🌱 Yilgarn’s Heirloom Tomato Seedlings Are Ready! 🍅
Phone Johnny on 0458381628 to visit the nursery.

Do you save heirloom vegetable or herb seeds? We’d love to hear your story — and help you keep those old varieties alive!

At Drylands Permaculture Farm, we’ve been selectively breeding heirloom seeds since 1992. It started when we learned about the global loss of traditional food plants. Each year, we grow a wide range of heirloom varieties and save seed only from the healthiest, most productive plants grown here in Geraldton conditions.

Over time, this means our varieties become better adapted, more resilient, and more productive in our local climate than those from cooler or wetter regions.

🌿 Why choose heirloom seedlings?
Unlike modern hybrids, heirloom varieties grow true to type — so you can save your own seed too and keep the cycle going.

We have spare TOMATO seedlings for sale from our winter seed garden planting:

🟤 Black Russian
Chocolate-coloured salad tomato. Medium staking variety

🟢 Green Zebra
Lime green salad tomato with stripes when ripe. Medium staking variety

💛 Mama Lucie
Small yellow salad tomato. Small staking variety

🟠 Persimmon
Large, bright orange fruit. Medium staking variety

🔴 Pink Ponderosa
Large pink fleshy fruit, multi-use. Large staking variety

🟣 Purple Calabash
Crinkled purple fruit – said to be one of the ugliest, but most beautifully flavoured. Large staking variety

🔴 St Pierre
Medium to large red fruit. Medium staking variety with good cold tolerance now from the nursery – phone Johnny on 0458 381628 to visit.

💬 Got a favourite heirloom you’re growing or saving? Share it below – we’d love to connect with fellow seed savers!

As we are open by appointment, give Johnny a call to visit the nursery.
Mb 0458381628
333 David Road,
Waggrakine

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^^Moringa or Drumstick Tree^^
Originating from northern India, the deciduous 'Drumstick Tree' is highly sought after in Asia, Africa and India as a food and medicinal tree. The leaves, flowers (which taste a little like mushroom), pods and roots are all edible. And it's the drumstick-like pod shape that gives the tree its name. Unsure how to eat your Moringa leaves..check out this link:

www.abc.net.au/gardening/how-to/drumstick-tree/9423948

It is also worth googling the medicinal uses/effects from eating this tree as its properties have been well documented.
The drumstick tree is drought tolerant and grows well in our arid region with irrigation through summer. Low maintenance, simply fertilise once a month to encourage pod growth and prune once a year to keep the leaves within arms reach.
We have advanced 2m high trees available now. $77 each.

This season we also have three varieties of sweet potatoes available. NZ kumara, Whyatt’s White and a purple fleshed variety. $11 each.

We also have a range of other interesting herbs like the memory plants, Brahmi, Gota Kola, and a delicious form of Peppermint, Lemon Grass and Mother of Herbs.
Deciduous fruit trees available are Pomegranates, Marula, Custard apples and Mulberries.

As we are open by appointment, give Johnny a call to visit the nursery. Mb 0458381628
333 David Road,
Waggrakine

Please park by the big blue mail box and walk in. Please shut the gate behind you as we have animals inside and want to keep the rabbits out. ... See MoreSee Less

Growing potatoes in the Geraldton area can be done during the winter but is never as successful as in a colder wetter climate. Growing sweet potatoes on the other hand is a highly productive less intensive exercise. The beauty of sweet potatoes you can continue to harvest and grow them throughout the year. I find the easiest way to dig them up is to with water pressure using a garden hose with a high pressure hozzle. I locate where the plant is rooted and squirt down and around until I feel the roots. In summer they can sometimes be 200mm deep depending on how you how they are irrigated. I take the bigger sweet potatoes and leave the plant in the ground. The extra water gives it a good start to continue growing.

This season we have three varieties of sweet potatoes available for sale. NZ kumara, Whyatt’s White and a purple fleshed variety. $11 each.

We also have a range of other interesting herbs like the memory plants, Brahmi, Gota Kola, and a delicious form of Peppermint, Lemon Grass and Mother of Herbs.
Deciduous fruit trees available are Pomegranates, Marula, Custard apples, Mulberries and Moringa.
As we are open by appointment, give Johnny a call to visit the nursery. Mb 0458381628
333 David Road,
Waggrakine

Park by the big blue mail box and walk in. Please shut the gate behind you as we have animals inside and want to keep the rabbits out. ... See MoreSee Less