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Join the Diggers Club and get your garden growing
We believe that everyone can have a garden that is not only productive, but beautiful as well. For 40 years we have worked to find the best plants for Australian gardens. As a Diggers Club member, you'll be given all the help you need to succeed in the garden.
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Special 2 year membership offer - Free Spring Vegie Seed Pack When You Join!
Join The Diggers Club today for two years and you'll receive 4 free packets of some of our best heirloom vegetable seeds to get your garden growing; Spring Onion Red, Carrot ‘St Valery’, Broccoli ‘Romanesco’ and Silverbeet ‘Fordhook’. You'll also receive our 'Welcome to the Club' gift pack of 2 free packets of seeds, the current Diggers magazine as well as a copy of the Seed Annual; a complete list of our heirloom vegetable seeds and cottage flowers.
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This month in the garden
Get excited about spring!
Diggers bumper 2018-2019 Heirloom Annual and yearly seed directory is out now! Full of all the heirloom seeds you’ll want to plant for the next 12 months, keep it as a handy reference all year to help you plan and plant your best vegie garden ever! Find out what to sow and what to grow in your garden this month: Cool Zone, Warm Zone, Hot Zone, Subtropical Zone or Tropical Zone.
It's time to plant bare root fruit and vegies
Winter is the best time to plant new bare root fruit trees as well as bare root perennial vegies like asparagus, rhubarb and strawberries. Bare root plants are usually much cheaper and are easier to plant than you think.
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Secret to growing asparagus
Winter is the best time to plant new bare root fruit trees as well as bare root perennial vegies like asparagus, rhubarb and strawberries. Bare root plants are usually much cheaper and are easier to plant than you think. Download 'Secret to growing asparagus'.
Secret to planting bare root roses
Roses are also available bare root throughout winter. Diggers specialises in garden roses to complement your perennial garden with many of these available as bare root plants now. Download The Secret to planting bare root roses.
2018 Heirloom Annual and Seed Directory Out Now!
With over 350 different vegetable and flower seeds, seed propagation and gardening advice, Diggers 2018 Heirloom Annual and Seed Directory is the perfect guide to planning your gardening year ahead. Go behind the scenes of our trials garden and learn how and why we maintain heirloom seed integrity and pick the best tasting varieties for diggers members.
You can download a free digital copy or purchase a copy from our shop. All members receive a copy as part of their membership benefits. Shop the 2018 Heirloom Annual now:
♦ Vegetable seeds and perennials
♦ Iconic Aussie Heirloom Legends
♦ Farmers market seeds – buy seeds in bulk
Explore the world of seed propagation with our seed propagation kits, solutions and accessories.
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Diggers Garden and Environment Trust
Clive and Penny Blazey, founders of the Diggers Club, gifted ownership of their highly successful garden company along with family-owned properties Heronswood and St Erth to the Diggers Garden and Environment Trust in 2011.
“We established the Diggers Garden and Environment Trust to ensure that the work we’ve done over more than 30 years in preserving historic gardens and houses as well as the best garden traditions through education will continue forever,” said Clive.
The Trust strives to conserve historic gardens, buildings and cultural heritage and to protect heirloom seeds.
Diggers best garden ideas - book launch tour!
As part of our 40th birthday celebrations Clive will be 'on the road' launching his new bookDiggers 40 Years of the Best Garden Ideas, visiting Tasmania, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane (a free event at the Brisbane Tomato Festival).
Our first event is in Hobart and Launceston (a free event at the Blooming Tassie Expo).
Come and meet Clive and Penny, grab a copy of the new book, and get inspired this spring with great gardening ideas!
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2018 Heirloom Annual Out Now!
Your complete year-round guide to gardening has arrived. Get your fork into 48 pages of heirloom and organic vegetable and flower seeds, seed sowing advice, plus gardening essentials to get your garden growing in all seasons.
Shop the 2018 Heirloom Annual now.
Diggers members receive a copy as part of their membership and can also download a digital copy.
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It's time to order potatoes!
Potatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow, with a multitude of culinary uses. Diggers' potatoes are handpicked Certified Seed Potatoes, which means they're disease free unlike many supermarket varieties.
Shop our potatoes or get the latest potato growing hints, tips and information from our resources page.
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Members News and Events
Workshops & Masterclasses
What's in season
♦ Asparagus: Harvest for decades
♦ Rhubarb: Potted and runner varieties
♦ Potatoes: Heirloom and gourmet varieties
♦ Berries: Raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and more.
♦ Roses: Bare root roses now in-stock
♦ Fruit trees: Bare root plums, peaches, apples and more.
Diggers Trials For 2018
Take a quick look at Diggers Heirloom Seed Trials video for 2018 and see how some of our favourite vegies performed! While you are there check out our other gardening clips.
