Buying food plants
Organiclea’s Plants: What’s available for 2012?
Get a helping hand this growing season with locally grown food plants.
As the 2012 growing season kicks off, there are 3 different ‘options’ for getting plants from Organiclea. All designed with the urban food grower in mind and based on our own growing experiences; there’s training with plant sales, bespoke pre-orders and harvesting schedule tips!
As the 2012 growing season kicks off, there are 3 different ‘options’ for getting plants from Organiclea. All designed with the urban food grower in mind and based on our own growing experiences; there’s training with plant sales, bespoke pre-orders and harvesting schedule tips!
The three options described below for 2012:
1) Bespoke ‘sow to order’ service (i.e. we grow the seedlings and plants to your specific order)
2) School food-garden packages
3) Hawkwood sale days with free training slots available.
1) Bespoke ‘sow to order’ service (i.e. we grow the seedlings and plants to your specific order)
2) School food-garden packages
3) Hawkwood sale days with free training slots available.
Talk to us so we can help you get that food garden growing!
email: plants@organiclea.org.uk
phone: 020 8524 4994
Option 1: Bespoke ‘sow to order’ service!
Growing hand-raised plants for your specific project’s needs based on
your pre-order: We use the passive heat of the glasshouse, certified
organic composts, growing enthusiasm and human-powered watering rhythms
from the site’s enormous rain-harvest tanks to grow to your
specifications! This includes seedling plugs (new for 2012), and more
established food-plants.
your pre-order: We use the passive heat of the glasshouse, certified
organic composts, growing enthusiasm and human-powered watering rhythms
from the site’s enormous rain-harvest tanks to grow to your
specifications! This includes seedling plugs (new for 2012), and more
established food-plants.
We can take orders until Tuesday 17 April (plants will generally take up to a month to be ready) We have supplied plants to a range of community garden projects over the last 2 years since taking on the Hawkwood site.
Download PLANT LIST order sheet,
email plants@organiclea.org.uk or call us to discuss your order on 020 8524 4994
Option 2: School food garden packages
1. Ready Steady Grow:
Garden for harvesting before the summer holidays.
This package will include spring onions, dwarf French beans, courgettes, early potatoes and baby beets.
Order by price £50 / £100 / £250 / £500
Garden for harvesting before the summer holidays.
This package will include spring onions, dwarf French beans, courgettes, early potatoes and baby beets.
Order by price £50 / £100 / £250 / £500
2. Grow it, pick it eat it:
Salad and herb bar — for harvesting before summer.
This package will include a range of small plant plugs ready to plant into containers or the ground including red and green lettuces, baby salad rocket, parsley and basil.
£50 / £100 / £250 / £500
Salad and herb bar — for harvesting before summer.
This package will include a range of small plant plugs ready to plant into containers or the ground including red and green lettuces, baby salad rocket, parsley and basil.
£50 / £100 / £250 / £500
3. Harvest Festival:
Food plants for sowing in Spring, neglect in summer, harvest in September/October!
This package will include potatoes, spinach, pumpkins, beets.
£50 / £100 / £250 / £500
Food plants for sowing in Spring, neglect in summer, harvest in September/October!
This package will include potatoes, spinach, pumpkins, beets.
£50 / £100 / £250 / £500
4. Fruit Garden:
Year in year out.. and keeps on coming. Superfood forage!
Includes strawberries, blackcurrant, blackberry. Timed to coincide with term-time harvests!
£100 / 200
Year in year out.. and keeps on coming. Superfood forage!
Includes strawberries, blackcurrant, blackberry. Timed to coincide with term-time harvests!
£100 / 200
Orders can be taken until 17 April. We prefer pre-payment, but can be flexible.
Option 3: Hawkwood’s seasonal Sunday plant sale days with free training slots to support your growing!
Plants will be available for sale individually every Sunday: 29 April, 6 May, 13 May, 20 May, 27 May from 11am-3pm at our Hawkwood growing site and plant nursery. At 2pm, for those buying plants, there will be a free taster training hour with one of our growers to help you settle the plants into the garden with aftercare advice. Popular favourites such as tomatoes, squash, courgettes and more will be on sale – plants that are hard to get started without a greenhouse.
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Our plants:
We grow all the plants ourselves in our glasshouse that we rent from the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Work is carried out by a team of growers including members of our workers’ cooperative and lots of local volunteers who support the project’s aim to see more food growing in London. Plants are taken from the glasshouses and acclimatised to the outdoors before being dispatched. The plants are strong and healthy, ready to compete with weed seedlings and garden pests!
We grow all the plants ourselves in our glasshouse that we rent from the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Work is carried out by a team of growers including members of our workers’ cooperative and lots of local volunteers who support the project’s aim to see more food growing in London. Plants are taken from the glasshouses and acclimatised to the outdoors before being dispatched. The plants are strong and healthy, ready to compete with weed seedlings and garden pests!
Delivery:
We can deliver larger orders with options 1 and 2 above. Cost for delivery (to cover fuel and driver costs) from £10 depending on distance.
Bulk order discounts:
£200+ (5% off); £300+ (10% off); 400+ (15% off); £500+ (20% off)
Compost
We also sell a range of hand-made composts; seed compost, potting-on compost and organic garden compost.
On getting seedlings through Organiclea’s pre-order plants scheme:
“We’ve loved getting our seedlings and plants from Organiclea – from the friendly and convenient delivery to the variety and vigour of the plants, the service and the product have been excellent and I have recommended them to all the growers I know. This has saved us a lot of time and space which has been put to use on the people involved and the plants we already have. On top of that, it’s exciting to await their arrival, plus, if you are really keen you can even go and visit them growing up at Hawkwood. Importantly, we like to know that we are supporting a local cooperatively managed organisation.”
Alex Collings – gardening at Somerford and Shacklewell Estate, Hackney.
Along with many other accolades, this site was the winner of Capital Growth’s Edible Estate competition in 2010.
“We’ve loved getting our seedlings and plants from Organiclea – from the friendly and convenient delivery to the variety and vigour of the plants, the service and the product have been excellent and I have recommended them to all the growers I know. This has saved us a lot of time and space which has been put to use on the people involved and the plants we already have. On top of that, it’s exciting to await their arrival, plus, if you are really keen you can even go and visit them growing up at Hawkwood. Importantly, we like to know that we are supporting a local cooperatively managed organisation.”
Alex Collings – gardening at Somerford and Shacklewell Estate, Hackney.
Along with many other accolades, this site was the winner of Capital Growth’s Edible Estate competition in 2010.
Return your pots
Organiclea reuses plant pots. They can be returned to the Hawkwood Plant Nursery in Chingford, or the Hornbeam Centre in Walthamstow.
Adopt a fruit tree
Join Organiclea’s Orchard Project and help us plant over 200 fruit trees in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Click on the image for more information.
Page last updated on March 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm
