Globe Artichokes are considered a true gourmet food by many, probably because of there unusual and exotic looks. These large and architectural perennial plants are grown for their edible flower buds, but they also make great ornamentals in the garden. 'Imperial Star' is a very good cropper, even in its first year, and forms exceptionally large buds with a great taste that are ready to harvest between June and September. Any buds left on the plants will flower, looking like thistles that are a magnet for bees and butterflies. Remove the buds just before they open and begin to flower and boil or steam until tender before remove the leaf scales one by one. The scales and hearts are delicious dipped in melted butter. The plants will provide excellent crops for several seasons, but it's best to replace them ever 3 or 4 years as they become gradually less productive. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant, reaching 180cm (6ft) in height and 75cm (2½ft) wide.
Albert Bartlett 'Vivaldi' is a premium-quality, second early variety with a unique taste and texture. It is high yielding, giving plenty of 'baby' potatoes through July and August, and equally good larger maincrop potatoes if left to mature a while longer. These superb 'whites' have a consistent oval shape, smooth skin with small eyes, and pale yellow flesh that remains firm when cooked, whether eaten hot or cold. One of the best all-rounders, 'Vivaldi' is great for roasting, boiling, baking, mashing, steaming, frying - and even microwaving - and its firmness and delicious flavour makes it one of the best varieties for potato salad. Known as the 'weightwatcher's potato', it is lower in carbohydrates and calories than other varieties and its velvety smoothness means you don't need to add butter. Whether baked, mashed or boiled, these potatoes taste just lovely and sweet on their own! A worthy recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Vivaldi' receives high reviews for its taste and texture from both home and commercial gardeners. This easy-to-grow reliable cropper also has good resistance to common potato scab. Once the seed potatoes have produced shoots or chits, they will be ready to plant directly into a prepared bed or large bags or containers from mid-March, preferably after the frosts have gone. Young potatoes can be harvested from 13-17 weeks after planting. Supplied as a 2kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 20 tubers) ready to prepare indoors for planting out in the spring.
It's easy to grow your own tasty onions when you start by planting onion sets. 'Sets' are tiny onions grown from seed which when replanted in spring just carry on growing, giving delicious bulb nions which are ready for lifting in early autumn. It works perfectly and is the chosen method of most professional growers. Stuttgart Giant is a trusted garden variety which produces a heavy crop of flattish brown skinned bulbs which have a great taste and are easy to prepare in the kitchen. Lift and dry and then keep in a cool airy place and they will store well indoors until well after Christmas.
.A delicious new early maincrop potato with a golden appearance and a sensational taste. Elfe will give you a heavy crop of large smooth skinned potatoes that keep well. They are perfect for boiling, mashing and baking - do this and you'll discover the flavour wich is silky and sweet - so good that you'll think the butter has already been added! Because theflesh is soft it's much easier to mash without lumps too.
Add a real WOW factor to your cooking with Albert Bartlett Purple Majesty! This unique potato variety has a stunning deep-purple colour which is retained even when you cook it - imagine your kids' faces when you serve up purple mashed potatoes! Not only that, this extra-special variety is packed full of antioxidants - just like other superfoods like blueberries - so it is super-healthy too. Best of all and most importantly, Purple Majesty is absolutely delicious! This versatile spud is perfect for boiling, mashing, baking and roasting - and what's more it is surprisingly easy to grow, even if you don't have a garden.
Anya is a scrumptious salad potato from the Albert Bartlett range. Top-chefs love it for its simply wonderful flavour. It is perfect for salads on a warm summer's evening - simply boil your potatoes up and add a knob of butter and some freshly chopped chives - yummy! So good, it has won awards - Albert Bartlett Anya is very easy to grow and is loved by gardeners of all abilities. Now you can grow your own too - even in pots on your patio. You'll be picking the attractive long, pink potatoes around eight weeks after planting.
You'll no doubt have seen the famously delicious Albert Bartlett Rooster potatoes on TV and in your local supermarket - and now you can grow your own! Rooster is an award-winning, super-tasty potato variety which is loved by everyone from professional chefs to mums with hungry kids - its excellent flavour and texture make it a great all-round potato for boiling, mashing, baking, roasting - and even chips. The large, oval shaped spuds have a distinctive red colour, so they'll even look great on your plate! Best of all, Rooster is incredibly easy to grow and perfect for allotment growing - or even for topping up our Potato Growing Kits. A unique, all-round winner!
This stunning new variety has only just been released more widely onto the market, following it's launch in supermarkets. It's appearance of red tubers, randomly blotched with cream, belies it's amazing soft, nutty almost sweet taste, from it's small, but high yielding tubers. Perfect baked whole to brighten all roasts, something really different.
Quality contents sourced from specialist producers Securely packed and stylishly presented Delivered by our chosen courier partner Your personal message accompanies your gift Contains sweet and savoury delights This fabulous hamper is sure to get their taste buds tingling! The greywash willow basket is filled with Cartwright & Butler treats, such as sweet apple chutney, soft fruit jellies, flatbreads, English breakfast tea, chocolate wafers, cheese wafers, Café York blend coffee, black cherry preserve and chocolate fudge. Delicious! See below for food Allergen Information. In the event of supply difficulties, we reserve the right to substitute any items with replacements of equal or higher quality and value that may or may not be listed in the contents section of the product descriptions. For special dietary hampers, suitable substitutions will be made. In the event that a substitution is made, the nutritional and allergen summaries on our website may not reflect the true contents of the hamper. This product contains: Presented in a Greywash Willow Storage Basket Cartwright & Butler Sweet Apple Chutney 250g Cartwright & Butler Soft Fruit Jellies 190g Cartwright & Butler Olive & Garlic Wheat Flatbreads 130g Cartwright & Butler English Breakfast Tea 30g Cartwright & Butler Chocolate Wafer Rounds 120g Cartwright & Butler Cheese Wafers with Honey & Mustard 75g Cartwright & Butler Caf� York Blend Coffee 50g Cartwright & Butler Black Cherry Preserve 280g Cartwright & Butler Belgian Chocolate Fudge 175g
These spectacular Petunia EasyWave Sweetheart Mix will make a fabulous addition to your summer floral displays. With a neat and mound-forming habit, it produces masses of cascading blooms that will flower freely all summer long. EasyWave Sweetheart has exceptional weather tolerance and rapid growth meaning you will get an incredible mix of blooms in shades of red, pink, and white earlier in the season. Hugely versatile, they work well for solo and mixed planters, hanging baskets, and garden borders and will thrive in either full sun or partial shade. Supplied as a pack of 60 pro+ plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Big flower power and the wide array of magical colours gives fantastic appeal in both sun and shade. Bred for vigour, Busy Lizzie Sweetheart will cover any area quickly showing off its beautiful, semi-double rosebud blooms in pastel shades of pink. They cope equally as well with cold, wet weather as hot dry summers, making them perfect for our variable summers here in the UK. A good choice for adding vibrant colour to your containers, hanging baskets, window boxes and garden borders. Supplied as a pack of 60 pro+ plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Verbena are a really good little filler plant, their masses of small delicate pink, red, purple and white flowers, each with a small white eye, seemingly smother any gaps in baskets, pots, tubs and borders. 'Quartz' F1 series has exceptional resistance to mildew, so is easy and trouble free, and performs well in hot and drought conditions too. Thriving in full hot sun, it also tolerates our more inevitable rain well too. Use dotted into mixed plantings with petunias, geraniums and busy lizzies, for a huge colour impact in summer plantings.