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Accent Seed Potatoes (First Early)
An established favourite whose shallow-eyed tubers are notable for their eating quality. The flesh is pale yellow waxy and firm after boiling. Bulks up to produce a heavy crop and mature tubers show no cracking. Considered to be one of the varieties with the best resistance to potato cyst eelworm and slugs.
Annabelle - Seed Potatoes 2kg
Annabelle produces a good crop of medium sized oval tubers. The waxy flesh is a mouth watering buttery yellow perfect for making potato salads. Plants have a tidy compact habit so this variety is ideally suited to growing in Marshalls Potato Gro-Sacks.
April Sowing - Vegetable Seed Collection
This special offer is seriously good value all varieties can be sown direct so you don't even need a greenhouse or cold frame. SAVE £7.00 with this all you need for April sowing collection! April sowing collection consists of 1 pack each of: Broad Bean Jade - These small green beans keep their colour through cooking and freezing and have a real 'beany' flavour. Carrot Nandor - A fine quality 'Nantes' type carrot stump rooted and with resistance to carrot fly - which makes it ideal for gardeners who prefer not to use chemicals. Lettuce Little Gem - The one supermarkets sell by name but you can certainly taste the difference when you grow your own! Lettuce Dazzle - Just like Little Gem you can realistically expect a quick growing crop for an early harvest. Pea Sugar Ann - A fine quality early maturing sugar snap variety. Radish French Breakfast - Great taste and a good variety for children to grow because of the quick results. Salad Rocket - Quick cropping these ornamental peppery leaves are an essential salad ingredient or delicious on their own. Spinach Campania - It is a vigorous variety slow to bolt and mildew resistant. Spring Onion Guardsman - You will be able to pull bunches of fine bulb-free stems over several weeks from one sowing. Swiss Chard Bright Lights - An attractive mixture of stem (chard) colours.
Arran Pilot - Seed Potatoes 2kg
For decades this white skinned and white fleshed variety has been a UK favourite First Early. With a firm waxy texture and lovely flavour it is best appreciated when cooked straight from the garden.
Artichoke - Green Globe
We must admit that for the space globe artichokes take up they are hardy high yielders but their architectural quality makes them virtually dual purpose.So why not grow them in the herbaceous border? Just boil remove the leaf scales one by one dip them in melted butter and then suck out the juicy flesh from each scale. Beautiful and delicious!
Artichoke Emerald seeds 10 Seeds
A thornless, cold-tolerant artichoke producing deep, thick-fleshed, nutty-tasting hearts. Open and erect habit with buds on long stems for ease of harvest. Will crop in its first year if sown early. Sow February-March; harvest July-November. Can be grown as an annual or perennial. A delicious, exotic (yet easy to grow) vegetable, popular in victorian times. COOKING HINTS: Remove outer leaves and boil for 30-45 minutes in salted water.
Artichoke Jerusalem Fuseau Pack of 20 Tubers
Larger and smoother tubers than the common 'knobbly' variety, making them much easier to prepare! Tubers despatched February/March (correct time for planting). Crops 40-50 weeks from planting. A novel winter alternative to potatoes, with a unique and delicious taste. Plant tubers 38-45cm (15-18") apart, 12.5cm (5") deep. Earth up when stems are 30cm (12") high. Harvest October-early spring. Plants can reach 1.5m (5') or more, making an ideal windbreak. Full growing instructions included. 7 - 10 Days HEALTH BENEFITS: Low calorie, so good for slimmers! CULINARY TIPS: Try them boiled, baked, or roasted. Equally delicious in winter stews.
Asparagus Connovers Colossal
Asparagus Connovers Colossal is an old favourite and has been awarded an Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society 2005. This is an excellent variety with bright green spears and deep purple tips and produces an exceptionally high yield. The crowns are best planted between March and May and though a few spears can be cut the following year it is best left for two years so that it can grow into a strong plant. Plant crowns in a trench that is 30cm wide by 20cm deep with a central ridge that is 10cm high. Place the crown on the ridge spreading the roots out evenly and cover with soil. Harvest the spears in mid-spring when they are about 15cm tall and fairly thick.Position: full sun Soil: any moderately fertile soil Rate of growth: average Hardiness: fully hardy3 Crowns per pack
Asparagus Crowns Duo Pack
Asparagus Duo Pack consists of: Backlim (10 Crowns) - Mid to late season male variety with consistent yields of large smooth spears with well closed tips. Gijnlim (10 Crowns) - This early season high yielding male variety produces medium thick mid-green spears with closed purple tips.
Asparagus Pacific Purple
Asparagus Pacific Purple is sweet and tender with the thick purple spears produced in May and early June. This is a high yielding variety that is super sweet when cooked. Asparagus spears are delicious lightly steamed and served with melted butter or alternatively they are suitable for freezing.Asparagus are ideal for growing in a sheltered sunny area of the vegetable garden in well prepared ground to which lots of manure or compost has been added the previous autumn. Keep the area weed free and water plants during dry weather. In autumn cut down the ferny stems once they have turned yellow and before the spears appear in spring make a ridge of soil over each row and apply a dressing of fertiliser.Position: full sun Soil: moderately-fertile well-drained soil Rate of growth: average Hardiness: fully hardy2 Crowns per pack
Asparagus Pea
We admit it - it's not asparagus and it's not a pea but it's rather tasty! This unusual vegetable has a unique flavour a bit like a cross between tender asparagus and fresh young peas. Very easy to grow and does not require any support. Asparagus Peaavery pretty plant which looks as good in the flower border as it does in the vegetable plot. Pick the curiously shaped 'pods' when they are no more than 2cm (1in) long and lightly steam them.
Aubergine - Moneymaker
Try this exotic looking vegetable. An outstanding early variety producing crops of large deep purple fruits. Aubergines need a sheltered sunny position. These superb qualityfruits are both ornamental and tasty!
Aubergine - Ophelia Seeds (Gro-sure)
Aubergines have been grown in China sincearound 500 BC! Opheliais a very decorative baby-fruited Auberginethat produces an abundance of beautiful glossy dark purple fruits of just 50-60g each. The plants are compact and perfectly suited to growing on a sunny patio.
