Althaea officinalis

For information on growing herbs from seeds please see Jekka's blogs on sowing herb seeds, sowing your winter culinary herbs or how to grow vegetables.

Jekka's "How to Grow Herbs" videos, includes Jekka's video on how to sow herb seeds  for an informative step-by-step guide to seed sowing. For a hands-on herb experience, where you will learn how to grow herbs, check out our Master Classes.

Growing indoors? Check out Jekka's blog on indoor herb gardening for some advice.

For seeds, try Jekka's Seed Club Subscription to regularly receive different sustainable culinary herb seeds for you to try. If you require pots or compost, see Jekka's Herb Kits that includes Jekka's Seed Sowing Kit. This kit contains all you need to sow a collection of herb seeds.

For more information on growing herbs plants please see Jekkapedia, Jekka's blog or our FAQs page.

Happy Herbs!

At Jekka’s we sell herbs in 1 Ltr and 2 Ltr pots. These are established and hardy herb plants that are grown following organic principals and to survive the UK climate. Please read Jekka's blog that contains her top steps to growing on your herbs.

There is also ‘Jekka’s Seasonal Tips’ series that covers growing and maintaining herbs in early spring, late spring, summer and autumn & winter. Together they form Jekka’s guide on how to grow herbs. For a hands-on herb experience, where you will learn how to grow herbs, check out our Master Classes.

Our herbs are designed to be grown in containers or planted in the garden. Although some herbs will be quite happy indoors, most prefer being outside. Please see our indoor growing blog for more information.

If you require pots or compost, we have developed Jekka's Herb Kits, which includes Jekka's "Grow On" Kit. These kits contain all you need to grow on your herbs.

If you think your herbs need a little more attention we always recommend an environmentally friendly solution, and these are Jekka's top three:

• Maxicrop liquid seaweed: 'Feed on Fridays' as Jekka always says for all round good plant health.
• SB Invigorator: a safe and effective insecticide and fungicide to help control a wide range of pest species
• Epsom salts: the horticultural equivalent of what you put in your bath that will top up the plant's magnesium and stop orange leaves.

Please note, the compost in Jekka's Kits will have enough natural food for approximately 6 weeks.

For more information on growing herbs plants please see Jekkapedia, Jekka's blog or our FAQs page.

Happy Herbs!

One of our three core roots is that we are Environmentally Conscious and for the past 30 years all the herbs grown at Jekka’s have been raised following sustainable, environmentally friendly and organic approaches resulting in a remarkable biodiversity at the herb farm.

Our herb seeds are also untreated and can be used to grow organic herb plants. Our seeds are hand packed into gassine bags, which are fully recyclable, compostable and biodegradable. These bags are then put into beautifully illustrated paper seed packets. Therefore, our environmental footprint is small.

Want to know more? You can read more about our sustainability approach to growing herbs in one of Jekka's Blogs. See also:

• Organic and sustainable approach to growing herb plants
• Jekka's guide to being a sustainable herb gardener
• Jekka's guide to cimate change
• Jekka's top 8 tips for becoming a sustainable gardener 
• Jekka's blog on organic gardening and soil health
• Jekka’s guide to increasing biodiversity and rewilding your garden

Following our root of being ‘green, environmentally friendly and sustainable', we use eco-kraft boxes that are FSC approved and do not use any plastic in the posting of our products.

All our orders are dispatched with a standard delivery note, which includes addresses and items ordered but no prices. We will also include any gift note you have written at check-out.

Customer review:

"I would like to thank the person who packed my box of seeds, it was so carefully sealed with tape in the most exact and neat way I have ever received a packet or parcel! Amazing! They deserve a gold star."

Local pick-up from the herb farm is available, please choose the option at checkout. You can collect your orders any weekday between 8:30 am and 4 pm.

Postage, apart from our Culinary Herb Boxes, is by Royal Mail.

Free standard postage in the UK for orders over £85 (inc. VAT)*.

*after any discounts applied.

For orders to be delivered outside the UK, we strongly advise checking with your local customs office prior to placing the order online.  Please note, for seed orders, our seeds have UK Plant Passports and carry the information required by the UK’s seed marketing regulations. However, we do not issue phytosanitary (health) certificates (PC). International orders are placed at your (the customers) risk.

Update 6th December 2024: We have paused shipping to Europe and Northern Ireland whilst we understand the new GPSR rules. Thank you for your patience whilst we work out the implications.

To track your order, please select the 'Tracked' option at checkout.

For our delivery and returns information please see:

• Delivery information (including postage costs)
• Returns information

Please see our Terms and Conditions for full details.

(N.B. For herb plant collections, please see our Looking Good Herb List  and submit a herb plant enquiry.)