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Old 10-12-2007, 12:29 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default Seeds - where to get interesting vegetable seeds?


In article ], Chris ] writes:
| There have recently been press articles saying that the range of
| available seeds is very restricted.
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| I am interested in growing food, not growing for exhibition.
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| Where is the best place to get good vegetable seeds for the garden?

I grew two fancy carrots this year, in addition to a fairly standard
'fly-resistant' Nantes type.

Spanish Black bolted faster than a CD-ROM of personal data from a
government department. We got one meal's worth from three sowings.

Kinbi (supposed to be well flavoured) tasted of almost nothing, and
didn't root up at all well.

Both did seem to be a bit more fly-resistant than the 'fly-resistant'
one, but there wasn't enough of either to be certain.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.