Aubergine plants

[xspye]

This year i thought I'd have a go at growing aubergines from seed. I was a little gutted when they arrived and it stated that they would not germinate unless they had very high temps. I don't have a propagator so bunged a load of seed in and left them in the hope that something would germinate.

A week or so later the first had germinated and finally at the weekend I potted on 24 plants I'm really bad a pricking out and discarding seedlings, i feel bad that they have made the effort to grow......

Anyway I haven't got space for half of these and don't want them to go to waste so if anyone near Newbury would like some aubergine plants please let me know.

[Flummery]

Ha. Same here Xspye! I last grew aubergines about 20 years ago and decided I didn't have the time to faff so I tried to get plants. Couldn't, so I bought seed. I sowed them last Thursday on the kitchen sill and because I thought they'd be iffy at germinating I sowed a dozen, 6 in each of 2 pots. I've got 8 up already! If it's a good summer I'll try them outdoors in pots and in any spaces in the veg plot but I really only wanted a couple of plants. It's a feast or a famine, this gardening lark!

Believe it or not, the packet said 'in normal growing conditions, enough for 150 plants' Who, except a market gardener, needs that many?

Flum

[Hazel at the Hill]

Believe it or not, the packet said 'in normal growing conditions, enough for 150 plants' Who, except a market gardener, needs that many?

Flum

Presumeably the same chap buys a pack of sutton's celery seeds because he needs 1400 celery seedlings!!

[Alison]

Nice to actually see a decent number of seeds in a packet though, really annoys me these day when you fork out quite a lot and there's only 6 seeds in the packet - cucumbers seem particularly bad for this!!!!!!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Nice to actually see a decent number of seeds in a packet though, really annoys me these day when you fork out quite a lot and there's only 6 seeds in the packet - cucumbers seem particularly bad for this!!!!!!

Quite agree, Alison - although there must surely be a middle ground here!!

[gandii]

hi my seedlings all died so if you still have 2 or 3 to spare could you send them to me and a'd re-embruse you

[xspye]

I've still got some spares but they are quite big now and i'm not sure how to package and send them without them being damaged. Any ideas?

[tinyvine]

How big is quite big? Will it fit inside a kitchen roll tube?
Other than that, I have no idea.