Grow Your Own Potatoes With The Kids! - Jun 26, 2025
Dear gardening friends
We have an amazing selection of Roses right now.
This season we've potted up hundreds of David Austin Roses and we've grouped them all together so it's easy for you to find them.
One of my favourites is Roald Dahl's Rose. It has these spectacular orange red buds that open up with these amazing petalicious blooms that smell like a perfume bottle.
It has healthy foliage and less thorns than other roses so it's friendly for children and pets. It can be grown in a very large pot using Tim's Best Potting mix.
Come and see our spectacular rose selection today because the best varieties always sell out first.
Special offer!!!! It's Rose Pruning season. Bring your secateurs and we will sharpen them for you, while you look at our Roses. We have a fabulous sharpener here and it only takes 5 mins.
All our Roses are potted so you don't have to rush and plant them, they will stay in the pots for months.
When you're planting your Roses don't fertilise them with Rose Food. Dig Tim's Cow manure into your soil instead. It improves your soil and helps break down clay. Roses absolutely love it.
It's time to plant Potatoes and you don't even have to own a garden, because you can grow them in a big pot. There's a secret way to grow them, so you get more Potatoes.
Fill your pot up with only 1/3 of Tim's Best Potting mix. Plant your seed potatoes just below soil level and water them. They will sprout within 10-14 days.
When they've grown 15cms put more Tim's Best Potting mix into your pot, and cover the stems. Allow the tips to show through. Water well, then let them grow and cover the new growth again.
The Potato plants sprout more potatoes from the stems. You trick the plants into growing more Potatoes. It's so easy, it's crazy. Get your children growing Potatoes and they will learn to love growing things.
We have pots, Tims Best Potting mix and Seed Potatoes here now. Hayden is growing Potatoes at the nursery. Come see his display and talk to him about which variety to grow!!!!!
Even I get surprised how big Cyclamen can grow, when you pot them up into bigger pots!!! We've got the biggest Cyclamen on the planet. I could stand out on the front lawn with one of these and I'd look like The Statue of Liberty.
Nobody pots Cyclamen on, everyone thinks well this is how big Cyclamen grow, but it's not true. Cyclamen are just warming up. Pot them up into 200mm pots using Tim's Best Potting mix and grow them outside in the cold.
Yes Cyclamen are Corms, they grow in winter when it's cold, put them inside in a heated room, and they think winter is over. They go into dormancy, the leaves turn yellow, the corm rots, the plant can't take up water, it drops dead. You've killed another one.
Grow them outside where they get morning sun. Water them just as the leaves think about drooping, probably a big drink once a week.
You'll be amazed what happens. Your Cyclamen grows bigger and bigger. It's like the Gold fish when the boy fed it too much, and it ends up in a swimming pool.
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We have amazing Cyclamen here now. I'll show you my mum's Cyclamen that I gave her for Mother's Day. They are growing outside, they look amazing.
Cyclamen aren't indoor plants!!!
Put them outside, they don't need an Onkaparinga.
One of our followers sent me this photo of his Aloe. Mathew is very proud of this spectacular looking plant.
An Aloe expert thinks it's a variety called Aloe "Eager Beaver". It's hard to find in nurseries, you might find it at the Plant Collector's Fair.
But it's very similar to another variety called Aloe Tangerine tree, which we have in stock. These spectacular flowering plants come from Africa.
They look amazing growing in big pots and they almost look after themselves. They flower through winter when just about every other plant goes on holidays.
There is a nursery in QLD called Aloe Aloe and they are breeding new varieties so you can start your own collection. We have a smaller growing variety here called "Moonglow". The flowers are bright yellow.
We've discovered they grow beautifully using Tim's Best Potting mix. Come see our selection.
We've just potted them up so you don't have to.
You still have time to grow Winter Vegetables.
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Garlic, Silverbeet, Broccoli, Lettuce, Carrots, Onions and Peas. Gardening in winter is easier.
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The Red Scarfs are back!!!!!! I've had the Scarf factory in full production again this week, it was freezing. Come get one, $10.00, bargain.
Happy gardening
Tim