New products at Unwins Seeds & Plants

66 Wallflower Plants + 66 Pansies FREE £12.95
Buy 66 of one variety & get 66 of another FREE – thats just less than 10p per plant! Wallflower Charity Mix (66 Plants) – Timeless garden favourite with a beautiful scent this spring flowering variety thrives on poor soil. Winter Flowering Pansy Mix (66 Plants) – One of the earliest flowering pansies this lasts well into summer. Plants in beds borders pots or baskets.  

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New lines today at Unwins Seeds & Plants

Pansy Plentifall Collection – 120 Plants £17.90
SPECIAL OFFER – SAVE £2 – 120-plant double pack of Pansy Plentifall – thats JUST 15p per plant! For cascading trails of yellows lavenders whites and purples for up to 8 months of the year this gorgeous new trailing pansy has it all. Pansy Plentifall starts to flower from late autumn really bursts into life in spring and will be at its big beautiful best in early summer. Specially bred with large flowers the plants naturally ‘break’ spread and continue to trail making it perfect for haning baskets containers and window boxes. At less than 15p per plant you simply wont find better value anywhere!

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New lines at Unwins Seeds & Plants

Autumn Bedding Plant Collection – 120 Plants £15.95
Summer bedding will need replacing earlier than usual because of the hot dry summer we’ve enjoyed. And this fantastic Collection will give you up to 6 months of flowers from late autumn right through to early summer. We’ve specially selected 30 of each of our four most popular autumn planting varieties to provide you with colour and scent from late autumn continuing through to early summer. And the single delivery in early September means you can plan your planting scheme for maximum effect. So now you’ve got your autumn planting sorted you can sit back and enjoy the rest of the summer! 120 plants – enough to fill your garden with colour and scent for up to 6 months. A mix of four of the most popular winter varieties – all frost hardy and will over winter.

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Reduced price on items today at Unwins Seeds & Plants

Nemasys Caterpillar Killer Nematodes was £22.95 now £19.95
Following the success of other Nemasys products in our catalogue we are extending our range to include Nemasys Caterpillar Killer Nematodes. This will control: The destructive cabbage white caterpillars that can wipe out an entire brassica crop. Gooseberry Sawfly caterpillars that can completely strip the leaves of the gooseberry and red and white currants leaving the bushes weakened and producing a poor crop the next year. Apply with a pump sprayer ensuring all caterpillars are directly sprayed as those that aren’t will not be affected. The pack contains sufficient for three applications at 5 to 7 day intervals. Each application will treat 40m2 of open ground or up to 20 trees. The temperature needs to be above 14 celsius for the predatory Nemasys Caterpillar Killing nematodes to be most effective. Please Note: if you wish to control Codling Moths please order Nemasys Codling Moth Killer 5090-3826

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Unwins Seeds & Plants just added this new product

Viresco Nitrate Test Kit £2.95
Quite often nitrates are overlooked completely. Typically nitrates are used by plants as food. Algae is a plant and hence excess algae growth in a pond can but not necessarily be linked to a high nitrate concentration. Check your nitrate levels to ensure you have a healthy pond and healthy happy fish! 4 Simple Steps: Remove the foil from the dip-paper Dip the paper into water for one second Shake off any surplus water and hold for one minute  Then line up the colour of the lower block against the colour of the chart

Chinese leaves

Unwins sell:
Cabbage Baby Wa Wa Sai Seeds

These can be sown from April until August so if you’ve planted nothing yet but fancy having a go they’re an ideal seed to try.
You can use these as baby leaves for cold salads or allow to grow on to form succulent hearts for use in stir-fries. These leaves have a nice sweet flavour.

Cabbage Kilakin Chinese Seeds (Gro-sure)Clubroot resistant & strong against bolting and can also be used in salads and stir-fries.

Buy both these Chinese style cabbages at Unwins now

Unwins Seeds & Plants just added this new product

Viresco Aqua – Large (up to 25000 litre) £17.90
Amazing Viresco Aqua Pond Clear Just one application is all it takes to create a crystal clear pond in as little as two weeks! Viresco Aqua Clears Algae blooms Green scum Blanketweed Duckweed and more! Viresco Aqua works by reducing nitrate levels to zero and cutting phosphates. As if by magic Viresco’s natural biological organisms will set to work eliminating unsightly and harmful pond algae and ‘digesting’ organic waste such as small leaves. Best of all it’s harmless to pets fish birds bees and other wildlife. One Large Pond Pack is sufficient for an average sized pond up to 25000-litres. Viresco Aqua’s long shelf life means it can be stored for use if required six to twelve months later. Viresco Aqua is also available in a small pack to treat ponds up to 12500 litres.

Unwins Seeds & Plants has this new item today

Viresco Aqua – Standard (up to 12500 litre) £9.95
Amazing Viresco Aqua Pond Clear Just one application is all it takes to create a crystal clear pond in as little as two weeks! Viresco Aqua Clears Algae blooms Green scum Blanketweed Duckweed and more! Viresco Aqua works by reducing nitrate levels to zero and cutting phosphates. As if by magic Viresco’s natural biological organisms will set to work destroying unsightly and harmful pond algae and ‘digesting’ organic waste such as small leaves. Best of all it’s harmless to pets fish birds bees and other wildlife. One Standard Pond Pack is sufficient for an average sized pond up to 12500-litres. Viresco Aqua’s long shelf life means it can be stored for use if required six to twelve months later. Viresco Aqua is also available in a large pack to treat ponds up to 25000 litres.

This is using the Potato growing kit from Unwins –Unwins Potato Growing Bags Variety Pack Voucher code: GrowBags1111 Condition you must use the above link for this code to work Expiry: 31.09.2010

This code has been stopped temporarily but we will let you know as soon as it’s live again!

They will stop dispatching soon but you can preorder for next year!

Your potato growing kit arrives with three potato growing bags, a packet of fertiliser and your seed potatoes. You’ll need to get some compost though and additional fertiliser. Unwins sell and recommend a seaweed feed for use during the growing season.
Unwins have several varieties of potatoes available.
You’ll find the instructions included too – and they’re really easy to follow.

Put about 6″ of compost in the bottom of the potato bags. You might need a hand doing this as bags of compost are heavy. Wear gloves too! Break up any large clumps of compost and level it down.

This bottom layer is where the potatoes will start to grow. That’s why the next step is important. Once you’ve part filled all three potato bags you need to open the potato fertiliser and divide it up between them equally. If you over do it in one bag then move it around. You want all three bags to have roughly the same amount in. Mix it in – again wearing gloves.
Once this is done you can then put your potatoes in. You get 15 tubers in a kit. You should have had them on a frost free windowsill until they’ve sprouted. These shoots are the plant trying to grow! You’ll know what to look for if you’ve ever had potatoes in your cupboard at home for more than a few days.
Place them so the shoots are growing upwards. Then cover them with more compost. They need to be about 4″ deep. As they grow you’ll need to add more compost until the bag is nearly full.

Once they’re covered put the bags in their final place – as sunny a spot as possible, but near the place you’ll be getting the water from – so you don’t have a huge long trek from the tap!

Water them and keep them watered regularly. As they grow they need plenty of water, especially as they start to develop tubers.
You do need to keep topping the compost up until it’s about an inch or so near the top of the bag – leave this room to make it easier to water them.
The bags have two handles on but as they get topped up they’ll get heavier. Always get help moving them if you can’t manage it easily.

You can buy different types of potato to grow in your bags – and the bags are reusable so next year you only need to buy the tubers and potato fertiliser.
Compost can be from a sack of multi-purpose compost or even a grow bag. Growbags are often cheaper – but you’ll need about 2 per potato bag.
If you have a greenhouse then you can start off the earlies in there and have much earlier early potatoes – a true delight and one of the joys of growing your own is that you can harvest and eat them within 20 minutes!

You can of course use other containers for growing potatoes in – but these bags aren’t expensive, fold away flat at the end of the season and will last for many years. They also have handles which makes moving them easy. They are the right size for growing 5 tubers in and can also be used after you’ve harvested your potatoes for other plants. If you have a small garden then they are ideal as in winter they can be dried and put away for next spring, unlike tubs which are bulky.

Sea Weed Extract Foliar Feed – Sea Weed Extract Foliar Feed
This is a small fat tub of magic! It contains lots of different elements and nutrients that plants use. Several allotmenters near me believe this is the bee’s knees!

It’s a powder and comes with a tiny little scoup to measure out the right amount.The dilution ratios for different stages of plant growth are listed on the tub so you don’t lose the instructions. It’s easy to mix – just add water and give it a quick swirl round.

* Contains over 60 naturally occurring trace elements and nutrients
* Soil and foliar application for easy absorption
* Stimulates plant growth, productivity and cell renewal
* Increases plants’ own defences against pest and disease attack
* Super concentrated – so that a tiny scoop goes a long way!
* 100% soluble – makes up to 1500 litres

I’ve used this in a two litre watering can – so had to alter the amounts accordingly – but if you have the right size watering can for your plants you can make it up directly as it says.

This is recommended for the potato growing kits but can be used on any other plants and seeds. Just make sure you dilute it properly.