New from Denmark

[toad]

I'm new to HG. I live and garden in Denmark in northern Europe.
Patrick and Canadamike invited me in a joint venture

For living I'm a physiotherapist, employed in a center servicing grown-ups with learning disabilities or autism.

In the free hours I'm a seed saver, member of the danish Frøsamlerne. I just have a small garden, so I can only share small amounts of seed, and I list my seeds in the danish seedsavers list, also open to organised seedsavers in Sweden and Norway. But feel free to ask for seeds anyway. You might understand by now, that I tend to share more than I eat. I enjoy sharing just as much as the eating ;D

I get some seeds from sharing on the internet, from organised seed savers in Europe and from a family in Sibiria.

I've adopted some old danish varieties, but I also like to develop new varieties. To make this work in a small garden, I mainly develop new varieties of tender plants like pepper and melon. Also starting with eggplant. I allready have bred and stabilised a sweet pepper I've given the name Amager Kohorn. Fave bean is an other breeding project, where I work on both normal height and dwarf purple seeded material. For more information on my breedings check out my blog toads.wordpress.com/

I live on the island of Amager, once famous for its seed industry. Now only one family still breed their own kale seed for producing kale for the market. Cabbage like Copenhagen Market and Amager were originally bred on this little island.

Guess this will do for an introduction.

[americangardener]

Welcome Toad.. it's a pleasure having you here.

I just started reading your blog the other day from the link Patrick put in here earlier. It's very interesting to say the least.

I'll look forward to finding out more about your projects.. especially the fava beans.. since those are gonna be new to me next year.

Just make yourself at home.. we have a great group of people here.. i'm sure they'll all want to ask you alot of questions too.

Talk with you later...

Dave

[grungy]

Welcome Toad, from the west side of the Great White North (BC, Canada). Should ever be in the neighbourhood looking for tomato seeds, please let us know.
Just peeked at you blog, what an informative and interesting site.
By the way what are the "squashes" with you at the danish seed savers Frøsamlernes tables?
Cheers,
Dan and Val (grunt and grungy)

[bluelacedredhead]

Welcome Toad!
I've just read several of the posts on your blog and looked through some pics.
Look forward to hearing more about gardening in Denmark.

[paquebot]

Welcome from me as well. Haven't seen you around any forums for awhile. Thanks to you, we've got 75 Estonian Red planted at home and probably 300-350 at the farm.

Martin

[canadamike]

And I hope for Soren he has your Wisconsin 55 in his garden!!. Martin, I will have to ask you for some more seeds, I could not save any because I was lost in building and moving. But , my friend, did they produce a nice crop!! BTW, it is time to seed the turnip rooted chervil, it follows the garlic planting and harvesting patern.

Thanks again my friend, I sure am glad I grew them.

[toad]

Hi everybody,
thanks for a great wellcome.

To Dan and Val: The squashes on the table are Siam (fig-leaved gourds) and the one on the ground is a Blue Banana. Those freshlooking Siams are actually an year old, just stored at room temperature, they really keep long time.

Martin: Great to learn Estonian Red are doing well. I rarely visit GardenWeb these days, as it's not friendly to european users anymore, it's the technique, not the users! Guess it's about time I close down my profile there. Your garlic behaves like a rocambole, and it seems rocambole doesn't grow huge up here. Sweet White Multiplier is spreading in danish gardens. It's really a sweet multipurpose onion, very unique - we love it.

What is the Wisconsin 55??

[flowerpower]

Welcome, Toad! It looks like you have alot of friends here already. lol Wisconsin 55 is a yellow tomato.

[Rebsie]

And a hello and welcome from me too. It's nice to see some familiar faces here.

[plantsnobin]

Welcome from southern Indiana. I really enjoyed your blog and look forward to hearing more from you. Karen

[PatrickW]

Hi Søren,

I'm glad you decided to register here. Welcome to HG.

Hi Martin! I have some of your garlic growing in my garden.

[paquebot]

Oct 26, 2008 7:01:07 GMT -5 flowerpower said:

Welcome, Toad! It looks like you have alot of friends here already. lol Wisconsin 55 is a yellow tomato.

Wisconsin 55 is NOT a yellow tomato. It is a RED tomato!

Martin

[canadamike]

And a fantastic one indeed. Martin, I think she just confused it with WISCONSIN 55 GOLD.....

[sammyqc]

Welcome, Soren! My mother is from Danmark, so I lay claim to being a Dane, minus the Scottish, Irish, German and whatever else from the other side.
I am jealous of things you can grow in your more moderate temperatures. My uncle has teased me with pictures of beautiful flowering fuschia trees! As Mike says, my seeds are your seeds. I don't have as much variety as many here, but what I have are for the taking. I also have Brugmansias, a lot of seed this year, and I have a suspicion they would do well in Danmark, possibly even overwinter, with some protection if you are so inclined! Not edible, unless you are looking for a very weird, possibly dangerous trip, but a beautiful ornamental and well worth the trouble.

[paquebot]

Thanks in part to my great-great grandfather, Soren grew up speaking Dansk instead of Deutsche. Left his young wife and infant son in Lillehammer, Norway to become a soldier for Danmark during the war with Germany in 1848. The Danes won!

Denmark has 2 tomato varieties which have been grown there for many years. They are Danish Export and Selandia. I grew both of them last year. Danish Export was a production fool with loads of 2" canners. Selandia was a nice medium slicer and probably more of a home garden tomato than a commercial field variety over the years. Both did apparently have their beginning in the Netherlands but became worthy naturalized Danish citizens.

Martin