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Salad and Leafy Vegetable Seeds - easy to grow, very quick off the mark (you can harvest mature radish in a Usain Bolt-like 2 weeks in the summer) and incredibly healthy, salads and leafy vegetables are right up there when it comes to selecting seeds and varieties to grow on the allotment or in the vegetable patch or kitchen garden. Our selection of organic salad and leafty vegetable seeds includes the aforementioned radish, stunning varities of chard to brigbhten up any veg plot or border, spinach leaves packed full of vitamins A and C and all the popular types of lettuce - cos, butterhead, iceberg and loose leaf. We've also tossed rocket, mizuna and a rather interesting chinese cabbage into the mix to hopefully satisfy the needs of all salad lovers!
Now we've whetted your growing appetite, you'll be pleased to hear we've also made seed sowing and growing guides for all our salad and leafy vegetable seed varieties, which you'll find on every seed page (there's an example below). We stock the cloches, fleece and seed sowing aids you'll need to help you grow successfully too - and on the subject of seeds; every variety we supply has reached the exacting organic standards laid down by the Soil Association so you can be completely confident that every lettuce, radish, spinach, chard, rocket etc seed you sow is 100% organic. It's up to you to make it a real salad summer to remember this year!
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Bio Seedling Stimulator |
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£3.95
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These packets of Bio Seedling Stimulator will help vulnerable flower and plant seedlings through the most difficult stage of their growth just by adding the granular Atlantic seaweed extract to water!
Greenhouse seedling fatality rates should plummet when one of the 6 x 15g water soluble Bio Seedling Stimulator packets is added to 7-10 litres of water and simply watered onto the seedlings with a fine rose. Each pack will treat up to 100 sqm giving you complete protection throughout the entire greenhouse or seed bed sowing season as the seedlings enjoy the natural growth stimulators contained in the seaweed extract. The Bio Seedling Stimulator contains a mix of N (0.7%), P (0.10%) and K (9.7%) which helps young seedlings toughen up quickly and grown on to produce healthy blooms, foliage and fruit in the garden. |
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Organic Little Gem Delight Lettuce Seeds |
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£1.10
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No vegetable garden is complete without lettuces and it's hardly surprising, given their versatility in the kitchen - and we're sure you'll appreciate the quick growing, flavoursome leaves of this organic cos-type Little Gem Delight. The small, compact plants form a crisp, sweet heart surrounded by outside leaves and can be grown all year round with a greenhouse and cloche. Start a crop off in early spring and enjoy packing your salads, sandwiches and baguettes with leaves as little as 12 weeks later. |
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Organic Erbette Perpetual Spinach Seeds |
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£1.75
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Organic Erbette Perpetual Spinach grows up to 30cm tall and giving you great greens throughout the winter. Also known as 'cut and come again' this erbette perpetual spinach is not the same as many other perpetual spinaches as it has narrower leaves and midribs. Seeds can be sown from March to August and you can start snipping at it from June. The Organic Erbette Perpetual Spinch is supplied in a pack of 200. |
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Organic Rhubarb Chard Seeds |
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£1.55
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Although the main reason for growing your own vegetables is the fresh produce you can enjoy almost on tap, the veg patch or allotment can look good as well - and introducing our Organic Rhubarb Chard can greatly enhance your plot. The deep red stems and ribs of this easy to grow vegetable contrast with the rich green foliage, but it's not just the disco-style looks which justify rhubarb chard a slot in the veg plot as the leaves are a tasty and nutritious alternative to spinach. Don't worry about running out of leaves either as the chard production line just keeps rolling on - as long as you harvest the leaves when they are small and tender, the plant will keep producing! Sow in spring and early summer to keep supplies on hand until autumn or go for a later sowing date of mid summer and enjoy fresh chard leaves - packed full of vitamins C, E and K - in the barren months of early spring! Our pack of 165 organic seeds should set you on your way. |
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Organic Marvel of Four Seasons Lettuce Seeds |
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£1.35
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The Organic Marvel of Four Seasons Lettuce also known as Red Besson is the ideal organic variety as it grows extremly quickly and in reference to its name it can almost be grown all year round, although best in the spring and summer. This fantastic tasting lettuce is a compliment to a salad and with its deep green colour and tinge of red, this lettuce should not be missed. The Organic Marvel of Four Seasons Lettuce is supplied in a pack of 200 seeds. |
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Organic Milan Lettuce Seeds |
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£0.95
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The Organic Milan Lettuce is a butterhead lettuce which has frilled leaves with a great taste for salads, grown both indoors and out this lettuce is a must-have in the garden. This type of lettuce is resistant to some mildews and tolerant of mosaic virus. The seeds need to be sown from February/March under glass and then replanted out once large enough or sown straight outside from March/April these can then be harvested May/October. The Organic Milan Lettuce is supplied in a pack of 200. |
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Organic Embrace Iceberg Lettuce Seeds |
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£1.10
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One of the most popular salad lettuce is the Organic Embrace Iceberg variety with great taste and texture this lettuce is a most have to grow in your garden. The Embrace Iceberg Lettuce type is early - mid maturity and can be sown from mid March - June as they are tolerant to variable conditions. These Organic Embrace Iceberg Lettuces are supplied in a pack of 100 seeds. |
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Organic Green Salad Bowl Lettuce Seeds |
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£1.35
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This Organic Green Salad Bowl lettuce variety is becoming more and more popular for growing at home and selling in the supermarket, from the loose leaf lettuce family the Green Salad Bowl Lettuce is one of the fastest growing lettuce. Producing large, light green, deep cut leaves, this lettuce is great tasting and can be harvested as baby leaf after 28 days or harvested when matured at approx 49 days. These seeds are supplied in a pack of 200 and can be sown outside from April to July. |
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Organic Red Salad Bowl Lettuce Seeds |
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£1.35
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This Organic Red Salad Bowl lettuce variety is becoming more and more popular for growing at home and selling in the supermarket, from the loose leaf lettuce family the Red Salad Bowl Lettuce is one of the fastest growing lettuce. Producing deep red/burgundy long leaves you can harvest both young leaves or cut the full head when ready. These seeds are supplied in a pack of 200 and can be sown indoors from February or outdoors from March. |
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Organic Lollo Rossa Lettuce Seeds |
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£1.35
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The Organic Lollo Rossa Lettuce is an Italian Lettuce which has green and red frilly leaves which taste and look great in a salad. This variety of lettuce has good holding ability and can be cropped throughout the year giving you a great source of Vitamin A for longer. The Organic Lollo Rossa Lettuce comes supplied in a pack of 200 seeds of which can be sown from spring to mid summer. |
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Organic Mizuna Seeds |
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£1.75
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Organic Mizuna Seeds will produce a low growing green plant with jagged dark green leaves which have a fantastic peppery taste and can be eaten raw or cooked. These leaves are great in salads, soups or stir fries and are becoming increasingly more popular as the plants are easy to grow both in and outdoors for the majority of the year. Organic Mizuna Seeds are supplied in a pack of 300. |
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Organic Taisai Chinese Cabbage Seeds |
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£1.10
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Ideal for stir-fry lovers and gardeners in a hurry, Organic Taisai Chinese Cabbage Seeds will reach maturity in as little as 9 weeks and the leaves are delicious, whether eaten raw or as a valuable addition to the wok. This attractive member of the brassica family has stunning white midribs and broad, round, smooth leaves that broaden out into a distinctive 'soup spoon' shape and is particularly suited as a 'fill-in' catch crop due to its quick rate of growth. Sow from early summer onwards and harvest right up into winter. The stems, leaves and flowers can be eaten raw but take on another dimension when stir-fried! Supplied in a packet of 100 seeds. |
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Organic Rudi Radish Seeds |
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£1.75
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If you're looking for quick results from your investment then our Organic Rudi Radish Seeds are for you; they'll mature into bright red, globe-shaped roots in as little as two weeks in the summer, resulting in plenty of succession sowing and harvesting down at the allotment or in the kitchen garden. The Rudi variety is also slow to turn pithy and hard, a common complaint for this 'Road Runner' of a crop and the strong foliage (great for easy lifting) and resistance to downy mildew boost its popularity still further. A great addition to salads, Rudi can be sown directly from March to September and can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a constant supply of crisp, crunchy roots. Organic Rudi Radish Seeds are supplied in a packet of 400. |
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Organic Oriental Rosa 2 Radish Seeds |
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£1.75
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Get a whole lot more radish for your money with our Organic Oriental Rosa 2 Radish Seeds are the ones to go for - just don't mistake the very long, unradish-like orange to purple tapered roots as carrots! The size of the roots produced by Organic Oriental Rosa 2 Radish Seeds are ideal for slicing - no more fiddling with small round radishes and cutting your fingers instead of the roots - and as the seeds are best sown in July and harvested from autum through to the end of the year, you'll be enjoying fresh garden produce right up to Christmas! Organic Oriental Rosa 2 Radish Seeds are supplied in packets of 400. |
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Organic Cultivated Rocket Seeds |
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£1.75
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Certainly worthy of its name, our Organic Cultivated Rocket Seeds will blast off the launch pad and start producing edible leaves in a stellar 4 days depending on the weather conditions - sending your allotment, kitchen garden and vegetable patch status into orbit! Also known as Plain Rocket, the peppery flavour Cultivated Rocket leaves bring to salads is not as strong as that of its Wild cousin but this popular plant plays a leading role in mixed leaf salads. Sow from March to September and make sure you stock up on seed; Organic Cultivated Rocket is ideal for succession sowing and makes and ideal cut and come again baby leaf crop. Supplied in a packet of 200 seeds. |
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Organic Wild Rocket Seeds |
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£1.75
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Spice up your salads with organic Wild Rocket, which has the same distinctive flavour as its standard namesake but is more intense, making it perfect for the gardener who likes to spend quality time in the kitchen. The 2000 seeds supplied will produce true leaves in as little as 4 days in summer, and Wild Rocket is perfect for 'cut and come again' growing right through the year with protection. Salads need never be bland or boring again! |
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Organic Palco Spinach Seeds |
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£1.35
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Enjoying something of a salad revival, Spinach is probably most well-known for allegedly giving Popeye super-human strength - but it's the vitamin C and calcium contained in the dark green leaves of our organic F1 Palco variety which is proving popular with vegetable gardeners. Resistant to four strains of downy mildew, this variety can be sown almost all year round and is delicious added to salads in 'baby leaf' form or as mature leaves. Supplied in packets of 250 seeds. |
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Organic Spinach F1 Primo Seeds |
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£1.75
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Maybe Popeye was a slighty unconventional dietician but he certainly knew his stuff as spinach is oe of the most healthy vegetables you can eat - and packets of our Organic Spinach F1 Primo Seeds are the starting point for producing lucious, dark green, oval shaped leaves stuffed full of vitamins A and C. And you won't have to wait long to start your vegetable-based health kick; Organic Spinach F1 Primo Seeds will start producing edible baby leaves after just two weeks, and plants will mature in around 10 to 12 weeks. You can keep spinach on the menu for most of the year as March to July sowings can be harvested right through to late autumn - and use protection in the form of cloches and fleece for seeds sown in November through to early spring. Plants grown from Organic Spinach F1 Primo Seeds are high yielding, slow bolting and show good resistance to strains of downy mildew - you'll find 150 seeds in every packet. |
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