Sob - I've had a disaster

[aJumpedUpPantryBoy]

Nooooo - today has been the most horrid day ever

Yesterday afternoon I decided to catalogue all my seeds. I sat outside on the patio and made a list and even planned anal rotational sowing for the rest of the season.

This morning when I drew back the bedroom curtains I realised I had left the trug full of all my seeds outside and it had rained all night.

All my seed packets were floating in 3 inches of water.

I've been planting like a maniac all day to try and salvage some of them - quite how 2 of us are going to eat 60 spinach plants and 100+ lettuce I don't really know.

Oh no....what a shame
At least you've tried to salvage something by planting all the seeds - and I'm sure friends and neighbours would be grateful for any surplus. Try not to beat yourself up too much!

PS I'm so impressed that you catalogue your seeds!

How vexing for you. Especially when you are so impressively organised...

i like lettuce...

oh shit sticks, its horrid when silly things make you feel like this, chin up, forget about it, you cant change it now, so dont let it worry you

Oh you poor thing, that's really awful!
As you have the room to plant it all, you'll just have to accept fate and let them all grow now.
But give any spare away and bask in the warm glow that will give you, or do as my neighbour did and sell the produce outside your front door and give any money collected to charity (or to your seed fund!)
I really feel for you.

Thanks.
The irony is I'm not very organised but we had visited a beautiful garden in the morning which was open for charity.
The owner had everything organised and catalogued so I felt inspired to copy her.
I should have left everything in the glorious jumble it usually lives in.

DH also suggests that my comment 'surely you must have seen the trug' was slightly passive agressive!
I'm not blaming him at all, but he did step over the bloody thing 3 times when he took the dog out.

Still, I guess I shall just have to buy some more seeds, not that I need much excuse

is it perpetual spinach? i had some that wouldn NOT go away

Oh no what a nightmare. It doesn't help for the rest of what you need to plant for the summer but Wyevale had a dale last autumn with loads of veg seeds reduced to 50p. Maybe you could buy a few seeds to keep you going from somewhere like moreveg, then replace everything in the autum when they are reduced. For what it's worth I'd have killed my DH if he'd walked over them and passive aggressive would be the least of his worries!

I've jst read that Thompson and Morgan's veg seeds are half price and if you go through growfruitandveg forum you can get a further 10% off.

Oh how annoying. But what a great excuse to try out some new ones. If I were you, I'd order all the seed catalogues and sit yourself down with a large drink in a comfy chair and pore over them slowly.

I had some lovely lavatera seeds that were doing brilliantly in the greenhouse until we had that very hot weekend a few weeks ago and I forgot to water them....cue dessicated, utterly dead tray of seedlings I feel your pain.

you can freeze spinach - great in curry/pasta during the winter.

I am persuing the seed sites right now.

There is a great page on [http://www.realseeds.co.uk/summersowing.html RealSeeds] showing what you can plant this month - I can feel the need to place an order.

When I was out shopping today all seeds in Holland and Barrett were half price so I did buy some - DH paid for them - but said that wasn't to be taken as an admission of guilt!

Sorry, here is the link Real Seeds

I'm sure plenty of them will be fine, really.

How about doing a swop with a colleague / friend when you have the worst of the gluts?

And I think you're quite right about cataloguing, actually. I did that last year, didn't do it this year, and am already regretting it. I'm going to have to try to go through and retrospectively catalogue.

Surely if they were dried out they would still be OK?

What does Catalogue mean

Sorry - you can see I am new to all this