Baby/Mini Vegetables
Carrots
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Carrot Bambino Organic Sourced Av 500 seeds Early, Second early and maincrop carrot. A 'baby' carrot variety producing slender, cylindrical blunt roots with a very small core. Smooth skin and deep orange colour, which develops at an early stage. Best pulled when 10-15cm in length. £1.35 Add to basket
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Carrot Amsterdam 2 Maxi Av 1,500 seeds An excellent baby carrot variety producing slender cylindrical roots. Good colour with minimal core. Firm foliage that holds well. Will not produce oversized carrots even when harvested late. £1.20 Add to basket
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Carrot Parmex Av 1,500 seeds Baby vegetable, mini vegetable, small, tender and full of taste. Uniform and early to mature. Use for Juicing, fresh and for winter storage.
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Carrot Sugarsnax 54 Av 500 seeds An early maturing cylindrical type with semi blunt tip also suitable for baby carrots. Tender with an excellent mild sweet flavour ideal cooked, added raw to the salad bowl or dips. High in beta-carotene. Good disease resistance. £1.55 Add to basket
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Cauliflower
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Cauliflower Sunset F1 Av 25 Seeds Treated Seed One of the first orange varieties to become available. Performs best when used for September and October harvesting. Colour most pronounced when used for baby or mini vegetable, but colour still vibrant in full size heads. Small compact frame. Sow April and May
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Cauliflower Freedom F1 Av 30 Seeds One of the best varieties currently available for UK production. Suitable for growing as standard and mini cauliflowers. Approximately 70-80 days from transplant to harvest. Sow February to May £2.55 Add to basket
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Courgette
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Courgette F1 Patriot 10 seeds An extremely prolific hybrid variety that is early fruiting and has fairly dark green , smooth and attractive shiny fruits that are easy to see and harvest. £1.75 Add to basket
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Courgette Bambino F1 10 seeds This variety produces heavy yields of dark green baby fruits over a long period. The use of courgette flowers is becoming more popular in many restaurants, and this variety can be harvested with the flower on, or the flower detached to be used separately. Sow April to early June, harvest from July onwards, the season can be extended by growing under cover. £1.75 Add to basket
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Courgette One Ball F1 Produces bright yellow round fruits of excellent flavour, a hybrid courgette variety. Works well in combination with F1 Eight Ball. Bush habit with high yields of round courgettes that are good for both roasting and stuffing. 2 pkts £3.15 Add to basket
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Cucumber Hana
Baby Cucumber
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Cucumber F1 Hana 5 seeds Indoor variety grow indoors or heated/cold greenhouse very early cropping and very prolific. Produces very high quality short fruits. Early Parthenocarpic (without seeds) Beit Alpha. Sow from February to May. Harvest July to October £2.95 Add to basket
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Kohl Rabi; An interesting vegetable well worth growing, can be eaten raw or cooked, it grows on top of the ground making it easy to harvest
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Kohl Rabi Logo Av 75 seeds Organically Sourced. Pale green edible roots that can be harvested from quite a small size. Bolt resistant variety producing flat round tender bulbs. Sow from February to July early sowings raise indoors. A spring to autumn vegetable for the outdoor garden. £1.65 Add to basket
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Kohl Rabi Quickstar F1 Av 50 seeds A very versatile hybrid green-skinned variety can also be produced under glass for extra early sowings. Very little pithy tissue, flat round bulbs, slow bolting quick to mature . Under glass Sow January to August for harvesting mid March to November. Outdoors sow March to August for harvesting May to October. For normal size veg space 10x40cm, ideally suited to high density sowing for baby veg, space plants 3 cm apart. £1.65 Add to basket
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Leek
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Leek Zermatt Av 200 seeds An early Swiss Giant variety with long shaft and erect foliage. Good for storage. Suitable for baby leeks. £1.55 Add to basket
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Leek Tornado Av 200 seeds A very high yielding variety with long shanks and good cold tolerance. Erect, medium green foliage. Some rust resistance. Suitable for baby leeks.
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Marrow
ONION
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Salad / Pickling Onion
Paris Silverskin 2 gram pkt Av 550 seeds Excellent salad, cocktail or pickling onion, Paris Silverskin can be pulled young to use in salads as a slightly bulbing bunching onion or left to mature into small silverskin pickling onions (the standard pickling onion). £1.35 Add to basket
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ONION Overwintering
Japanese Types
Sow early Autumn, 50-60 plants per m². For baby veg a closer density up to 120
per m² in twin rows 30cm apart with plants 4cm apart into a good fertile well
draining soil. For even smaller veg try sowing March to May 15cm between rows
2-3 cm between plants. Harvest when 75% of leaf has fallen over.
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Onion
Senshyu A very popular Japanese over wintering variety. Very reliable mid-season variety producing round bulbs of high quality. £0.75 approx 200 seeds £1.75 approx 500 seeds
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Pak Choi (Baby Stem)
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Pak Choi Mei Qing Choi F1
Av 200 seeds £1.40 Brassica rapa var chinensis Baby green stem Pak Choi approx half size of Joi Choi, flat pale misty green stems form a thick, heavy base with broad, oval, rich green leaves. Compact vase shape is perfectly formed at baby size when young. Very uniform and bolt resistant. Tolerant to heat and cold. Space 6-8" apart, 50 days to maturity.
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Chilli Pepper See Capsicum
Spinach
(Spinacia oleracea)
Spinach consumption has recently seen a big upturn due to it being an
excellent choice for babyleaf vegetables. Grow at closer density for baby leaf
and harvest young.
Summer Squash
Best eaten at the immature stage such as a courgette, they should ideally be
picked a few days after flower bloom, when the fruits are young and tender. Most
popular as mini veg. Sow indoors early spring onwards into blocks/pots or
modules harden off before transplanting into final position. Sowing in situ sow
2 seeds per station after last frosts, thinning to the strongest one.
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Summer squash Lunar Eclipse F1 12 seeds A range of excellent hybrid pie-shaped patty pan varieties, with scallop edged fruits. All mature after 45-50 days. Good flavour and texture; with a small scar. Suited for both baby and standard sized fruit production. Light green skin and pale green-white flesh
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Summer squash Constellation Mixed 12 seeds Baby Veg A mixture of the 3 F1 Summer Squashes - Sunbeam, Total Eclipse & Moonbeam
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Summer squash Sunbeam F1 10 seeds A range of excellent hybrid pie-shaped patty pan varieties, with scallop edged fruits. All mature after 45-50 days. Good flavour and texture; with a small scar. Suited for both baby and standard sized fruit production. Golden yellow skin, with minimal green colour to scar. £1.45 Add to basket
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Summer squash Yellow Bird 10 seeds Bright yellow, flat scalloped edge 'patty pan' type squash. Pick fruits at around 8cm. Heavy yielding bushy plants. Squashes are a popular mini veg. An improvement on and a replacement for the popular Squash Sunburst. £1.55 Add to basket
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Winter Squash / Pumpkins
Sweet Corn
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Sweet Corn Minipop Av 70 seeds The baby sweet corn that is popular for stir fry and salad dishes. This variety does not require sowing in blocks, an ideal variety for mini veg, producing 5-6 cobs per plant, harvest as the silk tassels appear when cob size is approx 10cm in length. Sow April to May harvest August onwards, plant close together. £1.90 Add to basket
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Full range of Baby, Cherry and Grape Tomato in the Vegetable Catalogue
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Tiny Tim Produces masses of small fruits approximately 2.5cm in size, having a very good flavour. This variety is compact and ideal for growing in pots on the widow ledge, on the patio and in widow boxes. Determinate (Bush)
Av 40 seeds £1.35 Add to basket
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Tomato Sweet Olive F1 Av 10 seeds A baby plum type suitable for outdoor production. Small bite sized oval fruits with excellent flavour. Requires staking and very little side shooting. Semi Determinate (Bush) £2.95 Add to basket
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Turnip
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Turnip Atlantic F1 Av 500 seeds A purple top milan type which is improved and suited to baby vegetable production having a much longer sowing and harvesting period. It can be harvested from golf ball size and is ideal for all year round production when grown under cover during winter. Sow from April to August and harvest June to October space/thin plants to approximately 3cm apart. £1.10 Add to basket
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Vegetables / Vegetables
Baby vegetables grow from seed
carrots, beetroot, courgette, leek, lettuce, onion, spinach, sweet corn, turnip. The cultural information should be
used as a guide only, I have found a number of different sowing techniques for
the same seed from different sources there does not seem to be a standard. With
this in mind you should use this website as a guide only, you probably already
have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a rule of thumb the
larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed like Lobelia
Begonia etc requires no cover.
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All Rights Reserved. Baby vegetables grow from seed carrots, beetroot,
courgette, leek, lettuce, onion, spinach, sweet corn, turnip
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