Autumn Salad Essentials Bundle
Keep the fresh and tasty homegrown salads coming through the seasons! Start sowing now for the cooler months ahead.
This autumn salad essentials seed bundle includes:
- 1 x Tui Lettuce Seed - Cut & Come Again - a mix of red and green varieties for colourful ingredients to your meals. Pick a leaf at a time and the plant will regrow for continuous harvests.
- 1 x Tui Spinach Seed - Hybrid No.7 F1 - a disease resistant variety that produces large leaves and prefers the cooler weather. Pick baby leaves for salads and larger leaves for steaming in cooking.
- 1 x Tui Spring Onion Seed - Bunching White - an easy to grow variety, resistant to pests and diseases. Succession sow for a continuous harvest and tasty garnish at your fingertips through the seasons.
- 1 x Tui Radish Seed - Red Globe - quick to mature, producing small, round, bright red roots that are crisp and crunchy - perfect for salads!
Benefits
- Cool season staples
- Handy bundle of Kiwi favourites
Directions for use
Sowing direct
- Before planting work the soil until fine and crumbly.
- Dig in a layer of Tui Seed Raising Mix.
- Sow seeds as per individual packet instructions.
- Thin out plants as they mature, if required.
- Keep well watered.
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Autumn Salad Essentials Bundle reviews
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Nice cool season selection, very versatile.
Cindy Morrison
Tui Seed Raising Mix
Nurturing your plant from a tiny seed to a delicious crop of veges, or a stunning floral display, provides satisfaction second to none for gardeners! To make sure your seed raising endeavours end in success start with Tui Seed Raising Mix. This light, free draining mix is specially blended to provide ideal conditions for germinating seeds and seedling establishment. Gypsum ensures strong, healthy root growth and seaweed improves root development and overall plant health.
Use in seed raising trays, your garden, containers and pots to provide your seeds with the ultimate growing conditions.
This bag is recyclable through the soft plastics recycling scheme, it just needs to be clean and dry. Learn how to clean and dry your Tui growing media bags here.
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