Collecting seeds

Like many gardeners at this time of year we collect seeds from a variety of plants, usually from flowers but we have collected Tomato Seeds and last year, Radish.

This year given the cost of Cucumber seeds we left one growing in order to collect its seeds.

They were an English Cucumber and if we could have found the seed packet we would have given you the variety. We do know that the seeds were about £2.50 for 6/8 seeds. Hopefully once dried out these will be planted next spring.

What the results will be is anybody's guess given that our Radish seed harvest produced some strange radish!

For those of a certain age... Esther Rantzen would be proud of that one!

What is eating our Radish seedlings!

We planted a small row of radish seeds and they have come up rapidly, as they do.

BUT something has decided they are a tasty snack...

We don't think it is slugs as there is no sign of any trails BUT given the eggs we blogged about a few days ago are likely to be slug eggs then it is possible. The potager was damp and there was evidence of slugs elsewhere but not anywhere near the radish.

Anybody any suggestions?