Planting and sowing

Buy seeds at Dille & Kamille

A garden full of flowers, a vegetable garden with home-grown vegetables and herbs - with the organic seeds from Dille & Kamille, you can turn every garden and balcony into a green oasis. And how fun is it to see such a small seed germinate into a beautiful plant, flower or delicious vegetable? Besides, home-grown vegetables often taste even better, if only because it is so satisfying to eat your own harvest.

When do you start sowing?

The question that recurs every year: when is the best time to start sowing? We'll help you with that, because on the bag of seeds you'll find exactly what to do. You can often start indoors in March and April with pre-sowing in growing pots or under glass, for which we have a very nice greenhouse. You can sow and raise your (herbal) plants in here, but also put a collection of mini-plants, for example.

When can sown plants go outside?

If you have growing pots or a greenhouse, it is best to wait until after Ice Saints to put them outside. This name comes from the feast days of 4 medieval saints: mid-May - exactly when there is no more danger of night frost. After that, your tender seedlings can safely go outside.

Sowing Lathryrus, Cosmea and sunflowers

Sow sunflowers indoors between the end of March and mid-April, or outdoors from mid-April and throughout May. A giant of up to 3 metres tall can grow from the tiny sunflower seeds! Summer annuals such as Cosmea, oriental cherry, Lathyrus and other beautiful summer blooms should be sown outside a little later, in June: it will be nice and warm so everything grows quickly. Bees, bumblebees and butterflies love these flowers!

Sowing pumpkin, tomato and other vegetables and herbs

Vegetables such as tomatoes, pumpkin and courgettes can also be pre-sown indoors - simply on your windowsill. As well as various kitchen herbs. Then, later in spring, you will have strong plants for your (vegetable) garden. Mixed leaves, arugula and annual herbs such as coriander can be sown throughout the summer: so you always have a fresh harvest on your plate.

Organic flower and vegetable seeds

All our flower and vegetable seeds are organic and thus grown without the use of artificial fertilisers and chemical pesticides. Our flower seeds are packed per flower type, but you can also choose a nice mix with different flowers. For example, this mix of flower seeds that attract butterflies and bees. And often, the more you pick from the flowers, the longer they will continue to bloom. Win-win! Put your home-grown flowers in a nice tall vase with a flower frog. Or dry the flowers in our flower press and frame them.

Handy garden tools

To garden, you need good gardening tools, such as gardening gloves, trowel and rakes. You'll have it all to hand in this handy garden apron. Do you have a vegetable garden? Then write what you have sown where on our plant labels with chalkboard. Or put them in terracotta pots with potting soil.