Our scrumptious collection of beans will provide you with all the pods you could need over a long cropping season from June to August, included some stringless varieties!A great source of vitamins and fibre and easy to grow in pots or the vegetable garden, and because they all have attractive flowers, an interesting addition to beds and borders too. Broad Bean 'Masterpiece Green Longpod' considered by many to be the best broad bean you can grow. The seeds are quick to germinate, either indoors in pots or outdoors planted directly into their cropping position, generating vigorous plants that will provide plenty of fresh, tasty beans for your plate - and plenty more for the freezer. 45 Seeds. Runner Bean 'Polestar' produces high yields of smooth runner bean pods that have a sweet flavour and crisp, fleshy texture. If not left too long on the vine, these beans are stringless. Versatile and nutritious, they are a classic cooked veg, but the young beans also taste great raw. 50 Seeds. Climbing Bean 'Blue Lake' wonderful flavour and heavy crops of round, stringless pods. With consistently good results over a long cropping season, this prolific climbing French bean produces clusters of fleshy pods that have a superior texture and taste and are rich in vitamins and fibre and are great when grown up a trellis or 'wigwam' of canes. 100 Seeds. Dwarf French Bean 'Ferrari' a rich green colour and flavour, these stringless beans are a great source of fibre and vitamins A and C. Being a dwarf type bean, it is ideal for growing in containers, as well as in beds and borders, producing compact, bushy plants that don't need staking. Fast growing, with pods ready for picking around 12 weeks after sowing. 100 Seeds.
Grow the most popular salad crops with this fantastic seed collection - everything you need for a delicious, super-fresh and tasty salad. These are all easy to grow varieties that produce bumper harvests month after month. Tomato 'Gardener's Delight' this heavy cropping, super-sweet, large cherry tomato is a top choice for both the beginner and experienced vegetable grower. It can be reliably grown in a greenhouse or outdoors, producing and abundance of long trailing vines with 10-14 fruits per truss all summer long and into October - quite literally, a gardener's delight! 75 Seeds. Radish 'Scarlet Globe' a classic salad radish with crisp round roots of bright scarlet with moist, white flesh and a superbly sweet and mild flavour. Not only do they taste good, these nutritious beauties are an excellent source of vitamin C and potassium. Easy to grow, 'Scarlet Globe' can be harvested within 4-6 weeks of sowing direct into their cropping position. Suitable for container growing as well as beds and borders. 700 Seeds. Mixed Lettuce Leaves this mix of quality seeds gives fast results - either sown in the ground or in containers. It's an easy way of ensuring a constant supply of fresh, tasty salad leaves all through the summer. The packet includes equal seed quantities of: Catalogna, Cocarde, Curled Red American, Grand Rapids, Red salad bowl, Rossa di Trento. Varieties grow at different rates, giving a different salad mix at every cut. 775 Seeds. Cucumber 'La Diva' Fast-growing and vigorous, 'La Diva' produces plentiful crops of cigar-shaped, bitter-free mini cucumbers. The ridged, smooth-skinned fruits are seedless, tender and crisp. Deliciously sweet and juicy, they are superb for salads or for slicing lengthways for crudités and dips and a good source of vitamins A and C, as well as minerals and antioxidants. Crops well inside a cold greenhouse or tunnel - or equally well outdoors in your garden. 20 Seeds.
The flavours and aromas of freshly picked herbs is amazing, and this collection of the most popular culinary varieties is perfect for you to grow at home, either indoors where they can be sown and harvested all year round, or outside in the garden in pots. They keep well for months if dried, which also intensifies the flavours. Coriander 'Calypso' grow either seasonally outdoors in a container, border or herb garden, or indoors on a light windowsill to ensure a continuous supply of aromatic leaves throughout the year. Popular in Asian cooking, this versatile herb will add distinctive flavour to a wide variety of savoury dishes as well as being an interesting garnish or addition to salads. 150 Seeds. Oregano 'Greek' great flavour with hot and peppery notes, a wonderful addition to tomato based dishes, pizzas, sauces, soups or marinades. Good for drying and it stores well and the dried leaves have a more intense flavour. 900 Seeds. Basil 'Sweet' a large-leaved variety that is most popularly used in cuisines all over the world. A favourite herb particularly for Italian cooking, its sweet, aromatic leaves are a characteristic ingredient for many dishes from salads and garnishes to soups, casseroles, ragu, pizza, and pasta dishes - and superb for making fresh pesto. Best when eaten raw or added to hot dishes at the last minute. 450 Seeds. Parsley 'Giant of Italy' one of the very best flat-leaf parsley varieties, producing robust plants with sturdy upright stems bearing large, dark green leaves. Having a terrific sweet and pungent taste when used raw, it also retains its rich, strong flavour in cooked dishes. 500 Seeds.
The Kitchen Bay, Laurus nobilis, is thought to have been first cultivated in the 17th century, and has been a herb garden essential ever since. These evergreen shrubs have aromatic leaves that are a culinary staple, bringing mouthwatering depth and a rich aroma to everything from soups, stews and curries to Bolognese and roasted or barbecued meats. They're best when plucked fresh from the bush and simply added to the pot whole and left to infuse. Fresh leaves have a lighter, more floral flavour than dried leaves and can be kept in the fridge. If dried, they have a more intense flavour. They should be removed before serving unless they're ground or chopped. Bays are often grown in pots and respond well to training into topiary shapes. However, their lush, glossy and dense foliage makes them ideal for hedging and they make excellent structural features in formal gardens. They require little more than a light trim in early spring and summer to maintain the desired shape and will happily grow in sun or partial shade in well-drained soil. They're also well suited to coastal locations. 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, to be enjoyed for many years to come. It is also recommended as a 'Plant for Pollinators', attracting bees and butterflies with its small lime green spring flowers. Supplied as an established plant, 80-100 cm tall in a 20cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 10 m (33 ft) if left unpruned.
Pick your very own delicious fresh lemons and add a Mediterranean feel to your home or garden! Packed full of vitamin C, these fruits are not only delicious, but good for you as well! Use your fruits in everything from freshly squeezed lemonade, to scrumptious lemon meringue pies, and save loads of money on supermarket prices! This lemon tree will produce blossom from late spring through to the end of the year. From the blossom, small lemons will be produced, which will quickly swell into ripe and juicy fruits these will be ripe for picking late summer up to the end of the year. To ensure youll be picking delicious fruit year after year, we advise you keep your trees in their pots, and place in a sunny, sheltered position. Protect from frost during the winter time either by bringing indoors into a conservatory, or by covering with a plant cosy.
This collection of herbs includes all the plants you need to plant your very own herb garden. Having fresh herbs easily to had is incredibly convenient and will encourage you to get creative with your cooking. What's more, the attractive flowers are loved by bees and other pollinators. Herbs have many health-giving benefits and have been used for thousands of years both in cooking and medicine. They will enhance the flavour of all your dishes used fresh, kept in the freezer or dried. Plant them in pots close to your kitchen door so that you can snip off the leaves whenever you want them, and you'll also be treated to the scent of the aromatic foliage drifting through the air. Preferring full sun, they'll tolerate partial shade too, in well-drained soil. Garden Mint - The classic herb, whether in mint sauce with lamb, cooked with new potatoes or as a light, refreshing tea. It's also one of the best herbs for attracting insects. Best grown in a pot to keep it under control, it'll grow to a height and spread of up to a metre (3 ft). Chive - Grown for their pungent yet mild tasting leaves that are chopped into salads and other dishes. They have a spring onion flavour, and the attractive, bright pink flowers are also edible. Growing to a height and spread of 30 cm (1 ft). Rosemary - Narrow aromatic leaves full of antioxidants for seasoning a wide variety of dishes, with whole sprigs used to flavour roast potatoes, meats, casseroles, fish and soups and it also has attractive blue summer flowers. Reaching a height and spread of up to 1.2 m (4 ft). Salvia 'Fotado', Green Sage - Highly aromatic foliage and a strong herbal flavour when added to sauces, pastries and meat marinades. Growing to a height and spread of 1 m (3ft). Parsley - Lightly scented, fresh tasting leaves that can be used in soups, sauces, pesto, salsa, marinades and as a garnish. The stems are also full of flavour and can be used in the same way as leaves. Grows to a height and spread of 30 cm (1 ft). Thyme - Wonderfully scented foliage that's popular in Mediterranean dishes, especially added soups, fish and meat, roasted vegetables and pasta recipes. Incredible versatile, it reaches a height and spread of 25 cm (10 in). Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting.
Grow your own chillies with this fun kit and look forward to adding some home-grown flavour and heat to your cooking! Everything you need to get started is in the bright red fire bucket, including compost and a packet of 'Red Demon' chilli seeds. It makes an ideal gift. 'Red Demon' is a top-performing dwarf chilli variety that holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit, so you can be sure of superb results. Just follow the instructions and your seeds will germinate and grow into attractive, compact plants, which will produce an abundance of small, upright chillies. These chillies can be grown on a warm, sunny patio, but for best results, place on a windowsill or in a greenhouse or conservatory where they can produce about 100 small chillies. Ready from July, pick some while they are still green to encourage further flowering and fruiting. These green chillis will make a delicious ingredient in your cooking and as the remaining chillies mature to orange and then red, their flavour and heat will intensify - so leave them on the plant for as long as you dare. Measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), 'Red Demon' chillies come in at between 30,000 and 50,000 SCUs, so they're hot, but not overpowering. Supplied as a metal bucket planter with compost and packet of seeds growing to a height of 35 cm (14 in).
This Wooden Garden Caddy is a great portable planter for growing herbs, or anything else, both indoors and outside. Perfect for when you want to grab a handful or fresh oregano or snip off some aromatic sprigs of thyme! Oregano is widely used in Italian cooking, especially chopped into pasta sauces and on pizzas where its refreshing, zesty flavour gives a real depth of flavour, and it's great for making pesto too. Thyme can be used in bunches to flavour roasting meats, especially chicken, and the leaves are popular in seasoning and in stuffing. It's also superb for enhancing tomato dishes as well as fish and in soups. Both these herbs are full of antioxidants and vitamin C and, like many herbs, have numerous health benefits, so add them freely to your recipes to give them a delicious, tasty lift. Use them fresh or dry them so that they're always handy. Everything you need to grow these evergreen, perennial herbs is in the caddy, so you're ready to grow straight away, and it's a wonderful gift for anyone who loves to use the freshest ingredients in their cooking. Grow on a sunny windowsill or a bright spot outdoors. Supplied as a wooden planter with compost and seeds. The plants will from to a height and spread of around 40 cm (18 in).
Grow you own fabulous and juicy seedless Dessert Grapes (often called Table Grapes), right here at home in the UK. 'Superior Seedless' is one of the most popular varieties beings eedless, and can be grown successfully outdoors here, producing good crops of medium sized fruit in Autumn. Delicious picked fresh from the tree over several weeks, they also keep well too. Great for juicing as well.
Grow you own fabulous and juicy dessert grapes (often called table grapes), at home, right here in the UK. 'Red Globe' is one of the most widely grown varieties, and can be positioned successfully outdoors here, producing big bumper crops of very large-sized fruit with few seeds in autumn. Delicious picked fresh from the tree over several weeks, they also keep well.
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 varieties: 'Charlotte', 'Pentland Javelin' and 'Desiree': '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 own potatoes and what's even better is it requires no back-breaking digging whatsoever! The Heavy Duty 30 Litre Pots can be used again and again and the Organic Potato Fertiliser can be used all around your vegetable garden. Potatoes will be packed in the bottom pot, underneath the other two, in order to protect them.
Picking plump, juicy figs straight from a tree is one of life's greatest pleasures, especially when served up with some wafer thin slices of Parma ham and a drizzle of honey. Divine!Boasting masses of large, pear-shaped fruit with deep red flesh that are ready for picking in late summer and early autumn, Brown Turkey is perfect in a large pot or grown in the ground. Even before the fruit is ripe the large shrub or small tree adds a presence to the garden as branches are clothed with large, deeply lobed leaves. Despite originating from warmer climes, this amazing fig is incredibly tough, easily shrugging off temperatures down to -15C in the UK. Extremely drought tolerant when established, figs do best in a brightly lit, sunny spot.Keep plants productive and compact by restricting roots by growing in large pots or planting in 60cm square planting holes fill the base with a layer of gravel and line sides with paving slabs.
Here's a real novelty indoor plant that will provide interest every day as you see your own deliciously sweet pineapple develop atop this well-established, potted plant. A member of the Bromeliad family, it's the perfect indoor plant for a sunny kitchen or conservatory windowsill, needing little care and attention save a little water and the occasional feed. The plants are exactly the same as those used in commercial pineapple plantations across the world, so you can be assured of the best tasting fruit - right here in the UK on your windowsill. Do not confuse these big specimens with tiny decorative, non-edible plant available elsewhere online. Each plant is delivered with a pineapple fruit already growing so your plant is guaranteed to fruit this year. For best results water the compost keeping it moist and also keep a little water in the cups of the leaf rosette. When the pineapple is plump and ripe (about the size of an orange) remove and enjoy! Once the fruit is removed, an offset will appear which may fruit in following years and an entirely new plant can even be raised by cutting off the leaf crown and planting in compost.
You don't need a Tuscan garden bathed in Mediterranean sunshine to be able to grow your own delicious grapes - just give them a warm, sheltered spot and you'll be filling your fruit bowl! Plenty to fill your fruit bowl for weeks, these delicious, juicy grapes will be bursting with flavour and healthy goodness when you harvest them each September. Simply irresistible! Imagine starting your day with a delicious, refreshing, health-packed glass of grape juice or a handful of fresh, sweet grapes picked straight from your own vine sprinkled on your cereal! Simply Gorgeous! Prolific fruiting, incredibly winter hardy and very easy to grow. Decorative as well as bountiful, either will look wonderful when trained over a pergola and will provide natural summer shade. Perfect in a pot on your patio or in the ground, these top quality vines will reward you with your very own delicious, sweet, juicy grapes for over 100 years or more! Supplied as a 120-140cm caned vine in 3L pot, ready for immediate planting.
You don't need a Tuscan garden bathed in Mediterranean sunshine to be able to grow your own delicious grapes - just give them a warm, sheltered spot and you'll be filling your fruit bowl! Plenty to fill your fruit bowl for weeks, these delicious, juicy grapes will be bursting with flavour and healthy goodness when you harvest them each September. Simply irresistible! Imagine starting your day with a delicious, refreshing, health-packed glass of grape juice or a handful of fresh, sweet grapes picked straight from your own vine sprinkled on your cereal! Simply Gorgeous! Prolific fruiting, incredibly winter hardy and very easy to grow. Decorative as well as bountiful, either will look wonderful when trained over a pergola and will provide natural summer shade. Perfect in a pot on your patio or in the ground, these top quality vines will reward you with your very own delicious, sweet, juicy grapes for over 100 years or more! Supplied as a 120-140cm caned vine in 3L pot, ready for immediate planting.
You don't need a Tuscan garden bathed in Mediterranean sunshine to be able to grow your own delicious grapes - just give them a warm, sheltered spot and you'll be filling your fruit bowl! Simply irresistible! Imagine starting your day with a delicious, refreshing, health-packed glass of grape juice or a handful of fresh, sweet grapes picked straight from your own vine sprinkled on your cereal! Simply Gorgeous! Prolific fruiting, incredibly winter hardy and very easy to grow. Decorative as well as bountiful, either will look wonderful when trained over a pergola and will provide natural summer shade.This collection includes sweet, tasty and juicy white and red dessert (eating) grapes. Perfect in a pot on your patio or in the ground, these top quality vines will reward you with your very own delicious, sweet, juicy grapes for over 100 years or more! Supplied as a pair of caned vines, approx. 1.2-1.4m tall in 5L pots - ready for immediate planting.
Pick your very own delicious fresh blood oranges and add a Mediterranean feel to your home or garden! This variety is Citrus x aurantium 'Sanguinelli' and it's absolutely packed full of vitamin C so these fruits are not only delicious, but good for you as well! The segments of this lovely variety are straked with deep red anthocyanin pigment and conatin high levels of anti-oxidants, they are among the finest tasting oranges of all! The peel is also suffused with an attractive ruddy glow. Use your fruits in everything from freshly squeezed juices, to yummy desserts, and save tons of money on supermarket prices! Not only that, this superb tree will produce highly fragrant, white blossom during late spring and early summer. Wonderfully sweet, blood oranges will be ready for you to pick from October each year. To ensure youll be picking delicious fruit year after year, we advise you keep your trees in their pots, and place in a sunny, sheltered position. Hardy to -5°C, provide protection from severe frost during the winter time either by bringing indoors into a conservatory, or by covering with a plant cosy. Supplied as an established plant in a 6L pot, growing to a height of 2m (6½ft) and spread of 1.5m (5ft).
This is the perfect way to grow your own Sweet Potatoes at home - no back-breaking digging required! One of the most versatile vegetables, sweet potatoes have become exceedingly popular over the last decade thanks to their delicious flavour, ease of cooking and all the new and unique ways to create a storm in the kitchen - with a healthier twist on a normal white potato! With extra dietary fiber in a sweet potato compared to a normal potato, many of us are adding more and more sweet potato into our diets, and it's so easy to do. From typical mashing, boiling or baking, to chips, soups, curries and stews, there are so many wonderful dishes that are so easy to make - so why not grow your own supply and save yourself some pennies on expensive supermarket prices? This collection includes two vitamin-rich varieties, a purple and a red skin, that when grown by your own fair hands will add something a little special to your dishes. Included in this collection; Erato Orange - a typical orange-fleshed, red-skinned potatoErato White - a slightly more unusual looking white fleshed, purple skinned sweet potato Grow in hot conditions, preferably in a greenhouse or conservatory. Perfect for growing in pots, they'll grow to a maximum of approx. 30cm tall and with regular watering, the vigorous plants will develop large tubers in the summer and will be ready for harvest from September through to October. The tubers can even be harvested in the autumn and stored until you want to use them. The heavy duty, 30-litre pots can be used year after year. Supplied as a collection of 6 plug plants; 3 of each variety Erato Orange and Erato White. Includes 2 Heavy Duty 30 Litre Pots.
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 'New' potatoes in time for Christmas! We have included three popular varieties: 'Charlotte', 'Pentland Javelin' and 'Desiree': '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. We've also thrown in 1kg of Organic Potato Fertiliser to ensure you give your potatoes the best growing environment available for heavy crops of tasty spuds.
Grow sumptious sweet Sharon Fruit - also known as Chinese Persimmon - in your own garden. These exotic trees are surprisingly hardy in the UK - even young trees will survive to -10C and when mature will withstand much more. Trees are self fertile making them easy to cultivate.The foliage alone justifies a space in the garden with large lustrous glossy leaves through summer which change to a glorious coppery plum colour in autumn. The fruits ripen in September and are sweet, juicy and ready to eat as they turn deep orange. Unpicked, they hold on the tree and are gloriously colourful even after leaf fall. Grow in a sunny spot away from wall as Sharon fruit like plenty of air movement around them. A large free standing pot is ideal and the tree will reach a height of around 5-6ft. Treat yourself to this really special and unusual tree!