Primrose wrote:If anybody has any old ones lurking in a packet somewhere and were able to send me half a dozen or so, I'd love to try them one final time in the hope that we might have a good summer and it would be third time lucky. But it's hardly worth buying another packet for them all to end up in failure again.
Although it's an appealing challenge, I really wouldn't set yourself up for further disappointment. They absolutely do not grow well in the UK, despite what the catalogues will claim (and they want to sell seeds, after all). It's not just high temperatures which are necessary, but they have a day length response which cannot be foiled — our summer days are too long, and when they do shorten, there are too few remaining days warm enough for long enough for the crop to mature. I grew them once in a polytunnel, in a hot summer, and they did nowt.