Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Globe Artichoke ‘Green Globe Improved’ F1 Hybrid
Globe Artichoke ‘Green Globe Improved’ bears larger, heavier, and more consistent quality globe-shaped heads. The characteristic sharp spines have been greatly reduced in this improved variety. The astonishingly tasty hearts make a supreme delicacy when pickled, and the base of the leaves can be eaten too. This majestic perennial vegetable makes an attractive addition to
Rocket
A little known but very useful salad plant, Rocket can be used raw in salads or cooked lightly when it makes a delicious spinach substitute. Late summer sowings of Rocket will carry on cropping into the winter if the plants are protected by cloches
Lettuce ‘Lollo Rossa’ (Loose-Leaf)
An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. Lettuce Continental Looseleaf Lollo Rossa is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with deep red edge. Lollo Rossa is very easy to grow and attractive in gardens, tubs, containers etc
Mustard Cress
A delicious salad and sandwich ingredient, Mustard Cress takes up little space and a very small amount of your time. Children find it fascinating to watch it grow as in only a few days it produces healthy and nutritious food. You can grow Mustard and Cress by sowing this packet and a packet of T&M’s
Sorrel
This hardy perennial herb is easy to grow and adds leafy texture and a tart flavour to a mixed leaf salad. Young sorrel leaves are used extensively in French cuisine, being particularly flavoursome in fish dishes, soups, stews and sauces. Height and spread: 30cm (12).
Squash ‘Sunshine’ F1 Hybrid (Winter)
All America Selection Winner. Trailing. Squash Sunshine is an aptly named ‘Kabocha’ type Squash with unique and attractive bright reddishorange skin with thick, bright orange flesh. Squash Sunshine produces fruits about 1.5kg (3lb) in weight, have a sweet, nutty taste when eaten raw, baked or steamed.
Tomato ‘Country Taste’ F1 Hybrid
CordonTomato ‘Country Taste’ produces meaty, delicious fruits, which can easily attain weights over 227g (0.5lb) if trusses are trimmed to allow 3 or 4 fruits to ripen per truss. This fantastic beefsteak tomato is particularly early to set and ripen when grown under glass. An excellent cordon tomato for exhibition and competitions – you could
Kale ‘Dwarf Green Curled’
Kale Dwarf Green Curled produces dark, tightly curled leaves. Excellent quality, very cold hardy, Kale Dwarf Green Curled is good for difficult or windswept gardens or poor wet soils
Tomato ‘Suncherry Premium’ F1 Hybrid
A superb RHS AGM variety, Tomato ‘Suncherry Premium’ is one of the sweetest tasting, red-skinned cherry tomatoes available, making the perfect complement to our ever popular orange-skinned variety ‘Sungold’. Huge crops of shiny, bite-sized red fruits ripen early and continue to be produced throughout the summer. This cordon variety is best grown in the greenhouse,
Leek ‘Autumn Giant 2 – Argenta’
Peforms outstandingly whether sown early or late and does well over a long season. Leek Autumn Giant 2 Argenta matures in October, yet stands ready for harvest right through to May, giving high quality, thick, long and very heavy stems, of excellent mild flavour and yield with few bolters. NIAB Recommended.
Onion ‘Ailsa Craig’ (Giant/Show Vegetable)
A splendid exhibition variety of golden merit producing large globe shaped onions with a rich, golden straw coloured skin. As well as being a super show variety, Onion Ailsa Craig is also one of the best varieties for general cultivation producing large onions with an excellent mild flavour. Onion Ailsa Craig can also be autumn
Swiss Chard ‘Lucullus’
A much more prolific form, Swiss Chard Lucullus produces an abundance of large, tasty leaves and wide, white mid-ribs. Cook the succulent mid-rib like asparagus and serve with melted butter. Easier, and some consider tastier, than spinach. If the plants of Swiss Chard Lucullus are left to flower, the flower stalks can be cooked and
Tomato ‘Tumbling Tom Red’
Tomato ‘Tumbling Tom Red’ produces abundant early crops of sweet and juicy cherry tomatoes throughout summer. This compact bush variety has a naturally trailing habit that will cascade over the sides of baskets, containers and windowboxes. With no side shooting or training required, this variety is easy to grow both outdoors and under glass. Height
Onion ‘Paris Silver Skinned’
Super little pickling or cocktail onions, Onion Paris Silver Skinned are easy and quick to grow and do well on the poorest soils. Sow thickly and the resultant competition will prevent the bulbs from getting too large for pickling purposes.
Spring Onion ‘Winter White Bunching’
A dual purpose onion that resists bulbing up enabling it to be pulled for a longer period than regular varieties. Spring Onion Winter White Bunching has excellent overwintering qualities, can be sown either late August for late May pulling or in spring and summer for summer/autumn crops.
Beetroot ‘Kestrel’ F1 Hybrid (Globe)
Smooth, round, dark red skinned roots with a superb dark flesh colour and increased sugar levels. Beetroot Kestrel is delicious cooked or eaten raw, used as ‘baby beetsor when mature. Good resistance to bolting. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection
Cucumber ‘Carmen’ F1 Hybrid
Greenhouse typeCucumber ‘Carmen’ is a unique variety with resistance to all known strains of powdery mildew, scab and leaf-spot, making it ideal for organic gardeners. The fruits are produced in abundance, from 50 to 100 per plant, and have a mild flavour with no bitter after taste. This climbing RHS AGM variety is easy to
Radish ‘Cherry Belle’
Bright red skin and crisp, sweet and succulent mildly flavoured white flesh. Radish Cherry Belle is early, very fast maturing, and very slow to go woody.
Chives
This perennial member of the onion family is undemanding and easy to grow, returning year after year, and attracting bees and butterflies to its pretty pink blooms. Chives are an essential addition to the herb garden. Their leaves and edible flowers make them indispensible for garnishing potato salad, soups and other savoury dishes. Chives are
Coriander
A quick growing, dual purpose annual herb that is grown for its seeds or fresh young leaves. Coriander seeds are delicious in cakes, and when crushed add an orangey flavour to meat dishes. The young leaves of coriander (often called ‘Cilantro’) can be finely chopped and added to curies, sauces, chutneys and salads. Height: 60cm
