Free packets of seeds from Magazines

[Muddy_Boots]

Hi folks

Since I've been in the allotment lark I've been buying the monthly magazines, most months they have a load of seed packets free with the issue.

I was wondering what I had got and how many packets so I decided to go through my collection and sort them together like all the Brassicas together, and all courgettes, marrows and squashes together. Tonight I did this and decided to count the packets to see how many and was shocked, I've listed them here with the numbers.

Question is, do you know how many different packs of seeds you have if you get these magazines? Have you counted them or have you just got a box you've thrown them into and have no idea how many?

Here's my list:
Tomatoes 32
Beetroot 3
Lettuce 46
Leek 6
Brassicas 51
Fennel 6
Squash/Courgette/Marrow 14
Cucumber 12
Salad Items (Cress/Radish/Spring Onion) 23
Herbs 30
Chard 6
Aubergine 5
Spinach Beet/Spinach 14
Celery 2
Oriental Veg 22
Strawberry 3
Pepper/Chili 12
Root Veg (Suede, Celeriac, Turnip) 22
Carrots 6
Parsnip 3
Onions 5
Peas 11
French Beans 7
Runner Beans 3
Butternut Squash 2
Melon 3

[Containergardener]

Oooh a few there.
Not sure how many ive got .

[veggiechicken]

Mine are sorted into types as I receive them. Where there are duplicates, i cull the oldest ones and give them away...........................but I still have a lot of seeds.

[Teds Mum]

My collection is not that big, only takes up a medium sized gift bag.
Really need to plant some more of them.

[Small pumpkin]

The more important question here is.
How can you not know how many seeds you've got

You can't be saying you're a gardener that doesn't obsess about seeds

[Bren In Pots]

A few years ago I started being realistic with how much space I've got in my back garden compared to the seeds in my boxes. Anything I don't have space for goes to the local charity shop the seeds soon get snapped up and I'm down to just the one box of seeds.

[Trouvere]

I have 7 tins of seeds I care about, and 1 grubby cardboard box of things that should probably be thrown out because they are years past expiry, but maybe I'll want to try them again, so I don't.

I use these - the boxes from Lidl's own brand French biscuits. Metal, with any of several lightly-embossed French scenes and in 2 different depths, so I can sort of tell them apart. Hinged lid, and they're stackable. Just as nice as a real seed tin. Also, biscuits.

[bikermike]

suede seeds? do you plant them and get a crop of slightly fey indie musicians from the 1990s? (make sure they pollinate properly or you'll only get bassists...)

I have loads of seeds from the mags. It's funny, they really dropped off in numbers and usefulness (sympathy for the latter - there's not that much you can plant in December), but they've really ramped up at the moment - I wonder if there has been a bidding war.

re packets, I made a box to hold standard-sized seed packets, as soon as I did that everyone started using smaller packets, bigger multi-seed packets etc � grrrr...

[bario1]

Mine pile up in the kitchen drawer until i can't bear it any more and then i put them on freecycle, where they generate a lot of interest! I usually keep beetroot and carrot, as i'm not fussy about the varieties of those, so i never have to buy them.

[burnie]

Mine go to rellies or the community garden project if I don't need them, might sow the radishes that came yesterday in the greenhouse for an early crop.

[bario1]

Yes, I like getting radishes too. In fact, this month's seeds are the best selection we've had I think - none of them have gone in the kitchen drawer this time!