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 Hybrid pretty striped green skin, high yielding bush type, carries resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus. RHS Award of Garden Merit
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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 Variegated honeydew. Beautiful F1 melon, unique, honeydew, sweet and full of flavour. Excellent for specialty, farmer's markets and restaurant sales. |
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Melon Tigger Vibrant yellow melon 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 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 Early Melon variety which produces huge crops of small fruit having excellent quality and flavour. RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Melon F1 Sweetheart 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 Av 12 seeds |
Mustards
A selection from the Oriental
vegetable pages
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Oriental Mustard Golden Streaks An attractive sweet mustard with fine dissected leaves. Peppery flavour with a tender texture. Ideal baby leaf in salads and stir-fry. Runner up in RHS taste tests to leaf radish Saisai. £1.10 Av 500 seeds Link to Leaf Radish Saisai
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Mustard Garnet Giant Brassica juncea The darkest red mustard. Mustard Garnet Giant is very popular for salads, baby leaf and micro greens. Garnet Giants leaves are completely maroon, have a mild peppery flavour and used in Oriental cooking. Leaf colouring appears early on young leaves. Tends to bolt early, recommended to harvest promptly from a young stage. Will withstand a light frost. 21 days baby leaf and 45 days mature leaf. 1 gram pkt Av 600 seeds £1.00 Av 1gram pkt
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Mustard Flaming Frills Brassica juncea Mustard Flaming Frills a new baby leaf mustard with attractive dark purple serrated leaves. A good leaf texture with a mild spicy mustard flavour. Colour is stronger during spring and autumn. Can be grown for baby leaf, mature or micro greens. £1.10 Av 500 seeds
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Mustard Osaka Purple Brassica juncea Mild for lightly cooking and salads, baby leaf or mature leaf production. Matures at 30-35cm tall, and has medium-green leaves with purple-red veins and tinge. Succulent stems. Earlier and more refined, with broader stems and more compact growth, than Red Giant. Very popular for micro greens. Harvest baby leaf 21 day, mature 40 day. £1.10 Av 500 seeds |
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Chinese Mustard Southern Giant 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. £1.00 Av 800 seeds
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Mustard Green 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 Av 800 seeds
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Mustard Red Brassica juncea Baby leaf 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 Av 800 seeds
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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 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 Av 400 seeds |
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Komatsuna Torasan F1
Baby Leaf 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 F1 Similar to Komatsuna Torasan a mustard spinach hybrid used in Stir Fry and Salads. Suitable for sowing all year round and in general a more heat tolerant variety ideal for sowing during the summer months.
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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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