Our third session of Junior Landcare will look at how to grow plants from a seed! We will be creating “seed bombs” that are full of seeds and healthy nutrients, that we can drop into our garden to watch them grow into beautiful fresh vegetables and herbs! We will also be planting some pre-sprouted seedlings […]
Germinating Seeds in Winter – Tips From the Nursery
Winter is here! Time to give up on germinating seeds and shift to knitting little jumpers for the seedlings we already have. Or perhaps I’ll organise an old-sock-drive, the ones with threadbare holes in the toe would do the job nicely; slip them over a pot and leave an escape hatch for any masochistic seedlings […]
Seed Propagation – And So Ends the Journey of the Seed
At long last! After three drawn-out months of scrambling through undergrowth and dangling from tree-tops (seed collection), of gastrointestinal anguish and carpal-tunnel syndrome (seed processing), and of complete and utter phonetic confusion (having to learn Latin just to understand the identification books), the moment of glory has arrived – chucking that damn seed at a […]
