Happy Seedmas

Seedmas follows Christmas, its that time of year when the seed circles start sending out the seeds that the members of the circles have sent to the organiser. The way it normally works is that you send your seeds in using an envelope usually padded, with a label with your address on and a 1st Class Large postage stamp for the seeds to come back to you once everyone has submitted their contribution.

Today I received one envelope with contents from two circles off the Grow Your Own Grapevine forum Tomato and the Pea & Bean Circles and the contents were:

Tomatoes - 29 varieties to add to my ever growing collection, most packs have a minimum of 8 seeds in them 

Arnyalma
Berkeley Tie-Dye
Black Cherry Tomato
Black Icicle
Black Russian
Black Sea Man 
Blush
Brown Sugar
Cream Sausage
Chiapis Wild
Dark Galaxy
German Queen
Green Zebra
Gold Rush Currant
Harbinger
Jack Hawkins
Legend
Mrs Rucks
Mountain Princess
Otto's Papa
Red Buffalo Horn
Red Zebra
Rio Grande
Rosella
Unknown Black with a working title of Schwarse Weinreich - Saved by Nellie-m
Summer Cider
Speckled Roman
Vesennij Mieurinsky
Yellow Perfection

My contribution to the tomato seed circle was Amish Mayberry , Tumbling Tom Red, 100s & 1000s

Here is an interesting link re the Health Benefits Of Tomatoes

Beans -  13 Beans my contribution was Scarlet Emperor  

Blue Beans
Brejo CFB
Cara la Virgen de la Bañeza León
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Crimson Flowered Broad Bean
Hinrichs Riesen Dwarf French Bean
Kew Blue
Major Cook's Climbing French Bean
Mangetout Winterkefe
Nun's Belly Button Bush Beans
Ryder's Blue CoCo CFB
Starley Red Peas (Dwarf French Bean)
Vermont Cranberry Bush Bean

Also today swept up another sack of leafs in the front garden and cut/ melted another two 2.4 x 1.2m Blank Bed Sheets and 2.4m x 0.8m path membranes whilst the sun was on the garden table and it was warmish and not windy.

Also made a timber seed sowing rule using stripwood 900mm long 44.5mm wide and 4mm thick with 10mm dia. holes at 25mm centres. Shame they don't sell that section of timber longer and I could have made it just under a bed width. I may make another so I have one on each plot.