Ordering, Delivery & P&P:
We try to cover shipping costs without overcharging you. Postage starts at:
Normal P&P, second class: £3.00
Fully Tracked, first class: £4.50
If your order is high-value or contains heavy/bulky things, these increase slightly.
Reduced rates can be chosen if you are low-waged or unwaged.
Minimum Order is £8 + P&P, and all seed requests are subject to our Terms and Conditions
Delivery Times
Things on the website are tuly in stock now – we never take orders in advance or send them out later in the season.
We’ll send out your order as soon as possible, normally it’s in the post within 3 working days.
After that, it’s up to Royal Mail. Second class seems to take about a week to get to you. First class tracked about 2-4 days.
Paying by Card:
Your card will be processed by Sagepay-Opayo. It is safe – we don’t ever see your card details, just a credit to our account with a list of what seeds you bought.
Please note – we (quite rightly!) can’t change how much is charged to your card after you’ve authorised with your bank. So you really can’t add things to your order once you’ve checked out.
Sorry – No Foreign Orders
EU orders – stopped due to Brexit.
We sadly cannot ship to Europe any more. As we have left the EU, every order would require official inspection and testing at a cost of £150 even if we were registered for it, which we are not.
No orders to USA or Other Countries outside Europe!
We’re really sorry but we really cannot ship anywhere outside the UK.
For all the Americans who still keep trying to order seeds by setting their country to UK, please stop. It doesn’t work.
Your seeds will be not be sent because it would be illegal for us to post them to you, and if we did they would be destroyed by US customs.
Note it costs us money and time to refund your card and sort out your order on our system.
Disappointed we can’t send seed to you?
Here are some other excellent suppliers to try instead:
It really is better to buy seeds locally within your country – they will be selected to do well
in your climate, rather than ours, and you will be supporting local businesses.
Some particular companies that we know of who offer a good range of locally grown open pollinated seeds include
Ireland – Brown Envelope Seeds
and also the Irish Seed Savers Association
France – Biau Germe seed cooperative
and of course Kokopelli
Spain – Plantaromed – ecologically grown seeds produced near Málaga
Austria – Reinsaat seeds
Germany – Bingenheimer seeds , Sativa seeds
Excellent seed in the United States – try our friends at Adaptive Seeds or Seedsavers Exchange
Ordering by Post
We cannot accept postal orders or phone orders – the ONLY way to order seeds is online from this website.
PAPER CATALOGUES
We’re sorry, but our last paper catalogue was in 2014, this is sad (the paper catalogue was really nice), but fewer and fewer people had been using the paper version, and it is a huge project producing and maintaining it each year.
This website also works very much better with our rare and limited stock seed, as we can have real time stock control, meaning that you shouldn’t be disappointed by ordering something that then turns out to be sold out.
