The Blooming Garden – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Are you ready to kick start your garden and improve your sowing & growing skills? Or are you a flower farmer wanting to be more profitable?

In the first episode we talk about:  

• Succession planting  to ensure continuous blooms throughout the growing season.
• Knowing your frost dates for effective timing.
• Utilizing planning tools like our Sowing Calendars and Planting Schedules
• Selecting a diverse mix of flowers for maximum space.
• Understanding your local growing conditions.
• The hungry gap!
• Timing is everything in flower farming and gardening .

Listen in to discover how you can get organised and master your dream gardening goals for the year!

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Resources mentioned in this Episode:

The Hampshire Seed Company Annual Seed Sowing Calendar

The Hampshire Seed Company Excel Automated Calendar  

Growing Lisianthus In the UK Blog Post

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In this episode of The Blooming Garden podcast, host Jane Westoby speaks with Catrina Fenton from Garden Organic about the significance of heritage seeds and The Heritage Seed Library in their 50th Anniversary year.

Discussing the origins of the library, the importance of seed saving, and the role of volunteers in conservation efforts. Catrina shares insights on how to become a seed guardian, the process of saving seeds, and the viability of different seed types. The conversation also touches on the commercialization of heritage varieties and the future of sustainable gardening.

Main Takeaways

• Heritage seeds are crucial for biodiversity and sustainable gardening.

• The Heritage Seed Library was founded to protect endangered seed varieties.

• Volunteers play a vital role in seed conservation efforts and anyone can become a seed guardian and help grow heritage seeds.

• Seed viability varies by type; some seeds last longer than others.

• Saving your own seeds is easy from Open pollinated varieties. 

Resources mentioned in this Episode: 

• How long do seeds Last Blog Post 

• How to save your own seeds Bog Post 

• www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Follow The Hampshire Seed Company: 

• The Blooming Garden Podcast 

• instagram.com/thehampshireseedcompany

• thehampshireseedco.com

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• If you love gardening and you have found this podcast useful then please consider to rate and review the show. It helps us to keep going and produce even more resources for you to grow and sow better. 

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• If you haven't done so already then do follow the podcast now and let us know what you loved most about this episode.