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Find all our farm updates below including information on what’s available and what’s coming up. As always, please feel free to contact us with any questions.
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APRIL 26TH 2023
SEASON WRAP-UP // SUMMER 2023
Somehow it’s happened again…we blinked and we’re a third of the way through the year!
Our summer season was such a special one. We sold out of our garlic harvest in less than 3 months and the soft launch of our micro-flower farm
has been nothing short of amazing. There were some big learnings, but it’s thoroughly whet our appetite for a big spring season.
We are however enjoying the slightly slower pace of autumn with its cooler nights and gorgeous sunny days.
We’re about to deliver the first of our autumn vegetable and herb seedlings to our local retailers,
we’re planting cool season flowers and getting ready to plant a LOT of garlic in May.
APRIL 26TH 2023
ITALIAN RANUNCULUS SEEDLINGS
ORGANIC SPECIALTY ITALIAN RANUNCULUS SEEDLINGS - NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER
As part of our Autumn seedling release, we’ve been growing on some amazing Italian Ranunculus plants.
These are unique, specialty cut-flower varieties you won’t find in any nursery!
Gorgeous, paper-thin petals are nestled into a swirly bud perched onto a bright green stem.
Part of the buttercup family, these long lasting flowers look so intricate they are reminiscent of papier-mâché.
A perennial in the garden, you can leave them in the ground after they go dormant, or you can dig up the little claw-like corms,
which multiply each season, and store them somewhere cool and dry before planting again next autumn.
All plants come in our signature organic, biodegradable pots that are planted straight into garden.
Ranunculus seedlings will be available for farm pick up or local Mornington Peninsula delivery at the end of May for immediate planting.
Please note we are not able to ship seedlings.
The colours we have available are:
White Ranunculus Bianco 130-10
Orange Ranunculus Clementine 114-14
Light Pink Ranunculus Rosa Chiaro 159-14
Dark Pink Ranunculus Rose Scuro 93-10
Yellow Ranunculus Spring Giallo 21-10
Salmon Ranunculus Spring Salmone 06
You can see the colours on the Italian seed supplier's website:
https://www.bianchericreazioni.it/linea-elegance
APRIL 26TH 2023
ORGANIC SEEDLINGS
Our autumn and winter seedlings will be available over the next few weeks.
Time constraints have made this a smaller release than we would have liked so get in quick!
You can find all our seedlings at Torello, Flinders General Store & Somers General Store with the following varieties
ready to go straight into your garden:
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Sugar Snap Peas
Snow Peas
Lettuce
Asian Greens
Spinach
Parsley
Coriander
Calendula
Alyssum
A friendly reminder that our seedlings are:
Organic & local
100% biodegradable with wood fibre pots that can be planted pot and all
Zero plastic pots going to landfill and no nasty chemicals going into your garden
