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Seed shortages

TagwexTagwex Posts: 44
in The potting shed
This is a bit cheeky but.... worth a try.
I have tried quite a few places locally and just cannot source melon seeds this year, the nurseries tell me they cannot get them either. I haven't tried the internet though what with delivery issues and all that. Is there anyone out there that could post me 5 seeds please?
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Seeds are subject to rules and regs and it is no longer legal to send them between the EU, NI inc, and mainland UK and Scottish Isles without a phyto sanitary certificate.  The changes since Brexit have meant some seed supplies have been interrupted.  

    You either need to go online for EU seeds or maybe buy a melon in the shops and sow some seeds from there.

    This thread includes links to good seed websites - https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1048376/uk-seeds-to-europe-and-northern-ireland-reminder/p1 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    If you browse 'Melon seeds cork', Tom, there are a number offering them including, The Garden Shop, Greens of Ireland, Newlands and Fruit Hill Farm.  If you're desperate, the last one is between here and Bantry so I could go there.
  • TagwexTagwex Posts: 44
    Ahhhh Obelixx, what's a few seeds between friends? I know there are issues between countries when soil is involved but seeds in a brown envelope???
  • TagwexTagwex Posts: 44
    Hi Nick, went to a 7th outlet just an hour ago and managed to secure the last packet of water melon mini love F1, not what I wanted but it will have to do. I really wanted honey dew. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Microbes, pathogens, plant pandemics such as the ones that introduced potato blight to Ireland in the mid 1800s and not just in Ireland's famine but across mainland Europe too.   The ones wiping out olive groves across Europe, ash trees die back, oak and rhodo deaths................

    Do it properly and buy from a reputable supplier.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • TagwexTagwex Posts: 44
    @ Obelixx: 
    I'm not so sure about harvesting seeds from supermarket produce, they regularly have fruit and veg that are bred as infertile so certified seed would be required. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Tagwex said:
    @ Obelixx: 
    I'm not so sure about harvesting seeds from supermarket produce, they regularly have fruit and veg that are bred as infertile so certified seed would be required. 
    With a phytosanitary certificate. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Worth trying if you want to do it on the cheap.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Put the seeds in water ... the theory is that duff ones float, fertile ones don’t. 

    Works with squashes anyway. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • TagwexTagwex Posts: 44
    Do it properly and buy from a reputable supplier.
    Jesus I'm only looking for a few spare seeds from an Unwins (surely a reputable supplier) packet for example. Just cannot get seeds nor plants around here.
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