Vegetables

Onion Californian Red F1 Hybrid - 59100

This standard red onion variety has wide adaptability. Crisp and mild, the large flattened bulbs have a deep red skin with white flesh. Bulbs are not good keepers.

Onion Luna White - 59010

Super Luna is a short day white onion variety showing high yields and good uniformity. Super Luna has a brilliant white color and is a very grower friendly variety.

Onion Pukekohe Long Keeper - 59200

Slow bolt, and an excellent keeper, PLK takes 180 days to maturity

Onion Red Rambo F1 Hybrid - 59250

Red Rambo is a quality globe shaped red onion with dark outer scales and an impressive red internal colour. Bulbs are large but like all red onions only have a moderate storage life. We recommend spring as the best sowing time (July to August) - you should be harvesting your crop as early as February! Other sow dates can work and maybe worth a try in your area. Plant spacing has a huge influence on bulb size. For bigger onions space out to 10cm.

Onion Shallot Conservor F1 Hybrid - 59425

Great yield of small round copper-red teardrop shaped shallots. An ideal variety for pickled onions. Also great for salad dressings sauces and soups. Long storage capability. Many French dishes call specifically for the milder tasting shallots rather than the stronger onions. Great to have on hand.

Onion Spring Bunching - 59300

Standard bunching variety of spring onion. Sow late winter - spring for spring - summer production.

Onion Spring Crimson Forest - 59350

Long blood-red shanks are formed on this interesting spring onion. Great for adding a mild onion flavour and a touch of colour to your salads. Suitable for sowing in spring and summer - sow every 2-3 weeks for a continuous supply.

Onion Spring Galloper F1 Hybrid - 59390

The most vigourous dependable and adaptable variety on the market. Very early maturing deep green leaves. Long shanks.

Onion Spring Long White - 59400

Soft and pungent, produces thin white shanks for bunching.

Onion Yellow Sweet Spanish - 59000

Large, dark yellow, globe-shaped bulbs flesh is creamy-white and mild-flavoured. Sweet Spanish onions will grow quite large and because of their sweet flavour they are particularly good used raw in salads and hamburgers. This onion variety is not a winter keeper

Oriental Chrysanthemum Chopsuey Greens - 59545

This form of edible Chrysanthemum has a sweet herbal taste; pick the first tender leaves about 40 days after sowing. Leaves are at their best when they are young and picking leaves regularly will encourage a bushier plant. Older leaves can become bitter as they age, or if the plant is left to flower. All is not lost if your plant blooms, as the flower petals are also edible and along with the leaves are used in a variety of Asian dishes. Plants dislike high temperatures so some degree of shade is recommended in summer.

Oriental Kailaan - 59550

Another popular Chinese green. Deep green with a good taste.

Oriental Mini Li Ren Choi - 59465

Li Ren Choi is an extremely attractive Mini Pak Choi with light green stems and slightly darker green leaves. This variety develops a Pak Choi shape at a very early stage. It can even be planted in trays and harvested at transplanting time. It is one of the smaller Mini Pak Choi on the market.

Oriental Mini Toy Choi - 59455

Toy Choy is a compact hybrid Canton Pak Choi with thick, broad, milky white petioles and glossy, dark green leaves. It is perfect for home gardeners. Toy Choy is tolerant to heat, which makes it well suited for production in summer months and offers an early maturity of 30 days harvest from sowing.

Oriental Misome - 59460

Deep green savoyed leaves. Vigourous grower that can be grown all year round. Use for cooking or stir-fry.

Oriental Mizuna Early - 59470

Very vigourous and high yielding. Serrated edged leaves. Mild, fresh, crisp and tasty. Use in salads or cooking.

Oriental Mizuna Miz America - 59473

These serrated dark-red leaves are a flavoursome addition to any leaf salad. Best described as having a mild peppery flavour, but not spicy or bitter.

Oriental Pak Choi Green Fortune - 59450

Compact plant, early with high heat tolerance. Nice green petioles. Crisp and sweet.

Oriental Pak Choi Joi Choi F1 Hybrid - 59538

Bright green leaves with thick pure white petioles (stems). Very good bolt resistance. Pak Choi is easy to grow, easy to cook and becoming firmly established in the NZ vegetable garden portfolio.

Oriental Pak Choi Pai Tsai May Song - 59561

Pai Tsai is a form of Chinese Cabbage said to have a nutty taste. May Song is heat tolerant and fast to mature making it less prone to bolting.

Oriental Tatsoi - 59490

Spoon shaped, thick, very deep-green leaves. Compact rosette plant. High vitamin content

Pak Choi Red Choi F1 Hybrid - 59562

Bronze-red almost purple leaves with white stems. Adds colour and pleasant flavour to your ‘green vegetable intake’. Perfect steamed, in stir fries or blended raw into salads.

Parsnip Hollow Crown - 59700

Please select either Tape or Seeds A "strong top" variety Hollow Crown produces long white tapered roots. Enjoy the fruits of your labour practically all year round. Please Note: our catalogue says x3 - 1.3m tapes, this is incorrect, there is only x1 4m tape per packet.

Parsnip Javelin F1 Hybrid - 59760

Consistent, reliable, flexible and very well proven, Javelin is probably the most commercially successful Parsnip variety ever. Javelin F1 Hybrid produces beautifully shaped roots. The crowns are shallow, almost level, making for easy cleaning. Skin colour is white to a very light cream. Excellent canker resistance. Javelin can be sown throughout the sowing year and it's tremendous field holding ability means it can be cropped almost continuously from January to December.

Parsnip Supersnip - 59600

A versatile vegetable, parsnip can be sown in autumn giving you winter crops for adding to those lovely hot soups and stews or in spring for summer crops to add variety to your meals.

Peas Alderman - 60100

The advantage of Alderman is the extended harvesting period. Large, curved, dark green pea pods each containing up to 11 tender peas with great flavour. From sowing you can expect to pick your first peas in about 2 months and picking can continue for a month or more. These plants have a tall growth habit that will require support, but is well worth the effort for the heavy crops produced.

Peas Chickpea - 60120

They have attractive grey-green foliage and also the capacity to fix nitrogen. Unlike many crops Chickpeas appear to germinate more readily on roughly cultivated soil. We are constantly looking for interesting and sought after vegetables to enhance our catalogue selection. Where possible we like to try to grow out the product so we have some idea on whether it is likely to perform OK. This hasn't been the case with Chickpeas (we haven't attempted to grow these so far) but they certainly look like an interesting crop. It appears they are a bit on the tender side but can possibly withstand a very light frost. In hotter climates they are grown for the dried pea-like seeds. These are used for both sprouting and making into hummus. In damper climates Chickpeas can be harvested green, like petit pois (very small green pea.) When harvested green they taste somewhere in between a fresh raw French bean and a garden pea.

Peas Dwarf Massey - 60200

Everyone loves fresh garden peas with their Christmas dinner! This early variety with dwarf plant habit is an excellent cropper that doesn't require staking.

Peas Dwarf Sugar Snap - 60650

Dwarf Sugarsnap is basically the same delicious variety as the regular Sugarsnap pea, the only difference being the height it grows. Thick, fleshy pods containing sweet juicy peas. A lovely dwarf sugarsnap pea that is ideal for gardeners who want to avoid staking their plants.

Peas Easy Peasy - 60450

The old cliche; "Packed like peas in a pod" certainly describes this one! Abundant tasty peas to each pod. Easy to grow - excellent variety for freezing. Dark green, wrinkled pods on plants that have good resistance to mildew.

Peas Feathers Tendril - 60150

A delicious, modern pea with a very high yielding potential. Pods are 10cm long with 9-10 peas per pod. Feathers Tendril has a semi-leafless habit (leaves have developed into tendrils) which allows more light into the plants. It is mildew resistant and very vigourous. Requires staking.

Peas Greenfeast - 60300

A main crop variety that has wide adaptability and is suited for home garden use. Requires staking.

Peas Mammoth Melting - 60350

A tall growing ‘Snow Pea’ or ‘Sugar Pea’. Tall plants produce more yield than the dwarf Oregon counterpart. Pick when pods are immature or flat.

Peas Onward - 60400

For that later crop, Onward is your best choice. Large blunt pods are produced in vast quantities. This heavy cropper also requires staking.

Peas Sugar - Oregon (Snow Pea) - 60500

An ever increasing popular choice to add dimension to your salads or just to pick and eat these "Sugar Peas" are delicious. Pick when pods are immature and flat. Requires staking.

Peas Sugarsnap Tall - 60600

Another top selection for thick, fleshy pods containing sweet juicy peas is "Sugarsnap". Plants grow to approximate 1.5 metres and require staking

Pumpkin Atlantic Giant - 60815

True pumpkin colour and shape - but in giant form! Very large vine. Bright orange with shallow ribs. To grow "Giant" pumpkins it is best to limit the vines to one pumpkin each. Interesting notes and helpful hints included with each packet. Can grow pumpkins up to 100kg!!! For show only - not suitable for eating.

Pumpkin Crown F1 Hybrid - 60750

The advanced Whangaparaoa Crown. Modern breeding makes Crown F1 Hybrid tastier, higher yielding and better for storage than the standard Whangaparaoa.

Pumpkin Jack O Lantern - 60790

Pumpkins are a great vegetable to grow, as most store readily for months on end! This is the case with Jack O Lantern, not only that, it has a great flavour and is also a good carving variety, making it perfect for carving out decorations for Halloween and such like. Very versatile, pumpkin can be eaten as a vegetable, baked in muffins and scones or turned into delicious pumpkin pie!

Pumpkin Jarrahdale - 60795

An Australian heirloom. This pumpkin is drum shape, silvery bluish-grey in colour, with deep ribbing. Pumpkins are large growing to 5kg. Flesh is deep orange and quite sweet. Good steamed, roasted, pureed, or used to make desserts.

Pumpkin Kumi Kumi F1 Hybrid - 60800

Vigourous plants are more tolerant of extreme weather conditions. The standard Kumi Kumi has been updated with new breeding programs. Fruit is green and ribbed, growing to approx 30cm. Mild in flavour, Kumi Kumi has a curious creamy-nutty undertone, pick when younger while they retain their sweetness. Very mature fruit will turn orange. A good keeper

Pumpkin Queensland Blue - 60845

An old Australian heirloom variety with medium sized, blue-green fruit with deep ribbing. Fruit size is approx. 3-5kg. Tasty, golden orange flesh. An excellent keeper.

Pumpkin Squash Buttercup Burgess Trailing - 60960

A home variety producing green fruit with orange flesh - sweet and dry to eat. Not a great keeper.

Pumpkin Squash Butternut Buffy's Gold - 60990

This variety is high yielding with excellent eating qualities. Fruit size is 1.5-1.8kg and takes 100-110 days to mature. New improved Waltham type. CMV and black-rot resistant.

Pumpkin Squash Butternut Little Dipper - 60995

A delightful small, meal-sized butternut for the smaller household. This personal-sized wee beauty weighs approx 900g, it has a vigourous vine that produces high numbers of fruits. The fruit are cream with orange flesh.

Pumpkin Squash Delica F1 Hybrid Buttercup - 61000

Top quality buttercup squash. Vigourous grower and heavy cropper, producing uniform large (approx 1.8kg) fruit. Delica has a dark green skin with deep yellow flesh. It is flat globe shaped, and has good storage ability. Delica has a nutty, sweet taste.

Pumpkin Squash Gold Nugget - 60940

An award winning buttercup squash sometimes referred to as a 'oriental pumpkin' due to its unique appearance. Sweet yellow-orange flesh and compact vines. The skin should be colourful but have a dull finish, indicating the fruit has reached maturity. (If the surface is shiny, the flesh will be flavourless!) Small fruit up to 1.5kg.

Pumpkin Squash Rambling Roger - 60965

A vigorous Delica type pumpkin, which has dark green mottled colour skin, with deep yellow flesh.