Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mjg000 on January 05, 2017, 17:29
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I have just completed a spreadsheet of the seeds I have in 3 large-ish plastic boxes. Total number of varieties is 250. Some have 2, 3, or even 4 packets of a variety! I have 15 varieties of Tomatoes, 14 of Courgette and Squash, 10 of beans (dwarf & climbing, runner and French, in various colours) 7 types of pea etc. etc.
I am waiting expectantly for the new varieties to arrive from the seed circle.......
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Amazing how they build up, isn't it? lol
I didn't realise quite how many varieties of chilli or tomato I had, although I knew it was a fair few, but it is was Winter squashes that blew me away, with nineteen........ and yes, some were ones I bought recently.
I could cover both plots with those and still have seed left 😂😂🎃🎃
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You must have a really big plot mjg000 😄
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I have 2 separate plots of 5 & 6 Rods - so really not big enough for 1/4 of what I have in store!! I have potatoes on the way too.
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mjg,
10 types of tomato means ...cherry,bush,vine,egg shape,heart,stripy etc is it or just 10 varieties?
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mjg,
10 types of tomato means ...cherry,bush,vine,egg shape,heart,stripy etc is it or just 10 varieties?
Now that is just a seedaholic justifying their stash Whitehill :lol: I need all these because they are all different shapes, colours and sizes. Honestly I really, really do :lol:
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The tomatoes are:
SWEET MILLION (F1 HYBRID); BLACK CHERRY; SWEET BABY; GOLDEN QUEEN; YELLOW PEAR ; SNOWBALL;
PETIT MOINEAU; BLACK RUSSIAN; CYRIL'S CHOICE; STONOR'S MOST PROLIFIC; TUMBLING TOM; KELLOGG'S BREAKFAST; MARMANDE; TIGERELLA; GARDENER'S DELIGHT. So large, medium, small and tiny; striped and single colour; dark through to yellowy white; bush and cordon, oval and round. My favourites are Petit Moineau and Cyril's Choice with Stonor's Most Prolific and Snowball new to me this year.
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Spreadsheet! Gosh you are organised. :)
I have a carrier-bag on the back of the shed door with several packets, a box full in the porch alphabetically muddled (probably warmer than it need be), a tin full in the work-shop filed by sowing date/month and some recently bought packs hidden somewhere in the spare room.
Disorganised or what? :lol:
Types? Why loads.... all the old reliable ones I like the taste of and a few "let's have a go" newer varieties.
Then there's the: reduced special offer packs I liked the look of.
All I need is my Word doc set up... a typed list and sow by dates and we're off.
Loads of time for dreaming/planning and thumbing through the seed catalogues first.
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I was sorting out the seed box last night and found I had 39 different varieties of tomato OMG!
and that's not counting the half dozen that I have already put aside for the Seed Swap parcel :lol:
7 types of beans, 5 types of peas, 6 types of onions, 11 types of Brassicas, 5 types of peppers, 4 corn, 3 carrots, 13 types squash, 2 courgettes, 4 cucumbers, 5 Leeks, 12 lettuce/salad mix and 9 herbs. Plus Shallots and 2 types of potatoes on order.
Finally 35 different pkts of flower seed ....
So why have I just ordered 8 more packets from Marshall's *scratches head* ::)
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:lol:
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103 different veg and herb seed varieties and 39 different flower seed varieties.
I had a bit of a clear out in the autumn and must do it agin at the end of this sowing season. For a lot of veg I have found the varieties that suit me and the rest get forgotten about.
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I've just had a write down of the seeds on a spreadsheet to see what I have. Ignoring two or three packets that came free with things, it's not that I have 100 packets of seeds but that they are worth £155!
:ohmy:
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Oh dear. 47 varieties of tomato, 17 types of winter squash. I won't reveal all, too embarrassing.
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Is anyone on here old enough to remember the little rectangular cards that came free in things like packets of tea? (Right this moment I can't recall what they were called)
You could get a book and stick the cards in to make a collection. They did all sorts of subjects: wild flowers was one, butterflies was another. I think there was also a series about dogs.
I think us "seed packet collectors and hoarders" could do with something similar (and cheaper!!!). How about little cards (you could buy them for say 10 for a pound - profits to charity) and then stick them in a book.
It'd be cheaper than buying seed on impulse because we like the look of them, we could browse the cards more easily and still do swaps through the post until we had a full set. it might even be educational.... all the different varieties of tomatoes or cabbage or....:lol:
This would leave us free to only buy the packets of seed we really do need to germinate and grow that season. We would still have the picture & information cards to shuffle, read, order and lose!! :D
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Too many! I'm going to sort as I sow this year and give all the unwanted ones away......
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Too many! I'm going to sort as I sow this year and give all the unwanted ones away......
That is my problem, when someone says do you want these or I am going to chuck them - I always say yes! I have got lots of different cabbage seeds and I don't even like cabbage!
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.... Or hang on to anything in date and put it in the seed pass the parcel that will start up again later this year :) Mind you, having a seed parcel arrive full of temptations isn't going to help you is it :lol:
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.... Or hang on to anything in date and put it in the seed pass the parcel that will start up again later this year :) Mind you, having a seed parcel arrive full of temptations isn't going to help you is it :lol:
Definitely not :nowink: I suspect many (if not most) will be ood, but so were many of the ones I have sown and grown on successfully in the past, and will (hopefully) be again this year.......
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So Far: (But there's more in the Post!)
Plant Variety
Bean 'Borlotti' Supremo
Bean 'French Climbing' Blue Lake
Bean 'Yard' Un Metro Ramp
Beetroot Detroit
Beetroot Cylindra
Beetroot Detroit 2
Beetroot Boltardy
Broccoli Sprouting Early Purple
Cabbage Heart
Cabbage Greyhound
Carrot Early Nantes
Cauliflower All Year Round
Celery Lathom Self Blanching
Courgette Black Beauty
Cucumber Early Spring Burpless
Cucumber La Diva
Hops Humulus Lupulus
Kiwi Actinidia Chinensis
Marrow Green Bush 4
Melon Honeydew
Melon Sugar Baby
Pepper Sweet Ingrid
Pepper California Wonder
Potatoes Swift
Potatoes Kestrel
Pumpkin Rouge vif d'Etampes
Pumpkin New England Pie
Pumpkin Asian Curry
Pumpkin Tom Fox
Radish Cherry Belle
Radish Sparkler 3
Rocket Wild
Squash Crown Prince
Squash Waltham Butternut
Squash Sweet Dumpling
Strawberrys Alpine
Strawberrys Fragaria Vesca
Tomato Moneymaker
Tomato Gigantomo
Tomato Black Cherry
Tomato Balconi Yellow
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I feel amongst friends! Currently I have 53 packets of seeds in my eBay shopping basket. I was thinking I should try and whittle them down a bit, but maybe I'll just go for it! The problem is that it's easy to click to buy them, but then the hard work comes after...
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Now that is a brilliant idea Paul, (we called them tea-cards, lol). I'm going to make up some cards and write the details on them and put them in a Howdens notebook,(they give them away free), with corners so i can take them out and read both sides. and also write on the opposite page. possibly put/glue a picture on as well. arh.
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Now that is a brilliant idea Paul, (we called them tea-cards, lol). I'm going to make up some cards and write the details on them and put them in a Howdens notebook,(they give them away free), with corners so i can take them out and read both sides. and also write on the opposite page. possibly put/glue a picture on as well. arh.
So... I'm not totally barking after all :) And I still haven't bought any new seed packets this year.
Considering buying 1 packet of my favourite tomato seeds as I can't find the one from last year... (not looked that hard though ;) )