When it comes to vegetable seeds I'm like a child at the supermarket checkout eyeing up sweets.
They're there, I want them and so I couldn't resist buying yet another packet of seeds that I saw in a Brussels housewares shop last week.
It looks as if I've bought a variety pack of squashes and I presume they're edible (aren't all squashes - it's just some are tastier than others ????).
I think the labelling is in Dutch, French and German(Sierkalebassen Gemengd; Colquinte Varie; Zierkurbis Gemischt). Maybe some native speakers can help me on that.
Now the question is where to fit them in the vegetable patch as I'm less interested in them than my Butternut squash whose space is already allocated.
Maybe I'll try and negotiate space in my wife's sweet pea border.
Mixed Gourds!
Posted by: Patrick | April 20, 2007 at 07:14 PM
From your friendly online translator: those are for ornamental purposes only.
Posted by: Yolanda Elizabet | April 20, 2007 at 08:16 PM
They are decorative squashes!
'Sier' means 'decorate'. I think you probably could eat them if you want to but here they are grown as autumn decorations.
Don't plant too many - just one or two - and try them at the end of the season. They have decorative (not for consumption) cucumbers too that are all prickly and apparently taste terrible.
Did you buy them in a shop called Hema? The packaging looks familiar :)
Posted by: Ash | April 20, 2007 at 10:21 PM
you are right, it's french, german and dutch..
Posted by: greenie | April 21, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Humph! Decorative --- don't think I'll bother with them as they'll take up valuable veg space!!
Thanks to all for replying and yes Ash, I got them in Hema!
Posted by: John Curtin | April 23, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Aha! I knew I could spot the packaging :) Hema is a nice shop. It always has something that one wants to buy in it :) A bit like Woolworths used to be I guess.
Posted by: Ash | April 23, 2007 at 04:15 PM