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    Beetroot – Detroit

    Original price was: £4.99.Current price is: £3.49.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    A classic variety that is easy to grow
    This is a super tasty, popular variety of beetroot that produces smooth skinned, dark red, medium to large beetroots to harvest. Perfect for growing in beds or containers, beetroot is incredibly easy to grow, especially using our organic plug plants. You’ll receive a complete growing guide with your plug plants.

    Number of plants: 10 plug plants

    Variety: Detroit (organic*)

    In the kitchen: This variety of beetroot is great for roasting or you can pick them a little earlier as baby beets and use the leaves in stir-fries or salads.

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    Carrots – Early Nantes

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Easy to grow, deliciously tasty and a true family favourite 
    Growing carrots is one of the most rewarding things to do in your kitchen garden…there is just something so satisfying about pulling them up and washing off all the soil so that you can cook them. These Nantes Carrots have a lovely sweet flavour. They’re a bit of a classic in the carrot world, and you can expect to get a size around 6 inches out of them. Growing carrots from plug plants is easy – the plants arrive in tiny biodegradable pots and you can simply plant them into well dug soil or containers. A complete growing guide comes with the plants.

    Number of plants: 10

    Variety: Early Nantes (organic)

    In the kitchen: Carrots can be steamed or are delicious eaten raw in salads. They are also great roasted with some honey.

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    Cavolo Nero – Nero di Toscano (Black Kale)

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    An easy to grow, decorative and healthy kale plant

    This Italian kale has beautiful dark green leaves and looks really striking in the vegetable patch when it’s fully grown. In fact, many people choose to plant it in borders for exactly that reason. It’s easy to grow (easier than many other brassicas) and will provide you with leaves for several months. The plug plants will arrive with a complete growing guide full of planting advice and tips.

    Number of plants: 10

    Variety: Nero di Toscana (organic)

    In the kitchen: Add Cavolo Nero kale stews, steam it, fry it up with a little garlic butter.

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    Golden Beetroot – Boldor

    Original price was: £4.99.Current price is: £3.49.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Incredible golden fleshed beetroots to grow
    This variety produces such a wonderful colour of beetroot – it is really striking, and we’d highly recommend growing golden beetroot alongside purple beetroot so that you can mix the two colours in your cooking – they look brilliant together. The flavour is very similar, so if you love beetroot, give this variety a go! Our organic plug plants come in plastic-free packaging and arrive with a complete growing guide.

    Number of plants: 10 plug plants

    Variety: Boldor (organic*)

    In the kitchen: Great for roasting, pickling or try making a golden beetroot soup. Alternatively, you can pick them a little earlier as baby beets and use the leaves in stir-fries or salads.

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    Lettuce – Freckles

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Easy to grow, decorative and delicious
    Freckles is easy to grow from our lovely young plug plants. It is heat tolerant, crisp and bolt resistant. Freckles is unlike any romaine lettuce you will see. It has bright green leaves that look like someone splattered painted burgundy spots all over them! A lovely variety. Growing lettuces from plug plants is easy – you can grow them in pots or beds – just follow the instructions in the growing guide that you will receive with your plants.

    Number of plants: 10

    Variety: Freckles (organic)

    In the kitchen: The best salads often have lettuce as their base to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch. The next time you make a Caesar salad use Freckles and create your own work of art.

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    Lettuce – Little Gem

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    A crunchy, compact lettuce that takes up little space
    Producing small plants, this lettuce forms a small, tight heart – it is quick growing and will do well planted in between rows of other veggies as it doesn’t need much space. Harvest the entire lettuce once the head reaches full size, approx 12-15cm tall. The plug plants arrive in plastic-free packaging together with a complete growing guide.

    Number of plants: 10 plug plants

    Variety: Little Gem (organic*)

    In the kitchen: Wonderfully versatile with so much to offer, this lettuce is deliciously in salads, or braised/sautéed. Try braising it with peas and mint!

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    Rainbow Chard – Bright Lights

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Colourful, nutrient-rich and delicious

    Rainbow chard will bring a pleasing punch of colour to your veg patch during the colder months. It is a flavoursome and nutrient-rich plant that will produce leaves throughout the seasons. Simply cut off the bigger, outer leaves at the base and more will keep growing. It is easy to grow rainbow chard from plug plants – just plant in raised beds or large containers and follow the growing guide that is provided with the plants.

    Number of plants: 10

    Variety: Bright Lights (organic)

    In the kitchen: The 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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    Spinach – Perpetual

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    A fantastically versatile nutrient-rich plant
    Producing tasty leaves for you throughout the seasons, as perpetual spinach grows you can 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. Perpetual spinach is very easy to grow from our organic plug plants – suitable for pots and beds, and will grow well in sun or partial shade. Full growing instructions come with the plants.

    Number of plants: 10

    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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    Beetroot – Chioggia

    Original price was: £4.99.Current price is: £3.49.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Stripy Beetroots!
    This traditional Italian beetroot has beautiful, decorative white rings when sliced. It looks amazing sliced finely and added to salads. Definitely worth growing! Our beetroot plug plants make it very easy to grow your own beetroot, whether you are growing in pots or beds. The plants arrive with a complete growing guide, and are delivered in plastic-free packaging.

    Number of plants: 10

    Variety: Chioggia Italian (organic)

    In the kitchen: This variety of beetroot is great for slicing into salads so that you can see the beautiful stripes.

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    Broccoli (Calabrese) – Green Sprouting

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    A delicious and easy to grow family favourite

    This is a green sprouting variety of broccoli. After you have harvested the main head of broccoli (the ‘leader’), it will start to produce successive spears for you to harvest. You can either harvest them whilst small and tender or wait until they form a larger head. Use netting to keep butterflies (and therefore caterpillars) at bay! Growing from our broccoli plug plants is quick and easy – just plant them in your garden when your plugs arrive and keep them well watered – a complete growing guide comes with every delivery.

    Number of plants: 10 plug plants

    Variety: Green Sprouting (organic*)

    In the kitchen: Great steamed, roasted with a little oil or stir-fried, it is an extremely versatile kitchen garden staple.

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    Giant Winter Leeks

    Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.89.
    (20 Plug Plants)

    The gardener’s choice of leek
    Giant Winter is an excellent late variety producing thick leeks that will hold well in the ground for a long time and are winter hardy. You will find more than one leek growing in most of your plug plants, so you will get plenty of leeks to harvest! You can either tease them apart to plant each leek separately, or plant together without separating. There is plenty of growing advice in the growing guide that arrives with the plug plants.

    Number of plants: 20 (although you are likely to receive two or three seedlings in each plug)

    Variety: Giant Winter (organic)

    In the kitchen: Leeks are delicious in soups, stews and pies. You can steam, fry or boil. Finely chopping leeks brings out their flavour and texture.

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    Lettuce – Lollo Rossa

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    This wonderful looking lettuce is a must in any kitchen garden
    Lollo Rossa lettuce forms tight frilly maroon heads. You can wait and harvest the whole plant, or pick a few leaves here and there as needed. It is very easy to grow lettuces from plug plants – just pop them in the ground, or in pots or a window box, and keep them well watered. A full growing guide is provided with the plants.

    Number of plants: 10 plug plants

    Variety: Lollo Rossa (organic*)

    In the kitchen: Use this lettuce to bulk up salads and add a splash of colour.

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    Lettuce – Lollo Biondi

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Tender cut and come again lettuce leaves
    One of the prettiest lime-green varieties of multi leaf lettuces. It is the shiny-green sister of Lollo Rosso. This variety has extremely frizzy, crinkled and compact leaves. Growing lettuces from plug plants is incredibly easy – just plant up in beds or pots and keep them well watered and protected from slugs. Complete growing guide comes with the plants which are delivered in plastic-free packaging.

    Number of plants: 10

    Variety: Lollo Biondi (organic)

    In the kitchen: The best salads have lettuce as their base to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch.

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    Savoy Cabbage – Vertus

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Easy to grow, hardy and delicious
    This variety of savoy cabbage has rounded heads of dark green ruffled leaves that have a more subtle flavour compared to other savoy cabbages, slightly less bitter. It’s a very hardy variety and stands well without splitting. Best grown in beds, but it can be grown in large pots too. Growing from our organic plug plants is easy – follow the advice in the comprehensive growing guide that you will receive with the plants.

    Number of plants: 10

    Variety: Vertus (organic)

    In the kitchen: Shred or cut savoy cabbage into wedges with the hard core discarded. Steam, boil, braise or stir-fry. It especially delicious braised with pancetta and garlic.

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    Spring Onion – White Lisbon

    Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.89.
    (20 Plug Plants)

    Great for growing if you have limited space
    Loading your veg patch with spring onions is such a good idea. You can really pack them in as they hardly take up any space. They grow quite quickly during the spring and summer months too so you’ll be able to plant something else in their place later in the season. Growing spring onions from our plug plants is very easy – just pop them in your veg plot when your plants arrive – a complete growing guide will be provided with your plant delivery.

    Number of plants: 20

    Variety: White Lisbon (organic)

    In the kitchen: Spring onions are fab chopped up and thrown into a stir fry with some oriental leaves or in a delicious salad.

     

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    Wildflower Mix – Bee & Butterfly (50 Plugs)

    Original price was: £19.99.Current price is: £13.99.
    (50 Plug Plants)

    Plant a mini wildflower meadow!
    Hugely popular when we introduced them in 2020, our wildflower plug plants are brilliant for attracting bees, butterflies and other pollinators. There are over 100 different varieties, all annuals which will readily self seed, giving you continual colour for months. They are great for planting in a dedicated patch in the garden, or in a pot/planter for a mini-meadow on your patio!

    Each plug plant will have a cluster of different seedlings emerging, a lucky dip from the list below, and should not be thinned out. This way, you’ll get a fairly natural looking little meadow. For best results, plant the plugs approximately 15-20cm apart. You can fill a planter or pot quite happily with several plugs to each, allowing for at least 15cm per plug.

    Number of plugs: 50 plug plants (multiple seedlings per plug)

    Contains a lucky dip seedling mix from over 100 different wildflowers, including:

    Borage
    Clover
    Corn Cockle
    Cornflower
    Daisy – Ox-Eye
    Foxglove – Wild
    Knapweed
    Cranesbill
    Poppy – Common
    Scabious – Field
    Ragged Robin
    Teasel
    Yarrow
    Vetch

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    Tagete – Starfire Mix

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Pretty flowers that’ll attract the bees
    Tagetes have long been a veg patch favourite for encouraging bees and other pollinators, as well as helping to protect your crops from pests like aphids. Dotting a few clusters here and there amongst your crops will really bring your plot to life. They’ll keep flowering right through summer and autumn until the frosts get too heavy. Tagetes are easy to grow from plug plants – just pop them in the soil and let them do their work. A full growing guide is provided with all plants.

    No. of plants: 10 plug plants

    Variety: Starfire Mix

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    Celeriac – Giant Prague

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Celeriac plug plants make it easy to grow
    If you love celeriac, then you have to try growing it! Suitable for raised beds and traditional plots – dig in plenty of compost when planting. The key to growing celeriac is to keep the plants well watered throughout the growing season, as this will help the root to swell so that you have a decent size celeriac to pull up over the winter months. Our organic plug plants arrive in plastic-free packaging and come with a complete growing guide to help you get the most from your vegetable plants.

    Number of plants: 10 plug plants

    Variety: Giant Prague (organic*)

    In the kitchen: With its celery-like flavour with nutty overtones, celeriac is great mashed, boiled or roasted. Use it in slow cooked dishes or make a deliciously hearty soup.

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    Viola

    Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.19.
    (10 Plug Plants)

    Beautiful edible flowers to grow
    These pretty little flowers are so sweet and really decorative. Use them to decorate cakes and salads, or simply let them attract bees and other pollinators to your veg patch. Growing them from our plug plants is simple – just pop them in the soil in a sunny spot and keep them well watered. You’ll get a mixture of different coloured violas right through the summer and into autumn.

    Growing from our plug plants is very easy – just pop the viola plants in beds or pots when your plants arrive and keep them well watered – a complete growing guide is provided with all plants.

    No. of plants: 10