Desert Island Seeds

[ecudc]

As usual I seem to have bought too many seeds this year in an eyes bigger than my allotment situation.

In the grand tradition of Desert Island Discs, if you were stranded on a desert island with only one packet of seeds, what would it be and why?

[SelkirkAlex]

might seem an odd choice but a toss up between beetroot and turnip, nutritious easy to grow

[cariann88]

I'd take with me Rosella Tomato seeds. Just love the taste and juiciness of them.

[rary]

I would go for onion, so versatile

[Jimmy]

Sungold toms for me
But I would be keeping my eyes out for a barrel of ale washing up on the beach !
Jimmy

[Snoop Puss]

Not long ago, there was a thread about which two veg you couldn't do without. I chose two families of veg. To have to cut it down to just one packet of seeds is too cruel. Unless of course, it was a giant packet with something of everything in it... Would that be allowed? If not, I'm not playing!

[Thelma Sanders]

Peas or tomatoes - tomatoes or peas?

Peas wouldn't grow in the desert *sob* so I suppose it's have to be tomatoes - probably Jaune Flamme

[Chestnut]

Am I allowed one of those ‘allotment selction’ multipacks? If not, then an ‘air potato’ - suits a warm climate, good with fish, and doesn’t need a spade!

[Small pumpkin]

Tomato for me as well. Black Russian, because I like them.

( they will go very nicely with all the other seeds I'd smuggle onto the island. There's no point having a desert island if you can't do a bit of smuggling )

[Snadger]

Id have an F1 variety of squash! Because it was a desert island they would flourish, keep me in squash for a long time and the second year I would have a wonderful mixture of different squashes from the self saved seed. I may even get myself some drinking vessels and soup bowls made from them also (Ah-la Robinson Crusoe).

[ecudc]

No definitely no multipacks allowed

I think mine would be sweet dumpling squash. They'd be quite quick to cook. You could hollow them out for cups. You can eat the flowers, seeds and fruit...maybe even the leaves. and you might be able to use the big stems and leaves to funnel water and the smaller ones as twine when dried, the leaf might make a good sun hat/fig leaf alternative..... Plus they're my favourite squash

[ecudc]

Although thinking about it you might be able to make a boat out of one of those really really big pumpkins..........

[mothhawk]

Phyllostachys edulis - with growth rate of eighteen inches a DAY, I'd soon have enough to make a raft and paddle back to civilisation, and as the young shoots are edible, I'd have something to eat while I wait

[hamamelis]

Hmm... I'm assuming it's a tropical desert island, if so I might have to go for some kind of tomato; not sure which, one of the Italian ones that I can't grow here. At least it shouldn't get blight.

If it's not so warm, then a pea; can eat the sprouts, fresh pods, and dry the peas to add to my miserable winter fish stew.

[Baldy]

Depends whether there was any chance of escape or not. If not i assuming there is water its seed spuds - one could possibly subsist on spuds blight / slugs permitting.
Catch some naturally occurring yeast.
Do we have fire?
Wait for a message in a glass bottle.
Use bottle as elementary still.
Hopefully some tubing turns up too... oh, and further receptacles...
Mildly happy daze!