Seed Potato – Estima – Second Early is a versatile option for your allotment or veg patch.
Estima is a stock favourite on the supermarket shelves. If harvested early it is ideal for boiling or mashing, while leaving in the ground for longer, it produces wonderful baking potatoes.
A heavy cropper, the large oval tubers have a smooth skin, and pale yellow flesh that has a subtle flavour.
Seed Potato – Picasso – Early Maincrop. Developed from “Cara”, this early maincrop variety has the same creamy skin and striking bright pink/red eyes.
Picasso produces huge yields of waxy fleshed tubers with good all round disease and drought resistance making it a commercial, garden and allotment favourite.
A versatile variety in the kitchen, particularly for baking and mashing.
Seed Potato – Maris Piper – Maincrop has a golden skin and creamy white flesh with a fluffy texture and fantastic flavour. This makes it a versatile all-rounder! Great for Chips and Roasted Potatoes, and also perfect for Mash and Wedges.
“The best chipping variety available”. Maris Piper produces dry, floury tubers that rarely discolour while cooking. This popular purple-flowered maincrop potato is also Golden Eelworm resistant.
Seed Potato – Kestrel – Second Early is a real gardeners’ favourite variety producing tubers of consistent size and shape with attractive, smooth skins and violet eyes.
Potato ‘Kestrel’ has good slug resistance, Golden Eelworm and partial White Eelworm resistance.
Great all-rounder cooked in many ways.
Seed Potato – Charlotte – Second Early is 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 in many popular spring/summer dishes.
The variety Charlotte holds an RHS AGM award and is frequently found in your local supermarket.
Seed Potato – Rocket – First Early is a very early, heavy-cropping variety. The pure white flesh is quite soft and waxy. Harvest as New. Superb flavour and great when boiled, steamed or sautéd.
You can grow peppers in containers, growbags or in open ground as long as it is a hot, sunny spot (at the base of a wall for instance)
Onion Sets “Red Baron” is a mid-late maturing variety. Produces firm, flattish-round bulbs of a beautiful dark red colour. With eye-catching red rimmed flesh and a stronger flavour than most varieties.
This RHS AGM variety makes an attractive addition to salads. An excellent cropping red onion with good storage properties.
Shallot Sets – Golden Gourmet have golden brown skins, pale flesh with a wonderful flavour and store well into winter.
Golden Gourmet are easy to grow and an improved strain of the traditional variety Giant Yellow.
Planted very early in the season, in mid-February if possible, they mature faster than those grown from seed.
This variety has larger and better quality bulbs with a reduced likelihood of bolting.
Golden Gourmet is a very high-yielding, Dutch variety that can be harvested as early as July.
Superb for pickling and general cooking when extra strength is required.
Onion Sets “Turbo” (Spring planting) is a golden-brown skinned variety, it’s late maturing and produces good yields of medium-sized onions.
The rounded bulbs have a papery, thin skin with crisp, firm flesh and a deliciously strong flavour that is suitable for use in cooking and delicious eaten raw in salads and sandwiches.
