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| Amaranth | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cucumber, Corn, Runner Bean, Tomato, Potato, Capsicum, Chilli, Eggplant, Pea, Marigold DISLIKES: Saffron |
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| ANCIENT GRAINS | |||
| - Amaranth | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cucumber, Corn, Runner Bean, Tomato, Potato, Capsicum, Chilli, Eggplant, Pea, Marigold DISLIKES: Saffron | Cross-Pollinating; will easily cross with other amaranth; to ensure purity grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| - Beluga Lentil | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cucumber, Potato, Summer Savory DISLIKES: Onion, Garlic |
Insect Pollinated |
| - Chia | Sow Seed |
n.a. | Insect Pollinated |
| - Red Lentil | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cucumber, Potato, Summer Savory DISLIKES: Onion, Garlic |
Insect Pollinated |
| Bean, Bush | Sow Seed | LIKES: Beetroot, Borage, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Marigold, Squash, Pumpkin, Strawberry, Corn, Tomato, Potato, Cucumber, Savoury Summer DISLIKES: Chives, Fennel, Garlic, Leek, Onion, Gladiolus, Dill |
Self-Pollinating; but to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 2m apart. |
| Bean, Climbing | Sow Seed | LIKES: Beetroot, Borage, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Marigold, Squash, Pumpkin, Strawberry, Corn, Tomato, Potato, Cucumber, Savoury Summer DISLIKES: Chives, Fennel, Garlic, Leek, Onion, Gladiolus, Dill |
Self-Pollinating; but to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 2m apart. |
| Bean, Runner | Sow Seed | LIKES: Beetroot, Borage, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Marigold, Squash, Pumpkin, Strawberry, Corn, Tomato DISLIKES: Chives, Fennel, Garlic, Leek, Dill |
Self-Pollinating & Insect Pollinated. Grow varieties at least 800m apart. |
| Beetroot | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bush Bean, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Lettuce, Onions, Peas, Silverbeet DISLIKES: Climbing Bean, Tomato, Dill | Cross-Pollinating; will easily cross with other beetroot, silverbeet, sugar beet & fodder beets; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 250-500m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| Burdock | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Mint, Nasturtium, Radish, Corn DISLIKES: Potato |
Insect Pollinated |
| Carrot | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Leek, Onion, Pea, Mint, Nasturtium, Radish, Corn, Rosemary, Sage, Tomato, Wormwood, Chives, Cucumber, Lettuce DISLIKES: Potato, Dill, & being stored with apples |
Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other carrot varieties & Queen Ann‘s Lace (weed); to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 500m apart. |
| CHINESE / ASIAN VEGETABLES | |||
| - Amaranth | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cucumber, Corn, Runner Bean, Tomato, Potato, Capsicum, Chilli, Eggplant, Pea, Marigold DISLIKES: Saffron | Cross-Pollinating; will easily cross with other amaranth; to ensure purity grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| - Bitter Melon | Sow Seed | LIKES: Coriander, Beetroot |
n.a. |
| Sow Seed | LIKES: Beans, Celery, Coriander, Cucumber, Onion, Pea, Potato, Tomato DISLIKES: Strawberry |
|Cross-Pollinating; will cross with bok choy, turnip, pak choi, & all other varieties of chinese cabbage; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
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| Corn | Sow Seed | LIKES: Pumpkin, Squash, Zucchini, Lettuce | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other corn varieties; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 2klm apart. Insect & Wind Pollinated |
| Cucumber | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Broccoli, Celery, Chinese Cabbage, Lettuce, Pea, Radish, Tomato, Corn, Sunflower DISLIKES: Rue, Sage, Potato & Aromatic Herbs | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other cucumber varieties; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 500m apart - or hand-pollinate flowers. Insect Pollinated |
| EDIBLE FLOWERS & FLOWERS | |||
| - Borage | Sow Seed | LIKES: Tomato, Strawberry, Squash, Zucchini, Pumpkin |
Insect Pollinated |
| - Butterfly Pea | Sow Seed |
n.a. | Insect Pollinated |
| - Calendula | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Potato | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other varieties of calendula. Insect Pollinated |
| - Dianthus | Sow Seed | n.a. | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other varieties of dianthus. Insect Pollinated |
| - Sunflower | Sow Seed | LIKES: Squash, Cucumber, Zucchini, Pumpkin DISLIKES: Potato | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other sunflower varieties. Insect Pollinated |
| Eggplant | Plant out seedlings | LIKES: Pea, Tarragon, Thyme | Self / Cross-Pollinating; mainly self-pollinating but will occasionally cross with other eggplant varieties; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 10m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| Egyptian Walking Onion | Order Now | LIKES: Cabbage, Chamomile, Beetroot, Carrot, Tomato, Strawberry |
n.a. |
| FRUIT / TREES | |||
| - Carob | Sow Seed |
n.a. | Insect Pollinated |
| - Rosella | Sow Seed |
n.a. | Insect Pollinated |
| Garlic | Order Now | USES: Planted around all trees to repel borers. Also repels leaf eaters & sap suckers when planted near vegetables |
n.a. |
| Gourd | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Mint, Nasturtium, Radish, Corn DISLIKES: Potato | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other gourd varieties; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| GREEN MANURE / FIELD CROP | |||
| - Amaranth | Sow Seed | Used for food, fodder & as a green manure crop. Beneficial for adding bulk organic matter to the soil. |
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| - Ancient Grain Carbon Crop | Sow Seed |
Attracts predator insects to the garden | |
| - Beneficial Insect Blend | Sow Seed | Extremely useful for increasing pollination in both orchards & vegetable gardens. |
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| - Buckwheat | Sow Seed | Useful for adding both nutrients & carbon to the soil. Also useful for attracting beneficial insects, including bees to aid in pollination. |
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| - Butterfly Pea | Sow Seed | An attractive way to encourage butterflies into the garden |
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| - Fenugreek | Sow Seed | Used as green manure crop adding nitrogen, phosphorus & organic matter back into the soil. Excellent for loosening heavy, clay soils & controlling weeds. |
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| - Green Manure (Spring / Summer) | Sow Seed | Used as a green manure crop, plants are best dug back into the soil when the leaves are still fresh & green after approx. 8 weeks after planting |
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| - Lab Lab Bean | Sow Seed | Due to its deep root system down to 2m it is capable of extracting a wide range of nutrients & is useful for breaking up hard, compacted soils. As a green manure crop it is useful in fixing nitrogen & adding organic matter back into the soil. |
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| - Millet | Sow Seed |
Commonly used as a soil conditioner for a wide range of soils. | |
| - Mustard | Sow Seed | Used as green manure crop in controlling nematodes & fungal diseases such as fusarium & verticillium, as well as adding organic matter to the soil. |
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| - Sunflower | Sow Seed | An attractive way to supplement your chooks diet. Simply select a plot, broadcast seed, allow to grow & harvest seed heads placing directly into pen or hanging indoors. A welcome & nutritious treat! |
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| - Turnip | Sow Seed | Used in cooking with excellent flavour, as fodder crop or for green manure. When left to mature also attracts bees, butterflies & other beneficial insects to the garden. |
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| HERB | |||
| - Bergamot | Sow Seed |
n.a. | n.a. |
| - Black Cumin | Sow Seed | Flowers attract beneficial insects esp. parasitic wasps & predatory flies, which then will hunt insect pests on nearby crops. LIKES: all Brassicas incl. Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kale, Kohl Rabi, Turnip, Swede, Beetroot, Cucumber, Potato |
Cross-Pollinating. Insect Pollinated |
| - Borage | Sow Seed | LIKES: Tomato, Strawberry, Squash, Zucchini, Pumpkin |
Insect Pollinated |
| - Chamomile | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cucumber, Mint, Onion |
n.a. |
| - Chives | Sow Seed | LIKES: Carrot, Grape, Parsley, Tomato DISLIKES: Bean, Pea |
Cross-Pollinating; will not cross with other onion varieties. Insect Pollinated |
| - Echinacea | Sow Seed |
n.a. | n.a. |
| - Fenugreek | Sow Seed | n.a. | Cross Pollinated. Insect Pollinated. |
| - Hyssop | Sow Seed |
LIKES: Grape | n.a. |
| - Marjoram | Sow Seed | LIKES: All plants in general | Cross-Pollinating. Insect Pollinated |
| - Oregano | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cabbage, Cucumber, All plants in general |
Cross-Pollinating. Insect Pollinated |
| - Parsley | Sow Seed | LIKES: Asparagus, Carrot, Chive, Tomato, Roses DISLIKES: Mint | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other varieties of parsley; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 500m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| - Red Clover | Sow Seed | LIKES: Oats | Cross Pollinated. Insect Pollinated. |
| - Tarragon | Sow Seed |
n.a. | Insect Pollinated |
| - Yarrow | Sow Seed | Attracts pollinating bees and beneficial aphid-eating insects into the garden. LIKES: All Brassicas incl. Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kale, Kohl Rabi, Turnip, Swede, Tomato, Honeydew, Rockmelon, Watermelon, Eggplant, Bean, Spinach. |
Insect Pollinated. |
| Kohl Rabi | Sow Seed | LIKES: Beetroot, Onion DISLIKES: Bean, Capsicum, Chilli, Tomato | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 1000m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| Lettuce | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Beetroot, Cabbage, Carrots, Cherry, Chervil, Cucumber, Onions, Parsnip, Pea, Radish DISLIKES: Parsley | Self-Pollinating; will not cross with other varieties, however, to prevent minimal (1-6%), natural cross pollination, separate lettuce varieties by 2-3m, or with a tall 2-3m high barrier. |
| Marrow | Sow Seed | LIKES: Beans, Nasturtium, Radish, Corn | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other varieties of marrow, zucchini, squash & pumpkin with the species ‘pepo‘; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| Mustard Green | Sow Seed | LIKES: Fruit Trees (to assist growth) | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with Chinese Mustard & other mustards; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| Okra | Plant out seedlings | LIKES: Cucumber, Capsicum, Chilli, Eggplant, Honeydew, Rockmelon, Watermelon | Self-Pollinating; will not cross with other varieties; however may experience very minimal insect cross pollination, so to ensure absolute purity, grow varieties at least 30m apart. |
| Parsnip | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Leek, Onion, Pea, Radish, Rosemary, Sage, Tomato DISLIKES: Dill | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other parsnip varieties as well as wild parsnip; to ensure purity grow varieties at least 500m apart. Insect pollinated. |
| Radish | Sow Seed | LIKES: Peas, Lettuce, Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi, Parsnip, Onion, Mustard, Nasturtium, Cucumber, Spinach - attracts leaf miner away from Spinach DISLIKES: Grape, Hyssop | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other varieties of radish & wild radish; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 1000m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| SALAD GREENS | |||
| - Amaranth | Sow Seed | LIKES: Cucumber, Corn, Runner Bean, Tomato, Potato, Capsicum, Chilli, Eggplant, Pea, Marigold DISLIKES: Saffron | Cross-Pollinating; will easily cross with other amaranth; to ensure purity grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated. |
| - Marshmallow | Sow Seed |
n.a. | n.a. |
| - Mesclun | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Beetroot, Cabbage, Carrots, Cherry, Chervil, Cucumber, Onions, Parsnip, Pea, Radish |
n.a. |
| - Minutina | Sow Seed |
n.a. | n.a. |
| - Mizuna | Sow Seed |
LIKES: Beans, Celery, Coriander, Cucumber, Onion, Pea, Potato, Tomato |
Cross-Pollinating; will cross with chinese mustard & mibuna; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| - Nasturtium | Sow Seed | Useful as a trap crop for aphids. LIKES: Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Squash, Pumpkin, Zucchini, Marrow, Kale, Kohl Rabi, Radish, Tomato, Potato |
Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other nasturtium varieties; grow only one variety at a time. Insect Pollinated |
| - Perilla (Shiso) | Sow Seed |
n.a. | n.a. |
| - Rocket | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bush Bean, Beetroot, Celery, Cucumber, Dill, Lettuce, Mint, Nasturtium, Onion, Potato, Rosemary, Spinach, Thyme. DISLIKES: Strawberry |
Cross-Pollinating. Will cross with other varieties of rocket. Insect Pollinated |
| - Sorrel | Sow Seed | LIKES: Strawberry, Cabbage, Tomato | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other sorrel varieties. Insect pollinated. |
| - Watercress | Sow Seed | n.a. | Self-Pollinating; will not cross with other varieties. |
| Salsify | Sow Seed | LIKES: Bean, Leek, Onion, Pea, Sage, Tomato, Mint, Nasturtium, Radish, Corn, Carrots - reputed to deter carrot fly. DISLIKES: Potato, Dill |
Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other varieties of salsify. Insect Pollinated |
| Silverbeet | Sow Seed | LIKES: Beetroot, Cherry, Fruit Trees, Lavender, Lovage, Marjoram, Mulberry, Onions | Cross-Pollinating; will cross easily with other silverbeet & beetroot. Wind & Insect Pollinated |
| Swede | Sow Seed | LIKES: Pea | Cross-Pollinating. Insect Pollinated |
| Turnip | Sow Seed | LIKES: Pea, Lettuce, Cucumber, Nasturtium | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other turnip varieties, including fodder turnip & winter rape; to ensure purity grow varieties at least 1000m apart. Insect Pollinated |
| Zucchini | Sow Seed | LIKES: Beans, Mint, Nasturtium, Radish, Corn | Cross-Pollinating; will cross with other varieties of zucchini, squash & pumpkin with the species ‘pepo‘; to ensure purity, grow varieties at least 400m apart. Insect Pollinated |
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