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  • #16
    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?
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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    • #17
      Originally posted by JazzDuke View Post
      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?
      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

      Diversify & prosper


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      • #18
        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

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        • #19
          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
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #20
            Originally posted by seedsforsuccess@fsmail.ne View Post
            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!!!!
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #21
              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.
              Last edited by nick the grief; 30-08-2006, 07:42 PM.
              ntg
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              Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
              A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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              • #22
                Originally posted by nick the grief View Post
                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.
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #23
                  might give them another go with some different seed then.
                  ntg
                  Never be afraid to try something new.
                  Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
                  A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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