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Leafy Choices for your Summer Salads or as a Cooked Vegetable

Abelmoschus

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Hibiscus Manihot - 10 seeds ■☻

Abelmoschus is 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.

Amaranth - Edible

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Chinese Spinach Aprx 500 seeds ■☻

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.

Amaranth Chinese Giant Orange

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Chinese Spinach Aprx 100 seeds

Amaranth Chinese Giant Orange is an 6ft to 8ft Amaranth with large heads of golden orange. The young leaves are green with orange ribs and deliciously edible as baby salad leaves. The seeds are lightly coloured also edible and excellent ground into a flour or cooked like oatmeal. The plant prefers full sun and normal garden soil. Sow the seed directly in the spring garden and thin to about 1 foot apart or grow in small pots before planting out after frosts have finished. Part of our "Triffid" pack

Amaranth Lotus Purple

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Purple Amaranth aprx 100 seeds

Amaranth Lotus Purple is a striking 8ft tall robust heavy yielder with thick red-purple flower heads full of purple-black seeds. The young leaves are deliciously edible as baby salad leaves or cooked as spinach. The seeds are edible very nutritious and excellent ground into a flour or cooked like oatmeal. The plant prefers full sun and normal garden soil. Sow the seed directly in the spring garden and thin to about 1 foot apart or grow in small pots before planting out after frosts have finished. Part of our "Triffid" pack

Amaranthus dubius

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Callaloo aprox Aprx 50 seeds ■☻

Most leafy Amaranthus varieties are edible but as far as I can determine this one is the true "Callaloo" An erect herb up to 1.5m tall with a branched stem and oblong dark-green leaves. Its mainly used as a leafy vegetable like spinach and is the "Callaloo" used widely in the Caribbean. This annual herb may be harvested 30-50 days from sowing and planted out after all frosts have passed - best in a sunny warm position. We also sell many ornamental Amaranth in our annual seed section with stricking flower bracts or giant 6ft sized plants but they are not the true Callaloo of the Caribbean.

Atriplex hortensis - Orache

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Orache Red Spire Aprx 50 seeds ■☻

Atriplex hortensis or 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.

Basella Malabar Spinach

Green & Red Malabar Spinach 20 seeds

Malabar Spinach is a perennial native of India but grown as an annual in the UK. If you are looking for a different flavour from traditional spinach and you have a glasshouse or polytunnel its well worth a try. Rubra or Red Malabar Spinach has deep green leaves veined in pink set against burgundy stems and violet blooms. Alba the Green Malabar Spinach has green leaves and green stems The edible leaves can be used throughout summer but do best in heat and humidity. The plant can climb to 10 feet or more but probably shorter in the UK and is grown up a trellis or wigwam of canes like climbing beans.

Chenopodium capitatum

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Strawberry Spinach Aprx 100 seeds ■☻

A member of the goosefoot family Chenopodium capitatum, a native of Europe, 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.

Chenopodium giganteum

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Tree Spinach Aprx 50 seeds ■☻

Chenopodium giganteum is 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.

Crotalaria longirostrata

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Chipilin Aprx 20 seeds. ■☻

Chipilin is a popular tropical perennial legume native to Mexico and Central America grown as a leafy vegetable. The leaves were used as a food source by the Aztecs of Mexico and Mayas in Central America. Leaves and tender stems are boiled in water and prepared much like spinach. It can also be combined with beans, chopped meat or scrambled eggs.

Eryngium foetidum

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Culantro, Mexican coriander or Thai parsley. Aprx 300 seeds ■☻

Eryngium foetidum known as Culantro or Mexican coriander or Thai parsley is widely used in seasoning and marinating in the Caribbean, in Peru's Amazon regions and extensively in Thailand, India, Vietnam, Laos, and other parts of Asia as a culinary herb. It dries well, retaining good colour and flavour, making it valuable in the dried herb industry. It is sometimes used as a substitute for cilantro (coriander in British English), but it has a much stronger taste.

Grows best in moist, shaded positions with good drainage. It can survive in poor soils, but it is best to feed frequently with high-nitrogen fertiliser to keep the leaves soft. Does not tolerate frost. Cut off the flower stalks frequently to ensure continuing production of new leaves. May be planted under glass in pots for the UK.

Ipomoea aquatica

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Entsai or Water Convolvulus aprox 50 seeds ■☻

A fast growing herb, with Bamboo like leaves that are long and thin. It thrives in moist soils typically in aquatic areas and a very popular Oriental vegetable cultivated for its leaves in China, Malaysia and India. The tender shoots are cut into segments and cooked, together with the leaves, in fish and meat stews, and in Southeast Asian dishes where the tender shoots along with the leaves are usually stir-fried with chili pepper, garlic and ginger or included in leafy salads. Easily grown as a fast growing tender annual in pots that are stood in a water tray in a warm position outdoors or under glass.

Lettuce Allstar Gourmet Mix

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Special Mixed Lettuce Pack Aprx 500 seeds

Lettuce Allstar Gourmet Mix was a specially designed blend based on two years of trial research to make a salad mix that stands out from the crowd. Selected varieties yield darker reds and greens even under low-light conditions. The ruffled edges and unique leaf shapes provide an interesting texture, good shelf life, and fancy appearance. Packet includes Green Oakleaf, Red Oakleaf, Green Romaine, Red Romaine, Lollo Rossa, and other Redleaf lettuces.

Lettuce Curled Leaf

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Lettuce Curled Aprx 400 seeds ■☻җ

Lettuce Green Salad Bowl is a large fast growing rosette lettuce with long, light green deep cut leaves. Heat tolerant and very slow to bolt. Lettuce 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.

Lettuce Cutting Mix

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Mixed Lettuce Aprx 500 seeds

Lettuce Cutting Mix is a well-balanced mixture of cutting lettuces including Australian Yellowleaf, Forellenschluss, Pablo, Red Velvet and at least four more other excellent varieties. Enjoy a colourful bouquet of lettuces at 40-45 days from seed. Sow continuously for a constant supply and best grown in full sun or partial shade.

Lettuce Gondar

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Iceburg Lettuce Aprx 50 split pill seeds ■☻җ

An excellent quality iceberg lettuce suitable for cultivation in spring, summer and autumn. Produces large, round, well filled heads. Very good against tip burn plus has good standing ability. Resistant to green lettuce leaf aphid and Bremia. Split Pill (pelleted) seeds.

Lettuce Intred

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Red Cos Lettuce Pills 25

A Red Romaine Cos type of lettuce, this is an upright compact Little Gem with rededish- purple outer leaves and an appealing red heart and flavour. Ideal for adding colour to a mixed salad. Seed sold as pills for easy sowing.

Lettuce Little Gem

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Cos Lettuce Aprx 400 seeds ■☻җ

One of the earliest varieties to mature. Lettuce 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.

Lettuce Milan Organic

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Butterhead Lettuce Aprx 200 seeds ■☻җ

A high quality organic butterhead lettuce suitable for both outdoor and glasshouse production. Lettuce Milan has neat shiny green leaves, resistance to some mildews and tolerant of mosaic virus.

Minutina (Erba stella)

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Minutina aprox 500 sds

Minutina produces clumps of slender green leaves (like a jagged grass) with a mild nutty crunchy texture. It is commonly known as Erba stella in Italy resembling a narrow mizuna with a delicate rosette of slender green leaves. A useful winter greens plant that is winter hardy in an unheated glasshouse. Grows to about 25cm.

Moringa oleifera

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Horseradish tree 5 bean size seeds ■☻

Moringa oleifera is a 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.

Nasturtium Blue Pepe

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Edible nasturtium 20 seeds

Nasturtium Blue Pepe is a unique variety that has been bred for culinary use, the edible small round leaves are uniquely coloured steel blue on top with purplish undersides with a peppery flavour. These are offset by the vivid dark red flowers that can also be used in salads, but the plant also makes a stunning decorative annual. Can be used as a baby leaf salad grown in seed trays in a glass house.

Oriental & Unusual Chopsuey Greens

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Garland Chrysanthemum Aprx 200 sds ■☻

An edible oriental Chrysanthemum tasting a bit like Broccoli that you can harvest in just 6 weeks. The leaves of this pretty Chrysanthemum are quite tasty and an easy Asian green that can be grown in the UK. Fast growing from seed as a leafy green vegetable with a bonus of yellow flowers if left to grow on without cropping. Sow Mar to Sep.

Oriental Spicy Greens Mix

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Spicy Green Aprx 500 sds ■☻

Oriental Spicy Greens Mix - 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.

Perilla frustescens or Shi-So

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SHI-SO Aprx 150 seeds ■☻

Perilla frustescens, 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.

Rocket Discovery

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Sweet Rocket or Arugula (Eruca sativa) aprx 500 seeds

With quite bold lobed leaves Rocket Discovery is a slow to bolt variety that has the vigour of salad rocket with the wild rocket flavour. Excellent mildew resistance and with an upright habit it keeps the attractive serrated leaves clean and disease free. Pungency increases as the plants develop and best cut as small leaves. Known in the USA as Arugula

Rocket Wasabi

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Wasabi Rocket Aprx 250 seeds

Wasabi Rocket is a variety of Rocket that will pack a punch with its distinctive taste of Wasabi. The leaves impart a real "wow factor" on the tongue. A must in Asian salads the leaves are tender and also stimulates digestion in rich dishes such as grilled meats. Even the flowers are edible and can be used with the leaves in salads, sushi, sandwiches or pasta. Delicious as a side dish or in a sandwich or with scrambled eggs. The high content of mustard oil also has an antibacterial effect and may be effective against a sore throat. It is naturally rich in vitamin A which aids skin health and clear vision along with maintaining a strong immune system, as well as folic acid which is necessary for healthy blood and cells.

Sesamum indicum

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Sesame Seed 20 seeds ■☻

Sesamum indicum 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.

Spinach F1 Rubino

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Summer Spinach Aprx 250 Seeds ■☻җ

A unique spinach with attractive dark red stems and veins and oriental style serrated leaves. Excellent sweet flavour, fast growing and suitable for sowing from February-April. Some resistance to mildew.

Spinach F1 Renegade

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Summer Spinach Aprx 250 Seeds ■☻җ

Spinach Renegade is 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.

Spinach Viroflay

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Winter Spinach Aprx 250 Seeds ■☻җ җ

Spinach Viroflay is 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.

Water Cress (Nasturtium officinale)

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Water Cress aprx 500 seeds

You can grow watercress without running water, just sow the seeds directly in a shady place and keep moist. Alternatively watercress can be grown in pots placed in a large saucer of water. They produce a large crop high in calcium and iron with a delicous peppery flavour. Seeds can be sown from mid-May to September and can be harvested from June to October. Regular picking is essential for continuity.

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

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