As you can imagine, Mr. Bump has to be really careful when he's working in his garden. He's always bumping into trees or the wheelbarrow or tripping over his gardening tools. Let's hope he can plant these seeds without hurting himself!
Mr. Tickle finds sowing seeds quite difficult because of his extraordinarily long arms and because he's usually trying to find someone to tickle! You should find sowing these cress seeds easier than Mr.
Mr. Sneeze just doesn?t stop sneezing! I have to watch out in case he steps on me when he sneezes. He likes growing things nice to eat in his garden, but he has to be careful not to sneeze the seeds away before he has time to sow them!
Little Miss Giggles loves growing cucumber plants. She finds that they grow better the more she giggles with them.
Here's a Little Miss who loves her vegetables, and her favourites are peas. All you little princes and little princesses will keep on growing if you eat up your peas, and my little secret is that the tastiest ones are those you grow at home!.
A deep red 'baby pointed' cabbage for autumn/winter cutting. It has a mild, sweet taste, ideally suited for shredding raw for autumn and winter salads, or used as a cooked vegetable.
Enjoy this versatile and increasingly popular vegetable as salad leaves when young, or when more mature, the nutritious leaves can be steamed and used like spinach. The broad, white stems can be chopped and cooked like celery or used to add crunch to salads and stir fries. Harvest May-October.
The cylindrical shape of these brown-skinned onions means that they can be grown at closer spacings than traditional bulb onions. Flesh is firm, white and crisp, lending itself to uniform slicing that's ideal for tasty burger toppings, salads and perfect onion rings. Good storage potential.
With their sharp lemon flavour these hot chillies will certainly spice things up in the kitchen. Chilli Pepper 'Hot Lemon' produces plenty of 5cm (2) yellow chillies with tender skins and a flavour that is hotter than Cayenne. Easy to grow on a sunny patio or in the greenhouse. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 50cm (20).
Widely used for TexMex cooking, Chilli Pepper 'Jalapeno M' produces large dark green fruits that ripen to a fiery scarlet red. The 10cm (8) long peppers are thick-walled with a typical tapering Jalapeno shape. Perfect for adding a mild heat to dishes. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 50cm (20).
Reliably grows from seed! Mildew resistant and slow to bolt under the summer heat, this top-performer soldiers on to produce round/oval, richly-sweet bulbs that add a real gourmet depth to any dish.
Extremely popular and reliable, early maturing variety for successional sowings throughout spring, and a particular favourite for June sowings. Produces huge crops of narrow pointed pods in pairs, averaging 7or 8 succulent peas per pod.
This dwarf, compact Broad Bean is absolutely perfect for small gardens and offers bumper crops of 15cm (6in) pods, each packed with 5 deliciously tender beans. Ideal for successional sowings to give continuous picking through the season.
Beetroot Boltardy is one of the best beetroots and a gardeners' favourite. Good quality, round, dark-red, well-flavoured roots up to 10cm (4in) across, with deep red, crisp, sweet flesh.
An excellent variety all round. Long, large, cylindrical roots with a lovely colour and excellent flavour. Highly recommended for eating fresh in the autumn, raw or cooked.
Visually stunning when sliced into salads, Radish 'Bluemoon? is a unique F1 hybrid with blue skin and flesh. This appealing cultivar comes from Asian breeding as the blue counterpart to Radish 'Redmoon?. The cylindrical roots have a crisp texture and a refreshing, mild flavour that makes a great addition to stir fries. Like all radish, it is quick and easy to grow, and makes an excellent crop for containers, window boxes and greenhouse borders. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 10cm (4).
Long, uniform upright stems which do not bulb at the base, harvest these neat spring onions throughout summer and into autumn.
A tried and tested old favourite with superb garden performance and long, thick, quality stems. Impressive winter hardiness, providing bumper crops of tasty stems.
Crisp, yet juicy and bitter-free is how we'd describe this delicious 'American slicer' which performed exceptionally well in our outdoor trials in a poor growing season. Trailing plants produce a good crop of 22-25cm (9-10in) long fruits with soft white spines. Seed development is slow making this variety ideal for slicing in sandwiches and salads. Predominately female flowers.
Mr. Funny has a great sense of humour. He makes everyone laugh. When he's gardening, he usually wears one of his funny hats which makes the birds and the bees and the butterflies laugh.