Vegetable Plants
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£2.00A prolific variety, scallop-edged and flattened, this patty-pan variety is sweet, nutty and white-fleshed. Compact bush-type plant is ideal when space is a factor. Cultivation character and habit as per Courgettes, fruiting all summer if picked regularly.
For optimum eating quality, harvest when fruit are a maximum of eight inches in diameter. Use raw in salads and with dips, or steamed, fried and baked. Freezes well. A sunny spot protected from strong winds is essential.
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1 x Plant in 9cm Container
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£3.00Excellent coloured and shaped, purple topped roots with fine grained, good flavoured, yellow flesh, free from bitterness. Swede Magres is an excellent culinary swede, fully winter hardy, with mildew resistant foliage. Try going with mint to deter flea beetles. Height Up to 30cm (11.8in) Spread Up to 25cm (9.8in)
Price per pack of 6 plants
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£2.50
Heirloom Italian variety which produces large canary yellow block peppers, which start green and lush before ripening to yellow and sweet. Ideal for salads, stuffing, frying, grilling or any use. It does well in containers, provided it is watered and has enough warmth and sun. Height 55-100cm. Spacing if not grown in pots – 45-60cm.
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£2.501928. A prolific, vigorous pepper that is great tasting and easy to grow. It features a crisp, mild flavour and, just like the peppers you’ll find in the supermarket, the California Wonder produces thick-walled, blocky green peppers, which turn to red if left on the plant. The fruits tend to be 4” tall and wide and particularly sweet. The plants can reach up to 30 inches tall and grow well either in large pots or planted directly in the ground, and when planted in greenhouses, needs little to no maintenance Spacing 30-60cm x 45-90cm. Harvest from early April/May, or maincrop from July.
Price per plant in 9cm pot
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£2.50
These compact plants deliver generous crops of irresistibly sweet mini peppers, ripening from green to a rich, chocolatey brown. Perfect for snacking straight from the plant, adding to lunchboxes, or bringing a splash of unusual colour and sweetness to salads, these eye-catching peppers are as versatile as they are productive. Grow in a sunny, sheltered spot or greenhouse.
May benefit from staking.
Spacing if not grown in pots: 30cm.
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£2.50A mild, sweet-flavoured sweet pepper with long, slender green to red pods measuring around 6cm x 17cm, with 3-4 lobes, and medium flesh thickness. To help stimulate pollination just brush the flowers lightly with a paintbrush, going from one flower to the next, transferring the pollen. Water with a nitrogen rich feed (tomato feed) once a week when fruiting has begun. Spacing 30-60cm x 45-90cm. Harvest from early April/May, or maincrop from July.
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£3.00
Swiss Chard ‘Rainbow Lights’
(C. Late 19th century) The middle ground between brassicas & salad leaves is often ignored – chards, spinaches & other similar leaves are not only delicious, but can be year-round in productivity with very little effort, plus the back bone of any productive garden, Stems of red, purple, pink, yellow & white with both green & bronzy leaves. Dazzlingly attractive in all stages of growth & chickens love it too!! Very happily takes to cut-&-come-again harvesting & hardy in all but the coldest areas. Good young in salads, or steamed.
Price per 9 pack of multi-sown plants
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£2.00c. 1900. Particularly noted for the exceptional flavour of its fruit, which ripens early in the season. This well-known gardener’s favourite produces medium sized tomatoes with a uniform size and shape and an excellent deep colour. Grow this vigorous cordon variety in the greenhouse or outdoors. Height: 200cm (79″). Spread: 50cm (20″). Recommend to be pinched out after 4-5 trusses when growing outdoors.
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£2.00Old German Heritage variety that will produce vigorous potato-leafed plants. It produces red, golf ball-sized fruits with a dark ‘blood-red’ juice inside. Strong rich flavour. One of the first tomatoes to ripen. Cordon variety so side shoots will need pinching out for best fruit production. Space 50cm apart. Height 180cm+.
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£2.00A meaty beefsteak tomato that is ideal for all types of Mediterranean-style recipes. Juicy, firm and sweet – if not a little mis-shapen – this variety is easier to grow than most larger varieties and cpoes well with British weather to crop reliably. Cordon variety so side shoots will require pinching out for maximum yield. It will reach a height of 1.5m and a spread of 30cm.
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£2.00
A superb heirloom indeterminate variety. The darkest tomato variety available and a nutritional powerhouse, being packed with anthocyanin – the same antioxidant as in blackberries and blueberries. The meaty, rich-fleshed fruit have a smooth, well-balanced and savoury flavour with earthy undertones. Like all anthocyanin tomatoes, the more direct, unobscured light received, the darker the ripe product. Tomatoes will be truly ripe when the shaded base starts to blush. Grow as a cordon pinching out side-shoots. Height 2m
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£2.00A unique deep purple cherry variety, that contains very high anthocyanin levels. Fully ripe when they have black shoulders and red bodies. These 3cm round treat sized fruit have thin skin with a lovely savoury, sweet flavour. Need heat to ripen so will grow best in a greenhouse. Grow as a cordon – with support and pinching out side shoots. Height 2m
Price per plant in 9cm pot