March
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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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Tomato 'Yellow Pear'
Teardrop Tomato, Heritage (USA 1700's)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€1.95Tomato 'Yellow Pear' is a popular pear shaped cocktail tomato, an open-pollinated heirloom variety that produces large indeterminate plants that are very productive, the fruits grow in large luscious clusters. They have a sweet fresh taste and a beautiful yellow colour, perfect for salads or for snacking.
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Tomato 'Tigerella', Organic
Salad Tomato, Heritage (English)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.35Tigerella is a standard, indeterminate variety, an English heirloom variety that is highly productive and extremely attractive. About the size of a billiard ball, it has a unique, rich, tangy flavour and the stripes give it outstanding eye appeal. Ideal for children.
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Tomato 'Super Marmande' Organic
Beefsteak Tomato. Heritage (French)
Semi-Bush (Semi-Determinate).€2.75Tomato Marmande is a French heritage variety, the favourite large-fruited tomato of Provence famous throughout Europe. It is a classic beefsteak tomato with meaty fruit that has a superb flavour. Perfect for both salads and for cooking. Organic Seed.
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Tomato 'Super Marmande'
Beefsteak Tomato. Heritage (French 1900's)
Semi-Bush (Semi-Determinate).€1.50This French heritage variety is famous throughout Europe, Marmande is the favourite large-fruited tomato of Provence. A classic beefsteak variety, 'Super Marmande' is large, juicy, well flavoured fruit and a great improvement over an already excellent variety.
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Tomato 'Sugar Grape', Organic
Cocktail Tomato, Zuckertraube
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.35Cherry Tomato 'Sugar Grape' is very vigorous variety that produces large trusses of sweet flavoured fruits. This is an excellent variety for indoor production, and a good early producer that is ideal for a short summer season. Organic Seeds
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Tomato 'St Pierre' Organic
Salad Tomato, Heritage (French)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.25Although 'St. Pierre' looks superficially like any old red, round tomato, the plants are reliable and disease resistant and will produce superior quality, full flavoured fruits even in cooler climates. They will often continue to fruit right up until the first frost of the season. Organic Seed.
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Tomato 'San Marzano'
Plum Tomato, Heritage (Italian 1770)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€1.75'San Marzano' is a classic plum/paste type of tomato from Italy, it produces clusters of delicious, elongated fruit.. This variety is a compact and prolific producer and performs best if staked. This heritage tomato is one of the jewels in Campania's crown.
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Tomato 'Roma VF' Organic
Plum Tomato, Heritage (Italian 1958)
Semi-Bush (Semi-Determinate)€2.55Out of stock
Roma VF is a traditional plum tomato that gives incredible yields of very richly flavoured, pear-shaped fruit. These fruits are meaty with few seeds and not much juice, perfectly suited to cooking, but delicious enough to eat fresh. The vines fruit heavily, occasionally needing some support. Organic Seeds
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Tomato 'Red Pear'
Teardrop Tomato, Heritage (USA 1700's)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€1.95This is a lovely variety of tomato which, whilst you would describe it as a cherry tomato, produces fruits in the shape of a pear. Tomato ‘Red Pear’ produce small, solid-bodied fruits that are have a sweet and flavoursome with soft and velvety textured flesh. Perfect for salads, the shape creating additional interest to any dish.
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Tomato 'Minibel'
Cherry Tomato, Compact
Bush (Determinate)€2.35Out of stock
Tomato 'Minibel' is a compact variety that produces bite-sized cherry tomatoes with an irresistible, sweet flavour. This stocky determinate, or bush variety grows 35 to 45cm tall and is suitable for growing in pots or containers.
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Tomato 'Matina' Organic
Early Variety, Heritage (German)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.45An heirloom variety of German origin, this bright red, golf ball sized tomato has the kind of perfect sweet and acidic balance that you normally find in larger, late season tomatoes. Easy to grow and very early maturing, it ripens 55 days after transplant. Organic Seed.
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Tomato 'Kremser Perle' Organic
Early Salad Tomato. Heritage (Austria)
Semi-Bush (Semi-Determinate)€2.45Tomato 'Kremser Perle' is the most famous heirloom Austrian tomato variety. Recognised for being robust and weather-tolerant, this semi-determinate variety bears abundant medium-sized, round, red fruits that have good taste. Very robust and disease resistant, they are eminently suited for cultivation in cooler climes under glass or outdoors. Organic Seeds
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Tomato 'Indigo Rose', Organic
Black Salad Tomato
Semi-Bush (Semi-Determinate)€2.75Combining midnight purple skin with a rosy red interior, tomato 'Indigo Rose' is a dazzlingly delicious, medium-late ripening salad tomato, with semi-determinant growth. Outstanding in several ways with remarkably high levels of anthocyanins, but most importantly they taste amazing. Organic Seeds
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Tomato 'Indigo Apple' Organic
Black Salad Tomato
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.75'Indigo Apple' is a development from 'Indigo Rose', bred to be early ripening. Heavy sets of unripe fruit show lots of purple due to the high anthocyanin level, the same powerful antioxidant found in blueberries. The stunning colour is brought on by sunlight, and will eventually turn almost black. Organic Seeds
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Tomato 'Green Zebra' Organic
Salad Tomato, Heirloom Cross (USA),
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.35The gorgeous, tangy 'Green Zebra' was first introduced in 1983. Since then these beautiful chartreuse fruits have been the centre piece of salads at many top restaurants worldwide and it has become one of the most recognised tomatoes in the Heirloom trade. Rich tasting, sweet but with a tangy taste.
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Tomato 'Gardeners Delight'
Cherry Tomato
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.65If you are of the opinion tomatoes have lost their flavour 'Gardener's Delight' is a must for you. Easy to grow, heavy cropping and extremely sweet in flavour. The true flavour of tomatoes of a century or more ago. RHS AGM