Often with a slightly stronger flavour than curly leaved varieties, Flat-leaved Parsley makes a useful culinary herb. Add it to soups, stews and a multitude of other dishes. This hardy biennial forms a clump of glossy foliage that can be harvested and used fresh or dried for later use.
A quick-growing combination of superbly flavoursome salad leaves, ready in less than a month during summer. Add these to sandwiches, salads and garnishes. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 15cm (6).
Easy-to-grow and ready to pick in just 5 weeks, this innovative blend of leaves adds a flavour of summer-time french cuisine to your salad dishes. Height and spread: 15cm (6).
A taste of the mediterranean comes with these colourful and flavoursome salad varieties. Ready to eat in around a month, sow all year round for a constant and tasty supply. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 15cm (6).
A mixture of quick growing lettuce, tasty and nutritional, and ready to eat in as little as 6 weeks. Ideal for growing on a windowsill, for a contstant supply of baby leaves all year. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 25cm (10).
Attractive variety of parsley with strong flavoured leaves, ideal for the garden border or herb garden. Especially good for using in salads, or as a garnish on many dishes. Height and spread: 45cm (18).
A wonderfully bright mix of coloured salad leaves, that offer a crunchy texture with mild flavours and a hint of spice from the Greek Cress. Add to salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Height and spread: 15cm (6).
A simply stunning Patio Peach tree, 'Crimson (R) Bonfire' has been selected for it's unique and delightful burgundy purple foliage and red coloured peach fruits, all on a genetically dwarf tree too. Imagine relaxing on your patio in early Summer - the last of the heavenly sweet scent of Mediterranean peach blossom filling the air. Then in late August, reaching out and plucking one of your very own delicious, juicy ripe peaches! This stunning compact peach tree is so easy to grow, perfect in a pot and because it flowers later than many varieties it fruits much more successfully too. A beautifully symmetrical shaped tree, its foliage has a delightfully rich burgundy colouration. Combined with the crimson peaches it makes a particularly exotic and decorative addition to any patio. Completely winter hardy no matter how cold it gets, you can look forward to your very own harvest of home-grown peaches for years to come. TOP TIP: Peach fruit yield will be increased by keeping the fruit tree canopy dry in blossom and pollination time, such as in a greenhouse, conservatory or lean-to. Although self-fertile, using a dry small artist's paintbrush to brush pollen from flower to flower will hugely increase fruit set too. This will massively reduce the curse of Peach Leaf Curl too. Patio Peach 'Crimson (R) Bonfire' really is a delightful little tree, for years and years of enjoyment.
Widely used as an attractive baby leaf salad, adding an almost crimson colour to salads. Beet Bull's Blood also makes a decorative addition to the flower garden.
Chinese Leaves are quick maturing and form a cos lettuce type heart in under 9 weeks. Plants are very slow to bolt, so stand well over a long season. Use as salad leaves as you would a Romaine lettuce or as a full heart for salads, stir fries and as a cooked vegetable. Superb quality and garden performance without bolting. Mature heads can be cut and stored in a frost free shed
From new breeding in Chinese Cabbage, this tasty variety produces particularly compact, upright barrel heads which can be planted as close as 30cm (12) apart - perfect for smaller vegetable plots. Each barrel head has attractive dark green outer leaves and a contrasting yellow heart that will add crunch to salads and stir fries.
Growing your own lettuce is so simple, and this mix of quality seeds gives fast results - either sown in the ground or in containers. It's an easy and environmentally friendly way of ensuring a constant supply of fresh, tasty salad leaves all through the summer - much cheaper and less wasteful than expensive bagged lettuce you buy in the supermarket. This superb mixed lettuce selection will produce a variety of different shapes, colours and textures throughout the season. The packet includes equal seed quantities of: Catalogna, Cocarde, Curled Red American, Grand Rapids, Red salad bowl, Rossa di Trento. Varieties grow at different rates, giving a different salad mix at every cut. Succulent and as fresh as you can get directly from your garden, these salad leaves are a good source of minerals and vitamins A and C; their flavour and goodness easily outclass shop-bought lettuce. Sow outdoors from May to August, where they are to crop, in fertile, moisture-retentive soil in a sunny or semi-shaded position. Harvest from April to October, picking a few leaves from each plant; this will stimulate further growth of new, young leaves and allow you to keep cutting up to 4 times. Or pull the lettuces whole once they have reached full maturity. Supplied as a packet of 775 (approx.) seeds ready to sow outdoors in their cropping position. Grows to 30cm by 30cm.