Late Summer Planting
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Frills Mustard
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Packs a flavoursome punch!
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 and if you keep picking off the leaves it will keep producing more for you to enjoy right through the summer months and into autumn.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Frills (organic)
In the kitchen: The texture is crunchy yet tender with a robust mustard flavour and mildly sweet and spicy pepper-like 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
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, decorative and tasty
This is a fabulous plant that grows quite large. 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.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Giant Red (organic)
In the kitchen: Cut as baby leaf salad or leave to mature to use in stir-fries.
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Kohl Rabi – Delicacy Purple
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)An unusual addition to the vegetable garden
Although popular in Europe, Kohl Rabi is not that common a vegetable in the UK. It tastes like a cross between a broccoli stalk and a turnip. Kohl Rabi ‘Delicacy Purple’ is an early maturing purple variety with round shaped stems and good quality, delicate flesh. Harvest once the diameter reaches about 10cm. It is quite easy to grow, and full instructions are included with the plug plants.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Delicacy Purple (organic)
In the kitchen: Kohl Rabi is a super tasty addition when grated into coleslaw or salads. Also yummy when roasted, steamed or stir-fried.
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Leaf Beet – Bulls Blood
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)A cut and come again crop, nutritious, hardy and easy to grow
Bulls blood not only looks amazing when growing with its dark red leaves but also adds a wonderful sweet flavour to your salads and is very nutritious. Growing from plug plants is very easy, just follow the advice in the growing guide that you’ll receive with the plants!Number of plants: 10
Variety: Bulls Blood (organic)
In the kitchen: Delicious 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 roots which are tender with a great flavour.
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Lettuce – Iceberg 2
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plants)A crunchy classic!
This is an easy to grow iceberg lettuce that doesn’t often bolt during the summer, making it a reliable option. It forms a tight head of crunchy lettuce that you can harvest once mature.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Iceberg 2 (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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Mibuna
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plants)Cut & come again salad leaves
If you love wild rocket and mizuna, then mibuna is an excellent plant to add to your salad patch crops. It is a little more mustardy in flavour. Great for sun or shade, and perfect for pots as you can grow them close together, about 10-15cm apart.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Mibuna (organic*)
In the kitchen: Use in salads, or cook lightly (chuck it in a stir-fry just before serving, or toss it through cooked rice/pasta so that it lightly steams)
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Amaranth – Red Army
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Gorgeous reds for your garden
We’re excited to offer Amaranth Red Army as plug plants this year. You can enjoy the red leaves as micro leaves, cutting them very young to add a splash of colour to salad. Or you can wait a little longer and harvest larger leaves individually, or, and arguably the best option, wait until it reaches full height and produces striking flower spikes for cutting.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Amaranth Red Army (organic*)
In the kitchen: Great as part of any baby-leaf salad when small however larger leaves can be sauteed or steamed similar to spinach.
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Bulb Fennel – Zefo Fina
Original price was: £6.99.£5.59Current price is: £5.59.
(10 Plants)Easy to grow fennel bulbs
This variety produces small-to- medium sized bulbs to harvest in late summer. The feathery foliage looks lovely in the veg patch, and is useful as a filler for cut flowers too. Bulb fennel is very easy-going – just pop it in the ground in fertile soil, keep it well watered and it should do well.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Zefo Fina (organic*)
In the kitchen: Great for gratins, or chopped finely and added to bean salads and other green veggies. Try roasting them too.
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Tree Spinach
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Sparkling pink and golden leaves!
Arguably the most beautiful salad leaf you’ll ever see! Tree Spinach plants deepen into a stunning magenta at the tips, and genuinely sparkle with a little gold dusting. Seeing is believing, so give them a grow and enjoy popping the pink leaves in your salads! The plug plants arrive with a complete growing guide, so it is easy to get started with growing these beauties, but worth knowing in advance that the plants grow quite tall and are best planted at the back of a border/bed.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Tree Spinach (organic*)
In the kitchen: Add Tree Spinach leaves to salads for a splash of bright pink – it’ll look really amazing!