This reliable maincrop has outstanding resistance to mildew making it ideal for producing late season crops from successional sowings. Pea 'Ambassador produces heavy yields of blunt ended pods, each containing up to 9 delicious, dark green peas.
This heritage variety was once regarded as the tastiest, most productive climbing pea that a gardener could grow. At lot has changed since the 1870?s but Pea 'Champion Of England' remains a fine cultivar which still deserves a place on today?s vegetable plots.
High quality variety of double-podded crops that provide an excellent pea. Long, straight pods contain around 10 peas that are plump and delicious to taste, especially steamed or boiled with a little mint. Ideal for successional sowings to provide harvests all summer. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 25cm (10).
This colourful mixture of carrot varieties is sure to liven up your dinner plate! Carrot 'Sweet Imperator Mix' includes five different carrot F1 hybrids to provide you with a varied, reliable and flavoursome harvest. The long, uniform, tapered roots which can reach up to 25cm (10?), have a crisp texture and sweet flavour, perfect for snacking, adding to salads, roasting and adding to cooked dishes.
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Bred as an improvement to the popular 'Onward' pea variety, this excellent maincrop type produces high yields of juicy, plump marrowfat peas, each pod containing up to 9 dark green peas. The plants' compact and robust habit makes them ideal for exposed locations and smaller gardens. They show good resistance to powdery mildew, which is helpful for later sowings for successional cropping through a long season. A worthy recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Ambassador' is a dependable variety that is easy to grow and a long-time favourite of vegetable growers. It is also a great choice for introducing children to gardening as the peas are so good to eat raw when picked straight from the plant. Not only tasty, these succulent peas are an excellent source of vitamins, minerals and fibre, having particularly high levels of vitamin C. When frozen, the peas will retain good nutritional values. Supplied as a packet of 325 (approx.) seeds ready to sow outdoors from March to June directly into their cropping position. They will tolerate most soil types but will do best in neutral ph, deeply dug, fertilised soil.
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!
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.
King Edward is THE traditional favourite potato - perfect for your Christmas roast potatoes and a great all-rounder too. Mash it, bake it, chip it, roast it or boil it - serve Kind Edward any way you like and you'll simply love its delicious flavour. What's more, it is a consistent heavy cropper - you can grow your own potatoes and expect to get sackfuls from these robust, reliable seed potatoes. Eat them freshly harvested in September and October, or keep them in our specially designed Hessian Sacks - they'll keep throughout winter!
Our Organic Sarpo Mira potato tubers are perfect for you to grow your own! Not only will they give you heavy crops of scrumptious, floury potatoes from your own garden, Sarpo Mira is well known for being exceptionally resistant to potato blight. Your bumper harvests of tasty spuds will be perfect for chips, roasties, mash and more - each potato with a distinctive red coloured skin. Keep your home-grown potatoes in our Traditional Hessian Sacks and they'll keep right through winter.
Probably the best-known variety, 'Maris Piper' is the potato most frequently used in pubs and chips shops throughout the UK - and for good reason! This versatile, all-rounder makes the most delicious crisp and fluffy chips, and its floury texture also means it is a top choice for baking, roasting, mashing and boiling. A worthy recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, this fast-growing maincrop potato is easy to plant and maintain, with good resistance to eelworm. 'Maris Piper' is a tried-and-trusted, dependable variety that will reward with masses of consistently sized, oval tubers that have lovely clean, white skins and delicious creamy-white flesh. Unless you want an early crop, there is no need to chit this maincrop seed potato before planting; just store them in a cool but frost-free, well-ventilated place before planting out in the spring. Plant from March to May into fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny position, or into large containers or grow bags. Your potatoes will be ready to harvest from August to November, generally 17-20 weeks after planting. Once lifted, they will store well through winter in a dark and dry place, preferably in an open tray or crate. Supplied as a 2.5kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 30-35 tubers) ready for chitting or for storing until planting out in the spring.