After reading the (somewhat funny) special issue of NZ gardener "Homegrown 2: Live off your land for less" (which is cheaper direct than at the supermarket) I was inspired to grow borlotti beans - the photo in the magazine is of these fantasticly coloured spotty beans and pods. It turns out theyre actually called borlotto beans, demonstrating that the editor can't spell (but consistently can't spell).
After getting a price from Trademe I (to ammuse myself) compared the price to Kings Seeds's price. It wasn't amusing, Kings was a fraction of the trademe price. So I got inspired by the Kings web site and was up until late choosing seeds (consider me a Kings convert). It didn't help that you get 2 free packets of seeds if you spend $40 (so I did). Here's what I got:
Broccoli Italian Precoce
Cabbage Copenhagen Market
Cauliflower Green Macerata
Cauliflower Violet Sicilian
Pumpkin Austrian Oil Seed
Radish Oriental Watermelon
Spinach Bloomsdale
Turnip Tokyo White Cross F1
Turnip Red Round
Bean Borlotto Fire Tongue
Eggplant Black Beauty
Zucchini Black Beauty
Turnip Golden Ball
Cauliflower Snowball Improved
Spinach Strawberry
And for my free packets I chose:
PARSLEY BARTOWICH LONG - this is a kind of root vegetable
ONION BORETTANA
This should do for seeds for the whole season - but then again those yellow zucchini look good, as do the multi-coloured squash.
