Gordon gave her a seed packet of California poppies.
As always, it pays to read the seed packet.
For example, under a drawing of a Morning Glory seed packet is written, "Plant a morning glory".
And even if your own garden is only a window box, you can take a bit of greenery home: a free seed packet.
It may seem obvious, but one little seed packet contains the potential to cover an entire garden, so choose wisely and go easy.
Then again, she's always been the kind of actor who could make reading the instructions on a seed packet sound interesting.
I figure how long I can keep this up by looking at the "days to maturity" on the seed packet, then counting back that number of days from mid-September, after which corn hardly ripens any more around here.
Spacing for any kind of tomato plants depends on how you grow them and whether they are determinate or indeterminate (usually indicated on the seed packet or in the seed catalog).
Online seed company MoreVeg offer smaller seed packet sizes suited to gardeners who don't want to sow row after row of one crop, and promise that more than half of their 1,100 varieties cost 50p a packet.
Check the seed packet size when buying: some contain far more seed than you'd be able to sow in a year on the average garden or allotment, and not all seed remains viable beyond a year or two.
Once you've decided what you're going to grow, research the preferred methods of sowing and pretreatments by browsing books in the library, researching specific plants online, or referring back to the seed packet or grower's website/catalog.
