Seed Saving Circle 2016?

[Jayb]

Do we want a before or after Christmas parcel?

[Jayb]

[sparrow]

After would be better for me - less kerfuffle!

[clumsy]

I agree with sparrow after would be better.

[pumkinlover]

I have bagged up Black Prince tomatoes seed, and also have some excellent autumn planting garlic from Goodlife which I have been replanting for about 4 years now. Will they be ok if we go for after Christmas?

[ruud]

I will say after christmas.We have time enough and i have than more to distribute for the seedcircle.By than some other seedswap i am involved in are than finished.

[galina]

Elfeda, thank you so much for your kind offer. Would love some amaranth and malabar spinach. 

[Elfeda]

Sure Galina, will add them for you.

[galina]

I have bagged up Black Prince tomatoes seed, and also have some excellent autumn planting garlic from Goodlife which I have been replanting for about 4 years now. Will they be ok if we go for after Christmas?

Pumpkinlover,  we can temporarily plant garlic cloves into pots if the weather is too bad for planting on the plot when the seed envelope arrives after Christmas.   

If it is a hardneck (flowering) garlic it does need a good bit of winter chill.  If it gets planted soon after Christmas or even up to the beginning of February, we should still be fine for enough cold weather.  If kept in pots until spring, the worst that will happen, is that it will not be brilliant in 2017.  But when replanted in autumn next year, it will thrive just fine in 2018.  Most garlic needs a year to adjust to new surroundings anyway. 

If it is a softneck (non flowering) garlic, later planting is less of an issue, because softnecks don't need the same amount of winter chill to do well.  Please remind people in the circle that you have added garlic and that it needs dealing with quickly because it is live plant material.   If kept in a warm room until seed sowing time, it might no longer be viable.   

Looking forward to your goodies

[galina]

Sure Galina, will add them for you.

~Thank you Elfeda

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'll try to find something, but I may have to drop out this year. Between illness and a major eye problem, which I'm still having treatment for, I've been able to do nothing at all.

[clumsy]

Hi Robert_Brenchley don't drop out because you can't find anything. Things happen in life we can't control everything, I'm still going to add extra seeds just for if you even if you drop out. I'm sure you have contributed a lot over the years. So you can have a mishap one year. 

[sparrow]

Hi Robert_Brenchley don't drop out because you can't find anything. Things happen in life we can't control everything, I'm still going to add extra seeds just for if you even if you drop out. I'm sure you have contributed a lot over the years. So you can have a mishap one year. 

Very well said! Goes for me too :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

Thanks. I'd hate to miss out, but I didn't want to be unfair on anyone.

[markfield rover]

After Chrismas is good ... Just as we think the fun is all over .......  Robert,  a few circles ago  I did not have much to add and thought to pull out  but this circle is greater than the sum total of its parts .

[ruud]

I also have enough,so robert dont drop out.You are one of the first who joined this bunch of gardenlunitics

[Bluejay]

Hi Everyone,

I have a friend in Canada looking for two bean varieties, and she wanted me to put out a query here hoping that by chance someone could have gotten a hold of them in the UK and kept growing them. I will paste in her descriptions as she has typed them.

'SARAH'S OLD FASHIONED BLACK'

Originating on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, these beans were passed to their donor, Connie Howard, when she visited Hidden Cone Lodge. They seem to thrive in the British Climate, producing purple stemmed plants and green pods with a mauve tinge.

Climbing French Bean 'BOB AND MARY'

This tasty and prolific bean was donated to HSL by Elizabeth Ramsay, who had been given them by her sister's partner, a native of British Columbia, Canada. His family have grown this variety since the beginningo of the 20th century. It is thought that the family received the beans as payment for help repairing farm equipment for a Ukranian neighbor. Mrs. Ramsey says, "The pods can be eaten juicy and young or tender and mature. 

[sparrow]

Hi Bluejay,

I don't have either, but if no one else here has I can ask Heritage Seed Library if they have any in the older stock they might consider sending out? I'm about due to send in my seeds for the guardian scheme anyway.

Sarah's old fashioned black is listed here: http://www.adoptaveg.org.uk/product_range.php?action=search_range&range_id=21 and were listed in the 2013 HSL catalogue.

Apologies if this is too much of a tangent, but you're not linked to the man who bred Bluejay beans by any chance? I look at his website a lot. And quite frankly drool at all the beans shown.

[galina]

Bluejay, I have Bob and Mary

PS: you've guessed right, Sparrow 

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'll stay in, don't worry. I just feel a bit guilty, but this year's been a complete disaster all round. the one good thing is that my doctor finally worked out that I had an obscure side effect and much of it was down to my meds poisoning me.

[sparrow]

I'll stay in, don't worry. I just feel a bit guilty, but this year's been a complete disaster all round. the one good thing is that my doctor finally worked out that I had an obscure side effect and much of it was down to my meds poisoning me.

Glad it's at least identified, and I hope you're recovering from the unforeseen poisoning.