Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Mirabelle Tree – de Nancy
Mouth-watering fruit! This prolific variety produces medium sized golden fruits, often developing a pink flush when fully ripe. The fruits are incredibly sweet and tangy, with a taste of honey. For planting and growing advice read our gage-and-plum-trees-growing-guide.
Tomato Seeds – Alicante
A popular tomato, maturing early and producing an excellent crop of medium sized fleshy fruits of fine flavour. Succeeds well in soil or grow bags. 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.)
Herb Seed – Chives
Perennial clumps of onion-flavoured, tender, spear-like green leaves. Delicious in all egg, potato and cheese dishes, in salads, and sprinkled over soups and potatoes.
Tomato Seeds – Tumbling Tom Red
Combines a habit that makes it perfect for growing in patio containers and hanging baskets, with a taste that is simply the best! The cherry-sized orange/red fruit are produced in profusion throughout summer. (Bush variety – very easy to grow as trusses do not require support and fruits without side shoots being removed.) Tom says:
Herb Seed – Lemon Coriander
Unusual lemon fragrance and flavour, delicious as a garnish in salads, or used in stir-fries. Easy to grow over a long season, it can even be grown in a pot on the windowsill.
Paeonia ITOH ‘Scarlet Heaven’
Itoh Peonies are rare and unusual hybrids between Garden Peonies and Tree Peonies. There are several varieties, all highly sought after by collectors, yet easy to grow and very hardy. This selection forms a tall, upright bush of lush green leaves that stand up well into the autumn. Flowers May-June. Height 70-80cm. Supplied in a
Shallot Bulbs – Griselle
A robust spicy taste that will not disappoint! Best planted October to mid December, it multiplies well to give a good crop of long, grey-skinned bulbs in June. Use green or dried for storage well into winter.
Onion Seeds – Paris Silverskin
Paris Silverskin is a tasty onion that’s excellent for salads or pickling. Easy to grow, there’s no thinning required.
Rocket Seeds
Tasty, tangy leaves to pick as required. Ideal for salads or cooking, it can be harvested all summer. Fast maturing – cut and come again. To keep leaves tender, water frequently when in full growth. Sow small batches fortnightly in succession.
Herb Seed – Sorrel
Perennial, with a sharp refreshing taste. Can be cooked in the same way as spinach, or used in soups and salads.
Pak Choi Seeds – F1 Hanakan
Compact, slow bolting plants with round smooth leaves and thick pure white stalks.
Leek Seeds – Lyon – Prizetaker
Long, thick, pure white stems of mild flavour. Excellent for exhibition if sown in January under glass.
Parsnip Seeds – F1 Albion
An improved smooth-skinned hybrid, producing long, firm, tapering roots of superb flavour and texture. Bred for resistance to the very latest strains of disease, including canker, and therefore, ideal for organic growing. An essential part of your Sunday roast! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Lettuce Seeds – All The Year Round
Traditional favourite with crisp, compact white hearts. Butterhead variety. Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try mixing red and green lettuce leaves to add a note of bitterness to salads, or try slicing up little gem lettuces and sautéing with peas and garlic for an alternative homegrown lunch.
Cauliflower Seeds – Snowball A
Snowball produces cauliflower heads in late June from a greenhouse sowing in January. Well tried and reliable. Summer/autumn maturing.
Lettuce Seeds – Lobjoits Green
Lobjoits Green is a Cos lettuce that gives large, very crisp, dark green upright hearts which are self-folding. Suitable for spring and autumn sowing. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Tom says: Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try mixing red and green lettuce leaves to add a note of bitterness
Cress Seeds – American (Land)
Delicious in sandwiches and salads, and decorative as a garnish.
Lettuce Seeds – Winter Density
A dwarf, compact lettuce with crisp, succulent, dark green hearts. Very popular for autumn sowing; can also be sown outdoors in spring and early summer. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Tom says: Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try mixing red and green lettuce leaves to add a note of bitterness
Onion (Salad) Seeds – North Holland Blood Red Redmate
A dual purpose salad onion especially recommended to add colour to the salad bowl. No thinning required. Will also produce mild flavoured bulbs if thinned to 7.5cm (3") between plants. 10 weeks maturity.
Herb Seed – Basil Sweet
Annual with larger leaves than Bush Basil. A widely used herb, especially in cooked tomato dishes.
