If you’re after some great savings then check out this set of offers from Suttons. It’s an impressive apple collection first up where you can save nearly £20! If you’ve been planning to plant some fruit trees then let this inspire you! You’ll be creating a mini orchard with these 5 amazing apple trees!
The garlic offer saves you money too – and now is the time to be planting the garlic so it gets a long growing season and gives you a good crop next year.
The gooseberry collection is another must if you’re planning on growing more of your own fruit next year. Buy these and you’ll be making gooseberry crumble and jam before you know it! Fantastic value on these fruit bushes!

The UK outdoor grapes will stun your friends when they come round next year to find you sat under your own vine and when they start to taste the grapes they’ll be impressed too. Although it needs a sheltered spot it should do well outside! Great for training up trellis around a summer house or shelter.
If you plan on growing onions and garlic then check the last offer in today’s list – you get shallots too which are great for cooking or pickling! Growing your own just got easier with these bargains.

Apple Tree Collection Pack of 5 Trees (1 of each variety) – SAVE £19.80! – Special Offers £69.95
Collection comprises 5 (4 eating & 1 cooking) trees (1 of each variety): Self Fertile Queen Cox – This self-fertile clone sets good crops without the need for pollinators. Apples are juicy and sweet, with the typical mellow ‘Cox’ taste, although it has a deeper red flush than the usual Cox. Pick from late September, and eat all the way through to January.Greensleeves – This superb apple variety is a cross between Golden Delicious and James Grieve and combines the best of both parents! A prolific cropper, it will sometimes start cropping in its second year, and the tasty apples store well until Christmas and beyond. It shows good disease resistance and is an excellent pollinator.Lord Lambourne – Once assessed by ‘Gardening from Which?’ as the best all-round British garden apple, this is indeed a superb mid-season variety. The crisp, firm fruits are bursting with sweet juice! Ready to pick from September, they will keep well until Christmas!Braeburn (Clone Helena) – Braeburn is one of the best-selling varieties in Britain and can now (thanks to this earlier cropping new clone) be grown very successfully in UK gardens. Pick from mid October and store for up to 4 months without losing the superb crisp texture!Bramley (Clone 20) – It’s 200 years since this most famous cooking apple was discovered. Our clone 20 is a big improvement on regular Bramley: it’s less vigorous and more controllable in the garden and will also give you a significantly heavier crop. Deservedly renowned for its excellent cooking qualities. Note that it needs at least two other apples in the locality for pollination. Pick October for use throughout winter.Our apples are grafted onto M26 rootstock which produces an easy-to-control semi-dwarf tree with medium vigour.. Pack of 5 Trees (1 of each variety) – SAVE £19.80!. Full growing instructions included.. . . .

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Garlic bulbs at Suttons Seeds.
It is apparently traditional to plant garlic on the shortest day of the year!
It needs a sunny well drained area in your garden. Each clove produces a bulb. When your garlic bulbs arrive break them gently into cloves. Do not get confused and plant the whole bulbs!
Plant them an inch deep, 4 inches apart and in rows of 18 inches apart. This ensures you’ve got plenty of room for hoeing in between the rows. Keep the rows weed free as you would for onions. The weeds take up the water which the plants need.
When harvesting it needs to be dried properly to prevent it rotting during storage.

Garlic Lover’s Collection Pack of 8 Bulbs (2 of each variety) – SAVE £3.00! – Special Offers £13.40
If you love garlic, why not grow a selection of bulbs so that you can savour the different flavours? This collection comprises 4 varieties of garlic (that’s 8 bulbs, 2 of each variety) which will give you dozens of tasty garlic cloves SAVING £3.00! Garlic from the ground tends to be much sweeter and tasty than the dried garlic you buy in the shop. The secret to growing garlic is to plant it now – an autumn sowing for a harvest next summer will result in better sized bulbs! As essential part of many kitchen gardens with excellent health benefits, garlic couldn’t be easier to grow; just divide each bulb into cloves and plant – each clove will give you a bulb next year. The Garlic Lover’s collection consists of both hardneck and softneck garlic:Purple Wight – Hardneck variety with an attractive purple striped skin.Solent White – Softneck variety that’s well adapted to the British climate.Plus two virus-free French varieties:Illico – A superb, very early-maturing variety. Jolimont – Deliciously flavoured!. Pack of 8 Bulbs (2 of each variety) – SAVE £3.00!. Full growing instructions included.. . . .

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You can plant garlic in the autumn and this gives it a good start! Always buy garlic specifically for planting – the stuff in the shops may grow but it’ll probably be from a warmer country and won’t do as well as the types intended for growing here in the UK.
Garlic is fairly easy to grow. Get the cloves planted in and you should find it mostly looks after itself. It needs weeding so make sure you keep on top of the weeds as these will take up water and can block sunlight.
If you have never grown garlic before, please make sure you separate the bulbs into individual ‘cloves’ before planting – do not plant the whole bulbs together! .
It should be grown in full sun – so no shady damp corners for this plant! It will need as much sunshine as possible to do well! .
The secret to growing garlic is to plant it in mid October rather than wait until the spring. This is for cooler climates like the UK, in sunnier areas planting in Spring might well do a good job too!

Prepare the soil well with some well rotted compost or manure, sand to ensure it’s well drained and some bone meal to give it a good start!
It will also need feeding once or twice a month with a general purpose fertiliser like Growmore.
How far apart should you plant your garlic cloves? Space them about 10cm apart. If you are planting rows, space each row 45cm apart.

Garlic, Onion and Shallot Collection 200g Onion Sets, 400g Shallots, 2 Garlic Bulbs – SAVE £2.50! £9.95
SAVE £2.50 on this Collection comprising of:Onion Senshyu Yellow – An extremely popular Japanese over-wintering variety, reliably producing a heavy crop of semi-globe-shaped, straw-coloured bulbs of excellent quality, which should be ready to harvest in early July. 200g pack.Shallot Griselle – In its native France Griselle is considered the finest tasting of all and we’re sure that its robust spicy taste will not disappoint. Best planted in the autumn, it multiplies well to give a good crop of longish grey skinned bulbs in June, a week or so before spring planted kinds. Use straight from the garden or dried for storage. Strong skins and solid flesh ensure bulbs keep in good condition well into winter. 400g pack.Garlic Solent White – A popular selection that is well adapted to the British climate and gives a good crop of large bulbs with plump tasty cloves. Expect to start harvesting in July from a November planting. (Softneck type). 2 Bulbs (12-14 cloves per bulb). Full growing instructions included. October

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