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WANTED: All Sorts of seeds

21 years ago

I am looking for any variety of Climbing Butter Beans. Especially the ones that Watkins (now Yates) put out a few years ago.

I am at the moment using the Carnival brand from The Warehouse but they do not seem to be doing as well as the Yates variety.

I know that Kings put out a bean seed but I was wondering whether anybody had the old Yates variety available.

I am also looking for dahlia tubers. I used to have several hundred different varieties but with time and shifting tubers have died or were lost.

Contact me through this page and we will set up something.

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going_to_seed
20 years ago
I would like to swap seeds with you, I was given some seeds of kentucky wonder wax and a few other varieties of climbing bean this year and I am hoping to save some of the seed so get in touch if you would like to try some. I would like to swap vege seeds of all kinds with anyone interested so let me know all who read this. karlene66@hotmail.com
cambria
19 years ago
Recently I got interested in maintaining seed stocks because MAF is destroying all incoming legumes and I can't find my favourite bean seeds anywhere. So count me in if you wish to organize something. Currently I have only ordinary varieties of veg and flowers that we plant year to year. But I would be happy to help grow and maintain an NZ seedbank or something. I do have a small amount of NZ soybean developed by Crop and Food before life got so complicated. If there is interest I'm happy to share. Selected for hardy, cool climate.

Wayne Thresher
Pohangina Valley, NI
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