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ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 7:47 am Post subject:

I am also a seed adict - I spent a happy hour sorting, cataloguing and planning what to plant when and where whith what I had - Then took what I didn't need, duplicates etc to the lower school for their garden.

I went shopping

I spent a happy hour sorting, cataloguing and planning what to plant when and where w ith what now had - Then took what I didn't need, duplicates etc to mum.

I went shopping

I still have too many - and still get tempted by the free packets on the front of magazines

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 8:24 am Post subject:

nettie wrote:

T&M

poor poor poor germination, and I mistakenly spent two and a bit quid on their wild primrose seed only to discover later that there were only 50 seeds in the pack - one sneeze and they were gone. I keep trying to like T&M cos they're a local company, but it's not happening.

Suttons seem to be foolproof but i don't know what they expect me to do with 2000 carrots. Maybe they know that my friends and family will need them. Next winter I'll try exploring local firms online, and heritage seed companies too.

We were VERY unimpressed with the germination rates for Sarah Raven seeds last year. Also her quantities are quite small. Her catalogue is glossy plant porn, but went straight in the bin after we had a good laugh at the prices. Never again! Now we know she's 'gardening royalty' we think the suppliers give her floor sweepings

Lots of wild seeds need special germination techniques - sometimes it's more economic to buy plants (Hence my expensive Hellibores

)

Kate

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 8:29 am Post subject:

Sally wrote:

Seed addicts do NOT visit this site:

www.realseeds.co.uk

You have been warned!

Way too late - have already received my order from them, and from Chiltern Seeds, and bought loads of packets from Wilkinsons, plus the leftovers from last year... yeah, guess I'm a bit of an addict too

Cheers,
Rob.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 9:06 am Post subject:
Sally, you PUSHER, you!

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 10:13 am Post subject:
Ha - I laugh at you all with your pathetic attempts at seed addiction - I have 25 types of tomatoes alone (and I've planted 17 types!) My seed box started off so well organised - now I open it and it explodes like a Jack-in-a-box - its so full and I keep buying them Mind you Tahir is the real seed-a-holic - He bought 20 types of leeks once

***merlin***

Joined: 09 Aug 2009
Posts: 112

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 10:45 am Post subject:
there is just so many seeds and so little time but i figure, if we were not meant buy & grow that many things, they wouldnt be there in the 1st place can justify ANYTHING but especially seed buying

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 10:48 am Post subject:
We now have three large propagators on the sitting room windowsill,two in the potting shed and seedlings on the landing windowsill Jo, we are up to 12 varieties of tomatoes in all sorts of colours. My OH is addicted to growing chillies.

***merlin***

Joined: 09 Aug 2009
Posts: 112

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 10:51 am Post subject:
my hubby works away at present we are having the kitchen extended work is on hold till her gets back at present extension is all sealed off with polythene at the weekend i thought, hmmmmmmm one great big greenhouse i spent most of saturday planting away!! its great ((((understanding hubbys))))))

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 4:02 pm Post subject:

Sally wrote:

Seed addicts do NOT visit this site:

www.realseeds.co.uk

You have been warned!

you bu&&er!!!!

AnneandMike

Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Posts: 890
Location: Over the hill and soon to be far away

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 8:14 pm Post subject:
Current sowings: tomatoes (3 varieties) peppers (2 varieties) sweetcorn leeks cabbage cucumber courgette peas broad beans cosmos morning glory (2 varieties) sweet peas (2 varieties) stipa tenuissima sunflower delphinium (2 varieties) monarda nicotiana geum verbena verbascum meconopsis anthemis achillia alyssum saxitile clematis I reckon I qualify for junkie status.

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 5:30 pm Post subject:
Thought all seed junkies should see this: https://www.thompson-morgan.com/latest-offers.html 50% off ALL SEEDS this bank hol weekend - order by Sunday night... now what haven't I got??? Kate

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 5:33 pm Post subject:
Everyone grows, like, six varieties of courgette. Right? Its not just me?

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 5:37 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Everyone grows, like, six varieties of courgette. Right? Its not just me?

Only four here this year, but I have got two types of summer squash as well (and marrows). My problem is chillis and tomatoes. 11 varieties of chilli growing on in the greenhouse at the moment. Not sure how many tomato varieties without looking it up in my notes, but at least 8.

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 5:38 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Everyone grows, like, six varieties of courgette. Right? Its not just me?

ERM....well I've planted two - all green bush and black beauty, but I've got seed for two yellow varieties, a patty pan and a round green one too

so that's six!!! Same with squashes...I've quite a choice... but I'm limited on space.

(we didn't like last years yellow courgettes BTW...they look fab, but they just didn't have the flavour, and because of the rain they were prone to blossom end rot - or something nasty like that)

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 5:43 pm Post subject:
Oh, you just HAD to, didn't you, Kate? I've got enough problems fitting what I've already got into the space available ... and now I want more!! I need a bigger garden

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