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    Swamped by tomato plants

    After reading a thread on here at the beginning of the year about seed viability i found my tin of seeds which had gone missing a few years earlier.
    well i decided nothing ventured nothing gained, and so i sowed them all dating from 2007 and 2008. Well, 95% of them germinated and i am now over run by plants.
    there is nobody living near me who is interested in growing them on and so its looking likely they will be going on the compost heap.
    i should have binned them at the start but now that they have grown into sturdy plants i hate the thought of dumping them.

    And when your back stops aching,
    And your hands begin to harden.
    You will find yourself a partner,
    In the glory of the garden.

    Rudyard Kipling.sigpic
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    Bramble that them along to your local charity shop I'm sure they'll soon be snapped up there or maybe try freecycle.
    Location....East Midlands.

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    • #3
      You could also put them on a Freecycle group or a Faceboot for sale and wants in your area. Thats how I managed to rehome all my extra kale and sweet pepper plants.
      I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

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      • #4
        Or your local school, mental health charity, etc

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        • #5
          Someone had donated some large tomato plants to my local hospice shop last year and, after killing my seedlings I was very happy to buy some. The assistant said they'd been very popular.

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          • #6
            I put my spare ones in the front Garden with a little honesty box for a local charity.

            Last year I put out 15 plants, which promptly went up to about 25 plants after I witnessed the guy over the road dumping his spare plants in the tray. Dunno how many plants we sold, as I suspect more were added, but if memory serves me right we got £17. Not bad for an honesty box.

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            • #7
              I would donate them to your local charity shop - they'll soon sell them

              I've been fostering old cats for a local small charity since 2009 and always grew a few extra flowers in small pots for them to sell in their shop or on their stall at country fairs during the summer Next year I'll probably add stuff like tomato plants & sweet peas to the various French Marigolds, Nigella and Calendula which I have done this year
              If I'm not on the Grapevine I can usually be found here!....https://www.thecomfreypatch.co.uk/

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Gillykat View Post
                I've been fostering old cats for a local small charity since 2009 and always grew a few extra
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