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A classic Italian heirloom which produces beautifully smooth, pale green fruits with subtle mottling and a wonderfully delicate, refined flavour. This early, highly productive variety has an open, bushy habit, making harvesting easy and encouraging a long, generous cropping season when picked regularly.
Thrives in a sunny position in beds, borders or large containers.
Price per plant in 9cm pot
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A classic Italian heirloom which produces beautifully smooth, pale green fruits with subtle mottling and a wonderfully delicate, refined flavour. This early, highly productive variety has an open, bushy habit, making harvesting easy and encouraging a long, generous cropping season when picked regularly.
Thrives in a sunny position in beds, borders or large containers.
Price per plant in 9cm pot
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Flattish, rounded heads, compact hearts and a soft texture. These can be grown nearly all year, have a long cropping period, are slow to bolt and lack the uniformity of more modern varieties. Space approximately 30cm apart.
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A range of varieties all developed for baby leaf or whole head production. All feature excellent colour and texture, plus high levels of mildew resistance. Space approximately 35cm apart. Possible Lettuce types: Butterheads: flattish, rounded heads, soft texture, heart forming, can be grown nearly all year-round. Cos/Romaine: Tall and upright, sweet flavour, loose heart forming. Both large and small types. Crisp/Iceberg/Batavian: crisp leaves, compact hearts. Iceberg: very crisp leaves. Batavian: thinner leaves than Icebergs, but thicker and crispier leaves than Butterheads. Curled/Oak Leaf/Salad Bowl: mainly non-hearting types. Wide variety of leaf textures and colours. Lollo Bionda/Lollo Rossa: non-hearting types with very deeply curled leaves. Lollo Bionda varieties are green, Lollo Rossa varieties are red.
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As the name suggests, this is a purple-topped variety with a white base below soil level. It is a very popular variety with amateur growers producing good quality flattish roots. Turnips can be harvested from March to December, although early turnips are said to be best for flavour. Spacing between plants in the row: 10-15cm
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A wonderful Italian variety – ‘Black of Milan’ is named after its very, very dark green, almost black, skin. Regionally found in the Lombardian area of Italy, it is a very productive plant with an open habit that makes it ever so easy to harvest & keeps the likelihood of disease low. Medium early, slightly ribbed, about 18-20cm in length, a superb allotment variety. Restaurant quality courgette. Superb, outdoor crop. Allow 90cm between plants in a sheltered, sunny position. Harvest regularly.
Price per plant in 9cm pot