Gopher wrote:
In message , Tim
writes
Hi

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

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

TIA for any help

Tim

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.

HTH.

Well, let's hope the EC police don't swoop - a lot of these old
varieties may not now be sold.

One may (possibly...) exchange them, and there's no restriction on
giving them away.

Madness, but unfortunately, the big seed companies have the E in their
pockets.

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Rusty