Worth every penny (cent)?

On Friday the seeds from Kings arrived, the order was filled exactly and completely along with the 2 "free" packets. The dates on the packets are long - 2010 and 2011. Seeds from the local gardening shops have often had shorter dates.

Reading about the species I've never grown on the Internet is interesting. The Eggplant is a potato relative (the flowers look very similar) and is perennial (comes back each year) but usually grown as an annual (grows and dies in one year). It is temperature sensative so will be grown inside in the first year to see how it does.

The root parsley really is the root of parsley. I've had problems with parsley going to seed in Dunedin before (and taking over the whole garden) so care will be taken (especially as the leaves don't taste good to me!).

The "Spinach Strawberry" is neither strawberry nor spinach. It is "Chenopodium foliosum" - which aparently does produce red fruit. I didn't look too hard but also didn't find any comment on the taste of either the leaves or the fruit.