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Seeds of success

“We’re emulating the natural conditions that seeds need, but we’re stealing a march on nature by providing them earlier”

Here at Glebe Cottage we sow seeds throughout the year, but it’s now, in February, that sowing starts in earnest. With spring on the way and full of optimism, we clear our little greenhouse of tools and move the overwintering salvias and eucomis to our polytunnel, in preparation for one of the main events of our growing year. But you don’t need a

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