Generic seeds

I take your point, JJB, but I'm not one for buying a new "***" every time a new model goes on sale. Far too mean for that!
Every season, seed prices go up/ seed packet contents go down or varieties disappear from the shelves while others with different names take their place. Are they really different or are they just being re-badged to tempt us to buy. Is all the hype to be believed - especially when it comes from the catalogues of certain retailers.
I really do wonder how much better most of them are, compared to the seeds that the old gardeners grew.

I hear you and totally agree, we're not mean, just careful and dont spent unnecessarily. You bought a hot bin, I havent bit that bullet yet, far too expensive.  These days I seldom even read the seed catalogues. I'm so set in my ways that I grow mostly the same as I grew last year and the year before that.  Your seed swap has been extremely helpful in introducing me to new varieties of both veg and flowers,  none of which I would have bought.  Personal recommendation on here goes a long way to convincing me to buy something new in the seed line, as do special end of season offers.  Don't you think sometimes the old varieties continue because they're tried and tested.
I must admit, though, to being a sucker for anything new in the supermarkets. 

I take it you haven't got an iPhone 14  ..............me neither.