Vegetable Seeds - M - Z

Watercress is a very quick and easy crop to grow and produces highly nutritious leaves packed with lots of flavour. It is a fast crop to grow and can be very cost effective to grow your own.

Our favoured method of growing watercress, not having access to a stream providing free-flowing water, is to grow it in a plant pot with a saucer. Simply fill the plant pot, ranging in size from perhaps a 10 Litre pot to a 25 Litre Pot, depending how many you have to feed and how often you are likely to use it, with a general purpose compost. Water the compost until soaked and liberally scatter then seed over the surface. Then cover with a light layer of compost or, as the seed is very small, we prefer vermiculite.

The seeded plant pot is then placed in the plant saucer and the saucer topped up with water. Simply then ensure that the saucer never runs dry, keep the plant pot sitting constantly in a full saucer.

Having sown a generous amount of seed, we harvest as a cut and come again salad crop, nipping of a few leaves per plant when big enough.

Sow: March - August.

Harvest: April - November.

Average 1000 Seeds per Packet.

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S: March - August H: April - October.

Quick growing, mix of superb tastes and textures. So very easy, makes
any salad much more interesting. A good source of vitamin C.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: March onwards H: As required through summer months.

Becoming increasingly popular, it makes a rosette of finely cut leaves and can be harvested over a long season, at any stage, from small seedlings to large plants, a few leaves at a time. The flowering shoots are also edible. An essential part of mixed salads.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: March onwards H: As required through summer months.

Easy and quick to grow, even in containers. Use baby leaves in salads and larger hotter ones in stir-fries.

Average contents: 350 seeds.

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S: All year round H: All year round.

Quick and easy to grow, a favourite salad garnish that can be sown all year round, and even outside.

Average contents: 2500 seeds.

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S: January - March H: from August.

A favourite yielding large, well flavoured yellow to light brown globes. Excellent keeping qualities.

Average contents: 350 seeds.

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S: March - July H: May - October.

Non-bulbing salad onion with long white stalks. Most of the plant can be eaten with little waste.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: March - July H: May - October.

With a good mild flavour, Laser is ideal for salads and stir-fries. Long white shafts that are slow to form bulbs.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: March - September H: March - October.

A recent British-bred salad onion with erect foliage and mild flavoured, well balanced stems. Good winter hardiness, may be overwintered for spring pulling.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: March - July H: May - October.

Mild, tasty white bulbs with dark green stem. Quick and easy to grow, perfect for salads and stir fries.

Average contents: 650 seeds.

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S: March - September H: March - October.

NIAB. Will stand over winter to use in spring. Particularly suited to harsher climes. Can also be spring grown.

Average contents: 650 seeds.

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S: February - April H: October - February.

NIAB. Canker resistant with F1 hybrid vigour, this is an early to mature variety with deliciously flavoured smooth white roots.

Average contents: 200 seeds.

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S: February - April H: October - February.

Wedge-shaped roots with smooth white skin and flesh. Popular variety, has some resistance to canker.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: March - July H: 10 - 11 weeks (70-77 days) after sowing.

NIAB. One of the best traditional strains and a good choice if you intend to exhibit. Vigorous, reliable with a superb sweet flavour. Height: 30in/75cm

Average contents: 400 seeds.

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S: March - July H: 10 - 11 weeks (70-77 days) after sowing.
(Wrinkled) Second early. A prolific cropper offering masses of small peas in well filled, dark green pods. Suitable for successional sowings throughout the season. Height: 18in/45cm

Average contents: 400 seeds.

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S: March - July H: 11+ weeks (from 77 days on) after sowing.

(Wrinkled) Maincrop. Established dwarf pea which gives heavy crops of well flavoured marrowfat peas. Height: 24in/60cm

Average Contents: 275 seeds.

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S: March - July H: 11+ weeks (from 77 days on) after sowing.

(Round-seeded peas) Good quality maincrop 'mangetout' variety with broad pods up to 4in/10cm long. Productive vines with attractive white flowers, the pods are mostly set high up on the plants making harvesting easier. (Maincrop)

36in/90cm

100 seeds.

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S: March - July H: 11+ weeks (from 77 days on) after sowing.

(Wrinkled) Sugar Snap Variety. High yields of delicious, almost stringless pods. Pods can be left to develop and peas can be shelled. Pods remain edible until quite large. Excellent source of folate, vitamin A and vitamin C. (Early)

18in/45cm

300 seeds.

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Caution: Can cause irritation and burning to skin & eyes.

S: February - April under glass H: July - October

Nicely spicy. Lots of small red fruits with just enough bite to heat and spice up stews, salads and stir fries.

Average contents: 60 seeds.

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Caution: Can cause irritation and burning to skin & eyes.

S: February - April under glass H: July - October

A wide range of colours, shapes and sizes. Different levels of heat, from mild to super hot. The biggest crops are produced in the greenhouse but also grows well outdoors.

Average contents: 30 seeds.

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S: February - September H: In 4-6 weeks.

NIAB. The most popular traditional variety for its mildness and crisp, tender tankard shaped roots with a white tip.

Average contents: 1000 seeds.

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S: February - September H: after 4-6 weeks.

Old favourite. Easy and fast growing, crisp round radishes with good flavour, ideal for poorer soils. An excellent source of vitamin C.

Average contents: 1000 seeds.

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S: February to September H: after 4-6 weeks.

One of the best well known types, this reliable globe variety has an attractive bright red colour with a white tip. High yielding with very crisp texture and peppery flavour.

Average contents: 1000 seeds.

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S: March - August H: pick leaves as required May - October.

Attractive, deeply serrated leaves of wild rocket and its own distinctive, excellent flavour, which is tangy and peppery, but not bitter. Fast and vigorous growing, it is late to bolt, and can be sown close for baby leaf or harvested as mature plants.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: March - August H: pick leaves as required May - October.

Strongly flavoured decorative leaves. A favourite in salads, easy to grow, even in containers.

Average contents: 500 seeds.

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S: April - July H: July - October.

(Stringless) Wonderfully attractive red flowered variety. Purple seeded with long smooth stringless pods, growing to approx. 15in/37cm long. Resistant to virus, it can be harvested over a long period.

Average contents: 45 seeds.

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S: April - July H: July - October.

One of the most successful exhibition varieties, with long smooth shapely pods.

Average contents: 50 seeds.

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S: April - July H: July - October.

(Stringless) An exceptional variety which is early to crop and has a long picking season. Produces heavy yields of smooth, fleshy tasty pods.

Average contents: 50 seeds.

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S: April - July H: July - October.

Well known, popular and reliable variety. Heavy crops of well flavoured, medium length pods.

Average contents: 50 seeds.

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S: April - July H: July - October.

A reliable favourite and arguably the most popular runner bean of all time. Early and heavy cropping.

Average contents: 50 seeds.

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S: March - May & August - October.

A small-leaved, very tender spinach for salads and cooking. Good mildew resistance and moderately winter hardy - good for late season cropping. Grow as baby leaf under glass throughout the winter.

Average contents: 250 seeds.

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S: From January (I) From March (O) H: From June (I) From August (O).

(Standard) An old favourite, producing masses of fine-flavoured, mid-red fruits. Indeterminate.

Enough seeds for 50 plants.

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S: From January (I) From March (O) H: From June (I) From August (O).

(Standard) Consistently good results are achieved by this established and reliable variety. Early, medium sized fruits, good flavour. Indeterminate.

Enough seeds for 50 plants.

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S: From January (I) From March (O) H: From June (I) From August (O).

(Large Cherry) NIAB. Superbly flavoured, large, cherry sized red fruits.
A popular and established favourite. Indeterminate.

Enough seeds for 50 plants.

S: From January (I) From March (O) H: From June (I) From August (O).

(Standard) For many this is the gardener's standard choice as it is a heavy cropper of fine tasty fruits at approximately 8 to the pound. Indeterminate.

Enough seeds for 50 plants.

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S: From January (I) From March (O) H: From June (I) From August (O).

Indoor/Outdoor. (Cherry) Crops of sweet, juicy cherry tomatoes that taste at their best when picked straight from the garden. Add a little olive oil and basil for a tasty tomato salad. Indeterminate.

Enough seeds for 50 plants.

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S: From January (I) H: From June.

(Standard) NIAB An established favourite which gives heavy crops of tasty 3oz fruits even during poor weather. Suitable for cold or slightly heated greenhouses. Indeterminate.

Enough seeds for 15 plants.

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