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Price of seeds
"Des Higgins" wrote in message ... On Mar 16, 4:41 am, wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:56:06 -0000, "someone" wrote: "judith" wrote in message .. . I have grown Sungold tomatoes every year for about the last ten years. I always bought seed from Thompson & Morgan - indeed, I was originally told that they were the only people you could get them from as it was "their" variety. I now see that this is incorrect - and you can buy from any number of sources - (too late from this year - already bought T&M) I have noticed that there is great variation in the prices - eg ten seeds for 3 pounds or thirty seeds for three pounds. My question is : is it worth paying more for such seeds or are the cheaper ones fine? Over the years I have tried a lot of seed merchants. I had a bad experience with T&M last year and would not use them again. Their seeds are expensive and their live plants didn't do well for me (after I'd paid in 2007, they told me that the plants I wanted wouldn't be available until a year later, and the ones that arrived in 2007 came as small cuttings, with nothing around their roots, so they promptly died). We have shops like Aldi, Lidl and Wilkinson's in our area, and Wilko's seeds are 29p a packet. You don't get many seeds, but who needs more than 10 tomato seeds of any variety? I've found their seeds very reliable. Lidl is also good because, being a German company, they sell slightly different things, e.g. yellow string beans, as well as the regular green ones. They of course sell all the normal flowers and vegetable seeds. I can recommend Franchi Italian seeds as well, they have interesting varieties, although they're pricier. Their Cavolo Nero is to die for. http://www.seedsofitaly.com/ If you've been growing Sungold for all these years, you should be saving seed yourself from your tomatoes. Tomato seeds are very hardy and long-lived, as are all the brassicas and squashes. Carrot and onion seeds are very short-lived and not worth storing from one year to the next. HTH someone Thanks for comments. (Sungold are F1 hybrids and will not reproduce same next season so I have to buy new seeds every year) -- You are right (F1 etc.). I also find Sungold very expensive but worth it as they are the one variety that I have grown so far that spouse and kids agree are really really worth the effort. Other tomatoes are nice and it is very fulfilling to grow them from seed etc. but Sungold are magic. What annoys me about the price is not the money but the tiny number of seeds you get in most packets leaving no room for mistakes. Thanks for this info, judithsmith and Des, I had forgotten about the problem of hybridisation. Ok, then, just save seed from Cavolo Nero and Squash :-) If I find anyone who sells Sungold seeds in a larger quantity I'll posr here. s. |
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