Summer Planting
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Basil – Queen of Sheba
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
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.£3.99Current price is: £3.99.
(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.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
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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Cavolo Nero – Nero di Toscano (Black Kale)
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current 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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Chopsuey Greens – Shungiku
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
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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Curly Kale (Borecole) – Green Curled Dwarf
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)A space-saving, easy-growing kale
This is a very popular, compact curly kale that is great for pots (and beds, too!) and requires little attention to produce a good crop. It is exceptionally hardy and grows really well through autumn and winter giving you a nice, constant supply of healthy greens from your garden. You can plant curly kale in spring for use in late summer and early autumn, or plant in summer/early autumn for a winter harvest. Cover with mesh netting to protect from pests. You’ll find plenty of advice in the growing guide that comes with the plug plants.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Green Curled Dwarf (organic*)
In the kitchen: This kale can be steamed, baked or fried with a drizzle of olive oil and sprinkled with seasoning to make delicious kale crisps or even used in smoothies.
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Extend The Season Collection
Original price was: £25.99.£20.79Current price is: £20.79.
(53 Plug Plants)Keep your vegetable garden going for longer
With a selection of vegetable plants that are perfect for planting in midsummer, and that will crop well into autumn, this collection is designed to help you extend the growing season.Number of plants: 53
Contains the following baby plants:
Kale x10
Cauliflower x 10
Celeriac x10
Beetroot x 10
Courgette x 3
Spinach x 10
*Contents may vary depending on plant availability
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Fernleaf Dill
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
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.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
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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Lettuce – Freckles
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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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Plug The Gaps Collection
Original price was: £25.99.£20.79Current price is: £20.79.
(60 Plug Plants)Perfect for those empty spaces
With a selection of space saving, quick growing plants, this collection is ideal for midsummer as gaps pop up in the veg patch, whether that’s from being harvested or being eaten by pests!Number of plants: 60
Contains the following baby plants:
Rocket x 10
Beetroot x 10
Lettuce x 10
Minipop Sweetcorn x 10
Dwarf French Bean x 10
Peas x 10*Contents may vary depending on plant availability
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Purple Sprouting Broccoli – Early
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, beautiful colour and fantastic flavour
An extremely healthy and tasty vegetable that is so much more flavoursome when harvested and eaten fresh from your own garden. This variety is great to plant in spring/summer for a harvest between February and May, when there’s not much else to harvest! Growing from our plug plants is very easy – just pop them in your veg plot when your plants arrive and keep them well watered – a complete growing guide is provided with every plant delivery.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Early (organic*)
In the kitchen: Packed full of flavour when lightly steamed, stir-fried or boiled in just a few minutes so that the florets become tender. Drizzle with melted butter and lemon juice to make a delicious side dish.
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Rainbow Chard – Bright Lights
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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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Romanesco Cauliflower
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)A weirdly beautiful cauliflower to grow
These plants will produce jade green spears which are beautiful and intriguing to look at. They are also delicious to eat! They taste like a mixture between broccoli and cauliflower and can be cooked in much the same way. As with all brassica plants, these are best grown in beds and will need good protection from pigeons and other pests. You’ll receive a full growing guide with your plug plants, so just follow the advice and you’ll find it easy to grow your own romanesco cauliflower.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Romanesco (organic)
In the kitchen: Perfect for roasting, steaming, deep frying in batter, or even raw in your salads!
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Spinach – Perpetual
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, full of flavour and plentiful
This is one of our favourite vegetable plants to grow. Keep it well watered, and plant it in a slightly shady spot. The taste is phenomenal compared to shop bought rocket and it just keeps cropping for months. Cut the outer leaves off as they reach the desired size. Simple. Growing wild rocket from our plug plants is easy – just follow the instructions in the growing guide that is provided with your plants when they arrive.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Wild Rocket (organic)
In the kitchen: With its peppery flavoured leaves it is delicious used in salads. Sprinkle over pizzas and pasta dishes too for a little kick.
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Wild Rocket – Dragons Fire
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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.£3.99Current price is: £3.99.
(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 plug plants
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.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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.£4.79Current 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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Cauliflower – All Year Round
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)A popular cauliflower that can be planted in spring, summer or autumn!
This variety is a very popular all season cauliflower which can be set closer together than others to produce tasty small heads and is easier to grow than most other varieties. Firm the plants in well when you plant the plugs, as this will help them to form a firm cauliflower head. You’ll receive a complete growing guide with the plants, so follow the advice in that for best results with growing cauliflower.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: All Year Round (organic*)
In the kitchen: Perfect for roasting, steaming, making soup and for a lovely warming cauliflower cheese!
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Chicory – Rossa di Treviso
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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.