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Beetroot – Detroit
Original price was: £4.99.Current price is: £3.99.
(10 Plug Plants)

A classic variety that is easy to grow
This is a super tasty, popular variety of beetroot that produces smooth skinned, dark red, medium to large beetroots to harvest. Perfect for growing in beds or containers, beetroot is incredibly easy to grow, especially using our organic plug plants. You’ll receive a complete growing guide with your plug plants.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: Detroit (organic*)

In the kitchen: This variety of beetroot is great for roasting or you can pick them a little earlier as baby beets and use the leaves in stir-fries or salads.

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Butternut Squash – Waltham
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(3 Plug Plants)

Delicious and easy to grow
Produces sweet flavoured butternut squash of a light tan-colour, with smooth orange flesh. These fruits are uniformed in shape and can grow up to 20cm long. Stores well after harvesting. A good variety for UK growing. Butternut Squash plug plants make it easy, too – just plant them in a sunny spot and follow the advice in the growing guide that comes with the plants.

Number of plants: 3

Variety: Waltham Butternut (organic)

In the kitchen: This squash is great for roasting, using in a soup or to make a delicious pie.

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Cavolo Nero – Nero di Toscano (Black Kale)
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

An easy to grow, decorative and healthy kale plant

This Italian kale has beautiful dark green leaves and looks really striking in the vegetable patch when it’s fully grown. In fact, many people choose to plant it in borders for exactly that reason. It’s easy to grow (easier than many other brassicas) and will provide you with leaves for several months. The plug plants will arrive with a complete growing guide full of planting advice and tips.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Nero di Toscana (organic)

In the kitchen: Add Cavolo Nero kale stews, steam it, fry it up with a little garlic butter.

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Curly Kale (Borecole) – Green Curled Dwarf
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

A space-saving, easy-growing kale
This is a very popular, compact curly kale that is great for pots (and beds, too!) and requires little attention to produce a good crop. It is exceptionally hardy and grows really well through autumn and winter giving you a nice, constant supply of healthy greens from your garden. You can plant curly kale in spring for use in late summer and early autumn, or plant in summer/early autumn for a winter harvest. Cover with mesh netting to protect from pests. You’ll find plenty of advice in the growing guide that comes with the plug plants.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: Green Curled Dwarf (organic*)

In the kitchen: This kale can be steamed, baked or fried with a drizzle of olive oil and sprinkled with seasoning to make delicious kale crisps or even used in smoothies.

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Lettuce – Freckles
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

Easy to grow, decorative and delicious
Freckles is easy to grow from our lovely young plug plants. It is heat tolerant, crisp and bolt resistant. Freckles is unlike any romaine lettuce you will see. It has bright green leaves that look like someone splattered painted burgundy spots all over them! A lovely variety. Growing lettuces from plug plants is easy – you can grow them in pots or beds – just follow the instructions in the growing guide that you will receive with your plants.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Freckles (organic)

In the kitchen: The best salads often have lettuce as their base to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch. The next time you make a Caesar salad use Freckles and create your own work of art.

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Purple Sprouting Broccoli – Early
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

Easy to grow, beautiful colour and fantastic flavour

An extremely healthy and tasty vegetable that is so much more flavoursome when harvested and eaten fresh from your own garden. This variety is great to plant in spring/summer for a harvest between February and May, when there’s not much else to harvest! Growing from our plug plants is very easy – just pop them in your veg plot when your plants arrive and keep them well watered – a complete growing guide is provided with every plant delivery.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: Early (organic*)

In the kitchen: Packed full of flavour when lightly steamed, stir-fried or boiled in just a few minutes so that the florets become tender. Drizzle with melted butter and lemon juice to make a delicious side dish.

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Rainbow Chard – Bright Lights
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

Colourful, nutrient-rich and delicious

Rainbow chard will bring a pleasing punch of colour to your veg patch during the colder months. It is a flavoursome and nutrient-rich plant that will produce leaves throughout the seasons. Simply cut off the bigger, outer leaves at the base and more will keep growing. It is easy to grow rainbow chard from plug plants – just plant in raised beds or large containers and follow the growing guide that is provided with the plants.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Bright Lights (organic)

In the kitchen: The leaves are lovely wilted with a bit of garlic butter, and the stalks are great chopped up and thrown into paellas and risottos.

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Spinach – Perpetual
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

A fantastically versatile nutrient-rich plant
Producing tasty leaves for you throughout the seasons, as perpetual spinach grows you can simply cut the bigger outer leaves off at the base and it’ll keep producing more and more. As long as the slugs and caterpillars don’t get to it, it’ll carry on for ages. Perpetual spinach is very easy to grow from our organic plug plants – suitable for pots and beds, and will grow well in sun or partial shade. Full growing instructions come with the plants.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Perpetual (organic)

In the kitchen: You can either cook the spinach leaves making a delicious addition to a wide range of dishes, use the baby leaves in salads or add to smoothies or juice.

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Sweetcorn – Sweet Nugget
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.49.
(10 Plug Plants)

Produces lovely golden cobs with a super sweet flavour
Sweetcorn is easy to grow but be sure to plant them in blocks rather than rows. This sweetcorn variety produces cobs approx. 20cm in length, and looks lovely when it’s growing in the veg patch. Growing sweetcorn from plug plants is very easy – just pop them in your veg plot when your plants arrive and keep them well watered. See our growing guides for more details.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Sweet Nugget (organic)

In the kitchen: Best eaten fresh from the garden with butter and black pepper. Alternatively, try bbq-ing them with chilli and garlic butter.

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Winter Squash – Uchiki Kuri
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.49.
(3 Plug Plants)

Very early to ripen – great for UK growing!
A lovely looking winter squash, each plant forms three to five small pumpkin-like fruits averaging 1.5kg. The fruits are an intense orange/red colour with golden flesh and have a sweet nutty flavour. We really love this variety – it is very pretty, and a popular one amongst foodies and chefs. It ripens early making it a safe bet if you’re planting late, or if autumn comes sooner in your neck of the woods. Winter Squash is easy to grow using plug plants and full growing guide is provided with the plants.

Number of plants: 3 plug plants

Variety: Uchiki Kuri (organic*)

In the kitchen: For a simple and delicious side dish, try roasting this squash with garlic cloves and seasoning. Also brilliant and tasty in soups.

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Beetroot – Chioggia
Original price was: £4.99.Current price is: £3.99.
(10 Plug Plants)

Stripy Beetroots!
This traditional Italian beetroot has beautiful, decorative white rings when sliced. It looks amazing sliced finely and added to salads. Definitely worth growing! Our beetroot plug plants make it very easy to grow your own beetroot, whether you are growing in pots or beds. The plants arrive with a complete growing guide, and are delivered in plastic-free packaging.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: Chioggia Italian (organic*)

In the kitchen: This variety of beetroot is great for slicing into salads so that you can see the beautiful stripes.

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Broccoli (Calabrese) – Green Sprouting
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

A delicious and easy to grow family favourite

This is a green sprouting variety of broccoli. After you have harvested the main head of broccoli (the ‘leader’), it will start to produce successive spears for you to harvest. You can either harvest them whilst small and tender or wait until they form a larger head. Use netting to keep butterflies (and therefore caterpillars) at bay! Growing from our broccoli plug plants is quick and easy – just plant them in your garden when your plugs arrive and keep them well watered – a complete growing guide comes with every delivery.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: Green Sprouting (organic*)

In the kitchen: Great steamed, roasted with a little oil or stir-fried, it is an extremely versatile kitchen garden staple.

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Cauliflower – All Year Round
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

A popular cauliflower that can be planted in spring, summer or autumn!

This variety is a very popular all season cauliflower which can be set closer together than others to produce tasty small heads and is easier to grow than most other varieties. Firm the plants in well when you plant the plugs, as this will help them to form a firm cauliflower head. You’ll receive a complete growing guide with the plants, so follow the advice in that for best results with growing cauliflower.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: All Year Round (organic*)

In the kitchen: Perfect for roasting, steaming, making soup and for a lovely warming cauliflower cheese!

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Courgette – Green Bush
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(3 Plug Plants)

A high yielding, easy to grow courgette plant
This is a bush variety of courgette, which means that plants are large, robust and vigorous but stay compact without sprawling. The fruit are uniform and straight, with a rich dark green colouring and a fine flavour that’s delicate and sweet enough to eat raw, straight off the plant. Growing courgettes from plug plants is very easy – plant in full sunshine, in beds or large pots, and be sure to water well. You will receive a complete growing guide with your plug plants.

Number of plants: 3

Variety: Green Bush (organic)

In the kitchen: A wonderfully versatile vegetable, courgettes can be used in stir-fries, soups, casseroles, salads, pasta dishes, pickled, the list goes on. You can even eat its beautiful flower, try stuffing it with herbs and cheese and frying it briefly.

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Cucumber – Marketmore
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(3 Plug Plants)

Easy, delicious and decorative
Cucumber plants look beautiful when growing and can be grown by even the most inexperienced gardener. This variety produces thick dark green fruits which can reach 20cm in length. They are quite spiny, so you’ll need to peel them before eating. Cucumber plants are easy to grow from plug plants – best planted in a greenhouse, or in a sunny, sheltered spot in your garden. Full growing information is provided with the plants.

Number of plants: 3

Variety: Marketmore (organic)

In the kitchen: Cucumbers are delicious in salads, a welcome addition to gin and tonic, and lovely with yoghurt and mint. Also great for dipping in hummus and dips.

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Giant Winter Leeks
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £5.59.
(20 Plug Plants)

The gardener’s choice of leek
Giant Winter is an excellent late variety producing thick leeks that will hold well in the ground for a long time and are winter hardy. You will find more than one leek growing in most of your plug plants, so you will get plenty of leeks to harvest! You can either tease them apart to plant each leek separately, or plant together without separating. There is plenty of growing advice in the growing guide that arrives with the plug plants.

Number of plants: 20 (although you are likely to receive two or three seedlings in each plug)

Variety: Giant Winter (organic)

In the kitchen: Leeks are delicious in soups, stews and pies. You can steam, fry or boil. Finely chopping leeks brings out their flavour and texture.

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Lettuce – Lollo Rossa
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

This wonderful looking lettuce is a must in any kitchen garden
Lollo Rossa lettuce forms tight frilly maroon heads. You can wait and harvest the whole plant, or pick a few leaves here and there as needed. It is very easy to grow lettuces from plug plants – just pop them in the ground, or in pots or a window box, and keep them well watered. A full growing guide is provided with the plants.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: Lollo Rossa (organic*)

In the kitchen: Use this lettuce to bulk up salads and add a splash of colour.

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Pumpkin – Jack O’Lantern
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.49.
(3 Plug Plants)

Grow your own pumpkins for Halloween
Producing pumpkins weighing up to 10kg and bright orange in colour, this variety is ideal for your menacing masterpieces at Halloween. Pumpkins are easy to grow, but you will need some space for them to sprawl out, or a sturdy trellis/fence for them to climb. You will receive a complete growing guide with your plants. You can expect to harvest the pumpkins in mid/late October.

Number of plants: 3

Variety: Jack O’Lantern (organic)

In the kitchen: This pumpkin is great for roasting, using in a soup or to make a delicious pumpkin pie. But of course, you may prefer just to carve it!

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Runner Bean – Enorma
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £5.24.
(10 Plug Plants)

Just keep picking those beans!
Runner Beans look so attractive climbing up their wigwams with their bright red flowers. Enorma is a quick growing variety that will produce a heavy crop of long runner beans for you to pick on many a summer’s evening. You can grow in large pots or in beds. Growing beans from plug plants is very easy – the plants come with a comprehensive growing guide to help you if you are new to growing your own vegetables.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

Variety: Enorma (organic*)

In the kitchen: Runner beans are delicious steamed until just tender – add a knob of butter and some freshly chopped herbs too.

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Yellow Courgette – Atena Polka
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(3 Plug Plants)

A golden skinned courgette
These plants will produce beautifully colourful courgettes to brighten up your vegetable garden. Atena Polka is a bush variety of courgette, so can be grown well in raised beds or in large pots. You should get a great crop from it, just follow the advice in our growing guide to get your plug plants off to a good start.

Number of plants: 3 plug plants

Variety: Atena Polka (organic*)

In the kitchen: Such a versatile vegetable, courgettes can be used in stir-fries, soups, casseroles, salads, pasta dishes, pickled, the list goes on. You can even eat its beautiful flower, try stuffing it with herbs and cheese and frying it briefly. Delicious!

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Celery – Green Utah
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

An easy to grow variety of celery
This variety of celery forms crisp green stalks. It doesn’t need to be blanched as it grows – it is a ‘self-blanching’ variety. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry, because all it basically means is that you don’t need to do anything other than pop the plants in the ground and keep them well watered throughout the growing season. There is loads of advice in the growing guide that comes with the plug plants.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Green Utah (organic)

In the kitchen: Delicious used raw in salads, or for using to dip into hummus. Celery is equally delicious if braised or chopped in casseroles or a fish pie, adding a different texture to your dish. Use the leaves and any older tougher stalks to make stock.

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Lettuce – Lollo Biondi
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

Tender cut and come again lettuce leaves
One of the prettiest lime-green varieties of multi leaf lettuces. It is the shiny-green sister of Lollo Rosso. This variety has extremely frizzy, crinkled and compact leaves. Growing lettuces from plug plants is incredibly easy – just plant up in beds or pots and keep them well watered and protected from slugs. Complete growing guide comes with the plants which are delivered in plastic-free packaging.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Lollo Biondi (organic)

In the kitchen: The best salads have lettuce as their base to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch.

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Savoy Cabbage – Vertus
Original price was: £5.99.Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)

Easy to grow, hardy and delicious
This variety of savoy cabbage has rounded heads of dark green ruffled leaves that have a more subtle flavour compared to other savoy cabbages, slightly less bitter. It’s a very hardy variety and stands well without splitting. Best grown in beds, but it can be grown in large pots too. Growing from our organic plug plants is easy – follow the advice in the comprehensive growing guide that you will receive with the plants.

Number of plants: 10

Variety: Vertus (organic)

In the kitchen: Shred or cut savoy cabbage into wedges with the hard core discarded. Steam, boil, braise or stir-fry. It especially delicious braised with pancetta and garlic.

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Wildflower Mix – Bee & Butterfly (50 Plugs)
Original price was: £19.99.Current price is: £15.99.
(50 Plug Plants)

Plant a mini wildflower meadow!
Hugely popular when we introduced them in 2020, our wildflower plug plants are brilliant for attracting bees, butterflies and other pollinators. There are over 100 different varieties, all annuals which will readily self seed, giving you continual colour for months. They are great for planting in a dedicated patch in the garden, or in a pot/planter for a mini-meadow on your patio!

Each plug plant will have a cluster of different seedlings emerging, a lucky dip from the list below, and should not be thinned out. This way, you’ll get a fairly natural looking little meadow. For best results, plant the plugs approximately 15-20cm apart. You can fill a planter or pot quite happily with several plugs to each, allowing for at least 15cm per plug.

Number of plugs: 50 plug plants (multiple seedlings per plug)

Contains a lucky dip seedling mix from over 100 different wildflowers, including:

Borage
Clover
Corn Cockle
Cornflower
Daisy – Ox-Eye
Foxglove – Wild
Knapweed
Cranesbill
Poppy – Common
Scabious – Field
Ragged Robin
Teasel
Yarrow
Vetch

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