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There's really nothing like the taste of tangy, homemade horseradish sauce! Establishing your own crop is so easy by planting our specially-prepared, thongs.
A superb culinary onion and favoured showbench variety, plus a regular award winner - what more could you ask? The Kelsae has a lovely sweet flavour, even at a large size. Your plants will be module grown from true 'raisers stock' and sown over the Christmas period, the traditional sowing time. We will then manage all stages of production up until the transplanting stage, when they will be delivered to you around mid April 2009.
Grow our two varieties of leeks for up to eight months' supply of this delicious and versatile vegetable. Both Carlton F1 and Sultan F1 will stand in good condition for many weeks, needing only to be lifted as required. They are outstanding varieties, which we thoroughly recommend.Why not order an extra pack to lift young in summer as extra succulent and tasty baby leeks? They are superb for adding to stir fry dishes, salads or steamed for a few minutes and served with a cheese sauce.Carlton F1 This early variety is ready from August, but will stand until October if required. The stems are long, with a good length of white. There is little waste and no 'bulbing' with this excellent hybrid.Sultan F1 Takes over from Carlton F1 in November and its slender, dense shanks can be pulled right through to March. High yielding and with a fine flavour, the plants have white tip and rust resistance.
Even if you have no vegetable garden, why not grow your own lovely lettuces in patio containers or growing bags? Our carefully chosen range ensures you will have an interesting range of salad leaves with different colours, textures, sizes and shapes. They will grow quickly to keep you supplied throughout the summer.Counter A larger cos lettuce than Little Gem Pearl, this 'romaine' lettuce has a crisp texture and a great flavour.Little Gem Pearl We all love Little Gem cos lettuce, but this superb selection is even better! Tight little heads are just packed with sweetness and succulence. Simply mouthwatering.Delicato This bronze/purple looseleaf lettuce is a real stunner in the salad bowl - and so versatile! Pick as baby leaves, when you 'cut-and-come-again' or leave to develop into larger plants. Either way, it is delicious.Balmoral This top class iceberg (crisphead) lettuce produces good sized, densely packed heads with a great texture and flavour. The plants are slow to bolt and have very good resistance to mildew.Sunny This great little butterhead has been a favourite for many years. Its compact, soft hearts are so sweet and tasty.
Matures outdoors in good British summers, it was bred with this in mind. Even better in a greenhouse. Sweet fruits with attractive, dark orange flesh of great quality and flavour.
A superb new variety which gives high yields of almost spherical bulbs with rich, golden skins and firm, well flavoured flesh. Hercules shows very good resistance to bolting and will keep for several months. We thoroughly recommend this outstanding strain.
Red Baron A most attractive and high yielding red onion. The red and white ringed bulbs will keep until the following spring.Sherpa F1 A classic globe-shaped onion with a wonderful, golden skin. Plants have good tolerance of downy mildew and the strongly flavoured bulbs keep well.Arthur F1 A great choice for salads and stir fry dishes, this high yielder produces uniform bulbs, which store well and have a great quality and flavour.
No kitchen garden is complete without its onions, garlic and shallots and we offer some of the very best of each. Growing onions from sets (immature bulbs) is a sure-fire way of having a fine crop next summer, which can then be stored for several months. They mature quicker than seed-raised onions and are less demanding in their requirements, making them a great choice for both experienced and new vegetable gardeners. A 250gm pack contains around 80 sets for planting. Hercules A superb new variety which gives high yields of almost spherical bulbs with rich, golden skins and firm, well flavoured flesh. Hercules shows very good resistance to bolting and will keep for several months. We thoroughly recommend this outstanding strain.Setton An improvement on Sturon, the bulbs are slighter flatter and it matures a few days later, but Setton gives a heavier yield of onions which store a little better. Golden skinned and a good keeper, this is also a good variety to choose for showing.Sturon A reliable and consistent performer, the fairly large, straw coloured bulbs have a good flavour and will keep well.
White skinned, as its name suggests, Snowball has a lovely, mild flavour and the bulbs keep well. A great choice for baking whole with the Sunday roast!
One of the latest onions to mature, we recommend this high quality variety with its large, golden brown bulbs which store very well.
A reliable and consistent performer, the fairly large, straw coloured bulbs have a good flavour and will keep well.
We have carefully chosen this range for its ability to crop well (and to look good!) in patio containers. They can also be grown in a warm, sheltered spot in the main garden, if you wish. Either way, they are easy to grow and manage and will provide you with plenty for the salad bowl through the summer.Aubergine Ophelia F1 Expect plenty of shiny, dark purple 'baby' fruits from this compact and high yielding aubergine. Essential in moussaka and great as part of a platter of roasted vegetables.Cucumber Bush Champion F1 The plants remain bushy and compact, giving good crops of long, bright green fruits with a lovely crisp texture and 'proper' cucumber taste. The plants have resistance to mosaic virus.Pepper (Sweet) Orange Baby F1 Really ornamental, these neat, compact plants become adorned with mini sweet peppers with a great flavour. Perfect for popping into salads or stir fry dishes.Pepper (Hot) Super Chilli F1 How about up to 300 really hot chilli peppers from just one plant? It's possible with this high class variety which bears its fiery crop on compact, slightly spreading plants.Tomato Tumbler F1 For hanging baskets, window boxes and patio pots, this takes some beating! The sweet, juicy early tomato has relatively large cherry fruits. Highly recommended, for outdoors only. Does not require staking or side shooting.
(Second Early) Bred from the famed Pink Fir Apple, this outstanding variety is ready to harvest around three months earlier, so there is no need to wait for those firm, waxy tubers with that distinctive, rather nutty taste. Anya's tubers are also smoother and much less knobbly - perfect served peeled or unpeeled, hot or cold. Plants are highly resistant to scab.Multibuy - Buy 2 x1.5kg for £7.65
Britain's favourite first early for 30 years, it is still a very good all-rounder. The oval tubers of medium size have shallow eyes, white skin and creamy white flesh. Plants show good drought-tolerance and scab-resistance.Multibuy - Buy 2 x 1.5kg for £7.65
(Maincrop) Introduced in 1885, this French-bred favourite has a fine flavour and waxy texture. Great for salads, excellent sautéed or crushed and absolutely irresistible eaten cold with the skin still on! The tubers are long and slightly curved.Mulitbuy - Buy 2 x 1.5kg for £7.65
Bred during the reign of Queen Victoria and still very popular in Ireland where it is often offered as 'Queens'. The kidney-shaped tubers have smooth, white skin and white, floury flesh. They have a very good flavour.Multibuy - Buy 2 x 1.5kg for £6.95.
A great favourite with our allotmenteer customers. Cara gives heavy yields of smooth skinned, round tubers with shallow red eyes. It is ideal for baking and plants have good resistance to eelworm, virus and blight.Multibuy - Buy 2 x 1.5kg for £6.45.
(Second Early) This French-bred, highly popular potato is the salad variety of choice of many discerning chefs. The smooth skinned tubers have a light yellow flesh which has a wonderful flavour and delightfully waxy texture. A further advantage is its resistance to scab and blight.Multibuy - Buy 2 x 1.5kg for £6.45
