When do propagators and pots come into the shops

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When do the shops like b and m and wilko start getting the gardening products in,
I want to get a couple of windowsill propagators and some large pots to start things off early in 2020 but they are a bit pricey in the garden centre.
I want to get a couple of windowsill propagators and some large pots to start things off early in 2020 but they are a bit pricey in the garden centre.
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I find they distract the relatively young with fruit seeds even if they don't germinate.
I have a cool greenhouse to transfer them to and will do successive sowings so hopefully they will be OK.
There are possible exceptions to this general rule of holding-off till light levels improve, such as chilli peppers.
OTOH, in the non-edible kind of gardening, where stratification may be needed, it's already somewhat late to be sowing, especially with most bought seed, which might now take until 2021 to germinate.
(And then there's the seed that's so poor it never germinates!)
With really fresh seed, one can sometimes break the rules and win. For example, if I sow, say, 100 hawthorn seeds, freshly pulled from the tree, I know between 1 and 10 will come up the following spring.
I don't know many firms that sell really fresh seed. Derry Watkins at Special Plants is one. Blink and you'll miss some of the things she harvests, or you might miss them anyway, because she has waiting lists.