Oh so many seeds...

[Lakriskongen]

I am going to land on around 300-350 different species. I have had a project where I have sown 10 different species every night from late october until now. I have already fixed paid family help from my brother for the dividing part in the spring. I do hope that I can have a cultivation rate around 50 percent. Still I am on a seed and bulb hunt, and am going to use a lot of time in the garden the coming season.

[fermi de Sousa]

"My name is Fermi and I'm a seed-aholic...!"
Definitively an addict - I was innocently looking at a Forum and saw a message from Kristl which reminded me that I hadn't visited "Gardens North" for awhile ......next thing, credit card in hand, I'd placed an order - despite having just received my SRGC Seedex selections and awaiting seed from SIGNA, AGS and NARGS!
AS Kristl says "So many species, so little time"!!!
cheers
(and no, Lesley, I don't need an intervention, despite what Will might say)
fermi

[Susan]

I don't need an intervention, despite what Will might say

I'm not too sure about that Fermi - an addiction is an addiction after all.

However I cannot talk, as when I got to over 100 pots planted last year, I thought, enough, don't go any further and especially don't tell David.

Susan

[Maggi Young]

I don't need an intervention, despite what Will might say

I'm not too sure about that Fermi - an addiction is an addiction after all.

However I cannot talk, as when I got to over 100 pots planted last year, I thought, enough, don't go any further and especially don't tell David.

Susan

Darn it! I thought it was only an addiction if it is illegal? 

[BryanEmery]

Sadly Maggi, it is still addiction even if it is legal. sorry to burst your bubble.

[Maggi Young]

I'm distraught, Bryan.... but life is full of such disappointments, isn't it?  Must just soldier on.....

[Susan]

Maggi, the first step is to accept you have an addiction.......

[maggiepie]

Second step, learn to wallow in it?

[BryanEmery]

and that is precisely why I am not willing to admit my possable addiction.... because then I might get "help" for it

B

[ChrisB]

There was a time when I had no patience to grow plants from seed, and couldn't understand why anyone else would bother either really.  But something changed and now I sow about 100 pots each year.  Having packeted seed for the last three years its also really interesting to look at various species of a particular genus, they are so interesting.  There was one National Collection Holder who shall be nameless who once told us at a meeting that they could identify most of their species plants from the seeds.  I never believed them but now I do, and can see why they said that too.  I go out to take a look at my seed pots every day as a few species pop their heads up pretty quickly.  Some of the drabas I've sown are sprouting, as has the eschscholzia and potentilla.

[Diane Whitehead]

I don't usually count, but one year I did, and it was 600 packets not counting
the seeds from my hybridizing or vegetables.

I get seed from a lot of exchanges plus foreign collectors, particularly from
countries which I have visited to see the wildflowers.

The vegetables vary - every year I grow a lot of one or two types so
I can compare them and choose my favourites.  Last year I grew 56 kinds
of tomatoes, and this year I'll trial broad beans.

ps  I should tell why I now grow so many bulbs from seed - it's because I
can squeeze so many more into my garden compared to plants with wide leaves.

[Maggi Young]

this year I'll trial broad beans.

ps  I should tell why I now grow so many bulbs from seed - it's because I
can squeeze so many more into my garden compared to plants with wide leaves.

 Diane, broad beans are my favourite.... can I come help with the taste testing? 

ps  I should tell why I now grow so many bulbs from seed - it's because I
can squeeze so many more into my garden compared to plants with wide leaves.

Ah yes, now we get to the truth... and a very sensible decision, too. 

[maggiepie]

The vegetables vary - every year I grow a lot of one or two types so
I can compare them and choose my favourites.  Last year I grew 56 kinds
of tomatoes, and this year I'll trial broad beans.

Have you tried Edamame?
They are fantastic but all get picked at same time.

[BryanEmery]

Signa seeds arrived today! Need to finish the seed ex seeds and get the signa seeds done before my surplus seeds arrive...