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Need help with information for a charity project please

Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
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Hi forum, our social enterprise is supporting carers' mental health sending them gardening tools and seeds to help them doing a bit of gardening. We just have a very small pot of money and a huge list of people asking for help. Can anyone advise us what would be the best place to buy vegetable and flower seeds, somewhere that can offer a good price, so we can buy for more people? Any info would be great, the details are: Culture Healing Communities, [email protected], https://e-voice.org.uk/culturehealingcommunities/, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/culturehealing.communities
Thank you for helping!
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I've been pleased with the price and quality from this company-
    https://www.premierseedsdirect.com/

    Best of luck with your enterprise

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Have you looked at the seed swap thread on this forum?  Some of the seeds offered are bought from seed merchants, some may be out of date but still viable, some will be collected from posters' own gardens, so results can't always be guaranteed.
  • Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
    josusa47 said:
    Have you looked at the seed swap thread on this forum?  Some of the seeds offered are bought from seed merchants, some may be out of date but still viable, some will be collected from posters' own gardens, so results can't always be guaranteed.
    Hi, I will take a look at the vendors, because we have to have more or less the same for each kit and each carer, and the packs need to have instructions because most of them are just trying gardening for the first time, but I will check the vendors. Thank you for your support.
  • Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
    Pete.8 said:
    I've been pleased with the price and quality from this company-
    https://www.premierseedsdirect.com/

    Best of luck with your enterprise

    Thank you, Pete.8, I will check them, maybe they have smooth prices  :)
  • islandanchoressislandanchoress Posts: 238
    On a limited budget I use seedaholic and am delighted with quality and price. 
     
    www.seedaholic.com

    They have an excellent range .

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    For flower seeds try the Hardy Plant Society, they may be able to help out with the seed left over after they have distributed to their members. https://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/index.php?route=information/contact
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Pete.8 said:
    I've been pleased with the price and quality from this company-
    https://www.premierseedsdirect.com/

    Best of luck with your enterprise
    I also use premier seeds, they pack their own and if you email them they may supply larger bags of seeds,  most of my seeds are from there. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
    Hi Lyn, Loxley and Islandchoress, thank you so much, I will contact all of them, we were just now on the phone, an organisation offered a space nearby in case our carers want to spread green fingers and have their own allotment, and there is a veterans' group that want to help, so now we have the added responsibility to get as much as we can! We wish we had more for a polytunnel for them, that would make our and theirs day! Hey, one kit at the time, right?

    Thank you all for the support, I will check all of the above, if we have any results I will post photos here!!!  :)
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I would recommend buying large bags and decanting them into smaller seed packets yourself. Seed this way becomes very cheap. I have been running a community garden group to support mental health, and buying large bags of seed to give out. A big bag goes a very long way.


    Mole Seeds are good and sell by the gram, not the packet.
    Gee Tee bulbs are good for bulk bulb buying (by the 100)

  • Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
    Fire said:
    I would recommend buying large bags and decanting them into smaller seed packets yourself. Seed this way becomes very cheap. I have been running a community garden group to support mental health, and buying large bags of seed to give out. A big bag goes a very long way.


    Mole Seeds are good and sell by the gram, not the packet.
    Gee Tee bulbs are good for bulk bulb buying (by the 100)

    That is great, so you can advise us on this! If we manage to buy some seeds from them, will they come with instructions that we can print out for all the carers? Which would be the best veg and flower seeds to start with? Most of them never tried gardening, they are intrigued and curious. If dividing, shall we buy those small plastic bags to send them out?
    Sorry about all the questions, it is great to learn from your experience!
    Thank you, Sandra (Culture Healing Communities)
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