Reply To: Excess plants from sowing

[Karen]

Hey Rhys,

The adage is to mostly grow food for our own personal consumption and what we love to eat and hard to get or expensive to buy and best to eat really fresh, e.g. green asparagus for sure and salads etc.

The next priority is to grow what the husband needs often for our seasonal restaurant, e.g. parsley, chives, spring onions, dill, salads, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins. He uses a lot of potatoes and onions too but it wouldn’t really be economical or feasible to grow the amounts he needs as it would be a lot cheaper to buy them.

My other weakness is variety. The tomato varieties here are very limited, hence I usually order my tom seeds from the UK. And I love to share what I discover, e.g. sungold toms to friends and neighbours and acquaintances. Hence, I tend to sow “extra” seeds. ha! The only tomato variety on the lips of people here is Harzfeuer! Our dentist loves the tom variety Vintage Wine that is also hard to find here.

Would you believe that there is no sungold tom seeds in the garden stores or German internet websites, except for only 1? Plus seeds are somewhat cheaper from the UK, well particularly Amazon UK.

And my recent eye-opening experience to over 20 varieties of lettuces and types of greens to be added to salads and other types of vegs, e.g. parsnips.

I am definitely losing my battle here with wanting to grow so many different variety of vegetable and their varieties too. 🙁