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Tomato Cocktail Sweet Gold F1 Hyb - 63490

This is an extra early, tall growing F1 Hybrid variety. Yellow cherry tomatoes with excellent flavour. Plants are vigourous with good fruit sets. Each fruit weighs about 14 grams. Probably best described as a yellow fruiting version of Sweet 100.

Sweet Pea Mahogany - 41880

Striking dark maroon scented flowers. Four flowers per stem. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.

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.

Courgette Black Beauty - 56025

An old standard, shiny dark-green, almost black Zucchini. Superseeded by a lot of better F1 Hybrid varieties but a good reliable and economically priced performer.

Petunia Daddy Mix F1 Hybrid (Veined Mix) - 37100

Daddy is the best selling veined variety amongst the grandiflora types. Large flowers mostly in the blue, pink and red colour spectrum. All colours have strong contrasting, deeper coloured veins. These large flowered beauties prefer areas of lower rainfall, or consider protecting them from the full onslaught of the weather in baskets or patio containers.

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.

Tomato Cocktail Sweet Million F1 Hybrid - 63510

Produces dark-red fruit approx 2.5cm in diameter (about twice the size of Sweet 100.) Vigourous plants with increased disease resistance and improved tolerance to cracking. Sweet tasting fruit.

Sweet Pea Retro Red - 42130

Dainty maroon-red flowers are produced in profusion on this smaller than usual sweet pea. A hammettii hybrid produced by Dr. Keith Hammett.

Gherkin Eureka F1 Hybrid - 57100

Great for bottling, these dark green spined gherkins are disease resistant. Earlier we thought this variety produced all "female" flowers, however this information is incorrect, sorry for any confusion. Eureka is monoecious, this means it can have female and male flowers on the same plant.

Cucumber Lebanese Manny F1 Hybrid - 56801

Gourmet quality cucumbers growing up to 15cm. Delicately sweet, with tender, shiny skin. Plants are parthenocarpic (they develop fruit without fertilization.) Manny also has an intermediate Powdery Mildew resistance. Plants don't require support, but you can expect higher yields when plants are grown over a trellis. Great for fresh eating, in salads or pickled.

Beans Scarlet Runner Tenderline - 50900

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.

CF Zinnia Queeny Lime Red - CF2370

Sports lovely, large, dahlia-like blooms on a sturdy, compact plants. Unusual and novel colours.

Nasturtium Baby Red - 30925

Released last year, Baby Red is a compact Nasturtium that is best suited to pots and bedding. It has a mass of lovely deep-red flowers that look fantastic and sit more upright and mounded as opposed to trailing Nasturtium. Keep a pot in your herb garden or on the patio within easy reach, making it handy to pick a few spicy blooms that can be added to salads to give them that extra bit of zing. Keep pots and containers moist. If planting directly in the garden be sure to apply mulch to help keep the soil cool.

Tomato RuBee Prize F1 Hybrid - 62815

Produces loads of very large (250-280g) fruit with vibrant colour and show-stopping flavour just 65 days from transplant. The compact indeterminate plants are leafy with good fruit cover, short internodes, are disease resistant and super productive. The deep-red, juicy fruit are almost seedless and RuBee Prize consistently won the flavour category in the breeders trials.

Cauliflower Clapton F1 Club Root Resistant - 54690

Clapton F1 Hybrid has a high level of Club Root resistance. In fact it is the first Cauliflower with Club Root Resistance. 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 harvesting in the cooler months of late autumn, winter and spring

Celeriac Mars - 55055

A modern bred variety with round roots, light coloured skin and dark green upright foliage. Mars has good resistance to Septorioa (a common Celeriac disease). The roots store well.

Beans Dwarf French Top Crop - 50400

A well known tried and true variety. Slender, medium green beans produced on strong plants. Beans are easy to harvest. High yields.

Spinach Baby Lakeside F1 Hyb - 61770

Perfect for the new-age patio garden, container or window. Formerly Baby Teton

Radish Round Mix - 61260

A mix of red, purple, yellow and white round radishes. Maturing over an extended period of time. Stays crisp and mild even when large.

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 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

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.

Lettuce Redfire - 58240

Beautiful light green leaves with dark red frills. Adapts well in warm or cool seasons. Slow to bolt.

Dianthus Sweet Black Cherry F1 Hybrid - 20025

Similar in habit etc to Sweet Red except these flowers are almost black giving a novel and eye catching display.