In article , Des Higgins
writes

It never occurred to me to buy seeds on e-bay.


Well it seems a good idea as it means I pay less for a smaller number of
seeds, but then who wants thousands in one packet?
Other seed packets seem to be end of line stuff from wholesalers but
still good value until they either get bidded up or the seller insists
on choosing his own choice of of "a big box of assorted"
--
Janet Tweedy
Amersham Gardening Association
http://www.amersham-gardening.net

Des Higgins wrote:

The Irish Seed Savers are he
http://www.irishseedsavers.ie/about%20issa.html

Just a thought, is anyone still in touch with Ute (anyone who is/was
will know who I mean!) She was into seed saving and swapping I think,
she might be able to help Cath too.
--
Holly, in France
Gite to let in Dordogne, now with pool.
http://la-plaine.chez-alice.fr

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Cat(h) wrote:
Fantastic variety of veg there. Many thanks. I have no reason to
whinge any more :-)
In fact, I feel peckish for some garden fresh greens...

Just got a phone call from Seeds of Italy
(http://www.seedsofitaly.sagenet.co.uk/) saying that they didn't have
one item from my order, which was the French carrots Jouvres. However
they've offered me another type of carrots seeds, unusual ones indeed.
They're round and I thought you'd like the idea. They are Carrot
Parisier, according to the story when ordinary carrots where sowed in a
very heavy clay around Paris the carrots got round and since a new
variety developed.

Another kind of interesting veg is the L'Agretto, which a friend swap
for some of my coloured chards. Agretti is unusual, known here as
glasswort, does anyone knows this? It's close looking to chives and is
native to Britain though we've lost it along the decades ... taste like
between capers and asparagus apparently. You can find these at seeds of
italy too )


It is Salicornia (various species; not sure which ones you can eat). It is
a common wild plant on salt marshes all round the coasts.
Ricky Stein eat some on one of his fish cookery programmes and that probably
resulted in vast numbers of random salt marsh plants being boiled up
all over the UK. I never realised they were cultivated as well.

Des Higgins wrote:
It is Salicornia (various species; not sure which ones you can eat). It is
a common wild plant on salt marshes all round the coasts.
Ricky Stein eat some on one of his fish cookery programmes and that probably
resulted in vast numbers of random salt marsh plants being boiled up
all over the UK. I never realised they were cultivated as well.

The ones you can eat are called Salsoda soda or Salicornia europeaea.
It says that one should ensure to cultivate the right species ... Is it
salty if it's a coastal/marshy plant?