Ruud Kleinpaste: How we plan our garden

The Courier smiled as he deposited the two catalogues on our door-step – he knows we’re Nature Nerds, and so do the lovely folk at Kings Seeds.   

We both settled in front of the fireplace, going through the Nurture/Nourish reading. I was checking all the tomato varieties and other food delicacies, while Juuls browsed all the pretty stuff in Kings Seeds line-up.  

Always interesting to see how two people focus on the plant species that is close to their Heart, Art, and Stomach!

I kept my Tomato wishes in the same group it's always been: Bloody Butcher and Tigerella, while sniffing around the Cherry Tomatoes in all their magnificent colours.  

Last March I managed to harvest the seeds of Tomato Gardeners delight, so those are also ready to be sown, along with Black Krim and Tessaloniki and some more tomato seeds living in my shed. Now it is a matter of sorting out where they’ll go in the tunnel house. 

Watermelon Sugar Baby is something I haven't grown for far too long – it's a yummy dessert!   

Remarkably, Julie decided to interfere in my choices by flagging the tomatoes Brandy Wine Pink and Kellogs Breakfast. This feels like an attack on my tunnel house too. But then again, she reckons that beefsteak tomatoes are very useful when cooking!   

She’s right, of course!  

Her Botanical knowledge is quite amazing and going through a catalogue is like re-arranging the garden:   

Aster King Size Apricot feels like one of those new varieties that she needs to try. I reckon it's probably decades old and had (so far) escaped her attention – it's pink!  

Talking about "pink": How about a Banana ornamental Pink!  

Julie has always loved Cosmos. She just fell in love with the Cosmos double click Rose Bon bon simply because it is part of "creative writing" – something that English Teachers really appreciate. Rose Pink Blooms with multiple layers of ruffled petals -what's not to like?     

Lysimachia Beaujolais is something I cannot remember having seen before. It’s a stunning plant that looks like it would dominate the borders in your garden with dark wine-coloured flowers on spikes. I look forward to Julie’s decision of where to plant it.  

Poppy Amazing Grey is not your regular bright red poppy, but a purple-grey variety that would work well with a coloured background. This is a great flower to experiment with. As is often the case with poppies, keep the seeds for a few weeks in the fridge before sowing.  

I was invited to take a close look at a new Thalictrum, Thalictrum White – “Just want to point out this plant will be attracting bees and other Entomological critters”. I reckon I should go out at night and bathe the pure white flowers in UV Torch-light!  

Zinnia elegans is a group of wonderful cut flowers in amazing colours. Have a look at the Kings Seeds Catalogue: 20 different varieties giving your garden surprising powers of accent. Zinnia Queen Lime blush ended up as Julie’s choice of 2025/26.   

Lime coloured! 

Finally we agreed on a regular food item for Spring, Summer, and Autumn: a decent type of Lettuce, Lettuce Little Caesar. 

But this one? Honestly?  

Gotta be English! Organic Pumpkin New England Pie. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at be Rude.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Time passes our man in the garden. Good morning, sir,
Good morning, and I am in the garden because it's
it's getting into September. I know that, won't you.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
So what is the date? How many days, hours and
seconds do we have to go until we're.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
As justly now, I'm not going to do that because
nobody listens to me anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I always listen to you. That's why I have the
secret you when you winners.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
It either it's probably theft I haven't looked. Actually, I
think it's the twenty first of September. Oh that's all
I can tell you at this stage. But the point
is it's it's been actually quite a strange winter because
we had twenty degrees in Christis a couple of days
that was quite something. Yes twenty twenty one, yesterday twenty one.

(00:54):
Unbelievable anyway. But the point is now is the time
to actually start looking at what you want to plant
for the next springtime. So I thought, I put that
this is actually a good time to actually get your
stuff together. So the cool thing is what we quite
often do we get the King's Seed Catalog. We don't
get one, we get two because we all they all
know that Julie wants her catalog. And now I'm mine

(01:18):
and I do the tomatoes and the food delicacy, and
Julie does all the pretty stuff. You know, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
But maybe it's a hunter gatherer thing, you know, I like,
and I like stuff you can eat.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So do I. And and there's what I say that
I always choose the plant species that are close to
our heart, art and our stomach. And if you think
there you go, so Tomato, Tomato. I'll start off with
tomatoes because it's my key. So there's a whole lot.
Actually you don't have to. You can look it up

(01:53):
online and and and of course on the on the website.
But Tomato said, I'm looking at this bloody butcher tigerrella
and cherry tomatoes, which are quite common things. But maybe
you remember that last we talked about the Gardener's Delight,
which was the thing that I got from a guy
in Tiana, Flee Tiana, which is a really lovely large

(02:17):
cherry tomato, if you like. So I found it and
I'm going to plant it now because I gave you
some seeds. I gave some other people some seeds. Now
it's the time to start doing that. Okay, there's number one.
There's also a black Krem and Tessalonik that I like,
especially tessaloni Key because my builder, the guy that always
does all my work, he's a wonderful scotsman. He loves

(02:38):
Tessaloniky for some reason. Then, so I always have a
couple of those for him as payment. That's how it works.
I'm also doing sugar baby watermelon because I haven't had
those for a long time and they are brilliant and
you can you can really grow those in Auckland very
well too, by the way, So I have a go
if you like nice, incredibly sweet sugar baby watermelons. Beautiful thing, right.

(03:03):
And then Julie goes. Of course, she started into fearing
with my tomatos. She wanted some brandy wines and some
Kelek's Breakfast tomatoes. There you go, hello, Then tomatoes tomatoes
that's the name of it. Yes, yeah, it's amazing. So
she does all this sort of nonsense and then she
goes to all these strange things, like she wants to

(03:24):
grow ornamental bananas. Oh, okay, yes, pink, yes, exactly exactly
banana pink. Oh my god. Again, this is the stuff.
I got it from King Seats, but you can get
it probably everywhere. Cosmos is another thing that she wants
to do. And then there's Zenia and Zinia is a

(03:45):
beautiful thing, lime colored. For the rest folks, look on
the internet and you'll find all our favorite gears.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Love your work, sir, Thank you so much. Rudelime past
in the garden. For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame,
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Speaker 2 (04:06):
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