From the Sugar Beth's Jayb had given me seeds for last year, one produced a purple flowering plant with superbly flavoured small snap pods. Probably my favourite (although the mangetouts were great too).
For this year I grew the little snap, which was green with a hint of purple. This is the F3 generation. First surprise, I had two pink flowering plants! None last year and now 2 that still segregated out. Lovely. Second surprise, they grow so tall. I can barely reach to the tops. And we have 5 different colours. They are all snaps, but we did expect that. The array of colours is very pretty. Here is a picture with one Opal Creek for comparison: The nearly purple is the rarest colour.
We have nearly purple, green with purple, green with red, green with the merest hint of red and plain green.
For this year I grew the little snap, which was green with a hint of purple. This is the F3 generation. First surprise, I had two pink flowering plants! None last year and now 2 that still segregated out. Lovely. Second surprise, they grow so tall. I can barely reach to the tops. And we have 5 different colours. They are all snaps, but we did expect that. The array of colours is very pretty. Here is a picture with one Opal Creek for comparison: The nearly purple is the rarest colour.
We have nearly purple, green with purple, green with red, green with the merest hint of red and plain green.
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