Category Archives: Garden
Mustard Cress – Seeds
A delicious salad and sandwich ingredient, Mustard Cress takes up little space and a very small amount of your time. Children find it fascinating to watch it grow as in only a few days it produces healthy and nutritious food. You can grow Mustard and Cress by sowing this packet and a packet of T&M’s
Lettuce ‘Lollo Rossa’ (Loose-Leaf) – Seeds
An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. Lettuce Continental Looseleaf Lollo Rossa is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with deep red edge. Lollo Rossa is very easy to grow and attractive in gardens, tubs, containers etc
Rocket – Seeds
A little known but very useful salad plant, Rocket can be used raw in salads or cooked lightly when it makes a delicious spinach substitute. Late summer sowings of Rocket will carry on cropping into the winter if the plants are protected by cloches
Courgette – Seeds
Courgettes are easy to grow and have a multitude of culinary uses. Harvest the succulent fruits while still small and cook them whole, or let them grow larger for slicing. Courgette plants are prolific croppers and with regular picking produce an abundance of fruit throughout summer. Eat them fresh or freeze courgettes to use later
Globe Artichoke ‘Green Globe Improved’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
Globe Artichoke ‘Green Globe Improved’ bears larger, heavier, and more consistent quality globe-shaped heads. The characteristic sharp spines have been greatly reduced in this improved variety. The astonishingly tasty hearts make a supreme delicacy when pickled, and the base of the leaves can be eaten too. This majestic perennial vegetable makes an attractive addition to
Radish ‘French Breakfast 3’ – Seeds
Crisp, crunchy, mild and sweet. Radish French Breakfast 3 is ideal for decoration – make small uneven cuts around the outside of the radish, place in iced water and it will open up into floral shapes.
Parsnip ‘Tender and True’ – Seeds
Parsnip Tender & True is probably the best flavoured variety to use for both the kitchen and exhibition. Good canker resistance
Radish ‘Cherry Belle’ – Seeds
Bright red skin and crisp, sweet and succulent mildly flavoured white flesh. Radish Cherry Belle is early, very fast maturing, and very slow to go woody.
Parsley ‘Champion’ – Seeds
A selected strain of curled- leaved parsley with a tightly curled, rich green leaf that is ideal for garnishing, and flavouring soups and stews. Try growing parsley indoors, where Parsley ‘Champion Moss Curled’ makes a fine windowsill herb. Height and spread: 30cm (12).
Cucumber ‘Carmen’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
Greenhouse typeCucumber ‘Carmen’ is a unique variety with resistance to all known strains of powdery mildew, scab and leaf-spot, making it ideal for organic gardeners. The fruits are produced in abundance, from 50 to 100 per plant, and have a mild flavour with no bitter after taste. This climbing RHS AGM variety is easy to
Leek ‘Musselburgh’ – Seeds
Leek Musselburgh is a very hardy and exceptionally fine strain of this popular mid season variety
Onion ‘Paris Silver Skinned’ – Seeds
Super little pickling or cocktail onions, Onion Paris Silver Skinned are easy and quick to grow and do well on the poorest soils. Sow thickly and the resultant competition will prevent the bulbs from getting too large for pickling purposes.
Marrow ‘Green Bush’ – Seeds
A very popular variety, early to mature, compact and heavy yielding. The attractive fruits of Marrow Green Bush can be cut at 10-15cm (4-6in) as courgettes or left to mature as marrows. Excellent eaten lightly cooked, freshly picked or suitable for autumn storage. Culinary note: Marrow flowers are edible.
Spring Onion ‘White Lisbon’ – Seeds
Very quick growing salad onions, sow Spring Onion White Lisbon in succession for a continuous crop all spring, summer and autumn
Fennel – Seeds
Fennel may be grown as a herb for its attractive ferny foliage or as a vegetable for its swollen base and stem.
Tomato ‘Suncherry Premium’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
A superb RHS AGM variety, Tomato ‘Suncherry Premium’ is one of the sweetest tasting, red-skinned cherry tomatoes available, making the perfect complement to our ever popular orange-skinned variety ‘Sungold’. Huge crops of shiny, bite-sized red fruits ripen early and continue to be produced throughout the summer. This cordon variety is best grown in the greenhouse,
Lettuce ‘Arctic King’ (Butterhead) – Seeds
A fine lettuce known for its exceptional cold resistance and bred solely for autumn sowings. Lettuce Arctic King is a large lettuce, light green in colour, with tasty, crinkled leaves
Tomato ‘Country Taste’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
CordonTomato ‘Country Taste’ produces meaty, delicious fruits, which can easily attain weights over 227g (0.5lb) if trusses are trimmed to allow 3 or 4 fruits to ripen per truss. This fantastic beefsteak tomato is particularly early to set and ripen when grown under glass. An excellent cordon tomato for exhibition and competitions – you could
Lettuce ‘All The Year Round’ (Butterhead) – Seeds
Medium heads with solid, crisp hearts. Lettuce All The Year Round is very hardy, reliable and dry weather tolerant. Ideal for successional and autumn sowing.
Sorrel – Seeds
This hardy perennial herb is easy to grow and adds leafy texture and a tart flavour to a mixed leaf salad. Young sorrel leaves are used extensively in French cuisine, being particularly flavoursome in fish dishes, soups, stews and sauces. Height and spread: 30cm (12).
