| Plant | Number | Spacing | Spacing in Rows | Notes |
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Asparagus
| 15 | 45cm | 45cm x 45cm | |
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Basil
| 4 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | |
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Bay
| 1 | 45cm | 45cm x 60cm | |
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Beans (Broad)
Aquadulce Claudia
| 11 | 20cm | 15cm x 30cm | |
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Beans (French)
| 11 | 20cm | 15cm x 30cm | |
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Beans (Runner)
Moonlight & Firestorm
| 38 | 20cm | 15cm x 30cm | |
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Blueberry
| 5 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | |
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Broccoli (Purple)
Green Heading Calabrese
| 12 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | 120 days from planting out to make large green heads.
For successional sowing from the end of March to July.
The heads will then be ready for harvest from the end of July onwards. |
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Broccoli (Purple)
Early Purple Sprouting
| 9 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | |
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Brussels Sprouts
'Seven Hills' Brussels Sprout
| 8 | 70cm | 60cm x 80cm | A rare sprout that is almost extinct, there are just a few kilos of seed produced worldwide each year.
That's a shame - it is an excellent variety, ideal particularly for more exposed positions, as it has very tight sprouts on shorter, compact, sturdy plants - They are only 2ft tall (compared to 2ft6 for a normal varietey) You get just as many sprouts, they're just squeezed in more closely together on the stem.
So, it is a good choice if you have problems with the wind blowing your sprouts over. Stands well through the winter. |
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Cabbage (Autumn)
Glory of Enkhuisen
| 9 | 75cm | 60cm x 90cm | A wonderful heirloom from 1899, this is a large cabbage for harvest in Autumn. The heads are 2 to 3 kg in size, and the pale flesh is tender and crisp.
Named after the town of Enkhuisen in Holland, where it is famous for its excellent flavour and long-keeping in storage. |
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Cabbage (Summer)
Greyhound
| 12 | 50cm | 45cm x 55cm | A traditional compact cabbage ideal for smaller plots, with not too many outer leaves and a nice dense conical head. Normally sown in spring for an early summer crop, this received the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 2002.
A much-loved old variety that is suited to sowing and harvesting over a long period. |
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Carrot
'Touchon' Carrot
| 108 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | A quick-growing heirloom variety of orange carrot from France, dating from the late 1700s. It is still a favourite with many growers (after 200 years) because it has a fine crisp texture and an excellent sweet flavour.
The roots dont taper much and are quite blunt-tipped. It is a particularly good one to choose for winter storage as it stays sweet for several months after lifting from the ground. But also a great carrot for use fresh, as it has such a good flavour.
To store carrots, it is easy, just lift in autumn once the weather has cooled, but before heavy frost as this can damage the roots. Trim the foliage and sort out any damaged ones to use straight away. Store the perfect roots in layers in sand, sawdust or dry potting compost making sure they don't touch one another. Stored in a cool but frost free place (eg a garage) they will happily keep through to the following spring. |
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Carrot
'Giant Red' Carrot
| 24 | 20cm | 20cm x 25cm | Despite the name, this is not truly deep red. However, the vigour and flavour of this Italian variety are terrific - large carrots grow quickly, with big, orange pointy roots.
The flesh is sweet without bitterness, while still retaining a good 'carrotty' flavour, and the core is much reduced. Great both cooked and raw. Good both for early crops as it grows quickly, but also for maincrop sowings and storage over winter. |
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Cauliflower
"Autumn Giant" Cauli
| 9 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | This is a great traditional cauliflower with really large dense white heads, ready in the autumn.
It is generally sown in spring - for harvest from the end of summer onwards. |
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Coriander
| 8 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | |
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Courgette
Early Prolific Straightneck
| 3 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | Straighneck squash from 1938 with lemon-yellow fruit with gently bumpy skin. The flavour is better than a normal courgette and this particular strain from High Mowing Seeds has been improved to be resistant to powdery mildew.
We love this one because it is the best flavoured of all the summer squash we've ever tried. |
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Cucumber
'Wautoma' cucumber
[polytunnel]
| 3 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | An excellent cucumber from the breeding program at the University of Wisconsin in the 1980's, this was recommended to us by cucumber expert Robert Bruns. It can either be used small for pickles or left to grow for use as a slicing cucumber.
The plants set many lightly striped dark green fruit , with tiny white spines that come off easily. We got an awful lot of cucumbers off this one!
Quick to set fruit, bitter-free, and Robert says it resists nearly all known cucumber diseases. (anthracnose, angular leaf spot, CMV, DM, PM, & scab!)
You can grow it indoors or out, and we think it'll be quite a few years before we find anything that can even come near it in terms of yield or reliability. We grow huge numbers outdoors here in Wales with no trouble at all. |
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Garlic
| 36 | 15cm | 10cm x 25cm | |
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Gooseberry
| 5 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | |
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Lettuce (Headed)
Reine des Glaces
| 21 | 25cm | 20cm x 30cm | The name means 'Queen of the Ices' and it is a fantastic crisphead lettuce - green tightly wrapped crisp iceberg heads, with incredibly frilly & toothed leaves around them. This one has been a real attention getter in the garden every summer.
Actually about 200 years old, this strain has recently been reselected for home gardeners, and the seed we have is really vigorous. |
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Lettuce (Headed)
Mortons Secret Mix
| 21 | 25cm | 20cm x 30cm | This contains seed from all of Frank & Karen's current lettuce breeding programmes. A huge diversity of forms and shapes, and to be clear this is NOT just all our seed mixed up, but different varieties you won't get elsewhere.
Its a secret because much of this great seed has yet to be named or released; but you can try it now in this special mix, years before anyone else can grow it. |
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Lettuce (Loose Leaf)
| 76 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | |
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Mint
| 4 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | |
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Onion
| 55 | 15cm | 10cm x 20cm | |
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Parsnip
Tender & True
| 27 | 20cm | 20cm x 30cm | A very well known traditional parsnip variety making large, strongly-flavoured conical white roots (much as you would expect from a parsnip, really!).
Our friend Tony Haigh is very fond of them, and tends to put them in everything, from curry to quiche. While this is a fantastic parsnip, we are not completely convinced about this, and think they are best roasted in the normal manner. |
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Peas
Oskar
| 36 | 10cm | 10cm x 20cm | A favourite from our 2011 trials, this is a first-early variety from the Czech Republic. Dwarf plants about 3 ft tall that make extremely sweet peas right at the start of the season. It has nice dark healthy foliage and bears a decent number of pods.
You'll want to grow some other peas as well, for its so early that it finishes by the start of summer, but it is great for delicious peas before any others crop. |
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Peas
Boogie
| 40 | 10cm | 10cm x 20cm | |
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Pepper
Sweet Boneta
[polytunnel]
| 6 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | |
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Potatoes (Early)
| 16 | 40cm | 30cm x 50cm | |
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Potatoes (Maincrop)
| 16 | 45cm | 35cm x 75cm | |
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Pumpkin
Pacific Giant Pumkin
| 9 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | This is a new amateur variety from Holland, which has been bred from the famous 'Dills Atlantic Giant' pumpkin.
We can't guarantee exactly how big the pumkins will be - as it depends so much on the weather and soil, but they really should be very large: we got 27.1kg in the back garden without any special care. Others got about 50kg!
What is really nice is that the plants themselves don't actually take up that much space, and the squash have a good flavour, so you do get to eat them as well. The flesh is crisp and sweet and can even be eaten raw like carrot sticks, or is delicious roasted or cooked in the usual manner. You definitely will not run short of pumpkin soup with this one! |
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Raspberry
Polka
| 14 | 70cm | 60cm x 90cm | Autumn fruiting raspberries |
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Raspberry
| 12 | 70cm | 60cm x 90cm | |
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Rhubarb
Victoria (Spring Planting)
| 2 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | The greenish-pink stems of Rhubarb 'Victoria' have tender flesh with an excellent balance of sweetness and acidity. Once established, this popular, traditional variety will produce a heavy crop, year after year. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 120cm (48"). |
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Sage
| 1 | 30cm | 30cm x 40cm | |
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Sorrel
'Belleville' Leaf Sorrel
| 14 | 30cm | 30cm x 30cm | Very easy to grow, producing clumps of pale green leaves with a good sharp lemon flavour - great in salads, as a lettuce substitute in sandwiches (doesn't go limp) and also very good cooked in soups and sauces. |
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Spinach
"Viroflex" Giant Winter Spinac
| 21 | 25cm | 15cm x 30cm | Famous for its huge tender leaves for use over winter.
You sow it at the end of summer, for use over winter. |
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Spinach
"Securo" Spinach
| 9 | 25cm | 15cm x 30cm | Summer spinach is sown from spring-time onwards, it's a great summer vegetable for cooking and salads, but it does need regular watering or it will run to flower. |
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Spring Onion
| 57 | 10cm | 10cm x 10cm | |
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Squash (Winter)
Volskaya Grey Squash
| 6 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | A new squash from the Volga region of Russia, a large (10kg or so) mid-season blue-grey squash that gains a pink blush in storage.
This strain is maintained by Tom Hartley, who has produced a batch of really plump & vigorous seed for us this year. |
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Squash (Winter)
Waltham Butternut
| 3 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | 'Waltham' is an improved version of the common Butternut squash: It has very little seed cavity, thicker & straighter necks, fruits earlier, and produces more flesh per fruit.
It was bred by the Massachusetts Ag. Extension Service in the 1960's by crossing 'New Hampshire Butternut' with a wild African squash.
When growing Butternut squash, you need to be sure you have an early strain. This one is great! The orange flesh stays firm when cooked, and it stores very well too. |
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Strawberry
| 21 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | |
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Sweet Pea
| 50 | 20cm | 20cm x 20cm | |
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Sweet Potato
T65
| 10 | 45cm | 45cm x 60cm | A vigorous variety, grows well in cooler temperatures. Produces good sized white fleshed tubers with a plum skin (similiar to the South African Bush Bok). Growing season of about 120 days |
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Sweet Potato
Beauregard
| 10 | 45cm | 45cm x 60cm | A bushy, vine-type sweet potato and has rose-colored skin with light, moist, orange flesh. It resists cracking and is an excellent yield with shorter (90-day) growing season. |
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Sweetcorn
Double Standard
| 16 | 35cm | 30cm x 45cm | |
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Swiss Chard
Golden Chard
| 12 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | |
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Tarragon
| 1 | 40cm | 40cm x 50cm | |
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Thyme
| 2 | 30cm | 30cm x 40cm | |
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Tomato (Cherry)
Primabella
[polytunnel]
| 4 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | |
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Tomato (Cherry)
Gardeners' Ecstasy
| 4 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | This is a new variety bred a few years ago by Tony Haig, who called it 'Gardeners Ecstasy' because it tasted even better than 'Gardeners Delight'
We find it combines excellent flavour and good productivity: hundreds of cherry tomatoes with a delicious mix of sweetness and acid. |
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Tomato (Regular)
Rose de Berne'
| 3 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | The tall vines make glowing-pink tomatoes. The fruit are quite large, but not quite as big as a beefsteak type.
It is a high yielding, juicy, and particularly tasty variety from the continent with very heavy trusses giving crops of several pounds per vine. |
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Tomato (Regular)
Orkado
[polytunnel]
| 4 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | |