Summer Planting
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Basil – Queen of Sheba
Original price was: £8.99.£6.29Current price is: £6.29.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)An ornamental beauty
This new variety of basil produces a stunning plant for your garden. With delicate purple flowers as well as bright, strong scented, green leaves, you may be tempted to keep the plant as an ornamental instead of harvesting it. It will grow well in containers and is perfect as a potted windowsill plant too. Your basil plants come with a full growing guide.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pot)
Variety: Queen of Sheba (organic*)
In the kitchen: Pinch off small sprigs and add to salads, tomato dishes, sauces and vegetables – the fresher the better with this one.
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Beetroot – Cylindra
Original price was: £4.99.£3.49Current price is: £3.49.
(10 Plug Plants)Unusual, easy to grow and deliciously tasty
This cylindrical beetroot has smooth skin and dark purple-red flesh. We love it for being so easy to slice, and it is perfect for pots too as it really needs very little space to grow. The roots tend to poke above the soil, but they can be earthed up and will remain in good condition for several weeks until you are ready to harvest them. Beetroot is very easy to grow, especially using our organic plug plants which come with a complete growing guide.Number of plants: 10
Variety: Cylindra (organic)
In the kitchen: The roots of this beetroot are sweet with an earthy-caramel taste, especially lovely when roasted. Or you could try boiling the beetroot or sliced up and in salads.
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British Basil
Original price was: £8.99.£6.29Current price is: £6.29.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Resistant to cooler conditions
British Basil has been specifically selected for growing outside in the UK as it is resistant to cooler conditions. It has a bright, green leaf that doesn’t discolour and keeps its recognisable intense flavour.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pot)
Variety: British (organic)
Great for protecting your tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the kitchen: Pinch off small sprigs and add to salads, tomato dishes, sauces and vegetables.
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Carrots – Early Nantes
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(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.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(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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Chopsuey Greens – Shungiku
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)Cut & come again all summer
If you think these leaves look a bit like Chrysanthemums, you’d be right – they’re from the same family! Chopsuey makes a fab addition to the veg plot – you can plant them close together, so they are good for pots or beds, and harvest when they reach about 12cm tall by simply cutting across the base of plants as cut & come again. Towards the end of summer, let it flower for gorgeous yellow & white blooms. Pull it up before it seeds.
Number of plants: 10 organic plug plants
Variety: Shungiku (organic*)
In the kitchen: Cook it up like spinach, or stir-fry.
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Coriander
Original price was: £8.99.£6.29Current price is: £6.29.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Oh, Coriander, how we love you!
This is a tender green leafy herb which is an absolute essential for those who love Asian cooking. Our Coriander plug plants come ready to be planted straight away. They are perfect for pots and containers but will also grow well on a sunny windowsill too.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Cilantro (organic)
In the kitchen: Young leaves are delicious chopped fresh and added to salads. Or use the leaves and stems for some very tasty stir-fries and curries. It works wonderfully as a flavouring alongside lime, chilli and lemon grass.
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Fernleaf Dill
Original price was: £8.99.£6.29Current price is: £6.29.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Quick growing and versatile
Fernleaf Dill is a dwarf variety growing to just 45cm in height. A green herb with wiry, thread-like leaves that grow in clusters, it has a strong, distinctive taste that is like a combination of fennel, anise and celery, with warm, slightly bitter undertones.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Fernleaf (organic)
Great for protecting your tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the kitchen: Treat dill like bay leaves and let it add flavour to soups and stews, or add to the cooking water when you boil potatoes. Dill can also be used in bread, soups, vegetable dishes, and pickles, salad dressings, or to make dill vinegar. It works well with fish dishes.
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Flat Leaf Parsley
Original price was: £8.99.£6.29Current price is: £6.29.
3 Plug Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Nutritious and tasty
Also known as Italian parsley, flat leaf parsley has dark green leaves and a pungent, sweet flavour. Harvest it as needed, but fairly regularly so that the plants keep sprouting new stems.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Flat Leaf (organic)
In the kitchen: Parsley is such a wonderfully versatile and nutritious herb with its clean flavour demanding no restraint on use. It can be the main ingredient in everything from salads to smoothies. Parsley keeps its bright colour and flavour even when pureed. Make it the base of your next pesto, sauce, soup or shower it over meats and seafood to brighten up your dish.
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Golden Beetroot – Boldor
Original price was: £4.99.£3.49Current 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 – Buttercrunch
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)A firm favourite in the lettuce world
This variety of lettuce is actually somewhere between a butterhead and a crisphead. It has soft outer leaves but with a creamy green heart of a much crispier texture. Buttercrunch will stand well without bolting – a very good option for suntrap gardens. Growing lettuces using our organic plug plants is so simple, and you’ll receive a complete growing guide with your plants.Number of plants: 10
Variety: Buttercrunch (organic)
In the kitchen: The best salads often have lettuce as their base to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch.
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Lettuce – Butterhead Roxy
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)A gorgeous looking lettuce, and fairly drought-resistant too
Butterhead Roxy tends not to bolt easily, making it a very good option for suntrap gardens that can get a little warm, or for growing in those areas of the UK that don’t get a lot of rain in summer (which is not us here in Cornwall!) Growing lettuces using our organic plug plants is so simple, and you’ll receive a complete growing guide with your plants.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Butterhead Roxy (organic*)
In the kitchen: The best salads often have lettuce as their base to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch.
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Lettuce – Freckles
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current 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.£4.19Current 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.£4.19Current 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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Rocket – Wasabi
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)Actually tastes like wasabi
This is a relatively new variety of rocket and has a similar spicy taste to wasabi. It’s a really easy grower. You can harvest the baby leaves for a milder flavour, which is our preference, or later when they mature for a little more of that spicy flavour. Your rocket plants will arrive with a full growing guide.
Number of plants: 10 organic plug plants
Variety: Wasabi (organic*)
In the kitchen: Perfect when served with sushi but can add a fiery flavour to your salads too.
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Spinach – Perpetual
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current 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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Wild Rocket – Dragons Fire
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)Looks great in a mixed salad!
We’re so excited to add this wild rocket to our collection. Obviously, we are big fans of rocket, and this one is a particularly great-looking variety with its deep red veins. Wild rocket is SO easy to grow and maintain and can be planted in most positions in the garden, in full sun or semi shade, and in beds, pots or grow bags. Your rocket plug plants will come with a full growing guide.
Number of plants: 10 organic plug plants
Variety: Dragons Fire (organic*)
In the kitchen: Perfect for adding a bit of spice to your salads or works well sprinkled on top of your favourite pizza too. You can even make a delicious rocket pesto with this one.
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Beetroot – Chioggia
Original price was: £4.99.£3.49Current 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 – De Cicco
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)Quick growing for a late autumn crop
As long as the weather plays ball, this variety of broccoli should start to produce florets in late autumn if planted in midsummer (and if it doesn’t reach maturity, it will stand over the winter and crop in early spring). After the main broccoli head comes through, you’ll get a succession of smaller sprouting broccoli to harvest.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: De Cicco (organic*) (sometimes known as Di Ciccio)
In the kitchen: Great for steaming, roasting, stir-frying and all sorts!
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Broccoli (Calabrese) – Green Sprouting
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(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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Chicory – Rossa di Treviso
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)An interesting plant to try in your kitchen garden
This is a fun little plant to grow, adding a deep red colour to your plot. Harvest the whole head or just use the outer leaves. Once fully grown you can usually leave it in the ground until you’re ready to harvest. It is easy to grow chicory using our organic plug plants, and the plants arrive with a full growing guide to get you started.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Rossa di Treviso (organic)
In the kitchen: Chicory can be used in salads or cooked. Try blanching or braising it.
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Endive – Pancalieri
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)A crunchy salad leaf that grows easily
A frizzy, frilly feast of a plant! Harvest the young leaves as a cut-and-come-again to add a punchy flavour and a good crunch to salads, or wait until the whole head has matured. Endives are very easy to grow using our organic plug plants, just follow the advice in the comprehensive growing guide that arrives with your delivery.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Pancalieri (organic)
In the kitchen: Endives have a slightly more biting flavour than lettuce so the leaves work wonderfully well in salads.
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Giant Winter Leeks
Original price was: £6.99.£4.89Current 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.