Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Benchmaster
Tried and tested for the UK climate, producing pods of over 40cm (16") in length! It boasts an excellent flavour and a long harvest period. Not only a great culinary variety but also ideal for the exhibition bench. A top quality, red-flowered, British-bred bean.
Sweet Pea Plants – Cupani (Species type)
Very fragrant species introduced to Britain in 1699. Maroon upper petals with violet wings making lovely cut flower posies. The original sweet pea Cupani was first cultivated by a Sicilian monk, Father Francis Cupani who found this intensely scented wild sweet pea growing near his monastery in 1695. Species type. Delivered in packs of 12
Squash Seeds – F1 Hunter
An early ripening butternut variety providing a very heavy crop throughout late summer and autumn. Fruit are a lovely buff colour, with fine-flavoured orange flesh, and store well. Average fruit weight 800g – 1Kg. Trailing type, but shorter than American bred varieties
Pepper Sweet Seeds – F1 Blockie Mix
A mix of early, heavy-cropping, red, yellow and orange bell/blocky peppers, with a mild, sweet flavour. Average weight of approximately 180g per fruit. For greenhouse or, when mature, the patio. These F1 hybrids will be very consistent in their growth.
Aubergine Seeds – F1 Galine
This superb, heavy-cropping variety will produce clusters of small, purple, egg-shaped fruit. The plants are extremely ornamental, and the fruit are very tasty! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Leek Seeds – Musselburgh
An extremely winter hardy variety. Good length, tasty white stems. A milder flavour substitute for onions in many culinary dishes. Thick, white, tasty stems Extremely winter hardy Traditionally popular variety Heritage Seed Variety, 1919 packet details – Greatly improved stock of Musselburgh leek, far superior to the ordinary strain. Highly Commended, Royal Horticultural Society, 1918.
Pumpkin Seeds – Hundredweight
A superb pumpkin that produces enormous yellow/orange-skinned fruits – great for competitions, but also delicious to eat! The yellow flesh gives colour in salads or pickles and the leaves can be cooked like spinach. Great beginner variety.
Parsnip Seeds – F1 Gladiator
The long tapering, wedge shaped roots with smooth white skin, have considerable canker resistance. Highly recommended for both the table and exhibition use. An essential part of your Sunday roast! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Great beginner variety.
Onion Seeds – F1 Santero
A superb early maincrop onion with excellent resistance to Downy Mildew. Produces a heavy crop of delicious copper-brown, round-oval bulbs. Shows good resistance to bolting and stores well too.
Onion Seeds – F1 Kamal
A first-class, deliciously flavoured onion with a good strong red colour, both inside and out. The bulbs are a very uniform round to globe shape, with thin necks, show good tolerance to mildew, and store well.
Speedy Veg Seed – Leaf Salad Spicy Mix
For salads with a spicy twist, choose this mix of Rocket, Red Giant Mustard, Green Wave Mustard and Mizuna Kyoto. 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
Tomato Seeds – Red Alert
One of the earliest fruiting tomatoes and a popular outdoor bush variety. Ideal for border or container growing and requires no support. The sweet, tasty fruit should be ready to pick just three months after sowing! (Bush variety – very easy to grow as trusses do not require support and fruits without side shoots being
Leek Seeds – Blue Green Autumn Neptune
An impressive leek producing flavoursome white stems that are ready to harvest from November to January. Shows good winter hardiness and resistance to rust.
Bean (Broad) Plants – Aquadulce Claudia
Bean (Broad) Plants – Aquadulce Claudia The delicious customer favourite! The Aquadulce Claudia is a gardeners favourite broad bean. The best broad bean for autumn sowing, you will yield handfuls of early, heavy crops of long pods filled with delicious sweet and tender beans. Height:100cm (39")& spread: 45cm (18"). RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Kale Seeds – Scarlet
Try these deeply curled, crimson/purple leaves in salads, cooked or as an ingredient in soups. The colour, flavour and texture is outstanding! Recommended for freezing. 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
Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor
Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. The Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor is an excellent shallot with a great taste. With a slightly elongated shape, this copper coloured shallot has a great tasting, pink tinged flesh. There’s no wonder why the Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor has won the RHS
Shallot Bulbs – Red Gourmet
An early-to-mature, red-fleshed variety with a spicy taste, excellent for use in salads and cooking. Plant from February onwards.
Tomato Seeds – F1 Fantasio
A superbly flavoured tomato, bearing a prolific crop of medium/large fruit, each up to 200g (½ lb) in weight. Shows tolerance to tomato blight. For cultivation under glass or outdoors.
Tomato Seeds – Ailsa Craig
Ailsa Craig is a traditional favourite, producing medium-sized tomatoes of good flavour. Suitable for cultivation under glass or outdoors. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Strawberry Seeds – Regina
A first-class strawberry producing healthy foliage and masses of sweet-tasting fruit that are particularly large for an alpine type. Just add cream for a mouth-watering summer dessert! Easily grown, prolific and delicious.
