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Seedling and Plant List 2011

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plugs.jpgBelow is a list of the seedlings which I am producing for sale this year. The seedlings are grown in plugs 3cm x 2cm and 4 cm deep. They are ready for sale when they have developed a good root system and plenty of healthy top growth. This means that they are ready to be planted straight into your soil. Some of the seedlings, for instance Rocket, Oriental Salads and Claytonia, will then be ready to eat in just 2-3 weeks time. 
 
You can pre-order them to collect and pay at Farmers' Markets
. Or it may be possible to arrange for me to deliver them to you.

The list is arranged alphabetically by common name followed by variety. Please enter the number of plugs or pots that you require. Once you have filled in your details at the bottom of the form and clicked on 'submit', I will get back you and let you know when I expect the plants to be ready, how much your order would total and discuss collection. Alternatively, you can pre-order a Ready-To-Go Vegetable Garden where I have chosen good all-round varieties for you (click
here).

Please note that I do not sell my plants by post.


Plants cost 20p each in plugs (or £10.00 for a tray of 54, mixed to your requirements), or in pots from 60p as marked. Most plants will be sold in plugs unless marked as pots.

All seeds are organic where possible, those marked with * are not organic but are not treated with artificial chemicals. Seeds with the suffix F1 are hybrid varieties and the plants will not produce viable seed. Varieties in red are from the Real Seed Catalogue; some are produced using organic methods, some are not - you can read about their policy here. Thanks to the Real Seed Catalogue folk who have given permission for me to illustrate the seedling list with photos from their website.

All seeds have been supplied by:

The Organic Garden Catalogue,

Tamar Organics,

The Real Seed Catalogue,

Seedlings

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Aubergine,
Pots £1.80 each.

De Barbentane - Fast maturing so ideally suited to the British growing season.

Long Purple - good crop of long, black slender fruits up to 17cm.

Diamond - Ukranian aubergine suited to a cooler climate.
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Basil

Sweet Genovese - Common culinary variety, productive with a strong flavour.

Lemon - basil with lemon  fragrance which can be used in teas. Grows to 30cm.

Petra - Large dark red/purple leaves. For attractive addition to salads.

Mammoth - Very large leaf with excellent sweet flavour.
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Beetroot

Bolivar, Detroit 2 - Tender and resistant to bolting, for early or late harvest.

White - Tastes like beetroot but white, productive and fast growing.
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Sanguina - Large conical blood-red roots, sweet and succulent.
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Leaf beets

Erbette - Perpetual spinach, can be grown all year round, highly productive.

Swiss chard - Like spinach with a broad, crispy mid-rib.

Rainbow chard - Multicoloured version of Swiss chard.

Golden - Chard with fabulous yellow stem and good flavour.
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Broad bean

Witkiem - Early maturing bean for spring sowing.

Hangdown green - Excellent flavour and highly productive.

Superaquadulce - Very high yielding bean.

Runner beans
Pots 60p each

Enorma - Popular variety with heavy crop of long smooth pods.

White Emergo - White flowering with lovely taste and texture.

French Climbing Bean
Pots, 60p each

Barlotta di Fuoco - green pods streaked with red. Pick young or leave to dry.

Cosse Violette - Vigorous early purple bean.

Blue Lake - Popular garden variety, tender and stringless pencil bean.

Cobra - Long straight pods cropping over a long period.

Dwarf French Beans

Maxi - Early, medium green; easy to pick, resistant to weather damage.

Philletta - Very tasty new filet bean up to 20cm long.

Broccoli

Purple sprouting Early - Most popular variety with an abundance of succulent spears from late February.

Purple Sprouting Late - A later version of the above.

Rapini San Marzano - Sprouting broccoli that crops in 60 days from sowing.
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White Sprouting* - Delicately flavoured creamy white spears.

Brussels Sprouts

Dakmar 21 - Large tasty sprouts ready for Christmas dinner.

Sanda - Early cropping and very hardy.
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Seven Hills - Sturdy, compact plant suited to an exposed site.
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Autumn Cabbage

Marner Grufewi - Savoy cabbage, crops through winter, very popular.

Piacenza - Italian Savoy with bright green leaves.
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Spring Cabbage

Myatts Offenham Compacta - One of the best for winter greens, forms a pointed cabbage in April/May.

Wintergreen - Big cabbage, sow early for winter use.

Summer Cabbage

Golden Acre - A fine early summer ball-headed cabbage.

Marner Lagerweiss - Large, solid white cabbage, stands and stores well.

Derby Day - Another early ball-head, resistant to bolting.

Winnigstadt - Late summer pointed cabbage.

Precoce de Louviers - Medium green conical cabbage for late summer.
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Rouge Tete Noir - Reliable red cabbage, good for colelaw and salads.
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Calabrese

Belstar F1 - A hybrid that produces a large, tasty head in summer and autumn.

Green heading - non-hybrid for late summer cropping.
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Cape gooseberry - Pots, £2.00 each

Cape gooseberry* - Perrenial plant grows up to 2m high producing delicious yellow fruit which can be used in fruit salad, jams and pies.

Cauliflower

Goodman - Sow in late winter for a June/July crop; nice and firm.

Snowman - Popular small plant for a late summer.

Verde Marchigiano - Nice light green cauliflower, matures in early autumn.
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Autumn Giant - Large, dense autumn cauliflower.
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Romanesco, Ottobrini - Mid way between a cauliflower and calabrese, beautiful pale green heads ready in autumn.

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Sicilia Violetta - Purple cauliflower ready in late autumn.
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Celeriac

Ibis - Fast growing and smooth, stores well.

Celery

Tall Utah - Fabulous green celery, requires no blanching, tasty and crunchy.

Full white - Self-blanching and mild tasting celery ready from October.
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Giant Red - Pinky red stems, tie with string for tender, well flavoured celery.
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Chicory

Palla Rossa (Radicchio)  - Tight ball-head chicory turns deep red in cold weather, fine, intense flavour.

Pan de Sucre - A large dense, conical chicory with a milder flavour than most.

Courgette
Pots, £1.00 each.

Genovese - Delicious early variety with fine, light green fruits and an open bush habit.

Gold Rush - Lovely yellow variety with excellent texture and taste. Long season.

Nero Di Milano - Dark green cylindrical fruits of fine quality. Very popular.

Cress

Land Cress - Similar to watercress, very productive and tasty; winter hardy.
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Cucumber
Pots, £1.50 each

Marketmore - Large, dark green, bitter-free fruits, ver prolific; cool/damp tolerant.

Soyu Long - Chinese variety which grows very long and thin; high yields of sweet fruit.

Tanja - Very fine, large outdoor cucumber.

Wautoma - High yields of striped green fruit, excellent plant indoors or out.
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Parisian Pickling - Pick small for pickling or grow on for salad fruit.
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Endive

Bianca - salad leaf, similar to oak leaf lettuce, good cut-and-come again salad.
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Florence Fennel

Finale - Solid, heavy bulb, delicious raw in salads or braised.

Mantovano - Nice summer variety, resistant to bolting.
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Kale

Pentland Brig - A fine flavoured kale, very productive, very hardy.

Nero de Toscana - Long, almost black leaves with a milder flavour.
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Halbhoher Grun Kraser - dwarf green curled, very frost-hardy.

Red Russian - Attractive purple and green serrated leaf with a mild flavour.

Kohl Rabi

Azure star - Fine flavoured purple variety.

Gigant - Very large green bulbs. It has been bred for good winter storage.
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Leeks

Axima - very long shafted variety which crops from mid September until December.

Atlanta - Tall uniform plants for harvesting from December until April.

Blue-Green Winter - Long thick white stems; harvest from November - March.

Lettuce

Buttercrunch - Popular lettuce, soft outer leaves and a crispy heart.

Vanity - Batavian lettuce (similar to an iceberg but non-hearting) for summer.

Paris Island - Excellent medium cos.

Lollo Bionda - Green, fringed loose leaf lettuce.

Salad Bowl - Masses of tender light green leaf.

Red Salad Bowl - A red version of Salad Bowl.

Orsay - Winter greenhouse little gem.

Erika - Butterhead lettuce for winter and early spring.

Little Gem - Mini Cos lettuce, tasty and crunchy.

Brun d'Hiver  - Compact cos with softer heart and red leaf.

Reine de Glaces - Superb crisphead lettuce, light green frilly leaf.
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Red Iceberg - Dramatic red iceberg. Tight round heads wrapped in deep red leaves.
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Australian Yellow - Very large open-headed lettuce, bright green-yellow leaves.
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Devils Tongue - Large upright lettuce with glowing red/purple oval leaves.
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Melon
Pots, £1.80 each.

Hales Best Jumbo - Mid sized creamy yellow fruits with a delicious flavour, best grown in the greenhouse.

Prescott Fond Blanc - Colourful melon, with a gently ribbed surface and beautifully variegated and marbled skin.
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Watermelon - Blacktail Mountain - Very early watermelon, nice sweet red flesh, for growing in a polytunnel or greenhouse.
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Onions from seed

Rijnsburgers 5 Balaton - Large, firm golden variety, good taste, stores very well.

Red Baron - Large red bulb with a fine flavour.

Salad Onion
(Spring Onion)

Ramrod - All year round salad onion, good size and not too strong flavour.

Guardsman - Unique salad onion with very strong upright foliage.

Oriental Salads

Namenia - Pale serrated leaf has a mild peppery flavour, grow from late summer to spring.

Green In Snow - Strong flavoured leaf, very hardy.

Pak Choi - Fine sturdy plant, deep green leaf and white stem, crunchy and fresh taste.

Giant Red Mustard - Deep red leaf with a hot peppery taste, very productive.

Mibuna - Long, dark spoon shaped leaves, pleasantly peppery.

Serifon - Broad green leaf with pungent flavour, vigorous and hardy.

Bekana - quick growing oriental that makes large open heads of pale green leaves.
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Komatsuna - Japanese Kale, lots of broad green leaf for the winter.
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Pak Choi - "Tai Sai" - unusually large and long white stemmed open type.
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Kailaan Stem Broccoli - Pick leaves, shoots and stem and use like broccoli.
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Parsley

Moss Curled - The classic curly parsley, highly productive and very tasty.

Plain French - Stronger flavour with an abundance of dark green sturdy leaf.

Italian Giant - vigorous and tasty, grows up tp 75cm high.

Peas, Main-Crop

Progress No. 9 - Prolific and early with fine flavour; 45cm high

Ambassador - Semi-leafless for easy picking, excellent medium sized peas; 75cm high.

Meteor - Very early dwarf variety, good flavour, very hardy; 35cm high.

Avola - High yielding first early pea. Tasty and sweet 60cm.

Rondo - Late maturing, heavy yielding, tasty peas in large pods; 90cm.

Telephone - Very tall old variety with big pods of sweet tasty peas.
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Peas, Mangetout

Sugar Dwarf Sweet Green (Norli) - Super deep green mangetout; 60cm high.

Golden Sweet - Yellow pod with a purple flower, decorative and delicious; 2m.
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Bijou - Giant sugar pea, pods up to 18cm long, but still very tasty.
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Sweet Peppers
Pots, £1.50 each.

California Wonder - Sweet and mild square fruit, good either green or red.

Long Red Marconi - Long, red and sweet, productive and easy to grow.

Yolo Wonder - Large, thick fleshed dark green fruits wiht a red stripe. Very prolific.

Kaibi Round - From Bulgaria, medium sized red fruit, thick skinned, juicy and well flavoured.
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Orange Bell - huge orange fruit, very sweet, vigorous and early.
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Purple Beauty - Almost black, early ripening and sweet.
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Chilli Peppers
Pots, £1.50 each.

Hungarian Hot Wax - Large fruit starts pale and mild, gets hotter as it ripens through orange to bright red; easy to grow and productive.

Ring Of Fire - Hot, hot, hot! Masses of long thin red peppers, great for drying or pickling.

Wenks Yellow Hots - Attractive yellow fruit, medium hot, eventually ripening to red.
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Iranian Big Round - Very hot fruit the size of cherry tomatoes, early and productive.
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Baila Shipka - Medium bush with small red conical fruit, early, productive and fiercely hot.
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Winter Purslane

Claytonia (Miner's Lettuce) - Cool season salad leaf, highly productive spade shaped leaves will tolerate the winter and give several cuts.

Rocket

Rucola - Salad, producing lots of peppery leaf, flavour intensifies with age.

Esmee - Unusual shaped leaf, very tasty and vigorous.

Sorrel

Belleville - Easy to grow perrenial salad with pale green leaves and lemony flavour, good alternative to lettuce; very hardy.
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Spinach

Giant Winter - Excellent winter hardy spinach, highly productive.

Matador - Grow all year round, nice dark leaf.

Squash
Pots, £1.00 each.

Uchiki Kuri - Onion shaped orange squash, mid sized with good nutty taste.

Custard White - Creamy white, flat summer fruit with unusual flavour.

Buttercup - Dark green with a delicious flavour for roasting and soup.

Musquee de Provence - Large fruit up to 8kg each on a vigorous plant; stores well.

Sweet Dumpling - Lots of small fruit, great for stuffing or baking whole.

Jack O'Lantern - Perfect mid-sized Halloween pumpkin.

Butternut - Large, productive fruit, stores well.

Green Hokkaido - Superb nutty flavour, medium sized fruit, stores well

Burgess Vine Buttercup - Fabulous squash, easy to peel and stores well.This is a good choice for those with smaller plots as the vines are not too huge.
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Blue Banana - Rare, highly productive with long fruit, easy to cook and stores well.
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Sweetcorn

Golden Bantam - Used as the basis for the new super-sweet hybrids; 18cm cobs with excellent flavour.

Tomato
Pots, £1.00p each.

Zuckertraube - Large trusses of tasty cherries. Vine tomato for protected growing.

St. Pierre - traditional tasty French vine variety with large fruit. Productive.

Matina - Early and productive salad tomato, very reliable vine type.

Yellow Perfection - Thin skinned, super tasty vine tomato. Very productive.

Koralik - New ultra early bush tomato, high yield of small sweet fruit.

Berner Rose - Fine large pink tomato; easy to grow vine type.

Golden Queen - High yielding yellow vine tomato, exceptional flavour.

Principle Borghese - Bush type for cooking, bottling and drying.

Costuloto Fiorentino - Large vine tomato, great for salads and cooking.
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Red Cluster Pear - Hundreds of small pear shaped fruit, bush type.
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Red Zebra - Red and orange striped vine tomato with exceptional flavour.
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Purple Ukraine - Early purple plum tomato, beautiful and delicious, vine type.
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Tomatillo - Pots £1.50

Verde Pueblo - Similar to a Cape Gooseberry but with larger fruit and a lovely zesty taste, often used in Mexican cooking, chutneys, salads and salsas.
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I am also producing herb plants and flower seedlings in limited quantities. See below for a list of varieties which will be sold from my Farmer's Market stall as they become available.
Please contact me if you would like to pre-order herbs or flowers.

HERBS - Pots £1.00 each.

BASIL, Lemon - Perennial, leaves for tea.
BASIL, Red leaved Petrix - Annual, purple leaves for pesto, salads.
BASIL, Greek - Annual, compact plants with tiny leaves, highly aromatic.
BASIL, Mammoth - Annual, Big leaves.

HYSSOP - Perennial, minty, sage like leaf, use in salads

LOVAGE - Perennial, young leaves have celery flavour, use in salads, soups and stews.

GOLDEN PURSLANE - Annual, attractive green leaf for a summer salad.

OREGANO - Perennial, leaves have strong aroma, use in cooking.

CARAWAY - Perennial, leaf for salads, seeds for cakes.

WINTER SAVORY - Perennial, stronger flavour than summer savory, use for vegetable or beany stews.

SWEET MARJORAM - Perennial, leaf for pizza or dried herb mix.
CHIVES - Perennial, mild onion taste, leaves for salads.

GARLIC CHIVES - Perennial, leaf for salads or cooked with vegetables.

DILL - Annual, Leaves and seeds for pickles and sauces or with cheese.

SALAD BURNET - Perennial, a hint of cucumber, use in sauces or salads, in winter like parsley.

LEMON BALM - Perennial, leaves for tea.

PEPPERMINT - Perennial, leaves for tea and mint sauce.

THYME - Perennial, savoury leaf for cooking.

CHERVIL - Biennial, leaves have anise/parsley taste, use for soups, salads and sauces.

CORIANDER - Annual, leaves and seeds for cooking and sauces.

POT MARIGOLD - Annual, young leaves in salads and cooking.

SAGE - Perennial, leaf for sage and onion stuffing.

LAVENDER - Perennial, for sweet and savoury cooking.

ROSEMARY - Perennial, leaves for tea and cooking.

FENNEL - Perennial, leaves and seeds for cooking and salads.
BRONZE FENNEL  - Perennial, attractive red version of fennel with the same properties.

ANGELICA - Biennial, tall and decorative, leaves for tea.
WILD BERGAMOT - Perennial, attractive lavender flowers, strong scent, leaf used to flavour meat and tea.
LESSER CALAMINT - Perennial, bushy and aromatic, makes a soothing tea.
BLADDER CAMPION - Perennial, decorative, leaves in salads and tasty shoots.
ECHINACEA - Perennial, spectacular red daisy flowers.
ELECAMPANE - Perennial, handsome plant, broad leaf and ragged 'sunflowers'.
FEVERFEW - Perennial, aromatic, ancient plant with attractive daisy flowers.
POT MARJORAM - Annual, young leaves in salads and cooking.
GOOSEFOOT WHITE - Perennial, Leaves cooked as spinach or eaten raw.
STRAWBERRY STICKS - Annual, attractive plant with light green leaf which can be cooked like spinach and small strawberry like fruits. 


COMPANION FLOWERS

LIMNANTHES DOUGLASII (Poached egg flower) - Attracts hoverflies which eat your aphids and help pollination.

MARIGOLD - TIGER EYES - Dwarf type with orange and scarlet flowers.

MARIGOLD - DWARF DOUBLE MIXED - Early and continuous bright flowers.

MARIGOLD - AFRICAN DOUBLE MIXED - Large double headed flowers in yellow, gold and  orange.
Marigolds are bedding plants that have a deterrent effect on pests but are attractive to hoverflies.

TAGETES MINUTA - Grown for the root secretions which suppress ground elder; strong smelling foliage repels flies and moths.

NEMESIA - CARNIVAL MIXED - Dainty and colourful summer bedding, attracts hoverflies, butterflies and bees.

RUDBEKIA - MARMALADE - Large yellow flowers which attract bees and hoverflies.

NASTURTIUM - TOM THUMB MIXED - Dwarf plant, colourful and edible.

NASTURTIUM - ORGANIC MIX - Edible, mix of colours.

BORAGE - Beautiful blue flower, attractive to bees. 
VIOLA TRICOLOR - Great for colour in containers and hanging baskets.

To request more information about the seedlings please click on contact or ring me 01485 540724