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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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 – 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 – 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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Ornamental Seeds – Poppy Papaver Brilliant produces incredibly attractive blooms of huge, black-centred, fiery scarlet-red blooms in late spring and early summer.
Papaver Brilliant is the classic oriental poppy and enjoys an envious reputation for their simplicity of ‘sow and forget’.
With a very good germination success rate, this variety will flower in the first year from sowing, then the plants form a low clump of coarse, hairy leaves, and usually go dormant, disappearing completely by late summer to reappear the following year.
Height: 80cm (32in).
Perfect for brightening up your beds and borders!
This plant produces masses of beautiful flowers and is the perfect way to attract many types of pollinating insects to your garden!
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Ornamental Seeds – Rudbeckia Kelvedon Star produces vivid yellow petals with a dark-brown centre and flowers all summer long!
Rudbeckia Kelvedon Star is a recent innovation and is a wonderful garden plant that also makes for superb cut-flowers.
It produces masses of large 10cm(4in) flowers which provides a colourful extension of colour to the late summer border. Ideal for cutting, also beds and borders.
Height 75-90cm (30-36in).
Perfect for brightening up your beds and borders and ideal for cut-flowers.
This plant produces masses of beautiful flowers and is the perfect way to attract many types of pollinating insects to your garden!
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Aubergine Long Purple is one of the most commonly grown varieties in the world.
It produces medium sized fruits of elongated shape, deep, shiny, violet coloured skin and a distinctive flavoured flesh.
Feed as you would Tomatoes. Aubergines produce their best when grown in a greenhouse or tunnel, however, they can be grown in a sheltered, sunny spot in your garden or in a suitable planter.
They are suitable for and grow well in grow-bags.
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Vegetable Seeds – Cabbage April. A spring Cabbage with a great head-start.
The variety April can withstand the urge to bolt, or turn to producing seeds, that plagues other varieties of autumn-sown spring Cabbage.
This superb variety is also perfect when space is limited as it can be sown in rows as close as 20cm (10″) apart.
Height: 30cm (12″). Spread: 40cm (16″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Cucamelon Mexican Gherkin is an easy to grow climbing variety that’s best suited to a sunny, wind-protected position and performs even better in a greenhouse.
Cucamelon Mexican Gherkin produces heavy crops of mini melon fruits with a taste of cucumber and a hint of lime.
The grape-sized fruits are best picked fresh from the vine throughout summer.
Absolutely gorgeous in summer salads, dips, salsas and a classic, pickles.
For optimum fruit production, crop main stems to approximately 2.4m (8ft) and trim back all side shoots to 45cm (18″).
Height: 2.4m (8ft). Spread: 50cm (20″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pak Choi Joi Choi F1 is an exceptional variety with dark green leaves and pure white vertical stems that grow uniformly presenting a tidy form.
This variety is slow to bolt and enjoys great frost resistance.
Pak Choi has been grown in China for approximately 1500 years and is picked whole when approximately 10cm tall or grown larger so the individual leaves can be used.
Pak Choi is superb when used raw in salads, and when cooked it develops a sligtly spicy flavour.
Packed with many super-food nutrients.
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Vegetable Seeds – Pak Choi Red Choi F1 is a superb variety that produces beautifully flavoured, red-tinged leaves as the plant matures and benefits from great disease-resistance.
You can break off the leaves as you need; this also stimulates the the plant into continuous to growth for successional harvesting.
Red Pak Choi makes a colourful, healthy addition to any salad or stir fry.
This variety is slow to bolt and enjoys great frost resistance.
Pak Choi has been grown in China for approximately 1500 years and is picked whole when approximately 10cm tall or grown larger so the individual leaves can be used.
Pak Choi is superb when used raw in salads, and when cooked it develops a sligtly spicy flavour.
Packed with many super-food nutrients.
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Salad Seeds – Radish Diana produces striking purple & white two-toned spherical roots with a delicious peppery flavour.
A vibrant, tasty and healthy addition to any salad!
The leaves can also be added to salads and stir fries.
Radishes grow well in pots, planters and borders if you’re short on space.
Height and spread: 15cm (6″).
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