The wait is over, the Basil has rooted sufficiently and put on enough top growth to be ready for sale 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #basil #peatfree #horticulture

Birdsong and ducklings. Because why would you need anything else? #chalkstream #nature #springtime #chawton

Such a beautiful Herb 💙🌱

Helen made us a lemon and thyme cake for break time the other day. It was absolutely delicious and a fab combination! #flowers #herbs #cake #baking 🌱

One from the archives - just enjoying the chamomile in a polytunnel 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature

When you’re using a bale a day, those peat free compost deliveries need to keep turning up 🌱🇬🇧 #flowers #herbs #allotment #horticulture

It’s lovely to see the nursery so nice and full of herb plants 🌱

It’s time… 🌱🇬🇧 We’re potting up the Basil 🙌🏻 #herbs #flowers #horticulture #basil

It’s not just herbs that grow here 🌱🇬🇧 These are very happy in the greenhouse - can anyone id them for me? #spiders #nature

Just another day on the nursery, ending by loading the vans for tomorrow’s deliveries of peat free herbs 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #allotment #nature

Sorrel’s raring to go again and smiling because there’s another busy week ahead here on the nursery 🌱🇬🇧

Those crazy looking, Rasta parrot tulips are now open and enjoying the sunshine #flowers #bloomscrolling #tulips 🌱🇬🇧

I love a local market and am heading into Alton today, just a mile from the nursery, to sell at our farmers’ market. The herbs are packed, it’s going to stay dry and it’s the perfect time of year to get out in the garden 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #hampshire #peatfree

Chocolate vine flowers in the garden 🌱🇬🇧 #flowers

A few of the mint varieties we have available to buy online at the minute 🌱🇬🇧

Pest control in the polytunnels 🌱🇬🇧

All set up in Guildford High St outside of The Angel Hotel, an old coaching inn from before Henry XIII’s times 🌱🇬🇧

I’m not sure what I planted but they’re looking rather wonderful already 🌱🇬🇧 #flowers #tulips #spring

It was a beautiful day, selling herb plants at the Chiswick flower market in London today 🌱🇬🇧

Beautiful little Mint cuttings, taken from anything with enough material on it at this time of year 🌱🇬🇧 #peatfree #herbs #horticulture

All ready for tomorrow’s events: Sam will be in Petersfield the Farmers’ Market Neil and I will be in Chiswick for the Flower Market 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #peatfree

All ready for tomorrow’s events: Sam will be in Petersfield the Farmers’ Market Neil and I will be in Chiswick for the Flower Market 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #peatfree

It’s very busy on the nursery - with a steady stream of herbs being delivered to the packing barn for prepping and labelling then delivery out to our lovely garden centre customers 🌱🇬🇧 #horticulture #peatfree #herbs #flowers

A handful of fresh coriander? 😂 #herbs #coriander #cilantro 🌱🇬🇧

Every day is a picking herb orders day for Abby on the nursery… #peatfree #herbs #horticulture 🌱🇬🇧

It’s been two weeks since these Basil seeds were sown… 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #basil #peatfree

Meanwhile in the garden and absolutely covered in flowers, Exochorda x Macrantha ‘The Bride’ 🌱🇬🇧 #flowers #blossom

Ending each day with trolleys of herbs all ready to be delivered 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #peatfree #horticulture

Sam’s all set up in Winchester today with a wonderful selection of our herb plants 🌱 🇬🇧 #farmersmarket #herbs

The multispan is pretty full too 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #peatfree #horticulture

All growing on beautifully 🌱🇬🇧 #horticulture #herbs #flowers #peatfree

Where some of the magic happens 🌱🇬🇧

The colour of some of the herbs we were potting up today… 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #orach #saladleaves

Neil and Sam, keeping it all chugging along at Pepperpot now we’re in our incredibly busy phase here on the nursery 🌱🇬🇧 #familybusiness #horticulture #herbs

Our little peach tree, that Neil’s fan training against a south facing wall - photos from yesterday and two years ago, sometimes its good to look back to see how far you’ve come on 🌱🇬🇧 #fruittrees #peaches #frutales #fblossom

What a difference a week makes 🌱🇬🇧 It’s the time of year when we have to start sowing the Basils, regardless of the weather outside. It needs sun & 10c at night to survive, so we wait for root & top growth & for the weather to improve before potting them up - & then pray to the weather gods 😁 #herbs

Helen made the most delicious orange and rosemary cake for break time at work today 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #cake

The beauty of the Lavant stream, here in Chawton 💚 #chalkstream #hampshire 🌱🇬🇧

Springtime in Chawton, just up the lane from the nursery. Chawton house, the home of Jane Austen’s brother and in the village where she also lived 🌱🇬🇧 #janeausten #chawton #spring

Here comes the French Tarragon, back from its dormant stage, outside in a raised bed - when we weren’t expecting to see any after such a wet winter! 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers

This is why you tend to plant Mint in pots. It will die off over winter but then you can split it and/or pot it up to give it space to grow on, and a feed as it’s obviously very vigorous. Worth doing mid season too, along with cutting it back - if it’s looking spindly and starved 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers

Wild Garlic flowers 🤍 Edible, garlicky, what’s not to love? And be quick, they won’t be around for much longer 🌱🌱🇬🇧 #wildgarlic #herbs #flowers #fridayflowers

Some shameless self-promotion again: I released some new Sherbet Chocolate Truffles on my shop. 🍫✨ Three new flavours have joined the collection: Sour Apple, Rhubarb & Custard, and Dandelion & Burdock. The Easter chocolates are also still available! Reshares always appreciated. Thanks!

The spring equinox is here and the tulips are so happy 🌱🇬🇧 #flowers #springequinox #bloomscrolling

Oh these cold nights… Not much needs to be fleeced at this time of year but it’s worth covering the little seedlings when the temp is dropping to 1c overnight. #seeds #herbs #flowers #peatfree

White Rosemary flowers 🌱🇬🇧 #flowers #herbs

Our new team member has finally arrived and we’re getting to grips with what they’re capable of 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers

When Mint just doesn’t want to be contained. When it would prefer to escape and run from its roots 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #peatfree

Wrapped and ready to head to RHS plant centres across England 🌱🇬🇧 All #peatfree #herbs grown by us here in Hampshire 🪴👌

The Foxtail Rosemary was looking beautiful in the polytunnel yesterday - it’s one of my favourites, a dense, low growing and arching form that’s gets covered in beautiful flowers and has a great flavour and fragrance too! 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #peatfree