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  • #1

    Can you identify these?

    Have just been to a Seed Swap and come away with some mystery items. Do you know what they are?
    Transparent tomato (think that refers to the seeds)
    Frost bean (could be a pea bean)
    Buckle's Black runner bean (large glossy black beans)

    I've found info on these but any comments (polite) would be welcome:
    Grandpa's Cress.
    African Horned cucumber,
    Yellow Intermediate Mangel,
    Rainbow radish,
    White Wonder Broad bean,

    Don't you love surprises?
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    African Horned Cucumber - we grew one 2 summers ago in a very hot greenhouse in the Cotswolds - we got one fruit shaped like a rugby ball abd about 5 inches long - with spiky skin. The kids [off their own back] saved the seeds from it and dissected it and took photos. All very exciting!

    Mangel - these are grown for animal feed. But you can grow them huge and hollow them out into Mangel Wurzels.
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    • #3
      Thanks Zaz. Those Mangels are amazing. I hadn't realised they could grow so big. Not sure I have enough soil for those!
      What do the Horny cucumbers taste like? I'v seen it described as jelly fruit.

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      • #4
        Yup, they certainly looked like jelly fruit. I can't say what they tasted like as I wasn't there when the students dissected them.

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        • #5
          Trust VC to come up with seeds with names like that. I am sat here with tears running down my cheeks

          Colin
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          • #6
            Didn't Snadge grow some horned cucumber and mangolds ?
            S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
            a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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            • #7
              Yellow Intermediate Mangel, or sometimes spelt Mangolds make excepsional [sic] wine. Cheers. Tony.
              Semper in Excrementem Altitvdo Solvs Varivs.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Potstubsdustbins View Post
                Trust VC to come up with seeds with names like that. I am sat here with tears running down my cheeks

                Colin
                Here's the horned thingy, otherwise known as Kiwano!
                http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...EkARXfLin22xnQ

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                  Here's the horned thingy, otherwise known as Kiwano!
                  http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...EkARXfLin22xnQ
                  That's the one.

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                  • #10
                    Cute, is it not? Like one of those mines that used to protect our coasts!

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                    • #11
                      Isn't the rainbow radish that winter one with red, green and white to it?
                      Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View Post
                        Isn't the rainbow radish that winter one with red, green and white to it?
                        I'm not sure VVG? The note on these seed pods said - "eat roots and pods". I don't know whether to sow them as summer or winter radish. Start soon and see what happens I guess!

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                        • #13
                          Just found that Tomato "Transparent is an Adoptaveg seed!
                          Transparent
                          This Tomato variety produces leafy plants followed by an abundance of small, pale yellow tomatoes that border on the translucent. A really interesting version of a national favourite.
                          Seed Guardian, and former Head of HSL, Katie Butler describes them as "the most vigorous and leafy tomato I have ever grown".
                          I'm a foster mother - Help!!!

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                          • #14
                            Oh no! That means you have to learn how to save the seed.

                            I've just listed some of the African Horned Melon for sale...so someone else might be on here in a week or two asking what they are...

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                              Oh no! That means you have to learn how to save the seed.

                              I've just listed some of the African Horned Melon for sale...so someone else might be on here in a week or two asking what they are...
                              I know you know how! I'm going to learn too and next year there will be transparent tomatoes on the VSP. Should I sow them first?

                              Roll up everyone, get your African horned thingys now to avoid disappointment..

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