Story: Patch to Plate
Episode: 6
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Air Date: 9th September

Neville has never been more aware of the value of the seeds in a single packet and shares exactly how to make the best of each and every one.

• Packet seeds are a low-cost way to grow your own produce. You can grow many plants from one packet, and they are generous, giving you multiple harvests. One packet of seeds that costs only a few dollars can yield thousands of dollars’ worth of produce.
• Supermarket produce is often picked early to travel long distances, lowering the taste, quality and shelf life. Home-grown produce can be allowed to ripen fully and doesn’t have far to travel from patch to plate.
• If you purchase a bunch from the supermarket, you’re up for around $3.20 for a bunch, and it usually needs consuming within a few days. Conversely, a $4.15 packet of 1000 Italian Parsley seeds may yield up to 8,000 bunches, or $25,600 of parsley.
• Ongoing harvest varieties such as tomato, cucumber, and zucchini are particularly generous producers and may yield anywhere from 10 to 40 fruit per plant. Multiply that by the number of seeds in a packet and the average supermarket price per fruit and your seed packet may produce upward of $1000 worth of produce.
• Mr. Fothergill’s has the widest range of packet seeds all year-round including varieties that are expensive or impossible to find at the supermarket. Grow your favourites with Mr. Fothergill’s seeds.

For more information, head to:
https://www.mrfothergills.com.au