Can you identify these?

[veggiechicken]

Have just been to a Seed Swap and come away with some mystery items. Do you know what they are?
Transparent tomato (think that refers to the seeds)
Frost bean (could be a pea bean)
Buckle's Black runner bean (large glossy black beans)

I've found info on these but any comments (polite) would be welcome:
Grandpa's Cress.
African Horned cucumber,
Yellow Intermediate Mangel,
Rainbow radish,
White Wonder Broad bean,

Don't you love surprises?

[zazen999]

African Horned Cucumber - we grew one 2 summers ago in a very hot greenhouse in the Cotswolds - we got one fruit shaped like a rugby ball abd about 5 inches long - with spiky skin. The kids [off their own back] saved the seeds from it and dissected it and took photos. All very exciting!

Mangel - these are grown for animal feed. But you can grow them huge and hollow them out into Mangel Wurzels.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Zaz. Those Mangels are amazing. I hadn't realised they could grow so big. Not sure I have enough soil for those!
What do the Horny cucumbers taste like? I'v seen it described as jelly fruit.

[zazen999]

Yup, they certainly looked like jelly fruit. I can't say what they tasted like as I wasn't there when the students dissected them.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Trust VC to come up with seeds with names like that. I am sat here with tears running down my cheeks

Colin

[binley100]

Didn't Snadge grow some horned cucumber and mangolds ?

[Kleftiwallah]

Yellow Intermediate Mangel, or sometimes spelt Mangolds make excepsional [sic] wine. Cheers. Tony.

[veggiechicken]

Trust VC to come up with seeds with names like that. I am sat here with tears running down my cheeks

Colin

Here's the horned thingy, otherwise known as Kiwano!
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...EkARXfLin22xnQ

[zazen999]

Here's the horned thingy, otherwise known as Kiwano!
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...EkARXfLin22xnQ

That's the one.

[veggiechicken]

Cute, is it not? Like one of those mines that used to protect our coasts!

[VirginVegGrower]

Isn't the rainbow radish that winter one with red, green and white to it?

[veggiechicken]

Isn't the rainbow radish that winter one with red, green and white to it?

I'm not sure VVG? The note on these seed pods said - "eat roots and pods". I don't know whether to sow them as summer or winter radish. Start soon and see what happens I guess!

[veggiechicken]

Just found that Tomato "Transparent is an Adoptaveg seed!
Transparent
This Tomato variety produces leafy plants followed by an abundance of small, pale yellow tomatoes that border on the translucent. A really interesting version of a national favourite.
Seed Guardian, and former Head of HSL, Katie Butler describes them as "the most vigorous and leafy tomato I have ever grown".
I'm a foster mother - Help!!!

[zazen999]

Oh no! That means you have to learn how to save the seed.

I've just listed some of the African Horned Melon for sale...so someone else might be on here in a week or two asking what they are...

[veggiechicken]

Oh no! That means you have to learn how to save the seed.

I've just listed some of the African Horned Melon for sale...so someone else might be on here in a week or two asking what they are...

I know you know how! I'm going to learn too and next year there will be transparent tomatoes on the VSP. Should I sow them first?

Roll up everyone, get your African horned thingys now to avoid disappointment..