Win a handmade Oak & Rope Seed Packet Tidy worth £65!
I’ve been given an oak ‘Seed Packet Tidy’ by The Oak & Rope Company.
And I liked it so much I asked the company to give you one, too.
The Oak & Rope Seed Packet Tidy – a handsome and practical way of keeping seeds you sow over the summer.
Many seeds – especially vegetables – need to be sown successionally, or later in the year. I forget about them when they’re tucked away in a box or drawer.
So this Seed Packet Tidy (£65 from Oak & Rope) is great – I can see what needs to be sown next. The seed packets really do prop up easily, and you can fit loads in. And it’s a very attractive addition to your desk or potting shed.
Hand-carved solid wood furniture and gifts
The Oak & Rope Company make a range of hand-crafted gifts and furniture out of oak. Their pieces can be personalised with the message or name of your choice.
And the rest of the garden range includes swings, benches and signs, along with the seed packet tidy, planters and a beautiful teak sun lounger.
Teak sun lounger in the Adirondack style, with a detachable footstool and armrests for drinks. £595 plus up to 80 letters of your choice hand-carved. They also sell a wide range of hand-carved oak desk tidies and organisers.
Oak & Rope Planters: Large ones cost £695 plus up to 60 letters engraved, medium sized are £595 plus up to 60 letters engraved.
These beautiful oak planters have interiors painted with thick rubberised sealant and the bottom is slatted in balau wood for drainage.
If you’re looking for personalised gifts, you can have messages or names inscribed on their products. These are included in the price of some items, and cost extra for others – check The Oak & Rope Company website for details.
To win the Oak & Rope Company Seed Packet Tidy
Either leave a comment on this post, telling us which flowers or vegetables you like to grow from seed.
Or share this post on Twitter. And, if you’re reading this on Facebook, simply ‘like’ the post to enter.
Competition ends May 14th 2017 at midnight.
And good luck! It really is both delightful and useful. We run Wednesday giveaways during the summer – if you want to be sure of catching one, sign up to receive the Middlesized Garden by email (in the box, top right). Thank you!
This competition has now closed. The Oak & Rope Seed Packet Tidy was won by Sue Tulloch.
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I am excited to grow runner beans on my next crop rotation! :) My favourite veggie
I’m excited about growing coriander from seed for the first time! I’m also growing basil, chives, rocket & lettuce, all from seed :)
Usually colourful annuals but this year we are going to try growing some perennials from seed
Tomatoes, my favourites to grow every year. The most beautiful scent, that brings back many happy memories of being a child and helping my granddad in his greenhouse.
tomatoes
Amaryllis, cosmos, tomatoes, radish, lettuce
Tomatoes :)
I like to grow tomatoes and strawberries, it’s my hope to grow masses of lavender :)
we grow many veg and herbs.. tomatoes, radish, beetroot, pumpkin, beans,
I’m currently potting up tomato seedlings I’ve grown from seed and I have either oranges or apples sprouting. I don’t know which because I forgot to label them!
Tomatoes & Chilies!
I would grow tomatoes
Love to grow Spinach in the veg patch, so easy! and Hollyhocks from seed in the borders
We have just pricked out our courgette seedlings – they are easy to grow and we get lots of courgettes and have also sowed some patty pan squash seeds for the first time.
I love to grow sunflowers with the kiddies. My favourite are sweet peas.
spring onions.
I always get most pleasure from growing tomatoes. Delicious,red,ripe vine tomatoes
I love growing tomatoes, courgettes and broad beans as they’re my favourites but I have to grow sunflowers as I don’t think it’s Summer without beautiful sunflowers towering over my garden!
my boys have a little veggie patch of their own & love to grow new & exciting food to try! this year they are trying blue potatoes, stripy tomatoes and yellow/purple french beans :)
What fun!
runner beans
At the moment grow radishes, tomatoes and cucumber, geranium cuttings, marigolds, broad beans, potatoes and more
Most vegetables – beans, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, parsnips, beetroot, cucumbers and lots of green salads.
You can’t beat sunflowers for a spectacular show and fast results!
courgettes! they grow so quickly!
The should have said courgettes, I don’t even smoke!
Tomatoes, cigarettes and a few different types of lettuce.
Ha ha! I love predictive texting, so many opportunities for misunderstanding.
I love to grow pak choi, beetroot & lettuce veggies, also sunflowers & sweetpeas :)
We moved into a new home last year, so this is our first Spring in the new house and I’m an ambitious (but novice) grower! So currently, we’re growing radishes, spinach and lettuce which we are currently eating and enjoying right now! I’ve also planted some broccoli, kale, coriander, strawberries and other herbs. I plan to grow some sweetcorn as my kids LOVED this last year. And tomatoes, peppers and chillies which we all love. This will be my first year trying to grow cucumbers so I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for that one!
That sounds like a great list.
This is just our first year growing from seed but so far french beans and sweet beans have been the most successful but it is still early days yet.
I love growing tomatoes from seed in my greenhouse
I love growing roses and tulips in my garden
I will have a try with anything, although i have a lot to learn, but enjoy x
Anything that fills the garden with colour- our garden was overgrown, we cleared it and were left with a large empty space. Buying in enough plants wasn’t an option so lots of seeds – flowers, and veg was the answer and slowly it’s becoming more of the plantsmans retreat that I wanted.
Love to grow corn as it looks big and impressive
I like to grow marigolds and tomatoes
I love to grow Nicotiana. Particularly the lime green and red ones which look great together!
Sweet peas – they are my favourite flowers!
Bit of Mark Diacono fan here – I like to grow the stuff that’s so much better fresh so edamame beans, physalis, Hinonmaki gooseberries. I’m also growing some lovely Telekia speciosa seeds given to me by Philippa Burroughs after a GMG visit to her garden last year. The link to the Oak & Rope company website has made me wish that I was a lot wealthier than I am! Lovely seed holder, so much nicer than my plastic tub.
Edamame beans! Must look into that.
I love growing tomatoes and peas!
We like to grow tomatoes and strawberries
I like growing garlic, tomatoes, and mushrooms.
I’m growing sweetpeas, cosmos and sunflowers for cut flowers and in the veg plot I’m growing salad and red flowered broad beans. All the best. Karen
we like growing peas and carrots
This year. We are growing asparagus peas – they look very pretty and you steam the whole pod and eat,served with butter. Hopefully they’ll Beas tasty as they look!
I love growing beetroots and courgettes from seeds I love enjoying them oven roasted. As for flowers Cosmos, Cornflowers, Zinnia, Sweet Peas. Sorry its just too difficult to choose one flower :)
Angela – Garden Tea Cakes and Me
What a lovely prize, I like to sow sweet peas & tomatoes from seed. One to eat, one to sniff.
This year I’m mainly growing French beans, peas & sweetcorn. What a gorgeous seed tidy, much nicer than the old box I keep mine in now.
I’ve grown Sweet Peas, Carrots and Spring Onions from seed this year xx
sweet peas, honesty, herbs, tomatoes and cucumbers – l would like to be more adventurous this year though
I grow tomatoes and herbs
I grow strawberries from seed
I’m busy growing edible flowers like nasturtiums, calendula, cornflowers and heartsease and this year I’m having a go at a cutting garden with sweet peas, ammi majus and cosmos as a mainstay as they never let me down.
I like to grow lots of different flowers and vegetables from seed as it allows you to try different varieties that you can’t get from the supermarket. This year I’m growing purple kohl rabi for the first time.
I love growing beetroot from seed. And then making the most delicious beetroot and goats cheese risotto…
My favourite flowers to grow from seed are dwarf sunflowers! I have lots just poking through now in their pots in our greenhouse. My favourite is Big Smile :-) I also love growing poppies too :-)
LOVE to grow all flowers from seed but vegatables from seedlings
I like to grow courgettes from seed, last year they were really successful. I always struggle with carrots though, not sure what I do wrong! My little boy is enjoying growing Sunflowers, Nasturtiums and Alyssum with his grandma this year.
I’m growing some Tomatoes, Chillis & broad beans from seed
Sweet peas and morning glory, so easy but really rewarding with their blooms
I love growing my own spring onions
I like to grow tomatoes.
I like to grow mints
I would love to try and grow Cucumber from seeds, my other favourite is Sunflowers
Sweet peas and poppies, they remind me of my dad
I’d love to grow some tomatoes.
I would like to start growing my own lettice to start with as I don’t have a very big garden. Also am trying to grown potatoes in pots too.
Although I’m Gardner by name I’m not a Gardener by nature.
I’d grow some Geraniums as they’re the only thing I don’t kill in my very sunny flower bed!
Fingers crossed ❤️
I love to grow tomato’s they are so versatile and easy to grow
Tromboncino courgettes…..weirdly wonderful and tasty too!
I love growing butternut squash
I would love to plant cosmos, runner beans and cornflowers from seed in my new raised bed which needs filling
We are growing interesting coloured veg this year. Purple carrots, and purple Brussels, striped tomatoes and yellow courgettes. We extremely excited about it!
This year we are growing, Carrots, Courgettes, Garlic, Lettuce, Spring onions, Tomatoes, Parsnips, Red Onions, Potatoes, French beans and some herbs. The children love it. I’m also having a go at developing the flower beds with some Azaleas, Roses and Lupins. Busy gardening year so far! It’s wonderful.
I’m a herb fanatic so I can’t move for seedling trays at the moment. When it comes to flowers and veg, I’m a bit of a kid who loves growing sunflowers and always grow a few tomato plants each year.
love to grow chives!
I like to grow sunflowers with my daughter
I’ve only just got into gardening but this year have grown from seed runner beans, tomatoes, strawberries and sunflowers
Tomato and potato in bucket we grow, I’m hoping I can get a small plot at my parents house for vegetables growing this year
Petunias and marigolds
Love fresh ‘properly’ ripe tomatoes home grown!
I love to grow Sunflowers with the kids – we have a competition to see who’s grows the tallest & then we get lots of food for the birds and to supplement our rabbits food
Spring onions
I love to grow all sorts of veg, fruit and flowers but my favourite have to be home grown strawberries
Love growing peas and beans, get great results
I like to grow tomatoes, but I’m branching out this year and am growing cucumbers, aubergines and Brussels sprouts. Wish me luck…
We like to grow tomatoes, beans and occasionally cabbage from seed. So cheap to buy and so much help for the family food budget.
I love to grow courgettes, beans and tomatoes for my allotment, as well as Cosmos for my garden.
I am growing 4 types of cosmos – purity, dazzler, psyche white, click cranberries, blue nigella, salvia viridis blue and pink and calendula sunset buff from seed for my cutting patch. Also a selection of salad leaves sown regularly from now till autumn. What an absolutely beautiful object the Oak and Rope seedbox is. Thanks for the chance of winning one Alexandra.
I like to grow spinach, kale, lettuce, basil, coriander, carrots, rocket….things I can eat. It is so pleasurable just picking and cooking straight from your own garden.
sweet peas, peas, carrots and various salads. Oh and cosmos
Gotta be poppies for me.
We grow tomatoes, courgettes and a variety of peppers
I like to grow tomatoes and also sunflowers.
i love trying to grow lots, at moment i have peppers, tomatoes, cosmos and courgettes on the go!
Pumpkins and seeetcorn
My mum grows all the vegetables she can! Courgettes, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage,, sweetcorn, beetroot amongst other things and I would love to grow my own too.
some lovely tomatoes and radishes too
I like to grow tomatos and also flowers like daffodils.
want to grow jalapeno
Excellent choice. So do I.
Growing spring onions , radishes & tomatoes
Lovely.
We grow a selection of vegetables from seed including different types of tomatoes (salad, cherry, plum, yellow), lettuce and cress. We also grow potatoes, carrots, cabbage, leeks and turnip!
An excellent veg garden.
Gardeners Delight tomatoes
Lovely
I grow all of my own vegetables from seed as I have an allotment. I try and do so organically so grow marigolds for my tomatoes and nasturtiums to stop the black flies attacking my beans. I also grow flowers for picking, mainly sweetpeas and other annuals to brighten the beds.
I do marigolds and nasturtiums for the same reason. It does seem to work, on the whole.
SWEET PEAS
Beautiful.
I would just love this
Thank you for commenting!
I like to grow radish from seed
Thank you. I do, too.
I like growing sunflowers and nasturtiums because they’re easy and quick to grow, great for children.
Great choices.
The seed tidy looks very nice indeed! Well, this year I’m growing a selection of Cosmos, not very adventurous, but I don’t mind! I’ve also got some gaps in the garden which I’m going to fill with Achillea sibirica var. camtschatica, ‘Love Parade’ which are coming along nicely. Erigeron karvinskianus and Hordeum jubatum are faves, and I’m yet to sow my Zinnia ‘Envy’, which I’m going to sow direct next month.
They sound fab.
cottage garden flowers – nigella, cornflower ……
Love them!
How seed sowingly super!
very much so.
I grow main!y vegetables from seed and some annual flowers. Veggies are mainly salad for summer but I do grow my own garlic and onions. I love annual rudebeckia and grow three or more varieties for autumn colour.
Three kinds of rudbeckias sounds like a great idea.
Hello.. I love to grow Runner Beans and Cosmos from seed . They are surprisingly easy to get right, and the end result always amazes me. In fact I don’t buy runner beans through out the year as I would rather wait to have them from my garden. The waiting adds to the anticipation and enjoyment. Cosmos – any colour, especially ‘bipinnatus Purity’ (white) gives any bed or flower put an instant shot of joy. They make me feel like a gardening goddess!
Me too – you can’t beat fresh runner beans from the garden.
We like to grow courgettes to marvel at the sheer volume of produce you can get from one seed. And you cannot beat cress grown out of empty egg shells……….
Courgettes are really great value in the garden, I agree.