A GIFT TO GROW – SPLENDID SALADS

Splendid salads start here! This Gift to Grow will deliver 16 delicious varieties for wonderful salads from spring to autumn 2024.  This splendid selection contains one packet each of...

Baby leaf Colour Crunch ~ sow at almost any time of the year for lots of colour and flavour featuring green stem, white stem, golden yellow and red leaf pak choi.  (sufficient seeds for 2 normal seed trays)

Beetroot Boltardy ~ probably the most popular beetroot ever, tasty & a good choice for early sowing, resistant to bolting, can be sown in succession. (50 seeds)

Cabbage Kalibos ~ this is a stunning heirloom variety with a red heart, a perfect salad cabbage. (20 seeds)

Celery Golden Self Blanching ~ the easiest celery to grow, a lovely early variety ready to harvest from mid-August. (50 seeds)

Chicory Varigata di Castlefranco ~ beautiful variety with an outstanding flavour and a long season.  (40 seeds)

Corn Salad Verte de Cambrai ~ a mild flavoured small leaf traditional French variety, ideal in a mixed salads.  (50 seeds)

Cress – Watercress ~ zingy flavour for salads, sandwiches, soup and so on, can be grown indoors.  (approximately 500 seeds)

Cucumber Femspot F1 ~ superb quality all-female variety with long, tasty fruits, slightly ribbed, from summer to the first autumn frosts.  (4 seeds)

Endive Romanesca da Taglio ~ serrated, thin, dark green leaves with classic endive taste and texture, perfect for salads with a tasty dressing.  (40 seeds)

Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson ~ absolutely gorgeous looseleaf variety, possibly the best flavoured lettuce that can be grown in the UK.  (75 seeds)

Lettuce Tuscan Pesciatina ~ these wonderfully crunchy, deep red & bright green leaves are generously sprinkled with bubbles.  (75 seeds) 

Mustard Leaf Wasabina ~ with a hot and spicy wasabi like flavour, use from baby leaf to full size.  (50 seeds)

Radish Watermelon ~ deep green shoulders on white skin with delightful deep rose coloured flesh.  Crispy, mild and sweet.  (100 seeds)

Rocket Rucola Coltivata ~ an excellent flavour with attractive large lobed leaves.  (50 seeds)

Spring Onion Tipika ~ lovely, vigorous continental type with a delicious tang that increases over time.  (100 seeds)

Tomato Shirley F1 ~ firm favourite, early cropping, versatile.  Being indeterminate, Shirley will bloom, set new fruit and ripen fruit all at the same time throughout the season.  (12 seeds).