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Seed Growing Guide

All our seed packets come with our simplified germination settings and notes to help you easily have the best success with our seeds.

If you want to dive a little deeper, we've also put together a few little guides to help you coax your seeds into germinating their very best selves:

How to Store Seeds

How to Store Seeds

One of the most important make or break keys to good germination is seed freshness, there is nothing worse than patiently (impatiently) waiting for seeds that never germinate! The seasons wait for ...

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Plant Types and Their Timings

Plant Types and Their Timings

Most flowering plants that you'll start from seed can be broken down to these three main groups based on their lifecycles. Each type has their own unique windows of time to sow them in their prime:...

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Direct Sow or Transplant?

Direct Sow or Transplant?

Before you begin sowing you'll need to decide what method of sowing you're going to use. There's not necessarily a right or wrong way, it is possible to start most seed via both methods but you wi...

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Ideal Temperatures for Germination

Ideal Temperatures for Germination

Each species has its own preferred unique range of ideal germination temperatures. To some degree their temperature preferences do correlate with when they'd ideally like to be sown. Zinnias for ex...

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To cover or not to cover?

To cover or not to cover?

When I first started growing from seed I really didn't pay much attention to what sort of covering they needed, and my germination rates were all over the place, sometimes fluking it and others n...

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When to Sow Hardy Annuals

When to Sow Hardy Annuals

Most annuals can be split into one of two groups: Hardy Annuals (lovers of cool weather) & Tender Annuals (lovers of warm weather). Tender Annuals are your usual summer annuals - sown in spring...

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My Top 5 Germination Tips (for tricky light lovers)

My Top 5 Germination Tips (for tricky light lovers)

I've found the most common types of seeds most people have trouble germinating are varieties that need light, and juggling that awkward line to keep them from being buried but not drying out. So he...

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