Chilli 'Amboy' is a fantastically versatile variety. Tangy and medium hot, it's great for adding a chilli kick to cooking without being overwhelming. It produces an excellent crop of gorgeous looking, tapered fruit that grow to 15cm (6in) long and change from lush green to rich, glossy red as they mature, and get hotter! 'Amboy' is a grafted variety, which brings many benefits, in particular that each plant can produce much, much more fruit. These chillies begin to fruit earlier and continue for longer, from July until October with much higher yields than ordinary chillies! Excellent resistance to pests and disease, make grafted chillies so easy to grow even if you have no experience, these will thrive to provide you with an abundance of fresh, tasty chillies. Superb for growing outside, so you don't need to have a greenhouse to have masses of scrumptious chillies! They can also be grown in pots, perfect for small gardens, patios, or balconies. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting and growing to 1m (3ft).
A zingy, tasty collection of delicious, flavour packed chilli peppers that pack a real punch. Chillies get hotter as they age, and their heat is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). The higher the SHU, the hotter the chilli. Grown in pots in a warm, sunny spot such as a patio or porch, or indoors as a houseplant in a bright area, these superstars will produce wonderful chillies from July that are about 15-25cm long and delicious eaten raw, used in recipes or added to barbeque skewers to give them a blast of heat. They can also be added to oils and vinegar to create a chilli-laced infusion! Growing to about 60-90cm tall, these are perfect patio plants and are also wonderfully decorative with the deep green leaves and dazzling red chillies. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots plug plants including: Chilli 'Hot Burrito' - If you're a lover of hot chilli peppers that aren't too extreme, you'll really want to try the spicy kick of 'Hot Burrito'! With an SHU of 3000-6000, there will be plenty of heat, but no fire! Chilli 'Hot Fajita' - Juicy peppers that will give a fabulous hot chilli hit and the waxy skin means they store particularly well. A SHU of a mighty 70,000 means that 'Hot Fajita' will certainly make its presence felt, however you choose to eat it. Chilli 'Cayenne' - A really good all-round chilli, particularly in cooking, 'Cayenne', with its SHU of 30,000, is powerful enough to add a pungent kick to recipes but won't overwhelm the other flavours.
'Batter' is a top performing leek variety with outstanding hardiness. Cropping from late autumn to early spring when the vegetable garden is decidedly bare, it boasts long, straight pale shafts of densely packed stems which rise to form thick, dark green leaves. Easy to grow and with excellent resistance to pests, these leeks are also particularly tolerant of the fluctuating moisture and temperatures of the British winter, standing well throughout the coldest, wettest months. They can be left in the ground until needed, although once picked they will keep for up to 3 weeks in the fridge. Little care is required and they left to themselves until you're ready to harvest them. Whether picked early or left to mature, this versatile veg has a lovely sweet and mild flavour and a firm but tender texture when cooked. Use young baby stems in salads and stir fries and mature leeks for a great variety of dishes including soups and stews. Packed full of healthy vitamins and minerals including folate, iron and vitamins K, C and fibre, these are one of the best winter vegetables you can grow. Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready for potting on or planting out.
A fantastic looking ornamental chard that's ideal for adding a splash of colour to your vegetable plot or patio containers. With dark green and bronze leaves and rainbow stems ranging from white and orange-yellow through to pinky red and purple, it is a real stunner, as well as being delicious to eat and packed full of vitamins, minerals and healthy fibre. Cropping prolifically over a long season, it is a true 'cut and come again' variety; the leaves will regenerate 1-2 weeks after harvesting the whole plant (leaving 2.5-5cm base), or remove just the outer leaves and allow the heart to grow on. The plants are robust enough to withstand light frosts and will continue to give good quality leaves until the colder winter weather sets in. Harvest from July to November and if protected over winter will produce an early spring crop. This versatile veg has a lovely mild, sweet flavour when picked as baby leaves for salads and garnishes, becoming slightly bitter when left to mature and delicious when lightly steamed or stir-fried to retain colour, flavour and nutrients. There will be plenty to pick all through the season, so any excess can be blanched and packed in an airtight bag for the freezer, where it will store well for up to a year. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, enjoying an excellent harvest of tasty chard. Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to plant out once the risk of frost has passed, growing to 50cm in height and 40cm spread.
Grow your own delicious mangetout with this superb new variety. 'Zuccola' produces heavy crops of small, firm pods that grow to 9cm long and contain eight or nine peas each. Wonderfully sweet and crisp, this is an outstanding sugarsnap, especially eaten young when picked fresh, straight from the plant so that you really enjoy the sweetness and the 'snap' when you bite into them. They also perfect for steaming and adding to stir fries, retaining their crispness and adding scrumptious crunchy texture to your cooking. Easy to grow and cropping over a long season from June to September, all you need to so is support the plants with twigs or sticks to help keep the pods off the ground. 'Zuccola' has excellent resistance to mildew, which can damage crops pea crops, especially later in the season. Supplied as 6 plug plants, ready to plant when the risk of frost has passed, growing to 75cm (2½ft) tall.
'Patio Star' is definitely appropriately named! This fast growing, heavy cropping courgette will crop all summer long with regular harvesting. It's neat and compact habit makes it ideal for growing in pots or containers as well as in the vegetable garden. The glossy dark green skins are very thin, which makes these corgettes idea for cooking whole. For the best flavour, harvest as baby courgettes at about 10-15cm (4-6in) long. If not eaten immediately, they will keep well for a few days stored in the fridge. The bright yellow flowers are also edible, use them as soon after picking as possible for best results. Try adding them to salads for extra colour and interest. These easy to grow, attractive plants look great in the garden or on the patio, with their exotic looking flowers and temptingly tactile fruit drawing you eye. Supplied as 6 plug plants, ready to grow on and plant out when the risk of frost has passed.
Globe Artichokes are considered a true gourmet food by many, probably because of there unusual and exotic looks. These large and architectural perennial plants are grown for their edible flower buds, but they also make great ornamentals in the garden. 'Imperial Star' is a very good cropper, even in its first year, and forms exceptionally large buds with a great taste that are ready to harvest between June and September. Any buds left on the plants will flower, looking like thistles that are a magnet for bees and butterflies. Remove the buds just before they open and begin to flower and boil or steam until tender before remove the leaf scales one by one. The scales and hearts are delicious dipped in melted butter. The plants will provide excellent crops for several seasons, but it's best to replace them ever 3 or 4 years as they become gradually less productive. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant, reaching 180cm (6ft) in height and 75cm (2½ft) wide.
'Mini Star' is a vigorous cucumber that will provide a profusion of small, delicious snack-sized fruit with smooth, glossy dark green skins and crisp, refreshing flesh. Just the thing for picking on a warm day in the garden! This is a grafted variety and by using a particularly strong rootstock the plants are bigger, stronger and more disease resistant than other varieties, and best of all, you can expect massively increased yields of sweet and juicy snack cucumbers all the way from June until October. Perfect in salads and sandwiches, or sliced lengthways for crudités and dips, and of course plucked straight from the plant and eaten straight away, these are amazing cucumbers and you'll love growing them as much as eating them. Pick often to encourage further fruiting and any surplus will be great for pickling. These little beauties are packed with nutrients and antioxidants - low in calories and a good source of vitamins A and C, as well as minerals and antioxidants. 'Mini Star' well inside a cold greenhouse or equally well outdoors in your garden beds or patio pots. For best results, support them with netting or a trellis, although they can be grown successfully at ground level. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting.
A wonderful collection of some of the most popular garden vegetables, each one chosen to give you a reliable, bumper harvest of scrumptious courgettes, tomatoes and cucumbers over a long season. These are all easy to grow outdoors and they're also happy in a green house. Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to plant out when the danger of frost has passed, including 4 each of the follow varieties: Courgette 'Defender' - an enduring favourite and holder of a coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Defender' crops early and has a picking season that can be twice as long as other varieties, producing heavy crops of delicious and firm, mid-green courgettes. Harvest time is from July right through to October and the fruits should be picked when they're 10-15cm long. The plants will grow to 45cm high and 90cm wide. Tomato 'Buffalosteak' - a wonderful variety that will give you large and delicious fruit, full of flavour with rich and meaty flesh over a long season. This top-performing cordon tomato has been created using a technique similar to that used with fruit trees for generations - grafting a variety onto a strong, disease resistant rootstock to get the best of both. The result is a bumper crop of tasty, juicy tomatoes! Cropping from July until October, provide a sturdy support as 'Buffalosteak' can grow to 2m tall. Snack Cucumber 'Nimrod' - will produce bright yellow flowers followed by a bountiful harvest of small, delicious snack sized cucumbers that have bumpy deep green skins that are unusually thin, with pale green flesh that is crisp and refreshing to eat. A naturally trailing plant, grow it up a support where it will reach 3m in height. Pick regularly when young and tender between June and October to encourage more fruits over a longer period.
'Beluga Red' is a versatile variety that produces generous yields of deliciously sweet, glossy, bright red peppers. Green initially, they reach the peak of their colouring and nutrition from July until October. These peppers are particularly easy to grow and will happily adapt to almost any growing conditions, giving a reliable succession of flowers and fruit all summer long and into autumn. Best grown in full sun, which will produce the biggest, sweetest peppers that quickly change from green to red, 'Beluga Red' does well in a greenhouse or indoors in a bright, sunny spot and also makes an impressive container plant on the patio. Tasty and packed with vitamins, red peppers are much higher in nutrients than green peppers, particularly vitamins A, C, K and B6 and are incredibly versatile in the kitchen. Perfect added raw to salads or roasted in the oven or added to skewers for barbequing where they have a wonderful, extra-sweet tangy taste if you let them burn a little. They freeze well too, so you can enjoy your home-grown peppers for months after the growing season has ended! Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting after the risk of frost has passed, growing to a height of 1m (3ft) and spread of 50cm (1½ft).
'Madonna' is an extremely popular variety of aubergine, bearing particularly tasty, long oval fruits with wonderfully deep purple, glossy skins all summer from July. As a grafted aubergine that begins to ripen early, 'Madonna' crops heavily and continuously throughout the season whether grown in a greenhouse of a large patio pot. One of the main benefits of grafting is that the plants produce heavier crops over a longer period and have excellent resistance to pests and diseases, making them easy to grow and reliable performers. 'Madonna' will thrive in a greenhouse or on the patio in a warm and sheltered spot with regular watering and feeding. You'll be rewarded with a delicious harvest of aubergines that taste great when fried, grilled or baked and are a rich source of B vitamins and potassium as well as minerals and fibre. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant when the last chance of frost has passed, growing to a height of 70cm (2½ft) and spread of 60cm (2ft).
The delicious sweet flavour of 'Sanvitos Red' and its thick, deep red stalks make this an outstanding rhubarb! A superb early variety, cropping from April and without the need for forcing. The stems look fantastic and their wonderful sweetness and low acidity makes them perfect for cooking. Rhubarb is very easy and incredibly rewarding to grow perfect for gardeners of all abilities. Pick sparingly in the first year to allow your plants to establish, and you'll be rewarded with armfuls of delicious rhubarb to harvest each year for many, many years to come! Perfect for planting in the vegetable garden but also ideal for a large container. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant out for cropping next season.
Enjoy a wonderful selection of delicious red vegetables with this patio collection! Easy to grow and with a long harvest period, you will be stocked up from the begging of summer all the way through to October! Supplied in this collection: 'Beluga Red' - A versatile variety that produces generous yields of deliciously sweet, glossy, bright red peppers. Green initially, they reach the peak of their colouring and nutrition from July until October. 'Tumbling Tom' - An ideal variety to get started growing your own tomatoes - so easy, they can be grown in hanging baskets, tubs, planters and even window boxes - you will get hundreds of small red cherry tomatoes from just one plant! 'Hot Burrito' - A small and compact plant that best when grown in a pot, positioned in a warm, sunny spot such as a patio or porch. It can also be grown indoors as a houseplant in a bright area. The 'Hot Burrito' will produce wonderful chillies from July that are about 15-25cm long. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant.
An enduring favourite and holder of a coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Defender' crops early and has a picking season that can be twice as long as other varieties, producing heavy crops of delicious and firm, mid-green courgettes. Harvest time is from July right through to October and the fruits should be picked when they're 10-15cm long. The plants will grow to 45cm high and 90cm wide.
Sweet peppers are delicious and versatile, and now you can grow them as a scrumptious snack that's wonderfully sweet and crunchy and can be eaten straight from the plant! The peppers are green initially, before ripening to glossy sunshine yellow. Each weighs just 30-40g, a fraction of the weight of ordinary sweet peppers, and they have thick walls which gives them a wonderfully firm crunch when eaten fresh. They're also ideal in salads and for stuffing and grilling, and a great source of vitamins A and C as well as potassium and iron - a tasty, healthy snack. A high yielding and versatile plant, it can be grown on the patio or in the vegetable garden or greenhouse, and it makes a spectacular looking houseplant in a sunny, warm spot. Position it in full sun to get the biggest, sweetest crops of scrumptious miniature peppers, producing flowers and fruit month after month. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting after the risk of frost has passed, reaching 90cm (3½ft) tall.
The easiest way to grow your own tasty, fresh potatoes even if you don't have a garden. Everything you need to grow a fantastic crop on your patio or balcony, and no digging! These special seed potatoes have been held in cold store until now and will grow rapidly once planted - right up to the end July to give you delicious potatoes through autumn and even up to Christmas. We've included three heavy duty 45 litre grow bags that can be used again and again and fold flat for easy storage when you're not using them, along with a pack of Organic Potato Fertiliser to help your potatoes give you the best possible crops, and it can also be used all around your vegetable garden. Supplied as 18 seed potatoes in three of the best and popular varieties, including six each of: 'Charlotte' - One of the most popular salad potatoes in the UK, the instantly recognisable, oval-shaped tubers can grow much larger than other salad varieties and have a firm yellow waxy flesh. Perfect for potato salads or boiled and dripping in butter. 'Casablanca' - is a first early variety, producing lots of small, tasty potatoes. Ideal for boiling and also for roasting and baking. 'Desiree' - a maincrop potato with creamy-yellow flesh with red skin, great for chips, roasting, jacket potatoes or simply boiling.
The perfect refill kit for filling your 30L black pots, or other growing pots and containers, back up with tasty spuds! This kit contains the ingredients you need to grow your own potatoes on your patio, terrace or even balcony all you need is a pot or container. Perfect with our 30L black pots with grab handles for easy transportation, just add compost and water and you could be harvesting in less than 10 weeks! We have included three popular 'second cropping' varieties: Charlotte, Maris Peer and Nicola, which are all second salad types with very good flavour: Charlotte - One of the most popular salad potatoes in the UK, the instantly recognisable, oval-shaped tubers can grow much larger than other salad varieties and have a firm yellow waxy flesh. Maris Peer - Chosen for its superb flavour, they are best when boiled and maintain a firm texture that does not split. Nicola - Well-shaped, oval potatoes with creamy flesh that are perfect whether hot or cold - one of the tastiest new potatoes. These special seed potatoes have been held in cold store until now and will grow rapidly once planted - right up to the end July to give you 'new' potatoes through autumn and even up to Christmas. This is the perfect way to grow your own potatoes and what's even better is it requires no back-breaking digging whatsoever!
This Patio Potato Growing Kit means that anyone can now grow delicious, fresh potatoes. You don't even need a garden as a patio, balcony or courtyard will do! Just add compost and water and you'll soon be harvesting your first new potatoes. We have included three popular 'second cropping' varieties: Charlotte, Maris Peer and Nicola, which are all second early maturity salad types with very good flavour: 'Charlotte' - One of the most popular salad potatoes in the UK, the instantly recognisable, oval-shaped tubers can grow much larger than other salad varieties and have a firm yellow waxy flesh. Perfect for potato salads or boiled and dripping in butter. 'Pentland Javelin' - An early variety, producing lots of small, tasty potatoes. Ideal for boiling and also for roasting and baking. 'Desiree' - Creamy-yellow flesh with red skin, great for chips, roasting, jacket potatoes or simple boiling. These special seed potatoes have been held in cold store until now and will grow rapidly once planted - right up to the end July to give you 'new' potatoes through autumn and even up to Christmas. This is the perfect way to grow your potatoes - no digging whatsoever! The grow-pods included can be used again and again...
Why not try growing your very own delicious Rhubarb at home? The fabulous pair of Rhubarb plants will give you a delicious crop twice a year of 'Sanvitos Early' and 'Sanvitos Summer'. Rhubarb is very easy and incredibly rewarding to grow and perfect for gardeners of all abilities. 'Sanvitos Early' is an excellent early rhubarb variety and you can expect to pick fresh, juicy sticks from April each year. The dazzling, bright red stems not only look spectacular but have a lovely, balanced flavour that is much less acidic than many varieties, making it ideal for making scrumptious crumbles and jams. 'Sanvitos Summer' is a versatile rhubarb that will produce delicious, juicy sticks in spring, and as a day-neutral variety, there is no summer dormancy. The vivid bright red stems are stringless and wonderfully tender with a delicious, sweet flavour and well-balanced acidity, making it ideal for making tangy pies and preserves. We suggest picking sparingly in the first year to allow your plants to establish, and you'll be rewarded with armfuls of delicious rhubarb to harvest each year for many, many years to come! Ideal in the vegetable garden or grow your rhubarb in a large container. Supplied as 2 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
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.