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I will not be seduced.....!
madpenguin
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This year I have been so dissapointed in all the plug plants I recieved that I have vowed not to get them again.
I have just had the T&M catalogue through the post and it has gone straight in the bin!!
All the plants I bought locally did well so will buy my plants that way.
I just have to stay strong and not be tempted.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
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I've never been tempted by a plug plant.
It's the seed lists that get me every time
In the sticks near Peterborough
Penguin, have you ever tried plant fairs?
Only started a year or two back but I love them. Lots of different nurseries with seasonal offerings, you have a wide choice, get to see your plant and the prices are competitive. Plus they are usually somewhere that has a nice garden to visit, included in the (low) entry price. Much more fun than trying to raise *&* plugs! Only catch is that you usually have to pay cash, as most don't have a card reader gizmo, but that does make it easier to stick to your budget
I get most of my plants from local nurseries,the Farmers Market and some from the supermarket.
At least I can see what I am buying and they are usually more developed than the plugs which I found quite time consuming to pot on etc.
I find Morrison plants to be very good.
like Nut I am a seed fan. There's nothing like bringing a plant on from a seed. You feel you have really grown it then.
Morrisons is my supermarket too!
My garden is filled with Clematis that I bought for £1 each.
Seeds on the other hand (and cuttings) I have never had much luck with,plants have to be growing strongly by the time they get to me!!
I have just been looking through the Chiltern catalogue Nut.
I have told myself I must order less this year, as I had no room for a lot of the seedlings this year. I seem to have started to grow some stuff just to see if I can.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I tell myself that every year pd. Then the lists arrive, people offer stuff on the seed swap, I save my own seed and I'm off again
I was determined to cut down. My former nursery patch, 24 x 6 ft of gravel on a membrane, has been planted up with this and that as a gravel garden. Now OH is saying 'I told you so'.
I've already sown the first seeds, I've got loads to sow, I've just had a belated germination from Lathyrus rotundifolius, there are dozens of Roscoea (thank you fidget) and arisaemas.
I think It's a terminal condition
In the sticks near Peterborough
So, no cure then?
None I've found Lyn
In the sticks near Peterborough
Have to say never both with plug plants , o/h is really good at getting seeds to germinate , nearly always 100 % , then it sometimes goes wrong such is gardening