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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 11:31

Title: Go on then COUNT YOUR PACKETS OF VEG SEEDS!
Post by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 11:31: I have 65 different packets of vegetable seeds!

WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Title: Go on then COUNT YOUR PACKETS OF VEG SEEDS!
Post by: WG. on February 13, 2007, 11:33: I can't count above 10 without taking off me shoes and socks
Title: Go on then COUNT YOUR PACKETS OF VEG SEEDS!
Post by: WG. on February 13, 2007, 11:42: About the same as you Sally, maybe a few less. Say 60 packets but I will confess that some of mine are 1kg sized. :o

David
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Post by: fluffypebble on February 13, 2007, 12:00: But size isn't everything :lol:
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Post by: WG. on February 13, 2007, 12:06: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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Post by: noshed on February 13, 2007, 12:16: I bet it won't stop you getting a few more though...
Title: Go on then COUNT YOUR PACKETS OF VEG SEEDS!
Post by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 12:16: Quote from: "whisky_golf"
About the same as you Sally, maybe a few less. Say 60 packets but I will confess that some of mine are 1kg sized. :o

David

WHOA! Mine are all neat little packs - many from Real Seeds, a few from Marshalls and one or two odd other ones. All contained in the size of a shoe box! 8)
Title: Veg Seeds
Post by: Correzienne on February 13, 2007, 12:31: I have recently been brutal and culled a large proportion of mine - having been distracted by the small issue of moving both house and country haven't grown much for the last two years and many were getting a bit past it. Probably still quite a few though - I can't count as I don't live where I garden. Have started writing the year opened on the packet so at least in future I'll know whether they're geriatric or not!
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Post by: WG. on February 13, 2007, 12:33: So fluffypebble, at least Sally is impressed by size ... :D

10kg coriander seed (for leaf production)
1kg leek seed (for baby leeks)
1kg spring onion seed (salad crop)
50,000 shallot seeds (for pickling and smoking)

Most final crops are for sell/trade (barter) to local hotel and restaurants. Happy to trade ya almost anything (doesn't have to be seeds) for some of the above.
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Post by: beansticks on February 13, 2007, 12:59: I am not counting mine,suffice to say i have 2 tins full,time for a clear out i think!
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Post by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 13:06: Quote from: "beansticks"
I am not counting mine,suffice to say i have 2 tins full,time for a clear out i think!

Aww. Please play!
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Post by: beansticks on February 13, 2007, 13:08: HI SALLY ,i am in work at the moment,but i think the packet count would be nearer to 80,problem is i am like a magpie,just cant throw them out.
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Post by: king cauli on February 13, 2007, 13:23: wow,feel a little inferior :) have only 68 packs(so far) :) wished there was one more pack,woulda been my favourite number,darn :lol:
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Post by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 13:24: Quote from: "beansticks"
HI SALLY ,i am in work at the moment,but i think the packet count would be nearer to 80,problem is i am like a magpie,just cant throw them out.

:lol: Know the feeling.
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Post by: beansticks on February 13, 2007, 13:25: KIng CAULI,my favourite position(sorry number ) too
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Post by: beansticks on February 13, 2007, 13:29: OOPS sorry JOHN ,thought i was on off topic
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Post by: GrannieAnnie on February 13, 2007, 16:26: 50,000 shallots???? Who has the job of peeling them?????

I've got 86 packets, but they are not all full, an some are saved from last year like toms and chillies and many are swaps
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Post by: WG. on February 13, 2007, 16:29: That seed will last me a year or two but I do make a lot of pickles. Smoking is even better because you don't need to peel them.

Glad to see you've cleaned up this thread a bit.
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Post by: yummy on February 13, 2007, 16:29: Zero because my organic garden catalogue order has still not been dispatched :(
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Post by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 16:39: Quote from: "yummy"
Zero because my organic garden catalogue order has still not been dispatched :(

OOOoooo :( ! But JUST IMAGINE the fun once they arrive!
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Post by: yummy on February 13, 2007, 16:41: Quote from: "Salkeela"
Quote from: "yummy"
Zero because my organic garden catalogue order has still not been dispatched :(

OOOoooo :( ! But JUST IMAGINE the fun once they arrive!

I know :tongue2: I want them to come NOOOW cos I have the week off work.... hurry uppp post em nowwww
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Post by: muntjac on February 13, 2007, 19:59: about 10 here is all i need ..100 seeds in apack n savers from last year
Title: Go on then COUNT YOUR PACKETS OF VEG SEEDS!
Post by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 20:18: Quote from: "muntjac"
about 10 here is all i need ..100 seeds in apack n savers from last year

I counted packs saved from last year in my total.
Title: Go on then COUNT YOUR PACKETS OF VEG SEEDS!
Post by: muntjac on February 13, 2007, 20:23: mine are saved seed from plants grown salkeela ..runner beans french climbing beans dwarf french, i always save a couple of lbs from my last planting .i stagger these plants planting a couple 3 weeks intween each sowing .i get about 100 lbs approx from cropping and save from the last sowing letting them go to seed ,.i let the first pods on the bottom trusses ripen by using shears on the growing tips when they reach 6 ft and the plant then puts great vigour into forming first class seed
Title: Go on then COUNT YOUR PACKETS OF VEG SEEDS!
Post by: Salkeela on February 13, 2007, 20:40: Quote from: "muntjac"
mine are saved seed from plants grown salkeela .

Yes I know. I have courgette seeds & pumpkin seeds & a couple of tom seeds "saved" in that sense, and about 30 - 40 packets that I would regard as "stored" rather than saved - meaning they were bought last year or earlier! (Admittedly some of them never got planted! :oops: This year I aim to plant much more - certainly I have more ground prepared. :D
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Post by: king cauli on February 14, 2007, 17:06: have eighty packs now,thanks to annie and our seed swao,she gave me 12 different types of toms,made my day,thanks :D
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Post by: Dabhand on February 14, 2007, 20:52: 29 packs of salad, veg and flowers
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Post by: yummy on February 15, 2007, 19:28: Actually I lied. I have two packets of tomato seeds that I forgot about.

Have since been given broad beans. Also bought onion sets yesterday and fruit bushes/canes today but they are not seeds so don't count I presume.