Spring/Summer Plants
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Kale – Red Russian
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)This is one of our favourites!
You get really lovely tones of colour on this kale plant as it grows, making it a very attractive addition to your veg patch and of course, it’s super healthy and easy to grow. We’re sure you will enjoy it just as much as we do! Growing kale is very easy from plug plants – just pop them in the ground and keep them well watered. It is best to net them to protect from birds and butterflies, but full growing advice is in the guide included with your plug plants and makes it super simple.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Red Russian (organic*)
In the kitchen: Red Russian Kale is the sweetest of the kale types. An incredibly nutritious vegetable, it can be enjoyed steamed, baked in a gratin or used in stir-fries, stews or even smoothies.
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Kale – Rote Krauser
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)A curly kale that turns deep red as it gets colder
As this curly kale plant grows, its leaves slowly begin to turn and by winter they are a gorgeous purple-red. It’s a little larger than our green Curly Kale (green curled dwarf) and better suited to growing in the ground or in raised beds where it can have a little more space. Growing kale is straightforward using plug plants – just plant them in the ground and keep them well watered. It is best to net them to protect from birds and butterflies, but full growing advice is in the guide included with your plug plants and makes it super simple.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Kale – Rote Krauser (organic*)
In the kitchen: Use kale steamed, baked in a gratin or chucked in stir-fries, stews or even smoothies.
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Lettuce – Baby Leaf Mix
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Perfect for small gardens (or even a windowsill)
This is a new mix of baby leaf varieties, with four different lettuce varieties that offer a range of shapes, colours and textures that are perfect together in salads. Use as a cut-and-come-again crop, harvesting baby leaves regularly right through the summer and into autumn. The lettuce plug plants are very easy to grow – perfect for pots, beds or window boxes. A full growing guide is included with the plant delivery.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Baby Leaf Mix (organic*) – includes Albabionda, Albaverde, Albarossa and Baby Romaine
In the kitchen: This mixture makes for a quick and easy green salad
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Lettuce – Lollo Biondi
£5.99
(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 plug plants
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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Lettuce – Red Salad Bowl
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, loose leafed red lettuce
This is an excellent non-heading lettuce that provides a steady supply of deep red, oak-shaped leaves. Use it as acut-and-come-again crop, harvesting regularly through the summer months. The lettuce plug plants are very easy to grow – perfect for pots, beds or window boxes. A full growing guide is included with the plant delivery.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Red Salad Bowl (organic*)
In the kitchen: The best salads have lettuce as their base to give you background flavours and plenty of crunch. This red leafed variety adds good colour.
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Peas – Kelvedon Wonder
£6.99
(10 Plug Plants)Pop some peas in your veg plot!
Home grown peas are so sweet and delicious, they rarely make it back to the kitchen. Just open the pods while you’re doing the weeding and have a healthy nibble! You can expect a good crop from this variety. Perfect for pots or beds, alike. You’ll receive a full growing guide with your plug plants making it very easy to get started with growing peas. In late summer – plant in a greenhouse.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Kelvedon Wonder
In the kitchen: Eat your peas raw, or steamed/blanched. We love peas paired with freshly chopped mint and some garlic and olive oil.
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Pumpkin – Hundredweight
£5.99
(3 Plug Plants)Can you grow a record breaker?!
This variety of pumpkin can produce beautiful round deep orange fruits of up to 25kg! To grow these enormous fun fruits, you will need to allow approx. 2m between plants and thin out other fruits as they form. This will allow your larger fruit to obtain all the nutrients and water it needs to grow to this super-size. Growing pumpkins from plug plants is easy – a full growing guide will be provided with your plant delivery.Number of plants: 3 plug plants
Variety: Hundredweight (organic*)
In the kitchen: This pumpkin is great for roasting, using in a soup or to make a delicious pumpkin pie.
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Red Cabbage – Red Drumhead
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)An easy to grow red cabbage
This variety will produce a good sized red cabbage that you can feel very proud of having grown yourself! The leaves have a lovely blue tinge, but the hearts themselves are a deep cabbage red. They are great-looking plants in the vegetable garden. Firm them in well when planting and try to keep them cool by watering frequently. There’s loads more advice in the growing guide that comes with the plug plants.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Red Drumhead (organic*)
In the kitchen: Try red cabbage braised with spices to make a rich and warming accompaniment to your Sunday roast. Shred finely to add to salads for extra crunch and deep purples!
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Savoy Cabbage – Vertus
£5.99
(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 plug plants
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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Spring Onion – White Lisbon
£6.99
(20 Plug Plants)Great for growing if you have limited space
Loading your veg patch with spring onions is such a good idea. You can really pack them in as they hardly take up any space. They grow quite quickly during the spring and summer months too so you’ll be able to plant something else in their place later in the season. Growing spring onions from our plug plants is very easy – just pop them in your veg plot when your plants arrive – a complete growing guide will be provided with your plant delivery.Number of plants: 20 plug plants
Variety: White Lisbon (organic*)
In the kitchen: Spring onions are fab chopped up and thrown into a stir fry with some oriental leaves or in a delicious salad.
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Sugar Snap Peas
£6.99
(10 Plug Plants)You’ll eat all the pods straight from your garden!
These plants are so easy to grow and will produce loads of sugar snap pea pods. They’ll grow to approximately 1.5m tall and will need some kind of support to climb (we often grow them up a chicken wire fence or trellis.) You can plant them fairly close together, at 10cm so they don’t take up a lot of space. They are very easy to grow from plug plants, just follow the advice in the growing guide provided with the plants.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
In the kitchen: Sweet, crunchy, and delicious raw or try steaming them lightly or stir-frying with other vegetables.
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Swede – Marian
£5.99
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, hardy and deliciously tasty
Swede is a hardy root vegetable that is easy to grow so long as plants are watered regularly to avoid the swede root from splitting. It has a globe shape with purple skin colour and yellow flesh within. Suitable for raised beds and traditional plots in all parts of the UK, Swede is easy to grow from plug plants – you will receive a complete growing guide with your delivery.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Marian (organic)
In the kitchen: Delicious roasted, mashed or slow cooked in stews or casseroles.
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Sweet Pepper – Bell Boy
£5.99
(3 Plants)Perfect peppers & a good cropper
If you want to grow juicy red peppers, then this is the variety for you. If you can grow them in a greenhouse or polytunnel, then that will be ideal as the warmth will help them ripen quickly. Otherwise, choose a super sunny, sheltered spot in your plot.Number of plants: 3
Variety: Bell Boy (organic*)
In the kitchen: This pepper can be enjoyed raw in a salad or it can be stuffed, roasted or added to sauces.
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Thyme
£8.99
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Thyme flowers are highly scented, and good at attracting bees and other beneficial insects to the garden.
This is the most popular variety of common thyme, with dark green upright bushy foliage with pretty pink flowers.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Perfect for use with poultry and pork, for flavouring stews, stuffings, sausages and pies.
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Tomato – Tigerella
£6.99
(5 Plug Plants)Delicious, quirky and easy to grow
Named Tigerella because of its very distinctive red fruits with orange and yellow stripes like a tiger, this tomato is well suited for cooler climates. The variety produces fruits of medium size and is high yielding. Great for growing outdoors or in a greenhouse or polytunnel. Our plug plants are easy to grow and come with a complete growing guide.Number of plants: 5 plug plants
Variety: Tigerella (organic*)
In the kitchen: These tomatoes add an eye catching dash of colour and fun to any summer salad. These are delicious eaten raw, roasted or cooked in Mediterranean dishes.
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Wildflower Mix – Bee & Butterfly (100 Plugs)
£29.99
(100 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: 100 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
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Wildflower Mix – Bee & Butterfly (50 Plugs)
£19.99
(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
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Wildflowers for Birds Mix (100 Plugs)
£29.99
(100 Plug Plants)Attract more wild birds to your garden with this wildflower mix
This mix of wildflower plugs contains a huge range of wildflowers and grasses that are selected to help attract a range of wild birds to your garden. Some will also provide seeds making them a great food source for the birds during the winter months. Many of the wildflower varieties will also attract bees and butterflies to your garden too, great if you’re growing your veg nearby.
There are over 100 different varieties, all annuals which will readily self seed, giving you continual colour and diversity for months. They are great for planting in a dedicated patch in the garden, or in large planters or an old wheelbarrow tucked into nooks and corners around your garden.
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, and don’t forget that you can plant several plugs to a pot/container, allowing for 15cm per plug.
Number of plugs: 100 plug plants (multiple seedlings per plug!)
Contains a lucky dip seedling mix from over 100 different wildflowers, including:
- Burnet
- Cornflower
- Corncockle
- Dwarf Sunflower
- Goat’s Beard
- Hawkbit
- Knapweed
- Linseed
- Marigold
- Marjoram
- Millet
- Oxeye Daisy
- Phacelia
- Quinoa
- Scabious
- Selfheal
- Sorrel
- Teasel
- Trefoil – Bird’s Foot
- Vetch
- Yarrow
- Wild Carrot
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Wildflowers for Birds Mix (50 Plugs)
£19.99
(50 Plug Plants)Plant a mini wildflower meadow to attract birds to your garden
This mix of wildflower plugs contains a mix of wildflowers and grasses that will attract a range of wild birds to your garden. Some will also provide seeds making them a great food source for the birds during the winter months. The mix will also attract bees and butterflies to your garden too, great if your also growing veg nearby. There are over 100 different varieties, all annuals which will readily self seed, giving you continual colour and diversity for months.You can plant the 50 plugs in a dedicated patch in the garden, or in planters to create a mini-meadow. You’ll receive a full growing guide with the plug plants.
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, and don’t forget that you can plant several plugs to a pot/container, allowing for 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:
- Burnet
- Cornflower
- Corncockle
- Dwarf Sunflower
- Goat’s Beard
- Hawkbit
- Knapweed
- Linseed
- Marigold
- Marjoram
- Millet
- Oxeye Daisy
- Phacelia
- Quinoa
- Scabious
- Selfheal
- Sorrel
- Teasel
- Trefoil – Bird’s Foot
- Vetch
- Yarrow
- Wild Carrot
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Wildflowers for Shade Mix (100 Plugs)
£29.99
(100 Plug Plants)Perfect for creating a mini wildflower meadow under tree cover
This mix of wildflower plugs contains a mix of wildflowers and grasses that will do really well in partial or light shade, underneath some trees perhaps. You can use them to make a mini meadow underneath a few trees, perhaps your fruit trees if you have a little orchard area. It’s a good way of attracting vital pollinators and bringing some extra colour to the garden.
The mix includes over 100 different varieties of annuals that will readily self seed, and that are natively found in British hedgerows and woodlands.
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, and don’t forget that you can plant several plugs to a pot/container, allowing for 15cm per plug.
Number of plugs: 100 plug plants (multiple seedlings per plug!)
Contains a lucky dip seedling mix from over 100 different wildflowers, including:
- Angelica, Wild
- Bedstraw
- Buttercup
- Campion, Red
- Campion, White
- Cowslip
- Daisy
- Foxglove
- Hedge Parsley
- Knapweed
- Mullien
- Musk Mallow
- Mustard, Garlic
- Self-heal
- St John’s Wort
- Teasel
- Vetch
- Woundwort
- Yarrow
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Wildflowers for Shade Mix (50 Plugs)
£19.99
(50 Plug Plants)Perfect for those shady spots in your garden
This mix of wildflower plugs contains a mix of wildflowers and grasses that will grow well in partial or light shade, allowing you to bring some colour into those shadier spots. This wildflower mix will also attract vital pollinators. There are over 100 different varieties, all annuals which will readily self seed, giving you continual colour and diversity for months. Lots of the species listed below are natively found in British hedgerows and woodlands. They are great for planting in a dedicated patch in the garden, or in a pot/planter for a mini-meadow!
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, and don’t forget that you can plant several plugs to a pot/container, allowing for 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:
- Angelica, Wild
- Bedstraw
- Buttercup
- Campion, Red
- Campion, White
- Cowslip
- Daisy
- Foxglove
- Hedge Parsley
- Knapweed
- Mullien
- Musk Mallow
- Mustard, Garlic
- Self-heal
- St John’s Wort
- Teasel
- Vetch
- Woundwort
- Yarrow
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Winter Squash – Cornells Bush Delicata
£5.99
(3 Plug Plants)A fun alternative to butternut squash
Produces narrow squash with cream/yellow coloured skin and dark green stripes. It looks great in the vegetable garden! We like it as the flavour is not dissimilar to butternut squash – sweet and nutty – but it is a little quicker to mature and ripen. If you’ve struggled to get butternut to ripen, then give this a go instead. Winter squash are easy to grow – they like lots of compost and plenty of water, sunshine and warmth. This is a compact variety, suitable for beds or large pots, and it doesn’t need space to climb/sprawl. You’ll receive a growing guide with your plug plants.Number of plants: 3 plug plants
Variety: Cornells Bush Delicata (organic*)
In the kitchen: For a simple and delicious side dish, try roasting this winter squash with a drizzle of olive oil and season well. Also brilliant and tasty in soups and risotto.
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Winter Squash – Musquee de Provence
£5.99
(3 Plug Plants)Produces large, pumpkin-like fruits
These winter squashes can weigh up to 10kg! The skin turns from green to golden as it matures and the flesh is a rich orange colour with an almost nutmeg-like flavour. We love this variety as an alternative to traditional Jack O-Lantern Pumpkins, as it is easy to carve, and the flesh is a little more enjoyable too. Great for pumpkin pies and soups. Growing winter squash from plug plants is easy – just plant in a bed in a sunny site and keep them well watered. You’ll need a bit of space for them to sprawl, or a sturdy trellis for them to climb. Full growing instructions come with the plug plants.Number of plants: 3 plug plants
Variety: Musquee de Provence (organic*)
In the kitchen: For a simple and delicious side dish, try baking this winter squash until the flesh is soft. Also brilliant and tasty in soups. Ideal for pumpkin pie.
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Acroclinium – Grandiflorum Mixed
£6.99
(10 Plug Plants)A brilliant all-rounder
Also known as Everlasting Flowers because they are so good for drying, these colourful daisy-like flowers are wonderful for posies as well. This mix includes a range of shades, from white to magenta. They will grow to approximately 30cm and should be planted leaving 20-30cm between plants. Expect abundant flowers from July to September.No. of plants: 10 plug plants