I don't grow many things from seed these days, it's just as easy, and often cheaper, to buy small plants and grow them on, but it's fun waiting for germination and watching the subsequent growth so I do still start a few things off each spring. I used to have an allotment so when the growing year started, my greenhouse and every available indoor windowsill used to be covered with seedlings. These days I'm down to a seed tray or two.
I had a bad growing year last year. The tomato seeds were very slow to germinate and hardly put on any growth so I ended up buying a couple of plants from a local nursery. Even these didn't do very well and I hardly harvested any tomatoes at all. This year I'm going back to my favourite Maskotka, a trailing bush variety which produces medium to large cherry tomatoes. I've never found anything to beat the taste of these.
When we had the allotment, Mick's favourite thing to both grow and eat were climbing beans. He does love a wigwam structure on which to grow climbing plants, so I'm going to leave it up to him this year to grow these Blue Lake climbing French beans.
I grew mahogany coloured sunflowers last year, I'm not sure why as I've always preferred the traditional yellow variety and no, my opinion didn't change. Whilst looking through my seed box the other day I came across a packet of sunflower seeds my niece gave out at her wedding back in 2021. I forgot all about them so I hope they're still viable. Her mum and her auntie grew all her wedding flowers and these sunflower seeds came from their gardens so it will be fun to see if they'll still grow.
Of course, I'll be buying plenty of plants too but I think these are the only things I'll be growing from seed, unless I see something else which takes my fancy. How about you? Do you buy plants or do you grow from seed, or like me, a bit of both?
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