Here are the crops we are sowing in September. This is a very busy month in our glasshouse and our fields as we watch seeds transform into roots and shoots and incorporate our green manure crops, apply prepared biodynamic 500 to encourage the dynamic humus building and transplant crops!
Read MoreButter lettuces are truly the Belle’s of the Spring ball. After a Winter of eating hardy cos type lettuces, the delicate nature of the butter lettuces is so welcome. The soft sometimes suede like texture and buttery flavour is delightful eaten raw, with a bit of salt, or topped with freshly shelled peas, radish and a simple vinegarette.
Read MoreHere is what we are sowing and transplanting now that our days have over 10 hours of sunlight. We rely on cold thriving quick maturing vegetables to get us through the gap between Winter and Spring “side dish” crops.
And there are many flowers which are cold hardy and thrive in the cool Spring weather. These can be sown/transplanted now to produce great early blooms.
Read MoreLarkspur are one of our favorite late spring/early summer spires. They are fantastic cut flowers with a long stem length and lasting for two weeks in a vase. We love them arranged by themselves or in combination pale foliage and lime green flowers, roses, peonies, bells of Ireland, poppies, celosia, zinnias. With an array of colours, they are quintessential cottage garden flowers and much sought after by floral designers.
Read MoreThe elegance and fragrance of sweet peas in the spring - summer garden captivate and enchant many gardeners, florist and bouquet customers. Prized for their delicate blooms and intoxicating fragrance, they are easy to grow and mix well in the herbaceous border and into cut flower production.
Read MoreLettuce, in our southern Victorian, cold, wet, frosty July, can turn to mush. In the 2020 - 2021 growing season, we trialed our entire lettuce collection, experimenting with seasonal sowing windows and protected and not protected positions. There was a clear winter winner.
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