Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Tomato Seeds – Artisan Bumble Bee Mix
These multi-coloured cherry tomatoes are purple striped with green, pink with yellow colouration and golden-yellow with orange stripes. Ideal for growing indoors or outside. Extremely heavy crops of delicious, small round fruits that will hold on the vine for an extended period of time with no cracking. Great for fresh tomato, basil, mozzarella and balsamic
Spinach Seeds – Perpetual Spinach
Excellent on dry soils where annual spinach would run to seed quickly. Hardy and useful for autumn and winter dishes. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Great beginner variety.
Sweet Corn Seeds – F1 Sundance
Considered as the best sweet corn for early maturing in our indifferent British summers and recommended by the Northern Horticultural Society. The cobs are often 18cm (7") long, packed with sweet creamy-yellow kernels. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Great beginner variety.
Sweet Corn Seeds – F1 Goldcrest
This super sweet sweetcorn variety produces well-filled cobs with an excellent flavour. Their vigorous growth makes them ideal for the UK climate and they harvest from August-September. There’s nothing better than sitting down to a homegrown corn on the cob, with butter slowly oozing over those golden kernels.
Sweet Corn Seeds – Moonshine F1
The best tasting sweet corn on trials last year – super-sweet variety (SH2). Extra sweet and juicy, can even be eaten raw (where the juice runs down your chin). Excellent cob coverage. 3-5 cobs per plant. 15-20cm cobs. Harvest August-September. Height 150-200cm (59-79); spread 30-40cm (12-16).
Swede Seeds – Invitation
A strong-growing, Club Root resistant swede which also benefits from Powdery Mildew resistance and improved winter hardiness over other varieties. Great beginner variety.
Swede Seeds – Gowrie
Swede Seeds – Gowrie Resistant to both clubroot and powdery mildew, Gowrieis very winter hardy due to the high dry matter. Perfect to use throughout autumn and into the new year from October to late January. This purple-skinned variety has good, firm flesh with consistent colour and very good taste. Gowrie is a variety bred
Squash Seeds – Tahiti Melon
– One of the original ‘Butternut’ squashes, rediscovered in California back in 1977. Sweeter in taste than most modern squash. Larger fruits (up to 5-10kg) with longer necks than modern butternut squash. The longer necks mean there is more flesh to cook with, plus they are easier to cut with a kitchen knife. Each fruit
Squash Seeds – Honeyboat
This wonderful heritage variety tastes just like a sweet potato but is easier to grow! Superb baked in the oven, and no need to peel as even the skin can be eaten. Attractive green stripes fade to orange as fruit matures, giving a clear indication of which to eat first. Can be stored for months!
Squash Seeds – F1 Crown Prince
Steel blue skin and bright orange flesh with a sweet nutty flavour, and averaging 3-4kg (6½-9 lb) in weight. The storage potential is excellent; it can be over 3 months if kept in a frost-free area with good ventilation. Trailing growth habit.
Spinach Seeds – F1 Rubino
A profusion of tasty, red-veined green leaves that can be picked from baby leaf stage through to mature plants. The fast-growing leaves are packed full of healthy antioxidants and fibre, and are ideal for salads or stir fries.
Melon Seeds – Rugoso di Cosenza Giallo
A first-class cantaloupe melon for growing in a greenhouse or cold frame. Cut open the large, oval, yellow fruit to reveal the sweet, creamy, mouth-watering flesh within! Large, oval, yellow fruit For greenhouse or cold frame Sweet, creamy flesh An incredibly refreshing summer treat. While it may need a glasshouse to perform in the UK
Galanthus (Snowdrop) Bulbs – Double Flowers Bulb In The Green
Drifts of graceful nodding snowdrops signal winters end with an understated elegance. These native beauties love to shelter in dappled shade at the base of trees and shrubs, but look equally ay home in an alpine garden, or naturalised in grass. Why not try them in window boxes and containers as part of a mixed
Parsnip Seeds – Tender and True
Excellent for exhibition and for culinary purposes. Long, smooth-skinned roots with considerable resistance to canker. An essential part of your Sunday roast! Specially recommended. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Heritage Seed Variety, 1929 packet details – An admirable Parsnip which increases in popularity every year. Not quite so large as our Student, but more
Marrow Seeds – F1 Sunstripe
A productive variety producing good crops of attractive and tasty golden-yellow, medium-sized fruits. Open growth for easy picking. Harvest August-October.
Green Manure Seeds – Winter Mix
Specially formulated for sowing August-mid October ready for digging in February-April (year 2). Packet of seed covers approximately 4m². Winter Mix – For maintaining soil quality in winter. Contains: Rye and Vetch. Why grow Suttons Green Manures? Green manures are a range of seeds that are sown specifically to improve or assist with soil fertility and/or
Lettuce Seeds – Tom Thumb
Extremely early maturing, tight, solid, small heads with few outside leaves. 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 try slicing up little gem lettuces and sautéing with peas and garlic for an alternative homegrown
Onion (Salad) Seeds – White Lisbon
An ever popular spring onion, very quick growing, with silvery skin and mild flavour. Sow in succession March-early May, and in August or early September to overwinter. No thinning required. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Radish Seeds – French Breakfast 3
Solid, sweet, cylindrical crimson and white roots. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Radish Seeds – Mooli
Developed by James Wong – Quick and unbelievably easy to grow. Crisp, peppery roots can store for winter use. Treat them mean and keep them keen! The dim sum favourite that’s as foolproof as a garden radish to grow. Tastes like: Turnip & radish. The mooli, the exotic oriental sister of the normal radish, is
