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    If you could only grow.....

    Ok I need to replenish my seed stash as mine was pinched off me step (my own fault!) and am on a strict budget (cheap as possible!) as I tend to be susceptible to seed seduction I thought I would ask.....

    "If you could only grow 4 types of seed what would you choose and why?"

    I would like a proper name please, not just "tomatoes!"

    Please help conquer my seed addiction and replenish a new box with tasty additions! Either old favorites or new sensations

    If its a weird variety say where you got it from!
    Last edited by jackyspratty; 12-12-2012, 05:57 PM.
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    Mine 4 would be :-

    black kale.... it keeps us in greens all through the winter
    Scarlet empero ...never seems to fail and freezes well
    mixed lettuce leaves... nice tasting
    Amish paste toms... a good all-rounder nice on salad and very good for passata
    Location....East Midlands.

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    • #3
      I'm pondering what my 4 would be and what varieties, its quite hard isn't it! I think it would be a tom, a squash, a Kale, and a leaf. But need to think on the type......will get back once pondering has finished!

      But then again a bean is always good!

      I just need you all to stop me buying things like strawberry spinach!
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      • #4
        I'd have a tom, bean, courgette and mixed salad leaves. Not a clue on which variety though

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        • #5
          I think a jack be little squash is one for me, a keeper plus good for individual portions, good for stuffing and making decorations from!

          Id like to do these at school next year, so each child gets a mini pumpkin to take home!
          Last edited by jackyspratty; 12-12-2012, 07:56 PM.
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          • #6
            Turks Turban pumpkin - excellent keeper, fab flavour/texture.
            Tomato (sorry, I tried to narrow it down to one variety, but I have about 20 types in my seed box...I'm the wrong person to ask). Maybe a marmande type?
            Merville de Quatre Saison/Red Besson lettuce - one of my favourites
            Courgette Tondo di Nizza - round-type, nice flavour, kept going until October here

            I probably have spares of some of the above to make up a tiny bit for getting your stash nicked! Feel free to pm me.
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            • #7
              If I could only grow 4 of anything it would be.

              Tomato Sungold, prolific and very tasty.

              Mesclun, a peppery salad leaf, lots of different tastes from one sowing.

              Runner bean Red Rum, again prolific, easy to grow and tasty.

              Calabrese, Green Magic for the same reasons.

              Potty
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              • #8
                For me it would be: cucumber - Marketmore as they taste so much better grown at home, tomato - Moneymaker can be used in so many ways, runner bean - Scarlet Emperor because a weeknight dinner isn't the same without them and courgette - Defender are so prolific you'll never go hungry. I like your way of thinking, I think I'll scale down in a few years when I've used the seeds I've got.
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                • #9
                  Tomato- amish paste , huge and useful ......
                  Beans - cherokee trail of tears , very prolific , freezes well and is multitasking (fresh and dried)
                  Cottagers kale - cut and come again , flat leaves easy to scrub the white fly off .......
                  Courgette-cn't remeber what it is but its yellow and very prolific ......
                  S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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                  • #10
                    Hispi cabbage because it crops for most of the year from sowings from Feb - September
                    Rio Grande tomatoes, for a generous yield of plum toms for storing for winter and eating fresh.
                    Bulgarian Giant leeks, I just wouldn't want to be without leeks through the winter months, and these are strong growers.
                    Alderman peas - just because

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                    • #11
                      I'm with Potty on the Green Magic calabrese.
                      Also:

                      Golden Acre cabbage - easy and reliable
                      Fino Fennel - fantastic flavour
                      Banana shallots

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                      • #12
                        Impossible to tie it to four, so I won't
                        Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

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                        • #13
                          Raspberries - Fallgold (yellow fruit)
                          Alpine strawberries - Mignonette (I still have fruit today)
                          Mixed salad leaves - any but not peppery
                          Haricot Vert - Atlantide

                          Ask me again and I'll have changed my mind.....I think I need a celeriac in there somewhere
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                          • #14
                            What a good question! It'll be Beans for me! Runner and broad - I know broad are boring but you can make them into fallafel and into bean pots and anyway I like em! Courgettes (But don't tell my family, they still harp on about the courgette glut saga of 2009!) and lastly coriander - fab stuff, use it in an omlette with thinly sliced leeks heavenly!
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                            • #15
                              I'd go for a french bean - tried cosse violette this year and loved that one. A tomato - if I had to grow just one I think it would be black cherry. Courgette - any as long as it is a green one, I'm not so keen on the yellow varieties. My fourth choice would be a lettuce - freckles or yugoslavian red.

                              If you send me a PM with your addres I can send you some tomato seeds and a few other spares - my seed cupboard is over flowing!
                              Last edited by Scarlet; 13-12-2012, 07:33 PM.

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