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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited April 2021
    You have been given advice by Nick about how to google to find seeds.   How hard can it be to spend a couple of minutes doing that and letting the postie deliver? 
    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 said:
    Worth trying if you want to do it on the cheap.
    The price doesn't enter the equation I just cannot source melon seeds.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes you can!!  read Nick's post and stop being lazy.
    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
    I know how to use Google. Getting deliveries is the problem, any on line delivery takes a couple of weeks here since Brexit kicked in.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    So .., buy a melon and test the seeds as I suggested. 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    For goodness sake!  Nick gave you Irish links and you can't get seeds posted from the UK anyway now.
    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
    So .., buy a melon and test the seeds as I suggested. 
    It might just come to that! Have to have my melons in the greenhouse. Anything is worth a try at this stage.
    But being told to stop being lazy and trying to do this on the cheap irks a little. Going to 7 different outlets in a 20 mile radius hardly counts as being lazy or worried about the cost does it? I've had some online deliveries take over two months. Boris has a lot to answer for!!! Nurseries just don't have them.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    https://www.thegardenshop.ie/melon-seeds/ 

    Irish so no Brexit problems.   Do keep up.
    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
    Is that the one that says "out of stock"? Keep up yourself. Where do you think the Irish suppliers get the majority of their stocks from? Anywhere I have been they all say the same... cannot get the supplies in. Greens of Bandon don't have honeydew either.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Try a more flavourful melon such as Galia or Charente?
    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
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