So do I - very cheap prices and good quality seed. The packaging of the seed is very basic though - just a small sealed silver bag with a label on it with no picture. By around April, many of the popular sellers (T&M - Mr Fothergill et al) have sales on.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thanks everyone! Our local GC has just confirmed they will sponsor the seed prizes and I'll put a shout out to our local In Bloom group - and any others, as you say, we all have spare seeds knocking about - for the seed packets that will go in the shop windows.
Sunflowers perhaps ? I have sown as late as June and had very good results
@didyw Sunflowers are excellent. I had sown my second batch in late May using the GW seeds, planted in late June, flowered in August/September, and left it over the winter until January. The had no heads as birds had eaten all the seeds.
I know it's been mentioned already , but I'd vote for nasturtiums and ( I know not to everyone's taste, but there are less frou-frou flower kinds that are more bee friendly) french marigolds ( tagetes patula). French dwarf beans or borlotti beans might be fun too, simply because every morning it feels they are have grown two inches until mature, and i like the flowers.
I thought it might be nice to have a mix of seed shapes /types as an educational angle to it that seeds are all very different -- easy to handle for small fingers seeds ( nasturtiums and beans) with a couple of different seed shapes ( eg the marigold spikes ). Perhaps I'm overthinking it, but that's worked well with my nieces when they were younger. Sunflowers are great too.
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The packaging of the seed is very basic though - just a small sealed silver bag with a label on it with no picture.
By around April, many of the popular sellers (T&M - Mr Fothergill et al) have sales on.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
A selection of 2 veg, 2 flowers and 2 herb/salad would be good. Zinnias are really colourful and I’ve sown those in May.
Let us know how it all goes.
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I thought it might be nice to have a mix of seed shapes /types as an educational angle to it that seeds are all very different -- easy to handle for small fingers seeds ( nasturtiums and beans) with a couple of different seed shapes ( eg the marigold spikes ). Perhaps I'm overthinking it, but that's worked well with my nieces when they were younger. Sunflowers are great too.