My brother is currently conducting an experiment with rainbow seeds bought from Amazon. The seeds could have been rose but looked more like cereal so we wait. He has taken my advice and they will go nowhere near his garden and are currently confined until germination.
He is taking photographs at each stage and reckons he will get more coverage through social media than the big e-sellers and he is a campaigner (its how our Dad brought us up!) and like a dog with a rat so I am enjoying the saga at the moment.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
On my Facebook review of blue roses I pointed out how beautifully they flowered after the addition of unicorn manure.
Wow.. Ama%@n sells unicorn manure as well! Pretty expensive compared to other bags of manure.. but I suppose if that's what it takes for blue roses it's worth it.
A bit like the chancers on Etsy turning to selling yeast at the start of the lockdown for a mark-up of %800...got tired reporting them daily, but at least they kept closing their shops. Online selling can be such a maddening place.
It doesn’t bother me at all if someone wants to buy a product that’s more expensive than it should be, that’s their problem, obviously have lots of money so let them pay. I object to these rubbish seeds from China, not because it’s wasting people’s money but you just don’t know what they’re sending. People want to sow them, ‘just to see’.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Yes.. it's rather surprising I can get seeds sent through the post for sky blue bell peppers, but I'm unable to depart an international flight with an apple.
MS News here in Ireland reports the Government has warned against planting or composting unsolicited seeds received in the post. This is in line with a similar message in the USA.
Definitely destroy them. We had some seeds from China that were supposed to be cauliflower but after they started to produce some very uncauliflower type leaves we spent a while trying to find out what they were. They turned out to be jimson weed - a highly poisonous and prolific plant. Very dangerous!
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He is taking photographs at each stage and reckons he will get more coverage through social media than the big e-sellers and he is a campaigner (its how our Dad brought us up!) and like a dog with a rat so I am enjoying the saga at the moment.
I object to these rubbish seeds from China, not because it’s wasting people’s money but you just don’t know what they’re sending. People want to sow them, ‘just to see’.
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Paul Bratby
APHA-PHSI
2nd Floor
Apex Court
City Link
Nottingham
NG2 4LA
The seeds will be destroyed by us on your behalf. ”