Just a quick note to let you all know our yams are ready for sale. We have been run off our feet with orders since our website launch for the season, which is great news! Thanks to you all for getting your seeds from us. This means we have not had time to pre-pack the yam orders. We have decided to list 30 orders to start and we will see how we go. We will be listing more as we sell them until we are sold out. So, if you come onto the website and the yams are sold out either check back in a day or two or shoot us an email and we will let you know if we have more available. Thanks for your patience as we work through all the seed orders at the same time.

We find these heritage yams to be richer in flavour and sweetness from the ones available in supermarkets. Our favourite for flavour is Henry’s Yellow yam, but our three colours together are a lovely mix of earthy sweetness! Our favourite way to prepare them is roasted until they are soft and the sugars have caramelised.  

Spring is still around the corner, but in the nursery, it feels like it has well and truly arrived. Do not delay getting your crops underway. I am busy pricking out our first seed sowing at the moment. If you have not started yet, fear not, still plenty of time to get seed sowing for tones of things! See below for our recommendations on what to sow now:

Broccoli Raab Spring Rapini, Spinach Bloomsdale, Orach Red, Coriander, Corn Salad and Salad Burnet.

We sow lettuces each month to keep in constant supply, now we focus on the cooler season varieties like Winter, St Vincent, and Speckled. Now is also a good time to get Asian greens like Mizuna, and Tat Soi in, as well as Rocket and Wild Arugula to keep in supply. There are still a few cabbage white butterfly out there so remember to protect your baby brassicas from them. We do this with frost cloth, then cover until the butterflies disappear is a great technique.

Broccoli Raab Spring Rapini, Spinach Bloomsdale, Orach Red, Coriander, Corn Salad and Salad Burnet.

We sow lettuces each month to keep in constant supply, now we focus on the cooler season varieties like Winter, St Vincent, and Speckled. Now is also a good time to get Asian greens like Mizuna, and Tat Soi in, as well as Rocket and Wild Arugula to keep in supply. There are still a few cabbage white butterfly out there so remember to protect your baby brassicas from them. We do this with frost cloth, then cover until the butterflies disappear is a great technique.

Don’t forget about flowers for the winter garden! Calendulas, Poppies, Lupins and Sweet Peas are frost hardy and beautiful!