Beans Broad Lucifer (Pink Seeded)
The first Pink Seeded Broad Bean we have offered. Selected and developed in New Zealand by the same breeder as Hughey. Plants are full sized with white flowers. With this new and interesting coloured seed, maybe you can now convince those unwilling characters to at least give Broad Beans a try!
Beans Climbing Cobra
Exceptional flavour and a long growing season. This variety produces loads of smooth, round, stringless green pods. Its delicate mauve flowers also make it a delightful addition to any garden.
Beans Climbing Mixed
Brighten up the platter with purple, green and yellow beans. Prolific yields. Best grown up a trellis or some kind of fence or support.
Beans Climbing Purple
Climbing Purple Bean is back with its robust vine and prolific production of rich, dark-purple beans. Pods can grow up to 20cm long, but are at their best when picked a little earlier while young and tender. This old fashioned variety will turn green when cooked. Best frown up a trellis or some kinds of fence or support. Chemically Treated.
Beans Dwarf Cherokee Butter
For a delicious yellow dwarf bean, this is the obvious choice. Produces abundant supplies of golden yellow pods.
Beans Dwarf French Contender
Both reliable and heavy yielding best describe Contender Beans. Dark green, crisp, tasty pods are produced in abundance. Our best variety for really warm locations.
Beans Dwarf French Greencrop
Another well known tried and true variety. Very adaptable to a wide range of growing situations. Pods are deep green and great for freezing.
Beans Dwarf French Jackson
The latest in bean breeding from Europe. Shiny, green beans of the highest quality. Similar bean to Hickok, but Jackson is not chemically treated.
Beans Dwarf French Top Crop
A well known tried and true variety. Slender, medium green beans produced on strong plants. Beans are easy to harvest. High yields.
Beans Dwarf Green Gold Mix
Vegetables don't have to be green! This mixed packet is great for the smaller garden where 2 packets is too many! Easy to grow. Both green and gold beans mature at similar times.
Beans Scarlet Runner Goliath
This popular, standard, home garden variety produces bucket loads of long, flat, medium green pods.
Beans Scarlet Runner Tenderline
This variety has been bred with "slower vigour" which significantly reduces the stringy, tough fibre development. Although the yield is less than other common varieties the superior bean quality more than compensates for it.
Beetroot Action F1 Hybrid
Strong topped variety, making for an easy harvest. Early maturing, deep blood red, tender roots.
Beetroot All Seasons F1 Hybrid
Having the luxury of wandering to the garden patch and picking fresh, nutritious vegetables for your evening meal is indeed one of the privileges that many of us in New Zealand still have. Beetroot All Seasons is ideal. As the name suggests you can have produce all year round not to be confused with planting the seed all year round. Beetroot is a great vegetable that when sown at optimal times will give you something to bring to the table all year round. Beetroot All Seasons is ideal. To establish a good winter harvest you need to plant the seeds while the weather is still warm in late summer, giving the plants time to get their roots established and a healthy, robust leaf growth before the cold of winter sets in. All Seasons is a small to medium beet that has a half-long cylindrical shape resulting in high yields. It is dark red , smooth with small crowns and tap roots, and has little to no zoning. Excellent flavour and yields.
Beetroot Bonny Baby
As smooth and round as beet come. Tender dark red/purple interiors. "Mini Vegetable"
Beetroot Bulls Blood
Distinctive rings on this round beet add a lovely visual element to salads. The deep red leaves are fantastic in mesclun mixes and micro salads.
Beetroot Chioggia
Also known as the candy cane beet. Originating from the Italian coastal town near Venice, Italy - Chioggia has been around since the early 19th century. The flesh is a hot pink colour with white stripes. Prepare as you would any other beetroot.
Beetroot Cylindra
Cylindrical shaped red beet. Excellent slicing variety. Do not plant close together as this creates misshapen roots.
Beetroot Detroit
Please select either Tape or Seeds Round globe shaped bulbs that are blood red with no zoning.
Beetroot Golden Touchstone
A yellow/orange globe beetroot. Globe has a sweet flavour and without the dominating red colour like usual beetroot it works well as an addition to casseroles. Although the flavour is the same as the red beets the mind works in mysterious ways... sometimes you can be tricked into thinking it tastes different! In these cases we recommend you eat it with your eyes closed!!!
Beetroot Rainbow Blend
Something a little novel, different and nutritious. Expect, Golden, White, Chiogga and Red beet in this blend. Prepare as you would any other beetroot.
Beetroot Red Torpedo F1 Hybrid
Early, smooth and tender. This F1 hybrid is cylindrical in shape making it an excellent slicing variety. Dark red internal colour with a great taste
Begonia Nightsprint Mix
Colours ranging from white to scarlet over deep green or chocolate brown leaves. Early and uniform, fantastic border display.
Bellis Perennis Habanera White With Red Tips
Garden fireworks! Like the Catherine Wheel fire-cracker, the vibrant red tips have the appearance of being spun out on this eye catching bicolour. An explosion of colour is created on these huge flowers that grow profusely on this sensational plant.
Borage
Also known as the "Herb of Gladness". Borage is widely used for fish and cheese dishes. Young leaves make excellent additions to salads. Borage tea can be made from the fresh Azure Blue flowers - boil the flowers in water for 10 minutes. However, Borage flowers lose their flavour if dried or frozen. Great for attracting bees to the garden if you have plants that require pollination.
Borecole Black Cavolo Nero
This Black Cabbage forms no head but grows up in the form of a palm tree with long, strap like, dark green, well blistered leaves. The leaves form in a rosette, on top of the stem. Winter hardy. Flavour is said to improve after frost.
Borecole Blue Ridge F1 Hybrid
An old fashioned vegetable that is still asked for often. Best grown as a cool weather plant. Pick leaves as needed but don't disturb the growing point. Ornamental as well as nutritious and edible. Blue Ridge has excellent blue colour with high frill. Consistent full curl on all leaves. Good resistance to stretching
Borecole Curly Kale Red
A red-purple leaved version of the green Curly Kale similar Blue Ridge. The colour can add variety into dishes and makes an interesting garnish option.
Broccoflower Alverda F1 Hybrid
Small cauli-shaped heads that are lime-green in colour! A delicious blend of broccoli and cauli that has a vibrant colour when cooked. Excellent in gourmet cuisine. Delicious and nutritious.
Broccoli De Cicco
An open pollinate variety that produces small semi-domed, mid-green heads. A standard home garden variety
Broccoli Green Magic F1 Hybrid
Broccoli Green Magic replaces Arcadia. It has tasty, nutritious densely-packed heads. Medium height with blue-green head colour, bead size is medium to small.
Broccoli Marathon F1 Hybrid
Plants are vigourous and sturdy with well-shaped deep dome heads of compact, small beads deep green in colour. Best sow times are spring and again in autumn for winter harvesting.
Broccoli Mighty Mini F1 Hybrid
A very quick maturing F1 hybrid mini broccoli with a good dome shaped, dark green head. Close plantings will help to keep the head size smaller. Suitable for summer and autumn harvests. Mighty Mini is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. Mini Vegetable.
Broccoli Sprouting Purple Summer
Prolific yields of small, purple broccoli heads on tender stems. Purple Summer is great for planting in Spring to early Summer for cropping in Summer and Autumn, then switch to Rudolf for Autumn to Winter Cropping.
Broccoli Sprouting Rudolph
Prolific yields of small, purple broccoli heads on tender stems. Unfortunately the beautiful purple colour is lost when cooked, but the heads remain delicious and nutritious. Rudolph does best in the cooler months of Autumn, Winter and Spring. The great thing about cooler season planting is the lack of caterpillars and other plant eating insects (which are probably also nutritious, but not so palatable!
Broccoli Sticcoli F1 Hybrid
A Japanese form of Broccoli looking very similar to Broccolini®. Plants produce small broccoli-like heads on tender stems. Continual harvest over an extended period. Best grown in the cooler months of Spring and Autumn. Great nutritious option to include in your meals; steam, stir-fry or eat raw with a lovely dip.
Brussels Sprouts Falstaff Red
Easily the most beautiful brussels sprout - this deep purplish-red delicacy is also one of the most flavourful. Falstaffs' mild, nutty flavour appeals more to children than standard brussels sprouts. The colouring on the leaves intensifies if exposed to light frosts.
Brussels Sprouts Igor F1 Hybrid
A good robust Hybrid that will tolerate a wide range of climatic conditions including frost. Igor's dark green sprouts are easy to pick. Height 80cm
Bupleurum Griffiti
An intriguing annual with blooms of chartreuse green and yellow that look similar to a Euphorbia. Bupleurum produces a single main stem that branches heavily toward the tips. Beautiful blue-green foliage. Easily grown from seed, it is useful as a filler in the garden its also a particularly unique dried or cut flower.
Cabbage - Chinese China Coast F1 Hybrid
The call for smaller vegetables tempted us to bring this one in. Nappa Blues is a big Chinese Cabbage; China Coast has a similar barrel shaped head and F1 Hybrid characteristics but it's half the size. The smaller size will suit a lot of people.
Cabbage - Chinese Nappa Blues F1 Hybrid
Napa Blues Hybrid is an annual, cool season vegetable. It grows best when the days are short and mild. One of the favourite leafy-cabbage vegetables in mainland China. Napa's sweet, crunchy, leaves are one of the most sought-after ingredients in the far East-Asian cuisine. Undoubtedly, Chinese cabbages are increasingly being used in the Western, Mediterranean as well as American cuisine for their wholesome nutrition profile. This F1 Hybrid variety has good resistance to virus, Downy mildew, and Bacterial soft rot.
Cabbage Desert Vantage F1 Hybrid
A uniform large (20cm diameter) heading variety with a small core and outstanding density. Medium green (almost pea green ) in colour. Early to mature. Our best variety for coleslaw due to it's lovely sweet flavour.
Cabbage FOS Pyramid F1 Hybrid
An English F1 Hybrid Flower of Spring type with large heads. Usually grown as a spring harvest variety. Flower of Spring cabbages usually have loosely packed leaves that are packed full of flavour. The heads hold well above the ground which helps avoid soil splashing up into the leaves.
Cabbage Kilaton F1 Club Root Resistant
Kilaton F1 Hybrid has a high level of Club Root resistance. It produces quality 2kg, ball head cabbages with a solid, dense structure. Superb for coleslaw, salads or steamed. It has taken over 18 years of conventional breeding to develop a variety that can combat the devastating Brassica disease Clubroot. An adaptable variety suited for the cooler months of spring and autumn
Cabbage Ranfurly Mini F1 Hybrid
Small compact ball type head. Excellent home garden variety that is quick to mature. Mini Vegetable.
Cabbage Red Langedijker Bewaar
A large purple cabbage that forms dense heads. Stores particularly well and has very good colour and taste perfect for coleslaw. It also makes a very fine sauerkraut, turning bright pink during the fermentation with the addition of salt.
Cabbage Savoy King F1 Hybrid
Large heads of finely crinkled leaves semi-flat in shape. Delicious flavour.
Cabbage Summercut F1 Hybrid
An excellent new variety producing heads of approx 1-2kg! Mid to dark green in colour, suited to the home gardener. Sow spring, early summer. Harvest summer/autumn.