Forum home› Fruit & veg
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

the amount of seeds in a packet

2

Posts

  • alexryzawlskiqBU-X4OFalexryzawlskiqBU-X4OF Posts: 163
    Grow more heritage/heirloom varieties and save the seeds. F1 seeds are extortionate. There are good deals out there. I ordered from DT Brown and got almost a half price saving. Their 99p range down to 75p, all other varieties £1.20 (excepting expensive f1), and £1.75 for peas and beans. Old varieties are back in fashion now aren't they? 
    Happy Gardening
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Yes but....so many seed packets come with 100s. So you don't sow all these and keep back for later sowing or next year. But they don't keep as well and don't germinate  and then you buy more seeds. Not sure why some seeds in a packet are in the 100s and even 1000s and others are only in the 10s.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Some plants don’t produce many seeds, so expensive, others, say, Foxgloves produce 10s of thousands, so cheaper.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I love these,  you don’t get many seeds in the packet, there are almost no seeds in the tomato.  Jersey Devils. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Before Brexit I used to buy Super Mama F1 Tomatoes, I couldn't buy them here, there were ten seeds in the packet. I can now buy them here and there are twenty five seeds for roughly the same price.
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    we buy beautiful tasting piccolo tomatoes from lidl and wondered if they would come true from the seeds, when looking for tomato seeds I noticed that the big diy barns including wilcos only stock a few varieties including gardeners delight and money maker both of which I have grown and don't rate.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    My daughter loved those @barry island, so I saved seed from one. We sowed them the following year and had a great crop, which seemed pretty true, but they weren't quite the same the following year, as they're supposedly an F1 hybrid. I'll probably do them again this year just to see how they perform. 
    I have to say they were still really good little toms last year, so it's worth having a go and see what you think  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Do you need to dry out the seeds or can you plant them fresh from supermarket tomatoes?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Do you need to dry out the seeds or can you plant them fresh from supermarket tomatoes?
    either works, in my experience
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I just followed the usual info re leaving them in water for a little while and then rinsing and drying. I have a feeling I could just have sown those though. 
    I also used some of the sideshoots as new plants. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sign In or Register to comment.