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A spectacular annual shrub like plant best treated as an annual in the UK. Huge 6” hibiscus like yellow blooms with a maroon central blotch. They do need heat to get going but a 6ft Abelmoschus plant with side shoots covered in these gorgeous blooms is achievable in a single season from seed. Very fast growing in heat, the large, attractive leaves can be used in salads, stir-fries, soups or other dishes.  A single leaf can cover a slice of bread in a sandwich and is used like lettuce.  The leaves are tender when raw but turn slimy if overcooked.  They are very high in nutrition.

Edible Amaranth are a fast growing vegetable that can be harvested 30 days after sowing in warm conditions, by the cut-and-grow-again method. Seeds are very small and will germinate best at temperature above 20°C under dark conditions. Thin the growing plants if necessary and thinnings can be eaten. Edible young leaves and stems are cooked like spinach. Soft texture and tender leaves are excellent for stir-frys and soups.

Orach is a bright red leafy annual grown much like spinach. It tolerates moderate frosts so a first april sowing in the UK is possible. Sow every three or four weeks to insure a continuous supply of young, tender leaves, easier to grow than spinach and a great annual for the edible flower bed with 6ft tall deep red to purple foliage.

One of the most useful herbs and a key ingredient for many Italian and Indian dishes and great when fresh in salads. Basil lives up to it's Indian origins and is best suited to the warmer areas of the UK although with correct positioning, it will thrive as a container plant outside in less protected areas. We offer Genovese sweet which is slightly taller and more robust than the normal green bush form and a red Organic variety.

A member of the goosefoot family and a native of Europe this plant is known for the red fruits that form at maturity. These are pleasantly sweet, but insipid alongside a real berry. The real crop comes from the spinach-green, triangular, and bite-sized leaves with toothed margins, borne in an open rosette. A warm position, fast growing plant for summer salads and a beautiful curiosity in fruit.

A vigorous attractive and valuable annual for borders, with purple and lush green foliage. Young leaves can be cooked and eaten tasting of spinach or eaten raw. Excellent as a spot plant or centre piece. This is a tall plant to 6ft, giving a colourful display, with smooth stems striped red and green, producing large leaves of a brilliant magenta colour, covered when young with a red crystalline powder, and bearing long spikes of tiny reddish flowers.

Very popular in South China and Hong Kong, this vegetable is used in various stir-fry dishes. Whole plants are harvested prior to the flower buds beginning to blossom. The Red Hybrid belongs to the Hon Tsai Tai type. An early to medium tasty variety, it has good heat and cold tolerance and is disease resistance. The stem is red purple with green leaves adding an ornamental element to the plants and salad crop. Prefers cool conditions and ideal for an English summer crop, after the risk of frost has passed. Our Green selection ‘Golden 49’ is also a quick maturing crop with both heat and cold resistance, good for both summer and autumn crops.

Lemon grass is an excellent aromatic clumping tropical grass growing to 6' tall.  When the leaves are crushed the fragrance resembles the scent of lemon. The stem and leaves are used for cooking in the Asian kitchen but it is also used to make a refreshing tea and for perfume, oil and medicine.

Green Salad Bowl is a large fast growing rosette lettuce with long, light green deep cut leaves. Heat tolerant and very slow to bolt. Red Salad Bowl is very similar but with a brownish red head. Excellent for continual harvesting and we seem to be able to get an all summer crop from only two sowings.

One of the earliest varieties to mature. Little Gem produces small compact plants which are packed with a crisp sweet heart and little outside leaf. Very useful for cloches and small gardens.

Native originally to the Himalayan foothills of northern India, the horseradish tree can be found widely planted throughout the tropical areas of the world. Nutritionally, ounce for ounce, powdered Moringa leaves have seven times the vitamin C of oranges, four times the calcium of milk, three times the potassium of bananas, four times the vitamin A of carrots and two times the protein of milk. The one to four foot long pods lend the plant the common name of drumstick tree. They are also high in nutritional value and can be cooked like green beans when young. The flowers are high in calcium and potassium but must be cooked before consuming. The peeled root tastes like horseradish, hence the common name, but care must be taken as the root bark is toxic. It is also used in many Indian traditional medicine recipes where they have over 300 uses for Moringa.

The Horseradish tree is fast growing, up to ten feet the first year, and matures at a height of thirty-five feet, but it will bloom the first year from seed. Tip pruning will encourage more leaf and fruit production and control its size and hence able to be pot grown. It has drooping branches with alternate, fern-like leaves, 9"-24" long, the 1" wide, white fragrant flowers are borne in loose clusters in the leaf axils. The pods are narrow, round, pointed growing to 18" long.

A range of mixes that can be used for cut leaf consumption, or for use as growing salads in containers. The varieties are matched so that leaf development and flavours complement each other and cropping time can be as short as four weeks. This mix includes Salad Rocket, Red Giant Mustard, Green Wave Mustard and Mizuna.

A selected strain with tightly curled dark green leaves used for garnishing. Can be grown on a windowsill or planted out alongside lettuce and other salad crops. To harvest keep up a regular picking routine which will encourage fresh new growth.

Perilla, or sometimes called Shi-So, is a very popular herb in Japan and many other Asian countries. Young leaves and flowering shoots are used for cooking and pickling because of their aromatic flavour. This lovely red leafed form grows best under full sun or partial shading. A lovely plant which you can use to give herbal interest to your border or colour interest to your herb garden as they look a bit like coleus . The leaves have quite a strong aroma and flavour of cinnamon.

Popular as a colourful vegetable addition and a mainstay of prepared leafy salads. Crop useful over a long period and can be used as loose leaves or complete heads.

The sesame plant is an erect tropical annual from Africa. It grows to 6ft with oblong or lanceolate hairy leaves and displays pretty white to light rose foxglove like flowers. It belongs to the most nutritious of all seeds and a pretty pot plant for a sunny conservatory position. The seeds, small and flattened, are used for the flavouring of bread. Grow as an annual crop starting off in pots before planting out in a hot sunny position. Harvest when the plants turn brown and dry. Each plant produces 15 to 20 pods and each pod contains about 100 seeds.

A modern quick-growing variety resistant to downy mildew, with thick, succulent, deliciously flavoured leaves. Maturing time approximately 8-10 weeks from sowing. Can also be used for successional cropping as a baby leaf variety. Sow late winter to early spring and early summer.

A damp and frost resistant winter spinach this is a fabulous variety with really large, wavy or semi-savoyed, glossy green, sword-shaped leaves. Growing as a short broad plant, it can be sown July for harvesting October to December and stands well.

Germination -- Easy ■ Moderate ■ and Challenging ■

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Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җҗ Fully Hardy җҗҗ

Needs Shady Position ☻ Sunny Position ☻ Water Loving ♥