Seemed in my seed tin and located left from final yr………..
Loads of Chard
Only a few Tomato -Tremendous Mama
Sufficient Butternut Squash -Hunter
A dozen or so Sweetcorn – Moonshine
Loads of Leek – Neptune
Only a few Purple Candy “Pointy” Peppers
2 or 3 Candy orange block pepper – Kubista
Very Few Aubergine – Genie
2 or 3 Cucumber- Louisa
3 or 4 Courgette – Tuscany
Climbing French bean seeds saved from 2019 and 2020} Determined it was time to begin afresh
Few Runner bean seed saved from who is aware of when } with each types of beans in 2023
I perused the seed catalogues……… I like studying all of the completely different descriptions and discovering out about new varieties annually.
Seed costs have gone up rather a lot since covid and fluctuate from one firm to a different as do the variety of seed in a packet. I right away deserted Thompson & Morgan as they did not have a lot alternative (maybe this wasn’t their full catalogue) .The D.T Brown catalogue had the whole lot I needed however a lot of their packets had been 50p+ greater than these within the Marshalls catalogue. Kings did not have any of the tomatoes I needed however their costs had been considerably lower than each the others.
I made a decision that even when I needed to pay postage on two completely different orders it might nonetheless be cheaper to get most issues from Kings and simply the tomatoes from Browns.
So as to add to what I’ve left I’ll be shopping for ………….
Tremendous Mama and Solar Grape tomatoes.
Unimaginable Sweetcorn
Thor and Kubista Peppers
Aubergine Genie
Cucumber Pepinex
Courgette Defender
Cobra Climbing French Beans
Benchmaster Runner Beans
Beetroot Moneta – they are going to come from Browns too as they’re a Monogerm selection so I ought to be simpler to unfold out when sowing. Kings haven’t any Monogerm.
I am not bothering with issues which are straightforward and low-cost to purchase – carrots and onions. Or lettuces which want common sowing and I do not eat sufficient for after they all develop without delay.
That is in all probability all I am going to have room for within the greenhouse and three vegetable beds though I would discover some Kale vegetation later within the yr and try and maintain them freed from critters – which was a complete fail this yr.
Again Tomorrow
Sue
