We bought some green courgette plants (now producing at an alarming rate)
and some yellow courgette plants (not really got going yet but showing signs
of small fruit).

However they don't look particularly yellow.

It is a while since I've grown yellow courgettes but I am pretty sure that
the tiny fruit started out yellow, not green, and stayed yellow as they
grew.

So if you have bought some potted up seedlings labeled as 'yellow
courgetttes' and they turn out to be green, what comeback (if any) do you
have?

There doesn't seem to be much point in taking back this huge hairy plant on
which you have spent months of time, cultivation and fertilisation and
saying "You sold me the wrong plant. Can I have my 90p back please."

I can't see the liability of the shop going beyond the cost of the original
seedling.

So, apart from telling them that their supplier has sent them wrongly
labelled seedlings (and in turn may have been supplied with wrongly labelled
seeds) what can I do?

I presume there are the same problems with buying seeds which turn out to
produce the wrong variety.
If you buy a perennial then you can always take it back once it flowers but
with anuals you are more or less stuffed.
You lose all the time, expense, and effort you have expended in raising
them.

Grumble

Dave R

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

David WE Roberts wrote:
We bought some green courgette plants (now producing at an alarming
rate) and some yellow courgette plants (not really got going yet but
showing signs of small fruit).

However they don't look particularly yellow.

It is a while since I've grown yellow courgettes but I am pretty sure
that the tiny fruit started out yellow, not green, and stayed yellow
as they grew.

So if you have bought some potted up seedlings labeled as 'yellow
courgetttes' and they turn out to be green, what comeback (if any) do
you have?

There doesn't seem to be much point in taking back this huge hairy
plant on which you have spent months of time, cultivation and
fertilisation and saying "You sold me the wrong plant. Can I have my
90p back please."
I can't see the liability of the shop going beyond the cost of the
original seedling.

So, apart from telling them that their supplier has sent them wrongly
labelled seedlings (and in turn may have been supplied with wrongly
labelled seeds) what can I do?

I presume there are the same problems with buying seeds which turn
out to produce the wrong variety.
If you buy a perennial then you can always take it back once it
flowers but with anuals you are more or less stuffed.
You lose all the time, expense, and effort you have expended in
raising them.

Grumble

A nuisance, isn't it? But I imagine the green ones are a little more
nutritious than the yellow ones, which may be a slight consolation...

Chiltern Seeds sold me a packet labelled Geranium sanguineum
v.lancastrense (striatum) last year: at about three quid for fifteen
seeds I was far from elated when only two came up as labelled, with the
others all being the magenta type. On the other hand, when one of their
sweet peas turned out to be a very pretty, though scentless, perennial
pea, I was rather pleased. I never got round to doing anything about it,
even though two errors, one of them major, in three packets is pretty
poor.

--
Mike.