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.
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.
.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.
'Casablanca' is a fairly new variety of first early potatoes, which can be planted from February to April and ready to harvest as 'new' potatoes from 9-14 weeks after planting. Easy to grow, this variety has good resistance to disease (including common scab, blackleg and golden eelworm) and produces lots of tasty, small potatoes that have smooth, white skins, shallow eyes and delicious creamy flesh. A good all-rounder, its floury texture is ideal for roasting, boiling and baking - and it makes superb chips! It is fast becoming a household favourite - as well as being popular amongst chefs for its cooking ability and versatility. With evenly formed, attractive crops, it is also a top choice amongst competitive growers who want to produce the perfect specimen for the showing bench. Receiving consistently high reviews, it is easy to see why this variety has already been given the RHS Award of Garden Merit. These potatoes are best used fresh from the garden but will keep well for up to 5 days in a cool, dark and dry place. Plant in fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny or semi-shaded, sheltered position, or in large containers or growbags. Water well in dry conditions for optimum cropping. Supplied as a 2.5kg bag of seed potatoes ready to prepare indoors for planting out from February to April. Early plantings will benefit from frost protection.
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Our finest mixture of premium quality varieties brings colour and fragrance to your home and garden. Pick armfuls of bright, fragrant stems every day throughout summer. Sow in pots or directly in the soil until early May. Richly fragrant Sweet Peas go together with warm summer days no wonder they are the nations favourite annual flower! This unique selection of scent laden kinds, made after testing more than a hundred varieties, rank among the most fragrant of all. You'll get well loved, wavy Spencers and colourful grandifloras and the blend includes High Scent and Matucana, already renowned for their unsurpassable perfume. With at least one fresh flower per plant per day at the height of summer, you'll get hundreds every week.
'Pink Fir Apple' is an unusual variety. This easy-to-grow second early potato is extremely productive, with huge harvests of up to 35-40 or more evenly sized tubers from each plant. These lovely potatoes have an unusual elongated shape with pink skins and tender creamy yellow flesh and a nutty flavour. Their waxy texture remains firm during cooking, making them a perfect choice for potato salad, but also great for boiling and chipping. There is absolutely no need to peel them unless you are using them for mash. A worthy recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Pink Fir Apple' has good resistance to disease and its compact habit means it will tolerate fairly exposed positions. 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 2.5kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 30-35 tubers) ready to prepare indoors for planting out in the spring.
This fantastic Rainbow Vegetable Seed Kit is a perfect and super easy way to grow your own veg at home. A colourful diet is a great way to make sure you're getting all the nutrients you need, and our seed kit contains everything you need to get started in growing you own range for rainbow veg. Using innovative seed discs grow five mouth-watering and eye-catching varieties of veg, including mixed coloured beetroot, radish and carrot, rainbow chard and yellow courgettes. This kit comes complete with seed discs, re-useable coloured pots, compost discs, plant labels and a handy bottle top watering spout. The seed discs are made up of the vegetable seeds and biodegradable paper that are very easy to handle. Very easy to use, you don't even need to worry about spacing you seeds correctly, washing them away when you water them or thinning once the seedling start to emerge. Because they are biodegradable, there is no waste when it comes to re-potting all your growing vegetable plants. Not only are the seed discs bio-degradable but the durable plastic pots and sow markers are made from recycled materials meaning they can be used for years to come and the handy bottle top watering spout fits on top of your old plastic water bottles to create mini watering cans that you can also use on your house plants. Supplied as a complete kit including: 5 x seed discs, 5x re-useable coloured pots, 5x compost discs, 5x plant labels, 1x bottle top watering spout and 1x instruction leaflet.
The 'Pentland Javelin' potato is a first early variety that will provide you with delicious crop of soft, yet waxy-textured potatoes that have both white skins and flesh that are perfect for boiling, roasting and crushing. Very easy to grow, they can be planted in either potato pots and planters or straight out in the garden. The 'Pentland Javelin' potato has a great resistance to disease, so you will get consistent crops of delicious spuds Supplied as a 2.5kg pack approx. 35-40 tubers, ready to plant out from March to May.
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.