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Seed Saving

Seeds for next season

Seeds for next season

I’ve been out in the garden collecting seeds that are ripe and ready to harvest.  The cornflowers sown last autumn excelled themselves, flowering from late spring, and still producing flowers now, so it is well worth propagating from them.   Then there’s  Silene ‘Blue Angel’ which was a gift from Fergus Garrett at Great Dixter and  seemingly unavailable in this country, as well as Mina lobata and the Lab Lab bean – all three have performed well and I would like to grow them again next year.  I will store them in brown paper bags to dry, then clean them and put them in packets.

Silene Blue Angel

Silene Blue Angel

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Half Price Vegetable seeds

Now at T & M this bank holiday weekend. #gardening

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Seeds of Italy

If you go to their website, www.seedsofitaly.com you can enjoy an entertaining read and also download an advance copy of their 2010 catalogue. It is guaranteed to conjure up sunny days even in the middle of winter.

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Great Offers for November 2009

Free seeds and free seed potatoes await gardeners who place orders from Mr Fothergill’s Direct new mail order catalogues.  Two packets of randomly selected seeds will be sent with every household’s first order from the company’s A-Z Flower and Vegetable Seed Catalogue 2010.  Anyone ordering five or more packets of seeds will also receive an informative seed sowing guide with Mr Fothergill’s compliments.  Collections of eight packets of new flower seeds and eight packets of new vegetable seeds are offered at £12.95 and £14.90 respectively, each representing a saving of more than £3 on list prices.  Catalogues available from  Mr Fothergill’s.

Suttons supports Help for Heroes with a new Sweet Pea mix. It’s a beautiful combination of red, pale blue and dark blue shades representing the colours of the three armed forces. Available as a pack of 40 seeds or as 15 garden ready plugs, Suttons will donate £1.00 for every pack of seeds or plants sold. Brighten up your garden with these colourful, scented flowers and you’ll also be supporting Help for Heroes.

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Septembers Offers

In their latest catalogue, D.T. Brown www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk have two excellent offers for allotment collections. The Ultimate Allotment Collection combines seeds, sets and potato tubers that would normally cost £75.56 when bought individually for £49.99 and the Supersize Allotment Collection for larger plots costs £79.99 instead of £110.40.

Two West & Elliott www.twowests.co.uk have a special offer to help you tidy up your garden this autumn. They have combined their telescopic expanding rake, large freestanding garden bag and Big Hands leaf grabbers for £20.75, a saving of £5.

Thompson & Morgan has a special collection of brassica seeds consisting of Calabrese (Broccoli) Belstar, Rocket Skyrocket, Kale Scarlet, Cauliflower All the Year Round, Cabbage Durham Early and Brussels Sprout Trafalgar for£5.99 (RRP £12.84).

Order via the website www.thompsonmorgan.com/beatheartdisease

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