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Hi Bluebell. I did head in that direction in my first year after getting my allotment; I ended up giving a load of potato seed away to a mate as I’d gone crazy with my order! I’m a bit better now; I make a plan and generally stick with it and, at least at the moment, I’m trying to grow our mainstays better as a kind of foundation for the future. Variety is the spice of life though, and I will be trying some companion ideas too. Have fun whatever you choose to grow….
My surplus is French beans which look so tempting at seed-ordering time. And I need so few plants!
There’s a healthy experimentation for a few years if you have a new plot or have moved to a new area – it lets you find out which varieties grow best for you. Logic then dictates that you grow a core set of reliable favourites as bankers, but I must say that interest remains if you have a disciplined approach to continued experimentation also.
I blame this bad, wet weather. Too much time to sit at the fire browsing the online seed catalogues. I’ve already selected at least 7 varieties of black tomato that I MUST have, that is on top of the 10 or so other varieties that I already can’t live without, and that’s just tomatoes. (Don’t get me started on potatoes!)
If it was dry I’d be out cutting hell out of the lavender hedge or something useful.
You are not alone Bluebell!haha! guilty as charged! Don’t think anyone REEEEEALLY wants to know how many seeds I have collected and hoarded! Especially toms!
Karen
I”ve hoarded 15 different strains of tomato seeds alone -but I’ve saved them myself so I don’t have to pay for them!
Hats off to you Rhys… that you save seeds… I have read up about it…. it sounds rather tedious and needs to be really careful with cross-pollination.
My biggest weakness is wanting to TRY lots of varieties…
When we had our garden and polytunnel 4 years ago… I went absolutely insane not knowing what I was in for… for fear of the seeds not germinating….
I am not exaggerating here… about 30 varieties of toms and about 300 plants… lol! Everyone thought I had gone mad!
This year I am trying to reduce the varieties… and I have counted that I am only going to try about 15 varieites…
Don’t even want to mention the pumpkins and cucumbers too! lol!
Guilty! By April the whole greenhouse floor; summerhouse; a couple of mini-greenhouses and all the windowsills in the house are covered in seed trays. All the usual veggies are there – several varieties of each, obviously, and some more unusual ones, plus most of the herbs (I don’t quite know why I keep persisting with lemon grass!) and all the companion-planting flowers. It has something to do with not wanting to waste seeds I think. I could probably stock a whole second full-size plot with what I give away at the allotments. At least everyone else benefits!
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