Zinnia 'Double Zahara Strawberry' is one of the best double, dwarf Zinnias currently available. You can enjoy an abundance of vivid, strawberry red, double flowers throughout the summer. These compact and low-growing plants have excellent heat and drought tolerance. Thanks to their disease resistance they require next to no maintenance to keep looking good over their remarkably long flowering period.
A remarkably sweet, cherry variety, that produces long, heavily laden trusses of rich orange-red tomatoes. Ready to harvest from July, they?re a safe bet for your summer crops. Height: 120cm (47). Spread: 60cm (24).
A fabulous mix of fully double and semi double blooms in a bright array of colours. Perfect for a summer-autumn display when planted to add height to borders. Height: 100cm (39). Spread: 50cm (20).
Tasty and sweet variety of colourful red cabbage, with dense, solid, crunchy hearts. Try them raw or cooked or even grow for pickling. Ideal for storing over winter. Height: 40cm (16). Spread: 60cm (24).
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Highly colourful peppers that are sweet and crunchy to eat. A huge, tasty crop will be ready to harvest from July until October. Ideal for mixed salads, stir-fries, and for stuffing. Height and spread: 35cm (14).
Outstanding crops of calabrese with an excellent flavour. Plant in succession for a continual harvest, summer into autumn. The central floret is followed by several sideshoots. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 40cm (16).
An open branching plant encourages many more flowers and therefore many more courgettes to be produced. Plants have increased virus resistance and crops are large and plentiful. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 90cm (35).Culinary information: Some parts of these flowers are edible. Click here for more details about edible flowers.
Most popular ?cos? variety, ideal as a flavoursome base for salads. Young leaves can be harvested and eaten without the ?bitter? taste. Good resistance to bolting. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 20cm (8).
A delicious globe variety of beet that can be harvested as ?baby beets?, which are tender and superb for salads. Roots are smooth with deep-red skin and flesh. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 15cm (6).
Evenly spread buds open to reveal clusters of salmon-orange flowers that individually fade through apricot to creamy yellow. This variety is an excellent performer flowering over a long period throughout summer, regardless of the weather! The trailing stems of Verbena 'Peaches 'n' Cream' make this the perfect choice for filling gaps in hanging baskets, window boxes and containers.
Dwarf Bean 'Delinel' is an outstanding variety for both crop yield and flavour. The 15cm (6) mid green, stringless beans are of superb quality with dark black seeds within the pods. This RHS AGM variety has a long season if picked regularly, and shows good resistance to Bean Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
A striking variety from T&M breeding. Classified as a perennial but from an early sowing it acts like an annual! Prolific, early flowering, fully double scarlet flowers up to 50% larger than other varieties, over a long period. Fantastic in the border and cottage garden, and a dazzling cut flower. Fleuroselect Quality Award
Robust green foliage is enhanced by tall erect pinky-beige spikelets in late summer to autumn, gracefully moving in the slightest of breezes. Height: 180cm (6ft)
Create a masterpiece with this fine mixture of the most delicate shades which has been an unqualified success wherever T&M have shown it. The colours work together in a way that brings raptuous comments wherever it is seen and it has performed well under adverse weather conditions both for colour, winter/ spring and summer flowering, for colour harmony and usefulness whether in containers, hanging baskets or bedding. Height: 15-20cm (6-8in).
Ideal for early sowings in frames and for successional sowing outside, Kahira is a flatter-rooted beet with smooth skin and a deep red, tender and flavoursome flesh. Roots grow mainly above the surface of the soil in a well-drained and sunny position and once harvested, will store well for use through the winter monthsBeet can be stored by lifting the roots from later sowings, twist off the tops and store in boxes of slightly damp sand in frost-free conditionsHelp to retain bio diversity by growing these traditional varieties with the taste and garden performance well regarded by previous generations
Basket/ ContainerTomato 'Tumbling Junior' is British breeding of a more compact tumbler type. This cascading cherry tomato is superb in baskets and containers, producing a bumper crop of golden-yellow, sweet, cherry sized fruits, each weighing about 25g (1oz). Height and spread: 30cm (12).
From recent British breeding, an easy-to-grow, early-maturing variety, well suited to our summers. The flattened round-shaped fruits combine the attractive skin colour of a Butternut with the shape of Crown Prince. An average of 5 fruits per plant, each weighing 15kgs (approx 3lbs) develop on semi trailing vines. Fruits have a rich orange flesh with a 'melon aroma', and a small seed cavity. Stores well.
Now you can grow delicious ripe melons outdoors in the UK! Melon 'Orange Sherbert' produces netted skinned 'charentais typefruits that are more oval shaped than round. Each orange fleshed fruit weighs about 500g (1lb) on compact, semi trailing vines that can be harvested from midsummer. Height and spread: 2m (6', 6). Melons require high temperatures and humidity. In all but the very warmest areas cultivation is most successful in a greenhouse, or under cover of a cold frame or cloche when growing melons in the UK
This highly decorative French Bean makes a fabulous talking point in the vegetable garden, or even in your flower borders. Climbing Bean 'Selma Zebra' is a T&M reintroduction from 30 years ago, and still as eye catching as ever. The unusual marbled pods are particularly early to mature in July and continue to set pods throughout the summer. These tasty beans turn green when cooked. Height: 180cm (70). Spread: 30cm (12)