Anyone Buying New Seed ?

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  1. Selleri

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    Absolutely no new seeds this year. Zero. Nix. Nada. I have hoarded everything I need and don't need this autumn so the seed box is already overflowing.

    Then again, Chiltern's sent their catalogue and as it makes such a good read, I have been browsing it for weeks. Samphire looks like a fun plant to try. I'll have to set parental controls on my browser to block their website :redface:
     
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      I already bought everything I wanted. Large-flowered marigolds and tomatoes of different interesting varieties, including named after Star Wars and from dwarf project (ooh, enough for a few seasons, but so many tempting varieties). All the rest collected in 2021, and I still have loads of packages of this and that. After 4 seasons in my garden I understood what are no go plants to grow.
       
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        I've already received my seed orders for 2022. I'd gone through all my seeds during lockdown and sown everything so I was back to zero apart from what I saved myself.

        I'd been noting down things I wanted to try through the year and narrowed it down to what I realistically have space and time for. I mainly got beans, tomatoes and winter squash as well as some flowers.

        I got some from Mr Fothergill's on Black Friday, some from Premier Seeds and some from a seed swap I participated in.

        The only things I don't have yet are chard and beetroot but I'm not fussy over which varieties I get with those.
         
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          Got most of the basics, but want to have a look through Chiltern's catalogue, Plant World Seeds and Jungle Seeds for the more interesting items.
           
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            It's a bit different here. Mrs Shiney is in charge of seeds, except runner beans, and I have no input at all. She rarely buys any of them but ends up with loads of freebie packets and plants. People are always dropping in their unused parts of packets, freebies they have received and don't want or bringing round spare plants they have grown. This amounts to hundreds of plants, some are used here and the rest are sold for our charity or passed onto charity garden centres or planted in the gardens of charities that we help. People are so generous and we have been doing this for decades.

            The one exception are the runner beans. I buy the seeds wholesale as I grow a lot for myself (my favourite veg) and sell the plants and the produce. I buy them from a man who won't sell less than an order of 500. My last order, early in 2021, was a variety of beans that cost £11 for 800 (almost twice the price of the previous year as beans were in short of supply because so many more people were at home and deciding to try their hand and veg growing) and made a lot of money for the charity. :blue thumb:
             
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              Not so much buying as collecting from the various parks we visit! So far I've got Phlomis, a couple of Aconitums, Beschorneria, Solanum lanceolatum, some Canna, Sophora, Catalpa bignonioides (Indian bean Tree) and Paulonia tomentosa
               
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                I am trying to order seeds to get seeds.

                Some of my order will be things that I have already proven to be useless at trying to collect their seeds, such as impatiens, but I am hoping that some of the others on my list will become plants that I can collect seeds from for the years to come.

                I have been collecting my 4 O'clocks for a few years now but I've ordered some more as mine are all red and I want a variety. Nicotiana are easy to collect, salvia not so easy.

                Has anyone got a colourful favourite that is dead easy to collect seeds from?
                 
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                  Lychnis coronaria ( you may know it as Silene ) , the rose campion , is one of my favourites for saving seed :smile:
                   
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                    Sorting out my new seed packets today, mostly vegetables. Making a sowing plan:
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                      There's nothing better than getting organised @JWK :smile:

                      I said I wasn't going to grow tomatoes from seeds any more, you get too many and there's nobody here to eat them these days, but I have some seeds of a new variety from a place in Anglesey and they are called 'Y Ddraig Goch' (the red dragon) I had to try them :biggrin:

                      I also want to try Cobaea and ? somthing I can't remember the name of and never grown before :what: I have it written down somewhere :scratch: it's a climber with purple flowers ...
                       
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                        They're a lovely showy plant but we don't need to collect seed as they spread like mad in our garden. When friends want any we just dig up plants. I took a complete car full to the charity garden centre and didn't seem to have made an impression on the main area of them. The white and magenta ones spread very quickly and we have only a few that are multicoloured.

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                        They also self seed in our front verge (a long way from the main bed) probably through composting. I'm happy to dig up plants for any member passing this way.
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                        @Michael Hewett A really rewarding annual. I know you grow most things in pots but it's best not to do that with them. They're much too vigorous for pots and you're unlikely to get many flowers that way. Each flower only lasts about a week but a healthy plant can produce dozens of them. They climb a lot so putting them in a bed right by the wall of the house would be good. They'll happily climb brickwork with no help at all (easy to just pull down at the end of the season as their climbing feelers are tiny) but you may want to stretch some wires so they can grow sideways as well.

                        I'm at the wrong computer at the moment so can't show you how vigorous they are.
                        EDIT: Now moved to the right computer.

                        Only four plants
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                          I have a new trellis going in that I might try cobaea on having seen that...

                          I still have to sort what I have before buying new. I did buy some seeds late last season but can't remember which (or where they are) but will have to get some blight resistant tomatoes as the greenhouse is still waiting on its roof
                           
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                            Maybe ipomea Morning glory @Michael Hewett ?
                             
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                            • JWK

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                              Amaranthus, there are a few different varieties and easy to collect and grow from saved seeds. It can become a bit invasive.
                               
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                                Only problem with Cobea is it tends to flower late.
                                I used to grow Eccremocarpus, not as rampant as Cobea, more likely to be a perennial and flowers earlier, especially in subsequent years.
                                 
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