Seed mix for a vegetable patch

This Vegetable Patch mix combines no less than 32 species of low-growing perennial or annual plants intended to feed and promote the presence of beneficial insects that will protect the vegetable garden. These beneficial insects are valuable for regulating aphids and other pests that harm crops. The seeds are sown in spring or late summer, directly in place, in a sunny, freshly weeded, worked, and loosened soil. The bed thus created will flower for several years and will also provide a refuge for biodiversity. Some plants will self-seed wherever they please. 

In this mix you will find plants such as viper's bugloss, centaury, elegant layia Layia platyglossa, borage Borago officinalis, yarrow Achillea millefolium, and wild carrot Daucus carota. They attract beneficial insects with their flowering rich in pollen and nectar. All these plants show rather rapid growth and easily naturalise in the garden, in ordinary and well-drained soil. A packet of seeds can cover approximately 3 square metres. The size of the plants ranges from 30cm (12in) to 60cm (24in) tall.

It has become very popular to plant a flowering meadow. They combine usefulness with beauty and flower throughout the entire summer season, requiring very little maintenance. Watering if the weather is extremely dry and cutting to 10 cm (4in) in autumn will be more than enough. Invite nature into your garden: sow our flower mixes alongside pathways, near the vegetable garden, on a slope by a sunken path, near your fruit trees, or in the back of a garden bordering the countryside.