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  • Members Email May 2008

 

 

 

If you're not a member and you're interested in taking part in the seed project, click here for details of all the benefits of membership and how you can become a member.
 

As a member, you will become part of our 2008 seed project and we are delighted to be able to tell you about this year’s River Cottage seed project. The programme is free and exclusive to River Cottage members.


As it is our first year, we will be starting off slightly differently than in following years and we are sure, as this project develops, we will get plenty of feedback from you guys about how it is going.


To start, we are offering free seeds of some of our favourite vegetables we grow here at Park Farm. These seeds are from our local supplier, Tamar Organics, in Launceston. We would like you to grow them too and let us know your success and failures, from germination through to using them in the kitchen.


We will do the same here at River Cottage HQ, and share the trials and tribulations, with regular updates and photos from our seed project plot. We would also like to put a selection of your photos on our website and we will invite the five best contributors – selected by Simon (our Head Gardener) and Hugh - to come to HQ for a private visit, to help with our own harvesting, and of course, have some food with us.


For this season we have chosen three classic River Cottage vegetables; beans, squashes and chard. All appeared in Hugh’s very first River Cottage Garden.


We have chosen them for both interest and character; you could call them the tall, the ugly and the colourful. We are sure they will make a very good visual impact and of course, they should taste delicious.


These varieties have been chosen as they are fairly easy to grow and especially good for kids – they grow fast and look great (and the seeds are large!). Let’s hope lots of you will get the kids in the garden and showing us all how it’s done.
You will receive one variety of squash, one variety of Climbing French Bean and one variety of Chard. The varieties are listed below:

Squash :-

 

Marina Di Chioggia - Large green tasty squash with knobbly skin and a flat globe shape. Stores well and flavour improves with age
Blue Ballet - Soft Blue/ grey skin with a swet orange flesh. Lovely flavour and keeps well. Each plant should produce two or three fruits up to 2kg each. Sow May and harvest from September and before first frost

 
Climbing French Bean :- 

Barlotto Di Fuoco - Dual purpose bean with a decorative red stripe on the green pods. Can be picked young or left to harvest beans for drying. Sow from April with protection and May outside.
Blauhilde - This is a great climbing bean, main crop French bean with long, oval purple pods which remain beautifully tender even when quite large. Can be grown indoors or outside. Sow from May direct in to growing site 3cm deep and 20cm apart.

 

Chard :-

Rainbow - Attractive, tasty leaf beet with deep red rib. At home in border as well as vegetable plots. Sow March to August.


Rhubarb - A striking organic Chard with tasty red/green leaves and an impressive red stem and rib. Sow from March till August.

 


Later in the year, we will be collecting our own River Cottage seeds. Once collated, all River Cottage Members will be entitled to receive free, a share of, or a choice from a selection of, the seeds we have been able to gather.


If you are already a member to claim your seeds for this project, please log in and click here


All the best,
The River Cottage Garden Team.


Please note : If ordering from abroad it is your responsibility to ensure there are no customs or other restrictions that prevent you from receiving these seeds.


There is only one set of the three seeds per member.


PS. A quick reminder there are still a few tickets left for the second date of the Members only party in September, please click here for details.


For all other membership benefits, please click here.