One of the rewards for being an Allotment and Gardening Blogger is that one acknowledged as being Gardening Press, and as such we get press releases and early copies of catalogues, brochures and seeds to trial, in addition to the annual invites to the Gardening Press Event in London each year.
I have to say the 2025 version of the Little Book Of Seeds is as informative as usual, but for 2025 Marshalls have a few new initiatives they are implementing.
They are introducing The Enhanced Collection that encompasses some tried and tested favourite varieties of vegetable seeds that most of us have enjoyed growing but with improvements to make grown crops eve more successful.
These improvements or as they say in their Little Book Of Seeds, Benefits include improved yields, greater disease resistance, improved flavour, improved vigour and strength and much more. I'm not sure what the much more are apart from marketing terms, but I will take the identifiable benefits as they are always useful to have.
There is a symbol throughout the catalogue and an example of four varieties on page 6, and the four seed packs sent to me to trial from The Enhanced Collection are shown in the photo at the top of this article. The link above takes you to where you can find out more about the contents of this collection and what seeds you might want to try next year.
Inside the front page there is a notification that for 2025 Marshalls are introducing a new lower P&P rate of just £1.95 for `seed only' orders.
On Page 3 no naked pin-up, but an offer to add a seed wheel of your choice that normally retails at £4.99 that can be added to a any order for just £1 using code WHEEL when ordering online. I have two version of this wheel for vegetables of different diameters and ages in my potting shed on the allotment.
Between pages 34 & 35 is a Seed Sowing Calendar of what seeds to plant each month that is really useful for new allotment owners, and it's a common question on many Facebook gardening groups.
I will be looking at the catalogue and producing a post about all the new varieties for 2025 in early January.
I will be posting more about the Little Book Of Seeds in the coming days, especially if its raining and I cant get down to the allotment.
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