Xmas Special Offer:
We would like to show our appreciation to our valued customers for their support over the past year by offering a 20% discount across our entire product range. Valid until the end of January 2011.


Organic Garlic



Garlic packs will be available from mid- december onwards (until sold out). Choose from 3 or 6 bulb packs or if you are a serious garlic lover, try our new 1kg pack. Please email us if you would like to pre-order.


We wish you a merry christmas and a relaxing new year; keep safe and enjoy your holidays (preferably in the garden!)


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Happy Gardening!


Tara Springer

Winter Chill!

Even though the mild weather has deserted us, now is great time to get into the garden. We cleared out the old summer vegetable beds, added some old manure and raked it smooth - ready for planting! The tomato bushes had more or less melted during the last frost, so they were easy to lift out, as were the chillies and capsicums. Old corn plants are a little more difficult as their roots were quite deep! The old stalks are drying out now, awaiting the mulcher, only to be added back onto the vegie garden at some stage.

We have planted Spring Onions, French Shallots, Red Chantenay Carrots, more Asparagus crowns (yum!) Tatsoi, French Sorell, Rhubarb, Garlic bulbs, Artichokes (Purple and Green varieties) and a bush Pea .

This weekend, I plan to extend the vegetable plantings by including a patch of red onion, mustard greens, spinach (english) and some more bush peas (trying to stagger the planting so we don't end up with a feast or a famine!) I should also put in some broad beans but I haven't got past my intense childhood dislike of this particular vegetable so.....I will leave that one out!

White Fly problem

White flies in the greenhouse are sucking my plants dry!!!! Does anyone have a solution to remove these little pests? I have tried white oil, pyrethrum spray, manually removing them and squashing them....They just keep coming back! I can't blame them I suppose - the greenhouse is very comfortably set up for a white fly family. Its warm, humid, food and moisture on tap - heaven to the little blighters! Growing organically is hard...........luckily the end result is worth it :)

On a brighter note; we have some new products available on the website -

www.fourseasonsherbs.com.au

The colder weather is definitely upon us so we have some special offers to entice you into the garden again!

Seed Potatoes – Why not try our new 2kg mixed pack containing a few of every variety we stock, or if you prefer select your own 500gm of individual varieties. Currently we have Royal Blue, Dutch Cream, Nicola, Spunta, Mozart, Marilyn, Laurene, Sifra and Symfonia. See our website for further details (http://www.fourseasonsherbs.com.au/)

Wasabi – we have a limited number of plants still available, and more coming on ready for mid winter. Guaranteed to warm up your next meal!

Winter Salad Greens – Tatsoi – a dark green, slightly ruffled leaf, with a sweet flavour – no hint of bitterness and tolerant of cold conditions. French Sorrel – large, light green leaves which add a lemony zing to a winter salad. Alternatively, use the larger leaves in a stir fry for a warming meal. Warrigal Greens (New Zealand Spinach) – a spreading perennial, with fleshy dark green leaves perfect for sauté or stir fry. Hardy to all but the heaviest of frost.

Edible Flowers – Calendula – pretty orange/red or yellow flowers grow through the depths of winter to provide a delicate show of flowers for use in salads. Also beneficial in the vegetable garden. Borage – White or Blue – Grows strongly through winter to provide a welcome burst of colour (either white or blue flowered variety) whole plant can be eaten from the flowers to the leaves.

Garlic – Packs of 6 plants $20 ready to plant out into your garden, or into a larger pot – easy! Gift Packaged Garlic Packs 150gms (approx. 30 cloves) $9.00. New line sourced from a grower in Hagley, Tasmania. Beautifully presented packs make perfect gifts for the avid gardener.

Grow your own Wasabi Plants!

May Newsletter

New Products Available Now:

Tasmanian Purple Organic Garlic

250gm Pack of loose cloves - large, fat and healthy - perfect for growing your own crop, or use some in your next culinary masterpiece!

Wasabi Plants - We have a limited number of plants available now until sold out. The taste of freshly prepared wasabi paste is amazing! Growing instructions are included with each plant.

Saffron Plants - Available as plants in packs of 3, 10 and 20. Each corm is planted into a 50mm pot, and are rapidly growing leaves and developing flowers at this time of year. Be quick and you will be harvesting your own Saffron threads before you know it!

Seed Potatoes will be available within the next 2 weeks. From tomorrow Nicola, Dutch Cream and Tasmanian Pinkeye Potatoes will be available.

Happy Gardening!

Tara Springer

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