Sarah Raven seeds -v- Thomson Morgan
I don't want this thread to end up with the pros and cons of online suppliers but I am curious to find out how other people have got on with Thomson & Morgans seeds.
I planted two batches of seeds for last summer; 1 from Sarah Raven and have had a beautiful plot of cottage garden flowers, no problems whatsoever. So, I do know how to plant seeds and see them thrive. However, I planted wild red poppy seeds from Thomson & Morgan and got about 3 flowers out of about 300 seeds. Is it wild red poppies that is the problem or Thomson & Morgan?
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poppies can be tricky, I find they do best from an autumn sowing.
In the sticks near Peterborough
ive been sowing my Autumn seeds from Sarah Raven and they've all taken so far, I'm sowing half now and the rest in spring. My only dealings with T & M have been mixed and it was regarding hydrangea shrubs not seeds
I tend to only buy T&M when I can't get the seeds anywhere else. Back in the dark ages, they sold seeds for really unusual plants and there was always a chance they wouldn't germinate because they needed specialist treatment. Since they went mainstream I have had mixed success with their seeds but that could be said of most of the wares sold by all the seed companies.
T&M are a no-no for me. Their germination rate is abysmal even though many of their vegetable seeds are covered by minimum statutory germination rates.
There are several seed and plant companies I avoid. There are several I find consistently reliable. I have been growing for 50 years now so I am not inexperienced.
Sarah Raven is a bit more pricey than some hollie hock, but once you've bought your first lot of seeds, you get free p&p on all subsequent orders. I've also been looking at seedaholic.com and higgledy garden. This is a really interesting web site and they have a lot of seed sowing guides. funny too. As for T & M, I won't be using them again.
I love higgledy. Ben's very funny but he only does annuals.
its worth paying a visit Hollie, you can subscribe to a monthly newsletter and all the old posts are accessible. Ben higgledy is a funny guy and he has some interesting new seeds for 2016/17. It's refreshing to come across a site selling seeds with detailed sowing guides are funny to read.