What are they going on about?

[tim]

My naive reaction to those asking about cheap seeds.

Yes, I have on occasion been surprised at how few seeds some packets contain, & I do expect to pay close on a pound for a Cucumber seed, but it was not until I came to re-sow another 10 Romanesco that I found there were not 10 left in the packet!! Brassica??

At least I'm going back to 99p Growbags this year rather than ecologically sound ones at over £3.

[tim]

[Tee Gee]

I know what you mean Tim

This is why I never buy Runner, Broad and some types of French beans.

When you think you can save 3 or 4 pods and have equally as many, as is in a packet sold at around £2.

This saving allows me to buy other things.

I still think joining the National Society of Allotment & leisure gardeners at £1.75 pa is a good buy!

[Barnowl]

I'm hoping that at least on of the varieties we're growing this year will be the one we want to grow year after year - but how should we go about saving the seeds?

[tim]

I don't, but http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt9905.html as a start?

Real Seeds do photographs!

[Hyacinth]

just picking up on the growbags......I'm with you on that one Tim.....my first & last experience of those bags last year :(

[shirlton]

Everything I have put in so far from real seeds I have had 100% germination and the price is ok too. Wilkies are from 49p but their shrley toms are more expensive I think they were about £1 for10 but then they were bogof

[Larkshall]

Hi Tim,
Growbags in our area are usually £1.50, but a local garden centre sells them off at the end of the season for 99p. I take the estate car and get 10 at a time. Stack them over winter and cover with a tarpaulin.

[Emagggie]

89p in Aldi  ;D. Got a nice stash for my toms.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Toms are ever so easy to save seed from as they're self-pollinating.

[Emagggie]

I certainly intend to do so this year Robert, I've got a nice collection of different varieties this year. Any tips  on a failsafe method of seed collecting and drying ?

[Busby]

Go to www.realseeds.co.uk

[Robert_Brenchley]

Squeeze the juice and seeds from several toms out into a small jar, and leave it for a few days until there's a good coat of mould. You don't want seeds mixed up in the mould, so add water if you get a dryish mix at the beginning. When the mould develops, swill it out under a tap with several changes of water, until you're left with clean seed. Dud seeds will float off with all the pulp and muck.

[ruffmeister]

yup totally agree, the seed we have chosen for tomatoes this year had 5 seeds in the pack. if i had paid the rrp of £2.49 i would have been very annoyed however got them from wyvale for 25p a pack. but seriously

5 seeds for over £2  :o

[Hyacinth]

I save the lazy way......squash the seeds+jelly onto a bit of kitchen roll...let it dry....plant the whole caboodle the next year....has worked every time for me.

[Barnowl]

Why is it that all my favourite tomatoes so far are F1s so there's no point in saving the seed? ???

[kitten]

This is why we haven't bought any F1's if at all possible so that if we do actually get any produce we could start saving our own seed.  Well, that's the theory anyway...

[Barnowl]

I don't, but http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt9905.html as a start?

Real Seeds do photographs!

Thanks Tim :)