Seed offer UK based - swap or pass it forwards

I've now pretty much finished cleaning and sorting my seeds. The peas need a little more drying, but should be OK in the next week or so. Let me know if you want anything listed here. I'll post anywhere, but be aware that rules may mean seeds don't get through customs.

I have the following to offer all grown by myself here on Skye:

Saved 2024:
Fava beans - possible cross, wide mixture including purple flowered and field beans

you might get this

Peas - possible cross, wide mixture including tall peas, coloured flowers and mangetout

fabulous rosa krone flowers

Swede/Rutabaga - First cross with green and purple topped varieties
Parsnip - First cross
Hablitzia tamnoides - perennial lettuce/spinach substitute mild flavoured leaves. pfaf say cold hardy to US zones 3-9. I grew out some of my seed last year and it seems to have good viability.
Yellow rattle - semi parasitic on grass, native Skye wildflower
Good King Henry - perennial edible (leaves and flower shoots) likes shady conditions
Myhrris odorata (Sweet Cicely) - anise scented perennial herb with green seeds like sweeties and pretty insect attracting white umbel flowers.
(edited to add):
Pignut (Conopodium majus) - native perennial wild flower carrot relative like a miniature cow parsley, small edible tubers, likes damp meadows or woodland edges perhaps further South.

Saved 2023:
Carrot mix - First cross including purple and white carrots
Bunias orientalis (Turkish rocket) - another perennial green - rather spicy leaves, milder flower shoots like broccoli. (US zones 6-9) potential to be invasive I think as it self seeds even here a little.

turkish rocket spring leaves

I forgot to say what seeds i am looking for:

Anything for my landraces: carrots, parsnip, swede, fava beans, peas, bere barley and black oats. Non hybrid saved seed please.

I'd like to try trifolium wordskoldii (springbank clover) again.

Alpine spring beauty (claytonia megarhiza) interesting perennial with edible roots that may grow well here, but isn't widely available.

Leaf beet or sea beet. Mine seem to have died in the winter wet

Turkscap lily

Burdock

Fennel (common not bulbing)

Wet and wind tolerant runner beans (this may be my next landrace project!)

Go on - Tempt me!

Ahhhh... Got distracted by the landrace thread link 🤓 tagged for reading during the long winter evenings.

I'll send you some of my home saved Raatviksaart and Bijou mangetout peas. Originally from RealSeeds, grown side by side here in the Kyle of Sutherland for 5 years now. No mixing of their own volition yet, but I gather there's some manual action I could undertake, haven't gotten round to looking up what.
They're great peas as they are though too. The rosakrone looks... Enviable! Yes, I want it. I've been trying to grow beans, and skimped on the pea varieties because they'd hog the space. But maybe I should just admit that phaseolus vulgaris is not made for Scotland (yet!!) and give the peas a bit more leuve.

I've spastically tried to keep my broad beans separate for all this time 🤣🤣 Feels very silly now that I've realized that landrace is a thing (thé thing?). So not mixed, but a miraculous crimson flowered survivor of several years of hardship and voles. I'll sow it with sutton dwarf and my field bean survivors and hope for beautiful love babies. Short, pink, early and tasty. Although the field beans were a bit slow, so the early may have to become a separate project at some point...

Not home bred, basically because the packet was so huge I kept putting it off, but 2 types of runner beans from Franchi in Italy. The whites were a bit sceptical, but did ok. The red ones were quite resilient to our windy site and did really well.
We have interesting soil that dries out really quickly, but the atmosphere/air is quite damp and rarely very sunny.

I've discovered a patch of what must be self-sown parsnips in a difficult corner of the garden. Sown at least two years ago and given up on as an utter failure. But now there's new parsnips coming up there 🤔 it'll need some work, but promising for next year's seed.

Back soon!

xM

When you say burdock, do you mean the domesticated ones, or wild? If you want wild ones, I have some seeds of Arctium lappa, gathered in Sweden... Also, did any of the cloudberry seeds I sent manage to germinate? If not, I could send some fresh (never dried) ones. From observation and reading I suspect they might lose viability when drying, and the fresh ones certainly germinate ok.

Either sort of burdock would be interesting for me - I expect the cultivated form is just a selection of the wild form. Unfortunately I got no sign of the cloudberry germinating. I tried some direct and some in a pot sitting in water. It's not impossible that the direct sown ones may still make it, but I'd love to try it again.

Anything you fancy of mine Eino? I notice I didn't list the pignut! (now edited first post to include it) I have plenty of pignut (conopodium majus) seed again. I'm thinking of trying it as a cumin seed substitute; to me it has a similar aromatic smell and in the carrot family so should be edible in moderation.

Some of the carrot and parsnip seeds would be great. I would've considered the Hablitzia, but already have a bunch of plants growing. Maybe next time, for diversity.

Your pignuts are growing a bit everywhere in our garden now. They have yet to flower, but seem to survive just fine despite the colder winters. The good king Henry is also doing well.

Good news on the good king henry and pignuts thanks for the feedback - the pignuts probably take a couple of years to reach flowering age. The first year the tubers are only the size of peas.
I've still got your address  - unless you want the seeds sent somewhere different?

Sorry, somehow didn't see your post. It's still the same address. I'll try to get your seeds sent today.