Desert Island crops

So you know the rules - if you were marooned on a desert island (climate of your choice!) and could only take 10 types of seed with you, what would they be? You can tell us what your luxury and your book would be too if you like :D

I think I'd have to go with - sweetcorn, beetroot, rocket, broad beans, courgettes, cherry tomatoes, spinach, purple sprouting, runner beans - and if I could grow avocadoes, that'd be lovely!

 

Claire i would have to take sweetcorn, cabbage, beetroot, peas, french beans, carrots, spring onions,leeks and brocoli. My luxury would have to be chocolate, complete chocoholic!!!

 

I'd take pea seeds and sweetcorn. My luxury items would be a machine to convert sea water to drinking water with attached mobile phone to ask company how to set it up and the complete 'harry potter book set' So I can't go unitl 23rd july.
But hold that ticket, i'm packing now!

 

Hi Claire,I would take Potato seeds,Pea, Carrots,
Corncockle,Iris,Carnations,Primrose,Cowslip,SweetPeas and Daffodil seeds.

My luxury Item would be Cocolate,though I would rather take my 'Love Actually'DVD but wouldn't be able to watch it with out the player...

My favourite book would be the 'Bridges Of Madison County' by Robert James Waller :D

 

ok, seeds would be:
tomatoes,
cauliflower,
radishes,
watermelon,
melon,
cucumber,
strawberries,
raspberries,
courgettes,
green peas

and then I would have a mirror and some scissors

 

LOL, great answers so far. Miraflores, what do you want the mirror and scissors for, are we allowed to ask?
I think for my luxury perhaps I'd take a packet of sweetpea seeds but I really can't decide about the book.

 

Seeds -
French beans
Butternut squash
Tomato
Seed potatoes
Oats
Lettuce
Carrot
Swiss chard
Peas
And a packet of mixed herb seeds to spice up the monotonous diet!

Luxury - My back-packing fishing kit.

Book - "Building Your Own Boat for Beginners"

 

Potatoes
Cherry tomatoes
Little gem lettuce
beetroot
runner beans
broad beans
sweetcorn
onions
strawberries
basil

luxury item - my laptop with 20mb cable internet access

Book - complete works of charles dickens or D.H. Lawrence. I always mean to get around to reading some classics but never quite get there :rolleyes:

 

My seeds would be:

strawberries
cherry tomatoes
beetroot
onions
parsnips
mixed fuschia
primroses
potatoes
limanthes
melon

my book would be
gardening by the moon

my luxury item would be a broad rimmed sunhat cos my desert island would be somewhere sunny!

 

I would take a mirror to ignate fire and scissors to make some clothes...

 

Ah, thanks miraflores - I thought you were going to try out some new hairstyles or something!
The big hat sounds like a good idea, as does the complete works of DH Lawrence. Badsal, gardening by the moon sounds interesting - do you already do this or are you taking the book to learn about it? Maybe I should start a thread on it...