Tomatoes galore

For the last two years, I've really wanted to grow the tomato 'Hundreds and Thousands'. They're relatively expensive at about £3.80 for eight seeds but each year they were always out of stock :-(.

Yesterday I placed my main orders for seeds for the year and happened to look on ebay for these tomato seeds - I was lucky enough to spot some, and at the great price of £3.24.......for SEVEN packs!!  So fifty six seeds for less than the price of eight.  This seed is slightly out of date, but whenever I've planted old seed before, it's just had a slightly lower germination rate.  I intend giving some to my Dad too, as he loves his gardening as much as I do.  I also got seven packs of Tumbler from the same seller.

The remainder of my seed shop went through MoreVeg and Premier Seeds Direct on Ebay.  Again fantastic prices compared to the main stream retailers.  MoreVeg do smaller amounts for on avaerage 50p a pack - some things I don't need 2000 seeds of !!  Premier Seeds Direct do normal size packs at about 99p, so I balanced my order between the two.  They're all on their way in the post now and I can't wait to see them.

One of the things I love about gardening is that it really is a year round hobby - there's always something to look forward to.  Either choosing seeds, waiting for them to arrive, sowing, waiting to see those first signs of life, through to the final harvest.  I'm hoping to have a better year in the garden than last year - fingers crossed!!