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Ah! But Pa Snip we grow them differently!

They go in real soil with differing organisms which we actively encourage, no drip feeding & mollycodling our babies, hence the flavor difference!

There is supermarket & Supermarket the next Generation! (or not sometimes but we do like a challenge & saving a few pennies).

Westi

Shallot man, I store them in paper hen food sacks in a cool cellar, but it isn't cold enough to keep them dormant until spring. I believe the commercial suppliers keep them at 10°.

robo wrote:My wife bought the garlic from morrisons this time last year she split the bulbs up and planted them amongst all types of laughter

Some years ago I sowed seed from a tomato, such is the apathy of some people to the marketing people that my neighbors at the time thought you had to buy plants and that those seeds would never produce anything.

That had been the only time I ever grew a decent crop of tomatoes, tasty and prolific they were though I did have a greenhouse at the time and lived in sheltered suburbia. (I jokingly refer to that period as have been living in sheltered accomodation compared to where I live now)

I had often wondered about garlic marketing, ok, most comes from Spain. But why? Garlic grows very well in this country and what about the garlic farm on the Isle of Weight ? Surely they only sell a small part of their crop as seed with the remainder going as a food source though perhaps from different establishments compared to supermarkets.

PLUMPUDDING. Thank you.

What about £3-25 for 8 tomato seeds, and you have the postage on top.

OK, who can find the most expensive packet of vegetable seeds, with the least amount of seeds in it.

So, Company name,

Price of the seeds,

Number of seeds in the packet.

A not entirely surprising starter

Thomson and Morgan

£4.99

4 seeds

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetabl ... brid/538TM

Or to beat that

Thomson and Morgan

£9.99

Two seeds

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetabl ... /gww4938TM

Gosh Alan, that has got to be unbeatable.......and thinking about how many seeds you get in a pumpkin....

alan refail wrote:Or to beat that

Thomson and Morgan

£9.99

Two seeds

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetabl ... /gww4938TM

Flaming Ada, when I kicked this thread off I never thought it could get that bad. Licence to print money.

Have to say Well done Alan

Thompson&Morgan are up for sale,which doesn't surprise me.

OH beat me to it when ssking how many seeds there are in a winter squash of that size. That's extortionate. And how many seeds in a tomato, even an F1 variety. What are they more expensive? By the time you've paid postage and packing it makes trialling new varieties very expensive and makes me more determined to try and use up the contemts of the older seed packets I still have in stock.. I suppose all these prices have to subsidise the cost of sll catalogues they bombard us witn.

snooky wrote:Thompson&Morgan are up for sale,which doesn't surprise me.

I'll bet the asking price is through the roof

Probably around £1,000,000,999.99

alan refail wrote:

snooky wrote:Thompson&Morgan are up for sale,which doesn't surprise me.

I'll bet the asking price is through the roof

Probably around £1,000,000,999.99

And for that you only get two small buildings.

Pa Snip