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Green Manure – Phacelia is a very useful, quick-growing, hardy annual green manure.
Phacelia is particularly good for improving the quality of dry soils although is also suitable for all soil types and can be used as a summer/autumn manure or overwinter from a September sowing for spring digging-in.
The attractive foliage quickly smothers weeds/seeds and its extensive root system improves the soil structure also greatly improving moisture retention and encourages worm activity.
If phacelia is left to flower, it attracts many species of pollinating insects.
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Green Manure – Field Beans are a superb, inexpensive option for soil improvement and weed suppression when you have nothing planted in your veg plot.
Usually sown in September/November annually, field beans are especially useful for improving heavier soils where their deep roots penetrate, break up the soil, improve moisture retention and fix valuable nitrogen!
Sow in rows 20cm (8in) apart with aproximately 10cm (4in) between seeds.
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Green Manure – Mustard is one of the fastest-growing green manures and a very vigorous weed suppressant.
Green manure is one the best, inexpensive, eco-friendly ways to improve the quality of your soil, adding nutrients and organic matter and helping to suppress weeds and even protecting the soil from erosion by adding humus (fibrous organic matter).
Mustard is perfectly suited to wet weather and most soil types.
These seeds are all quick-growing (2-3 months) and can be sown from March through to August/September for over-wintering in most conditions.
The green foliage should be dug-in before flowering!
Height: 50cm (20in). Spread: 50cm (20in).
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Green Manure – Clover Crimson is an annual clover that produces a covering of weed-suppressing foliage used to add much-needed fibre and fixes nitrogen into the soil when not in use.
This variety is usually dug-in before flowering, however, if left, will produce colourful crimson flowers that attract pollinating insects.
Ideal for sandy, loamy and free draining soils to add humus, fertility, improve soil structure and boost moisture retention.
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Salad Seeds – Pea Shoots – Serge is an RHS award-winning, climbing variety that is semi-leafless.
Perfect for gourmet shoot production, Serge shoots have an excellent flavour with a light, crisp texture.
Very easy to grow! Simply soak the seeds overnight, then place them on moist kitchen roll in a shallow container on your windowsill.
Within 6 – 7 days you will be able to start cutting the tender shoots.
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Vegetable Seeds – Sugar Snap Pea – Delikett is a compact, RHS award-winning variety producing high yields of exceptional quality pods with a superb flavour.
Delikett is compact and perfect for smaller spaces or exposed sites with very high yields over a long growing period producing large amounts of 9cm (3.5in) dark-green, stringless pods with a delightfully sweet flavour.
Height: 65cm (26in). Spread: 70cm (28in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Sugar Snap Pea – Purple Magnolia Snap is the first purple-podded sugar snap pea to produce crunchy pods with a delightfully sweet flavour.
Purple Magnolia Snap is best picked when young and makes a colourful, tasty addition used raw in salads, lunch boxes and steamed.
It’s easy to grow on trellis or other supports and the strong tendrils cling well to support the long, climbing stems.
Height: 1.8cm (70in). Spread: 25cm (10in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Kelvedon Wonder is an RHS award-winning variety that produces 2 pods per node with up to 8 delicious, succulent peas.
Kelvedon Wonder is a heavy-yielding, reliable variety well-suited to successional sowings throughout spring and perfect for June sowings.
This first early variety has good resistance to pea wilt and is tolerant to powdery mildew.
Height: 50cm (20in). Spread: 25cm (10in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Half Pint, also known as Tom Thumb, is a very dwarf variety, making it the perfect pea for pots, planters and containers.
This extremely compact variety produces full sized pods filled with gorgeous, bright green peas bursting with flavour!
Half Pint also has very good tolerance to cold.
Height: 35cm (14in). Spread: 40cm(16in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Oregon Sugar Pod is an RHS award-winning variety that produces large, fleshy, double pods with a deliciously sweet flavour.
Oregon Sugar Pod is a real grower’s favourite producing bountiful yields over a long growing season.
This variety also has good resistance to mildew.
They’re at their best when picked young while tender and stringless.
Perfect for salads, steaming and stir fries!
Height: 90cm (35in). Spread: 25cm (10in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Carouby De Maussane is a superb, tall-growing, mangetout variety that produces large, sweet, very tender pods with a crisp texture and delightful flavour.
Carouby De Maussane produces attractive purple flowers that develop pods up to 11cm (4in) long.
Height: 150cm (60in) Spread: 80cm(32in).
Peas are at their very best when picked young.
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Onward is an RHS award-winning dwarf variety that produces masses of old-fashioned marrowfat peas with a superb texture and flavour.
Onward is a well-established, hugely popular, dwarf pea variety well-suited to the UK and is even exhibition-worthy!
This variety also benefits from great disease resistance.
Onward pea is the most popular of garden peas that produces plump blunt-ended pods, produced in pairs with large peas.
Height: 75cm (30in) Spread: 60cm (24in).
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