2013 seed circles

[marcofez]

Love the name "Dancing with Smurfs".
Just like to know what veg/fruit are they please.

[zazen999]

Tomatoes; the blue ones.

[veggiechicken]

Here are some of Bins in the Vine show http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1166594

[poly]

Thanks both, yes tomatoes, I forgot to add that bit

[marcofez]

That's great! Blue tomatoes, who would have thought!!!
Love to grow some!!!

[SarzWix]

None of our Dancing with Smurfs germinated this year, so I'd love to have another go with them

I've got 3 types of shelling beans to send in, just need to share them out. Two dwarf types and one climbing. All white seeded. May well have some savoy cabbage seeds too, just need to remember where I put the pods to finish drying

[Scarlet]

Thanks both, yes tomatoes, I forgot to add that bit

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I grew both your dancing with smurfs and your black icicle this year. Loved them both

[Scarlet]

I've also got enough cape gooseberry seeds to go around.
So that's White Gem parsnip, habanero and cape gooseberry from me

[Paulieb]

So far, I have saved (all tomatoes):
Amish Mayberry
Amish Paste
Cheethams
Delicious
Goldkrone
Kibits
Nano Cilegia
PW Fr Black
Yellow Pear
Tanaki
Roughwood Yellow Plum (to be saved).

I don't have enough packaging to send all to everyone, so if we go the way of individuals picking their choices I'll happily bag up a different order for everyone, or I could just pick the most interesting and send those in.

[zazen999]

So far, I have saved (all tomatoes):
Amish Mayberry
Amish Paste
Cheethams
Delicious
Goldkrone
Kibits
Nano Cilegia
PW Fr Black
Yellow Pear
Tanaki
Roughwood Yellow Plum (to be saved).

I don't have enough packaging to send all to everyone, so if we go the way of individuals picking their choices I'll happily bag up a different order for everyone, or I could just pick the most interesting and send those in.

Hi. You will only be sending them to me to be sent out in bulk with all the others, so perhaps only post those that you have enough of to contribute and leave the rest for swapping in some other way?

[Martin H]

I don't know if it's of interest, but I've got about 50 seeds to spare of climbing french bean "Matilda" that did really well among my sweetcorn this year. Not unusual or exotic, but vigorous and tender.

Also a couple of dozen seeds each of six sweet pea varieties, "Memories", "Wiltshire Ripple", "Lilac Ripple", "Firecrest", "Wings", "White Supreme".

I'll try harder next year.

[Paulieb]

Hi. You will only be sending them to me to be sent out in bulk with all the others, so perhaps only post those that you have enough of to contribute and leave the rest for swapping in some other way?

I was meaning having enough zip lock bags to bag up 10 types of seeds for 20 different people. But I'm happy to do 2 types for person 1, 2 types for person 2, and so on, and write that person name on each pack.

[veggiechicken]

Could you make up some paper packets Paulieb? You'd be amazed at the variety of packaging that is sent to the VSP

[Two_Sheds]

I have those [crimson flowered broadies]. If I get a good crop this year,

Well, I didn't. I didn't get even one plant to flower, let alone produce seed


I have other beans though: we just haven't podded them yet (Garden Club will do that, the first wet GC we get).

[nellie-m]

Sorry but I still feel a bit confused about how this is going to work. I went back to the first page to be sure but back then Zaz said it was going to work like Paullieb said:

"Once we have the list at the end of the year, you can choose what you want" (Zaz)

Not meaning to offend anyone but honestly, I'll only be able to grow a tiny fraction of all the varieties mentioned so far, and it does seem a pity if, for example, Paullieb might have to pack up 11x20= 220 packets of tomato seeds and people like me want maybe only one of them.

I liked this first idea of letting people choose from a list. What if you, Zaz, updated the first post, saying what varieties are offered by whom, and then we PM the people that we know are in from the list and tell them what we want (so that Zaz doesn't have the trouble of keeping track of everyone's wishes).
Then everyone packs up their seeds, writes the name of the receiving grape on each packet, and then we send them in (with SAE and stamps), Zaz sorts them into our envelopes and nothing is wasted?

Would save some postage, too, I guess, as packets will be smaller.

If updating the list is too time-consuming (as Zaz would have to go through all the old posts which seems a pain to me ) we could always start a separate thread which is exclusively for stating everyone's varieties, keeping all comments or questions here on this one, so the list will stay neat and tidy with only one post per person.