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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.

Cosmos Double Click Mixed - 18300

Delightfully delicate. Some straight colours (not picotee) but mostly white with a red or rose picotee edge that looks like it has been handpainted on! Garden art at its best for cheerful display.

Cosmos Sensation Daydream - 18495

Who doesn't love bright, pretty cosmos! Daydream blooms are white with a delicate rose blush that sit upon extra strong stems, making it the perfect choice for your garden. These magnificent blooms grow just over a metre tall and will make a fantastic mass display. The foliage is a lovely deep green, a perfect contrast to the beautiful flowers. Great for attracting the butterflies and bees, cosmos is notoriously known to be "so easy to grow". The strong stems make it suitable as a cut flower, allowing you to have "sensational daydreams" inside as well as out! An AAS winner (All-America Selections - these items are tested nationally in North America for superior garden performance.)

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

Lettuce Cut & Come Again RED - 57640

Cut & Come Again RED is perfectly designed for continual fresh cuttings. Mix your deep-red leaves amongst your salad to for a great contrast against your green leaves, or enjoy a nice red salad on its own. Simply use scissors to trim leaves off the plant as required. Providing you leave 2-3cm of leaf on the plant, ensure there is sufficient water and have good soil; the leaves should resume their growth, ready for your next salad! Best planted as a mass planting so you can cut selected areas at different times.

Borecole Black Cavolo Nero - 51950

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.

CF Cosmos Double Click Bicolour Pink - CF0880

Dainty foliage. Large double and semi-double frilly flowers 5 to 7cm across. All colours have gold centres. Very easy to grow. Bred in France as a cut flower.

Eggplant Kharif - 56870

Dark purple with white stripes. The oval fruit weigh approximately 60-80 grams

Corn Popcorn Ruby Red F1 Hybrid - 55815

Crunchy, nutty tasting popcorn. It has a brilliant deep red kernel, which pops into brilliant white popcorn. As it dries for popping, the kernel becomes a deeper and deeper red. After popping it holds more anthocyanin and cyanidin than yellow popcorn. These components are known to have high antioxidant activity, so it has a higher nutritional value. Popcorn is becoming increasingly popular, now you can grow your own! Just grow as you would a normal sweet corn, except leave the cobs to dry on the plant. Popcorn is a heavy feeder and needs plenty of nitrogen. Your Popcorn will be ready to harvest when the husks have dried and the kernels are plump, well-coloured and shiny. Remove the husks and dry the cobs fully in a cool, well ventilated place for at least a month. Your kernels will not pop if they are too moist. Test if they are ready by attempting to pop several kernels, if they don't pop, or if the popped corn is chewy, try again after several more days of drying. When cobs are fully dry, harvest them by rubbing seeds off the cob via a twisting action with your hands. Store in an air-tight container (you can pop your container in the fridge) until you are ready to pop them. If stored well they should retain their popping quality for several years!

Carrot Purple - 54235

Like many deep coloured vegetables, purple carrots are loaded with antioxidants which are great for repairing and preventing cell damage. When boiling this variety, colour will leach out dramatically in the water but the carrots still remain a deep purple for serving. (The core may remain white). Very young, raw thinnings are a colourful addition to your salads.

Tomato Eclipse Ruby F1 Hybrid - 62675

Very high in antioxidants and has a beautiful flavour. Attractive dark red, plum shaped, fruit with a distinctive 'Eclipse' colouring/shading on the skin. The fruit size is 25 to 50 grams (golf ball size.) This is a determinate plant (Dwarf bush) making it perfect for containers and small gardens. Novel, unique and extremely tasty.

Courgette Green Lightening F1 - 56060

Vivid green-striped colouration. Exceptional yield and flavour. Early ripening means it will be one of the first squash harvested during the season.

Celosia Dracula - 16405

Dracula produces one big flower atop the plant; this is the first of its kind in novelty Celosia to do so. The foliage is also interesting; in the greenhouse the flower is red and the foliage is green with some red. Outdoors the foliage is darker and more purple-toned and the flower is a darker purple. Its strong upright flower makes a great bedding display en masse. Add a little drama to your landscapes, gardens and containers. A mid-height border plant. Please Note: The height will be shorter in high light conditions.

Courgette Kimber F1 Hybrid - 56012

This courgette is "Parthenocarpic", meaning there is no requirement for bees or insects to assist with pollination and fruit set. This gives Kimber a huge advantage, as often courgette struggle to set fruit in inclement weather due to low bee activity. Fruit are medium dark-green in colour with a shiny skin. You won't be disappointed with this one.

Gourd Luffa Sponge Neeta - 57110

Plant grows like a vine and requires staking. This edible version of Snake Gourd - Casper has fruit that weighs approximately 100-150 grams and has a whitish “ghost” appearance to it. The whole fruit is eaten as a vegetable when young. When mature the soft red tomato like pulp can be used in cooking as a tomato substitute.

Cauliflower Highfield F1 Club Root Resistant - 54691

Highfield is suitable for summer and autumn harvest. Produces a high quality, smooth, white curd. Club root resistant. Replacement for the discontinued Clapton.

Cabbage Red Langedijker Bewaar - 52920

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.

Broccoli Marathon F1 Hybrid - 52000

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.

Melon - Rock Western Express F1 Hybrid - 58890

Western Express is an excellent choice in NZ because it produces large, round-oval fruit under cool conditions. It has performed well in many areas and matures early. Fruit have deep orange flesh with a very small seed cavity.

Tomato Cocktail Sweet 100 F1 Hybrid - 63500

This cherry type tomato produces amazing yields (in the hundreds!). It is VF (two nasty tomato diseases) tolerant, and produces large numbers of branched clusters of fruit.

Onion Pukekohe Long Keeper - 59200

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

Cucumber Iznik Mini F1 Hybrid - 56430

Fresh green, shiny finger cucumber with smooth skin and intense taste. This very early maturing plant is littered with 10cm long fruits well before other varieties. Iznik is Parthenocarpic - it does not require pollination to set fruit, so it can produce high-yields even under adverse conditions or without any bee activity. We recommend it as a great variety for pot and container production - not necessary to stake, but may be beneficial.

Echinacea Artisan Red Ombre - 21220

Artisan Red Ombre is the first F1 hybrid Echinacea to hit the market. It offers great germination, ease of production and first-year flowering versatility. Being an F1 hybrid, Artisan offers consistent, full, highly branched, uniform plants. The timing of these uniform blooms, flowering on each plant at the same time, make a fantastic en mass display of gorgeous, vibrant red shades that then mature gracefully, as Echinacea does so well. Winner of the “Pinnacle of Perennials Award” at the Oregon Association of Nurseries and Farwest Show.