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You'll find a wide range of seeds here, including sweetcorn, turnips, swede, aubergines, salsify and scorzonera, each with comprehensive sowing and growing information to help you get the best from your vegetable crops.
Sweetcorn 'Swift' F1 HybridZea mays, Sweetcorn 'Extra Tender and Sweet' Tendersweet. Superior in both taste and texture, Sweetcorn Swift F1 is quicker to germinate and has better vigour than other varieties. Produces 2-3, 18cm (7½in) cobs per plant, each with 16-18 rows of bright yellow tender sweet kernels. Flavour guide: rich and sugar-sweet. Sweetcorn Extra Tender & Sweet F1 has long lasting flavour and is easy to grow. Isolation from other sweetcorn varieties not required. More info |
Sweetcorn 'Lark' F1 Hybrid (Tendersweet)Zea mays Customer RatingSweetcorn Lark is a tendersweet variety giving superior sweetness with a softer, less chewy texture than supersweets, making kernels more pleasurable to eat as well as easier to digest. Improved germination adds to the appeal. Sweetcorn Lark can be also grown with other varieties, so there is no need to isolate. Requires a fertile soil in a sunny position. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection. More info |
Aubergine 'Black Enorma' F1 HybridSolanum melongena, Egg Plant Early to crop with prolific sets of huge jet-black fruit up to 680g (1½lb). Just three plants will keep a family of four with aubergines from mid summer to late autumn. Aubergine Black Enorma is ideal for garden, patio or greenhouse. Stake plants and pick fruit regularly. More info |
Turnip 'Sweetbell' F1 HybridBrassica rapa (Rapifera Group) Turning the idea of the traditionally dull root vegetable on its head, here's a truly outstanding tasting 'salad turnip'! The attractive purple-topped roots have a succulent white flesh and are delicious cooked or simply grated raw in salads. There's no bitter aftertaste however you eat it. And you can eat the leaves too as they are hairless! Add them to a salad or steam them like spinach - this is a real 'eat all' vegetable. More info |
Celeriac 'Monarch'Apium graveolens var. rapaceum An autumn/early winter vegetable. Celeriac Monarch is an excellent, high quality variety which has very smooth, easily washable, creamy coloured roots. Easier to grow than celery and can be grated raw over salads, cut into slices and boiled, or into strips which are fried. T&M's illustration shows Celeriac cubed and served with a walnut butter. An exciting dish which you too can create by using the FREE recipe, sent with each packet. More info |
Aubergine 'Bonica' F1 HybridSolanum melongena (Egg Plant)
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Swede 'Tweed'Brassica napus (Napobrassica Group), Rutabaga
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Swede 'Magres'Brassica napus (Napobrassica Group), Rutabaga Customer RatingExcellent coloured and shaped, purple topped roots with fine grained, good flavoured, yellow flesh, free from bitterness. Swede Magres is an excellent culinary swede, fully winter hardy, with mildew resistant foliage. Companion planting: Try growing swede with Nasturtiums to draw cabbage white butterflies away from your crop, and mint to help deter flea beetles. Useful links: More info |
Sweetcorn 'Conquerer' F1 Hybrid (Supersweet)Zea mays Customer RatingLater maturing, Sweetcorn Conquerer is well adapted to our indifferent summer weather. Strong growing plants 210cm (7ft) tall, with very few tillers (sideshoots), averaging three, 20cm (8in) long cobs per plant, each with 14-18 rows of kernels full to the tip. Sweetcorn Conquerer has superb eating quality! More info |
Sweetcorn 'Northern Extra Sweet' F1 Hybrid (Supersweet)Zea mays A reliable performer in British summers, Sweetcorn Northern Extra Sweet is especially suited to cooler northern districts. One of the earliest maturing of the 'supersweets', Sweetcorn Northern Extra Sweet produces good quality, well filled cobs up to 20cm (8in) long. Sturdy plants but growing only to 150 to 180cm (5 to 6 feet) tall. More info |
Turnip 'Oasis'Brassica rapa (Rapifera Group)
Companion planting: Try growing turnips with Nasturtiums to draw cabbage white butterflies away from your crop, and mint to help deter flea beetles. Useful links: More info |
Sweetcorn 'Lapwing'Zea mays Customer RatingNew introduction from the 'Tendersweet' breeding programme and awarded an RHS AGM in the 2009 Wisley trial. Early maturing, producing long cobs with 18 rows of kernels, good tip fill and superb sweetness. More info |