Vegetable Collection - Customer Favourites

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Thompson & Morgan's collection of Customer Favourites especially chosen for the NEW 2010 Collection.
Collection comprises one packet each of:
Brussels Sprout Trafalgar, Carrot Flyaway, Lettuce Chartwell, Runner Bean White Lady and Tomato Cherrola.

Vegetable Spaghetti : Hasta La Pasta F1 Hybrid

A major improvement on the old spaghetti squash, Squash Hasta La Pasta offers appealing, deep orange flesh with a sweeter flavour. Extract the 'spaghetti' flesh from each boiled fruit to experience a very unusual vegetable. Squash Hasta La Pasta produces generous yields of pale orange-skinned fruits of up to 1kg (2.2lbs).

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Aubergine : Melanzana Prosperosa

Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Prosperosa produces flattened round, paler purple fruits with firm, bitter-free flesh.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Aubergine : Melanzana Viserba

Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Viserba ;produces cylindrical, glossy purple skinned fruits with bitter free flesh.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Basil : Basilico Genovese

The most popular Basil, essential for authentic Italian cuisine with strong scent and flavour. Basil Basilico Genovese is easy growing herb for the windowsill or outdoors.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagiola Nani Friverde

A ‘Kenyan type’ of compact bush habit to 50cm, Fagiola Nani Friverde produces an abundance of slender, round, dark green pods up to 11cm in length. Pick regularly for heaviest crops. Stands hot weather well. Resistant to bean mosaic and anthracnose.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Creso

Attractive bright yellow, slender, stringless pencil podded ‘waxpods’ on vigorous bushy plants. Fagioli Nani Creso is early maturing and crops heavily over a long season if picked regularly.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco (Cannellino Bean)

The compact plants of Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco produces pale cream-yellow pods containing 6 or 7 large white ‘cannelloni beans’, essential for a range of specific dishes. Plants quite late maturing, usually grown for the fully mature seeds harvested in the autumn.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Splendido (Borlotto Bean)

Typical Borlotto. The 13-14cm, quite broad pods of Fagioli Nani Splendido are attractive red splashed cream, bulging with 6-7 cream with red streaked seeds. Pods can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in the autumn.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Dolcio del Metro

Vigorous plants producing a tremendous crop of very long, thin green pods up to 45cm in length, hence their name. Fagioli Rampicanti Dolcio del Metro is also known as ‘asparagus bean’. Flavour is at its best when picked young and tender.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Eden

Produces a heavy crop over a long picking season if picked regularly whilst young and tender. Fagioli Rampicanti Eden produces pods 25-27cm long, pale green, flat, 2cm broad and stringless.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Marengo

Attractive pale yellow ‘waxpod’, producing 20cm pods about 2cm broad. Fagioli Rampicanti Marengo is very early to harvest first pods and a prolific cropper over a long season if picked regularly whilst young and tender.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Favioli Rampicanti Corona (Spagna Bean)

Long, mid green, slightly curved broad pods containing 5-6 large white ‘butter beans’. Pods of Favioli Rampicanti Corona can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in the autumn.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Beetroot : Bietola da Orto Paonazza d'Egitto

Ideal for early sowings as they mature quickly, Beetroot Bietola da Orto Paonazza d'Egitto producies unusual flatter roots with deep red flesh and a sweet flavour.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Carrot : Carota Fucino

Carrot Carota Fucino is a cylindrical, blunt ended, smooth, rich orange skinned and cored 'bunching carrot'. Sow seeds regularly throughout the season for tasty carrots for salads and cooking.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Cauliflower : Cavolfiore Palla di Neve

The pure white, deep curds of Cauliflower Cavolfiore Palla di Neve will stand in good condition if foliage is bent over the curds during sunny weather.