David WE Roberts wrote:
Just a note in passing to say that last weekend HomeBase in Ipswich had the
sickliest, weediest, nastiest tomato seedlings I have ever seen.

If I had grown them, I would have thrown them.

You have to wonder why they even bothered to put them out on display.

Heh. They're waiting for me to come along and 'rescue' them.
(last year I bought about 400 vegetable plants in trays at 10p, and we got
quite a good crop from them, plus I potted some up for the school summer
fayre)

I bought my small number of plants from a local farm shop / nursery.
They were far superior.

Of all the things I grow, tomatoes are the ones I always grow from seed.
I've never seen any reason to buy plants in.

I was just looking in HB to see if they had any other interesting varieties.

Interesting varieties come in seeds, not in plants! (I have terrible
trouble every year, cos I grow too many different ones - I think I was
limited to 14 different varieties this year, which is still too many to put
in the greenhouses!)

Still, I now have two chillis, one sungold tomato, and three courgettes out
in pots and they seem to be happy so far.

My yellows, which may or may not be sungold (Hmm, I think they're not,
they're golden sunrise, or something similar) are looking extremely healthy.
Some of the others are straggling. Fakel and Matina are also looking very
happy.

And the 5 I found on the boys' windowsill that I had totally forgotten about
and haven't been watered for nearly 2 weeks are looking great!