Do you have no garden space but enjoy growing seeds? Tips for indoor growing

If you enjoy gardening, but you are lacking one of the main necessities, a garden, all is not lost. Even though Seeds By Post  (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) the name gardening suggests you need one you can grow your own seeds indoors successfully.

In fact, now, it is arguably easier to grow your own seeds indoors. Follow these few simple steps here and you will find that growing seeds inside is just as rewarding.

Choose the right seeds

It’s important that you choose the right seeds to use, especially if you are new to indoor growing. One of the downsides of growing your own seeds inside is that you will not be able to plant all seeds successfully. This is why you need to pick vegetables that you know can be grown indoors. Start with herbs like; basil, chives and parsley. They need the least management so are the easiest to start with.

Get the right conditions

Having the right conditions is the most important factor if you are growing indoors. Most plants require a lot more light than a kitchen windowsill can offer. However, if it is your only choice, it is usually the best place to set up. If you want to take planting seriously, you can use high-intensity lights inches above the soil for twelve hours a day making sure that you raise the lights up as the plants grow.

You also need to make sure you keep the plants or herbs moist. Use a spray bottle to ensure you do not over water them. Alternatively, you can fill a tray underneath the plant with water so that the mix wicks up the moisture from below.

Buy reputable, buy right

If you want to make sure you get it right the first time it’s important that you buy seeds from a reputable supplier. Seeds By Post offer Suttons Seeds, Mr Fothergills Seeds and        among others so you can be sure that you are buying quality seeds, which will give you the best chance of being successful.

If you decide to give indoor growing a go, make sure you take the time to research how to do it right. While it may seem simple, you will soon find that if you do not put in ample research, you’ll end up having to start again.

Editor’s Note: Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) are represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Email: info@jumpingspidermedia.co.uk or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.

Introduce perennials to your garden on a par with Chelsea's

If there's any type of plant that so many people who buy seeds online from ourselves here at Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) seem to especially wax lyrical about, it's the perennial. They go to see the show gardens at Chelsea, and are astonished by the immaculate colour coordination of the perennials there, wondering how they could possibly achieve the same effect in their own gardens. Even if this is possible, how do you do it?

As gorgeous as perennials often look in magazine centrefolds, you'll need to be sure that yours look good in the long term, particularly if you grow them in larger drifts. Not all of our customers of cheap seeds are massively convinced about vast swathes of perennials, given that the damp winters of the UK climate can leave many parts drab and decaying between December and May. Nor does the thought of having to tend such far-reaching stretches fill every gardener with joy, as it can be highly monotonous work.

However, there are still ways of incorporating perennials into your scheme that make sense even if you are a time-pressed gardener not able to lavish hour after hour of attention on them. By mixing them with structural planting, you can help to ensure that your garden looks dynamic at all times of year. Whether your garden is dominated by trees, shrubs, grasses or roses, perennials mix well with all of them, having a dramatic effect on seasonal colour levels. What's more, with so many more high-performance plants continually emerging, it's never been more interesting or challenging to choose the right ones for your garden.

Those wanting to grow perennials cost-effectively above all else, may want to invest in the Perennial Border Collection of Johnsons Seeds, as is now available from Seeds By Post. It consists of a series of flower seeds allowing you to create the ideal backbone to a dramatic herbaceous. Johnsons also offers an especially hardy perennial in the form of Platycodon grandiflora Mixed, which combines attractive blue-green foliage with gorgeous open, delicately veined blooms. Meanwhile, Unwins Seeds brings our customers the likes of the Wildflower Harebell, a dainty but pretty wild summer flower that attracts plenty of bees and butterflies.

Or maybe you'd be tempted by our Mr Fothergills range of perennials, in which you can find Sweet Pea Everlasting Mixed, a great choice for the traditional cottage garden, where it can scramble through early flowering shrubs and climb over walls and fences? Or what about some cacti for your greenhouse, as we now stock from Suttons Seeds? The great thing about the seeds in its Cactus GP - Prickly Characters (Mixed) set, besides the curious and interesting mix of plants, is that they can be sown at any time of year.

By experimenting with some of the perennial flower seeds from Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk), within just a few seasons, you can see truly stunning results.

Editor’s Note: Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) are represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Email: info@jumpingspidermedia.co.uk or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.

Introduce perennials to your garden on a par with Chelsea's

If there's any type of plant that so many people who buy seeds online from ourselves here at Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) seem to especially wax lyrical about, it's the perennial. They go to see the show gardens at Chelsea, and are astonished by the immaculate colour coordination of the perennials there, wondering how they could possibly achieve the same effect in their own gardens. Even if this is possible, how do you do it?

As gorgeous as perennials often look in magazine centrefolds, you'll need to be sure that yours look good in the long term, particularly if you grow them in larger drifts. Not all of our customers of cheap seeds are massively convinced about vast swathes of perennials, given that the damp winters of the UK climate can leave many parts drab and decaying between December and May. Nor does the thought of having to tend such far-reaching stretches fill every gardener with joy, as it can be highly monotonous work.

However, there are still ways of incorporating perennials into your scheme that make sense even if you are a time-pressed gardener not able to lavish hour after hour of attention on them. By mixing them with structural planting, you can help to ensure that your garden looks dynamic at all times of year. Whether your garden is dominated by trees, shrubs, grasses or roses, perennials mix well with all of them, having a dramatic effect on seasonal colour levels. What's more, with so many more high-performance plants continually emerging, it's never been more interesting or challenging to choose the right ones for your garden.

Those wanting to grow perennials cost-effectively above all else, may want to invest in the Perennial Border Collection of Johnsons Seeds, as is now available from Seeds By Post. It consists of a series of flower seeds allowing you to create the ideal backbone to a dramatic herbaceous. Johnsons also offers an especially hardy perennial in the form of Platycodon grandiflora Mixed, which combines attractive blue-green foliage with gorgeous open, delicately veined blooms. Meanwhile, Unwins Seeds brings our customers the likes of the Wildflower Harebell, a dainty but pretty wild summer flower that attracts plenty of bees and butterflies.

Or maybe you'd be tempted by our Mr Fothergills range of perennials, in which you can find Sweet Pea Everlasting Mixed, a great choice for the traditional cottage garden, where it can scramble through early flowering shrubs and climb over walls and fences? Or what about some cacti for your greenhouse, as we now stock from Suttons Seeds? The great thing about the seeds in its Cactus GP - Prickly Characters (Mixed) set, besides the curious and interesting mix of plants, is that they can be sown at any time of year.

By experimenting with some of the perennial flower seeds from Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk), within just a few seasons, you can see truly stunning results.

Editor’s Note: Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) are represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Email: info@jumpingspidermedia.co.uk or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.

What needs to be done in your garden in August

If there is one month of the year when we might just forgive you for not stocking up on the finest vegetable, herb and flower seeds with us (only slightly, though), it is surely August, which is holiday time for many of us. It's the point of the year when even the most enthusiastic gardeners can often be looking around for a mobile phone charger or shopping for sun cream rather than tending to their vegetable patch or visiting Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) - but don't be fooled into thinking that your garden doesn't need some TLC at this time of year.

Perhaps the most obvious problem with leaving home for a week or several, is that your plants can suffer from a lack of water in these days of constant, stifling heat. You therefore shouldn't forget to arrange for the watering of your containers and baskets by someone else, or even have a system set up that can regularly supply water to your plants. If any of your baskets or containers are continually exposed to the full sun, move them to a position of shade. Another good idea is standing terracotta pots on gravel trays that have been topped up with water, so that the reservoir of fluid can be gradually absorbed by the pots.

Another watering method is to make some holes in the lid of a plastic water bottle, before cutting off the bottom of the bottle, turning it upside down into the plant compost and finally filling it with water, which gradually makes its way into the soil. Such watering principles are equally effective on vegetable seeds. 'Grow Your Own' gardeners need to spend this month and September gathering, harvesting, bottling and jam making, although good weather still makes possible the sowing of quick maturing salad crops.

Throughout August, we continue to stock the broadest range of veg seeds, from alfalfa, asparagus and aubergine to watercress, mushrooms and tomatoes, as well as herb seeds and flower seeds from our usual assortment of in-demand manufacturers, such as Thomson and Morgan and Johnsons seeds. But August isn't just a month for planting new seeds and watering. That's because it's also a period when wisteria will need to be pruned, flowering plants regularly deadheaded and home grown vegetables harvested as they become ready.

You'll also need to ensure that your lawn still looks up to scratch, as well as that ponds and water features have been topped up. If you've bought some herb seeds, bear in mind that dill, basil and coriander are all perfect for enjoying at this time of year, in summer fish recipes and even desserts. However, we might leave you to come up with some more ideas of your own for your garden in August. Just don't forget to shop with Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) when you're running low on any of your favourite mail order seeds!

Editor’s Note: Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) are represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Email: info@jumpingspidermedia.co.uk or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.