My name is angela and I am a seed-o-holic

emiff6

I'm glad I'm not the only one that can't resist a stand of brightly coloured seed packets! I reckon it's a throwback to childhood days when I couldn't go past a display of coloured pencils and crayons in a toy or art shop without looking and desiring them. Perhaps it's the magpie in me, drawn to bright colours and glittery things!

laurel7172

Oh dear.

I have an excuse this year, as if I needed one, because we've got a big fundraising push on at work, and a couple of us, who usually give away our surplus plants, are planning on growing extra and using them to raise money.

I don't know *where* we're going to keep them all until the last frost....

Edited to say...I received my latest delivery today, and the new seeds don't fit into the large Tupperware box that *supplements* the tin box in which I supposedly store my seeds...

soupdragon10

Well spreadsheet is completed and I have 3 separate packets of beetroot seeds!!! Think most of them came from freebies on gardening mags last year as I certainly don't remember buying them.

At least I can now see where the gaps are, and plan my buying accordingly, rather than be seduced by all those tempting pictures on the packets (well in theory although there are always thos things that I just need to try out).

Just got to plan when to start planting and hope the autumn sown Broad Beans can't read a calendar (plant latest in Jan)

forgotmyname

13,000 seeds here, Not including the garlic bulbs and onion sets. And the few hundred more left over from
previous years.

I have an excuse i got an allotment, But i dont think its big enough.

MrsRogers

My name is Mrs Rogers and I too confess I am a seed o-holic

It is ridiculous how many seeds I have. Problem is I just get so excited when the seed catalogue come through the post or i have a spare half hour to have a look online.

Just need to find enough pots/containers to start them all in :eek:

forgotmyname

Pots & containers? Im looking for a medium sized island, prefer somewhere sunny. But with
enough rain to save me watering them manually.

CH0C0H0LIC

I'm having the boundary extended by the council on my garden during the next few weeks - Thank God! I'm gonna need the extra space! lol

A._Badger

Add my name to the list of shame. Any semblance of common sense goes right out of the window when my local GC starts its Autumn seed sell-off.

I wonder what proportion of a seed company's output is never sown?

Laura_D_3

This thread has made me chuckle - I knew I had a problem but I thought I was alone :A My husband thinks I'm crazy when I bring out my boxes of seeds to sift through them for no reason really appart from I like them organised, when I have a bad day at work instead of buying chocolate I head down to Nettos and buy £10 worth of seeds which at 20p a packet meant I just increased my seed stock by 50!!! I also have an addiction to trying to grow weird things - the year before last I tried to grow my own risotto rice with a paddy field in the backgarden (well a paddling pool)...

Just some of my seeds;


Luckily I have a decent size garden and an allotment :T:T

Sambucus_Nigra

Lightweights. :rotfl:

I have over 50 different types of tomato and pepper; plus over 100 different types of [French] bean, and several bags of most of those types.....and that's to start with. I couldn't even think of putting them all on a spreadsheet - I have 4 different types of celery !!!!!!!

I like to grow a little of different varieties and grow mainly open pollinated ones, so you end up with piles of them.....the more you try and give away in swaps the more you seem to get back. 2 people donated their entire collections to me just last year - but I in turn donated those to the schools gardens project that I am working on at the moment. I usually send out 3-5 envelopes of seed to people on swaps each week.

You think you are a seedaholic - just wait until you get into saving your own seeds; I've got a shoebox of last year's Sanguina beetroot seed, another of this year's Chioggia beetroot seed; and a bucket of Tender and True parsnip seed all in the greenhouse; and a shoebox of Bleu de Solaise leeks drying under the stairs from last year.

And I've got rid of all my Seed Guardian seed back to HSL; beans, tomatoes, peppers - all grown just for them...and still have radish seed drying in the greenhouse which will be resown, left to go to seed and collected again and sent into them for 2011 harvests.