Warm Season Crops To Sow Direct

Warm Season Crops To Sow Direct

Walking through your garden space with packets of seeds and popping them into the ground is such a simple act of hope!! All that potential, just waiting to be tucked into soil where it will slowly burst open, sending a root searching for water and a shoot growing towards the sun. The myriad of expressions, forms, colours and flavors all held within the hard body seed.

Once the soil has warmed to 20C, many seeds will germinate directly in the garden.

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Sowing Seeds for Cold / Warm Season Crops

Sowing Seeds for Cold / Warm Season Crops

Here at Transition Farm, situated in the cool temperate zone of Southern Victoria and in a frost hollow, the ground does not freeze in Winter. We can harvest year round. When determining when to start seeds throughout the season, we divide many of our favorite vegetable, herbs and flowers into two categories - Cool Season Crops and Warm Season Crops.

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Transition Farm Natural Bee Keeping and Raw, Cold Pressed Honey

Transition Farm Natural Bee Keeping and Raw, Cold Pressed Honey

Our bee colonies reside in bee- friendly Warre hives living in a "wild" manner. Our centre focus is on bee health as opposed to the production of honey. Intrinsic in this approach is the thoughtful maintenance of the colonies with minimal human intervention - we encourage the bees to live in their natural way.

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Every Seed Has A Story - 'Kalibos' Cabbage

Every Seed Has A Story  -  'Kalibos' Cabbage

We first discovered Kalibos Cabbage in the ‘Bakers Creek’ seed catalogue in 2008.  We were intrigued by the colour, a glowing magenta head surrounded by darker red/purple outer leaves with hot pink veins.  It is a stunning plant that really brings the winter garden a contrast and sublime beauty.  Grown in Autumn for winter harvesting, the flavour is sweet, juicy, and minerally - just as good cooked as it is as a slaw with lime juice and coriander.  One of the strengths of this cabbage is its ability to hold in the field throughout winter.  We are still harvesting 1.2-1.5k heads in the third week of August from a early February sowing.

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