peas Snadger, I was given some the other year & they tased awful. Not at all sweet so I didn't bother with them.

To be honest Nic I quite like them! I think they are quite sweet, and I intend trying a few like mange tout by cooking the whole pods as they seem to stay 'flat' for quite some time before they fill out with peas.

[nick the grief]

might give them another go with some different seed then.