Pigletwillies Banana Shallot Seed update

[pigletwillie]

24 packets of seed have gone out now with 6 more posted today.

[kittykat8]

thank you very much for the seeds arrived today

thank you

marion

[smallblueplanet]

Shallot seeds safetly arrived this morning, thanks very much PW!

We're going to plant half this year, save 6 of the resulting shallots to plant for seed next year and grow the rest of the seeds for crops next year too, that way we should have crops to last us until we've got our own seeds! Once we reach that point we'll start to pass seeds onto others too, as that willboth return PW's favour and ensure that they spread far and wide!

Me too!

Also gave some to the old chap (late-80s) next door cos he grew some shallots from seed from supermarket shallots last year.

[Alice]

I can see these seeds all round the world ! wouldn't it be fascinating to have a map to see where they all got to.

[pigletwillie]

Seeds have gone to the following areas Alice

Scotland (all over)
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Somerset
Dorset
Devon
Cambridgeshire
Sufflok
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Lancashire
Oxfordshire
Yorkshire
London
Kent
Sussex
Surrey
Wiltshire (wierd)
Wales
Tyneside
Gloucestershire (Royal Forest of Dean) 12 toe country
Hereford

[smallblueplanet]

Wiltshire too!

[pigletwillie]

At the bottom SBP, did you miss it?

[shirlthegirl43]

Seeds have gone to the following areas Alice

Scotland (all over)
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Somerset
Dorset
Devon
Cambridgeshire
Sufflok
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Lancashire
Yorkshire
London
Kent
Sussex
Surrey
Wiltshire (wierd)

LOL - fancy sending a couple to Wales? never grown a shallot and never grown an onion from seed but it would be fun to give it a try!

[smallblueplanet]

At the bottom SBP, did you miss it?

Thats weird, I must have done.

[Bex]

Got mine too today Pigletwillie. Thanks everso. Will let you know how I get on.

[pigletwillie]

Just to let you know that the banana shallot seed that was sown on the
30th December is up and showing well. They are just in an unheated greenhouse.

At least we know that the seed is viable now.

[Alice]

Thanks Piglet, I'm planning to plant some tomorrow.

[wellie]

Who's Queen?!

Piglet.... don't tell me The Royal Forest of Dean has fallen off your map? How on earth will you find us again for Trousers' Birthday Dinner in February?!
Just to remind you that you sent some Banana Shallot Seeds to Gloucestershire as well. DOH !

And guess what? I sowed mine on New Year's Day, after you left, and they 'popped up to say hello' just today.
I sowed them 5 to a module, in a 40-module tray (half yours, half expensive Barringtons as a comparison experiment!!) and they have been living on my dining table in the conservatory.
I used Levingtons multi-purpose compost, and have kept that moist.
Nothing else to report, so 'pip pip' for now !

[pigletwillie]

Edmund

Its because I didnt post them out to you Wellie, however the list has been amended to compensate for your being left out.

[wellie]

Bang on Edmund, or I'd have to get Melky or Nursey to chop your head off...!