I have come across a company called Tozer Direct. They seem to sell much more seed for your money particularly for F1 varieties.
An example is Carrot Flyways T&M price £3.29 for 500. But Tozer price is £2.75 for 5000. Nearly 1/12 price.
Has anyone any experience of Tozer Direct Seeds?
They sell chantenary carrots at £2.35 for 10gm which I reckon is about 7500 seeds, while T&M charge £1.89 for 2500.
personally I haven't used Tozer, but I'd check out how much both companies charge for postage. Sometimes companies make up the difference that way - not always tho :-\
False economy unless you can use that amount in a season or share the quantity with others.
Digeroo would you use all the seeds? If not what would you do with them? I agree with Ceres!
If you have trouble with germinationof carrots... and end up sowing several times you could soon go through them... ::)
I wouldn't. I don't grow sufficiently large quantities of carrots (or anything else) to use that much seed even with poor germination rates. Perhaps if you're growing to sell or for large/multiple families.
It looks a good site to me Digeroo. Not interested in the carrots personally, but do like to grow Wisley Magic runner beans (a T&M exclusive according to their site) and they are much cheaper from Tozer. They also have a big range of winter squashes at good prices. Postage £1.65 so doesn't wipe out your savings!
No I don't need that number of carrots, Other half and me eat about two or three each per day, so 1500 carrots more than enough, so about 2000 seeds is sufficient.
I just do not like the thought that I am being ripped off. The F1 varieties are not that expensive. Did not have a major issue with root fly but with 50 allotments I am sure they will soon become an problem - had to give up garden carrots a few years ago.
Germination in allotment fine but in garden major slug issue. I think they get hoovered off before you see them, so have to sow quite thickly to get any carrots.
Squash/courgette seeds last for years, so a bigger packet is good value. I am sure I can find some takers for the spare seeds.
Presume they do not come in vaccuum packs.
I used Tozer for 2009 sweetcorn and a courgette. Yes, too many seeds but I hand them around and they had a variety of sweetcorn they'd developed which I wanted to try (TZ6157).
Tozer charge £3.05 for courgette Midnight F1 (50 seeds) - POD charge £2.05 for 10, so for a quid extra a) I'd plenty of seeds in case I messed up germination or started too early and got caught out by the weather and b) I'd plenty to give away at minimal cost.
ps I have some TZ6157 and Kite spare for 2010, PM me in a couple of months - bit busy to send out at the moment.
Was the seed quality good?
Quotewhich I wanted to try (TZ6157
Were you pleased with this variety? Good Flavour?
I probably didn't need to be told about that site.... I might just need another plot for all those squash :-)
I will not buy seeds, seeds are the little death.....
No doubt people get fed up with me harping on about seed prices but here goes again.
Wait until next year when Netto, Lidl, Aldi and B&M get their stock in and load up your stock from theirs. (Wilkinsons went up in price this year but they may have learned. I noticed they had loads left when the others had sold out)
The packs are all far less than 50p each and there is more than enough seeds in a pack for at least a year or two for one family and if not it does not cost an arm and a leg to get a few more packs.
There is nothing what so ever wrong with the seeds other than you wont get a load of 'different' items like purple cauliflowers and pink peas.
I doubt that I will need to buy any next year because I have some carefully re-sealed packs from last year (even last years parsnips germinated) and the year before which I have re-used this year. But I probably will, seedaholicism strikes all us gardeners.
Keep your eyes peeled for when they get the stocks in, they soon sell out.
Have already got most of my seed requirements for next year from the end of season sales, huge choice of varieties including F1's and the large Bean & Pea packs all at 50p a pack.
Failing that I buy from seeds of Italy/Franchi for their larger packs. Online seed catalogues just have me reaching for the credit card FAR too easiliy....
Quote from: Digeroo on September 02, 2009, 18:05:23
Was the seed quality good?
Quotewhich I wanted to try (TZ6157
Were you pleased with this variety? Good Flavour?
Germination rates were good for the Sweetcorn: 11 out of 11 for T6157 and 9 out of 10 for Kite. There were also 11 Swift (from the OrganicCatalog) of which 8 germinated.
I meant to do a second batch but left it too late and then also left the initial batch in the root trainers a bit too long. Sweetcorn doesn't like having its roots constrained and subsequently 'stop' for a bit when planted out, so mine are a few weeks late in maturing - I probably won't start harvesting until next week - but the plants are sturdy and healthy.
Funnily enough Swift, often described as very good on this forum, had 2 of the 8 planted go t 30% mortality rate once planted out. The survivors look ok though.
Only sowed two Midnight F1 seeds. Both germinated and the one plant I grew matches what it says on the tin - fairly upright/non-sprawly and produces good looking and good quality fruit. Not a prolific producer compared to some varieties, but that's not a problem :) I'll be growing it again.