Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Tomato Seeds – Table Top Tomato (Sweet ‘n’ Neat Red)
Easy to grow tomato with tasty red, cherry sized fruit. Try these bushy little plants that grow to just 30cm (12") high and wide. You can grow this variety on a sunny table top or windowsill, in containers on the patio, or in hanging baskets. The plants become covered in fruit and can produce between
Seed Tape – Lettuce
Goodbye successional sowing! Just sow once and the mix of varieties mature successionally for a super-long harvest period! Harvest for up to 20 weeks! Crisp, tasty lettuces. Sow March-June. Harvest June-October. 6m seed tape.
Radish Seeds – Felicia
Radish Seeds – Felicia A fantastic new colour in French Breakfast types…PURPLE! Long, slender roots which graduate to white at the tip, perfect to grow their red cousins. Crisp fleshed with a good, peppery flavour, easier to slice than round varieties. Can be used for snacking or garnish; even added to stir fry. Sow Mar-Sept,
Mustard Seeds – White
Delicious for salads and sandwiches. Sow two days after cress for maturing together. Ready to eat in just 4-6 days! 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
Melon Seeds – Mangomel F1
Melon Seeds – Mangomel F1 Melon ‘Mangomel’ is a new type of melon that has undertones of mango when ripe! Large, creamy-yellow fruit is bursting with flavour and juice, plus they are delightfully aromatic. This is a ‘Western Shipper type’ x Early Charentais. And guess what? The fruit colour visibly changes from grey/green to a
Luffa Seeds
Luffa Seeds Grow your own sustainable luffa sponge! You’ve probably heard of or used a luffa sponge in your time but, did you know it was actually made from a vegetable? Luffas come from plants similar to a climbing courgette and not from the sea! Why just grow veg when you can grow other household
Lettuce Seeds – Xanadu
Loved for its great taste and excellent quality heads. Small romaine lettuce with an excellent yellow heart. Slightly savoyed dark green and shiny leaves. Very neat appearance and growth. Slow to bolt. Resistant to downy mildew. Use instead of Iceberg to add extra crunch to your favourite salad. Harvest June-October. Height 20-30cm (8-12); spread 11-20cm
Lettuce Seeds – F1 Cosberg Sweet Success
A cross between Iceberg and a Cos lettuce, it has boat-shaped leaves and the taste of iceberg with a hint of Christmas green peas. Its crunchy texture is suited to salads. This lettuce holds its shape when heated making it possible to serve the cupped leaves filled with hot foods. They are also a good
Native British Leaves Seeds – Urban Forager Mix
Native British Leaves – Urban Forager Mix Grow and forage for Native British edibles from your very own doorstep! The Urban Forager is the easy to grow mix of native leafy veg plants. This mix is made up of Chicory, Salad Burnet, Fennel, Mallow, Garlic Mustard and Sheep’s Sorrel. This leafy vegetable plant is the perfect
Tomato Seeds – Marmande
Continental outdoor variety. Large, irregular fruits with firm flesh and few seeds. Distinctive flavour. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.) Tom says: We trial hundreds of new varieties every year in order to make sure only the
Leek Seeds – F1 Below Zero
A British bred variety which combines the vigour of an F1 hybrid with extreme cold tolerance to produce superb quality leeks which can withstand cold winters. It produces pure white shanks with dark leaves that stand well over a long period without bolting and is resistant to rust. An excellent long-standing leek with incredible cold
Tomato Seeds – San Marzano 2
Favoured by chefs, use to make paste or sauce, fewer seeds, great for pizzas. Sowing time February-April. Harvest July-September. Plum fruited variety. Deep red skins, meaty flesh and unsurpassable for making sauces! (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Leek Seeds – Chefs White
A vigorous, easy-to-grow, quick-maturing variety, developed to produce a good length of bulbous white stem, for harvesting in autumn and winter. Can also be used when young as salad leeks, which we think are preferable to spring onions! Excellent eaten with seafood.
Sweet Corn Seeds – Double Standard
A strong-growing, early maturing variety that’s ideal for northern areas as well as those in the south. Produces nice sized cobs of approximately 18cm (7”) in length, with 12-14 rows of sweet, mouth-watering yellow and white kernels. A real treat! Harvest August-September.
Leek Seeds – Lancelot
Leek Seeds – Lancelot This variety of leek is a traditional-looking crop that grows dark green foliage with plants that do no bulb easily. Therefore, these provide straighter stems that are easy to grow on the veg patch and tastes wonderful. The 30-40cm long shanks develop a great proportion of white flesh and even more
Popcorn Seeds – Fiesta
This multi-coloured popping corn is both edible and ornamental. A great way to encourage children to eat veg – watch your cobs leap about with every pop!Tastes like popcorn. As tasty as it is ornamental, Popcorn Fiesta is the one sure-fire way to get kids to eat their veg.Particularly when they get to see the
Leaf Salad Seeds – French Mix
Green salad mix. Salad rocket, Dandelion, Chervil and Cress. Ready to eat in just 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 the same sowing! Ideal for garden or containers. SMALL SPACES made easy! Are you feeling
Strawberry Seeds – F1 Temptation
A delicious ‘traditional’ strawberry with medium sized fruit. Strawberry Temptation is an everbearing variety that will produce a steady supply of bright red fruit throughout the growing season. It produces medium sized fruit on a very well presented plant that is suited to pots and containers as well as open ground production. Just add cream
Patty Pan Seeds – Greendisc F1
Patty Pan Greendisc F1 Try something new with this unique variety! Patty Pan ‘Greendisc’ is a unique squash with mottled green/lime skins. Productive, compact plants, fruits hold their mottling until quite big, then they go solid green (up to 35cm wide). Ideal for beds and borders, reach heights of 51-60cm (20-24"); spread 91-100cm (36-39"). Harvesting
