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This is a great idea! No more struggling to raise everything from seed
- get ready grown plants to grow on!
Great for tricky plants that need greenhouse temperature to germinate
and start them off.
Please note: The contents of these packs may vary slightly depending
upon the season.
What if it rains or is frosty when they arrived? Crocus use ‘modified
atmospheric’ packaging, developed for keeping baby leaved salads
fresh in the supermarket - but equally good for baby leaved plugs. This
should keep them happy and healthy for at least a week until you are ready
to plant them out. |
Vegetable plugs from Crocus
The easy way to start off your veggies! A lot of the hard work taken
out of vegetable growing!
Crocus
for vegetable plants,
Gourmet
Selection 2g(74608)a(1645863))
£32.99
Gourmet
Selection 1
£26.99
Essential
Vegetable Collection
£39.99
Summer
Salad Selection
£29.99
Window
box collection
£29.99
The
greenhouse collection
£26.99
Salad
bag collection
£24.99
Credit
crunch veegtables
£21.99
Contents of veg plug packs from crocus
Gourmet selection 2
5 x climbing bean 'Helda' - an early to medium variety, which keeps on
producing high yields throughout the summer.
5 x mange tout 'Delikette' - a round-podded, stringless snow pea with
a very sweet flavour. It is a heavy cropper and is delicious when eaten
raw, or lightly steamed.
5 x barlotti beans 'Borlotto Suprema' - this beautiful, dwarf variety
produces highly attractive red-flecked beans, with a delicious flavour,
which can be eaten fresh or dried.
4 x courgette 'Ambassador' - an outstanding courgette that is a pleaseure
to grow and produces really high yields.
10 x garden peas 'Twinkle' - an early variety of tasty peas, which is
produces bumper crops. Great disease resistance.
6 x chilli pepper 'Padron' - a mid to early season chilli with a mild
flavour. They form on a medium sized, bushy plant that will thrive in
a big container. The medium to long, flat, conical lightgreen fruits,
turn red when ripe.
10 x beetroot 'Boston' - a versatile variety produces beet with an excellent,
sweet flavour, smooth skin, and deep red tender flesh.
10 x spinach - 'Perpetual' - succulent, prolific and very hardy, this
spinach will hardly ever run to seed in its first season.
4 x pumpkin 'Atlantic Giant' - a very large exhibition pumpkin, perfectly
suited for Halloween.
Gourmet selection 1
5 x yellow climbing bean 'Goldfield' - a delicious and decorative bean,
with bright yellow stringless pods that produce their first crop early
in the season and continue throughout summer.
5 x purple climbing beans 'Cosse Violetta' - a strong growing purple podded
type, with a good flavour. The pods may grow to 26cm long and can be harvested
over many weeks.
4 x courgettes 'Black Forest' - a unique climbing type which can happily
grow in pots on a sunny patio. It is a heavy cropper, which can be trained
onto a trellis, cane pyramid or netting.
10 x sweet corn 'Party Fun' - an early season variety producing large
and very sweet cobs in late summer and early autumn.
10 x broad beans 'Imperial Green Longpod' - this variety produces plenty
of long stemmed pods with 5-8 delicious green beans in each.
10 x butternut squash 'Hunter' - a healthy yield butternut squash perfectly
suited for growing in the UK. Ideal roasted, mashed, curried or in a soup.
5 x purple sprouting broccoli 'Bordeaux' - a unique variety that doesn't
need winter weather to trigger flowering. It produces suculent stems through
the summer months.
10 x radicchio 'Treviso' - an Italian favourite and a member of the chicory
family. It has a spicy taste and is often used to add colour and zest
to salads.
Essential Vegetable Collection
# 3 x tomato 'Gardeners Delight' - an easy to grow, cherry tomato with
exceptionally flavoured, bright red fruits.
10 x lettuce 'Pearl' - a little gem lettuce that has strongly puckered
leaves and a delicious, sweet taste. Excellent resistance to mildew.
10 x lettuce 'Rushmoor' - a red salad, with stunning oak-shaped, deep
red leaves. Good in cooler weather.
10 x rocket 'Skyrocket' - a vigorous plant that has an upright habit.
It has a delicious, peppery flavour and is slow to bolt and resistant
to mildew.
8 x French bean 'Cobra' - a highly attractive climbing variety that produces
a massive crop of delicious, stringless beans. Pick regularly to encourage
more to come.
10 x broccoli 'Ironman' - a superb, vigorous broccoli with tasty, dome-shaped,
deep blue-green heads.
10 x beetroot 'Bolthardy' - yields perfect, globe-shaped beets with a
superb flavour and colour. Quick cropping and resistant to bolt.
10 x cabbage 'Duchy' - a fast growing 'hispi' type that has a sweet taste.
Excellent in stir fries or salads.
20 x leek 'Volta' - an early, baby variety, which produces high yields
of long shafts and medium green foliage.
20 x spinach 'Perpetual' - succulent, prolific and very hardy, this spinach
will hardly ever run to seed in its first season.
10 x rhubarb chard - an ornamental, versatile vegetable producing sturdy,
attractive red stems all year round.
10 x onion 'Tangito' - a versatile, white cooking onion, which forms a
large bulb. It can be stored for long periods.
15 x potatoes - you will receive 5 of each of the following varieties.
'Pink Fir' - a late, maincrop potato has knobbly pink skinned tubers of
butter yellow, waxy flesh. 'Premier' - a first early, with yellow skin
and yellow flesh and 'Meledy' - a maincrop producing high yields of smooth
skinned, oval tubers with good disease resistance.
1 x carrot 'Early Nante' (seeds) - a traditional carrot originating from
Venice. It has a lovely, sweet flavour and is very rich in vitamin C.
Summer Salads Collection
# 20 x spring onions 'White Lisbon' - one of the most productive and
vigorous varieties with a long harvest period.
10 x rocket 'Sky Rocket' - a vigorous plant that has an upright habit.
It has a delicious, peppery flavour and is slow to bolt and resistant
to mildew.
10 x lettuce (mixed green) You will receive a selection of green-leaved
lettuce which may include 3 x 'Lilian' - a butternut type with firm heads
that are succulent and sweet. 3 x 'Pearl' - a little gem lettuce with
a delicious, sweet taste. 4 x 'Saladin' - an iceberg type with a solid
hearted head. Beautifully crisp.
10 x lettuce (mixed red) This may include varieties of delicious, red-leaved
varieties such as 'Rushmoor' - a red salad, with stunning oak-shaped,
deep red leaves, or 'Lollo Rosso' which have very pretty frilly leaves
with a sharp taste.
1 x mixed salad baby leaf seeds - a mixture of 14 varieties of lettuce
and radicchio varieties which should be sown every 2-3 weeks to give a
continuous crop throughout the summer and autumn.
20 x onions (mixed, 10 red & 10 white) We will send tasty varieties
which may include; 'Tangito' - a versatile, white cooking onion, which
forms a large bulb. It can be stored for long periods, or 'Red Pearl'
- a top-quality, vibrant red variety.
10 x mixed herbs - you will receive a selection from the following types.
Chives - a strong onion flavour which is great for salads, soups and stews.
Flat leaved parsley - has a strong flavour and is useful in Italian, French
and Middle Eastern cuisine. Curley leaved parsley - often used as a garnish,
the leaves have a delicious taste and are widely used. Dill - perfect
for seasoning gravlax, borscht and other soups, the seeds can also be
used as a spice.
3 x cucumber 'Greenfingers' - small, thin-skinned cucumbers. Pick regularly
at 4-5" for a long growing season. Ideal for childrens lunchboxes.
3 x tomato 'Shipsaint' - a red plum tomato with thick, crunchy flesh and
a sweet flavour.
4 x Nasturtium - a perfect companion plant which is decorative as well
as edible. Both the flowers and leaves are edible. The leaves have a peppery
taste and the flowers look great as a garnish.
Window Box Collection
# 10 x herbs (mixed) - you will receive a selection which will include
some of the following.
Basil - delicious eaten with home-grown tomatoes, and used for making
pesto sauce. Parsley - aromatic and tasty leaves, which will keep on coming
after cutting. Corriander - commonly used in asian and middle eastern
cooking, the leaves have a fresh, citrus taste. Rosemary - the young leaves
are great for flavouring roastedvegetables, lamb and pork. Thyme - the
aromatic leaves are a useful ingredient in bouquet garni, stuffings and
sauces.
10 x lettuce (mixed) You will receive a selection of lettuce from the
following tasty varieties. 'Lilian' - a butternut type with firm heads
that are succulent and sweet. 'Pearl' - a little gem lettuce with a delicious,
sweet taste. 'Saladin' - an iceberg type with a solid hearted head. Beautifully
crisp. 'Rushmoor' - a red salad, with stunning oak-shaped, deep red leaves.
20 x spring onions 'Lisbon' - Excellent taste, and essential to enhance
any salad. Very slow to bolt.
3 x tomato 'Tumbler' - an F1 hybrid with very sweet cherry tomatoes. Ideal
for tubs, troughs and hanging baskets. Suited for outdoor growing.
4 x mangetout - deliciously sweet and crunchy sugar snap peas that can
be eaten fresh in salads, lightly steamed or stir fried.
3 x cucumber 'Greenfingers' - small, thin-skinned cucumbers. Pick regularly
at 4-5" for a long growing season. Ideal for childrens lunchboxes.
3 x sweet pepper (mixed red, orange & green) - these plants are incredibly
versatile and are ideal for salads or stir fries. You will receive 1 of
each green, red and yellow variety. 'Bell Boy' - a versatile, sweet green
pepper. 'Thor' - a red, sweet Italian pepper. 'Ringo'- a sweet, golden
yellow Italian pepper.
10 x spinach 'Reddy' - a very sweet oriental spinach with vibrant red
stalks. Ideal for use as babyleaf.
4 x Nasturtium - a perfect companion plant which is decorative as well
as edible. Both the flowers and leaves are edible. The leaves have a peppery
taste and the flowers look great as a garnish.
Salad Bag Collection
3 x tomato 'Shirley' AGM- an outstanding F1 hybrid with heavy yields of
tasty fruits on disease resistant plants.
3 x tomato 'Golden Cherry' - produces a heavy crop of sweet cherry-orange
fruit, which has a strong resistance to splitting.
3 x tomato, cherry 'Gardener's Delight' AGM - an easy to grow, cherry
tomato with exceptionally flavoured, bright red fruits.
20 x spring onion 'White Lisbon' AGM - one of the most productive and
vigorous varieties with a long harvest period.
10 x rocket 'Runaway' - a cut and come again rocket, which has a peppery
flavour. Ready to harvest within 3 - 6 weeks.
10 x lettuce 'Rushmoor' - a red salad, with stunning oak-shaped, deep
red leaves. Good in cooler weather.
1 x baby leaf seeds - a mixture of 14 varieties of lettuce and radicchio
varieties which should be sown every 2-3 weeks to give a continuous crop
throughout the summer and autumn.
The Greenhouse Collection
3 x tomato 'Gardeners Delight' - an easy to grow, cherry tomato with exceptionally
flavoured, bright red fruits.
3 x tomato 'Golden Cherry' - produces a heavy crop of sweet cherry-orange
fruit, which have a strong resistance to splitting.
3 x sweet pepper (mixed red, orange & green) - these plants are incredibly
versatile and are ideal for salads or stir fries. You will receive 1 of
each green, red and yellow variety. 'Bell Boy' - a versatile, sweet green
pepper. 'Thor' - a red, sweet Italian pepper. 'Ringo'- a sweet, golden
yellow Italian pepper.
3 x chilli pepper 'Hungarian Hotwax' - an early, hot, yellow variety which
is ideal for containers. It can be eaten young, or left to mature when
the flavour intensifies.
3 x cucumber Femspot - an early maturing, very productive and long-fruiting
cucumber.
10 x lettuce (mixed) You will receive a selection of lettuce from the
following tasty varieties. 'Lilian' - a butternut type with firm heads
that are succulent and sweet. 'Pearl' - a little gem lettuce with a delicious,
sweet taste. 'Saladin' - an iceberg type with a solid hearted head. Beautifully
crisp. 'Rushmoor' - a red salad, with stunning oak-shaped, deep red leaves.
3 x aubergine 'Money Maker' - an early variety, which produces a heavy
crop of dark purple fruits.
2 x melon 'Angel' - a catantaloupe type melon with very sweet, white flesh
with a crisp texture.
Credit Crunchy Vegetable Collection
10 x cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli (mixed) - a great combination of
goodies. An example of what you might get include; 3 x cauliflower 'Skywalker'
- a vigorous autumn cauliflower which makes excellent eating. 3 x cabbage
'Duchy' - a sweetheart cabbage with a sweet taste and 4 x broccoli 'Ironman'
- a superb variety with deep green heads.
10 x lettuce (mixed) You will receive a selection of lettuce which may
be made up as follows. 3 x 'Lilian' - a butternut type with firm heads
that are succulent and sweet. 3 x 'Pearl' - a little gem lettuce with
a delicious, sweet taste. 1x 'Saladin' - an iceberg type with a solid
hearted head. Beautifully crisp. 3 x 'Rushmoor' - a red salad, with stunning
oak-shaped, deep red leaves.
20 x leek 'Octan' - a mid to late season variety, which produces a tall
white shank.
20 x onoins 'Tangito' - a versatile, white cooking onion, which forms
a large bulb. It can be stored for long periods.
1 x carrot 'Nante' seeds - a traditional carrot originating from Venice.
It has a lovely, sweet flavour and is very rich in vitamin C.
1 x pack of parsnip seed
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