is it safe to buy seeds from ebay?

jb yeah that is freaky. u know i was going to get the sage as well but read that they are difficult to grow so i backed down  :shock: .(had a bad time with mint seed last year complete waste of time). instead will get plants.
any other recommendations from PSD? Maybe we got the same birth day 8th of may?

my seed was from a garden centre. I planted them, waited and waited, nothing came up. so i thought i had put to much compost on top. so i removed the top layer of compost. still nothink came up. i then  decided that i will use the compost for planting something else. after a long time the mint started coming up, not all at once but a little spread over a long period. i couldn't remove them and put them in another pot because they were so tiny. so i left them to grow with the other plants. anyway, then i was getting lots of small green insects on the stems of these tiny mint. i would spend time removing them every day by hand but they would just come again and again. I got the green fly spray from the nursery and sprayed but that damaged the plants and the green insects came back.
so i had enough. i got the insect spray (normal stuff) and sprayed. big mistake. the vast majority of the mint died and the other plants they were sharing the pot with also died.   :x . a couple of mint was still alive. after some time when they got a little bigger i planted them in the garden. something ate them or killed them. and u know the mint variety wasn't even nice not the stuff u can use with lamp, more like chewing gum mint.
so no more planting mint for me i am going to get some pot plants instead. also the rosemary i planted from seed never came up. so i am getting that from pot plants as well. i want to grow sage and lavender but i am going to get plants as well.

jb yeah that is freaky. u know i was going to get the sage as well but read that they are difficult to grow so i backed down  :shock: .(had a bad time with mint seed last year complete waste of time). instead will get plants.
any other recommendations from PSD? Maybe we got the same birth day 8th of may?

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Sadly I'm in March.
Got to admit although the sage germinated and initially grew well I seem to stuggle to get it to a size where I can harvest regularly so will be probably buying plants from a nursery next year.

fivespud364, did the plants that were from USA seed do well?

I had lots of seeds from Premier last year, all grew well Toms particularly good, also peppers, cues and radish, have also ordered again this year, leeks, beets, peas, lettuce, turnips and peppers....will let you know...no complaints so far!!

I find the instructions more than adequate and 70p packing is pretty good value..

Phill

I bought 64 Packets from Premiere seeds at the weekend and because i broke off to see to the baby half way through it charged me £2.10 postage which i thought was good for 64 packets then they sent me a refund of £1.40 saying i had overpaid so i paid 70p postage for 64 Packets now you cant complain at that can you

Take care when buying seeds from outside UK. There are all sorts of nasty diseases what we do not want here.

There are very strict rules on importation of any plant or animal matter purely to keep our crops and animals safe.

Do not be the one that brings in a disease !!!!!!