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Gardens from seeds!

Gardens from seeds are the easiest and cheapest way to add colour, fragrance and attract wildlife to your garden.

Choose from seeds that will give you great ingredients for your cooking; fresh herbs,tomatoes and vegetables.
Grow your own edible flowers from seed and add colour and zest to your salads

The stocks of free seeds are now finished. Although we are still sending free seeds with orders from the childrens garden range
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If you have received free seeds follow these tips for sowing and planting and soon you will be seeing your achocha climbing high, your squash plants flourishing and your flowers blooming.

Auntie Madge Tomato
Auntie Madge tomato grows well outside with minimal fuss.
Prolific producer of smallish egg shaped fruits.
Auntie Madge tomato seems quite resistant to blossom end rot and slug/snail damage - at least it was for us last year! We did suffer a bit from blight due to the heavy summer rainfall. If affected use a copper based fungicide, or avoid the problem by growing under cover.

We like to start ours in late March in a propagator. Then we grow them on in larger pots until the frosts have passed - mid May round here. Last year we put three per grow bag with support to tie them in as they grow. Pinch out side shoots - those ones that grow from the angle between branch and stem, to encourage more prolific fruiting and less leaf production.

Spray the flowers with a mist of clean water to help setting fruit and pick when ripe and warm from the sun. Great with basil and balsamic vinegar as a light lunch or starter. Happy salad days!

French market garden gift selection
French market garden - seeds of 10 authentic Provençal gourmet vegetables.
Recreate the smells and flavours of the Mediterranean.
Perfect for gardening cooks who want only the finest flavours in their cooking.
Unusual and delicious gourmet vegetable seeds presented in a smart galvanized gift tin with growing tips and recipe ideas.

Price includes postage to mainland UK

See some handy gardening tools to help with planting?
Free sample recipe and contents

Price: £19.95

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Culinary herb garden gift selection
Culinary growing herbs garden containing 10 delicious varieties of garden herbs, for garden, window box or patio containers.
10 unique varieties of growing herb seeds plus markers, growing instructions and recipe ideas for each herb.
Use the containers for collecting your own herb seeds at the end of the growing period to grow herbs in your garden again and again.

Price includes postage to mainland UK
Contents and a free sample recipe

Price: £19.95

Achocha Seed
Sowing
We have found the germination rate to be better if the seed is sown on edge.
Sow your seed mid spring in rich compost in a warm greenhouse or from April in a propagator.
Don't have these? Don't despair! A pot with a plastic bag over the top will be OK.

(tip: blow into the bag before you put it round your pot and secure with a rubber band. The carbon dioxide from your breath will help to create the right temperature and humidity - but remove it when the plant is about 1cm high).

Achocha is a rampant climber, so give it some support and it will race sky-wards. If grown in pots don't grow it next to things you may want to move later! It will curl its tendrils round them and hold fast. The fruits come after the greenish yellow flowers which form at the leaf axils. Pick the fruits when small for eating raw in salads for a crunchy fresh taste, or grow on and split in half to remove the angular woddy seeds and pulp to cook like stuffed peppers or chop and add to curries, and stews.

Fragrant flower gift collection

Incredibly fragrant flowers from seed.
Fragrant flowers for your garden.
Plant along borders and release the fragrance each time you pass
Fill planters with scented flowers clustered around seating areas.
Detailed growing booklet, stakes and pencil are also included

See the fragrant flowers you can grow here

Price: £19.99

Bird, bee and butterfly seed gift collection

Seed gift collection - perfect for enticing birds, bees and butterflies into your garden.

Unusual seed gift collection invites beneficial insects into your garden and they'll dine on your unwanted pests.

Decorative metal tin, which opens to reveal: 6 + individual seed tins; pencil and wooden plant markers plus; full planting instructions, to create a natural and beautiful haven in your garden.

Price includes postage to mainland UK

Seed gift tins - great housewarming gift for a new gardener!
Seed gifts to grow inside?
What's inside?

Price: £19.95

Squash or Pumpkin seeds
If you have received free seeds they were open pollinated so their progeny can't be guaranteed. They are most likely to be Turk's Turban type, but could also include banana pink or golden hubbard. Whatever variety they are likely to germinate quite well and the fruits are generally good to eat fresh as summer squash or if ripened will store well into winter. We offer them here for culinary as well as decorative uses.

Sow one seed per 3" pot on edge in good compost. Sow indoors late March onwards and harden seedlings off before planting outside after the risk of frost is past. Cucurbits include squash, pumpkins, corguettes and marrows. They all like humous rich moisture retintive soil. An ideal location is a compost heap.

They will climb and scramble so give them plenty (2-3 feet between plants) of space and watch them go. Make sure they have plenty of water, and restrict the fruits to 3-4 per plant, fewer if you want woppers. Pick when the fruit is young for prolonged cropping and leave the last fruit to rien in the late summer sun to harden the skins for storing over autumn or even into winter. We usually manage to keep them for Christmas and even Easter this year!

They are great roasted. When reparing, asave some seeds for next year. Clean and dry them, then store in a paper bag or envelope clearly labled.

Gourmet salad pocket garden gift selection
Gourmet salad pocket garden - add a splash of colour and a zing of flavour to create an original salad.

Five delicious and unusual varieties of salad and vegetable seeds, plant markers, pencil and growing guide and recipe ideas.
Delicious, healthful salads at a fraction of the cost of supermarket salad bags. What could be better?

Price includes postage to mainland UK
See some tools for your new salad garden?
Contents and a free sample recipe

Price: £9.95

Herbal tea pocket garden

Finest herbal teas ready to grow in your garden or window box .

Growing herbs in your own garden will ensure that they are chemical-free and weed-free at harvest.

Herbal teas are recommended for their soothing, healthy properties.

Herbal tea pocket garden contains Agrimony, Anise, German Chamomile, Peppermint, Wild Bergamot ( the essential ingredient of Earl Grey)

Growing and tea infusion directions included

See more easy to grow herbs?

Price: £9.95

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Cosmos
If you have received free seeds from us they will give a range of blooms in the pink to purple range.

Your seeds are from Cosmos bipinnatus, or lace cosmos, familiar yellow-centred daisy flowers ranging from white to pale pink to reddish or purplish pink and have very delicate ferny foliage.
They can grow fairly tall but are nicely light in texture and won't obscure other plants too much. In ideal conditions they can reach 5' but if you don't want them that tall they also make a pretty cut flower, so won't present much of a problem.

Mini-Tomato Garden-in-a-Bag

Grow your own tomatoes!
Sweet, delicious, cherry tomatoes right from the tomato plant you grew, indoors, on your windowsill.
The Mini-Tomato Garden-in-a-Bag contains everything you need to grow a very special dwarf variety of tomato.

Produce extra-sweet, red 1 1/2" tomatoes indoors!

Tomato seeds germinate in 7-10 days.
Taste sweet, delicious tomatoes in about 60 days from germination (longer in the winter months)!

Price: £9.99

Brandy wine tomato

Delicious tomato that can be grown in containers.
Heirloom tomato variety produces juicy, healthful fruit .
Includes its own colorfully illustrated and completely weatherproof seed marker and instructions.
Tomatoes will be ready about 75 days after transplanting.

Price: £2.99

Environmentally friendly watering tips from SandEdge! How to use water wisely...
Both the squash and achocha plants need plenty of water to help swell the fruits, but you don't need to use a hosepipe to do this.
We all need to conserve water so we have put together some simple tips to help with water conservation.
Use "grey water" e.g. from your washing up
Capture rainwater in a water butt
Apply a good mulch to conserve ground moisture
Water by hand and avoid using sprinklers
Don't waste water on lawns in dry spells, they'll soon green up with the first rain

Fine gardening gifts > Gardens from seeds!