Vegetable Seeds Page 2 for the Smaller Garden
Quality Vegetable seeds in smaller quantities, less waste better value for the smaller garden.
Normal Size vegetable seed packets
Chinese Celery
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Chinese Celery Kintsai Apium graveolens Slender celery stems and leaves with a strong flavour. For use in salads or as a cooked vegetable. Can be grown all year round in temperate climates using crop protection for winter months. Sow from spring to summer, 2 sowings during this period will give a continuous supply. Growing commercially repeated sowings every 5-6 weeks from spring to summer. Sow seed in modules/plugs or trays on the compost surface, transplant after risk of frost. £0.59 approx 250 seeds
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LEEK
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Leek Musselburgh An old established and very popular variety with medium long shanks and good blanche. It is winter hardy and crops from October onwards.
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Lettuce Mix
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Lettuce Mixture
Baby Leaf Salad leaf mixture A custom mixture of lettuces in 1 packet, containing Parris Island, Rouge D'Hiver, Red Salad Bowl, Royal Oak and Green Salad Bowl Best sown thickly and clipped young for baby leaf. Sow every 2 weeks for a continuous supply of tender young lettuce leaves. Harvest in 3-5 weeks dependant on conditions, harvest with knife or scissors, plants will grow new leaves for later harvest. Ideal mixture to add young or mature leaves of endive, chicory, radicchio, mizuna, pac choi, tatsoi, mustard and the popular watercress.
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Gourmet Lettuce Mix
Baby Leaf A designer blend of 7 lettuce varieties with ruffled edges, unique leaf shapes, interesting texture and delicious taste, for that gourmet salad mix. Specially selected varieties that yield darker reds and greens even under low light conditions. Some of the 7 varieties in the mix include Outrageous - bright red with ruffled edges, Firecracker - brilliant red, Tango, Royal Oak. Harvest in 3-4 weeks for baby leaf. |
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Wildfire Lettuce Mix
Baby Leaf A mix with a high percentage of red leaved varieties. The mix contains the darkest reds, Outredgeous, Aruba, Blackjack, and vibrant greens Tango, Royal Oak, Paris Island and saladbowl to compliment the mix. 28 days to maturity. |
Onion
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Onion Red Baron Extensively grown throughout the UK for its deep 'blood red' colour with good skins and thin necks.
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Onion Long De Florence Simiane
Red skinned variety which produces elongated pinky red bulbs with an outstanding sweet flavour. Continental variety very popular in Europe. Excellent for raw slicing on sandwiches or in salads.
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Onion - Overwintering Japanese Type
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Onion
Senshyu Yellow Globe. A very popular Japanese over wintering variety. Very reliable heavy yielding main crop variety producing semi-globe shaped bulbs of high quality.
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Spring Onions - Salad Onions
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Salad Onion White Lisbon
4 gram packet = approx 1,000 Seeds The traditional bulbing salad onion variety. Sow Spring, summer & autumn. Can be used as a companion plant to deter carrot fly.
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Salad
Onion North Holland Blood Red Redmate Very versatile bunching onion, useful not only as a salad onion but also as a bulbing onion type. Intense red colour makes it an interesting and tasty addition to the salad bowl.
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The cultural information should be used as a guide only, I have found a number of different sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only, you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed like Lobelia, Begonia etc requires no cover.
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