Last Years Leftovers

After yesterdays long awaited family fun its down to earth with a bump today, and back to garden type blips.
I sorted out the seed box last month, threw out all the long expired stuff and planted some of the simply "old but possibly still good" stuff. This is one tray of the tomato seeds I found.
I am terrible with tomatoes, I hate buying packs with 200 seeds in because 195 of these will be wasted. So I go on ebay or similar and find growers that do packs of 10, the drawback with these is there are usually 12 small bags, each with different types of tomato seed. As you can see from the labels I have quite a variety of leftovers. In addition I have a smaller tray with a few more common ones growing and three pots in which I buried some nice tomatoes at the end of last year, hoping they would grow this year (nothing showing yet)
If all these get wiped out for some reason, the back up plan involves a local charity that encourages people with mental health problems to do some gardening. They do a wonderful job (one of the organisers was on the One Show recently getting a big thank you) and always end up with surplus plants for sale. Quite often the label is missing so its sold as  "Tomato (unknown variety)" but it will be well grown and normally very tasty.
Overall I think I am OK on the tomato front this year

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