Birds Eye is providing free packs of veggie seeds when you enter promotional codes. Like them and click the ‘Grow Your Own’ link.

Then enter codes: GROWCARROTS, GROWPEAS or GROWCORN using L2025

Free seeds from FOE – bee friendly ones

Join hozelock gardening club and get a free packet of seeds

Look out for a FREE wildflower seed giveaway in Co-operative Food stores on Saturday 21 April to celebrate the re-launch of our Plan Bee campaign for 2012
See here for more info on Plan Bee

It is to customers who purchase the Daily Mirror or the Daily Record newspaper.
This year’s mix has been specially created to include flowers that are beneficial for honeybees, bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and moths and includes Wild Marjoram, Scentless Mayweed, Field Poppy, Oxeye Daisy, Red Campion, Self Heal, Wild Carrot, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Cornflower, and Wild Red Clover.

Claim a free packet of tomato seeds right now – Dolmio’s Pap’s big tomato challenge

Register and apply today

Limit of 100,000 seed packets, subject to availability. Register by 5 August 2012. GB Only

Click a couple of buttons and get a free book – also you can sign up to the Me and my Plant newsletter from the Flower Council of Holland.
They’re giving away 500 a day!

Jersey Plants direct sell tons of plants including Autumn and Spring Bedding plants. Their delivery is always free – no matter what order size. This means you can shop with confidence knowing no matter how little or much you order you don’t have to worry about postage costs on top.

Jersey Plants Direct free delivery on all orders

If you want to brighten up your garden then JPD’s free delivery means you can get more plants for your money.

With some shops charging £5 or more for delivery it is well worth knowing which places offer free delivery. It’s not just on seeds either like some places, it’s on every order.

They currently have Christmas gifts with free delivery too. Perfect gift ideas for those who don’t eat chocolates or like a drink! Safe and lovely Christmas plants that will make someone’s Christmas really special and last for a long time too!
Great value across their entire plant range too.

Christmas Gifts that are available include:
1. Mixed Carnation Bouquet
2. Red & Gold Carnation Bouquet
3. Scented Indoor Hyacinth
4. Multiflowering Amaryllis
5. Princettia

All of these would make fab gifts for all gardeners and plant lovers! Cut flowers are always special to get for Christmas or birthdays!

Always ask before taking cuttings from other people’s gardens. Very few people would say no – unless of course the plant is struggling to grow in which case people cutting bits off it won’t help it.

There are different sorts of cuttings to take. New growth and older more woody growth. There are some plants that just won’t grow from cuttings too.
The easiest thing to do though is to just try it!
You could look up each plant’s particular requirements for rooting cuttings. There are some plants that require you to make the cutting grow roots before you remove it from the plant. This you do by wrapping part of the stem with moss and waiting until roots have formed.
If you take a soft stem cutting then it’s worth just trying it in a glass of water or straight into soil. If you’ve taken several cuttings you could try each and see which gets best results. If a plant doesn’t take then was it the wrong time of year? Some prefer to grow from cuttings in the spring. It’s very much trial and error too in terms of temperature – but generally I’ve found a windowsill or in the greenhouse work really well for most things.
There are some things you can grow from root cuttings – slicing up the root into sections and putting them in a pot.
If you want to plant roots up the right way then cut them level on the upper bit but slope down the bottom end so you can put them in the right way.
There are some plants that don’t need any encouragement to grow and grow – things like mint, dandelions and couch grass.
With a little practice you should be able to get cuttings to grow from all sorts of things.
One of the most interesting experiments I did last year was sticking tomato side shoots into a pot of compost! They grew very happily and provided me with mini tomato plants. Perfect use of what would otherwise be thrown away.

By asking neighbours for cuttings of plants you can increase the number of plants you have and sometimes you’ll get talking to people who are generous with their plants and knowledge! It’s nice to have local gardening friends and sometimes they’re easier to find than you think! People with interesting plants in their garden are often keen gardeners and happy to talk about what they have grown.
If someone says no to letting you have a cutting of a plant, then respect their decision. It’d be wrong to sneak back at 2am with your cutters!
If you don’t mind waiting for plants to grow then starting them off from cuttings is a great money saving hint.
Some plants are easier than others and some will be tricky, but just try it! What have you got to lose?
Put some perlite into a pot of compost to make it lighter so there’s less soggy soil around the cutting. You can also water regularly just let it drain too.
You’d be surprised what you can get cuttings from – the packets of cut rosemary you can buy in supermarkets have provided me with two plants recently. They’re growing away on my windowsill ready to be planted out next spring.
These were just ready cut stems that I stuck into a small vase until they’d rooted and then potted on.
It’s amazing to think just how many plants you could grow from cuttings. If you do manage to grow plenty of plants they why not share them with your gardening friends too?

Free stuff for gardeners

1. Buy a gardening magazine and you’ll get free gifts. Not all magazines offer
free seeds or plants, but it’s worth a look in the newsagents to see whats on
offer. Some offers are stuck to the front of the magazine but others may require
some effort and postage costs. Weigh up the cost of the free gift against the
cost of the magazine.

2. Add a link to this site – vegetable seeds.net – and they’ll send you 10
free packets!
VegetableSeeds.net – VegetableSeeds.net
offers fantastic value for the highest quality vegetable seeds in the UK. Over
300 varieties with next day shipping.
Their prices are pretty good so worth a look and you can get a discount too
– 10% Discount For Allotments! – and Free P&P on all UK orders!

3. Seed Swapping events – look out for them locally – or organise your own!
Contact allotment federations locally to help publicise it, but also put posters
up in newsagents, supermarkets etc – and contact the local papers to get them
to do a story about it.

4. Freecycle – join your local group. You can offer spare seeds here yourself
and mind find you discover new gardening friends. I’ve given tons of plants
away on my local freecycle group and regularly see gardening items on offer.

5. Speak to your neighbours! Whether that’s neighbours on the allotment or
at home. People will often grow a few extra plants in case of failiure and when
it goes right they have too many! Be the person they think of!

Bookmark this site and visit regularly as we list great discounts when we find them for online gardening shops!

OFFER OF THE WEEK
*Free Potato Collection – Worth £15.00

T&M are offering a fabulous Potato KIT FREE* for every visitor – worth £15.00!

What you get in the kit:

5 x tubers of Potato ‘Vales Emerald’ – A Maris Peer/ Charlotte cross with an RHS Award of Garden Merit that is proving to be very popular. Potato ‘Vales Emerald’ produces generous yields of oval, cream-skinned and pale fleshed tubers. Perfect for your first potatoes of the year, and a simply delicious as a salad potato. Height and spread: 60cm (24″).

1 x potato planter – Holds approximately 40 litres of multipurpose compost (sufficient to plant 3 or 4 tubers).

5 x packets of vegetable seed – Receive 5 packets of quality vegetable seeds. The vegetable seeds will be chosen by us and may vary from those illustrated.

*Just pay £4.95 postage

Enter Offer Code: AF11109
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END DATE: Midnight Sunday 27th November 2011