Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Seed Potatoes – Nicola 1kg (Late)
A smooth-skinned yellow potato with a great flavour. Perfect for boiling and salads. Our most popular summer planting variety, planted late summer for a second crop late harvest. All potatoes supplied are certified virus free, and come with full growing instructions. Each 1kg pack should, on average depending on variety, contain 10-15 tubers. Late season
Onion Sets – Electric
Produces outstanding quality, shiny, deep red semi-globe-shaped onions with excellent flavoured pink tinged flesh. Ideal for over wintering, plant in autumn-early winter for harvest May-June. 250g pack.
Bean (Runner) Seeds – St George
In recent RHS trials, St George emerged as the highest-yielding runner bean. Semi-stringless and good flavoured, its attractive bicoloured red-and-white flowers are an added bonus! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Onion Sets – Autumn Champion
This superb onion matures from late July and stores well until the end of the year. Whilst mildish in flavour it’s a little more robust than others offered due to its slightly higher dry matter content. The best choice if you only have room for one! 250g pack.
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Butler
Strong growing plants which crop over a long period. Medium length, very fleshy pods which are quite stringless.
Calendula Seeds – Pink Surprise
Fully double salmon-pink flowers with a touch of delicate orange. Ideal for bedding, borders and cutting. Keeps blooming right up to the first frosts. Height 45cm (18"). HA – Hardy annual. Often known as the ‘Pot Marigold’ – a reference to its use in cooking. The edible petals can be used fresh in salads or
Beetroot Seeds – Chioggia
A striking Italian beetroot with ball-shaped light red roots which, when sliced, reveal highly ornamental rings. They are very sweet-tasting and ideal in salads or as a hot vegetable. Young leaves can be used in salads or cooked like spinach/chard.
Pepper Seeds – F1 Snackbite Mix
You’ll love these snack-size sweet peppers, so sweet you will hardly know it’s a pepper – impressive when spread on a plate for parties and a great healthy snack for kids! The compact fruits contain few seeds. Ideal as a patio plant. So sweet and with a high sugar content, the little 7cm (3") peppers
Courgette Seeds – F1 Golden Griller
Colourful, delicious fruit. Easy to harvest and easy to cook. Just slice and grill. Harvest July-September.
Kohlrabi Seeds – Purple and White Vienna Mix
An attractive due of white and purple varieties with spherical-shaped roots and good holding ability. Use raw in salads or as a cooked vegetable. Both are high-yielding and delicious-tasting!
Pea Mangetout Seeds – Sweet Horizon
This true mangetout pea has a strong growth habit and produces a good crop of sweet and tasty eat all medium/dark green pods. Delicious stir-fried or steamed. Resistant to powdery mildew.
Alyssum Seeds – Wandering Star Mix
A superb mix of bright colours. For ground cover or baskets. Height 30cm (12"). HA/HHA – Hardy annual/Half-hardy annual. An easy to grow, fragrant choice for edging. Flowers June-September.
Poppy Seeds – Ladybird
A distinctive low-growing poppy in a bright fire-engine red with a conspicuous black spot on each petal. Ideal as a rock garden or alpine plant as well as for borders. Height 40cm (16"). RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. HA – Hardy annual. Improved, re-selected strain Bright flowers with ‘ladybird’ spots
Pea Seeds – Early Onward
A heavy crop of pods in pairs about 10 days earlier than Onward. Very popular. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Height 60cm (2′). Early Variety.
Pea Sugar Snap Seeds – Delikett
With a very sweet flavour, this round podded mangetout type pea will add a delicious flavour to your dinner plate. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Height 75cm (30").
Whitecurrant Plant – Blanka
In trials this whitecurrant was by far the highest yielding (yet is ideal for small gardens) providing up to 2kg (4½ lb) of fruit per plant in a season. The large, flavoursome berries are produced on long strigs late July-August, and are delicious fresh or frozen. Highly recommended. Grown from certified stock and supplied as
Sweet Corn Seeds – F1 Swift
An early maturing, extra tender sweet corn with a high sugar content that gives a deliciously sweet flavour. It has a dwarf habit and improved performance in cold soils. Eat raw or cooked. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. SUPERSWEET VARIETY – Has 2-3 times the sugar levels of ordinary sweet corns. Careful sowing in
Tomato Seeds – Tamina
A superb early ‘potato-leaved’ tomato with an outstanding taste (thought to be better than ordinary-leaved varieties), producing a heavy crop of medium-sized, round fruits – approximately 70gms (2½oz). Very little side shooting required. For cultivation under glass or outdoors.
Tomato Seeds – Hundreds and Thousands
This vigorous, easy-to-grow heirloom variety is like no tomato you’ve ever seen before! Perfect for baskets, window boxes or raised patio containers, the cascading plants live up to their name, producing literally thousands of sweet, juicy, bite-sized tomatoes in an inexhaustible supply throughout the summer! (Bush variety – very easy to grow as trusses do
Tomato Seeds – Moneymaker
Heavy crop of medium-sized fruits. Resistant to greenback. For cultivation under glass or outdoors. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
