Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,

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mumofstig

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Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« on: January 29, 2020, 13:27 »
you know, the ones you grow from seed every year without fail...

Mine are,
Alderman and Hurst Geenshaft peas,
Tromba d'Albenga courgette/squash,
White Lady Runner Beans, Cosse Violette purple podded bean,
Long Red Florence onions,
Hispi, Minicole and Tundra cabbage,
Little Gem and Quattro Stagioni lettuce,
Nectar rose, Jaune Flamme , Gardenpearl and Yellow Peardrop tomatoes. I used to always grow Black Cherry but have replaced this with Rosella for the last 3 years.
Pentland Javelin potatoes.


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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2020, 17:20 »
Rosella are a favorite with me as well.
Also Spaghetti squash, Florence long red onion and a french beef heart tom that someone at the plot gave me one year, very fleshy with little seed and delicious.

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2020, 06:59 »
Blauwgroene Winter - Bandit leeks, for a late crop that lasts in the ground from October to March.

Shirley toms - always for both GH and outdoors!

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2020, 07:46 »
Onions - Sturon sets
Broad beans - The Sutton
Peas - Kelvedon Wonder
« Last Edit: January 30, 2020, 07:49 by bayleaf »

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2020, 09:52 »
onions = stuttgarter
potatoes = pentland javelin
cabbage = greyhound

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2020, 10:10 »
Dwarf French beans - Castandel
Runner Beans          - Moonlight
Tomatoes (outdoor) - Crimson Crush
Tomatoes (g/house) - Apero
Cauliflowers            - Clapton
Onions                    - Santero for keeping qualities:  Exhibition for size

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2020, 11:13 »
Runner beans - White Lady
Parsnips - Gladiator
Courgettes - Green Bush, most prolific and no helping hand with pollination required compared with some other varieties on occasion.
Tomatoes - although I like to experiment with different varieties, my 'banker' is Gardeners' Delight (I have seen suggestions that the flavour isn't as good these days, but mine are grown from saved seed originally bought about 10 years ago.) Red Alert is another reliable and prolific variety, although not as tasty as GD.
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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2020, 21:35 »
Always do Red Alert Toms.  Masses of crop.
Peak Hives

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2020, 16:49 »
Onions.. Bedfordshire Champion
Leek Mussleborough
Snips Gladiator
BB Sutton
Spuds, Desiree & Charlotte
Beetroot Cylindra
Squash Crown Prince
Toms San Marzano, Sweet Million
few others but I am working so best get back to it  :lol:
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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2020, 21:31 »
Here are mine:

Peas - Stokesley (originally from Heritage Seed Library)
Carrots - Touchon
French Beans - Cobra and Kentucky Wonder Wax
Leeks - Bleu de Solaise
Parsnips - Tender and True
Cabbage - Ormskirk
Field Beans - Wizard
Garlic - Rossa di Sulmona (Seeds of Italy)
Shallots - Longor
Tomatoes - Black Cherry, Tigerella, Clibran's Victory, Burpee's Jubilee
Chillies - Palivec, Jalapeno Traveller
Sweet Pepper - Mila's Sweet Bulgarian, Lipstick
Courgette - Striata di Napoli
Squash - Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato
Beetroot - Sanguina
« Last Edit: February 02, 2020, 21:35 by AnneB »

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2020, 18:31 »
Broad Bean - The Sutton
Parsnip - Gladiator
Carrot - Flyaway
Beetroot - Boltardy
Leek - Musselburgh
Spring Onion - White Lisbon
Kale - Dwarf Green Curled
Tomato - Gardener's Delight and Marinade
Pea - Kelvedon Wonder

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2020, 20:13 »
French bean Roquencourt
Squash Uchi Kuri
Cavalo Nero kale
Courgette Tromboncino
Borlotti bean Lingua de Fuoco
Tomatoes San Marzano and Sungold
Potatoes Pink Fir Apple and Maris Piper
Carrot Early Nantes

Wish I could find a good pea variety, and this years mission is to grow shallots and leeks from seed and how that goes, hopefully adding a few more stalwarts to the list.

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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2020, 08:31 »
Squash - uchiki kuri - most reliable from germination to storage for me this year, and tasted great too. And Ute was the very best flesh - wonderful flavour, great in every recipe. Worst variety was Victor - looked stunningly ugly and germinated and grew well, but had to cut it with a large axe, which was a bit inconvenient, and the flesh was ok in pies but disappeared when put in curries.
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Re: Please List Your Most Reliable Varieties,
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2020, 09:19 »
All Gold and Malling jewel raspberries.
Ben Lomond black currants, Jonker van Tets redcurrant, White Versailles whitecurrant.

Golden sweet mange-tout and telephone peas.


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