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One side-effect of last week’s ever-so-virtuous clearing out of seed packets is that I now have a socking big pile of seeds I know I don’t have room for yet I know I will sow regardless unless I give them away to someone else.
Cue this year’s CG Big Seed Giveaway!
Please save me (and my garden) from myself by taking some seeds off my hands. They’re all in date (by which I mean packeted or collected in 2011 or later), quite a lot of them are very covetable and I will blame you for the piles of unwanted seedlings on my compost heap and the subsequent hand-wringing and lamentation that will follow if you don’t make me send them to you instead.
So here you go: choose what you want out of this lot (rules follow a bit further down the page):
Wildflower mixes:
Honey Bee Flower MixUK Native Wildflower Mix (2 packs)Miriam Rothschild’s Wildflower Meadow Mix
Flowers:
Bupleurum rotundifoliumNasturtium ‘Mambo’Nasturtium ‘Orange Troika’Sweet pea ‘Ballerina Blue’Hollyhock ‘Halo Mixed’Sunflower (unnamed variety)Helianthus maximiliani (perennial sunflower)Coreopsis ‘Incredible Dwarf Mixed’Poppy ‘St George’Poppy ‘Pink Fizz’Pansy ‘Morning Dew’Gaillardia ‘Arizona Apricot’Antirrhinum ‘ReminiScent’ F1Pansy ‘Cool Summer Breeze’Californian poppy ‘Peach Sorbet’Cornflower ‘Classic Fantastic’Petunia ‘Sparklers’Hesperis matronalis (sweet rocket)
Veg:
Tomato ‘Rainbow Blend’- Tomato ‘Moneymaker’ (
21 pack) Tomato ‘Santeramo’ F1- Tomato ‘Gardeners’ Delight’
Tomato ‘Sweet Aperitif’Chilli ‘Chenzo’Chilli ‘Hot Cayenne’ (2 1 pack)Pepper ‘Sweet Californian Wonder’Squash ‘Sweet Dumpling’Squash ‘Potimarron’ (2 1 pack)Courgette ‘Sunstripe’ F1Martock beans (5 4 3 2 1 pack)French climbing bean ‘George’s’Salad leaves ‘Rocky Top Lettuce’Lettuce ‘Great Lakes’Bulb fennel ‘Di Firenze’Lettuce ‘Ashbrook’Cabbage (mini savoy) ‘Caserta’ F1Brokali ‘Apollo’ F1Cabbage (mini) ‘Mon Petit’ F1
…and a bit of both:
Double pack of Sweet Pea ‘Royal Family Mix’ and Tomato ‘Maskotka’
How to claim your free seeds:
- comment below giving the names of the seeds you want
- then send an email to sally dot nex at btinternet dot com confirming your request and giving me an address to send your seeds to
- I’ll update this post regularly giving details of what’s gone and what’s left
- the giveaway will last for a week, until 1 February: follow me on Twitter (@sallynex) for updates
- if you enjoy growing your seeds, please blog about them later in the year if you can!
Rules:
- no more than 10 packets of seed and no more than one packet of the same variety per person.
- first to place their order in the comments below gets the seed
- sorry but the offer is only open to UK respondents
Happy bidding!
Sally Nex 
I’d love Courgette ‘Sunstripe’ F1 and Squash ‘Potimarron’
They’ll look great on my plot this summer! 🙂
On your marks get set go……..
If may be so bold
1pkt of Potimarron
1 pkt Sweet Dumpling
1kt Martoc beans
1 pkt Tom Santerno
1 pkt Tom Sweet Aperitif
would be splendid – Thank-you
They’ve just arrived! Thank you so much! I shall enjoy planting these and of course will aim to save some seeds and pass them on too! Thank you!
May I have a pack of each of the poppies and nasturtium if available please.
Thanks
OK all noted – don’t forget to email me your addresses!
Would love to have Coreopsis ‘incredible dwarf mixed’, Antirrhinum ‘reminscent f1 and also Courgette ‘sun stripe f1’
i would like the orange troika nasturnum, ballerina blue sweet pea,cornflower and peach sorbet calif poppy, ariz. apricot gailliradia pansy morning dew and pansy cool summer breeze and antirrhinum. thanks
Debbie – the Courgette ‘Sun Stripe’ has already gone but the Coreopsis and Antirrhinum are yours
Sherry – Debbie pipped you to the post on the antirrhinum, and the nasturtium had already gone – but the sweet pea, californian poppy, gaillardia and the pansies are all yours 😀
I am grateful for any veg seeds for the school veg plot.
That’s fine Martin – I can just give you what’s left over at the end or if you could be more specific that might mean you get the ones you want!
hi there could i have some sunflowers and bulb fennel please? thanks
hi there,
what a great idea! I would love some climbing french beans(Georges) and some perennial sunflower(Maximiliani) for my garden this year.
Thanks very much for the seeds which arrived today, have marked them in my seed diary ready for sowing-can’t wait!
Hi Leo and Jan – they’re yours 😀 Don’t forget to email me your address!
Hi Sally – I would love your Lettuce Ashbrook spares. Thanks, Lisa
Wow… Could I have please…
Cabbage mini savoy
Martock beans
Honey bee flower mix
Bupelrum flower
Thank you!!
Sold! 😀 Email me your addresses and they’ll be in the post.
Hi Sally. If you can spare, any of Johns list below would be great! We have a flower revolution going on at GandF
From my iPhone so please excuse brevity and any typo.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: “John Whitlock” > Date: 26 January 2013 07:40:31 GMT > To: “Su Johnston” > Subject: Re: [New post] The Big Seed Giveaway 2013 > > Just picked this up. I didnt pick up the veg section or the rules, on my e mail > > Very quickly go for > > Helianthus maximiliani (perennial sunflower) > Cornflower ‘Classic Fantastic’ > Sweet pea ‘Ballerina Blue’ > Bupleurum rotundifolium > >
Hi Su! Oh dear… all these have gone 😦 how about the sweetpea/tomato duo? or the hollyhocks? So glad to see G&F is branching out (excuse the pun) into flowers, can’t wait to see the photos!
Hi Sue can we have some of the wild flowers please if you have any left or at least some flower seeds of any variety. Many thanks
Hi I would feel so lucky to win the petunias, sweet rocket and the Rothschild’s mix. Thank you, thank you!
Right in the interests of fairness – Jane, the two packs of UK Native wildflowers are yours, plus the hollyhocks; Jenn, petunias, sweet rocket and Rothschild’s are yours. Hope that’s OK with you both!
Wow .. id love a pack of Brokali Apollo or Cabbage mini if still available for our school allotment patch. What a super idea 🙂
This is such a lovely idea 🙂
I’d love some Tomato seeds (any variety) and some sweetpea/tomato duo…….If any left.
Thank-you!
Debbie – both the Brokali and the Cabbage are yours 😀
Bex – Rainbow Blend + the sweetpea’tomato duo winging its way to you once I’ve got your address!
thanks so much 🙂
Yipee 😀 Will email you my address asap.
Thank-you
Hi there,
Tomato ‘Moneymaker’ (2 packs)
Chilli ‘Chenzo’
Chilli ‘Hot Cayenne’ (2 packs)
Pepper ‘Sweet Californian Wonder’
Martock beans (5 4 3 packs)
Salad leaves ‘Rocky Top Lettuce’
Lettuce ‘Great Lakes’
We would love the above for our community project, if you have anything else you’re dumping we’ll take it!!
Many thanks,
C savage
Hi Clare, happy to let you have the list but no more than one pack of each! Let me know your address and I’ll send them over 😀
Phew finally worked out how to blog!
What a lovely idea!
I would like the beans and chilli please…
Thank you so much
B.
Hi Sally, Thanks for offering me the spare seeds. My address is Jan Willetts 18 Roade Hill Ashton Northants NN7 2JH
Sent from my iPad
Hi Sally
I’ve been thinking what a lovely idea!
I would like the Chilli ‘Hot Cayenne’ and the Martock beans please!
Beans and chilli it is! On their way shortly 😀
Em – Barbara snaffled the chilli but I’ll happily send you a packet of Martock beans – just email me your address and they’ll be on their way.
Right – that’s it: all my seeds have gone! Thank you very much to all who have taken them off my hands, and commiserations if you arrived just a tad too late (don’t worry, I’ll be doing the same thing next year so you can have another go then!)
I have addresses for quite a lot of you but not all yet – so if you haven’t sent me your address I’d be grateful if you could do so soon. Thank you!
Hello again – still short of four addresses:
Suzie
Sherry
Leo
Clare
I’ll put your seeds in the post as soon as I hear from you 😀
Thank you – I was not too sure what to do next!
My address is:
Kates Cottage
Church Lane
Graveley. SG4 7LU
I will pass on your generosity by donating to a garden I visit during the year. 🙂
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Thanks Suzie – and that would be lovely 😀
I’ve just done mine – everything’s been snapped up ultra quickly this year! 🙂
Recieved my seeds this morning 🙂
Thanks again, looking forward to sowing them soon!
x
thank you so much for the super seeds, cant wait for better weather so we can get out there and plant them x
Oh darn, looks like I missed out. Would you consider doing another giveaway?