"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
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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.

--
Rusty


Google on 'Heritage Seeds' and you'll get so many links you won't know what
to do with them all.

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