Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Broad Bean ‘The Sutton’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
This dwarf, compact Broad Bean is absolutely perfect for small gardens and offers bumper crops of 15cm (6in) pods, each packed with 5 deliciously tender beans. Ideal for successional sowings to give continuous picking through the season.
Broccoli ‘Summer Purple’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Especially bred for summer cropping with good heat tolerance. High yields of tasty, purple spears through summer into autumn on robust plants. Pick regularly to promote fresh flushes of spears.
Carrot ‘Autumn King’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
An excellent variety all round. Long, large, cylindrical roots with a lovely colour and excellent flavour. Highly recommended for eating fresh in the autumn, raw or cooked.
Green Manure ‘Buckwheat’
A short term summer green manure with fast growing foliage to supress weeds. Deep rooting to absorb nutrients from deep in the soil. If left to flower it does attract beneficial hoverflies. Dig in before harsh frosts. Buckwheat decomposes quickly for excellent humus formation and improvement to soil structure and moisture retention. Contents: 75g (2.5
Cauliflower ‘All Year Round’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Britain’s most popular cauliflower and one of the most reliable for summer and autumn use. A compact plant habit with white, tight heads (curds) for eating raw or steamed.
Green Manure ‘Crimson Clover’
types. Can be used as a summer/autumn manure, or overwinter from a
Climbing Bean ‘Fasold’
Early cropping Climbing Bean ‘Fasold’ bears decorative mauve flowers followed by huge harvests of superb flavoured French Beans. The long, fleshy, stringless pods are produced over a long period and are slow to develop seeds. With a less vigorous, semi-climbing habit, this variety is ideal for growing under glass for the earliest crops. Height: 180cm
Green Manure ‘Phacelia’
A valuable, quick growing, hardy annual green manure particularly good in dry soils, but suitable for all soil types. Can be used as a summer/autumn manure, or overwinter from a September sowing for spring digging in. The attractive foliage quickly smothers weeds and its extensive root system improves the soil structure. If left to flower
Dwarf Bean ‘Boston’
Dwarf Bean ‘Boston’ bears straight, round 15cm (6) long pods with a dark green colour and an excellent flavour. These sturdy, upright plants produce heavy crops over a long picking season. This RHS AGM variety is ideal for growing in containers. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
Green Manure ‘Grazing Rye’
An excellent nitrogen lifter. Produces an extensive root system and plenty of leaf growth to suppress weeds and improve soil structure. Continues to grow during cold weather. Ideal for overwintering to dig in during spring.
Basil ‘Sweet Green’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Easy to grow, ideal for windowsill growing, and a favourite with cooks and gardeners worldwide. The pungent leaves with a spicy, clove-like aroma, have a wide range of uses not only in the kitchen but when planted near tomatoes basil improves their flavour and helps deter whitefly. Half Hardy Annual.
Dianthus barbatus ‘Kaleidoscope Mixed’
Create an ever-changing kaleidoscope of colour with this striking mixture. Florets within each bloom change colour as the flower matures, from pink to bicolour to white producing a fabulous display in the garden as well as an attractive cut flower. Will flower in its first year from a Jan/Feb sowing or can be sown in
Lettuce ‘Mazur’ (Loose-Leaf)
Truly outstanding in our trials, this voluminous green-leaved lettuce produces an abundance of thick, crunchy leaves that you can keep on picking all summer. As an added bonus, Mazur is tipburn and bolting tolerant and offers excellent resistance to downy mildew. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 30cm (12).
Chilli Pepper ‘Numex Twilight’
Simply stunning as an ‘ornamental edible’; fruits ripen from purple to yellow to orange to red, providing colour as well as hundreds of small, upright 20mm (0.75in) peppers. Superb in a container on the patio, the attractive dark leaves will show off the vivid colours of the fruits
Sarracenia species ‘New Hybrids Mixed’
Strikingly attractive pitcher plants which give no outward hint of their unusual dietary habits! They attract insects with their enticing scent, alluring colours and the promise of a nectar-like secretion on the lip of the ‘pitcher’. A slippery footing on the bloom’s rim causes unsuspecting insects to fall inside the cavity of the flower which
Tree Peony ‘Rockii Mixed’
Few plants can compare with the spectacular beauty of a tree peony in full bloom. A mature plant can boast in excess of a hundred wonderfully exotic blooms, each one measuring 25cm (10in) or more across. Breathtaking in borders, tree peonies also make exquisite cut flowers. When grown from seed, tree peonies will reward patient
Rudbeckia x hirta hybrida ‘Cherokee Sunset’
As a result of over 10 years breeding and selection by T&Ms flower breeders, Rudbeckia Cherokee Sunset was born. Never before has there been such a spectacular range of colours of fully double to semi-double Rudbeckia, with large 3-4in blooms. Shades of golden yellow, orange, bronze and mahogany make up this stunning blend that resembles
Pea ‘Alderman’ (Maincrop) – Heritage
Maincrop This well known heritage maincrop produces heavy crops of large, curved, dark green pea pods of the highest quality. Each pod of Pea ‘Alderman’ contains up to 11 succulent peas with a superb flavour. This well known and reliable variety has a tall growth habit that will require supports but is well worth the
Beetroot ‘Boltardy’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Beetroot Boltardy is one of the best beetroots and a gardeners’ favourite. Good quality, round, dark-red, well-flavoured roots up to 10cm (4in) across, with deep red, crisp, sweet flesh.
Pea ‘Tendrilla’
Fabulous semi-leafless ‘petit pois’ maincrop variety which produces tons of dark green pods, 2 per node, each containing 8-11 very small and very delicious peas. Plants are self supporting if grown in a block and have wilt and downy mildew resistance.
