"Gopher" wrote ...
Tim writes

Does anyone know of any good online resources listing old UK vegetable
varieties?

And tied into that, good seed stockists of old varieties.


By pure coincidence I attended our local garden club meeting in N. Dorset
on Monday. The speaker was Christopher Smith, the co-owner of Pennard
Plants across the border in Somerset. He spoke superbly on Victorian
gardens and gardeners, focussing on "old" varieties of vegetables - and,
of course, had a big selection of packeted seeds on sale at £1.00 per
packet I would say he had c. 50 types of tomato, none of which were known
to me plus loads of other veg seeds. I doubt if there were zillions of
seeds per packet (I haven't yet opened the couple that I bought). He also
had a great range of old sweet peas - including the strongly scented ones.
He also mentioned that they have 200 types of seed potato.

The website is:

http://www.pennardplants.com

They have all sorts of things and also specialise in Agapanthus and other
S. African natives.

It is _so_ spooky that you posted your query. I had been thinking that
many on this ng would be interested in what they offer and was trying to
think of a diplomatic way of mentioning this company without being accused
of being a spammer.

Can't see how you would be considered a spammer mentioning a link to a
useful site/company for gardeners and should you be worried anyway. Often do
it myself in answer to questions, in fact see my answer above.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK