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Free zinnia seeds are tomatoes!

KatemacKatemac Posts: 20

I think either the seeds or I've got mixed up but all the free zinnia seeds I've sown are tomato plants! 

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  • Mine were Zinnia's .... but unfortunately they all succumbed to rotting.

  • WeaveyDaveyWeaveyDavey Posts: 575

    Lucky you, Katemac: my zinnias didn't ever emerge!!

  • Snow MaidenSnow Maiden Posts: 862

    Mine didn't either

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,023

    My zinnias were zinnias, rather leggy when young, grown in GH then planted out. Started flowering about 3 weeks ago.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Mine too, but not yet in flower, did Kate have a packet of tomato seeds?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    I got eight zinnia plants out of the packet, and three flowers so far. They appear to be slug magnets.

  • KatemacKatemac Posts: 20

    Thanks all - just curious! Looked at the remaining seeds & could be toms! I was wondering why the snails weren't having a feast as they normally do with zinnias but then  the smell from the leaves were a total giveaway. So I've loads of tomato plants to give away but if they are not sun gold which is the variety I always grow then the mystery remains! 

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