Vegetable seeds Tomatillo -
Watercress
Vegetable seeds Tomatillo Dr Wyches Yellow, De Milpa, verde and
Tomatillo Purple, Turnip Atlantic, Snowball, Market Express, Purple Top Milan,
Watercress seeds
Tamarillo
Tree tomato or Tamarillo Cyphomandra betacea
Exotic Peruvian fruit, sow March to April lightly covering seeds with compost or vermiculite. Germinate at
30 Centigrade day and 20 C night temperature do not let compost dry out. Germination
can be slow and erratic, takes approx 35 days. Grow in large pots or containers indoors under
glass or outdoors in warmer areas after all risk of frost has passed.
Tomatillo
Looking for something unusual to grow!
Tomatillo is becoming very popular,
it is easy to grow, heavy cropping, fruits are used in salsa and Mexican
cuisine. Tomatillo is grown the same way as tomato and prefers warm growing
conditions, they can be grown outdoors in a warm sheltered spot after hardening
off but will prefer the warmth of a greenhouse (Images show tomatillo grown
outdoors against greenhouse in grow bags). Fruits are about the size of a
large cherry tomato and are covered in a thin paper husk. Tomatillo is not
self-fertile you must have a minimum of 2 plants to get fruits. Sow February to
April Harvest August to September
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Tomatillo Purple
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Turnip
(Brassica
rapa)
Sow spring to
summer in succession to provide continual crop of young turnips, Turnip greens
can be harvested spring onwards. Sow 1cm deep in drills, thin seedlings to
10-15cm apart. 30cm between rows. Keep well watered. Sow late winter to early
spring for summer crops. Sow mid summer to late summer for autumn and winter
crops. Sow Late summer for Turnip greens leave 10cm between rows do not thin
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Turnip Snowball Early maturing sweet flavoured tender variety with skin and flesh both golden yellow. Can also be autumn sown.
£1.25 Av 1,700 seeds
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Turnip Atlantic A F1 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. Baby veg. Sow from April to August and harvest June to October space/thin plants to approximately 3cm apart. RHS Award of Garden Merit £1.25 Av 500 seeds
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Turnip Purple Top Milan A purple top variety with white base below soil level. Very popular for fresh sales, good quality roots.
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Turnip Purple Top Milan
Organic Sourced A purple top variety with white base below soil level. Very popular for fresh sales, good quality roots.
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Watercress
(Nasturtium)
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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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