Members have found the following sites or suppliers useful:
Seed suppliers:
The Organic Gardening Catalogue – all things organic
Suffolk Herbs – Seeds, sundries, sow and grow advice, garden hints and tips.
The Real Seed Catalogue – They only offer what they know is really good from their own personal use. They make their own catalogue and their own website, so they’ve been written by gardeners, for gardeners. They have collected together the very best vegetables in existence for the home gardener – both valuable heirlooms and really good modern strains.
DT Brown seeds – D. T. Brown are a mail order fruit and vegetable specialists, offering a full range of seeds, potatoes, onions, garlic, vegetable plants, soft fruit, tree fruit and garden equipment. Everything you need for your grow your own garden!
Mr Fothergill – Provide a product range for all your gardening needs from flower and vegetable seed to young plants, potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots, veg plants soft fruit and fruit trees. For the amateur to the enthusiast there is something to meet your requirements.
Select Seeds – The varieties listed in this catalogue have been carefully selected with the serious exhibitor and discerning gardener in mind. Whilst the main choice of varieties is for exhibitors there is also a range of varieties useful for ordinary growers.
Suppliers:
Allplas.co.uk – great for bulk buy of black plastic, wind break netting and weed suppressing membrane.
Tarpaflex.co.uk – good for debris netting which can be used for wind breaks or protecting crops from the birds.
Harelaw Sawmill – Plot holders report that this supplier is good for scaffolding boards to make raised beds and all other timber supplies for the plot. Will deliver locally.
Websites:
Garden Organic – Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. Site is good for organic gardening advice, organic guidelines, news on organic R&D and much, much more.
Garden Planner at Growveg.com – GrowVeg.com is an online Garden Planner which helps you grow fruit and vegetables to the best of their ability, whatever the size or shape of your garden