James Wong - seeds

[Bane]

I bought some seeds of Melothria Scabra (known as Cucamelon by James Wong) from Real Seeds - 12 seeds for £1.94. I'll start some and see how long they take to germinate.

Great tip VC. Good old Real Seeds.

[veggiechicken]

Pennard also sell many of the "Wong" seeds. I bought dahlias, canna and eucalyptus from them. They sell Melothria too = 35 seeds for £1.50 Seeds, Eclectic Victorian Vegetable Seed from Pennard Plants
Its worth shopping around!!

[marchogaeth]

I bought some seeds of Melothria Scabra (known as Cucamelon by James Wong) from Real Seeds - 12 seeds for £1.94. I'll start some and see how long they take to germinate.

Good tip VC and the great thing is that you know RS or their supplier will have been growing them in normal gardening conditions and they will come with a label that gives advice on how to get the best from them as well as seed saving instructions.

[ancee]

Hmmm I bought (in my many packets of failing James Wong seeds) 2 packets of inca berries (Pysalis) - probably spelled wrong! But out of the 2 packets sown I have 3, that's 3 sprouts! That's in 6 weeks So I am really not impressed at all. I sowed all of them as we love them and I wanted to be inundated with the lovely little things, but alas, no

[marchogaeth]

Is it these?, Ancee?

If so, you can have lots more goes @ 89p/packet. You probably won't get fruit this year but you can over winter the plants in the tunnel or similar as they die right down and then come up again in Spring.

[zazen999]

I had another experienced gardening chum talking about the lack of germination of James Wong seeds yesterday...Doesn't look good for them does it?

[VirginVegGrower]

I got two of these beauties yesterday from a fellow grape - maybe she should start a nursery

[sammy_roser]

A couple of my asparagus peas have finally germinated! So all my seeds have in fact germinated but half the speed as similar plants from other brands.

[stella]

Has anyone grown the Stevia seeds, can they be used as sweetener? Are they easy to grow?

[ancee]

Yes marchgoeth. I'll have to purchase some more

[veggiechicken]

Ancee, there are some in the VSP if you want to swap

[ancee]

OOh! Yay! How do I swap vc?

[veggiechicken]

All the instructions are at http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...nce_68032.html When you're ready, PM me and I'll give you my address. Have a good look through the list of seeds as there are lots of things you may like
The "Inca berries" are in the Fruit section under Cape Gooseberry!!

[Dotty Sarah]

Finally found some room to sow the James Wong Quinoa seeds yesterday, chucked quite a few in as insurance so now it's fingers and toes crossed...

[stelladays]

Took the plunge and bought the book, got my free packets of seed with the book, planted the radish rat tails on Sunday morning, they are up tonight when i looked, so far so good

cheers