Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Tomato Seeds – Alicante
A popular tomato, maturing early and producing an excellent crop of medium sized fleshy fruits of fine flavour. Succeeds well in soil or grow bags. Resistant to greenback. For cultivation under glass or outdoors. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Herb Seed – Chives
Perennial clumps of onion-flavoured, tender, spear-like green leaves. Delicious in all egg, potato and cheese dishes, in salads, and sprinkled over soups and potatoes.
Mirabelle Tree – de Nancy
Mouth-watering fruit! This prolific variety produces medium sized golden fruits, often developing a pink flush when fully ripe. The fruits are incredibly sweet and tangy, with a taste of honey. For planting and growing advice read our gage-and-plum-trees-growing-guide.
Swede Seeds – Ruby
Bred for extra sweetness, Ruby has dark purple-skinned globe shaped roots with creamy yellow flesh and is a really useful winter vegetable. A high dry matter content ensures excellent winter hardiness and it also shows good resistance to Powdery Mildew. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Radish Seeds – Sparkler 3
A traditional round, red, white-bottomed radish. Very tasty and perfect for summer salads.
Lettuce Seeds – Lollo Rossa
Crisp and delicious, the leaves are frilled and tinged with red. Pretty enough to include in the flower border. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Picking Lettuce. Tom says: Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try mixing red and green lettuce leaves to add a note of bitterness to salads, or
Pumpkin Seeds – Amazonka
The perfect choice if you have limited space, producing bright orange, flattened spherical fruits which are ideal for roasting or soup-making and store well too.
Lettuce Seeds – All The Year Round
Traditional favourite with crisp, compact white hearts. Butterhead variety. Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try mixing red and green lettuce leaves to add a note of bitterness to salads, or try slicing up little gem lettuces and sautéing with peas and garlic for an alternative homegrown lunch.
Parsnip Seeds – F1 Albion
An improved smooth-skinned hybrid, producing long, firm, tapering roots of superb flavour and texture. Bred for resistance to the very latest strains of disease, including canker, and therefore, ideal for organic growing. An essential part of your Sunday roast! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Leek Seeds – Lyon – Prizetaker
Long, thick, pure white stems of mild flavour. Excellent for exhibition if sown in January under glass.
Pak Choi Seeds – F1 Hanakan
Compact, slow bolting plants with round smooth leaves and thick pure white stalks.
Herb Seed – Sorrel
Perennial, with a sharp refreshing taste. Can be cooked in the same way as spinach, or used in soups and salads.
Rocket Seeds
Tasty, tangy leaves to pick as required. Ideal for salads or cooking, it can be harvested all summer. Fast maturing – cut and come again. To keep leaves tender, water frequently when in full growth. Sow small batches fortnightly in succession.
Onion Seeds – Paris Silverskin
Paris Silverskin is a tasty onion that’s excellent for salads or pickling. Easy to grow, there’s no thinning required.
Carrot Seeds – F1 Resistafly
Carrot Fly attack – a real problem for some gardeners. Fine quality roots and ideal for organic growing. 110 days from sowing to harvest (taken from our own trials and may vary in different areas).
Cauliflower Plants – Romanesco Continuity Collection
Cauliflower Plants – Romanesco Continuity Collection Three top quality cauliflowers to pick from October to early December! The Romanesco Continuity Collection contains a superb selection of cauliflower plants. This Collection contains 21 cauliflower plants, a mix of each variety of the following three varieties: Colosseo: A superb alternative to standard white cauliflowers, with attractive, architectural,
Herb Seeds – Basil Lime Mrs Burns
Lime scented green leaves that can be used in cooking, eaten raw or alternatively used to make a delicious herbal tea.
Herb Seed – Coriander
A feathery annual, with clusters of spicy seeds and used in curries and casseroles, and may be ground over lamb and pork.
Onion (Salad) Seeds – North Holland Blood Red Redmate
A dual purpose salad onion especially recommended to add colour to the salad bowl. No thinning required. Will also produce mild flavoured bulbs if thinned to 7.5cm (3") between plants. 10 weeks maturity.
Pepper Sweet Seeds – F1 Gypsy
Early, and produces a good crop of slightly tapered sweet peppers, yellowish-green ripening to deep red. Grow in a cold or slightly heated greenhouse. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV). Great beginner variety.
