On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:27:40 -0000, "David W.E. Roberts"
wrote:

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~However Google (especially with all these subsidiary search sites which
~crowd the top of the list and just echo your search and pretend they can
~give you answers) is proving especially unhelpful.
~
~I can find specialist plant firms, and a nice Mr Fothergills site for seeds,
~but nobody doing mail order vegetable plants.
~
~Anyone found a good place to do this, or should I bite the bullet and get
~seeds, resign myself to not using most of them, and improve my propogation
~arrangements?

I can't answer the question properly, but I can give you this URL:
http://www.gardenerskitchen.co.uk/

These are the people who supply little polystyrene packs of veg to
garden centres: they were very helpful when I phoned a couple of years
or so ago to enquire about their leek variety (which I now buy as seed
from Unwin's thanks to their information!) and they do have quite a
good selection of varieties, all listed with growing instructions on
the website.

They sadly don't do mail order - just the deliveries to GCs. But the
site does have a list of the GCs which sell their veggies. Bewa a
given GC won't have the whole range... so always best to phone first.

hope this helps a bit...


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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