How Food Grows GROWBox
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Learn to grow 12 veg in 12 weeks with GIY
There is no better feeling than putting some of your own food on the table. This large sized GROWBox is the perfect accompaniment to the online version of our popular course, How Food Grows. It's got everything you need to follow Mick throughout the 12 week course, and transform your empty space into thriving veg patch. Imagine yourself tucking in to nutritious beetroot, crunchy radishes, sweet garden peas and delicious oriental salad leaves.
What’s in the GROWBox?
- Seeds x 12 - Basil (Sweet Genovese),Beetroot (Detroit Globe), Chard (Rainbow Chard), French Beans (Cobra), Kale (Nero Di Toscana), Lettuce (Surprise Mix), Garden Peas (Greenshaft), Carrots (Early Nantes), Radish (Cherry Belle), Spinach (Perpetual), Oriental Greens, and Wild Rocket.
- 1 Pencil and notepad and plant labels – always a good plan to jot down your sowing dates, progress and good intentions; and to label pots.
- Pots/Trays for sowing some of your seeds in to:
- Rice Husk pots: 2 x 1L
- Coir pot: 8cm
- Coir seed trays
- Compost Block– they bulk out when you add water
- 250g bag Seaweed Feed - for feeding your soil
- A little grow your own Guide (stuffed with loads of stuff we’ve learned about growing)
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Where to grow them:
You might have a 2 acre field, or a tiny apartment, a suburban back garden or allotment. Most veg (with the exception of the carrots) benefit from being started off in a smaller pot or tray and then transplanted when they get a little bigger. We recommend sowing the seeds on a windowsill inside your house or apartment to start. When the seedlings get a little bigger, we will be moving them in to bigger pots to grow them either inside or outside on your balcony, terrace, patio or veg patch.
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At a Glance
Veg
Variety
Seeds Per Pack
When to Sow
Basil
Sweet Genovese
150
March to June
Beetroot Detroit Globe
200
February to July
Carrots Early Nantes 500 March to July Chard
Rainbow Chard
100
March to July
French Beans Purple Teepee
40
April to June
Garden Peas Greenshaft 20g
March to early June Kale
Nero
50
March to June
Lettuce
Little Gem
350
March to early June
Mixed Oriental Leaves Green Mix
300 June - late September Radish
Cherry Belle
200
March to July
Rocket Victoria
350
June to September
Spinach
Perpetual
80 April to July