Recent content by Decoy1

I can echo almost all you say here. I perhaps have a little more space under lights having expanded this season but there’s never enough. At the moment I’m starting zucchini and squash too, which take up more space, not to mention flower seedlings, brassicas, more cucurbits, peppers, aubergines...

Yes, a lovely time, even though verging on overwhelming! I’m interested in your tomato progression. It looks like you start with several seeds in quite small modules. What do you then pot on to and how many for each variety? Do you pot on quite quickly after germination or thin out first...

I hope that really works for you as a long term solution. 🤞

It’s a tricky one! I’ve had some marker pen fade away in sunlight too, so it’s easy to get caught between one that’s too indelible and one that’s not indelible enough. Have you considered a labeller, the kind made by Brother? I’ve had one for donkeys years and it soldiers on. The label strips...

This is my Hewitt shortly after harvesting in 2022 so I can confirm the darker colouring.

Very exciting! These are varieties I’ve not come across in England except perhaps Verdone. What does Markerbse indicate, I wonder? Google translates it unhelpfully as ‘marker pea’

What an attractive and highly user-friendly set-up. Your DH is amazing. I hope you have a great Seedy Saturday. I bet you will.

I'm only just now thinking about the points you raised here back in November @heirloomgal. It occurred to me though that there is another bean called Monachelle di Trevio, which used to be offered by Baker Creek and which Russ has in his collection. There is a history of Monachelle Di Trevio...

I’m not sure whether I’m mentioning things you know already but Veitch is a name which occurs in an English variety of pea as well as bean They were a large significant seed house in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries in England. They were known for plant-hunting as well as...

That sounds like an appealing development - a more productive, resilient Rio Zape. It would be even better if they could shorten the season - but perhaps I was unlucky.

Good to see you’re quick off the blocks for the new year’s bean growing! Happy New 2025. I have grown Bobis d’Albenga this season and have seeds, so I can grow it again next season and send to you if I get a good crop. It is definitely bush. I also have Grand-mère, as does Triffid who I...

200 varieties doesn't sound 'fairly new' to me! @heirloomgal's growing is prodigious 🤪.

No seed business, I'm afraid, but always happy to do a trade.

I wrote you a pm before looking on this main thread to say mine arrived this morning! Great excitement. Also beautifully packaged and in perfect condition. Thank you so much too. A wonderful Christmas present.

Great news. Every finger crossed. And I hope mine to you is able to crawl forward amongst the millions which must be held somewhere. Not to mention all the rest of the mail in this pre-Christmas period, which must be on its way to you. 🤞🤞🤞