2026 - Seeds & Stuff I've bought/acquired today

More tomatoes, this time from The Seed Saving Network:

Evil Olive
India Stripe
Scotland Yellow
Yellow Clementine

Just paid £2 to cover the postage. I'll try the India Stripe and Yellow Clementine this year

More tomatoes, this time from The Seed Saving Network:

Evil Olive
India Stripe
Scotland Yellow
Yellow Clementine

Just paid £2 to cover the postage. I'll try the India Stripe and Yellow Clementine this year

That Evil Olive could be my type - if I wasn't 75.

I bought a Forsythia plant today! I know they are common as muck but I always fancied one? (Maybe that says summat about me!)

It will go with the other plant I bought the other week, a red barked Cornus, also common, but hopefully easy to grow. Both are still in their pots as the ground is frozen at the moment, so can't plant them.

I bought 100 onion sets Centurion F1 from Just Seed online today.  They were £4.15 plus £1.45 P&P totalling £5.60, which I thought was a really good price  for Fi onion sets?
I have grown these before and highly rate them!  (Resistant to bolting and awarded a RHS award of merit!)

After several weeks of dithering I’ve just ordered a bulk bag of seedballs because they have a discount and a tin of seedball some of the money goes to the Royal Entomological Society .

I bought some grass seed for P's suffering lawn. As it's for him, I don't consider that as part of my garden balance

Went to a Seed Swap - spent £3 on 2 packets of seed from a local organic grower and picked up 19 other packets too - Including JJB's favourite tomato, Burlesque.
Also a big bag of mixed, loose seeds! They were in a box of out of date seed packets and I made some comment about liking the challenge of trying to grow mixed seeds - the bag was pushed into my hands and I was told to take them away and try to grow them! There are lots of beans, some peas, squash and sunflowers and some small seeds lurking in the bottom of the bag. When I'm at a loose end I'll try to sort them into types.
Out of interest - the bag weighs over 250g.

I can't really grumble, ordered onion sets three days ago and they arrived today from Just Seed!

Went to a Seed Swap - spent £3 on 2 packets of seed from a local organic grower and picked up 19 other packets too - Including JJB's favourite tomato, Burlesque.
Also a big bag of mixed, loose seeds! They were in a box of out of date seed packets and I made some comment about liking the challenge of trying to grow mixed seeds - the bag was pushed into my hands and I was told to take them away and try to grow them! There are lots of beans, some peas, squash and sunflowers and some small seeds lurking in the bottom of the bag. When I'm at a loose end I'll try to sort them into types.
Out of interest - the bag weighs over 250g.

......but you don't like/grow big tomatoes!  Burlesque are BIG.

My garden long handled squeegee/sponge is on its last legs. As it is, its a mash up of an old handle and a broken head, held together with a jubilee clip. Each year I think "I really must invest in a new one". Today I've bit the bullet and ordered a new one on Ebay. You wouldn't believe the research needed to get just what I wanted at a price I was willing to pay. I was about to give up when I spotted (probably) just what I wanted. It's funny, I started out thinking I'd get a cheapie plastic effort, then P comes up with a suggestion, so I start researching again, then I think of something that would be useful and the process begins again. Then each possible maybe has a down side. Start researching again and almost came to the conclusion that in amongst all the hundreds of choices, the exact combination of handle/head/flexibility/ price just didn't exist. As it is I had to pay just a bit more that I intended. For something that will only be used maybe a couple of times a year it took a shed load of time and effort! (Probably because I'm tight)