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Fig Peter's Honey

Fig Peter's Honey

£14.50

syn Italian Honey. A very tasty fruit, sweet crimson flesh, golden skin. One of the favourites at our last tasting session. Greenhouse or conservatory. Plants now 2ft approx in 4 ltr pots.
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Blackcurrant Ebony

£6.25

A new superbly flavoured selection ,setting new standards for flavour as a dessert variety.

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Crab Apple Butterball

Crab Apple Butterball

Small compact tree. Heavily laden with butter yellow fruit each Autumn.
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How to Store your Garden Produce. Piers Warren

How to Store your Garden Produce. Piers Warren

£7.95

A helpfull guide on how to store and preserve your hard won harvest.
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Rhubarb Timperley Early

Rhubarb Timperley Early

£4.95

The first for forcing, excellent early crops of thin sweet stalks
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Horseradish

Horseradish

£2.75

An uninspiring plant until you eat it, makes a very hot sauce or flavouring, perfect addition to pumpkin soup. Slowly invasive unless harvested, it always seems to come back.

Sold as a pack of 'roots' usually 3 per pack.
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Culinary Vegetables and Herbs

Culinary Vegetables and Herbs
Asparagus Backlim

Asparagus Backlim


Price: £12.50

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Asparagus Backlim. A late season all male hybrid, spear quality is the best of all the Dutch hybrids. 10 x 1 year old crowns supplied. Spring planting recommended.
DELIVERY WILL BE LATE MARCH
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Asparagus Gijnlim

Asparagus Gijnlim


Gijnlim is a high yielding early season all male clonal hybrid. Medium size spears of excellent quality. 10 x 1 year crowns suppled.
DELIVERY WILL BE LATE MARCH


Price: £12.50

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Asparagus Dariana

Asparagus Dariana


A main season French hybrid. High yielding with large spears. 10 crowns supplied, 1 year certified crowns.
DELIVERY WILL BE LATE MARCH


Price: £12.50

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Artichoke Jerusalem

Artichoke Jerusalem


Available in season for planting , large growing plants which produce tubers for soups and flavouring.

Sold as loose tubers 3 large per pack.


Price: £3.75

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Artichoke 'Violetta di Chioggia

Artichoke 'Violetta di Chioggia


A large purple type with no (or few) spines, delicate flavour. An early cropper, often picking in late May.


Price: £6.00

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Artichoke Set of Three.

Artichoke Set of Three.


A set of three different varieties at half the price !


Price: £10.00

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Artichoke Imperial Star

Artichoke Imperial Star


This varety was bred for early cutting but it is still better to establish it first. Green globes with a compact habit, sweet flavour.


Price: £6.00

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Artichoke Violete de Provence

Artichoke Violete de Provence


Culinary variety with purple heads, similar in habit to Vert de Lyon but with a finer flavour.


Price: £6.00

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Artichoke romanesco

Artichoke romanesco


Large and decorative with purple flower heads, silver leaves.


Price: £6.00

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Artichoke scolymus
OUT OF STOCK

Artichoke scolymus


Produces the large 'thistle type silver grey foliage with delicate heads. A striking ornamental even if you do not like to eat it, if you do, pick the heads before they open too far, and cook them gently. Fiddly to eat but delicious with garlic mayonnaise.


Price: £6.00

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Cardoon 'Bianco avorio'

Cardoon 'Bianco avorio'


Tall variety with thin ribs, few spines. Helps to blanch 2 weeks before harvest. Cook as with Gobbo.


Price: £6.00

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Cardoon/ Artichoke. 'Gobbo di Nizza'

Cardoon/ Artichoke. 'Gobbo di Nizza'


The Hunch back of Nice, what a strange name for a plant, this rare Italian variety has broad stalks and is eaten fried or in soup, also raw dipped in olive oil, the root can also be used like a parsnip.


Price: £6.00

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Horseradish

Horseradish


An uninspiring plant until you eat it, makes a very hot sauce or flavouring, perfect addition to pumpkin soup. Slowly invasive unless harvested, it always seems to come back.

Sold as a pack of 'roots' usually 3 per pack.


Price: £2.75

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Lemon Grass

Lemon Grass


Cymbopogon citratus. Lemon grass is used in many Thai dishes, very easy to grow, keep well watered and try not to disturb the roots. Chop off your own stem from the consrvatory and taste the freshness.

READY IN SPRING


Price: £10.25


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