GARDENING PICKS

"This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. Niche Oriental Mixed is ideal for sowing in succession, to pick leaves as you need them. Can also be grown under glass during the winter month…

Radish Scarlet Globe is a very popular and easy variety producing bright red, evenly shaped roots with pure white, crisp, moist flesh and mild flavour.  Height Up to 15cm (5.9in). Spread Up to 15cm (5.9in). 75…

An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. Lettuce Continental Looseleaf Lollo Rossa is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with …

A fine lettuce known for its exceptional cold resistance and bred solely for autumn sowings. Lettuce Arctic King is a large lettuce, light green in colour, with tasty, crinkled leaves. Height: 15cm (6"). Spread: 30cm (12"). 5…

Medium heads with solid, crisp hearts. Lettuce All The Year Round is very hardy, reliable and dry weather tolerant. Ideal for successional and autumn sowing. Height: 15cm (6"). Spread: 30cm (12"). 1000 seeds approx.

Kale Dwarf Green Curled produces dark, tightly curled leaves. Excellent quality, very cold hardy, Kale Dwarf Green Curled is good for difficult or windswept gardens or poor wet soils. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 45cm (18"). 4…

An old favourite for stews stuffings etc., mixed herbs and bouquet garni. Old English Thyme stimulates the appetite and helps the digestion of fatty foods. Helps repel cabbage root fly. Companion Plant: Grow Old English Thyme clos…

A selected strain of Parlsey with tightly curled rich green leaf, ideal for garnishing, soups, stews etc. Parsley Champion Moss Curled is a fine windowsill pot plant which will supply fresh parsley on demand. Height and sprea…

"Approximate root length: 12-15cms (5-6 inches).British bred with partial Carrot Fly resistance, due to lower levels of chlorogenic acid within the developing roots. Carrot Flyaway is naturally sweet, producing early blunt ended r…

An excellent resistance to bolting from an early sowing with the colour and the flesh as good as Detroit. Beetroot Boltardy has a sweet fresh flavour.  Height Up to 30cm (11.8in). Spread Up to 15cm (5.9in). 30…

Two crops a year! Unlike most figs, which crop once in mid-late summer on last year’s shoots, this one crops from mid August on last year’s shoots, but again from the end of September on this year’s shoots! And t…

Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit it produces larger and better quality bulbs with reduced bolting incidence. The lovely golden brown skinned bulbs store well throughout the winter. Lovely mild taste

Spring planting. Heat treated. A mid-late maturing variety, Onion ‘Red Baron’ produces firm, flattish-round bulbs of a beautiful dark red colour. With eye-catching red rimmed flesh and a stronger flavour than most var…

An impressive, large, hybrid variety producing a heavy early maturing crop, so valuable in our indifferent British summers. Uniformly globe-shaped bulbs with even skin colour - excellent for eating or the show bench. RHS Award of …

The  Wolf  Weeding Brush from WOLF-Garten, designed to be used with your choice of lightweight handles. The new multi-star weeding brush is a convenient solution to facilitate the removal of every weed. I…

Crops from February to Autumn, disease resistant and very easy to establish. A good heavy cropper.

Well established as a firm favourite, yellow, dry floury flesh with red skin, an excellent all rounder. Uses: bake/fry/general purpose.

Late maincrop. Potato ‘King Edward’ is the classic Christmas variety and a firm favourite for roasting. The creamy white flesh has a light, floury texture and rarely discolours on cooking. A popular and well-loved lat…

A very popular second early salad variety producing pear shaped, yellow skinned, waxy tubers and creamy yellow flesh of first class flavour, eaten either hot or cold. Flowers pale purple.Potato ‘Charlotte’ holds a…

This RHS AGM variety is over 100 years old and still highly prized for its yield, shape, floury texture and delicious flavour. Today, Potato ‘British Queen’ is Ireland's favourite summer crop. The oval, white skinned, …