Spinach & Chard Plants
Grow your own spinach and chard from organic plug plants. Suitable for small and large gardens alike, and will grow well in partial shade, too. All our vegetable plug plants come with a complete growing guide.
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Chopsuey Greens – Shungiku
£5.99
(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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Mustard Spinach – Komatsuna
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)A fantastically versatile nutrient-rich plant
This is a Japanese mustard, used widely as a staple green veg in and around Tokyo. The mustardy heat increases as the plant matures, so use baby leaves raw in salads, or cook larger leaves as you would spinach or chard. It’s a quick grower, so keep cutting regularly. It’s fairly hardy so will keep going into autumn and winter.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Komatsuna (organic*)
In the kitchen: Salads & stir-fries
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Rainbow Chard – Bright Lights
£5.99
(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
£5.99
(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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Rhubarb Chard
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Colourful, nutrient-rich and delicious
This is a leaf beet chard that will add a nice splash of colour to the garden. It’s a nice one to grow in borders and pots as well. Treat it like spinach or pick the leaves while they are young for salads. Growing rhubarb chard from plug plants is easy – just follow the instructions in the growing guide that is provided with the 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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Leaf Beet – Bulls Blood
£5.99
(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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Spinach – Giant Winter
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Plant in summer, enjoy through winter
As the name suggests, this variety produces lots of lovely big leaves through the winter months. 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.