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A great idea – pre planted containers

2 Pre-Planted Containers Wallflower Fortune
£19.90

Save time and money with these pre-planted containers
Perfect for brightening up and adding some much needed colour during the winter to your patio, garden and conservatory. Each container comes straight to you pre-planted – all you have to do is position them and water. Much easier! They are made from specially created light and re-usable plastic and we use compost with added water retaining Raingel and feed which will last all season.

Colour Yellow, primrose, red, scarlet, bronze.
Flowering Autumn to Spring
Planting Position Full Sun to Partial Shade
Sold As Pre-Planted Pots/Containers
Despatch Period Throughout October
Each container comes complete with 5 Wallflower Fortune plants, compost, FREE Raingel and feed treatment. Care instructions included.

2 Pre-Planted Containers Polyanthus High Seas
£19.90

2 Pre-Planted Containers Pansy Galore
£19.90

californian poppys are bright and cheerful!

Californian Poppy ‘Sun Shades’ – 1 packet (100 seeds) £2.29
Bright fiery orange and yellow blooms unfurl above a sea of ferny blue-green foliage for a bold summer display. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 30cm (12”). Spread: 30cm (12”).

Californian Poppy ‘Fruit Crush’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £2.29
A captivating mixture of upward facing blooms in a bold blend of citrus and berry shades. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 25cm (10”). Spread: 25cm (10”).

Californian Poppy ‘Buttermilk’ – 1 packet (100 seeds) £1.49
An exquisite California poppy with masses of creamy-white fluted flowers above fine, blue-green foliage. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 25cm (10”). Spread: 25cm (10”).

Californian Poppy ‘Champagne and Roses’ – 1 packet (200 seeds) £1.49
Shades of champagne, soft rose and deep pink create a display that you will adore from its tightly scrolled buds to the fully open flowers. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 25cm (10”). Spread: 25cm (10”).

Californian Poppy ‘Jelly Beans’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £2.09
Fully double blooms in a vibrant colour range glisten above a mass of feathery blue-green foliage. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 25cm (10”). Spread: 25cm (10”).

Californian Poppy ‘Jelly Beans’ – Part of the Alan Titchmarsh Collection – 1 packet (150 seeds) £2.29
An easy way to create vibrant splashes of colour in your borders or containers. Spectacular fully double blooms in a bright mix of oranges, pinks and apple blossom shades and feathery foliage provide a colourful display all summer. Height: 25cm (10in). Spread: 25cm (10in).

Californian Poppy ‘Monarch Mixed’ – 1 packet (600 seeds) £1.99
A regal mix of semi-double and single blooms in cerise, carmine, red, orange and yellow. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 23cm (9”). Spread: 25cm (10”).

Californian Poppy ‘Peach Sorbet’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £1.99
Very free-flowering double to semi-double blooms in a mouth watering combination of soft peachy-pink with a hint of cream sitting neatly above the deep green ferny foliage. Ideal sown as drifts of colour, flowering all summer in borders.

Californian Poppy ‘Rosebud Orange’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £2.09
Dazzling orange, extra large, double and semi-double, rose-bud like blooms smother bushy, compact plants with silvery-green, feathery foliage. Creates an eye-catching display, when sown as drifts in borders in any garden soil, or in large containers on a sunny patio.

Californian Poppy ‘Strawberry Fields’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £2.19
Delicately fluted petals, awash with rich strawberry shades. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 25cm (10”). Spread: 25cm (10”).

Californian Poppy ‘Summer Sorbet’ – 1 packet (125 seeds) £2.29
One of the best new colours to be introduced in recent years, with its mouth-watering combination of rose-pink outer petals, and a delicious creamy white centre. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 25cm (10”). Spread: 25cm (10

Comfrey – 1 packet (30 seeds) £2.29
Comfrey leaves can be harvested several times a season and used as a compost activator to help breakdown other compost materials. This perennial herb is also used as a mulch, and makes superb liquid manure on tomato and potatoes plants. Height: 120 (47″). Spread: 150cm (59″).

Comfrey ‘Bocking 14’ – 5 root cuttings £6.99
Grow your own soil conditioner! Comfrey ‘Bocking 14’ contains high levels of basic NPK nutrients and because it is a sterile hybrid, it won’t self seed all over your garden. The nutrient rich foliage of comfrey can be used as a compost activator, mulch, or soaked in barrels of water for 3 to 5 weeks to make a useful liquid feed for tomatoes and beans. Scatter the wilted leaves throughout potato trenches just before planting, to fertilise the crop and improve their flavour! Once established, this quick growing plant can be cut 3 or 4 times throughout the growing season, for a constant supply of nutrient rich, organic, comfrey fertiliser. Height: 100cm (40”). Spread: 75cm (30”).

Grow the variety from seed if you have lots of space for plants to spread. The bocking 14 is more suited to an area where you don’t want it being invasive.
I’ve got both – the roots have developed quickly and have started to flower – I’m leaving them until next year to get well established before cropping it. The plants from seed are starting to get going but again it’ll be next year before I crop them. There’s an obvious advantage to starting from a piece of root! It’s more of a plant instantly! Plus if you know someone who has got some you can ask them to dig up a bit for you.
When the from seed version flowers it can be cropped then and it shouldn’t seed everywhere and cause a problem. If it does then just dig it up and compost it or make comfrey tea from it.
Cropping the seeding variety regularly should mean it doesn’t spread anywhere you don’t want it to. If you let it seed then the patch will grow denser, or you could harvest the seeds and plant them in another part of the garden.

I started the roots off in pots to give them a good start and then put them out into the allotment. They need to go in where they’re going to stay. if you move them you risk leaving roots behind and them keep growing. Which is a good thing and a bad thing. I’ve put mine fairly centrally on the plot so I should be able to get to them easily from anywhere I might need them.
I’ve put a row of comfrey seeder plants in too – these will be regularly culled and not allowed to seed.

Cornflower Meadow Seed Mix, 10g £3.70
Cornfield annuals were once a common site in fields of corn, but then agriculture went through its chemical revolution and the lovely cornfield annuals all but disappeared. Fortunately, their sheer beauty has been their saviour and they prove to be one of the easiest and most rewarding of all wildflowers to grow. Our seed mix contains the pink of Corncockle, the blue of Cornflower, the glorious reds of Poppy, the vivid yellows of Corn Marigold and the clean whites of the beautifully scented Corn Chamomile. We’ve even added a small amount of Farmer Phil’s home grown corn varieties to add that little bit of extra interest, the ripening seed is a favourite food for finches to feed to their young. Sow in autumn or spring at 3gm per square metre, rake into the surface and water if dry. If autumn sown you may get more Poppies and Corn Marigold, but the end results are always fantastic.

Cornflower Meadow Seed Mix, 20g £6.40

Marsh Marigold, 3 Plants in 90mm Pots £9.00

Cornflower Meadow Seed Mix, 50g £10.75

Cornflower Meadow Seed Mix, 250g £42.70

Cornflower Meadow Seed Mix, 500g £75.00

Cornflower Meadow Seed Mix, 1kg £139.00

Modular Composter, Triple Bay £230.00

Modular Composter, Double Bay £208.00

Modular Composter, Single Bay £133.00
This is the system for larger scale composting. Although the Single Bay can be used very successfully as a stand alone composter, its clever design means that, as your need for composting space increases, you can simply add extension Add-on Bays allowing the composter to grow to meet any composting challenge. Sturdily made from ACQ treated timber every unit in the system comes with full assembly instructions. Each modular bay measures 900 x 900 x 900mm and holds over 700 litres. Made to last.

Start filling one bay and then when that’s fill start on the next. In a big garden it makes sense to have three bays for composting in. This gives time for the first pile to rot down properly.

easy peasy! Great ways of eating freshly grown vegetables. It’s easier than you think.

Windowsill Seed Kit – Microgreens £9.95
This nifty kit is the simple way to grow microgreens. It comprises a JiffyR windowsill propagator (53.5cm [21] x 11cm [41/4]), a transparent dome to let in light and keep out draughts and with 3 x 9cm compost blocks which, when soaked in water, expand to fill the propagator, plus individual packets of seed. Microgreens – 6 tasty varieties (cress, mustard, broccoli, alfalfa, basil and rocket) which can be grown year-round and are ready to harvest in just 1 week!.

Indoor Sprouting Seed/Microgreens Speedy Veg Collection £8.75
When you don’t want to wait a minute longer than necessary to enjoy the taste of fresh, healthy vegetables, then Speedy veg seeds are the answer. Delicious, succulent vegetables can be yours in as little as a few days. SAVE £.95 on this collection of 6 packs (1 of each variety): Alfalfa – Sweet shoots with a pea-like taste. 9500 seeds; Cress Curled – Nutritious and tasty served with mustard salad. 10,000 seeds; Mustard – An easy to grow salad with a peppery taste. 4200 seeds; Basil Dark Opal – A scrumptious, vitamin-packed purple-leaved basil for growing as microgreens. 2000 seeds; Broccoli Green-Sprouting – Enjoy that unique broccoli taste and high vitamin content in a microgreen! 2500 seeds; Rocket Victoria – A classic salad rocket for use as microgreens. Delicious in salads and sandwiches. 2000 seeds.. 6 Packs (1 of each variety) – SAVE £2.95!

Leaf Salad Californian Mix Speedy Veg £2.35
Grow salads with the flavours of the west coast of the USA with this mild-flavoured mix of Land Cress, Red Russian Kale, Red Chard, Salad Rocket and Spinach. Ready to eat in just 4 weeks. Why buy expensive salad leaves from the supermarket when you can grow them easily at home? And you can get up to 3 crops from the same sowing! Grow them in the garden or in containers on the patio.. Average Packet Content 550 seeds

Cress American (Land) Seeds £1.75
Delicious in sandwiches and salads, and decorative as a garnish.. Average Packet Content 1000 seeds

Cress Curled Seeds £1.55
Can be grown indoors all the year round. 27 grams.. Average Packet Content 10000 seeds

Cress – Watercress Aqua Seeds £1.45
A crisp-textured variety with a delicious pungent flavour. High in vitamin C. Grows well in wet soil. Crop as baby leaves or allow to mature.. Average Packet Content 410 seeds

Mustard Speedy Veg £1.45
Called White Mustard, this is an easy to grow salad with a peppery taste. Perfect with cress, it’s nutritious in salads and sandwiches. HEALTH BENEFITS: Good source of iron and vitamins. Ready to eat in just 1 week.. Average Packet Content 4200 seeds

Leaf Salad Cress Greek Speedy Veg Seed £1.45
A versatile salad item with a nice peppery flavour. Easy to grow indoors or outside.Why buy salad leaves from the supermarket when you can grow them easily at home? And you can get up to 3 crops from a sowing! Ideal for garden or containers.. Average Packet Content 1000 Seeds

Mustard White Seeds £1.45
Delicious for salads and sandwiches. Sow two days after cress for maturing together.. Average Packet Content 2500 seeds

Cress Curled Speedy Veg £1.45
Nutritious and tasty served with mustard salad. Ready to eat in just 1 week.. Average Packet Content 10,000 seeds

Sunflower Teddy Bear Seeds £1.99
A dwarf, multi-headed sunflower producing an abundance of extraordinary flowers. An adorable addition to patios or borders and great for cutting too. Height 40-60cm (16-24). HA – Hardy annual.Easy to grow and a real favourite with children. Use petals and seeds in salads and cakes.. Average Packet Content 35 seeds

Sunflower Waooh! Seed (Helianthus) £1.99
NEW & EXCLUSIVE to Suttons. A great value, easy-to-grow, multi-headed variety, producing masses of golden flowers with large, dark, central discs. The bushy plants are ideal for border or container, and were still blooming at the end of September in our trials. Height 80cm (32). HA – Hardy annual.Easy to grow. A real favourite with children. Flowers like very large daisies with brightly coloured petals.. Packet Content 20 Seeds

Lovely sunflowers! They’re easy to grow and so rewarding. My favourites are the teddy bear ones but the wide open traditional flowers will look amazing in every garden. Get kids growing them for a competition to see who can grow the tallest.
Sunflower Aslan Seeds £1.99

Sunflower Choc Chip Seeds £2.99

Sunflower F1 Full Sun Seeds £1.99

Sunflower F1 Peach Passion Seeds £1.25

Sunflower Florenza Seeds £2.55

Sunflower Giant Yellow Seeds £1.75

Sunflower Irish Eyes Seeds £1.55

Sunflower Orange Sun Seeds £1.75

Sunflower Paquito Mix Seeds £1.99

Sunflower Ruby Sunset Seeds £2.75

Sunflower Seed Collection £4.55

Sunflower Tall Yellow Seeds £1.75

Sunflower Total Eclipse Seeds £1.75