Veg Plants for Small Spaces
Our organic veg plug plants will be ready for dispatch from mid April through to late summer. Here’s a selection of plants that are perfect for smaller plots…
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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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Beetroot – Detroit
Original price was: £4.99.£3.99Current price is: £3.99.
(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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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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Golden Beetroot – Boldor
£4.99
(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.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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.£4.79Current 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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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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Endive – Pancalieri
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(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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Leeks – Musselburgh
Original price was: £6.99.£5.59Current price is: £5.59.
(20 Plug Plants)A tried and tested traditional variety
Musselburgh produces huge, handsome leeks with thick stems and dark green leaves. It is reliable, easy to grow, winter hardy, with good disease resistance and an excellent strong flavour. It will be ready for harvesting late summer to early winter. It’s easy to grow leeks from plug plants – just follow the instructional leaflet that will arrive with your plug plants.Number of plants: 20
Variety: Musselburgh (organic)
In the kitchen: Leeks are delicious in soups, stews and pies. You can steam, fry or boil. Finely chopping leeks brings out the flavour and texture.
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Mizuna – Kyoto Green
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Attractive, delicious salad leaves
Mizuna is a cut-and-come-again Oriental salad leaf with deeply cut, spicy flavoured leaves. It is easy to grow and well worth having in your salad patch. Harvest the leaves regularly so that the plant continues to grow for many weeks. If you grow these plants in a slightly shaded spot, they will last even longer without bolting early. Mizuna plug plants make it easy to get going – no fussing with seeds! Just follow the advice in the growing guide when your plants arrive.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Kyoto (organic*)
In the kitchen: Mizuna is delicious in salads, adding a punchy flavour. When it does bolt you can use the broccoli-like florets in stir-fries.
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Turnip – Sweetbell
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow and deliciously tasty
These turnip plants grow very quickly, and in just a few weeks you’ll have some lovely, golf-ball sized turnips to harvest! They are a salad type, perfect for grating or slicing finely to add some crunch to summer salads, or throw them into a casserole. Suitable for all UK plots, whether you’re growing in beds or pots, these plug plants make it very easy to grow your own turnips and you will receive a complete growing guide with your delivery.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Sweetbell (organic*)
In the kitchen: Try grating raw turnip into salads, or add to casseroles, stir-fries or roast them up with some olive oil and sea salt.
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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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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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Baby Sweetcorn – Minipop
Original price was: £5.99.£4.19Current price is: £4.19.
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, crunchy, sweet and full of flavour
This is a special variety for the production of delicious mini cobs which can be harvested at about 10 cm in length.If you are short of space, these plants can be planted much closer together than normal sweetcorn and you do not need to plant in traditional blocks to aid germination.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Minipop (organic)
In the kitchen: Perfect for stir-fries, steaming or to add extra crunch to your salads.