2025 - Seeds and stuff I've bought or acquired

Stocked up on chicken manure pellets and blood, fish & bone when I spotted them at Aldi today.

Got 4 packets of dwarf nasturtiums at Lidl the other day.

Got four packets of sweet peas at Lidl the other day

Got some more seeds from Lidl:

Dwarf Zinnia hybrids - I grew these two years and saved some seeds, but my home saved seeds didn't give great results so I've bought some. Love these.

Dwarf yellow french beans - still searching for the "perfect" yellow bean.

Uchiki Kuri squash - I've failed with Potimarron two years in a row so I'm trying these instead as everyone raves about them.

More shrubs aquired from Morries on there '3 for 2' basis! (£3.00 each so actually works out at £2.00 each)

Euonymus Emerald n gold. .......A very 'golden' variety with much more yellowy gold on leaves than some other Euonymus I have seen.(1.2m)

Ceanothus Concha..........Large blue flowered shrub (3m when established)

Ceanothus Repens.......More of a lilac coloued flower (looks a bit like lilac!) than above and only grows to 1.5m.

Now all I have got to work out is where to plant them along with the other three herbacious perennials I have aquired?

Friend has sent me half a packet of sunflower premier orange up.

I took advantage of DT Brown's free p&p and cheapie seeds and 3 for 2 offer , ordered a pkt dfb, 2 pkts carrots and a pkt of courgettes plus a freebie tomato, moneymaker. OK it's not a tomato I need but I might grow them one day. All for £2.97. Now, that's a bargain!

Today I picked up 2 very large pots 1 glazed , 1 terracotta. 1 medium sized terracotta pot. 3 lavender, 1 clematis, 2 aquilegia, mint, thyme , sage & oregano, campanula , a bundle of 10 new canes, 2 new posh potato grow bags ( ones with the little door in the side). 2 packets of pacific purple asparagus crowns, 1 packet of connover’s colossal asparagus crowns (2 crowns in each pack) . 3 eryngium tubers, 1 agapanthus tuber, gladiolus callianthus bulbs, 1 bearded iris black midnight tuber, 5 convallaria tubers, 2 packets of 3 different dahlia tubers, 1 box of bee attracting flower seeds, 1 box of wild meadow flower seeds. And very oddly 2 sprouting jars, stands, tray and a spare lid. All for £40 . Just the seeds, bulbs, tubers and 2 of the plants would have come to £65.50 if I’d brought them new! I’m very doubtful that any of the seeds will germinate and I’ll be amazed if some of the tubes & bulbs are capable of growing. They’ve been abandoned outside in a bin bag since last September/October. But all the dahlias & asparagus are definitely hanging on to life so I’m very pleased with my collection. They’re all now sown/ scattered and or planted. So they have the best chance they’re going to.

Your job lot of bulbs sounds like the ones I had from the eyelash lady recently. Unfortunately, none of them grew. However, most of the tubs of unknown plants are full of life - pansies, arabis, cyclamen and more. I love pansies.
Hope your bargains thrive.

Acquired 60+ square black plastic pots, 9 x 9 cms, all new, plus 6 seed trays and a random assortment of round pots, that I didn't want but it was all or nothing.

I’ve bought marigold and parsnip seeds.

My neighbour gave me the majority of his plant pots, seed trays and propagator lids.
They’re handy sizes that actually stack inside each other instead of mine that are a mixed bag taking up far too much space.