Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Deutzia hybrida Plant – Perle Rose
Deutzia × hybrida ‘Perle Rose’ is a bushy, multi-stemmed, small to medium, shrub with pale pink flowers in clusters during early summer. Can be pruned after flowering to keep its shape in check. Height 200-250cm.
Rocket Seeds – Wild
A tasty ‘cut and come again’ rocket producing masses of attractive strong-flavoured wild rocket leaves. Ideal for salads or cooking, it can be harvested all summer.
Shallot Banana Seed – Zebrune
Delicious, large, elongated shallot onion hybrid type bulbs that are brown-skinned with a pinkish tinge. Best grown in a sandy, well drained soil. Popular with TV and Michelin starred chef as it is easy to peel and slice plus retains its flavour well when cooked.
Spinach Seeds – F1 Comred
More productive than regular spinach, this is a versatile salad must-have, perfect as baby leaves or as a mature vegetable. The attractive red leaves have a mild mustard tang and they are highly nutritious and full of iron.
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.
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.
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 – 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
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
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.
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).
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
Parsnip Seeds – White Gem
Specially bred by Suttons, Parsnip White Gem is highly recommended for use on all soils. Shorter roots than Tender and True, with fine, white smooth skin. An essential part of your Sunday roast! Considerable resistance to canker.
Radish Seeds – French Breakfast 3
Solid, sweet, cylindrical crimson and white roots. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Purslane Seeds
Developed by James Wong – Foolproof to grow. Unusual refreshing flavour. Continual harvesting during growing season. Succulent creeper with leaves that taste of mangetout and bramley apples. Once a hugely popular salad vegetable in Tudor England, the ancient herb purslane is still a foodie staple all over the Mediterranean, from France to Greece, where it
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 – 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
Onion (Salad) Seeds – Red & White Mix
Fast maturing spring onions with excellent flavour to liven up summer salads. Contains 50% White Lisbon and 50% Apache
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
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
