Plants & Seeds

£1.95 Lettuce Valdor seeds I love this traditional variety of soft round lettuce. It came top in our winter lettuce trial last year, with excellent flavour, texture and productivity. We picked some as baby leaf and left others to heart up. This year, its proved good in the summer too. Sow now into guttering. Lettuce Valdor seeds

£1.95 Mustard Green In Snow seeds Fantastic in winter as well as the rest of the year, an excellent producer invaluable for bulk in a winter salad. Mustard Green In Snow seeds

£1.95 Mustard Red Frills seeds A brand new mustard variety which looks good and tastes distinctly of freshly cooked new potatoes. Fantastic. Mustard Red Frills seeds

£1.95 Watercress seeds I'd always thought you had to have a running stream to grow watercress, but that's not the case. Sow this into any deeply cultivated soil and it will grow. Watercress seeds

£1.95 Spring Onion White Lisbon seeds The sweetest, quickest and easiest white-fleshed spring onion here in our onion trials this year. Eat the bulbs, finely chopped with a plate of sliced tomatoes, cut them into chunks for stir-fry, and eat the leaves - like chives - in a potato salad with capers (p124 Garden Cookbook). Spring Onion White Lisbon seeds

£1.95 Celery Red Giant seeds Delicious, trench form of celery which looks lovely in the garden and on the plate. We did some trenched and some not. The hearts were juicier and more succulent trenched, but then stems tasted good without blanching as well. Celery Red Giant seeds

£1.95 Onion Welsh White seeds This traditional onion is like a cross between a spring onion and a leek, lovely cut fine in salad or griddled as a vegetable. And you get a lot for your money, with many shoots to each bulb. Onion Welsh White seeds

£1.95 Dill Mammoth Organic seeds Sow now into guttering. Dill Mammoth Organic seeds

£1.95 Chervil seeds One of my favourite herbs, with a gentle aniseedy flavour. The leaves are lovely raw in salad or added right at the end into an omelette. Very hardy for sowing in autumn and growing outside at least in the south of England - right the way through winter and spring. Hardy annual. Chervil seeds

£1.95 Chives Garlic seeds Hardy perennial. These cut-and-come-again chives with white edible flowers taste of garlic and go on later than usual chives. Sow now for picking in late summer and autumn. Chives Garlic seeds

£1.95 Chives Ordinary seeds An easy and quick germinating herb from seed with a characteristic, mild oniony flavour. Invaluable for emerging very early in the spring. Hardy Perennial. Chives Ordinary seeds

£1.95 Coriander Leaf Form Leisure seeds This is the leaf form of Coriander. You can cook few Oriental meals without it and we eat the flowers and green seeds in salads. Hardy annual. Coriander Leaf Form Leisure seeds

£1.95 Basil Purple Leaf seeds Not as sweet as the others, but with interesting crimson-black leaves. Good in a salad and for the ornamental veg and herb garden. Basil Purple Leaf seeds

£1.95 Basil Sweet Genovese seeds Half-hardy annual. The best aromatic basil, with a sweet taste and soft, tender texture. Now the weather is warm, this is very happy sown direct into the garden. Basil Sweet Genovese seeds

£1.95 Par Cel seeds Hardy annual. A fantastic herb that is a mix of parsely and celery in flavour. Its exceptionally hardy and from sowing now will last right through - even outside - until next spring. Par Cel seeds

£1.95 Parsley Giant Of Napoli Organic seeds We did a flat leaved parsley trial at Perch Hill this year and this one came out top, with larger leaves and a better flavour than others. It is superb raw in salad an scattered over tomatoes and also good cooked in parsely sauce (see p.89 Garden Cookbook). I pick a line of these for six or seven months in my garden before they try to flower a

£1.95 Basil Lemon seeds Half-hardy annual. A delicious basil with a strong citrus flavour. Now the weather is warm, this is very happy sown direct into the garden. Basil Lemon seeds

£1.95 Mibuna seeds We've grown this plant as a salad leaf for several years, but thisyear let some run up to seed to collect the seed. We then realisedthe seed pods were brilliant for flower arranging - one of the bestarchitectural upper storey foliages you can grow. So pick the leavesfor salad and then the pods for arrangements. Sow now into guttering. Mibu

£1.95 Lemon Grass seeds The classic herb for Oriental cooking is surprisingly easy to grow. I use the grassy leaf for delicious lemony tea and make subtle vervaine-like ice-cream and similar to a late summer elderflower, a lemon grass syrup. The syrup itself is wonderful as a cordial and over fresh fruit (particularly melon) and vanilla ice cream (see p228 Garden Coo

£1.95 Winter Savory seeds Perennial evergreen. Sow this now to grow inside or out for delicious thymey-flavoured herb all through the winter. Winter Savory seeds

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