Crops — Old Varieties

Celebrating and remembering old fruit and vegetable varieties

Old Varieties v New

January 10, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Over the last three years we have been growing heritage vegetables as well as more modern varieties and whilst we have not been conducting a …
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Filed Under: Featured, Vegetables Tagged With: Brassicas, Crops, Flavours, French Bean, French Beans, Gardener, Green Tomato Chutney, Heritage Varieties, Mildew, Pantheon, Production Stage, San Marzano, Scientific Experiment, Seedlings, Shallots, Simple Fact, Sunlight Hours, Varieties Of Tomato, Warm Spring, Wet Summer

Apple – Scotch Bridget

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September 27, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment

The Scotch Bridget Apple also known as White Calville, originated in Scotland in 1851. A culinary apple commonly found in Cumbrian farm …
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Heritage Seeds

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November 4, 2008 by admin Leave a Comment

A recent article by Garden Organic focuses on heritage seed and the need to preserve our gardening heritage. In 1973 the Seed (National List of …
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Filed Under: Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Brink, Climate Varieties, Crops, Different Times, Extinction, First Response, Gardeners, Gluts, Growing Library, Herbs, Heritage Seed Library, Heritage Seeds, Heritage Varieties, Human Nature, Kokopelli, Recent Article, Seed Producers, Small Quantities, Textures, Traditional Distribution Methods, Veg

The Perry Pear

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November 4, 2008 by admin Leave a Comment

The Perry pear is a small hard fruit which when bitten into, seems inedible. However, for centuries these fruits have been used to make Perry, …
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Old Varieties v New

Apple – Scotch Bridget

Heritage Seeds

The Perry Pear

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