2024 seeds and stuff I’ve bought acquired today

Ten packets of seeds, 3 winter flowering heather and some pak Choi seedlings.

Sweet pea and broad bean seedlings as a swap for African marigold seeds and a few pots.

I spent my £50 prize at Growtanical mostly on dahlias and some lobelia. Also bought some summer bedding plug plants.

Brought 8 bags of peat free multi purpose compost. Rocket gro . Don’t usually get peat free. But very limited on locations to buy from this year. Someone reasonably local brought in 2 pallets so was selling a few bags.
It doesn’t look too bad at all and has quite a nice compost/ manure smell to it.

The weekly Tuesday outing took we three elderly ladies to a wholesale discount store, In-Excess, and a related garden centre. Two of us were only interested in the cafe, the third (me) was like a kid in a candy store. Got 8kg tub of BFB, some discounted seeds (4pkts), coir, 6" labels, some Visiroot root trainers, a plant support thingy and grass seed for P. I'm going to have to eat a huge amount from the freezer to set against that lot. The cream tea was nice too.

Yesterday I brought
2 x 40lt bags of compost
1 spray bottle
1 box of plant food. (As discovered the container my homemade stuff stuff is in , no longer holds liquid   )

Snapdragons from Aldi. My efforts at growing snapdragons have been so pathetic I've resorted to buying them. 10 nice, bushy plants for £1.89, I bought two trays.

A very exciting hour finding things in the gorse bushes around the house. I found an old rusty garden fork and an old spade handle. They’ll be added to my collection. I’ve found a couple more bottles for my garden display. One says DUMMY coloured water on it. After a quick search. I think it’s a Jonny walker whiskey bottle from the 1930s. Also found a 6ft length of ornate metal fencing. This will go round the daffodil bed behind the post box to keep the sheep & deer from eating them. Because neither of the have read the
RHS memo that says they don’t eat daffodils! They flipping well do!

Forgive me, I am weak of will and twitchy of finger, and I have been led astray from the straight and narrow path of abstinence, Yea, verily, I have sinned and fallen from grace and succumbed to temptation, namely, Dragon's Egg Cucumber seeds.
Since they say you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, I also bought "Yard Long beans" and "Blue Spice" basil.
I shall do good works as a sign of repentance, Need time to think what they may be.

Oh Dear, I'm back in the confessional again!
Morries had some yellow sticker, rather battered plants, that needed adopting.
Bought a hanging basket planted with 4 coloured primroses (was £8 nowt 80p).
20 Petunias ((£4 = 40p)
20 French marigolds (£4 = 40p)
1 Carnation (£2.50 = 25p).
Total spend £1.85.
With a bit of TLC I should be able to plant the hanging basket with some of these poor things. The primroses hadn't been planted properly, if at all, They were sitting on the basket as if they'd come straight out of small pots