"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am trying to be a little more organised this year :-)

In any one year I may grow four or five vegtetable plants in tubs on the
patio.

Last year there were a pepper, a chilli, and two cherry tomatoes.

I find it irritating (though logically it shouldn't be) to buy a complete
packet of seeds to grow one or two plants.

Last year I just bought two cherry tomato plants at a local farmers
market,
and a chilli and pepper plant at Homebase.

This costs in about the same as buying three packets of seed and growing
your own, especially with an allowance for the time and trouble geting the
seedlings going. Commercially grown plants tend to be sturdier than my
attempts, mainly I think due to them being grown in a heated greenhouse
with
plenty of light, as opposed to my windowsill/sun room attempts.

However you don't get to choose the variety; in the case of Homebase you
don't even get told the variety.

So what I would like to do is order plants of a chosen variety from a
nursery (or nurseries) over the Internet and have them delivered at the
correct time for planting them outside.

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?

TIA

Dave R


Have you tried looking for local gardening clubs/societies, many of these
sell of excess plants through the year, and you would probably get quite a
good selection of different varieties.

You may well even find someone who'd happily swop a couple of chilli plants
for a couple of tomatoes etc.


Just an idea.
Duncan