Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Pluot Tree – Flavour Supreme
This exceptional hybrid produces a heavy crop of large fruits with firm, richly-flavoured, dark red flesh and greenish-maroon mottled skin. Superior to any early season plum, which often have a tart aftertaste, it instead has the aroma of the apricot that forms one half of its parentage. Harvest in September and early October. Grown on
Sweet Corn Seeds – F1 Minipop
Delicious lightly steamed or stir-fried, but also lovely raw in salads or as pre-dinner dips. Harvest when the silk tassels begin to show, prior to pollination.
Tomato Seeds – Faworyt
A compact-growing beefsteak tomato that performed marvellously in our trials, producing large fruit up to 0.4 kg (14 oz) in weight. The pink flesh is particularly delicious and contains few seeds. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Tomato Indigo Rose Seeds – The Black Tomato
A true superfood with extremely high levels of vitamins and antioxidants. Specially bred for extra nutrition. Contains the same antioxidants as blueberries. High disease resistance. Tastes like: Fresh tomatoes and plums. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Tomato Seeds – Summer Sensation Mix
A mix of different size and shaped red tomatoes, guaranteed to brighten any summers day. Tom says: We trial hundreds of new varieties every year in order to make sure only the very best varieties make it into our catalogue. The difference in flavours is incredible – from savoury cooking tomatoes to pure sweetness for
Tomato Seeds – Garnet
Another beauty from the breeder of the extremely popular Sweet Aperitif. Tasty cherry fruits are a distinctive reddish orange, with dark green shoulders, growing on long elegant trusses. Fruits ripen uniformly with heavy yields of up to 150 flavourful cherries per plant. Plants have a strong robust growth habit and are disease resistant.(Cordon variety –
Turnip Seeds – Snowball
A very popular, quick-growing, round variety with white skin and solid flesh of mild flavour. Specially recommended for table and exhibition. 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
Chinese Cabbage Seeds – F1 Natsuki
Perfect for use as a mini Chinese cabbage in stir-fries, or leave it to develop fully for use as a normal cabbage. Dark green outer leaves with pale succulent centre. 150-200g heads. High in vitamins A, C and iron. Harvest in 35-45 days for mini-heads, 55 days for full size heads. Harvest June-October. Tom says:
Pepper Chilli Seeds – Prairie Fire
Masses of very small, upward-pointing peppers that ripen from cream, through yellow, orange and purple to red. Ideal in pots and super for a windowsill. Small, tapering fruits are 1cm (½") at widest, 3cm (1") long. Height 20-30cm (8-12") when grown in a 10cm pot. Rating 70,000-80,000 SHU. (Rating measured in Scoville heat units – SHU. The
Blue Woodruff Seeds – Blue Shades
A beautiful and graceful annual for any flower bed or large container. Plants are covered with heads of unusual tubular, lavender-blue blooms over a long period. Sweetly scented! Flowers June-September. Height 30cm (12"). Excellent in borders Long flowering period Unusual flower shape
Carrot Seeds – Samurai
A red-skinned Japanese carrot with sweet pink inner flesh which holds its colour well after cooking. Sweeter flavour than orange carrots due to its larger sugary core. And it contains plenty of lycopene – the healthy antioxidant that gives tomatoes their red colour. Harvest July-November. 112 days from sowing to harvest (taken from our own
Beetroot Seeds – Albina Verduna
A pure white, fairly smooth round heirloom beet from Holland. Its super-sweet white flesh is unusual and tasty and the greens are also good to eat. This beet is so sweet it can be used for making sugar, and they’re great for kids. Plus there’s no staining or mess when cooking!
Courgette Seeds – F1 Tarmino
Extremely early with deep green, cylindrical fruits 15cm (6") or more in length. Recommended for deep freezing. Harvest June-October. Tom says: A very early variety with good mildew resistance. Tarmino will allow you to keep picking a huge quantity of fruit throughout the summer. I like to pick them when they are small, slice in
Beetroot Seeds – Burpees Golden
A superb, yellow-fleshed beetroot, providing great colour in salads or pickles. Leaves can be cooked like spinach. Row 4.5m (15′). Globe variety. Maturing 12-16 weeks from sowing. No staining, juice doesn’t run when cut. A good source of fibre, potassium and calcium.
Cucumber Seeds – Bush Champion
Large numbers of crisp, bright green slicers from a pint-sized plant. Proven tops for productivity, flavour and wide adaptability for an outdoor variety. Mosaic resistant and very productive. 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:
Catmint Seeds
Unlike other Nepeta species, this is the true catmint. Aromatic silver-grey foliage, and white flowers finely spotted with purple. Cats will chew it, lick it, roll over in the leaves and purr! Dried flowers can be stuffed into cat toys. Said to have medicinal benefits too, including the reduction of fever and headache relief. Height
Kale Seeds – F1 Reflex
A dark-leaved, intensely-curled, fully winter hardy variety which stands well without yellowing and can be picked for much of the year from successional sowings. Although mainly used in winter as mature leaves, it can also be used in summer as tasty ‘baby’ leaves. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. The most reliable, nutritious winter vegetable.
Livingstone Daisy Seeds – Yellow Sunshine
Great for borders and rockeries. Fleuroselect winner. Dazzling daisy flowers and small succulent leaves that appear to have been sprinkled with sugar. Fleuroselect winner. Flowers July-September. Height 10cm (4").
Love-in-a-Mist Seeds – Ebony & Ivory
White and velvety-purple flowers. Dry the seed pods for winter decoration. Pretty, delicate foliage, some with flowers a little like cornflowers, followed by ornamental seed pods. A superb border filler. Flowers July-September/May-June. Height 90cm (36"). HA – Hardy annual. Also known as Love-in-a-Mist.
Morning Glory Seeds – Inkspots
An enchanting ipomoea of these popular, fast-growing climbers, producing a glorious display of large, trumpet-shaped blooms in a range of blue shades, overlaid with deep rose markings. An easy to grow climber reaching 2.4-3m (8-10′). Beautiful on a sunny wall, or in a cool greenhouse. Thrives in poor soils! Flowers July-September. HHA – Half-hardy annual.
