Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
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
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.
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
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 – 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
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
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.
Leek Seeds – Autumn Giant 3 Albana
A top quality leek for a long season of production, giving high yields of flavoursome, medium-sized stems averaging 20-23cm (8-9") in length with little or no bulbing. It also stands extreme weather conditions remarkably well.
Salad Leaves Seeds – Full On & Fiery
Developed by James Wong – If you want to add a bit of fire to liven up your salad this mixture of varieties of wild rocket, mizuna and spicy mustards will tingle your tastebuds. Sow: April-October. Harvest: April-November. Salad leaves are relatively expensive to buy yet are quick and easy to grow If you want
Leaf Salad Seeds – Italian Mix
Speedy Veg – Ready to eat in as little as 3 weeks! Why buy salad leaves from the supermarket when you can grow them easily at home? And you can get up to 3 crops from a ‘single’ sowing! Ideal for gardens or containes. Italian Mix contains – Basil, Dandelion, Cress, Mustard Ruby Streaks and Wild
Salad Seeds – Collection
The Ultimate salad collection to grow at home! Containing six seed varieties – Tomato, Beetroot, Lettuce, Cucumber, Rocket, Onion (Salad) – for you to grow and make tasty, colourful salads. There?s nothing more satisfying than serving up a plate of homegrown goodness at dinner time, and this collection of salad seeds makes it easier than
Salad Leaves Seeds – Oriental Wonders Mix
A variety specially created for stir-fries or salads with a kick! Contains a unique and colourful mix of mustards and tatsoi. This mix of super-fast-growing baby salad leaves can be grown on for stir-fry veg. Ideal for the garden or containers. Excellent blend of spicy and mild. Harvest late March-October.
Kale Seeds – Dwarf Green Curled
Dark green, densely curled leaves. The plants are dwarf growing and compact in habit. Very winter hardy. Tom says: Kale has had a huge resurgence in recent years thanks to it’s incredibly high nutritional values, so much so that we’ve seen headlines like “Kale shortage imminent”. Easy to grow, incredibly productive and with a multitude
Sage Herb Seeds
Perennial shrub with grey-green leaves. Best with pork, duck and goose, and excellent with onions, fish, cheese and liver.
Clematis viticella Plant – Etoile Violette
Clematis ‘Etoile Violette’ is a large deciduous climber, growing up to 4m in height. The ‘Violet Star’ flower can be up to 10 cm in width, with cream coloured stamens. It belongs to the Viticella group of clematis, which are cut back to 20cm above ground level, to a strong pair of buds, in early
Herb Seed – Garlic Chives
A perennial herb which produces broader leaves than normal chives, and has a delicate garlic taste. A tasty addition to salads and cooked dishes.
Nerine bowdenii Mixed
When the colour has faded from late summer borders, Nerine bowdenii ‘Mixed’ will burst into bloom! These late flowering bulbs create an explosion of colour from September to November which never fails to take you by surprise. The spidery blooms are born upon tall upright stems and make fabulous cut flowers. Nerines are best grown
