Vegetables Marrow, Melon & Mustard seeds
Marrow
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Courgette
Sow direct or grow from plants raised indoors. Sow
direct 2 seeds 90cm apart mid May until June. Sow indoors March to May.
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Marrow Tiger Cross F1 10 Seeds Hybrid pretty striped green skin, bush type, carries resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus
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Melon
Cucumis melo
Require a warm site , greenhouse or cold frame where
they can be grown horizontal rather than vertical up canes or wires as
greenhouse plants. Sow February onwards at 20°C grow them on and plant out in
the greenhouse border, pots or growbags, plants and fruit require support.
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Melon Snow Leopard F1 10 Seeds Variegated honeydew. Beautiful, unique, honeydew, sweet and full of flavour. Excellent for specialty, farmer's markets and restaurant sales. |
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Melon Tigger 6 Seeds Vibrant yellow with fire red stripes (a few fruits may be yellow), sweet white flesh. Fragrant rich sweet aroma. Heavy yielding plants with fruits that can weigh up to 500g
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Melon Honeydew Orange Flesh 25 Seeds Honeydew melon Light green smooth skin, sweet juicy orange flesh. An orange-fleshed version of the regular Honeydew Melon, tasty. 98 days.
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Melon Ogen 10 Seeds Early variety which produces huge crops of small fruit having excellent quality and flavour.
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Melon F1 Sweetheart 12 Seeds A Charantais F1 hybrid, heavy yields of smooth skinned delicious fruits. Sweet orange flesh with a mild aromatic flavour, globe shaped fruits weigh approximately 600 grams. £2.45 Add to basket |
Mustards
A selection from the Oriental
vegetable pages
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Oriental Mustard Golden Streaks Av 500 seeds An attractive sweet mustard with fine dissected leaves. Peppery flavour with a tender texture. Ideal in salads and stir-fry. Runner up in RHS taste tests to leaf radish Saisai. £1.10 Add to basket
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Mustard Green in Snow
1g pkt
£1.00 Ideal for winter harvesting, sow from early autumn under cover. Dark green leaves with a jagged edge and contrasting white veins. Slow to bolt. Best sown late summer spacing for seedling crop sow at high density, for baby leaf plants 10cm apart up to 30cm for mature plants. Add to basket
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Chinese Mustard Southern Giant
Av 800 seeds
£1.00 Brassica juncea crispifolia Sharp-flavoured curly leaves are excellent in salads and sandwiches or cooked. Harvest when young and tender. Repeat sowings for a continuous crop. Add to basket
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Mustard Salad White Mustard Sprouting Approx 50g Av 7,000 seeds Sinapsis alba Suited to punnet production and used in the sandwich trade and other specialist markets as used in mustard and cress punnet mixtures. Spicy flavour and used when 1-2cm long. Ready in 7 days. Seeds can be sown in a seed sprouter or in a jar with a muslin top. Keep seeds moist and clean by rinsing well twice a day and maintain a temp between 55 & 70°F. Seeds grown in the dark tend to be crisper. Can be sown outdoors as an excellent cut and come again crop. Sow in shallow drills. 50 gram £1.50 Add to basket 500 gram £11.00 Add to basket 1Kg £19.50 Add to basket
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Mustard Green Av 800 seeds Brassica juncea Chinese Green, Chinese Mustard, Gai Cai, Gai Choy, India Mustard Tender green leaves used in salads and stir fry. Winter Hardy. Leaves have a peppery flavour and are highly prized in Oriental cooking. The leaves & flowers can be used raw or cooked. The seed used whole in pickles and curries and to make 'Brown mustard'. The seed can be sprouted and used in salads. Seed sown from April to autumn in succession to provide a continuous crop, to prevent the plants from bolting delay sowing until June. Sow in shallow drills. £1.00 Add to basket
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Mustard Red As above £1.00 Add to basket
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Mustard Spinach
A hardy, vigorous cold tolerant vegetable.
The flavour can be best described as a combination of mustard and cabbage with a
hint of spinach,
delicious in stir fry. 25 days for baby leaf 55 days mature plants
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Mustard Spinach Tendergreen Brassica rapa var komatsuna Av 400 seeds Popular salad and stir fry greens from Japan. The leaves are used raw or cooked and having a flavour between cabbage and the oriental mustards. Flowering stems are used raw or cooked. Position in full sun, kept moist, a hardy plant to approx -12°C and can be cropped for most of the year, during winter under cover. Sow seed in situ April to September. Thin to 20-30cm apart. £1.00 Add to basket |
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Komatsuna Torasan
Av 500 seeds
£1.00 A uniform quick growing mustard spinach hybrid with light green juicy, tender stems. Dark green glossy leaves. Use in salads or stir fry. A cold tolerant variety for autumn. winter and spring production. Quick and easy to grow and vigorous. Sow during spring summer and autumn in situ, late winter early spring and late autumn sowings under cover in unheated polytunnels/cloches for a winter to spring harvest. For a mature crop to harvest for greens during winter sow mid summer in situ. For seedling crop either broadcast sow or in wide drills. Mature crop sow in situ or transplant from modules space for small plants from 5cm apart up to 50cm for larger plants.
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Komatsuna Tokisan
Av 500 seeds
£1.00 Similar to Torasan above. Suitable for sowing all year round and in general a heat tolerant variety.
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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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