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When looking through your seed catalogues at the start of the season, it can often be daunting at how much choice there is available. If you’re an experienced gardener, you might already have your firm favourites which you grow year after year. However, if you’re new to growing from seed or want to try growing a new type of vegetable which you haven’t grown before, that’s where our DTB choice comes in. Read more
We conduct extensive trials each year to test, trial and compare both new seed varieties and our golden favourites to find out which varieties perform the best. These are then scored on the most important growing factors (as voted for by our customers). The main considerations we look for in trials are:
Reliability (germination/performance)
Taste
Disease resistance
Yield
Ease of growing
From these results we then select our DTB choice varieties based on the varieties that score the highest year after year. In our opinion, these varieties are the best choice (in our opinion) to grow if you are only planning on growing a single variety of cucumber, bean, pumpkin and so on… of course if space permits its best to grow a few different varieties to experiment with... Show less
