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Seedling surplus or shortage? Survive it with Lourish

May 2, 2011

A warm April has got the Lourish garden springing into action; potatoes, garlic, broad beans and radish have all shot up in the last couple of weeks.

However we’ve not been quick enough to sow out our early salad so we’ll have to pick up some plug plants to make up for our tardiness while we wait for this weekend’s sowing of micro-greens to appear.

Or has the warm, sunny April left you with an abundance of seedlings? Here at Lourish HQ we swapped our left-over seed tates for some beautiful rhubarb (thanks, Catherine!) and without enough space to plant all our pink fir apple second earlies we’ve still got a few seed tates to give away.

If like us you’ve missed a sowing, or have a surplus of seeds use Lourish to fill in the gaps in your planting by finding some seedlings – it’s not just about your fruit and veg harvest – seeds, seedlings, compost and manure all make perfect swaps on Lourish.

Whatever you’re growing there will always be some plants you can’t use, some seeds which won’t keep another season or some sowings which fail, when this happens get over to lourish.com, share your surplus, survive a shortage and make the most of what you grow!

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What’s better than a swap? A giveaway, of course!

August 17, 2010

Swaps are great, but in this current time of plentiful fruit and veg there have been lots of things offered for free on lourish.com.

Fruit trees are burgeoning and it seems to have been an excellent year for plums, damsons and greengages, but it was an offer of celeriac plants that caught an eye here at Lourish HQ.

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Grow your own / Share your own

June 7, 2010

However hard you plan, in a small plot or with limited time, it’s very hard to organise your growing so that your crops don’t all mature at once.

The salad crop on the Lourish plot is a good example; the first crop is now bolting as we’ve failed to eat it quickly enough and now it’s rather over-crowded. If we’re not careful some will go to waste and here at Lourish we are definitely not fans of waste!

In contrast to the bolting salad, after some cold days our spicy greens are a month off, while the spring onions and radish are delayed because, well, because we weren’t organised enough.

Since we won’t be able to eat all the lettuce before it flowers we’ll have to try to give it away this week, which while wonderfully selfless, wasn’t the original purpose of growing our own!

If we’re unlucky we’ll be buying lettuce until the rest of the crop is ready and you can’t help thinking that if you knew a few other people growing their own in your area you could turn this problem into an opportunity for some fruitful trading. I’m sure someone nearby must need some salad and some may even have a glut of something that I would like.

I think it’s time to go from growing our own to sharing our own.