Local Seeds
Story Title: Local Seeds
Episode: Two
Date: October 11th 2009
Presenter: Neville Passmore
One of the quickest and most economical ways to get into food growing at home is by purchasing seedlings from your local garden centre. Neville visits a leading wholesale seedling nursery, considered to be one of the most modern and automated seedling nurseries in Australia.
Quick Tips and Facts
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A productive vegetable garden begins with good planning and top quality seedlings.
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Growing your own vegetables is a rewarding family activity that the kids can get involved in and best of all it rewards you with fresh healthy vegetables.
Benara Nurseries have been growing plants for over 40 years and are proud producers of the Fairy range, Garden Fresh and also Top Taste Range of vegetable seedlings, supplied to garden retailers throughout Western Australia.
Feature plants
Fairy vegetables
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Fairy vegetables provide punnets of 10 young seedlings at a budget price clearly labeled with growing tips on the back of the label.
Garden Fresh Seedlings
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These come in a slightly larger punnet of 8 plants and have growing tips and recipe ideas on the backs of the labels.
Garden Fresh Advanced
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For those of us with smaller vegetable gardens or perhaps container gardens on balconies Garden Fresh Advanced have a range of 4 packs, of slightly larger plants and for those of us who have perhaps missed the start of the season or simply in hurry there is the garden fresh maxi pots with a single more mature plant.
Top Taste
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Every spring the trusted and reliable Top Taste range of tomatoes, chilies and strawberries arrive in the market with old favourites like the Grosse Lisse tomato as well as some newer varieties bred containers.
Diggers club
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Diggers club Heirloom variety Tomatoes.
For more information, or to purchase the featured products, visit your local garden centre.
Contact
BENARA NURSERIES
Safari Place, Carabooda WA 6033
Phone +61 8 9405 0000
Fax +61 8 9561 9003
Email: benara@benara.com.au
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