To think a lot of people are buying stuff they have no idea what to do with.

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I've just been looking for vegetable seeds online. All the sites I've looked either have delays or are not currently taking orders.

I've been GYO for years, I had an allotment till a couple of years ago when I gave it up cos I changed jobs and couldn't get to it so often. I still grow as much as I can in containers at home.

Now my Broad beans are coming on nicely, my onion sets are sprouting and I will be planting potatoes in buckets next week but I wanted some squash and brassica seeds.

I suspect that many people ordering GYO stuff have no clue what they're doing, just like I suspect many of the people buying flour have never made a loaf in their life and the seeds, if sown, will never bear fruit as they think you just need to stick the seed in some compost and harvest a crop a few weeks later.

I noticed tomato seeds are all out of stock, unless you're in the far south it's too late to sow tomatoes and get a crop before September.

OmgThereAreNoPlanesAboveMeNow thank you for that!
We’ve also given up growing toms but for different reasons. We had a really great season a couple of years back but one of our dogs thought so too. She’s a terror - I’d think “that one needs one more day” and watch her like a hawk and yet still she’d somehow manage to eat it off the vine just before I was going to pick it! She does the same for strawberries and loganberries too but they seem easier to net. I haven’t found a foolproof method of keeping her off tomatoes so I’ve given up. Winter kale is the best - cheeky animal won’t go near that!