Native Seed in Restoration Workshop
The Society for Ecological Restoration are presenting this workshop.
Recommendations for collecting wild flower seed from the wild
Collecting wild flower seed from the wild is one way to get fresh seed. There are a few considerations for those adventerous enough to try it out. If it’s native seed you’re looking for, how do you find out if the population you’ve spotted is actually native? To find out …
Planting out 2021
So planting out in the field has begun for 2021. It was a tough start – or non start until this week due to the drought. The cold weather is alright for our wild flowers after we hardened the plugs off first.Annuals are going in now, they’re the ones needing …
Frequently requested answers
To feed or not to feed? So, a little biology first. Plants love food – nutrients and water, without exception. The reason some people think wild flowers prefer less nutrition is because the widespread amenity grasses that they often have to compete with thrive on extra nitrogen and other nutrients …
Autumn sowings
We can take our cue from nature. Most perennial plants and many annuals can be sown at the time of natural dispersal of the parent in the wild. In the case of perennials start them off now and under protection from the worst of the winter weather, your babies will …
Native seed production
Volunteers have been keeping field crops alive and weeded. The drought over the spring hit hard and both plug planting and seed sowing had to stop. Thankfully the rain has come back and coinciding well, more volunteers have been able to start emerging and now recently we stood outside in …
Spring has sprung
Explore the definition between seed production and seed banking at True Harvest Seeds and see how you can help.
Ballynature Day 2020
True Harvest Seeds were here Here’s our stand at Ballynature Day 2020 with the lovely volunteers, Ciera and Debbie. Mark was there helping too behind the camera. True Harvest Seeds were very happy to be able to offer 35 different species of individual seed packets for sale. If you missed …
Conservation of endangered plants
Conservation of endangered plants A group of young volunteer students from Downpatrick visited True Harvest Seeds last Friday. They came to help us and our partners Strangford Lough and Lecale Partnership continue important conservation of endangered plants. Together we are helping save two coastal plants, Sea Kale – Crambe maritima …
Harvesting the seeds
Harvests are almost all in, just a few stragglers. Shop is on its way as soon as we can make it happen. We expect it will be open in time for Christmas :). Here’s a pic of us in spring, isn’t spring just lovely!!