The Bee-Friendly Christmas Gift Box

£30.00
(£30.00 each)

Available from 4th November

For the bee lover in your life. A trio of artisanal and organic products. To celebrate and encourage these vital, little pollinators.

Gift box contains:

- Artisan Bee Nester, Wildlife World: Handcrafted with recycled sari silk and bamboo nesting, this fairtrade bee nester provides a beautiful home for solitary bees and other insects
- Organic Bee-Friendly Flower Seed Mix, Vital Seeds: A diverse mixture of organic annual flowers, adored by bees and other pollinators
- Organic Wildflower Honey, Littleover Apiary (340g): Crafted from wildflower nectar, this organic honey is raw, cold extracted and filtered for a naturally sweet taste
- Packaged up in a fully-recyclable box – ready to gift

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Ingredients & allergens

Bee-friendly Flower Seed Mix, Organic, Vital Seeds
Seeds, as follows: Borage, Buckwheat, Calendula, Crimson Clover, Cornflower, Dill, Coriander and Phacelia

Wildflower Honey, Organic, Littleover Apiary (340g)
Wildflower Honey* * = produced to organic standards.

While we do everything we can to ensure the information on this page is correct, ingredients, nutritional and dietary information are subject to change. So along with the information on our website, we always recommend that you read each label carefully before enjoying your items

Storage & prep

Wildflower Honey, Organic, Littleover Apiary (340g)
The perfect addition to a slice of toast or a bowl of porridge, our Wildflower honey should be stored away from direct sunlight. Always ensure the jar is properly sealed. Not suitable for home freezing. Our honey isn't heat treated or blended so you might see some granulation if it gets chilly. To make runny again, just slowly warm the jar back up (in a pan of water on the hob is a good option).

Bee-friendly Flower Seed Mix, Organic, Vital Seeds
Sowing

Firstly, fill a seed tray or shallow punnet with compost until about ¾ full, then press down to create a firm soil. Poke a few holes in the bottom for drainage if there aren’t any already.

Next, sow your seeds. With smaller seeds, simply scatter them thinly across the surface. For larger ones, make sure to space them out by around an inch. Lightly press the seeds down so they make good contact with the compost.

Cover the seeds with a thin layer of compost and label your trays so you know what is growing in each one. Lolly sticks or a strip of card from your recycling work great for this.

Stand the punnet in a tray of water or in your sink until the tray feels heavier with the water weight.

Move to a warm, sunny windowsill to germinate and keep the compost moist. After around 10 days you should begin to see the first sprouts emerging.

Potting On

Once each seedling has grown two seed leaves and two ‘true’ leaves, you can ‘prick them out’ and move into their own pots.

Push a pencil into the compost and then under where the seedling’s roots are. Hold onto one of the ‘true’ leaves and gently tease the plant out as you pull the compost loose, taking care not to damage the roots.

Pop the plant into a new pot of compost and add more compost around the plant. Pat the soil down to firm it up. Don’t press too hard so as not to damage the roots.

Give the re-potted plant some water, and leave somewhere sheltered, sunny and frost-free.

Once the plant is about the height of its pot, you can plant out into your garden, allotment or containers.

Packaging

Bee-friendly Flower Seed Mix, Organic, Vital Seeds
Food Contact Material: PAPER/CARD (Recyclable - Widely recyclable)
Contains BPA: No - does not contain BPA
Wildflower Honey, Organic, Littleover Apiary (340g)
Food Contact Material: GLASS (Recyclable - Widely recyclable)
Contains BPA: No - does not contain BPA

The Bee-Friendly Christmas Gift Box

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