Boondie Seeds

02/06/2019

Winter SALE! 5 days only, 150+ varieties! 🌻🤩https://www.boondieseeds.com.au/collections/sale?page=1

25/07/2017

Spinach alternative for tropical climates - ceylon spinach / malabar spinach
This climber is a real beauty in the garden, easy to grow and perfect for subtropical and tropical climates or even just to grow in most climates during the Summer when English spinach finds it too hot.

The plant produces strange spike flowers that turn into berries - the berries aren't so good for eating but the beautiful colour is an excellent natural dye. Harvesting the seeds made for some very pink hands 😆

Leaves are best when cooked and I recommend adding some salt to balance out the flavour but otherwise they can be substituted in most dishes. I made spinach and feta turnovers with ceylon spinach and no one could tell the difference!

17/06/2017

Lots of Kale ready to pick in the garden at the moment. It's a great low care plant and one of the few things that grows happily here from Spring all the way into the frosty winter.
And most importantly, excellent to eat! Here's a quick and easy Kale salad I put together, only took a few minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:

Kale leaves
1/2 of a Red Onion
1/4 cup dried Cranberries
1/4 cup toasted slivered almonds
Broccoli or broccolini
Optional - sliced apple
Dressing of choice - we used honey mustard but most creamy type dressings will go.

Remove the thicker part of the stem and roughly chop the kale leaves. Toast the slivered almonds and chop up the cranberries and red onion. Cut off the flower heads / florets from the raw broccoli and add everything in. Thinly sliced apple can also be added. Top with your dressing, toss together and voila! 😋

14/04/2017

Super stoked to be featured by Swym Shopping in their customer showcase😊😁 Thanks to Nisha and everyone on the Wishlist team at Swym💚💚

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04/03/2017

Garlic Bulbs now available!

We've got a limited number of 'Italian Pink' garlic bulbs available in store, perfect variety for warmer climate zones like northern NSW and QLD. We also have some comfrey root cuttings available, ready for planting now🌱

https://www.boondieseeds.com.au/collections/plants-tubers

19/01/2017

New + Back in stock!

Its not too late for frost free climates to get some last minutes plants in before the cool season comes around, here are some great new items to try-

17/01/2017

Stumbled on this tasty looking recipe, great use for spaghetti squash! Whenever I grow them I always seem to end up with more spaghetti squashes than I know what to do with :)

09/10/2016

Yacon haul! I dug up the yacon patch last weekend and ended up with a huge bag full of tubers and whole other bag full of rhizomes to plant. I've planted a few and the rest are now available in my store -
http://www.boondieseeds.com.au/YACON_Peruvian_Ground_Apple_Rhizome_Plant_p/yacon.htm
$5.00 for 2-3 rhizomes

If any one knows any recipes I'd love to hear them, I've tried them in stir fry and baked but I've got a whole bag to use so I could use some new ideas! :)

03/07/2016

Digging up what I thought was an empty bed last week, I found a whole lot of potatoes from last season still hiding in there :) There's some Purple sapphire (with beautiful purple flesh), Royal Blue, Pink fir apple and King Edward. Potatoes are really easy to grow, you just need some well worked soil at least 30cm deep, you can even use large containers or tubs. Start them when there is no risk of frost:

Cool climates - After last frost August-October
Temperate Climates - Mid July - October
Warm / Tropical climates - April-July

They can also be stored somewhere cool and dark for a month or two until you're ready to plant.

I've got a bunch of tasty potato dishes planned but I've put rest in my store and I've also divided up some Turmeric and Lemon Grass for planting, available now.

http://www.boondieseeds.com.au/category_s/1883.htm

23/06/2016

My baby leaf salad tub is coming along nicely!
Salad greens are easy to grow at this time of year in most frost free climates (or sheltered in frosty climates) and perfect for pots. Everything from spinach, rocket, lettuce, endive, mizuna, radicchio and even beetroot leaves can be used.
These ones are about 3 weeks old, I'll cut them for baby leaves at about 4-5 weeks and allow a few weeks regrowth before cutting again.

07/06/2016

Back in Stock-

We've got limited stock available of some rare seeds and some other great varieties are back as well:

Black flowered broad bean
Crimson flowered broad bean
Purple Podded pea
Golden Podded pea
ROCKMELON 'Prescott Fond Blanc'
ROCKMELON 'Delice de la table'
ASPARAGUS 'Sweet Purple'
Tomato 'Sweetie'
Capsicum 'Mini Sweet Mix'
Cauliflower 'Mini'
Cabbage 'Mini'

30/05/2016

Winter has come!

The weather is getting colder but there is still plenty to grow:

For cold frosty climates, try growing parsnip, broccoli, carrots, beetroot, silverbeet, kale, onion and leeks.
Temperate climates can grow all those as well as pea, spinach, most greens like rocket and lettuce and many of our annual flowers as well.
Sub/tropical climates can grow all of the above as well as most of our annual flowers, beans and zucchini.

Get 15% off all orders over $10.00 on our website www.boondieseeds.com.au just enter WINTER15 in the discount box in the checkout (valid until 30/6/16).