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Newsletter - Spring 2014


 

 

 

It's time to plant for your spring vegie garden

Check your needs of the following vegetable seeds now, or whatever you need for your area from the full catalogue.

 


 

Eden Seeds catalogue

 

 

Our new Spring catalogue is available

If you don't have our new catalogue and would like us to send one, you can request a free catalogue here.


 

New varieties, or back in stock since 2013 catalogue.

Eden Seeds

Amaranth leaf – Garnet Red
Amaranth leaf – Green Calaloo
Broad Bean – Egyptian
Bush Bean – Flageolet
Climbing Bean Mostoller Wild Goose
Snake Bean – Black seeded
Snake Bean – Red Dragon
Dried Bean – Cannellini
Carrot – Belgium white
Corn Mutli-coloured Aztec
Corn – Reids’ Yellow Dent
Cucumber – Painted Serpent
Lettuce – Rabbit Ear
Onion – White Sweet Spanish
Pumpkin – Rouge Vif D’Etampes
Radish – Munich Beer
Squash – Gem (Rolet)
Perilla Red
Tomato – Sweetie
Tomato – Cherry Roma
Tomato – Moneymaker
Tomato Red Russian
Tomato – Tommy Toe
Tomato – Rumseys Red
Tomato – Cherokee Purple
Tomato – Walter
Tomato – Kotlas
Tomato – Mortgage Lifter
Tomato – Golden Roma
Tomato – Amish paste

Gourd – Large Fruited Mixed
Gourd – Large Mixture
Sunflower – Evening Sun
Select Organic

Amaranth leaf – Garnet Red
Broccoli – Purple Sprouting Early
Brussels Sprouts – Groninger
Cabbage – Red Acre
Chinese Cabbage – Granat
Corn – Ontos Oval
Cucumber – Bushy
Cucumber - Improved Telegraph
Cucumber – Lemon
Cucumber – Salt and Pepper
Cucumber – Suyo Long
Gherkin – Hokus
Leek – King Richard
Lettuce – Great Lakes
Lettuce – Flame
Lettuce oak-leaf purple
Luffa
Mustard Greens – Giant curled
Mustard Greens – Purple Frills
Onion – Purplette
Parsnip – Tender and True
Parsnip – White Gem
Pea – Sugarsnap Climbing
Pumpkin – Big Max
Pumpkin – Musque de Provence
Rosella
Silverbeet – Bright Lights
Spinach – Chinese
Tomato – Sweetie
Salad Greens – Corn Salad
Purslane – Green
Sorrel – Garden
Watermelon – Chris Cross
Watermelon – Moon and Stars
Grain – Khorasan
Grain – Spelt
Dill – Dukat
Flanders Poppy
Sunflower – Evening Sun


 


 

 

Articles

Tomatoes For Everyone - a book by Australian horticulturalist Alan Gilbert

12 Aug 2014
Tomatoes for Everyone

 Some suggestions I found interesting.

 

Early season tomatoes are in demand to be included in summer salads and cooking.
There are many advantages to planting seed inside whilst it is too cold outside. First, work out when you can transplant outside and sow seed so plants will be strong enough to survive transplanting. Let’s say transplant mid October. So sow seed inside in early September.
 

Tomato plants can be separated from a punnet if you transplant in a cool part of the day and water in quickly. Cover roots whilst transplanting. You can even cover the plants for a day or so until they pick up. Alternatively you can sow in individual cells to reduce transplant shock.
 

Tomatoes do not like to be waterlogged and should be planted in well drained raised beds if you expect heavy rains during the growing season. Plants will grow through "winter" in areas where there is no frost. Some varieties set better than others in cool condition e.g. Rouge de Marmande. Pests are less in the cooler months.

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Exclusion Bags

Also :-
To exclude pests from eating the fruit try the paper or mesh exclusion bags in the Eden Seeds catalogue.
Tomatoes are not recommended for people who have suffered cancer.
 

Happy growing - Alf Finch


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Book Specials - 20% discount on the following titles:

 

 


 

2015 Moon Planting Guides

 

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Moon Planting Guide for Gardeners 2015 (Wall Chart)

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Moon Planting Guide 2015

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Moon Planting Primer 2015

Moon Planting Guide for Gardeners 2015

 

Wall chart approximately 276mm x 780mm. Excellent quick reference.

Stefan Mager, 2014, 2 pages. $10.00

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The 2015 Astro Calendar of the Antipodes.

Brian Keats, 2014, 32 pages. 

 

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Simplified beginners version of Astro Calendar.

Brian Keats, 2014, 14 pages.

 

Coming Soon!

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2014 Moon Planting Guides

 

Moon Planting Guide 2014

Moon Planting Primer 2014

Moon Planting Guide for Gardeners 2014 (Wall Chart)

Moon Planting Guide 2014
Moon Planting Primer 2014
Moon Planting Wall Chart 2014

The 2014 Astro Calendar of the Antipodes. The author has combined his interest in naked eye astronomy and the plant world to produce this bio-dynamic planetary planting guide. Detailed explanations on sun, moon, and planetary rhythms, and their connections to life in the plant world. Printed on certified 100% recycled paper. Builds into a reference work.

Brian Keats, 2013, 32 pages.

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Spring Special $9.60

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Simplified beginners version of Astro Calendar includes four primary rhythms, Moon phases, Moon altitude, Moon proximity to Earth, Moon in zodiac. Printed on certified 100% recycled paper.

Brian Keats, 2013, 14 pages.

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Wall chart approximately 276mm x 780mm. Excellent quick reference.

Stefan Mager, 2013, 2 pages.

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Articles

Plants of the Bible Lands

14 Aug 2014
Bible Gardens

One of the delightful surprises I discovered on a recent visit to Canberra is the Plants of the Bible Garden 15 Blackall St Barton. The garden was establish from 2006 under the trust set up by Gerald Robinson and is on the west side and overlooking Lake Burley Griffin,

F. Nigel Hepper has written a book titled "Planting a Bible Garden".

Those included in our catalogue are leek, onion, garlic, dill, roman chamomile, mustard, coriander, cumin, watermelon, wheat, barley, flax poppy, sorghum, bean, pea, wormwood, chicory, fennel, rue, sage, caper bush, carob, date palm, stone pine.

It is posssible to add herbs, vegetable, flowers and shrubs to your existing garden. Many tender plants can be grown in igloos and shade-houses.
 

Bible Gardens

 A small patch of grains such as wheat, barley and sorghum planted in strips is very interesting when mixed with corn poppys and thistles.

It is amazing how many fruiting trees can be incorporated into any garden. Those suitable include almond, apple, apricot, carob, fig, mulberry, olive, pomegranate, rose, grape and bay tree.

This could also be an interesting project for schools, colleges and religious institutions.

 

 

A visit to St.George Cathedral in Jerusalem is a wonderful botanical experience. Donors form far and wide have enabled gardener Samer Bassa to maintain an established Bible Garden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Articles

Note from Bob Phelps - Director of Gene Ethics

19 Nov 2013
Bob Phelps

Hello Alf:


We are working hard on retaining South Australia's and Tassie's GM-free status till 2019, when it is due to expire on September 1, in the normal course of events. The GM moratorium in SA has had the support of all parties since its introduction in 2003, when the OGTR issued commercial GM canola licences to Monsanto and Bayer.

The following data supports the GM-free stance. On the figures we can secure, below, we conclude:

  1. average GM and non-GM canola yields were very similar from 2008-2012.
     
  2. GM canola has no yield advantage over the top non-GM varieties.
     
  3. the percentage of GM canola in the entire canola crop in VIC & NSW is in decline.
     
  4. the decline in GM seed use results from: less profitable than non-GM, no increase in yield, many well-performing canola seed options available, 'tried GM but never again'.
     
  5. Birchip Cropping Group found in 2011 in Western Victoria that GM canola was less profitable than non-GM by ~$150/ha. This resulted from much higher input costs - seed, chemicals, transport, segregation - & lower returns for the harvest. (see attached article) Though the GM seed owners have since capped the price discount on harvested GM canola at $10/tonne, input and management costs are still higher, prices lower and profits lower.

 

For the latest news visit Gene Ethics Facebook at: http://tinyurl.com/czgdz6c
 

Gene Ethics

Web: www.geneethics.org        Tel: 1300 133 868        Email: info@geneethics.org


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Eden Seeds staff

 

 

Thanks for your support, happy gardening.
Alf Finch & the staff at Eden Seeds & Select Organic.

 

 

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