Moles Seeds - A supplier with a difference today – their minimum seed quantity per variety is 50 seeds – and they will be happy if you want to order in quantites up to 2,500. So perhaps more aimed at the commercial or very ambitious home grower. The thought of that number of seeds all coming up out the compost with the chorus : “look after me, look after me…” makes me feel quite faint !
Anyway for those with the space and stamina the tomato selection is divided into Conventional (Determinate and Indeterminate) and Organic.
Conventional Determinate: F1 Balconi – both red and yellow/ F1 Grande/ F1 Mandrino/ F1 Season Red/ F1 Sweet Olive/ F1 Totem/ F1 Tropical Ruby/ F1 Tumbler/ Garden Pearl/ Little Sun/ Maskotka/ Micro Tom/ Rambling – both Gold and Red Stripe/ Roma VF/ Sweet ‘n’ Neat – both cherry red and yellow/ Tiny Tim/ Tumbling Junior Yellow/ Tumbling Tom – both Red and Yellow.
Conventional Indeterminate Hybrid: F1 Albenga/ F1 Ambrosia/ F1 Azriel/ F1 Big Boy/ F1 Bottondoro/ F1 Cossack/ F1 Elisir/ F1 Golden Gem/ F1 Golden Shine/ F1 Golden Sweet/ F1 Juliet/ F1 Lucciola/ F1 Miele/ F1 Mini-Charm/ F1 Mosaico/ F1 Mountain Pride/ F1 Nectar/ F1 Octavio/ F1 Orange Santa/ F1 Pannovy/ F1 Red Zebra/ F1 Rosada/ F1 Saint Ship/ F1 Shirley/ F1 Sparta/F1 Sungold/F1 Supersweet/ F1 Tigris/ F1 Tigro/ F1 Tomatoberry/ F1 Vanessa/ F1 Velocity/ F1 Zucchero
Also included in this group are seeds for two rootstocks for creating grafted plants – F1 Aegis and F1 Arnold. Fascinating to see how much more – £13.35 and £9.05 per 50 seeds – these cost. As you’re only getting “half” the plant – you’d think the cost would be less! It clearly demonstrates the premium placed on having a resilient “bottom end” to a plant.
Conventional Indeterminate Open Pollinated: Black Cherry/ Alicante/ Ailsa Craig/ Gardener’s Delight/ Golden Sunrise/ Moneymaker/ Sun Baby/ Super Marmande
Organic: Cherry Fox/ F1 Alexandro/ F1 Cindel/ F1 Diplom/ F1 Phillipos/ Gardener’s Delight/ Matina/ Moneymaker
On a smaller scale here are today’s photos of this year’s seeds – and with the sun out today – it’s much more possible to feel their fruitful future is not so far away!
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I sowed mine yesterday, but they won’t have the luxurious warmth of a propagator to germinate, they’ll have to make do with a cool *ahem* windowsill. Mind you, if we get more days like today it probably won’t make much difference. I’m glad yours are safely germinated, anyway.
Just potted on another fifty-something plants – Green Zebras and Riesentraube (I wonder if I could say ‘Riesentrauben’ without sounding too pretentious?) – so your comment about getting overwhelmed by hundreds of plants seems very real! I’m putting them in plastic cups now – thanks to http://annieskitchengarden.blogspot.com/ for the idea. It’s so great to see yours straining up towards the light already – when are you hoping/expecting to start your harvest? I’m banking on Sub Arctic Plenty living up to its reputation, so maybe by mid-June? Assuming no catastrophes (recent weather helps!).
I don’t know how you manage without windowsills! Mine are chock-full now :S
Given all your hard work I very much hope that Sub Artic pulls it off – and starts to deliver from Mid-June – that would be wonderful and a very well deserved reward. I’m not expecting my lot to start giving until August sometime – but I am going to “cheat” and go and get some plants from a plant sale in mid-May – and use those as my “earlies” and then have my home sown seed plants to follow on.
Thank you for the link to anniekitchengarden – it was a blog I used to follow and then lost track of – so it was lovely to revisit. I always wanted an “annie” whenever I looked at her photo and now looking at the recent posts I would so like a “cookie” as well!
Today was another lovely day as well – and I can tell what great growing weather it is by the number of weeds that are now colonising my tiny front garden. I used to have a professional gardener as a neighbour who would come round with his left over weedkiller – spray it liberally – and say that as he was a licensed gardener he could get the proper stuff and none of that “mickey mouse” stuff that us folk have to buy from the garden centre. And sure enough desolation was delivered a week or so later!
As for the windowsills – I never remember that I have a “disadvantaged” house until this time of year – the rest of the year it is just normal and wonderfully one less surface to dust – but for this short period of time – I feel the lack !!