Episode: Eight
Air Date: 18th of October 2008
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Story Title: Home Grown Salads

There’s nothing better than growing your own herbs and vegetables to have a constant supply of fresh, nutritious food to feed the family. Trevor demonstrates one of the simplest ways to grow fresh food – in pots and window boxes.

Featured Plants

• Radicchio’ Lettuce, has a sweet flavour
• Endive belongs to the sunflower family is a bitter salad plant
• ‘Freckles’ Lettuce This is a ‘semi-cos’ type of lettuce
• ‘Florence’ Fennel-all parts of the fennel are edible

Featured Products

Seasol - Seaweed Plant Food and Liquid Fish Fertilizer for Gardens

• Seasol is Australia's top selling organic liquid seaweed plant food.
• Seasol is a plant conditioner and tonic which provides many benefits when applied to all garden plants and horticultural crops.
• It promotes overall plant health and growth, stimulates root development, enhances flowering and fruiting and increases plant resistance to pests such as insects and fungal diseases.
• It also increases plant resistance to adverse environmental conditions such as heat, drought and frost.

Power Feed

• Power Feed is a liquid fertiliser and soil conditioner based on fish and liquid composts.
• Power Feed promotes vigorous plant growth, boosts flowering and fruiting and improves soils.
• PowerFeed acts as a clay breaker. It helps to make clay soils more friable and increases nutrient availability. It increases the soil's cation exchange capacity.
• PowerFeed also helps to reduce nutrient leaching in sandy soils.

Contact
Seasol International Pty Ltd
1027 Mountain Hwy (PO Box 160)
Bayswater Victoria Australia 3153
Telephone: +61 3 9729 6511
Fax: +61 3 97204792

Email: commercialinfo@seasol.com.au