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@Broadfork I'll be sort of joining you with the okahijiki, though in the form of "agretti" - but apparently they're both names for the same thing - salsola komarovii.

We won't have many totally new to us things this year as we have a backlog of seeds after a couple of difficult growing years in terms of time/etc... but will also be having a go at growing caraway for the first time.

Well, we probably do have a few new varieties of familiar plants in the backlog... I bought stuff for last year that we never had a chance to plant... hm, it's about time I went through the seed case and had a think about it actually.

@Broadfork yeah, had an eyeball over the seed collection and here's a few "new to us" varieties of things we have grown other varieties of before:

"Waltham" butternut squash
"Easy Pick Gold F1" courgette
"Petit Gris De Rennes" melon
"Tough Ball F1", "Density IV Long-Storing", "Carmen Sweet Red" onions
"Zebrune" shallot
"Green Knight F1" aubergine/eggplant
"Red Rubin", "Cinnamon", "Aristotle" basils
"Beauregarde", "Delikett", and "Golden Sweet" peas
"Double Standard Bicolour" and "Minipop" (baby) sweetcorn
"Koralik" bush tomato
"Michihili" Chinese cabbage

Hopefully we'll have a go at all of these this year, and plenty more of course, the first sowing of onion seeds is in already.

This is in fact the first year we will try growing bulbing onions and shallots from seed, we're giving up on onion sets because they always seem to bolt and don't seem good value for money. (But we do have shallots in from bulb too so will be comparing that to trying shallots from seed.)

@yvan I grew the Zebrune shallots from seed last year they were ok and didn’t suffer any allium leaf miner damage which we can get around here. I will be doing them again this year.

Petit gris de Rennes are a nice melon.

@Broadfork we had really great success with the Minnesota Midget melon 2 years ago so decided to try a slightly larger melon as well last year, though didn't manage to grow either of them... so maybe this year!