Post by galina on Feb 21, 2010 12:27:14 GMT -5
Greetings to all,
New member living in England, originally from Germany, then a few years in Switzerland.
I have been gardening for 30 years, mostly vegetables. Found wax bean seeds in a French shop which I could not get in England and started seed saving as a consequence nearly twenty years ago.
I love growing many different cultivars of each vegetable and have just started sowing 16 different peas indoors for planting out in the garden when the snow goes and it warms up a bit. I love diversity. Green, yellow and purple peas pretty as a picture - and what about Rebsie Fairholm's red ones, how nice are they! One day.
A few year's ago I read Carol Deppe's book about breeding your own vegetable varieties and crossed two peas for a large yellow podded, sweet mangetout pea. Not quite stable yet. I follow up accidental crosses in beans, one an interspecies cross coccineus x vulgaris. Have dabbled in squash crosses as well but not methodically, with a breeding aim in mind.
I started reading forum posts a few weeks ago and came across grunt and grungy many times. When I finally got to read the recent post about Val's brave fight with cancer, I felt very sad that this great lady and her husband have such a burden to bear. I hope that you will feel much better soon Val - healing wishes are going to you.
Galina
New member living in England, originally from Germany, then a few years in Switzerland.
I have been gardening for 30 years, mostly vegetables. Found wax bean seeds in a French shop which I could not get in England and started seed saving as a consequence nearly twenty years ago.
I love growing many different cultivars of each vegetable and have just started sowing 16 different peas indoors for planting out in the garden when the snow goes and it warms up a bit. I love diversity. Green, yellow and purple peas pretty as a picture - and what about Rebsie Fairholm's red ones, how nice are they! One day.
A few year's ago I read Carol Deppe's book about breeding your own vegetable varieties and crossed two peas for a large yellow podded, sweet mangetout pea. Not quite stable yet. I follow up accidental crosses in beans, one an interspecies cross coccineus x vulgaris. Have dabbled in squash crosses as well but not methodically, with a breeding aim in mind.
I started reading forum posts a few weeks ago and came across grunt and grungy many times. When I finally got to read the recent post about Val's brave fight with cancer, I felt very sad that this great lady and her husband have such a burden to bear. I hope that you will feel much better soon Val - healing wishes are going to you.
Galina
