In appearance a savoy leaved Tatsoi. Dark green thick glossy leaves excellent for baby leaf and mature plants. Young baby leaves are excellent for salad leaf mixtures and stir fry. Can be cropped most of the year.
Oriental Vegetable Seeds page 4 for the Smaller Garden
Quality Oriental Vegetable seeds in smaller quantities, less waste better value for the smaller garden.
Grow unusual vegetables from seed, these trial packets are the ideal size to try Oriental Vegetables.
Larger size packets available in the
Oriental Vegetable seed section
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Chinese Cabbage
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Chinese Cabbage Yukina Savoy In appearance a savoy leaved Tatsoi. Dark green thick glossy leaves excellent for baby leaf and mature plants. Young baby leaves are excellent for salad leaf mixtures and stir fry. Can be cropped most of the year.
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Chinese Cabbage Wong Bok Cabbage (Mandarin) Brassica pekinensis - pai-tsai, wong bok, won bok, nappa Large oval heads, excellent quality, very tender, productive Mandarin heirloom. Excellent in stir fries and braised dishes.
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Chinese Broccoli
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Kaillaan White flowered Also known as Chinese Broccoli. Possibly related to Calabrese, producing thick fleshy stems, baby leaf and edible white flowers. Grow in fertile, moist soils where it is one of the easiest flowering brassica to grow. Sow in rows or broadcast, thinning to 10-15cm apart for harvesting as young plants. For mature plants grow 25-35cm. Can be grown in containers to harvest as young plants only or use the baby leaf in salads. Sow throughout the growing season, spring to autumn, harvest June to December ( will withstand slight frost) £0.59 av 75 seeds Add to basket
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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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Chinese Chives
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Chinese Chives New Belt
Av 200 seeds £1.10 Garlic Chives New Belt Having thick flat leaves up to 10mm in width can be used green or blanched. Widely used in Chinese Cuisine. Sown during spring the optimum germinating temperature is 20C, sown in seed trays/modules or plugs 1cm deep. Autumn sown seeds should be over wintered and planted out the following spring, they should be ready for their first harvest during late summer. Prick plants out when large enough to handle and planted out where they are to grow 4-5 months later, in clumps of 8 or more plants 5cm deep and 20cm between plants. Sow direct in flat bottom drills 10cm wide 1cm deep thinly. £0.59 approx 80 seeds
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Chinese Lettuce
Larger size packets available in the Oriental Vegetable seed section
Cress
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American or Land Cress Barbarea verna Also known as Uplands Cress. Young leaves used cooked, as seasoning or raw. Having a hot spicy flavour they are a useful addition to salads, the land grown alternative to water cress being similar in taste. The seed can be sprouted. Can be cropped all year if autumn sowings are given protection through winter (cloches). Sow Spring to September in situ , successional sowings for continual cropping, position full sun for winter crops while partial shade is best for summer crops. £0.59 approx 750 seeds
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Komatsuna Greens - Mustard Spinach
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Komatsuna Torasan A uniform quick growing mustard spinach hybrid with light green juicy, tender stems. Dark green glossy leaves. Use in salads or stir fry. A cold tolerant variety for autumn. winter and spring production. Quick and easy to grow and vigorous. Sow during spring summer and autumn in situ, late winter early spring and late autumn sowings under cover in unheated polytunnels/cloches for a winter to spring harvest. For a mature crop to harvest for greens during winter sow mid summer in situ. For seedling crop either broadcast sow or in wide drills. Mature crop sow in situ or transplant from modules space for small plants from 5cm apart up to 50cm for larger plants.
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Mustard
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Mustard Green Wave Use baby leaf and full leaf Highly attractive with frilly bright green leaves. A variety very slow to bolt. Sow seed shallowly. Sow spring in situ, summer and autumn either in situ or modules and transplant. Space/thin plants for harvesting as young plants 10-15cm apart, for mature crop up to 30cm apart. £0.59 approx 200 seeds
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Pak Choi
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Pak
Choi Green Revolution F1 Brassica rapa var chinensis Green stemmed Pak Choi, compact habit and slow bolting ideal for spring and autumn sowings in the UK.
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Larger size packets available in the Oriental Vegetable seed section
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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