What varieties for this year?

[Socks]

ok, so im fresh from ordering my seasons veg, and felt an thread on the different varieties would give air to some conversation.

so here goes!

Mixed Lettuce Leaves
Lambs Lettuce 'Jade'
Radish 'French Breakfast 3'
Lettuce 'Balmoral'

Spring Onion 'Rossa Lunga di Firenze'
Spring Onion 'White Lisbon'

Parsnip 'Patriot'
Carrot 'Rainbow'

Tomato 'Cream Sausage'
Tomato 'Costoluto Fiorentino'
Tomato 'Black Russian'

Chilli 'Pepper 'Cayenne'

no fruit yet decided on, but this is for starters.


is everyone else full of kinetic gardening energy?

[sewer rat]

Veggie order

Hi Socks
Have submitted my veggie seeds orders and received from one supplier, still waiting on other to deliver. Fairly basic and traditional varities but here goes (tomatoes omitted as not yet decided on varieties)
French Bean - Blue Lake
Runner Bean - Polestar
Peas - Alderman
Parsnips - Tender & True, Gladiator
Carrots - Early Nantes 5, Maestro
Cabbage - Traviata,Minicole,Tundra
Leek - Musselburgh
Beetroot - Boltardy
Cauliflower - Idol (miniature)
Calabrese - Hydra
Shallot - Golden Gourmet
Spring Onion - White Lisbon
Onion - Setton
Lettuce - Little Gem, Lollo Rossa, All The Year Round

Also Cucumber - Topsy

My beds will runneth over (I hope) as will my greenhouse, my coldframe and any space that I can find in my flower beds !! All we need now is March to happen!
Cheers
Rat

[Socks]

the cabagae variety Traviata is an interesting one, i have some on the kitchen windowsill under a 'trial', using different types of seed compost and trying to steal a march on, well, march!

i attempted to grow some over xmas but i think it was asking a bit much from them.

[nick the grief]

The grief's list

This year as far as I can remember the list is as follows:-

Radar & Electric winter onions (growing nicely)
Hative shallots
The prince dwarf french beans
Butler Runners
Sungold runners (nice golden leaves for decoration & beans)
Bridgette sprouts
Wellington sprouts
those red jobs free with GYO
Pixie
Minicole
Robin
All year round lettuce
Webbs (as a cyber geek gardner I had to have these)
Kelsae - onions
Mammoth red
Canto
Peas - Greenshaft (most of these never make it home !)
Winston - Spuds
Charlotte
Rocket
Kestrel (maybe)
Maxine
Picasso
Aquadulce broad beans
Tomatoes (see other posting)
Dok eglon - Cauli
All year round - cauli

100 dahlias & spray chrysanths

plus a few flowers to brighten the place up.

Phew, when am I going to get time to go home