Hi all, I went to the big B yesterday and noticed Mr Fothergill has started an heirloom range of seeds. Has this been happening for a while and has just hit Darwin or is it really new? It says on the back of the pack ‘(Seeds grown and preserved as part of their heirloom range by The Diggers Club)’
Crinkle said:
Hi all, I went to the big B yesterday and noticed Mr Fothergill has started an heirloom range of seeds. Has this been happening for a while and has just hit Darwin or is it really new? It says on the back of the pack ‘(Seeds grown and preserved as part of their heirloom range by The Diggers Club)’
not sure havent seen them down here yet.
I bought a pack of Capsicum Seven Colours. I noticed they also had tomatoes but didn’t see any others. There were a few empty spaces on the shelves so not sure whether or not there are more. It seems like a good idea to me as so many people are not interested enough to seek out heirloom seeds but if they are there for the choosing they may buy them.
Diggers Club has been selling seedling through the B shop for a couple of years now, so the seed range may have started then too. Can’t say I’ve noticed myself as I rarely look at the seeds at B, I buy mine direct from Diggers.
Yes I am sure they have been out for a few years now. Not a lot too choose from though.
yes we had them here last spring …nsw ..tried some
anything to get them out there is excellent
BUT
Morning, Thanks all. I usually just past my eyes over the seeds just to see what they are doing and the heirloom ones caught my eye. Time will tell as to whether the capsicum seeds prove to be good or not. Capsicum are one of the few things that can grow all year round here.
I actually went to the B shop to look for agricultural oil as spoken about by either Jerry or Pete the other week on GA – for making white oil. B shop didn’t have any. Does anyone know whether you can just use cooking oil instead?
Crinkle said:
Morning, Thanks all. I usually just past my eyes over the seeds just to see what they are doing and the heirloom ones caught my eye. Time will tell as to whether the capsicum seeds prove to be good or not. Capsicum are one of the few things that can grow all year round here.
I actually went to the B shop to look for agricultural oil as spoken about by either Jerry or Pete the other week on GA – for making white oil. B shop didn’t have any. Does anyone know whether you can just use cooking oil instead?
not sure can you post here how to make it may be best to make a topic called white Oil:)
Blend together 2 cups of vegetable oil and 1/2 cup of dishwashing liquid.
Use at the rate of 1tablespoon of the above mix to 1L of water.
I bought the cheapest canola oil, mixed this up , it went really thick ! stored in a jar in the shed.Crinkle said:
Morning, Thanks all. I usually just past my eyes over the seeds just to see what they are doing and the heirloom ones caught my eye. Time will tell as to whether the capsicum seeds prove to be good or not. Capsicum are one of the few things that can grow all year round here.
I actually went to the B shop to look for agricultural oil as spoken about by either Jerry or Pete the other week on GA – for making white oil. B shop didn’t have any. Does anyone know whether you can just use cooking oil instead?
The oil Jerry used was a cooking oil. Maybe sunflower? He mentioned that he uses the particular type because it can’t be GM’ed. Don’t know enough about GM to know if sunflowers are being mutated by crazy humans. Unlikely to have been canola, since that’s been GM’ed.
Thanks all. I thought Jerry said horticultural oil was good because it was thin.
Thanks again HP and SueBk. I just went and checked on the GA site. Should have done that before!! DUH
Hi, I have bought Mr Fothergill’s seeds and it took about 3 sowings for the beans to strike, and the corn wasn’t much better…these weren’t heirlooms afaik…disappointed, aye?
Dinetta said:
Hi, I have bought Mr Fothergill’s seeds and it took about 3 sowings for the beans to strike, and the corn wasn’t much better…these weren’t heirlooms afaik…disappointed, aye?
i haven’t really had much Experience with other seed companies i tend to get mine from Cornucopia seeds and plants online.
Dinetta said:
Hi, I have bought Mr Fothergill’s seeds and it took about 3 sowings for the beans to strike, and the corn wasn’t much better…these weren’t heirlooms afaik…disappointed, aye?
Thanks for that Dinetta. Time will tell for my capsicum seeds. I will keep the chat line posted.
Crinkle said:
Dinetta said:
Hi, I have bought Mr Fothergill’s seeds and it took about 3 sowings for the beans to strike, and the corn wasn’t much better…these weren’t heirlooms afaik…disappointed, aye?
Thanks for that Dinetta. Time will tell for my capsicum seeds. I will keep the chat line posted.
Mind you, I am renowned on this forum for my brown thumbs…got Sonny Jim to sow them in the end…
hi Dinetta, nice to see you :)
thought everyone had deserted me, but it ended out that my computer wasn’t refreshing. ended out with 4 pages of posts to catch up on!
bluegreen said:
hi Dinetta, nice to see you :)thought everyone had deserted me, but it ended out that my computer wasn’t refreshing. ended out with 4 pages of posts to catch up on!
lol @ BG i was still here.
veg gardener said:
bluegreen said:
hi Dinetta, nice to see you :)thought everyone had deserted me, but it ended out that my computer wasn’t refreshing. ended out with 4 pages of posts to catch up on!
lol @ BG i was still here.
I know that now! but I couldn’t see you then :)
bluegreen said:
veg gardener said:
bluegreen said:
hi Dinetta, nice to see you :)thought everyone had deserted me, but it ended out that my computer wasn’t refreshing. ended out with 4 pages of posts to catch up on!
lol @ BG i was still here.
I know that now! but I couldn’t see you then :)
yep.
Hi BlueGreen, Veg Gardener….how’s it going?
I haven’t been to the forum for ages again… have been to-ing and fro-ing with work between the big smoke and here…sure throws the routine out…
Sonny Jim has mended one split in the pipe from the mains…one more to go…the pipe is about a metre down and nobody knows just where after that…sometimes it is almost under our (dirt) road…
I’m so proud of my tomatoes…have lost one but it had nice big fruit before it dehydrated so I will see if they ripen up…have lost 3 garlic…my goodness they like the sunlight…and have cropped the basil, coriander and parsley and dried them…getting there…
I planted some of the Heirloom Capsicum seeds this arvo so will keep you posted as to the results.
there is ment to be new Mr Fothergill seeds not sure if it is what crinkle is talking about, new looks seed packets not sure crinkle do you have a photo of the seed packet?
veg gardener said:
there is ment to be new Mr Fothergill seeds not sure if it is what crinkle is talking about, new looks seed packets not sure crinkle do you have a photo of the seed packet?
Yes vg the very same. Sorry I don’t have a photo at the moment but the packets are a cream colour with Heirloom Seeds clearly written across the bottom half of the packet.
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
there is ment to be new Mr Fothergill seeds not sure if it is what crinkle is talking about, new looks seed packets not sure crinkle do you have a photo of the seed packet?
Yes vg the very same. Sorry I don’t have a photo at the moment but the packets are a cream colour with Heirloom Seeds clearly written across the bottom half of the packet.
not sure if there the same they where in the GA mag for August.
veg gardener said:
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
there is ment to be new Mr Fothergill seeds not sure if it is what crinkle is talking about, new looks seed packets not sure crinkle do you have a photo of the seed packet?
Yes vg the very same. Sorry I don’t have a photo at the moment but the packets are a cream colour with Heirloom Seeds clearly written across the bottom half of the packet.
not sure if there the same they where in the GA mag for August.
Oopps.. haven’t seen it yet.
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
there is ment to be new Mr Fothergill seeds not sure if it is what crinkle is talking about, new looks seed packets not sure crinkle do you have a photo of the seed packet?
Yes vg the very same. Sorry I don’t have a photo at the moment but the packets are a cream colour with Heirloom Seeds clearly written across the bottom half of the packet.
not sure if there the same they where in the GA mag for August.
Oopps.. haven’t seen it yet.
its alright read, I just wanna know who the host of Gardening Australia will be when peter cundall leaves, If the show becomes bad it’s getting switched off. and my mag will never be brought again.
veg gardener said:
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
there is ment to be new Mr Fothergill seeds not sure if it is what crinkle is talking about, new looks seed packets not sure crinkle do you have a photo of the seed packet?
Yes vg the very same. Sorry I don’t have a photo at the moment but the packets are a cream colour with Heirloom Seeds clearly written across the bottom half of the packet.
not sure if there the same they where in the GA mag for August.
Oopps.. haven’t seen it yet.
its alright read, I just wanna know who the host of Gardening Australia will be when peter cundall leaves, If the show becomes bad it’s getting switched off. and my mag will never be brought again.
You know vg … big boots can be very hard to fill but that dosen’t mean impossible … Whenever there is change there is always adjustment.
I think Pete is fabulous but the time is approaching when he will have to hand over the reins and we just need to trust that they will be turned over to someone who can do another fabulous job. It WILL be different but that is what life is about.
‘There is nothing so constant as change’.
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
Crinkle said:
veg gardener said:
there is ment to be new Mr Fothergill seeds not sure if it is what crinkle is talking about, new looks seed packets not sure crinkle do you have a photo of the seed packet?
Yes vg the very same. Sorry I don’t have a photo at the moment but the packets are a cream colour with Heirloom Seeds clearly written across the bottom half of the packet.
not sure if there the same they where in the GA mag for August.
Oopps.. haven’t seen it yet.
its alright read, I just wanna know who the host of Gardening Australia will be when peter cundall leaves, If the show becomes bad it’s getting switched off. and my mag will never be brought again.
You know vg … big boots can be very hard to fill but that dosen’t mean impossible … Whenever there is change there is always adjustment.
I think Pete is fabulous but the time is approaching when he will have to hand over the reins and we just need to trust that they will be turned over to someone who can do another fabulous job. It WILL be different but that is what life is about.
‘There is nothing so constant as change’.
My Heirloom capsicum seeds have started to shoot. Woohoo
Crinkle said:
My Heirloom capsicum seeds have started to shoot. Woohoo
That last post was 21/7.
I planted 17 seeds and 16 have sprouted and they now have their second lot of seeds. I will plant them into pots in the next few days.
Crinkle said:
Crinkle said:
My Heirloom capsicum seeds have started to shoot. Woohoo
That last post was 21/7.
I planted 17 seeds and 16 have sprouted and they now have their second lot of seeds. I will plant them into pots in the next few days.
Ahem … that should read ‘second lot of leaves’ :)))))))