New Gardening Gift

A great new Gardening Gift features in our new Gardening Crate for 2009.

Rocket Gardens based in West Cornwall, organically grows and distributes vegetable and herb seedlings. Their organic natural growing system enables the customer to simply and instantly create their own vegetable garden, eliminating the precious time and effort involved in home seedling establishment.

We have introduced this great range and have included the organic herb garden gift voucher within our Gardeners Crate. You can substitute this voucher for a Salad and Herb Gift voucher if more appropriate. Please see contents below.

Rocket Gardens seedlings are grown under large traditional unheated glass greenhouses with plenty of ventilation and watering facilities in order to produce healthy and hardy growing plants. Once the plants are established they are taken outside to a hardening off area before being sent to their final destination. All plants are grown totally without the use of pesticides, herbicides, chemical sprays or fertilisers.
They do not use artificial heat to raise the plants. This avoids the burning of fossil fuels and provides for a hardier growing seedling.

Organic from the outset:
All seeds are sourced from Soil Association approved organic seed suppliers.
The compost in which the vegetable seedlings are grown is approved for use in Organic systems by the Soil Association.

The plants are grown naturally under a fully organic regime.

Even the water used on the plants is taken from a river just 50 metres below the greenhouses.

In most instances each plant is grown in its own individual biodegradable pot; this system has been chosen for the following reasons:

For growth:

It provides a very dense and active root hair system

Growth is improved

Transplant shock is minimised

Establishment speeds are improved

No root deformation occurs

Continued plant development is excellent

Ecological advantages

100 % biodegradable organic product

After its useful life the pot can be put onto the compost heap and transformed into humus to be put back into the soil.

Furthermore all packaging systems have been chosen in order that they are as ecologically friendly as possible. Recycled cardboard is used wherever practicable and this in turn can be used again or put onto the compost heap to be broken down.

Alternative Voucher for inclusion in our Gardeners Crate:

Window Box Salad & Herb Garden

Dwarf French Green Beans x 3
Mixed lettuces x 10
Rocket x 10
Mizuna x 10
Spinach x 10
Golden streak mustard x 10
Spring onions x 10
Beetroot x 10
Basil x 1 pot
Parsley x 1 pot
Chives x 1 pot

There are other, larger varieties in the Rocket Garden Range, including a Children's Garden, Mediterranean Garden Gift, Instant Salad Garden and Vegetable Garden Gifts. Should you wish to send one of the above vouchers in your gift hamper, please let us know. There is a small additional cost involved for the larger option.