Have you grown these?

[veggiechicken]

Acquisitions from today's local Seed swap..............

Hutterite Soup beans

Bush Blue Lake DFB

Bishop's Grey pea

Opal Creek Golden Snap Vine pea (Peace Seeds)

Spring Blush Snap pea (Peace Seeds)

Kartika bean (from Bangladesh)

? Calabash or Dudhi (can't translate packet - from Bangladesh)

Portuguese cabbage (HSL)

Cabbage - Savoy Estoril F1 (T&M)

Perennial Kale

Atika Root Parsley (Real seeds)

Aubergine Rotada Bianca Sfumata di Rosa

Purple Perilla

Gherkin Partner

and a few other odds and ends.

If you've grown any of these, what are they like - especially the beans & peas.

[Neilbaldwyn]

I've grown dudhi and perennial kale before. The dudhi was like an overactive cucumber and filled the polytunnel, and the kale was the tastiest thing the wood pidgeons had ever got their beaks on, 'twas gone in a day!

[Small pumpkin]

I've witnessed the growing of Atika Root Parsley ( nothing to do with me unfortunately). I did try the top and it was parsley. The bottom looked like a parsnip.
The rest of your list I will be even less helpful with. I haven't heard of most of them.

[sparrow100]

Have grown Atika root parsley and the aubergine, which I think is the same as plain Rosa Bianca. Root parsley is delicious - the roots are sweet and a combination in flavour of parsley and parsnip. They are small though - think small/baby carrot. The tops are v handy. The aubergines are lovely - beautiful to look at and v tasty. They grow to about tennis ball size. I start mine at home now and stick in the greenhouse for a while till it's warm enough to put outside in flower buckets. I usually get 4-5 fruits per plant.

Not tried any of the others, but looking firwar to learning more about them!

[Scarlet]

I've grown blue lake climbing beans but not the dwarf variety. Heavy cropper, the climbing variety was given as freebies when they did. The bbc "dig in" several years go.
I grew purple perilla several years ago, it's not that memorable to eat - I used it raw as a salad leaf -though I liked the colour. It's low growing, so for the same space I can grow Mexican tree spinach which I love

[PyreneesPlot]

If Portugese cabbage is tronchuda, then yes, growing at the moment.
Big light green leaves, white ribs, very productive and the leaves are not too bitter. The cwb and white fly have both ignored it too.

[Lisasbolt]

Wow, not one of those i have tried, and i thought i had tried quite a lot.
Good luck VC, piccies please

[Vickilou]

I've grown the blue lake, or should I say tried to they didn't work for me, ie didn't grow much when planted out and very few beans having said that I'm rubbish at growing beans
Good luck with them all, I'll be interested to know how they do