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Bluewisteria
How to maintain a suburban garden. Garden pests. Garden companions. Flower galleries and much more.
Allotment Growing
Allotment diaries, photographs, advice about growing vegetables, fruits and herbs with a forum for chatting on the plot.
Moriati's Composting method.
An ingenious and efficient method of compost making at the right price: FREE
The Garden Seat
A lighter look at the garden and the creatures that also call it their garden.
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Lots of useful info for new plot holders & anybody interested in allotment history.
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Surplus for sale.
Support my seed addiction.
This website needs your support.
From time to time I have various seeds, roots and plants surplus to my requirements that I will offer for sale on this page. Quantities are always going to be small with a short period of availability so do check here regularly. Should you see anything you fancy, do not think about it for weeks or you may miss out.
Due to restrictive import regulations, anything offered here is available only to UK or EU addresses.
Flower seeds.
The following flower seeds are available at £1.00 a packet:
- Hollyhock. Red
- Mirabilis. Mixed
- Agapanthus. White
- Sweet pea. Perennial
- Sweet pea. Spencer type mixed
- Honesty. Purple
- Alyssum. White
- Wallflower. Mixed
- Crocosmia lucifer.
- Sunflower.
- Cosmos Bright lights. (Small yellow-orange flowers in abundance)
Flower bulbs, tubers, rhizomes.
- Canna. Ambassador. £2.50 each.
- Elecampane roots. £2.50 each.
- Mirabilis jalapa roots. £1.50 each.
Vegetable seeds
The following vegetable seeds are available at £1.00 per packet. Please note that the beetroots may have cross pollinated due to storm blowing covers away but are producing mostly true to type.
- Parsnip. The Student. (Big packet)
- Beetroot. Detroit strain.
- Beetroot. White.
- Mangel worzel. Yellow echendorf
- Purple sprouting broccoli.
- Grain Amaranthus.
- Quinoa.
- Tomato. Tangella. (Small orange fruit. Early.)
- Tomato. Aurora. (Medium red fruit.)
- Tomato. Cream Sorbet. ((Small yellow plum-shaped fruit)
Vegetable Plants & tubers.
- Oca. Harvest due December. Send e-mail to be put on list.
- Yacon. Tubers available Easter subject to harvest and overwintering. (few only). Send e-mail to be put on list
- Jerusalem artichokes. 6 large tubers £5.00
- Tropaeolum tuberosum. Harvest due December.
- Horseradish root. £1.00
- Strawberry plants Royal Sovereign. 12 for £10.00
Post &packing.
- Seeds. £1.00 per order.
- Everything else. £2.00 per order.
Unusual veg Wanted.
The following items are wanted for trial. Will pay cash or trade.
- Cyperus esculentus (Chuffa.)
- Solenostemon rotundifolius (Coleus potato)
- Manihot esculenta (Cassava.)
- Canna edulis
- Pachyrhizus ahipa (Ahipa.)
- Arracacia xanthorrhiza (Arracacha.)
- Lepidium meyenii (Maca.)
- Mirabilis expansa (Mauka.)
- Ameranthus caudatus (Kiwicha.)
- Lupinus mutabilis (Tarwi.)