The return of free seeds
THIS year, in celebration of Amateur Gardening’s 135th anniversary, our selection of free seeds from Mr Fothergill’s is better than ever and includes special packs from the RHS and Sarah Raven. Varieties include universal favourites such as sweet peas, sunflowers, wallflowers, poppies and Echinacea, alongside more unusual species such as Mina lobata, Malope ‘Vulcan’ and Chinese lanterns. Each week’s seeds will come with clear, illustrated instructions and I will also show you how to keep your seedlings healthy, taking you through the stages of pricking them out, acclimatising them to outdoor temperatures and finally planting them in their final positions. We start the year with the cheerful climber black-eyed Susan ‘Susie Mixed’, which can be grown up a trellis outdoors, in a conservatory or sunny room or trailing from baskets. Seeds and seedlings are…