Little Veggie Patch Heirloom Seeds - Calendula 'Pacific Beauty'

These vintage heirloom seeds are beautifully packaged and will add a touch of nostalgia and variety to your vegetable garden and dinner plate.

These vintage heirloom seeds are beautifully packaged and will add a touch of nostalgia and variety to your vegetable garden and dinner plate. Calendula flowers go great on a wall garden, in pots or in the ground.

Food use: A spicy and peppery flavour with a hint of citrus, use separated petals in pasta dough, salads and desserts.

How to plant: Use a free draining soil that has compost added or a quality potting mix when in a pot. Sow seeds direct to flower bed, must be well hydrated until germination.

Flowering season: Year round if you remove spent flowers.

When to plant (see zone map to find your zone):

Zone 1: February - April + September - November
Zone 2: January - May
Zone 3: March - June + August - October
Zone 4: March - October

Produced by the Little Veggie Patch Co, a small Melbourne-based business whose passion it is to help others live a greener lifestyle and grow their own food.

No postage to Western Australia.

Browse all our organic heirloom seeds.

Australia

Australia has diverse climatic zones from the tropical far north to the cold of Tasmania so there may be some tweaking for where you live. In general, the cooler months with less harsh sun is the time for:

• beans, broad beans and peas
• bulbs like onion, shallots, garlic
• Brassicas like broccoli, broccolini, cauliflower
• tomatoes, eggplant
• root vegetables like radish, beetroot, turnip and potato
• spinach, salad greens, silverbeet
• herbs, chives, coriander, parsley.

MOST IMPORTANT TIP: Just do it! Don't get caught up in not knowing what to do. Put some seeds in pots in a sunny spot and give it a go. Learn as you grow. Keep the water up and fertilise fortnightly with liquid seaweed.