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How a season goes

One box, all the way round

Seven steps, then it comes round again eight times a year.

Where your seedlings grow

From our grower to your garden.

Sown and raised under cover at a local, family-run nursery, then hardened off outside so they are ready for your garden the day they arrive.

Rows of lettuce and brassica seedlings under netting on blue hoops, hills behind
The tunnelsWhere every tray starts, sheltered from wind and frost.
The grower checking trays of young seedlings on a bench inside the greenhouse
The greenhouseWarm and steady while they put down roots.
A pak choi seedling in a compostable pot
Hardened offOut in the open air for their last week, so they don’t sulk when planted.
Seedlings in compostable pots, packed and ready to send, with a punnet of cherry tomatoes
Ready to goLabelled, potted and packed the week they should go in. How many you get depends on the box you choose.

This month’s box

What’s inside

How many of each, in which box

✓ one plant 2 two or more potted comes in its own pot

Swipe sideways to see every box.

A box for every patch

From a couple of pots on the deck to a bed that is overflowing.
Skip or change any send, any time.

Or build your own, 2 to 30 plants

Box for box

Once it’s in the ground

Your patch, and what to cook from it

Your dashboard tracks everything you are growing and roughly how far along it is. When something is ready, the meal planner shows meals that use it — put a few on the week and the shopping list writes itself.

ExampleMy GardenWeek of 1 December · October box
  • Red CaesarLettuceReady now
  • Ruby RedSilverbeetReady now
  • Santana BabySpinachReady now
  • Snow ShirazPeasAbout 10 days
  • Chinese One KiloCabbageAbout 3½ weeks
Cook this week from what is ready
  • Katsu chicken, made with lettuce from your boxKatsu Chicken35 min · uses your lettuce
  • Chickpea and spinach curry, made with silverbeet from your boxChickpea & Spinach Curry30 min · uses your silverbeet
  • Macaroni cheese with silverbeet from your boxMacaroni Cheese with Silverbeet35 min · uses your silverbeet
Shopping list: 21 items to buy for the three meals. Lettuce and silverbeet are already ticked off, because you grew them.

There is more to it — how your patch is tracked, what happens when nothing is ready, and where the recipes come from.

See how the planner works

Your growing year, month by month

Eight sends a year, each timed to what grows best that month. We rest while it is too hot to transplant in December and January, and too cold in June and July, so every plant you get has its best start.

The first fifty

Questions people actually ask