Looking at my veg patch, I notice that some individual plants seem to be
performing much better than others - by a factor of at least 50%.
Should I allow a few of these "good" plants to run to seed and save it
for next year?

In particular, I'm looking at radish broad beans and peas

Thanks!

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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Looking at my veg patch, I notice that some individual plants seem to be
performing much better than others - by a factor of at least 50%.
Should I allow a few of these "good" plants to run to seed and save it
for next year?

In particular, I'm looking at radish broad beans and peas

I always used to save seeds from any non hybrid beans or peas (after all
they run to seed before you crop them?) and it was fairly successful but
you need to be very careful with storage conditions.
--
Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland

Looking at my veg patch, I notice that some individual plants seem to be
performing much better than others - by a factor of at least 50%.
Should I allow a few of these "good" plants to run to seed and save it
for next year?

In particular, I'm looking at radish broad beans and peas


Hi Steve....I always save peas (Onward & Geenshaft usually) and Broad Beans
(Bunyards Exhibition & Masterpiece Green Longpod) which have always given me a
good crop the following year... a packet of radish seeds are so cheap to buy,
and one gets thousands, that it's not really worth saving them...besides you
can sow a few of several varieties too..French Breakfast, Sparkler, Black (for
winter) etc...
sunshine and smiles
Dave Hunt...Shropshire
----share what you know...learn what you don't----

In article ,
ospam (Dave Hunt) wrote:

a packet of radish seeds are so cheap to buy,
and one gets thousands, that it's not really worth saving them

Actually, Dave, for a change I'm not trying to save money :-). I have
limited space so I resent the space taken up by less vigorous plants. I
was planning to save the seed from the good ones only :-)

But, if it were that simple, I suppose the seed companies would be doing
something similar.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

"Steve Harris" wrote in message Actually, Dave, for a change I'm not trying to save money :-). I
have
limited space so I resent the space taken up by less vigorous plants. I
was planning to save the seed from the good ones only :-)

But, if it were that simple, I suppose the seed companies would be doing
something similar.

In the case of non - hybrid seed that's pretty much what seed growers do. A substantial part of their work is
'rogueing', that is walking the crop and removing substandard plants and plants not true to type.

Rod