Herb Plant Batches €20
Place order prior to payment by email gretasherbs@yahoo.com or text 0863169716. Large quantities of individual varieties are not available. Please match varieties & pot size below to the batch you are ordering. Payment is made after the delivery is organised. Due to huge demand there is presently a 7- 10 day backlog, Apologies for the delay!
Every effort will be made to fulfill your order however varieties are selling out fast and you may be advised to re-select. There will be new varieties available in May.
SEE BELOW LIST OF HERBS PRESENTLY IN STOCK
Batch A 10 small pots
Batch B 6 large pots
Batch C 3 large pots & 5 small pots
Batch D 2 trays Vegetables, 2 large pots & 5 small pots (limited supply)
Batch E Special offer: Greta’s Herb Book & 5 small pots
DO NOT MAKE PAYMENT UNTIL AFTER DELIVERY IS ORGANISED
HERBS PRESENTLY IN STOCK UPDATED WEEKLY
Please decide which varieties & pot size and match them to the batch which most suits your needs
Example Batch B: 6 Large Pots – Name your varieties …………. from the large pots Batch C : 3 Large Pots & 5 Small – Name your varieties…. from large and small pot
Small Pots: Chives, Lovage, Sage, Chocolate Peppermint (delicious tea), Borage (white flowering), Borage blue, Celery leaf, French Tarragon, Sorrel broad leaf, Catnip, Tansy, Grapefruit Mint, Apple Mint, Wild rocket, Fennel, Parsley Italian Flat, Parsley Curly.
Small Pots/Salad Herbs: Nasturtium Climbing ‘Indian Chief’, Calendula ‘Fiesta Gitana’, Chop Suey Greens, Tomato Moneymaker, Tomato Plum, Tomato Beef ‘Black Krim’, Cucumber, Courgette.
Large Pots: Sweet Cicely, Basil Sweet, Basil Greek Bush, Basil Red leaf ‘Ruben’,Basil ‘Thai’, Winter Savory, Horseradish, Lemon Verbena, Mint Morrocan, Salad Burnet, Comfrey common, Oregano, Gold marjoram, Gold Feverfew, Rock peppermint, Apple mint, Garlic Chives, Thyme common, Thyme Creeping Caraway, Thyme ‘Foxley’ (broad leaf culinary), Thyme ‘Doone Valley’ (creeping lemon), Thyme Lemon, Thyme creeping red (ornamental),Tomato ‘Tiny Tim’ (dwarf cherry), Bronze Fennel, French Tarragon, Flat Italian parsley.
Trays Vegetables are grown to order maximum 1 tray of each variety per person – waiting time minimum 2 weeks.
Lettuce cut & Come, Mixed, Kale red Russian, Kale ‘Ruble’, Broccoli ‘Purple Sprouting’ Peas ‘Mangetout’
Greta’s Guidelines to Success
Please keep all plants outside in their pots for 4-7 days to harden and develop a good root system especially the vegetable trays. The only exception is basil which needs to be grown inside on a sunny window, greenhouse or tunnel. Always check underneath pots and trays for a sign of roots which means it is ready to plant! A little general granular fertiliser such as Growmore mixed with compost and put in the planting hole will give the plants a great start.
Many of the small herb pots may be potted into large pots and grown on for planting out later. Many varieties will be ideal for container growing.Water plants carefully. It is a good idea to let thymes, rosemary and sage dry out between watering as they will not tolerate constant wet conditions. My book ‘Greta’s Herbs’ has all the information you will require and features over 100 varieties, all of which I have grown at some stage.
Watch out for slugs! They love young leaves especially lettuce and will gobble them up in one night! There are many methods to try to prevent disaster, but vigilance is vital. Set up beer traps, sprinkle crushed eggshells, nemaslug (biological control) or use organic slug pellets. Although ordinary slug pellets are hugely effective please be aware that as they poison the slugs, they will also poison the birds! If you use them apply sparingly – you can sprinkle a few into a jam jar lid so they do not contaminate the soil and empty the dead slugs every morning into the bin before the birds eat them.
The tiny baby slugs are the worst – they get wedged between leaves and underneath pots and trays where you may not spot them and then wonder why so many of your plants are disappearing. I continually pick these slimy creatures off and feed them to the hens!
Good luck with your edibles this season!
Greta
Patio Plant Batches €20 (6 Pots)
Email your order to gretasherbs@yahoo.com
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE PAYMENT UNTIL YOUR ORDER IS CONFIRMED AND DELIVERY ORGANISED.
DO NOT PRESS ‘Buy Now’ BUTTON.
Batch F Pick ‘n Mix 6 ( not more than 2 of the same variety per batch)
Limited supply on all varieties. (Approx Pot size 10-13 cm) Delivery takes 7-10 days
Bidens trailing yellow
Busy Lizy Mix Choose your colour white, pink, purple, orange-red.
Petunia trailing purple (SOLD OUT)
Petunia trailing deep blue (SOLD OUT)
Trailing Begonia Scarlet
Begonia double yellow
Bacopa trailing white
Gazania Mix (may over winter -tender perennial)
Erigeron ‘Sea Breeze’ resilient perennial for coastal conditions
Agryanthemum yellow – (tender perennial may over winter)
Geranium ‘Mrs Pollock’
Geum hardy perennial – grows in sun or shade SOLD OUT
Euryops pectinatus – hardy shrubs – long flowering period – H: 1 metre
Fuchsia ‘Dollar Princess’ (double flowering hardy variety)
Papaver rubifragum – Spanish poppy (hardy perennial) (SOLD OUT)
Black Hollyhock – Short lived Perennial (maroon black)
Lupin Mix ‘Russell Hybrids’
Leucanthemum vulgare – Ox-eye daisy
Euonymus ‘Emerald ‘n Gold’ (dwarf evergreen shrub ideal foliage colour)
