As a follow on from my post I was recommended to look at Vital Seeds who have been able to provide me with fantastic Winter growing selection of seeds.
As a follow on from my post I was recommended to look at Vital Seeds who have been able to provide me with fantastic Winter growing selection of seeds.
As a follow on from my post I was recommended to look at Vital Seeds who have been able to provide me with fantastic Winter growing selection of seeds.
I wonder where you got that recommendation from, did someone mention it on the thread?
Hi Lyn, It was actually a recommendation from an elderly women who lives in my street. She noticed me gardening and we had a conversation and she had ordered these seeds and said they were really good.
i am not saying buy from Vital Seeds but it does tell you the seeds that can be sowed now
Oh right, I see, I looked at them and they don’t seem very knowledgeable, they have some strange methods, putting a bee hive in a poly tunnel to fertilise squashes, seems a strange thing to do, then saying that they won’t cross-pollinate. You could try Premier Seeds, they’re very good, much cheaper and good pollinations rate.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Must admit, I'd never heard of Vital seeds, didn't see anything to tempt me from my normal seed suppliers. I'll second @Lyn recommendation of Premier seeds and add Chilterns and DT Brown's, the latter often have £1 a packet specials and I've had consistent germination rates and good crops.
Seedaholic is also a very good supplier, as well as Premier and Chilterns [I've used both of them many times] and you can get small amounts from them. That's ideal, especially for things like lettuce which don't keep well.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Salad crops and things like raddish, can be sown every few weeks. Winter salads based on things like mizuna, mibuna etc can be grown with a little protection, in the colder months. Bear in mind crops will take longer to grow and mature once the daylight hours shorten significantly, from around September or October, and even more when the temperature gets to low double or single figures.
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Winter Growing / "Second Spring" seed collection - Vital Seeds
If anybody was looking at some options
i am not saying buy from Vital Seeds but it does tell you the seeds that can be sowed now
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...