Vegetables

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 Snow Shiraz - 60490

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 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 Rambling Roger - 60965

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

Pumpkin Squash Spaghetti Tivoli F1 Hybrid - 61015

We have been amazed at the resurged interest in this item. Simply grow as you would a Courgette. Tivoli is a non trailing variety producing short vines giving it a small plant habit. Ideal for home gardens. Tivoli has a creamy flesh, suggested cooking methods are noted in the back of our catalogue.

Pumpkin Sugar Pie - 60847

Sugar pumpkins have a firm, sweet flesh that is much smoother than that of larger pumpkins. Sugar pumpkins are only about 15cm to 20cm in diameter. Although they don’t boast being the biggest of all, they have a good pumpkin flavour, this combined with their firmer and less stringy flesh, means they have a much more pleasant consistency than that of the larger pumpkin varieties. They’re great for roasting, making soups and for making pumpkin puree for delicious homemade pumpkin pies.

Pumpkin Triamble - 60810

Another old fashioned favourite returns. Large, three-lobed fruit weighing up to 6kg!  Tough grey rind (excellent for storage), deep orange flesh that is sweet, firm and dry.... what more can one expect from a high grade pumpkin. Fruit are kept for winter eating. Likes rich soil.

Pumpkin Whangaparoa Crown - 60760

Best known as a "Standard Storage Pumpkin" Whangaparoa Crown has a grey skin colour and is very popular.

Radicchio Palla Rosa - 61030

Though growth habit and colour may be somewhat variable in this variety, Palla Rosa has an excellent tangy flavour and is easy to grow. The green wrapper leaves on the heads enclose red hearts with pure white ribs. Great for adding colour and zing to your coleslaws.

Radicchio Red Traviso - 61035

A classic tall Italian Radicchio. Upright with red and white striped leaves and large pure white stems. Good for harvesting from the end of summer and throughout the winter. Radicchio also grows well in containers, pots, or raised beds.

Radish Amethyst - 61160

A round radish with striking purple skin that contrasts very well with the crisp white flesh. Slow to go pithy, good shape and strong tops. Great colour for those salads.

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.