Spending on seed challenge.

[Nicos]

1500 sorrel plants????

I have 5 and that's more than plenty for the 2 of us.
Are you intending to sell the spare plants or something?

[Elfeda]

Nicos, I thought it can be a type of plant we eat like spinach but tastes like tangy. is that right??? should I sow them in spring???

[veggiechicken]

Info about growing Sorrel https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/41751/...ants%252fherbs
Rumex acetosa is wild sorrel.

[Scarlet]

Yes so in Spring but I wouldn't bother with many. You can make soup and the young leaves are nice in a salad but that's it for me. I had four plants and I can't even dig them out...they keep coming back

[Elfeda]

oh is this perenial? now i got what nicos say... still i try growing them in pots as many and check

[Nicos]

I make a cream and sorrel sauce to go with fish, and put it in a salmon quiche to give it a lemony zing.

Here are other recipes, but don't eat too much of it as it is very high in salicylic acid.

50 Things To Do With Fresh Sorrel - Chocolate & Zucchini

[Elfeda]

This is the way I wanted to grow

[Elfeda]

my onions from seed is taking forever with my great skills for caring .. so bought 500gm of onion sets from allotment shop for £1.75 (around 130 onion sets)

total spending so far £6.74 from £20 of my maximum budget.

am able to stay away from many tempting seed catalogues as I might exceed my spending challenge limit.

does B&Q and Homebase ever put seed packets on sale??? hope they won't

[Kirk]

Going to ask this the other way - how do you manage to spend £20+ on seeds ?
Agreed my patch is not big but if I grew single varieties of veg then I would easily manage less the. £5. Equally my source suits this purchase and growing approach.

More often from seeds this year I will have remainder for next and will decide to use them if feasible and if they grew OK this year.

[vixylix]

I think as a newbie its very easy to get carried away and keep buying more and more seeds - plus then you lose track and buy them all over again! I have bought loads this year than on further research I dont have the space or the greenhouse to grow - but again as a newbie I want to try everything! Plus its easy to get sucked into the mainstream garden websites where seeds are considerably more expensive.

I now have a spreadsheet which keeps track of what varieties I have and what I still want (nothing now for next year) - it stops me buying multiples.

All went to a good home in the VSP though so nothing wasted

[Ryleh]

So I might have just gone out and bought 30 packets of seed.... @ 19p each

Most of the usual suspects, some sweet peppers, cayenne peppers, money maker toms, couple of packs of herbs and salad seeds (ie differenet lettuce and salad onions) and a couple of types of carrot.

I'v not grown carrot before so looking forward to giving that a try.

Came in at £5.70 so looking good to spend less than £20 but will see that happens when I get round to buying some tatties and onions.