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Inspirations seeds

Locality: Exeter

Phone: +61 3 6394 3355

Address: 78 Main Road Exeter 7275 Exeter, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.vegetableseeds.net.au/

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24.01.2022 This is our Victorian customer, who shared his photo of seeds sowing on Good Friday in a previous post. These latest photos show the seeds have germinated and started to grow. Thanks for sending these. Enjoy your garden.

22.01.2022 One of our customer’s in Launceston having success growing Chives and Coriander from Inspirations seeds in containers. These photos taken yesterday. The seeds were sown a few weeks ago.

22.01.2022 We have to make an apology regarding the amount of seeds we offer in the catalogue of Tomato Roma. A customer kindly let us know that we advertised 400 seeds to a packet. In the early days we used to offer some seed lines in bulk but we could not supply the amounts in the end and this is one line we forgot to change. The customer only received 27. We should have stated that we offer 25 seeds as all the other tomato lines in the catalogue. This is an error. If any one else has had this issue please let us know. There are no excuses, but it does take a long time, sometimes Months, to put a catalogue together and mistakes can occur. Thank you.

18.01.2022 A good gardening friend of mine has shown me an excellent source of free potassium. The photo shows a 9lt bucket of water with 4cm of wood ash settling in the bottom after one day. The solution will feel soapy because it has potassium, sodium, magnesium, silicon etc in it. You can fill a 9lt watering can and just water over the vegetable garden. Then refill the bucket with water over the remaining wood ash, leave it to settle again for a day and fill another 9lt watering can.... You will have to use another 4cm of wood ash after that. Only use plastic buckets, galvanised ones will corpse due to the alkaline solution. He has shown me several other ways to obtain most of the plant nutrients for free, which make plants strong, able to fight pests and diseases and increase chlorophyll production with ingredients and their recommended amounts for a wide range of vegetable plants which I’ll share later with you. I find this fascinating it’s so environmentally friendly. See more

16.01.2022 Sow Green manures now. We stock non invasive black oats, pink serrates and Blue lupins all have been developed for use as green manures by professional agronomists that we have worked with over several years. My colleagues, professional plant breeders, collected the original seed of Seradella from remote parts of Spain they worked with this and eventually produced Serratas. They also developed the soft stemmed blue lupin line and the non invasive black oats specifically for u...se as green manures. You may have noticed that serratas and black oats are small seeds so they cover a good sized area and are value for money, all the green manures we sell can be used in different soil conditions for best practice. See our news letters and web site. You may notice that the seed of serratas is coloured with a blue dye, this is not in this case, a cause for alarm for organic gardening customers. It denotes that the seed is inoculated with the best rhizobia bacteria for this plant to thrive. Happy gardening. See more

15.01.2022 When you store your seeds the best place to keep them is a fridge. In this cool environment good strong seed can remain viable for a few years! Store in glass jars or in zip sealed bags, some people seal seeds in two bags as a further precaution. There will be condensation to some extent as you open a fridge but this is not a big issue. Frost free fridges are the best option if possible. Paper seed envelopes may be environmentally friendly but unfortunately they also get damp... and unless seeds are in sealed foils or plastic envelopes inside these the seed will die as it absorbs moisture. Humid conditions will also see seeds deteriorate. You can use silica beads to lessen this by putting them in the seed jars or packets, we do this. The beads are purple when active and go pink or pale lilac when moisture is absorbed. Read our news letters for more info. Sheds and garages with steel doors absorb heat throughout the day so actually they can get very hot late afternoon inside, cars in garages when the engine is warm parked close to seed boxes will also damage seeds. There are many other things to think about concerning storage but the main ones are keeping seeds cool and dry. See more

15.01.2022 Here are the latest photos of our small vegetable garden. Peas, Broad beans, Red onions, Brown onions, Tomato plants Kooteni, Oregon Spring and Santa planted. The soil is about 700mm deep, enriched with COF. The chicken wire mesh keeps birds, and native animals out. It’s large enough to grow a wide range of crops but easy to weed, feed and water from tank water. It’s accessible to every part by walking on and just moving three wooden planks. It’s a couple of degrees warmer ...than Exeter, slightly less chilly evenings, very few if any frosts. So we can safely grow tomato plants from end of September outside, and I think we are probably about two weeks ahead with plant growth. Plants do not appear to struggle with pests and diseases because of their strong growth rate relatively quickly in what appear to be early ideal conditions for their environments. The garden faces North, and is surrounded by paving and has ideal drainage. The wire cage provides good protection from winds. See more

14.01.2022 Parsnip seed germination test over the last three weeks, It’s good seed.

14.01.2022 Sugar Snap peas, Pea Bounty, Snow peas Oregon Giant and Mammoth Melting. Day four germination result. Pretty strong seeds.

13.01.2022 Whilst we are busy filling more orders than usual for this time of year, our turn around after an order is 48 hours or less. It’s then in the hands of Australia post. We have plenty of most seed lines in stock and our web site is being constantly updated. Back orders will be filled as quickly as we can source supplies of fresh seeds. Happy gardening.

12.01.2022 Our Melbourne Customer’s latest photos. Radishes anyone?

11.01.2022 Cleaning Paramo Broad bean seeds today.

11.01.2022 A thousand words, well almost, is worth one picture. Leeks growing strongly now. This is for a late Autumn early Winter harvest. To put it into perspective financially this was one packet of our seeds cost $4. It has taken about half an hour in total to grow and transplant them, watering twice a day for five minutes, feeding them with plant food once a week, cost approx $9 for a box of 500g soluble plant food. Finally a bit of complete organic fertiliser approx $5 worth. An a...rea, as you can see of about 1.5m by 2m at the most. There’s a bit, but not much weeding to do if it’s managed well. The reward in 2021 is a possible saving of at least $400 if you were to buy 180 large leeks, it could be a bit less or more depending on market prices at that time. It’s likely to cost more or at least the same in time and effort to go to a shop and buy them over a period of time. These are fresh from the garden, a walking pace away from the house, it’s trying to do our bit to be environmentally friendly to. Is growing your own worth it? Yes it undoubtedly is. The key is to grow what you like to eat and the amounts you can cope with at the right times of the year. Of course you, the customers that read this know this already. Let’s spread the word. Happy gardening.

10.01.2022 The landscaping, vegetable garden and fruit cage near completion in our garden.

09.01.2022 Our customer’s vegetable garden in Victoria and his vegetables, many ready for harvest.

09.01.2022 Oregon Spring tomato. Harvested today. This bush type is an early fruiting cultivar. It has a rich flavour and as you can see is mainly flesh with few seeds. I have been growing this and also Siletz and Legend tomatoes for the past ten years they were all bred by the same plant breeder. it’s always early and productive. One piece of advice please keep these tomatoes off of the ground as much as possible as they reach full size and start ripening, by raising them just gently onto the arching stems. See photo, because they have a tendency to rot on the moist ground and then be prone to insect and rot damage. This can be the case with other large fruiting cultivars too, like Oxheart and Cherokee purple. It’s not a criticism of large fruiting types, just an observation.

08.01.2022 End of week in the vegetable garden. It rained again last night, filled up tanks, we’ve had a lot of rain throughout the growing season from Spring onwards here. The list below is what will work at sowing times and harvesting times in my garden from our seed range. Your climate may be similar or different so results could vary and experimentation needed. Sowed Fennel, Carrot Merida, and Carrot Kuroda, Lettuce Sierra for seed production later and Lettuce Winter density. Photo...s show Brussel sprouts for Winter harvest, autumn/winter harvest Cauliflower, Swedes, (need thinning next week) Carrots ready for harvest, Climbing beans green and yellow wax, beans just starting to form, Achocha Bolivian Giant, Broad bean Optica for seed production, nearly ready for harvest. Coriander for insect pollination and seed production, Pumpkin sweet grey flowering now (was down a bit late this year), capsicum Super Shepherd, a bit late changing from green to red this year but it will, and many more tomatoes harvested, playing tomato catch up now. See more

08.01.2022 Tomato seedlings of ‘Oregon Spring’. The seeds were sown about three weeks ago. I used a heat mat set at about 20 degrees centigrade for germination. When the seeds germinated I moved the punnet of seedlings to a North facing window sill. This photo shows the seedlings near the wood heater, I place them here in the evening where it is warm, but not too hot, and move them back to the window sill in the day time.

06.01.2022 One of our Melbourne customers kindly sent us a photo of preparing his vegetable garden and sowing Inspirations vegetable seeds. An excellent way to stay fit and healthy in your own back yard in these tricky times. Thank you.

06.01.2022 Half way through germination testing of the dry bean collection. The results are interesting. The majority of the lines have started to produce a strong radical after five days, some after just two. I have a lot more work to do yet to establish which lines are strong and which may be less viable than when harvested between a year and two years ago. It is important to keep these lines going by the home gardener, many are rare now and we may not be able to grow all these lines in the future.

04.01.2022 Here is an updated photo of our customer’s vegetable garden in Victoria. The plants are seeds from Inspirations seeds range of Asian greens and Broad Beans. Not a weed in sight! Thank you for sending your photo.

03.01.2022 I do like home grown tomatoes for lunch on toast with home made pesto and a cup of coffee. These tomatoes are Oregon Spring, Kooteni and Santa. All are ripe now.

03.01.2022 Seedlings update from our customers in Victoria. First photo is before rain, second photo after the rain. Photos taken a few days ago. All seedlings are now growing strongly and look absolutely fantastic. The seedlings are Inspiration seeds of lettuce and leafy greens such as Mizuna and Mibuna. Thank you for sharing the photos.

02.01.2022 Hi everyone, the latest newsletter is in the process of being edited. This one is a bit different and we hope you like it. To all our subscribers; we do try to get a newsletter out to you all about four times a year. However, due to lack of inspiration sometimes, it’s a bit pointless just writing something for the sake of it without focus, style or interest. Hopefully this explains why sometimes there are long intervals between Newsletters. On another note we have found a new supply of Couve tronchuda, also known as Portuguese Kale or collard greens. We are aiming to get this in stock by beginning of May. This is popular with the home gardener because it has a long harvest period and is high in nutrients. Sorry about the poor quality of photo!

02.01.2022 Just a quick update. We will have Carrot Mokum, Carrot Majestic Red, Broccoli F1 and Beetroot Baby back in stock soon.

01.01.2022 A Tamarillo plant from one of Inspirations seeds. The plant is about two years old now.

01.01.2022 We now have plenty of fresh stock of the following seeds. The percentage germination is next to the photos. Please note that we are still offering FREE postage at this stage. Thankyou for your continued support.