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!
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.
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.
.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.
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.
Transform Your Garden - Grow These Garden Hardy Perennials For 6 Months Of Spectacular Colour Every Year! These incredibly colourful, strong-growing perennials will transform your garden from this year. Providing a wonderful display of showy colour and long-lasting structure throughout summer and until late October, they will look great AND attract beneficial insects including butterflies, ladybirds and honey bees, perfect for fruit and veg gardeners where pollination is so important. Supplied as plugs, they are big enough to plant straight out spring, summer or autumn and will establish and get better year after year. If planting together in a border, we suggest you plant 60cm (2ft apart), which they will fill after their second season. Main varieties Included (but not guaranteed): Achillea 'Summer Berries', Delphinium 'Pacific Giant Mix', Digitalis (Foxglove) 'Dalmation Mixed', Hollyhocks 'Chaters Double Mixed', Coreopsis 'Early Sunrise', Gaillardia 'Mesa Mix', Geum 'Lady Stratheden', Aquilegia 'Mrs Scott Elliot', Alchemilla mollis, Salvia Salvatore Blue, Verbena bonariensis, Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'. Note: Due to this product being available all year, in some weeks we reserve the right to substitute some varieties in the specific collection shown here.
Health experts and top chefs have been raving about blueberries for years and now you can grow your own bountiful crops with this complete and easy kit, saving a fortune against supermarket prices! Eat your blueberries fresh from the bush - delicious, sweet and juicy - or use them in jams and puddings. We're giving you three top-performing varieties: early cropping heavy fruits; juicy mid-season berries; and late season blueberries. Tasty, cost-effective and tough The complete kit includes three potted blueberry plants, three decorative plastic pots and 60 litres of compost Save a small fortune compared with supermarket prices Perfect for a patio or balcony Berries packed with vitamins and antioxidants
This veritable superfood is believed to carry all manner of health benefits and is recommended by health experts and dietitians accordingly. Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you, but they taste great too! Blueberries provide true season-long interest and will produce lightly fragrant, bell-shaped blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from July. In autumn, you get a flash of seasonal colour as the foliage will provide a bright flourish of scarlet before falling for the winter. Easy to grow and look after, blueberries make brilliant patio plants and will grow perfectly in pots - do remember though to use ericaceous (acidic pH) compost though as all blueberries are intolerant of lime (alkaline soil). This collection will provide a bumper harvest from June to August providing many pounds of fruit per season once fully established. Supplied as a complete kit ready for planting up, you'll receive 3 x large, established plants in 3L pots, 1 x early, 1 x mid and 1 x late season, ready for immediate planting. Plants reach approx 1-1.5m (3-5ft). Kit includes 3 x Metallic effect sqaure planters and a 60L bag of Ericaceous Compost.
A breakthrough in buddleia breeding, the Buzz series are perfectly formed, patio butterfly bushes, and perfect for growing on your decking, patio or balcony - so now anyone can grow these fragrant beauties.The result of seven years' intensive breeding and selection, the short stems and compact growing habit of these patio buddleias make them ideal for growing in smaller spaces. Just like their larger cousins, Buzz buddleias will flower right through the summer and into autumn without setting seed, so more of the plant's energy is spent of blooms, and the flowers just keep on coming! Reaching just over a metre tall, 'Buzz Indigo' is hardy and easy to grow plus its masses of deep blue, fragrant flowers will attract clouds of butterflies to your garden. Like all buddleias, Buzz Indigo is sweetly fragranced and is loved by insects hence its common name of 'Butterfly Bush', and is recommended by the RHS as a plant that is 'Perfect for Pollinators'. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for immediate planting.
Blackcurrants, redcurrants and whitecurrants that have been allowed to ripen in the sun taste sensational and far superior to anything you can buy in supermarkets - perfect for eating fresh, adding to your favourite desserts or freezing for use at later date. These top quality, professional grade Uk-grown bushes in your collection will establish quickly and reward with your first fruit this summer, followed by crops that get larger and larger each year. Packed full of vitamins, minerals and requiring the minimum of care, these tasty superfruits are ideal for growing in beds or borders, or for planting in large pots that grace the patio. Blackcurrants and whitecurrants will fruit their socks off in a sunny position, while redcurrants are happy in sun or in a more shaded position they will even do well against a north facing wall or fence. Varieties Included: Blackcurrant 'Ben Lomond' Redcurrant 'Rovada' Whitecurrant 'White Versailles'
If you've ever wanted to grow your own fruit, this set is perfect! We've picked some of the best varieties to give you a complete fruit garden, and bumper crops from this year onwards! Growing fruit is incredibly rewarding & surprisingly easy, and of course your home-grown fruit will taste simply delicious! Perfect for eating fresh, the sweet, juicy berries will also make incredible summer puddings, desserts, or jams! Now is the perfect time to plant and they are very easy to grow. All of these varieties will produce large crops on compact bushes, perfect for patio pots and containers you dont even need a garden! Included in this collection: 10 x Elsanta Strawberry runners 5 x Glen Clova Raspberry canes 2 x Ben Lomond blackcurrant plants 2 x Hinnomaki gooseberry bushes (1 x red; 1 x yellow) 2 x Waldo blackberry plants (bare root)
These are a great little collection to fill those awkward spots most gardens have. Tolerating quite a bit of shade (or full sun), as well as most types of soils, these fab new little groundcover roses really are so versatile and easy to grow. From the newest of breeding, they are classified as 'Multiflora', meaning they produce hundreds of smaller flowers in summer and autumn, filling up gaps in beds and borders with a floriferous display. Tried and tested in commercial landscape plantings where they get almost no maintenance or help, they form neat mounds of flowers, and have good disease resistance, so really are easy care. One trim back hard each spring before they start growing really is all they need, plus a couple of feeds a year. Simple! In this mega deal, you will get: 1 x Rose 'Teeny Weeny Pink' - Small mid pink flowers, with darker edge on cool nights. 1 x Rose 'Teeny Weeny White' - Sister of 'Teeny Weeny Pink', white flowers that have pink tinged edges. 2 x Rose 'Perle d'Alcanade' - A gorgeous deep cerise red rose. 1 x Rose 'Giulietta' - Lovely pale primrose yellow. 1 x Rose 'Baby Masquerade' - Lovely peach melba two tone flowers. Supplied as 6 x established plants in 9cm pots, Ready to be planted out any week of the year you can get a spade in the ground!