We went out for lunch at the weekend to a newly refurbished pub down in the south east of the county. I had the house salad; the usual things - various leaves, rocket, potatoes, tomatoes.............oh the tomatoes! Being a keen heritage vegetable sort of gardener, I instantly recognised them - Green Zebra, Pineapple, Black Krim and a smaller black one, and a red and orangey/yellow striped one. Nipped off to the Ladies for a paper towel, came back and dissected the tomatoes, ate some, saved a little for the seeds. I'll sow them today or tomorrow, grow them on, save more seed and share them. Good lunch and free seeds for £8. Bargain.
Other things I've had success with - sowing beans from the grocer, straight out of the bag - I'm on my second year of my own strain of kidney bean now, looking good; buying potatoes of unusual varieties (Waitrose good for his, or smaller, independent shops) and growing them; buying one of a variety of unusual tomatoes, and saving the seed from them - my friend and I did this in Auchterader last year, from the wonderful fruit and veg shop on the high street.
I'm just about to start a trial of soya beans too, and some black turtle beans - I got both of these at 10p for a 100g bag reduced in Morrisons last week. Will report back.
Anyone else grown things from unusual sources?
4 comments:
What a good idea! I recently blogged about buying dried peas from a supermarket (dried goods aisle) and growing on as pea shoots. It works!
Ah, good idea, might have to give that a go. Much cheaper than buying them fresh and ready grown. Thanks for that :))
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Works too Sarah was featured on the edible garden programme last year. I had never done this before but we had loads of shoots which I used in salads and as a topping for a soup (pea based) and I only used a long planter. Hope you are keeping well and that everything is going tickety boo.
Take care
Pattypan
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I think the orange yellow stripey one might be a copia tomato...we grow them here in Utah and they do very well in hot, dry climates! Very tasty, too! I hope that they grow well for you.
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