Here’s the 4th volume of our Q&A sessions. This time it’s all about medicinal plants such as flowers, herbs, roots and even mushrooms. The uses for and differences between infusions, oils and tinctures. We have also got some announcements: We have extended the free seed giveaway raffle to Tuesday the 3rd of March 6pm and […]
Jerusalem artichokes are a tuberous sunflower from north America. They’re not from Jerusalem and they are not artichokes either. The original name is Giro Sol, to turn with the sun which in Italian sounds like Jerusalem and they have a similar flavour to artichokes. It is a versatile and useful plant with it’s many uses […]
Here’s how the seed swap works: 1. Enter seed swap below and await email instructions. 2. Send us your spare seeds before the 29th of March. 3. If you don’t have spare seeds, you can still enter but at higher fee. 4. Wait to receive your surprise mix of seed packets in the post around […]
Hollyhocks are herbaceous perennials with beautiful flowering stalks that come in many colours. Vigorous bare root plants are freshly harvested on the day of purchase and posted unwashed for extra preservation. Plants have a strong root ball and should grow quickly once the growing season starts. Can be planted into pots, window boxes or into […]
Announcement of Winners: The winners of our Spring Seed Giveaway 2020 are K. Poulsen and Lorraine Gallagher. Congratulations to both of you and we wish you a successful 2020 growing season! We will contact you by email. For everybody else we are giving you 15% off everything on our online shop including plants, tubers and […]
In this 3rd Q and A session, i’m answering questions about our little personal plant nursery, starting plants from seed and cuttings and plant propagation in general. The questions are listed below with time stamps. Please feel to ask us questions in the comments for our next Q&A session on Medicinal Plants – Traditional household […]
What are you growing this 2020 growing season? In this lengthy video we are going to show you our seed collection and we are going to reveal the contents of our mystery box (very special seeds, tubers and cuttings). All the way from the commonly available to the super rare! We start with vegetable seeds, […]
Mega Mix 1 includes: Moroccan mint, Pineapple mint, Chocolate mint, Basil mint and Peppermint. Mega Mix 2 includes: Ice Tea, Israelien mint, Egyptian mint and Apple mint. You will receive at least 3 generous rhizomes of each variety. Vigorous rhizomes (Root cuttings) are freshly harvested on the day of purchase and posted unwashed for extra […]
Today’s questions and answers session is all about growing food such as fruits, berries, vegetables and herbs in a mulched no dig garden. The idea is to work with nature to create a healthy soil giving a habitat and food to microbes, fungi, worms, insects and larger animals like birds and hedgehogs. This helps to […]