Anyone Buying New Seed ?

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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?

 

Lychnis coronaria ( you may know it as Silene ) , the rose campion , is one of my favourites for saving seed

 

There's nothing better than getting organised @JWK

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

I also want to try Cobaea and ? somthing I can't remember the name of and never grown before I have it written down somewhere it's a climber with purple flowers ...

 

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.