Vegetables Artichoke and Asparagus

Alfalfa
Medicago sativa
Very nutritious and rich in vitamins, use sprouted in salads, sandwiches, casseroles and stir fries all year round.
See Salad Sprouters
Ready in 4-6 days when 1-4cm long and green leaves appear.
50g pkt Av 29,000 seeds

50 gram £1.60 Add to basket

500 gram £10.50 Add to basket

1Kg £18.00 Add to basket

Artichoke & Cardoon
(Cynara scoymus) (Cynara cardunculus)

Artichoke Green Globe
2 gram pkt Av 50 seeds.
The standard green headed variety up to 170cm in height produce large quality heads. If allowed to flower produce attractive large thistle-like blue flowers.

£1.35 Add to basket

Artichoke Imperial Star Organic Sourced
Av 25 seeds.
An improved version of Green Globe. Mature plant produces 6-8 green globes measuring approximately 8-10cm in size.

£2.35 Add to basket

Artichoke Violet de Provence
Av 50 seeds.
A purple globe Artichoke, similar to Green Globe in habit, but with a finer flavour, and attractive large purple thistle-like flowerheads.

£1.35 Add to basket

Cardoon Gobbo di Nizzia

Cardoon Gobbo di Nizzia
Av 20 seeds.
Heirloom. A rare cardoon from Italy, it has broad white stalks that are eaten fried, sauteed, pickled and in soups. Italians also eat it raw dipped in olive oil. The root is also edible, tasty, and can be used like parsnips. Ornamental plant.

£1.60 Add to basket

Asparagus
(Asparagus officinalis)
Sow January inside March outside 15-30°C Indoor plant 2.5cm deep in Outdoor 2.5cm deep in situ in spring. Thin out to 7cm apart. Cut back in autumn to 2.5cm above ground level. Lift crowns in April and transplant 10cm deep into a trench in final position, the roots being deeper at 20cm the shape of the trench being convex (the centre mounded up to take the crown) with the crown sitting on top. 38cm between crowns, 38cm between rows. Harvest small crop in the second year after planting.

Asparagus Connovers Colossal
Av 100 seeds.
Early maturing variety with thick large leaves and pointed bud tips. An excellent standard variety and a heavy cropper.

£1.20 Add to basket

Asparagus Purple Pacific F1 seeds

Asparagus Purple Pacific F1
Av 10 seeds.
A purple asparagus variety, a modern hybrid out performing older open polinated varieties in quality, yield and flavour.
£3.45 Add to basket

Asparagus Millenium F1 seeds

Asparagus Millenium F1
Av 10 seeds.
A newly introduced hybrid variety developed especially for the production of green spears. With excellent vigour this variety produces a high yield of straight spears with tight heads. Good flavour. A late cropping variety allowing harvesting into July.
£3.45 Add to basket

Asparagus Theilim F1
Av 10 seeds.
A newly introduced hybrid variety.
An early variety giving a good yield of thick, quality spears. Less susceptible to Botrytis than some varieties. Can be grown outdoors or under glass, for white and green spear production
£3.45 Add to basket

Asparagus Pea
(Tetragonobulus purpureus)

Direct sow from May onwards early spring indoors in pots and plant out after last frosts.
Space plants 15-30cm apart in garden soil keep moist.

Asparagus Pea from Nickys Vegetable seeds

Asparagus Pea
Av 50 seeds.

An unusual attractive pea like vegetable plant with red flowers, followed by winged pods that are picked while young. The pods are steamed whole, served with a knob of butter, quite a delicacy having a unique flavour similar to asparagus. An ornamental vegetable that is equally at home in the flower garden for groundcover.

£1.35 Add to basket

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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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