Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Callaloo Seeds
Developed by James Wong – A delicious spinach-like vegetable with a rich, earthy, broccoli-like flavour. Extremely versatile in the kitchen and decorative in your garden. Origin: India. Sow May-August. Harvest: June-October. Tastes like: A mix of spinach, broccoli & watercress.
Cabbage Seeds – Wheelers Imperial
Dark green compact heads for use in April and early May, and in autumn. SMALL SPACES made easy! Are you feeling left behind by the “grow-your-own” revolution because you live in a gardenless apartment or have a postage-stamp-sized patio? Don’t worry: Anyone with a sunny windowsill, patio, or balcony can cultivate home-grown vegetables. In fact,
Spring Green Seeds – F1 Summer Jewel
Enjoy sweet, homegrown greens for up to 7 months with Summer Jewel cabbage seeds. This loose headed cabbage crops for an impressive 7 months (from May-November). A sweet flavour makes it a popular choice for those summer wraps and salads. Height 20-30cm (812); spread 40-50cm (16-20).
Cabbage Seeds – Greyhound
A favourite early cabbage, with pointed heads of excellent flavour. Sow under glass early February, or in succession outdoors March-July. Summer/Autumn maturing. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Cabbage Seeds – F1 Sunta
An excellent round cabbage for use in salads and coleslaw. Can also be used as conventional cooked cabbage. It’s so sweet, even the kids will love to eat it raw!
Brussels Sprout Seeds – F1 Crispus
Very well adapted to growing under stressed conditions, reliably producing good crops of smooth, dark green sprouts, that hold well. Pick from September to November.
Pepper Sweet Seeds – Rainbow Mix
A blend of mulitcoloured varieties to provide bright and vibrant colours on a plate. Ideal for greenhouse growing. Purple, red, yellow & green peppers
Broccoli Seeds – Purple Sprouting Continuity Mix
Enjoy autumn and spring harvests of succulent, tender spears. Contains 50% Summer Purple and 50% Purple Sprouting.
Pepper Sweet Seeds – Corno di toro rosso
Tasty, tapering red peppers up to 20cm (8") long, which can be harvested either green or red. They have a sweet, crisp, full-bodied flavour that makes them popular among chefs – fresh in salads, fried, stuffed or just grilled on the BBQ. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Broccoli Seeds – F1 Monclano
Produces a main head which, once cut, is followed by tasty side shoots. It is resistant to Club Root and mildew, which is a real plus as both diseases are becoming harder to eradicate as chemical controls have come off the market.
Pepper Sweet Seeds – Californian Wonder
Fruits produced in abundance. Best grown under glass, but can be transplanted outdoors in June in warm, sheltered areas.
Wok Broc (Chinese Broccoli) Seeds – Kichi
The perfect, quick-growing, cut and come again veggie! All parts of Wok Broc plants are edible and it is extensively used in Cantonese cuisine. Stalks can be cooked like asparagus, leaves can be used in salads or like spinach in stir-fries, flower buds are eaten like sprouting broccoli and even the flowers are edible and
Pepper Chilli Seeds – Fresno Supreme
The Fresno is a big crowd pleaser. Easy to grow and easy to eat… these tasty pods are such a treat. A great variety for pickling or cooking. A very versatile pepper making it a must have for your garden. Rating 7,000-10,000. (Rating measured in Scoville heat units – SHU. The higher the rating the
Broccoli Seeds – Purple Sprouting
Very hardy and reliable. Purple shoots mature March-April. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. ‘FOURFOLD’ PACKET. Tom says: The slightly untidy cousin of calabrese, broccoli provides you with the first harvests of the year in January-April. The sweet, earthy flavour complements all kinds of dishes from Asian inspired stir-fries to Sunday roasts.
Pepper Seeds – F1 Cardinal (Purple)
Deliciously sweet fruit that ripen from purple to red Good crops of attractive, tasty peppers. Their beneficial anthocyanin and vitamin content is highest in the middle stage, when purple. For greenhouse or tunnel.
Pepper Chilli Seeds – Pearls
Small, unusual ‘beaked’ fruits, ideal for sauces and salads, with fruity, aromatic flavours and a mild heat. This red-skinned type is quite a find – much rarer than the standard yellow-skinned type, it’s the perfect pepper to pickle!
Beetroot Seeds – Boltardy
Beetroot Seeds – Boltardy RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Beetroot Boltardy is perfect for exhibition. Being deep red in colour and smooth skinned, this beetroot is ideal. Being a winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, the beetroot boltardy will certainly be a favourite in no time at all. Recommended for early sowing.
Beetroot Seeds – F1 Bolder
A superb elongated round golden beet, with sweet, juicy yellow flesh. Ideal for salads or for juicing. And, unlike red types, there’s no danger of staining.
Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) Xenia
Gooseberry Xenia is a popular addition to the summer soft fruit garden with almost spine free stems it makes picking them easier! Awarded the RHS award of Garden merit. Thorny at first, it will lose the thorns as it gets older, large red fruit is surprisingly sweet and will ripen in time for summer gooseberry
Aubergine Seeds – F1 Pinstripe
Ideal for pots or raised beds, this dwarf, compact aubergine produces an abundance of delicious purple, cream-striped fruit, each weighing 80-100g. Patio variety. A beautiful plant for the patio. The silvery-green foliage looks stunning when dripping with pale striped purple fruit. The aubergines are ideal to be picked small but equally can be left to
