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Carrots

 

Carrot Oxheart
Av 400 seeds
Ox heart shaped carrots short and broad shouldered, approx 15cm long by 10cm wide, a good quality, sweet tasting heirloom from 1884. Good for heavy soils.
Can be grown as baby vegetables.

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Carrot Little Finger
Av 1,000 seeds
A superb baby carrot with deep orange colour, tender, sweet and tasty they are ideal cooked, or in salads, snacking or even in the kids lunch box. Sow from early March into July harvest late summer into autumn.

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Carrot Amsterdam 2 Maxi   NEW
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.

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Carrot Tonda di ParigiCarrot Tonda di Parigi
Av 1,000 seeds
Round, 19th-century Parisian heirloom carrot,  harvested at 2.5-5cm, uniform and deep orange, excellent flavour and very sweet round baby carrot. Plant thick for bunching

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Baby Carrot Parmex

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   NEW
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.

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Cauliflower

Cauliflower Sunset F1 seeds

 

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

£2.65 Add to basket

 

 

  Cauliflower Idol
Av 70 seeds
An early variety, highly suited to producing MINI Cauliflowers. Small crisp , white head with erect foliage. Harvest June until end of July. Sow seed February to April 1cm deep, thin out to about 5-7cm apart, transplant from approx 13cm apart when the plants have made 5-6 leaves, or grow in pots/modules to reduce the check at transplanting.

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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

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Chinese Cabbage Yukina Savoy

Chinese Cabbage Yukina Savoy
Av 500 seeds
In appearance a savoy leaved Tatsoi. Dark green thick glossy leaves excellent for baby leaf and mature plants. Young baby leaves are excellent for salad leaf mixtures and stir fry. Can be cropped most of the year.

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Courgette

F1 Patriot



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.

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Courgette Bambino

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.

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Cucumber Hana
Baby Cucumber
 

Cucumber Green Fingers F1 seeds

 

 

Cucumber Green Fingers F1  NEW
5 Seeds
Great for the kids lunchbox.

A high yielding Baby cucumber. Early outdoor variety producing 10-12cm long smooth skinned fruits of exceptionally good flavour. Medium green coloured baby cucumbers with a firm crisp texture. Plants have Male and female flowers. Healthy snacks for kids, school lunch boxes and ideal for dipping.

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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

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Cucumber Passandra F1    Organic Sourced
5 Seeds
Baby cucumber. Small dark green, cylindrical, lightly ribbed fruits 15-18cm long. Tolerant of mosaic virus, powdery and downy mildew. Indoor/greenhouse variety.

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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

  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.

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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.

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Leek


Leek Zermatt   Av 200 seeds  £1.35
An early Swiss Giant variety with long shaft and erect foliage. Good for storage. Suitable for baby leeks.

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Leek Imperial Summer F1   Av 300 seeds  £1.35
An early variety with a long white shaft and no bulbing. High yielding with good storage ability. Ideal for baby leek production.
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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

Marrow Bush Baby F1

 

Marrow Bush Baby F1
10 Seeds  
A baby marrow variety bred to satisfy gardeners demands for a smaller marrow. Grows to approximately three quarters the size of a standard variety. Ideal for growing in the garden or containers. Produces a high yield per plant.

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ONION

  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).


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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.

  Onion Senshyu
Av 500 seeds
A very popular Japanese over wintering variety. Very reliable mid-season variety producing round bulbs of high quality.


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Pak Choi (Baby Stem)

Pak Choi Mei Qing Choi F1           Av 200 seeds          £1.25
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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 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. 

Selection of Spinach in
 Veg catalog
Spinach F1 Tetona
Av 500 seeds
Baby leaf. Resistant to downy mildew this variety is high yielding for summer cropping. Weather tolerant and slow to bolt the dark green leaves have an excellent taste. Harvest outer leaves when 3-4 inches long. Sow April to August and harvest May onwards, sow or thin to approximately 10cm between plants.

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Spinach Emilia
10 gram  Av 550 Seeds
Excellent slow bolting variety, leaves dark and round with an upright habit. For baby leaf suggested sowing times are from April right through the summer.

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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.

 




Summer squash Constellation Mixed    NEW
12 seeds   Baby Veg
A mixture of the 3 F1 Summer Squashes - Sunbeam, Total Eclipse & Moonbeam

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Summer squash seeds Moonbeam F1


Summer squash Moonbeam 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.
Pale green to white skin, with pale green flesh.

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Summer squash seeds Total Eclipse F1

Summer squash Total Eclipse 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. Dark green skin featuring pale flecks, and white flesh.

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Summer squash Sunbeam

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.

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Summer squash Yellow Bird seeds

Summer squash Yellow Bird    NEW
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.

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Sweet Corn

 

 

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.

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Full range of Baby, Cherry and Grape Tomato in the Vegetable Catalogue

Tomato Tiny Tim seed

 

 

 

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

 


Turnip


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.

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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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