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Lettuce : Arctic King 1 packet A fine lettuce known for its exceptional cold resistance and bred solely for autumn sowings. It is a large lettuce, light green in colour, with tasty, crinkled leaves. |
Lettuce : Butterhead : All The Year Round 1 packet Medium heads with solid, crisp hearts. Very hardy, reliable and dry weather tolerant. Ideal for successional and autumn sowing. |
Lettuce : Butterhead : Buttercrunch 1 packet Delicious small, compact, dark green heads with a crisp, crunchy, sweet flavour and buttery central heart. Very slow to bolt and will stand well over a long period. |
Lettuce : Butterhead : Cassandra 1 packet A superb quality, pale green butterhead of excellent flavour, with well-filled voluminous hearts. Resistant to most races of downy mildew and Lettuce Mosaic Virus. Ideal for growing all year round, especially summer and autumn outdoors. |
Lettuce : Butterhead : Fatima - Organic 1 packet A voluminous butterhead. with an appealing mid green colour. Slow to bolt, standing longer than most varieties, makes it ideal for successional sowing, March- August. A good resistance to tipburn, Bremia NL1-16, and Lettuce Mosaic virus tolerant, all help to give a clean dense head. Bred to give increased Hybrid vigour, garden performance and flavour, thus increasing your harvest. Due to their wide ranging pest and disease resistance, there will be no need for the use of chemicals. |
Lettuce : Butterhead : Tom Thumb 1 packet The smallest lettuce. A compact, solid butterhead type with deliciously soft leaves just right for small families or restricted space. It can be grown as close as 15cm (6in.) apart and makes a useful early crop in a cold frame or cloches. Very fast growing, from an early spring it will be the first variety to harvest. |
Lettuce : Butterhead : Yugoslavian Red 1 packet An attractive, large, semi hearting, reddish tinged 'butterhead', which when cut in half exposes a solid bright greeny yellow centre with a mild flavour. Makes an eye-catching addition to the kitchen garden, flower border and salad bowl. |
Lettuce : Butterhead Dynamite - Duchy Originals 1 packet Soft hearted butterhead with good pest and disease tolerance. |
RHS Vegetable Collection : Lettuce : Colour Shades Mixed 1 packet A tantalising mixture of bronze and red shades to add colour, texture and taste to your salad bowl and side garnishes. Enjoy Lettuce Colour Shades Mixed as salad leaf and full heart crops all summer without worry, as this mix is particularly resistant to bolting. Endless supply of loose-leaf lettuce in red shades. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection. |
Lettuce : Continental Looseleaf : Lollo Rossa 1 packet An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. It is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with deep red edge. Very easy to grow and attractive in gardens, tubs, containers etc and in the salad. |
Lettuce : Continental Looseleaf : Revolution 1 packet Sensational deep red to almost black colour, good size, vigour, slow to bolt and good flavour. Can be grown under glass or outside. What more do you need from this triple red Lollo Rosso lettuce? Also resistant to Bremia NL1-16. |
Lettuce : Cos : Corsair 1 packet Sweet, large, solid, heavy heads with a butter yellow heart. A sturdy habit helps it to grow well under adverse conditions. Good Mosaic Virus Resistance and excellent standing ability. |
Lettuce : Cos : Little Gem 1 packet 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 too. |
Lettuce : Cos Little Gem 12 plants Gardeners' favourite. Sweet, small cos. T&M's easy starter plants are expertly grown, taking away all of the worry of raising your own. Delivered ready for planting so that you can enjoy bigger, earlier and tastier vegetables. Our quality vegetable plants will be despatched at the correct time for planting. On receipt just water in and, ideally, cover with protection fleece to prevent insect and bird attacks until established. Please note: Delivery is subject to plant size, adverse growing conditions during production may delay despatch schedules. |
Lettuce : Freckles 1 packet This heirloom lettuce is unusually spotted with a tasty flavour. An interesting Latin, semi-cos variety that holds well in warm weather and is slow to bolt. Attractive in the kitchen garden or the flower border. |
Lettuce : Green Hearting Mixed 1 packet Your whole summer lettuce supply from just one packet! Tender and tasty butterheads, crisp and crunchy icebergs and sweet and succulent cos types make up this extra special, great value blend. Slow to bolt meaning longer cropping. Contents: Avondefiance, Diana, Romany, Bubbles, Court. |
Lettuce : Iceberg : Miluna - Organic 1 packet A sweet tasting Iceberg with dense. crunchy hearts. Exceptional standing ability through hot summer conditions. Full Bremia NL 1-16 resistance. Bred to give increased Hybrid vigour, garden performance and flavour, thus increasing your harvest. Due to their wide ranging pest and disease resistance, there will be no need for the use of chemicals. |
Lettuce : Iceberg : Sonette 1 packet Crunchy, dense, uniformly shaped hearts of excellent quality and flavour. Recommended for sowings from spring and throughout the summer as it has excellent mildew resistance. Heads stand well in hot weather and will keep for 2 weeks in the refrigerator after cutting. |
Lettuce : Iceberg : Webbs Wonderful 1 packet Still the premier garden lettuce in most people's vegetable patch. It has large, wrinkled leaves with a big tight centre of crisp, white leaf. It is outstanding whether the summer is wet or dry and always slow to run to seed. |
Lettuce : Lakeland 1 packet Here is a high quality crisp head lettuce with small compact heads which are just the right size for the home gardener. The solid, crisp and tasty heads are quick to mature and slow to bolt. Recommended for harvesting in succession from spring to July and can also be sown in October in cold frames or the cold greenhouse for cutting in early May. |
Lettuce : Little Gem : Delight - Duchy Originals 1 packet Compact, 'Little Gem' producing a crisp, dense heart. Delicious sweet flavour. Some downy mildew tolerance. |
RHS Vegetable Collection : Lettuce : Little Gem : Pearl 1 packet (Summer/Autumn)Sweet, crisp flavour. Lettuce Little Gem Pearl is a special selection of the ever-popular Cos variety. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection. Compact plants produce small, sweet, crisp hearts of outstanding flavour. Perfect for the garden or growing in containers. |
Lettuce : Mini Green Improved 1 packet Improved breeding in delicious, crunchy tennis-ball sized mini Icebergs. Plants have a compact habit with very few wasted outer leaves and produce a dense, crunchy delicious 'meal for one' from a single heart. Stands well in good condition for long periods if watered regularly. |
Lettuce : Multy 1 packet New breeding in 'picking lettuce' to give a crisp textured leaf of excellent flavour. Simply cut the stem and the multi-leaved head falls to pieces, so you can just rinse, shake dry and it is ready for the sandwich or salad bowl. Excellent downy mildew resistance for a long season of production. |
Lettuce : Nymans 1 packet A British bred medium sized red cos type with a shiny burgundy leaf, retaining its colour halfway into the heart, contrasting with a bright green base. Ideal used as 'baby leaf' or as a mature heart, which is slow to bolt and has good mildew resistance. |
Lettuce : Pandero 1 packet Sweet and tasty, miniature 'cos' lettuces with deep red leaves from a young age, so can be used as 'baby leaves' as well as 'hearts'. Useful for smaller gardens or patio containers. Good mildew resistance. Recommended for successional sowings. Prefers a moist, well-drained soil in full sun. |
Lettuce : Romaine : Chartwell 1 packet The tastiest of all the Romaine lettuces we have ever trialled. Renowned for their crunchy texture and the sweetest flavour. Excellent downy mildew resistance, with good bolting tolerance and heart quality during hotter summer conditions. Ideal for spring and summer sowings. Suitable for 'cut and come again', baby leaf or mature hearts. If you don't agree this is the sweetest lettuce we will give you your money back - guaranteed! To claim a refund, please advise the Horticultural Manager in writing of which variety you believe to be better, together with the reasons. Full details available on request. No such claims will be accepted after 31st August 2009. |
Lettuce : Romaine : Pinokkio - Duchy Originals 1 packet Midi sized Romaine with large crisp, dense hearts. Good downy mildew tolerance. |
Lettuce : Salad Bowl 1 packet All-American Gold Medal winner. Large, medium-green, slow bolting, non-heading and decidedly tender. Don't pull the whole plants - be selective - go down the row choosing only the largest, tenderest leaves. This way Salad Bowl will continue to replace itself the whole season |
RHS Vegetable Collection : Lettuce : Tin Tin 1 packet A slightly larger Little Gem type which is similar in flavour, but has slightly more 'bubbled' leaves, giving it a more distinctive appearance. Lettuce Tin Tin is ready to harvest approximately 11 weeks from sowing with delicious crisp, 'romaine' hearts that stand well during hot summer weather. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection. |
Lettuce : Ultimate Mixed 1 packet An exciting mix of named varieties with excellent Nasonovia (green aphid) and mildew resistance, so top quality lettuce can be produced without the need of chemical sprays. The mix contains a range of colours, tastes and textures, both leaf and hearting types, for harvest throughout summer an autumn. |
Lettuce : Valamaine (Cut And Come Again) 1 packet A reliable, simple, productive and space-saving method which can be tailored to your weekly requirements. Early sowings should mature in about 60 days, mid-season sowings in about 40 days. Valmaine is specially chosen because the young leaves have no bitterness. |
Lettuce : Winter Gem (January-May) 1 packet A specially bred Little Gem Cos for sowing from September to January and for growing in a unheated greenhouse or in a cold frame for overwinter production (not suitable for growing outdoors). Delicious small, crunchy, sweet hearts equal in taste to Little Gem, will be ready to harvest from January onwards, for use in winter salads. |
Radicchio : Firestorm - Duchy Originals 1 packet Italian salad vegetable, rich in antioxidants. Best grown for full sized heads in autumn and early winter with excellent weather resistance. The round heads have green outer leaves. |
Radicchio Treviso Precoce Mesola 1 packet Italian salad vegetable used to add zest, colour, texture and unique flavour to mixed salads. Ideal for autumn and early winter use, with outstanding weather resistance. Can also be used as a salad leaf through the spring and summer. Distinctive flavour and texture in a mixed salad. Prefers a fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. |
Rocket : Apollo 1 packet A fast growing salad rocket with large, rounded, tender leaves, and an excellent peppery taste but no bitterness. Plants are slow to bolt but are best harvested as young leaves or as "cut and come again" salads. A rich source of vitamin C. Flavour guide: Peppery, best eaten when leaves are young. Easy to grow, can be ready to harvest in 25 days. |
Rocket : Collection 4 packets - 1 of each One packet each of Rocket, Rocket Apollo, Skyrocket and Wild Rocket. Rocket A little known but very useful salad plant which can be used raw in salads or cooked lightly when it makes a delicious spinach substitute. Late summer sowings will carry on cropping into the winter if the plants are protected by cloches. Apollo A fast growing salad rocket with large, rounded, tender leaves, and an excellent peppery taste but no bitterness. Plants are slow to bolt but are best harvested as young leaves or as "cut and come again" salads. A rich source of vitamin C. Flavour guide: Peppery, best eaten when leaves are young. Easy to grow, can be ready to harvest in 25 days. Skyrocket Combines the speed of Salad Rocket and the flavour of Wild Rocket. An upright habit, so keeps the attractive serrated leaves clean and disease free. Pungency increases as the plants develop. Best cut as small leaves. Slow to bolt. Wild Rocket An alternative to the usual Rocket, with deep green, serrated foliage that makes an attractive garnish. Wild Rocket has a stronger flavour than standard Rocket, and the young leaves can be picked in succession and are perfect for salads. Easy to grow. Height 15-20cm (6-8in), prostrate habit. |
Rocket : Cultivated - Duchy Originals 1 packet Quick growing salad leaf with a peppery taste. Ideal kitchen windowsill herb. |
Rocket : Skyrocket 1 packet Combines the speed of Salad Rocket and the flavour of Wild Rocket. An upright habit, so keeps the attractive serrated leaves clean and disease free. Pungency increases as the plants develop. Best cut as small leaves. Slow to bolt. |
Rocket : Wild 1 packet An alternative to the usual Rocket, with deep green, serrated foliage that makes an attractive garnish. Wild Rocket has a stronger flavour than standard Rocket, and the young leaves can be picked in succession and are perfect for salads. Easy to grow. Height 15-20cm (6-8in), prostrate habit. |
Rocket Wild - Duchy Originals 1 packet Dark green, serrated leaves with a rich, intense peppery flavour. Ideal kitchen windowsill herb. |
Salad : All Seasons Salad 1 packet A mix of Chinese Leaf, Iceberg, Radicchio and Frisee leaves, delicious whatever the season. |
Salad : Baby Leaf Salad 1 packet Succulent spicy mix of Spinach, Mizuna and Red Mustard. |
Salad : Continental Salad 1 packet Delicious continental flavours in a mix of Romaine, Frisee, Lollo Rossa and Lambs Lettuce. |
Salad : Crunchy Lettuce Leaves Blend 1 packet Quick growing, nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Lettuces Red Cos, Green Cos, Catalogna & Endive Romanesco. |
Salad : Herby Salad Leaf Mixed 1 packet Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Pick nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C & K, and folate. CONTENTS: Green lettuce, Mizuna, Salad Rocket, Greek Cress, Giant Red Mustard and Chicory Puntarelle. |
Salad : Nice 'n' Spicy 1 packet Mixture contains a selection from the following: Salad Rocket, Red Giant Mustard, Green Wave Mustard, Miluna. A unique selection of fresh leaves, especially to create a taste of the orient in salads or stir-frys. This imaginative nice 'n' spicy blend provides a real alternative to normal salad leaves, adding new textures, colours and tastes. |
Salad : Niche Oriental Mixed 1 packet This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. Ideal for sowing in succession, to pick leaves as you need them. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting. Ideal for containers on the patio. Featuring leaf Mustards, Golden Streaked and Red, Komatsuna, Mizuna and Sky Rocket. |
Salad : Niche Salad Collection 2 packets - 1 of each Collection comprises one packet each of: Niche Salad Leaves An exciting blend of that adds a range of colours, tastes and textures to your salads. The blend consists of Leaf Radish, Leaf Carrot, Wrinkled Cress, Kale Red Russian, Red Amaranth, Golden Purslane and Salad Burnet. Niche Oriental Mixed This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. Includes leaf mustards, golden streaked and red, komatsuna, mizuna and sky rocket. |
Salad : Niche Salad Leaves 1 packet An exciting blend of salad leaves that adds a range of colours, tastes and textures to your salads. The blend consists of Leaf Radish, Leaf Carrot, Wrinkled Cress, Kale Red Russian, Red Amaranth, Golden Purslane and Salad Burnet. Sow in succession, pick leaves as required. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting. |
Salad : Oriental Mustards 1 packet Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes and also stir fries. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Pick nutritious leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Ideal in containers on the patio.Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Mustards Red Giant, Red Feather and green frilled Pizzo. |
Salad : Salad Leaves Mixed 1 packet (Summer-Autumn) A separately packaged collection to provide different types, colours and textures and a longer harvest from one sowing. Ideal for small gardens, providing a great selection in a small space. |
Salad : Salad Leaves Stir Fry Mixed 1 packet Add colours, tastes and textures to your stir fries, mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes, also use as a steamed or microwaved vegetable. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of nutritious 'salad leaves'. Ideal in containers on the patio. Quick growing, under 30 days during summer months. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Mizuna, Canton Pak Choy, Red Mustard, Texel Greens & Cavolo Nero. |
Salad Leaves : Beet Bull's Blood 1 packet Widely used as an attractive baby leaf salad, adding an almost crimson colour to salads. Also makes a decorative addition to the flower garden. |
Salad Leaves : Bright & Spicy 1 packet A bright blend of coloured salad leaves, consisting of milder flavoured Pak Choy Golden Yellow, Choy Sum and Mizuna, plus a hint of spice from the Greek cress and mustard Red Frills. Delightful added to salads, sandwiches and garnishes |
Salad Leaves : Corn Salad Cavallo 1 packet Keeps on producing a mass of fresh flavoured, deep green leaves. A late summer sowing will guarantee winter salads. |
Salad Leaves : Land Cress 1 packet Tasty water cress substitute, ready in 7-8 weeks. Sow early spring onwards, over winters too. Vitamin, iron and calcium rich cress which tastes almost like watercress but has a smaller leaf providing a continuous supply over a long period. It is easy to grow and does best in a cool moist soil and part shade. |
Salad Leaves : Land Cress Variegated Winter 1 packet Barbarea vulgaris. A new 100% variegated introduction. Winter cress is very popular as a salad ingredient with a taste and look reminiscent of watercress. Harvest virtually all the year round, if covered with cloches during severe winter weather. Flavour guide: Crisp and tangy; alternative to watercress. |
Saladisi Vegetable 1 packet Ready in 6-8 weeks and crops for 6 months or more. A new application of an old European technique producing nutritious, tasty and tender leaves through many months of the year. Particularly valuable for producing tender young shoots in spring and a spring sowing should produce salad material through summer. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Lettuce : Lattuga Bionda Lenta a Montare 1 packet Delicious, crisp, dark green, classic 'Romaine' type with solid hearts which stand in good condition during hot weather. Traditionally used in Caesar salads. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Lettuce : Lattuga Lollo Bionda 1 packet Forms a round mound of pale green, frilled edged leaves. Does not produce a firm heart. Cut the entire plant or just pick leaves as required. Makes an attractive complement to Lollo Rossa. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Lettuce : Lattuga Red Salad Bowl 1 packet Forms a voluminous head of reddish-bronzed leaves. Non-hearting, just pick young leaves as required or cut the full head, wash and keep in the refrigerator. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Lettuce : Lattuga Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo 1 packet A loose leaf 'picking lettuce' producing abundant bronzed leaves to add to salads, and sandwiches, or used as a garnish. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Lettuce : Lattuga Verde A Foglia Riccia 1 packet A loose leaf 'picking lettuce' producing abundant pale green leaves to add to salads and sandwiches, or used as a garnish. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Lettuce : Quattro Stagioni 1 packet A 'butterhead' variety with soft round, medium sized hearts for sowing and harvesting throughout the spring and summer. The outer leaves and heart show an attractive bronzed-red colour. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Rocket : Cultivated Rucola Coltivata 1 packet Very quick growing, vigorous, robust plant with pungent leaves used as a main ingredient of a mixed green salad to add zest and texture. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Rocket : Wild Rucola Selavativca 1 packet Slower growing and with a more serrated leaf than Cultivated Rocket but increasing in popularity to add to Cultivated Rocket as a mixed salad ingredient. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Salad Leaves Mixture : Misticanza D'Insalate 1 packet A delicious blend of lettuce which, from regular sowings give tasty salad leaves all the year round This is a well-balanced mixture of young, fresh and tender leaves of chicory, lettuce, and endives. It will provide a continuous harvest of salad leaves all the year round if successionally sown in pots on the windowsill, or sown outdoors from March to September. It is easy to grow with minimum maintenance. Mixture contains: Lettuce Bionda a Foglia Liscia, Bionda a Foglia Riccia, Verde a Foglia Riccia, Meraviaglia Delle 4 Stagioni and Biscia Rossa. |
Lettuce Spectrum Mixed - So Eezee&trade Range 80 pre-sown plugs A versatile mix of salad leaves. So quick and easy, for pots or window boxes too. Plants to save you money - Lettuce Spectrum Mixed could cost 50p per lettuce in the supermarket. The So Eezee™ Range is a new, economical way of stocking up your garden with plants. All the seeds are pre-sown so all you need to do is place the tray on a windowsill, 'just add water', put the greenhouse lid on and within days your plants will begin to grow. |
Rocket (Organic) 1 packet Popular, easy-to-grow salad leaf, used in salads and sandwiches for its unique aromatic taste. Can also be included in pizza and pasta dishes, or steamed as a spinach substitute. Sow in succession and pick leaves as required. |
Rocket - Hardy Biennial Herb 1 packet A little known but very useful salad plant which can be used raw in salads or cooked lightly when it makes a delicious spinach substitute. Late summer sowings will carry on cropping into the winter if the plants are protected by cloches. |
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