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Saturday 5 January 2013

Seed List 2013


Here's the first post of 2013, so happy New Year to you all. The weather has been so wet of late, most of the plots on our site are currently waterlogged, so it's impossible to get on with much. My seed order has arrived, though, and I've listed below most of what I'll be growing this year.

Most will link to a description of the plants and I'll do a separate post on the potatoes at a later stage, in my quest to find the perfect jacket spud.

I've included a couple of new things for 2013 - a black radish (the blurb said about it being an accompaniment to beer on the continent, so I had to give it a go. Not to mention it's black), Okra (just to see how they do - I'm not expecting much in our climate), and some Kale. Not sure why I bought the kale as the pigeons will probably devour most of it and what's left will probably become home to whitefly, but hey-ho, we'll see what happens.

Seed sowing will start next month, with the chillies first on the list. 


CHILLIES
Loco
Razzamatazz

TOMATO
Tumbling Tiger

SALAD ONIONS
Matrix

PARSNIP
Guernsey Half Long

CARROTS
Danvers Half Long
White Satin
TZ 9304 (Trial seed for D.T.Brown)

RADISH
Kulata Cerna (black roots!)

OKRA
Cajun Delight

POTATOES
Osprey (second early)
Bonnie (second early)
Markies (maincrop)
Red King Edward (maincrop)
Pentland Squire (maincrop)

WINTER SQUASH
Victory (butternut)
Sweetmax (butternut)
Invincible (pumpkin)

SWEETCORN
Ambrosia

BEETROOT
Burpees Golden (yellow)

COURGETTES
Verte Non Coureuse des Maraichers (seed picked up in France)

KALE
Red Russian

CLIMBING BEAN

Coco blanc a rames

FLOWERS

Garden Statement (sunflower)
Pandemonium (sweet pea)
Painted Lady (sweet pea)

2 comments:

  1. Happy New Year!

    I'm hoping this year might involve a little more allotmenting but we'll see.

    I love growing Kale, the cut and come again nature seems to give it time to recover after the whitefly and pigeon attacks. Even without netting I can usually get more than we eat (and we eat a lot of Kale!).

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  2. Thanks Amy, hope you have a good growing year too!

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