Sutt0ns "New for 2020" seeds are being advertised online. This is a company with a penchant for giving grand new names to quite ordinary seeds sold far more cheaply elsewhere.
As an example, they're selling "Garlic Kale" - 200 seeds for £2.99. In small print, it says these are Texsel Greens.
Joy Larkcom mentions these often in her books so I've known about them for many years .
DTBrown's Catalogue has just arrived - they sell "Amara" Ethiopian Kale "quick and easy to grow Texsel greens" 500 seeds £2.49.
Even cheaper - Seedaholic 370 seeds £1.10.
https://www.seedaholic.com/texsel-greens.html
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Sutton's at their best want you to forage for wild plants in a pot.
https://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Vege...167976.htm
Only £3.99 to grow a pot of weeds.
Thanks veggie. It boggles the mind how they can get away with renaming & upping the price without trading standards getting a bit funny about it. One of the reasons I use small seed companies.
Have you grown the texsel greens? They look interesting, but I’m guessing they just taste like all other kale
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I have no comment about the weeds ................. well not a polite one
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RE Texsel greens - I have grown them but don't remember much about them in the same way as that I don't remember growing other quick growing greens like those 40day broccolis.
Joy L says "As for mild flavored ‘bulk’ – pak choi and leafy Chinese greens, Texsel greens , summer and winter purslane, baby spinach leaves are among my personal favorites."
https://blog.gardeningknowhow.com/garden...ad-garden/
Another one that I’m aware of. Is Christmas basil. Don’t bother with it if you’re already growing cinnamon basil. It’s the same thing. Sorry I don’t remember which company was selling it as “Christmas”.
I won’t deny I’m shocked, it’s the kind of practises I’d expect of a supermarket not a kindly seed supplier. Before you know it they will be palming of radishes as dwarf turnips.
I do however like just how annoyed it made veggie.
Those radishes would be called something like Snacishes or Miniturns - as served by the finest restaurants in the cuisine minceur style.
As for being annoyed , you haven't heard me ranting on about Kalettes or Incaberries - or practically anything promoted by James Wrong.
Yes that is totally Wong, it shouldn’t be allowed.
(06-09-2020, 06:39 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]Those radishes would be called something like Snacishes or Miniturns - as served by the finest restaurants in the cuisine minceur style.
As for being annoyed , you haven't heard me ranting on about Kalettes or Incaberries - or practically anything promoted by James Wrong.
It's very annoying when things get arbitrarily renamed for marketing/fashion reasons. I'd just got used to Cape gooseberries being called goldenberries in health food shops (which is fine - we call dried grapes "raisins" or "currants"), and then everyone starts calling them Incaberries and I can't find them when I shop online!
(I actually really like them on cereal, with sliced banana to balance the tartness - and maybe a little maple syrup if I'm feeling self-indulgent. Which I usually am!)
(06-09-2020, 06:39 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]As for being annoyed , you haven't heard me ranting on about Kalettes or Incaberries - or practically anything promoted by James Wrong.
I have
. It’s awesome! You grab yourself a cuppa, sit back and watch the show
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I find the kalettes rant particularly memorable .
There was a more recent one too - think that was Suttons too when they were selling some weirdly named "kale" for a small fortune, and it turned out to be a bog standard one. I even grew it side by side to prove it!!.
I'll see if I can find it