British breeding and a world first in climbing golden skinned courgettes. Shooting Star makes a stunning space-saving plant when grown up a trellis/arch. Group 3 plants together to ensure good pollination and tie in stems regularly to support the weight of fruits. The fruits have a higher 'dry matter' (less watery) than many varieties so are firmer when sliced for salads and stir fries. Harvest fruits regularly to extend the season.
Be one of the first to grow this unique genetically compact grandiflora Petunia with an eye popping star pattern.
Oriental Mustards add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes and also stir fries. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Pick the nutritious leaves of Oriental Mustards in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Mustards Red Giant, Red Feather and green frilled Pizzo
A delicious salad and sandwich ingredient, Mustard Cress takes up little space and a very small amount of your time. Children find it fascinating to watch it grow as in only a few days it produces healthy and nutritious food. You can grow Mustard and Cress by sowing this packet and a packet of T&M's Cress in the same or separate containers. Sow the cress 3 days before the mustard so they will be ready at the same time.
Organic herb Chives 'Staro' has a mild onion flavour that makes an excellent for garnish for potato salad, soups and other savoury dishes. This perennial member of the onion family is undemanding and easy to grow, returning year after year, and attracting bees and butterflies to its pretty pink blooms. Chives are an essential addition to the herb garden. Chives also make an excellent companion plant, deterring pests such as carrot root fly. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 315cm (6)
An easy to grow annual excellent for bedding and borders. Large, frilled blooms in unusual shades ranging through apricot, orange, primrose and cream. Long-flowering in many garden situations and also makes a good cut flower.
Lattuga Red Salad Bowl forms a voluminous head of reddish-bronzed leaves. Non-hearting, just pick young leaves as required or cut the full head, wash and keep in the refrigerator. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds
Brassica oleracea convar. acephala. Grow all the year round as a 'baby leafindoors on the windowsill. Outdoors if given wider spacing it will make an abundance of densely curled leaves over a very long period. Winter hardy as a full sized plant
Mr. Strong has to be really careful when he's gardening. He's so strong that he often breaks his garden tools. It's important to be gentle when you're sowing seeds or planting little seedlings.
Everyone loves fresh lilies in the house, and now you can grow vasefuls of your own too. At a fraction of the cost of florist stem prices, and yet producing a flower every single year for many years to come and so easy to grow, its all done for you in our pre-programmed bulbs. Oriental lilies have large, upward facing intensely fragranced flowers in a pastel blend of white, pink and blush shades, as well as the ever-popular and instantly recognisable two-tone 'Stargazer', with its reddish centre. Flowering in summer at between 60 and 90cm tall, the flowers will last 3 weeks from bud break. Leave them to die back in winter, and they will flourish for many more years.
A tried and tested old favourite with superb garden performance and long, thick, quality stems. Impressive winter hardiness, providing bumper crops of tasty stems.
Easy to grow and a marvellous way to eat peas - no waste and no need to spend time removing from their pods. Bumper crops all summer of 10cm (4in), juicy, sweet, stringless, crisp pods, ideal for adding whole to stir-fries or for lightly steaming.