Description
Herb Mix Seeds by Seedball
Growing your own culinary herbs is even easier with seedballs and a great activity for all the family.
Seedballs are easy to sow and grow, they make seed sowing much easier for children and people with limited hand movement. Simply scatter the Seedballs from the Salad Mix Seedball tin in a sunny spot where you want them to grow and give them a good water. Keep an eye out for the seedlings and keep them moist but not wet until they start to grow. If you want more control, sow in autumn or winter, or want to make a salad container, or teach your little ones, you can sow 4 to 6 seedballs in a pot, leave 10cm between each seedball, give them a water and keep them moist but not wet and watch them grow in to tiny seedlings and then into yummy herbs to enhance your meals.
Sowing Times – All year round, outdoors in spring and summer or indoors on a windowsill autumn and winter
Picking times – All year round
Herb plants are great for pollinators you can let a couple of plants grow on to flower to help wildlife.
The Main Plant Species Included
Basil (Ocimum basilicum)
Aromatic annual or biennial with bright green, elliptic leaves and small, tubular white or pink-tinged flowers. The Latin word basileus means king: in ancient times these leaves were used to create perfumes for monarchs.
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
Allium are bulbous herbaceous perennials with a strong onion or garlic scent, linear, strap-shaped or cylindrical basal leaves and star-shaped or bell-shaped flowers in an umbel on a leafless stem.
Chives have a long history of use in the kitchen, with some recipes from China going back at least 5,000 years.
Dill (Anethum graveolens)
Its leaves are invaluable for cooking: its flowers for decorating salads and arranging, and its seeds for salads, baking and tagines.
Dill has been used for thousands of years, and in England in the 5th to 11th centuries it was used to treat headaches, stomach illness, boils and nausea, and other sickness.
Parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
Aromatic biennials with broad, pinnate to 3-pinnate leaves and compound umbels of small white or pale green flowers. There was an ancient belief that plucking a sprig of parsley while saying one’s enemy’s name would bring about the death of said enemy!
Sweet Marjoram (Origanum majorana)
Leaves and flowering sprigs are popular in Greek and Italian meat dishes, soups, stuffings, tomato sauces and pasta, where they are best used towards the end of the cooking process. It was once believed that marjoram helped to nurture love.
Recycling
The Herb Mix Seedball tin is ideal for reusing for keeping seeds and small bits and pieces or can be recycled at most recycling centres.
All our wildflower seed is for garden use only, not for scattering in the wild.
