Vegetables Artichoke and Asparagus

Av 100 seeds Key AV = Average quantity of seeds in packet, click link to add to basket.

Alfalfa
Medicago sativa
Very nutritious and rich in vitamins, use sprouted in salads, sandwiches, casseroles and stir fries all year round. Ready in 4-6 days when 1-4cm long and green leaves appear.
50g pkt Av 25,000 seeds
£1.75 Av 50g Add to basket

£11.50 Av 500g

£19.50 Av 1kg

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Artichoke & Cardoon
(Cynara scoymus) (Cynara cardunculus)

Artichoke Green Globe
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. 2 gram approx 50 seeds

£1.35 Av 2 gram pkt

Artichoke Tavor Organic Sourced
A thorn less green globe artichoke variety. Uniform round shaped artichokes with a sweet flavour and tender texture. Harvest Tavor when 12cm in diameter.

£2.45 Av 25 seeds

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

£1.35 Av 50 seeds

Cardoon Gobbo di Nizzia

Cardoon Gobbo di Nizzia
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 Av 20 seeds

Asparagus
(Asparagus officinalis)
Sow January inside March outside 15-30°C Indoor plant 2.5cm deep, Outdoor 3-5cm 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 rows. Harvest small crop in the second year after planting.

Asparagus Connovers Colossal
Early maturing variety with thick large leaves and pointed bud tips. An excellent standard variety and a heavy cropper. Recommended variety by River Cottage Handbook Veg Patch.

£0.69 Av 35 seeds

Asparagus Purple Pacific F1 seeds

Asparagus Purple Pacific
A purple F1 asparagus variety. An open pollinated variety producing a good crop of purple spears. Asparagus Purple Pacific gives a good yield with an excellent sweet flavour.
£3.45 Av 10 seeds

Asparagus Millenium F1 seeds

Asparagus Millenium F1
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 Av 10 seeds

Asparagus Gijnlim F1
A newly introduced F1 variety.
A very early variety giving a good yield of top quality medium thickness spears. Can be grown outdoors or under glass, for white and green spear production. Harvest from March to mid June.
£3.45 Av 10 seeds

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
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 Av 50 seeds

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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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