🌱 Dreaming your garden and useful gardening resources 🌶️
We hope you are not finding the January weather too bleak.
As mentioned our last bulletin, there are not loads of seeds which can be sown in January, and the ones that can might need special conditions.
I won't repeat the information here but you can check out the seeds which can be sown and what needs they have by clicking the button below.
| Seeds to sow in January |
Gardening and growing resources
We are receiving a lot of emails asking for advice on growing and where to source various products and materials so we thought we'd compile a list which we could share with you here.
Sourcing materials
- Organic seed and potting compost - we use Klassmans peat free 'Tray' for our seed sowing and 'Potting' for potting on. We have also used Moorland Gold in the past with good success - this uses peat dredged from the bottom of rivers so is considered to be more sustainable
- Green manure seeds - We recommend Cotswold Seeds (they offer both organic and conventional seeds), or Tamar Organics
- Liquid fertiliser - We use Natural Grower Organic Liquid Fertiliser to feed some of our plants than spend a long time in their trays before planting out
- Perennial vegetable seeds and plants - Our fellow Baddaford collective member Mandy at Incredible Vegetables specialises in perennial veg
Growing information and resources
- Crop guides - for detailed crop growing guides you can find ours here
- Making compost - We recommend picking up a copy of Devon composting hero, Nicky Scott's, book How to Make and Use Compost
- Using woodchip - Ben Raskin of the Soil Association (and fellow seed enthusiast) has written a great book called The Woodchip Handbook packed full of useful info about using woodchip in the garden
- General gardening advice - Both Huw Richards and Charles Dowding have excellent YouTube channels and have written many good books
- Cut flower advice - we recommend following Zoe Woodward on Instagram. She runs a "grow-along" each season where you can follow her lead and grow yourself a beautiful cutting garden
Lastly but not leastly, for the sourcing of all your great organic veg, herb and flower seeds - we recommend Vital Seeds(!).
You can visit the extensive seed shop and fulfil your garden dreams by clicking the button below:
| TO THE SEED SHOP! |
All the best
Fred, Ronja, and the rest of the team
Vital Seeds Ltd
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