Direct Sow In Spring
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Water Spinach, 'Ong Choy'
Kong xin cai, Kang kong, Asagaona€2.25Chinatown's produce stands offer many items that make only fleeting seasonal appearances, often so brief that many chefs scarcely have time to figure out how to cook them properly before they disappear for another year. One example is water spinach, a common vegetable in Asian cuisine.
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Turnip 'Snowball'
Japanese Type. Heritage (Pre 1885)€2.00Recommended by the N.I.A.B, Turnip ‘Snowball’ is a very popular first-class, globe variety with solid flesh and a juicy, sweet, mild flavour. They are a fast crop, being ready in just five to eight weeks from sowing. With pure white flesh as its name suggests, Snowball is superb for both table and exhibition.
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Turnip 'Purple Top Milan' Organic
Red Top Turnip. Heritage (Italy pre 1888).€2.55Introduced before 1888 Purple Top Milan has smooth creamy-white flat roots with bright purple shoulders and pure white flesh of choice quality. Quick to mature and early cropping, it is an ideal 'catch crop' between slower growing vegetables. Organic Seed.
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Turnip 'Purple Top Milan'
Red Top Turnip. Heritage (Italy pre 1888).€1.75Purple Top Milan is a classic Italian heirloom variety and is still as popular as ever. Highly ornamental, it has smooth creamy-white flat roots with bright purple shoulders and pure white flesh. A strap-leaved variety, quick to mature and early cropping, it is an ideal 'catch crop' between slower growing vegetables.
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Turnip 'Goldana' Organic
Gold Turnip. Heritage (France pre 1888).€2.45Turnip ‘Goldana’ is an improved version of the popular turnip Golden Ball. A maincrop variety that produces uniform round golden roots with tender creamy-yellow flesh. They are much sweeter than regular turnips with an excellent flavour. They can be harvested as a mini-veg or left to mature. Organic Seeds
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Turnip 'Goldana'
Gold Turnip. Heritage (France pre 1888).€2.00Turnip ‘Goldana’ is an improved version of the popular turnip Golden Ball. A maincrop variety that produces uniform round golden roots with tender creamy-yellow flesh. They are much sweeter than regular turnips with an excellent flavour. They can be harvested as a mini-veg or left to mature.
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Turnip 'Zürcher' Organic
Red Top Turnip. Heritage (Swiss pre 1888).€2.40Introduced before 1888 Purple Top Milan has smooth creamy-white flat roots with bright purple shoulders and pure white flesh of choice quality. Quick to mature and early cropping, it is an ideal 'catch crop' between slower growing vegetables. Organic Seed.
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Turkish Rocket
Bunias orientalis€2.10Turkish Rocket is a robust, fast-growing plant and a great, herbaceous addition to permaculture projects, it is one of the most hardy and long-lived of all winter salad greens. It is blessedly simple to grow. Easy to raise, never needs weeding or watering and goes on for ever.
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Texsel Greens, Garlic Kale
Ethiopian Cabbage€1.95Out of stock
Texsel Greens is an unusual vegetable that provides an incredibly tender, smooth-textured salads and sauté greens, this fast growing variety has become a popular choice for use as a cut and come again salad crop. Also known as Garlic Kale, the small delicious leaves have an excellent flavour, a mild combination of spinach and cabbage.
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Tatsoi, Organic
Rosette Pak Choi, Spoon Mustard.€1.50Tatsoi is suitable for both baby leaf and whole head production, it can be harvested anytime during growth, with a mild mustard flavour and good crunchy texture. It has a wide variety of culinary uses, use in salads, soups and in stir-fry. Organic Seeds.
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Tatsoi 'Tah Tsai'
Rosette Pak Choi, Spoon Mustard.€1.40Out of stock
Tatsoi or Rosette Pak Choi is among the most popular of oriental greens and one of the best vegetables to grow in a cool climate. The spoon-shaped, evenly spaced leaves form a plant worthy to be grown for its decorative value alone. Given enough room the plants will form beautiful wide rosettes of regular, concentric circles.
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Tagetes patula 'Tangerine'
French Marigold€1.50Easy to grow and quick to flower, French Marigold 'Tangerine' blooms reliably throughout the summer with vivid orange flowers that are lifted high atop lush, scented foliage. The plant is famously used in companion planting and for making flower garlands.
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Tagetes patula 'Queen Sophia'
French Marigold€1.80Out of stock
Tagetes 'Queen Sophia' is an extremely popular, award winning variety that was introduced in the early 1900’s. Gorgeous to the point of excess, it produces semi-double blooms. Deep orange-to-russet petals that are intricately edged with russet and gold.
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Sweetcorn 'Minipop F1'
Miniature corn, mini-corn, baby corn, candle corn€2.45Out of stock
These bite-sized delicacies can be eaten raw in salads, lightly steamed for tender whole cobs or sliced length ways and added to stir-fries. Minipop F1' is a sweet and tasty variety which is very easy from seed and does not require pollination to produce delicious mini cobs.
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Sweetcorn 'Goldcrest F1'
Mid Season variety. Super Sugar enhanced€2.55Originally bred for the UK climate, Sweetcorn 'F1 Goldcrest' is a very reliable mid season variety, with improved tolerance to cold soil and a clean tidy plant habit that has excellent husk tip protection, Goldcrest will impress with its improved flavour and golden-yellow long cobs. RHS AGM.
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Sweetcorn 'Earlybird F1'
Early variety. Supersweet.€2.70Sweetcorn Earlybird F1 is one of the earliest maturing Supersweet varieties currently available. It has improved tolerance to cold soil. Extremely popular with home gardeners, it reliably produces good yields of uniform cobs that are deliciously sweet. RHS AGM.
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Sweet Cicely, Myrrhis odorata
Garden Myrh, Anise€2.35Out of stock
Sweet Cicely is an attractive plant that is a striking component of herb gardens and hedgerows. Growing to around 90cm, umbels of tiny white flowers appear from spring to early summer. Formerly a widely cultivated culinary herb, the fern-like leaves are deeply divided and smell of aniseed when crushed.
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Sweet Annie, Artemisia annua
Sweet wormwood, Qing Hao€2.45Artemisia annua, commonly called Sweet Annie is a graceful annual with tall stems with fine bright green ferny foliage. With sweetly fragrant foliage it has a wide variety of uses both medicinal and for handcrafting but is most often grown for fresh and dried arrangements.
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Strawberry Spinach, 'Strawberry Sticks', Organic
Strawberry Sticks, Beetberry, Strawbini€2.95'Strawberry Spinach' or 'Strawberry Sticks' is a curious plant that is enjoying something of a resurgence, The berries make a colourful and edible accent in the garden and in salads and the greens are deliciously edible in salads or as a pot herb. Organic Seed.
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Strawberry Spinach, 'Strawberry Sticks'
Strawberry Sticks, Beetberry, Strawbini€2.10'Strawberry Spinach' or 'Strawberry Sticks' is a curious plant that is enjoying something of a resurgence, The berries make a colourful and edible accent in the garden and in salads and the greens are deliciously edible in salads or as a pot herb. -
Squash 'Waltham Butternut' Organic
Winter Squash€2.20Out of stock
If you grow only one squash, grow butternut. Simple to grow and maintain in a sunny spot with fertile, well-drained soil, they can be stored for months and last all winter long giving months of great eating … even if they are beige! Organic Seed.
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Squash 'Uchiki Kuri' Organic
Winter, Onion, Hokkaido or Potimarron Squash€3.20Out of stock
Most people initially grow Uchiki Kuri squash because of its similarity to the familiar pumpkin. What they will not have anticipated is finding it a far superior squash to pumpkin. If you believe that they are only fit for Halloween lanterns allow yourself to be converted. Organic Seed.
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Squash 'Uchiki Kuri'
Winter, Onion, Hokkaido or Potimarron Squash€2.45Out of stock
With butter-coloured flesh that is even smoother than butternut squash, this teardrop-shaped squash with an intense, sunset-coloured rind has a pronounced, distinctive chestnut flavour. Averaging 1.5 Kg, they are very early to mature and have superb storage characteristics.
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Squash 'Table Gold'
Winter Squash, Acorn Squash€2.75Out of stock
Squash 'F1 Table Gold' is a high sugar Acorn type squash that is one of the most productive squash you can grow. Maturing in 85 days, the fruits can be harvested as summer squash or left for autumn. Deliciously sweet and just the right size, to prepare simply remove the seeds and bake.