A dual purpose onion that resists bulbing up enabling it to be pulled for a longer period than regular varieties. With excellent overwintering qualities, it can be sown either late August for late May pulling or in spring and summer for summer/autumn crops. Spring onions will grow in any good fertile soil provided it [...]
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The white Lisbon is traditionally the most popular Spring Onion for successional sowings and features long, white stems and bright green tops. Delicious when young and takes on a more pungent flavour as the bulbs swell. Easy to grow, these seeds should be sown from March to August, successionally every 3 weeks. [...]
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A dual purpose Italian variety with a pungent flavour. Best grown as a salad onion with nice, dark green leaves and a shiny, intense red inner core.When fully mature it shows off its defined red and white inner rings. Sow March-August 13mm deep in drills 30cm apart. If sowing for mature bulbs, sow seed [...]
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A new Shallot that can be grown from seed! The white fleshed bulbs have a colourful red skin, and carry distinct flavour. Each seed produces a single shallot and these should be sown from March to April. Sow thinly into well raked soil where the plants are to be cropped. Make succesional [...]
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This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. Featuring leaf Mustards, Golden Streaked and Red, Komatsuna, Mizuna and Sky Rocket, this mix ideal for sowing in succession, to pick leaves as you need them. This mix can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide [...]
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This innovative blend of leaves will add lots of flavour to your salads. Featuring leaf radish, leaf carrot, wrinkled cress, red kale, red amaranth, purslane and burnet this mix can be harvested almost all year through. Sow seeds thinly 12mm deep in drills 23cm apart. Keep the ground weed free and water well during [...]
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These little cucino cucumbers can be eaten straight from the plant without any peeling.Crisp and flavoursome, the fruit is produced prolifically throughout the season indoors or in a sheltered position outdoors. These prefer a moist and well-draining soil and grow exceptionally well in grow bags. Sow from February to May and harvest from June [...]
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This is a good variety for sowing at any time. It is slow to run to seed and will continuously provide you with compact, crisp, well-flavoured lettuces. Sow thinly from spring to mid summer 6mm deep in drills 38cm apart. A moist well drained soil which has had plenty of compost during the previous [...]
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This curly kale is a very reliable winter hardy which greens at a time when fresh and nutritious vegetables can be in short supply. Reliable to grow in most UK soils, the seeds should be sown from April to early June provided the soil is rich and well drained. Sow thinly in a well [...]
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Reliable and easy, with crops of crisp, crunchy, mild and sweet. Suitable for indoor or outdoor growing. Ideal for decoration, you can make small uneven cuts around the outside of the radish, place in iced water and it will open up into floral shapes. Radishes grow well in most soils, but prefer rich, moist [...]
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