Salads & Leaves
Grow your own Autumn salad leaves & lettuces from plug plants. You only need a little space to grow a lot of salad, and partial shade is fine too. All our plug plants come with a full growing guide to help you get started.
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Chicory – Variegata di Castelfranco (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Colourful leaves for winter salads
These are such gorgeous leaves for winter growing, with freckle-like red flecks. The leaves can be used as cut-and-come again for salads while the plant is quite young. In the heart of the winter, when it reaches maturity, you are better off harvesting the whole heart and cooking it to eat. You’ll find that the red flecks gradually darken as the plant matures. Plant in September and October approx 25cm apart in raised beds, traditional veg patches or in pots and planters. They are frost tolerant and can be grown outside very happily.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Variegata di Castelfranco (organic*)
In the kitchen: Can be used in salads or cooked. Try blanching it or braised.
*Transplants suitable for organic growing.
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Lettuce – Arctic King (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)A compact butterhead lettuce with bright green crisp heads.
This butterhead variety of lettuce was bred especially for the winter. If it’s mild it’ll probably mature in the new year, and it will do even better if you can pop a cloche or fleece over the lettuce plants as they are growing. The plug plants arrive with a full growing guide to get you started.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Arctic King (organic*)
Can be grown in: Pots and containers, grow bags, raised beds.
In the kitchen: A wonderful base for your salads with its mild flavour and crisp texture
Ready to harvest: December to April, depending on weather
Delivery: These plants can be delivered from late August until mid/late October.
*Transplants suitable for organic growing.
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Lettuce – Greenhouse Brighton (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 plug plants)A brilliant buttercrunch lettuce for winter growing
This is a fab buttercrunch lettuce for winter growing and we are delighted to add it to our plant collection this autumn. We find it best to wait and harvest as whole heads, but if you’re impatient you can pick some of the outer leaves earlier in the season. It is nice and hardy so will withstand the winter well, although you could cover it with horticultural fleece if it turns really cold.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Greenhouse Brighton (organic*)
In the kitchen: Add to salads through autumn and winter
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Lettuce – Marvel of Four Seasons (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 plug plants)With its beautiful colour, this is a stunning addition to your winter veg garden
This winter lettuce will cope with any conditions that the UK throws at it! It’s a very pretty, tasty red lettuce that should be harvestable before Christmas if mild, especially if grown under a cloche or fleece. You can harvest outer leaves through the season, or wait until the plant reaches maturity and forms a heart in late winter. The plug plants come with a full growing guide to get you started.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Marvel of Four Seasons (organic*)
In the kitchen: Not only does it look great, but this deep red and pale green butterhead lettuce makes a colourful and flavoursome addition to winter salads.
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Lettuce – Winter Density (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)A crunchy winter lettuce to grow
This is a cos style of lettuce that you’ll really enjoy if you like Little Gem lettuce. It’s got a nice crisp texture and should mature in late winter or early spring, depending on the weather. It’ll be even earlier if you pop some fleece over it, or a cloche – you can grow it well in a greenhouse too. The plug plants will arrive with a complete growing guide for you to refer to when planting and growing your lettuces.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Winter Density (organic*)
In the kitchen: A lovely crisp cos-style lettuce to add crunch to your winter salads.
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Mizuna – Red Knight (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Red spicy leaves to add to winter salads
Mizuna is an attractive and delicious cut and come again salad leaf with punchy leaves. It is easy to grow and well worth having in your veg patch over autumn and winter. The leaves are fairly frost tolerant, although we would recommend protecting them with horticultural fleece if there’s snow on the forecast. You can expect to be able to harvest from November through to March, depending on the weather of course! The plug plants come with a complete growing guide.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Red Knight (organic)
In the kitchen: Delicious in salads and also great for stir frying.
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Rainbow Chard – Bright Lights (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Colourful chard leaves for winter growing
Rainbow chard will bring a pleasing punch of colour to your veg patch during the colder months. It is a flavoursome and nutrient-rich vegetable that will produce leaves throughout the seasons. A good vegetable plant to try growing if you like spinach. Simply cut off the bigger, outer leaves at the base and more will keep growing from the centre. It will tolerate light frosts. You will receive a growing guide with the plug plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Bright Lights (organic*)
In the kitchen: The chard leaves are lovely wilted with a bit of garlic butter, and the stalks are great chopped up and thrown into paellas and risottos.
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Tatsoi (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 plug plants)An easy grower for autumn and winter
This is a lovely looking, easy-to-grow Chinese cabbage plant that can be harvested whole or used as a cut & come again for individual leaves for stir-fries (it tastes amazing with ginger, honey and soy sauce) and salads. It grows well at this time of year, when it is less prone to bolting. Keep tatsoi plants well protected from slugs and they should do well. The plug plants come with a growing guide.
Number of plug plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Tatsoi (organic*)
In the kitchen: Try it in stir fries with ginger, say sauce, honey and garlic.
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Wild Rocket (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Wild Rocket is perfect for autumn growing
This is one of our favourite vegetable plants to grow over autumn and winter. The taste is phenomenal compared to shop bought rocket and it just keeps cropping for months, right through to the following spring. Cut the outer leaves off as they reach the desired size, usually from November onwards. Be sure to plant it in a spot that gets plenty of winter sun – or a greenhouse would be even better. In very cold weather it will not grow much, but will burst back into action when it warms up. You’ll receive a growing guide with the plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Wild Rocket (organic*)
In the kitchen: With its peppery flavoured leaves, wild rocket is delicious used in salads. Sprinkle over pizzas and pasta dishes too for a little kick.
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Autumn Quick Growing Salad Collection
£39.99
(120 Plug Plants)Easy growing salad leaves for autumn and winter
If you are keen to begin harvesting tasty salads just a few of weeks after planting, then this little pack of cut and come again salad plants is perfect. You’ll receive a delicious mixture of different salad plants including lettuce, spinach, rocket, mizuna and mustard, so you can pick a few leaves from each to make your own mixed salad. You can expect to harvest a bit from each plant from as early as November, and, with reasonable conditions and regular picking, it should keep you going right through till spring.Number of plants: 120 plug plants (organic*)
Can be grown in: Pots and containers, grow bags, raised beds.
In the kitchen: Pick a few leaves from each to make your own mixed salad and ditch the supermarket salad bags this autumn and winter.
Ready to harvest: Some plants will be harvested before Christmas, others will be ready in the new year and early Spring.
Delivery: These plug plants can be delivered from early September until mid/late October.
*Transplants suitable for organic growing.
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Cos Rouge d’Hiver Lettuce (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 plug plants)A brilliant cos-style lettuce for winter growing
This is a wonderful lettuce for winter growing so we are excited to add it to our plant collection this autumn. It is an old French romaine variety that can be harvested as single leaves or whole heads. The leaves turn redder and redder as the weather turns colder, and it is really hardy so excellent for outside growing during these colder months.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Rouge d’Hiver (organic*)
In the kitchen: Add to salads through autumn and winter
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Frills Mustard (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Punchy mustard leaves for winter growing!
These leaves have a fab flavour, giving a mustardy punch to salads and other dishes. You can start harvesting as soon as the leaves reach 5-10cm (probably in November) and if you keep picking off the leaves it will keep producing more for you to enjoy right through the colder months. It will produce small yellow flowers in spring, at which point it is best to pull the plants up so that you can plant some summer vegetables in their place. You will receive a complete growing guide with your plug plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Frills (organic*)
In the kitchen: The texture is crunchy yet tender with a robust mustard flavour and mild sweet and spicy peppery finish. The young leaves are mild and best used raw in a salad, but more mature leaves stand up well to a light sauté or braise.
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Giant Red Mustard (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow mustard leaves
This is a fabulous plant that stays reasonably small over autumn and winter before it suddenly grows quite large in spring. It’s great looking! Best used as a cut and come again leaf it has a really punchy, mustardy flavour. Add baby leaves to salads or treat larger leaves like spinach and wilt them down. If it’s mild you’ll get leaves right through from November to late Spring (and beyond!) Plant approx 30cm apart. There is a growing guide included with the plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Giant Red (organic*)
In the kitchen: Cut mustard leaves young for a baby leaf salad or leave to mature to use in stir fries and stews.
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Leaf Beet – Bulls Blood (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)A cut and come again crop, beet leaves are nutritious, hardy and easy to grow
This variety of leaf beet not only looks amazing when growing with its dark red leaves, but also adds a wonderful sweet flavour to autumn and winter salads and is very nutritious. If you like spinach and chard, this will be a great addition to your vegetable garden. It’s great to grow over the colder months, providing you with leaves throughout, even when it gets frosty. Once the plant matures, you may find its root has turned into a sizeable beetroot that you can cook with as well. Your plug plants will come with a complete growing guide.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Bulls Blood (organic*)
In the kitchen: Leaf beet can be used raw in salads adding a wonderful sweet taste or can be steamed, boiled or used in a stir fry. If left to mature you can also enjoy the root which is, as the name suggests, a beetroot.
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Rhubarb Chard (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Love chard? Try this brilliant vegetable plant
This is a leaf beet chard that will add a nice splash of colour to the garden over winter. It’s a nice one to grow in borders and pots as well. Treat it as spinach or pick the leaves while they are young for salads. It will do particularly well grown under cover during the autumn/winter months if you can plant it in a greenhouse. You will receive a growing guide with the plug plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Rhubarb Red (organic*)
In the kitchen: The rhubarb chard leaves are lovely wilted with a bit of garlic butter, and the stalks are great chopped up and thrown into paellas and risottos.
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Chicory – Brussels Witloof (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)A classic white chicory variety for forcing
Also known as Belgian Endive (if you are confused about the difference between chicory and endives, then don’t worry, you are not alone – it’s right up there with turnip and swede!) this is a really classic variety to grow. It is one of the best for blanching/forcing (more on that below) and can also be used for baby leaf salads. Plant it 25-30cm apart.
To ‘force’ chicory:
In late autumn (Nov/Dec) lift the plants and cut any foliage to 2-3cm above the roots. Replant into deep pots or containers: use potting compost to fill the pots leaving about 15cm from the top of the pot. Re-plant the chicory so that the top of the plant is only just showing and then cover with compost filling the pot almost to the top (so you will be adding another 12-15cm compost on top of the planted chicory.)
Put the pots/containers in a warm dark place – an outside building or shed, for example. 3-4 weeks later the forced ‘chicons’ will be ready for harvest.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Brussels Witloof (organic*)
In the kitchen: Can be used in salads or cooked. Try blanching it or braised.
*Transplants suitable for organic growing.
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Chicory – Rossa di Treviso (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Colourful plants for autumn/winter growing
This is a fun vegetable plant to grow, adding a deep red colour to your plot over autumn and winter. Harvest the whole head in early spring or just use the outer leaves earlier on in salads. Once fully grown you can usually leave chicory in the ground until you’re ready to harvest. Chicory will start out with greener leaves that gradually darken as the plant matures. You will receive a full growing guide with the plug plants.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Rossa di Treviso (organic*)
In the kitchen: Can be used in salads or cooked. Try blanching it or braised.
Delivery Info: Available to order now for delivery in September and October. Please see FAQs for up-to-date delivery info.
Planting/Growing Advice: Plant in September and October approx 25cm apart in raised beds, traditional veg patches or in pots and planters. They are frost tolerant and can be grown outside.
When to harvest: You can start picking the outer leaves a month or so after planting or wait until the entire head forms and harvest in early spring.
*Transplants suitable for organic growing.
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Endive – Pancalieri (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)A crunchy salad plant for winter growing
A frizzy, frilly feast of a plant! Harvest the young endive leaves as a cut & come again to add a punchy flavour to salads, or wait until the whole head has matured. It’ll withstand a light frost, but cover with fleece if heavy frosts/snow are forecast. This is a great plant to grow if you enjoy a bit of crunch in your salads, and it will produce plenty! The plug plants come with a full growing guide.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Pancalieri (organic*)
In the kitchen: Endive leaves have a slightly more biting flavour than lettuce so works wonderfully well in salads.
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Spinach – Giant Winter (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)The perfect winter spinach
As the name suggests, this variety produces lots of lovely big leaves through the winter months. You should be able to start harvesting from late October, and it’ll keep producing new leaves right through till spring. They’ll need about 30cm between plants so they are best grown in a raised bed or similar.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Giant Winter (organic*)
In the kitchen: You can either cook the spinach leaves making a delicious addition to a wide range of dishes, use the baby leaves in salads or add to smoothies or juice.
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Spinach – Perpetual (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)A brilliant autumn grower
Producing tasty spinach leaves for you throughout the seasons, as it grows simply cut the bigger outer leaves off at the base and it’ll keep producing more and more. As long as the slugs and caterpillars don’t get to it, it’ll carry on for ages. Planted in autumn, you can hope for a harvest from late November onwards depending on the weather. The plug plants come with a full growing guide.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Perpetual (organic*)
In the kitchen: You can either cook the spinach leaves making a delicious addition to a wide range of dishes, use the baby leaves in salads or add to smoothies or juice.
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Mizuna – Kyoto Green (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Delicious salad leaves to enjoy through winter
Mizuna is a cut-and-come-again oriental salad leaf with deeply cut, spicy flavoured leaves. It is easy to grow and well worth having in your veg patch. Harvest the outer leaves regularly so that the plant continues to grow for many weeks. It will tolerate a light frost. Once it starts to produce flowers, you can eat the flowers and broccoli-like florets too. Planted in autumn, you can expect a reasonably quick harvest, and should be able to enjoy the salad leaves right through winter. It is fairly tough and will grow well outside, but will benefit from a cloche or fleece in the coldest frosty/snowy weather. The plants come with a complete growing guide.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Kyoto (organic*)
In the kitchen: Delicious in salads and also great for stir frying.
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Chinese Mustard – Green In Snow (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Hardy mustard leaves for winter growing
These are a useful winter leaf to grow, as they are brilliantly frost-hardy (hence the name – Green In Snow!) and provide a great source of baby leaf for salads. While the leaves are still young, the flavour is quite mild, getting hotter as they grow and mature. If you love a strong dose of mustardy heat, wait until the leaves are nice and big before you harvest them – you won’t be disappointed!Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Green in Snow (organic*)
In the kitchen: Chinese mustard can be used as a baby leaf crop for salads or harvest larger leaves for stir fries/braising.
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Oriental Choi – Prize (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Great for autumn baby leaf salads
This is a great pak choi option for those who prefer less stem and more leaf. The slender stems also make it really good for braising whole, which can make for a lovely side dish either for an Asian inspired dish, or as simple traditional greens to go with a roast or something. It is such a good plant for autumn growing, just be sure to keep it well protected from slugs and snails.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Vivid (organic*)
In the kitchen: Oriental Choi can be used as a baby leaf crop for salads or harvest larger leaves for stir fries/braising.
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Oriental Choi – Vivid (Autumn)
£4.99
(10 Plug Plants)Great for autumn baby leaf salads
You might recognise this gorgeous purple-red leaf from mixed baby leaf salads, and it is well worth growing over the autumn so that you can add it to your own homegrown salads. You can also let it grow to maturity, harvesting the larger leaves later in the year to use for stir-fries or simply for braising to serve with a roast dinner. Both options are great, and of course you can do a combination of the two, harvesting some leaves young, and waiting before harvesting others. It is a wonderfully hardy plant so you’ll get a nice, long harvesting window.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Vivid (organic*)
In the kitchen: Oriental Choi can be used as a baby leaf crop for salads or harvest larger leaves for stir fries/braising.