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Seed Collections
- Companion-Planting Collection
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NEW FOR 2012! Companion-planting is a time-honoured,traditional method of increasing garden productivity by planting crops together that benefit each other. This collection contains some of the most universally-beneficial plants for the garden. They aid the growth of your crops, attract beneficial insects and deter insect pests. The Collection contains: basil - excellent companion for beans, cabbages, peppers and tomatoes; onion - companion for amaranth, beets, cabbages, carrots, leeks, lettuces, peppers, strawberries and tomatoes; radish - good overall benefit for the garden including beans, beets, carrots, chervil, cucumbers, lettuces, melons, parsnips, peas, spinach and squash; nasturtium - provides general protection for the garden by repelling insect pests including beetles and aphids. Attracts hoverflies, which are beneficial to the garden; borage - excellent companion for most plants in the garden, bee and wasp attractor, adds trace minerals to the soil, repels tomato hornworm caterpillar; poppy - overall good companion for the garden, attracts beneficial insects including hoverflies.Save $3.00 off the price of the individual packets.
- Container Garden Collection
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Don't have access to a garden? You can still grow lots of your own food! Interest in container gardening is exploding as people realize that as long as they have a balcony or a patio, they can grow food in containers of various sizes. The plants in this collection have a small footprint and are nicely-behaved - just step out the door and harvest your meal. This collection includes: Bouquet Radish Mix, Specialty Beet Mix, Oregon Sugar Pod Pea, Little Finger Carrot, Little Fingers Eggplant, Mesclun Mix, Golden Treasure Pepper, Nosegay Hot Pepper, Galilee Spinach, Red Burbank Tomato and our Heirloom Basil Mix. Buy it for a condo-living friend, for yourself or split it with a fellow urban gardener. (A savings of $5.50 over individually priced packets)
- Cottage Garden Annual Flower Collection
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Cottage gardens of old (for which we named our seed company) were informal, somewhat haphard and inclusive - flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables were grown together. Flowers were allowed to self-sow and grow where they may. This large collection package has an old-fashioned look and contains five varieties of annual flowers that would have been grown in cottage gardens - Love-Lies-Bleeding, 'Sawyer's Mix' Snapdragon, 'Grandpa Ott' Morning Glory, 'Picotee' Cosmos and Sweet Sultan. Each comes in its own regular seed packet with individual descriptions and planting instructions. Save $3.00 off the cost of buying separately.
- Cottage Garden Perennial Flower Collection
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This collection contains six perennial flowers that were grown in most cottage gardens- the original 'Grandmother's Garden' Columbine, Foxglove, Cowslip, Sweet William, Rose Campion and Fringed Pink. If you let these flowers self-sow modestly, you will soon have the "cottage-garden" look in your own garden! This large collection package has an old-fashioned look and contains individual regular seed packets of each flower with their own descriptions and planting instructions. Save $3.00 off the cost of buying the seeds separately.
- Faery Garden Collection
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In the days when people accepted the existence of fairies (I still believe!), they always included in their gardens some plants known to be loved by the fairyfolk. Plant these seeds and who knows? - you could entice fairies into your garden! A wonderful present for the fairy-lover in your circle. Each Collection package contains: Primrose - allows you to see fairies; Foxglove - a beloved fairy-flower; English Thyme - a home for fairies and allows ou to see fairies; German Chamomile - attracts fairies to your garden; and Wood Betony - protects against spells of mischievous fairies. Each large Collection package has regular packets for each variety with their own descriptions and sowing instructions. Save $3.00 off cost of buying them separately.
- First-Time Gardener Collection
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It's difficult being a first-time gardener - there's so much to know and there are so many choices that's it's hard to know where to start. Each year, we advise many new gardeners on the best approach to starting their first gardens. So, we thought that this year we'd put together a collection that was 1) easy to grow 2) could be all sown directly in the garden (no starting indoors) 3)would provide as broad a variety of veggies to experience as possible and 4) contained no "finnicky" or "fussy" plants. So here it is: a ready-made garden that contains tried-and-true heirlooms known for their taste and hardiness: Royal Burgundy bush bean, Arikara Yellow bush bean, Specialty Beet Mix, Colourful Carrot Mix, Specialty Radish Mix, Heirloom Leaf Lettuce Mix, Oregon Sugar Pod Pea, Sutton's Harbinger Pea, Black Beauty zucchini, Waltham Butternut Winter Squash, White Wonder Cucumber, Russian Red Kale and Galilee Spinach. (Save $6.50 off the cost of buying the packets individually)
- Fragrant Garden Seed Collection
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Gardeners of old particularly cherished scented plants, and liked to grow them along pathways, near entrances or tucked amongst other plants in the garden. I have always found Nature's fragrances far more pleasurable than any of the myriad chemical smells that inundate our lives. Here's an opportunity for you to go for the real thing! Each Collection package contains: Dragonshead (with aromatic foliage and beautiful blue flowers); Mignonette (meaning "Little Darling", named by Napoleon's Josephine for its fragrance);Nicotiana sylvestris (evening-scented flower); Violet Sweet Rocket (another evening-scented flower); Sweet Sultan (fragrant annual flower); Evening-Scented Stocks (intoxicating evening scent). Each seed variety comes in its own regular packet with individual descriptions and sowing instructions. Save $3.50 off buying these seeds separately.
- Heirloom Tomato Collection
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Heirloom tomatoes have such diverse shapes, colours and sizes that they take your breath away. But what they all share is taste! Once you taste an heirloom tomato, you'll never want to go back to supermarket varieties. In this collection, we've selected a number of our best sellers to enable you to sample a variety of heirloom tomatoes - a colourful collection that will provide you with tomatoes all season! Collection includes: Yellow Pear (cherry-type), Cherokee Purple (purple main-crop), Morden Yellow (yellow main-crop, Oxheart (red main-crop)and Green Zebra (green with dark green stripes). Save $3.00 off the price of buying the packets separately!
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- Faery Garden Collection
- 1 x Collection Package
$ 12.00
Subtotal: $ 12.00