How many plants do you bring on after sowing? Do you sow 10% more and then pot on every one? Are you left with loads of spares, then waste water, compost and time on plants you will never be able to use? 

I have tried to cut down the amount I sow and be strict on the numbers I pot on. Although I still sow more "just in case"  I dont sow the whole pack, I try to stick with a number and then I worry I wont have back ups if a plant finishes flowering and I dont have anything suitable for its space.
Saved seeds are worse, I currently have several pots jammed packed with seedlings I need to separate. I tested Garett nicotiana seeds... I just potted on a tray with approx 100. 
What do you do with your extras? Do you have a plant area? Or are you mindful of the amount you sow in the first place.

What ya growing this year then?

New for me this year:
CFB
Lingua di Fuoco 2
Helda which I think I might have grown but didn't have seed, so it's a  new pkt

DFB
Nautica
Mistik
Jacob's cattle gold for drying from seed swap but unamed, thank you anyway

then the old favourites 
CFB
Fasold because it's early
Hunter
Lidl's
Meuch for dried
Tresnjevac ditto


DFB
Ferrari or Safari
Opera
Yin yang because they're pretty

There may be more....

Am I too late to start some tomato seeds? I know lots of the nutters start them on 2nd of January or something like that   . I usually start mine beginning of March. For obvious building/ moving reasons I’ve not. But I really really want 1 tomato plant. 
I had some shop brought ones last week. OMG! They were tasteless, watery, expensive horrible things. 

Advice please. If you have recommendations for a variety that is good at playing catch up. Even better. 

My first thought was rosella. Because she produces well , and tastes lovely.

I have quite a lot of Echinops that are growing really well.  The last few weeks I've noticed lots of seedlings coming up around them.  Does anyone know if they self seed?

I spend a lot of time working on our garden growing vegetables, fruit and flowers.

I hope I can learn new advice etc from everyone.

How much lyme do I add to very acidic soil?

I sowed lovage & lemon balm in cells next to each other. Only one came up. But came up in both cells. Never grown either before so no idea which one grew. Repotted today. Are they big enough for an ID?

   

Definitely didn’t plant this.
Also got another popping up in another spot nearby.
About three and a half foot tall. Large heads of of creamy white florets. Not much in way of leaves yet.
Slightly fragrant.

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Bob made some bird boxes last week when we got rained off from building one day last week.

   

We put them up yesterday morning

         

No one has moved in yet! 

We’ll probably make some more out of cladding off cuts .

Two lupins in the border next to each other, one is thriving the other yellowing and small.  They're nothing special, I can't remember what colour but probably bog standard mauve/ blue. What can I do to strengthen the poorly one. Soil is alkaline and reasonably free draining although it is soggy with all the 4ain.