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Indeterminate. Superb flavoured beefsteak. Large, flattened, ribbed fruits can attain huge size. Meaty and ideal sliced for sandwiches and salads. Crops heavily throughout the season.
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Classic Italian zucchini, indispensable for a host of dishes. Crops early and heavily throughout the summer if the fruits are picked regularly. Early morning picked flowers can be battered and fried or in 'frittata', an Italian style omelette.
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The most popular Basil, essential for authentic Italian cuisine with strong scent and flavour. Basil Basilico Genovese is easy growing herb for the windowsill or outdoors.
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Early ripening and prolific cropping gherkin producing short, firm fleshed, spiny skinned fruits. Ideal whole or sliced for pickling.
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Very early ripening, round/oval cantaloupe with netted skin and darker green sutures. Rich orange, sweet fleshed fruit average 1.2kg (2.5lb). Resistant to fusarium and powdery mildew.
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Indeterminate. A selection of 'Oxheart type', later maturing, producing large, meaty fruits about 200gm in weight. Fruits are deep, ox heart shaped, with rounded base, ribbed and ripen to an orangey-red colour. The flesh is meaty, ideal for slicing and of superb flavour.
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Indeterminate. The Number 1 cooking variety and unsurpassed for sauces; dry and meaty, larger plum fruits of deep red skin colour. Early to ripen and crops well over a long season.
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Ideal for early sowings as they mature quickly, Beetroot Bietola da Orto Paonazza d'Egitto producies unusual flatter roots with deep red flesh and a sweet flavour.
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Carrot Carota Fucino is a cylindrical, blunt ended, smooth, rich orange skinned and cored 'bunching carrot'. Sow seeds regularly throughout the season for tasty carrots for salads and cooking.
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Lattuga Bionda Lenta a Montare is a delicious, crisp, dark green, classic 'Romaine' type with solid hearts which stand in good condition during hot weather. Traditionally used in Caesar salads.
Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds
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Semi determinate. Traditional 'juicy plum', mostly grown outdoors for a fuller flavour. Juicy but meaty flesh with few seeds, ideal for pastes, soups, salsa and for sun dried fruits.
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Vigorous plants producing a tremendous crop of very long, thin green pods up to 45cm in length, hence their name. Also known as 'asparagus bean'. Flavour is at its best when picked young and tender.
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Prolific crop throughout the summer of medium length, dark green fruits with short, white spines. Best grown outdoors.
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Very quick growing, Rocket Cultivated Rucola Coltivata is a vigorous, robust plant with pungent leaves. Use as a main ingredient of a mixed green salad to add zest and texture.
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A dark green rosette of blistered large leaves produced in abundance and slow to bolt (run to seed) if kept moist. Nutritious vegetable, usually cooked but can be eaten raw as 'baby leaf'.
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Typical 'Borlotto'. The 13-14cm, quite broad pods are attractive red splashed cream, bulging with 6-7 cream with red streaked seeds. Pods can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in the autumn.
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A versatile, round fruited variety which can be cropped from golf ball size for eating raw whole, slightly larger for slicing or stir frying, to tennis ball size for stuffing.
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Medium height plant with short internodes to provide a heavy crop of conical, slightly tapering fruits about 14cm in length. This variety produces thin-skinned, mid green fruits which are ideal for frying and are easily digested.
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A delicious blend of lettuce which, from regular sowings give tasty salad leaves all the year round
Misticanza D'Insalate is a well-balanced mixture of young, fresh and tender leaves of chicory, lettuce, and endives. It will provide a continuous harvest of salad leaves all the year round if successionally sown in pots on the windowsill, or sown outdoors from March to September. It is easy to grow with minimum maintenance.
Salad Leaves Mixture Misticanza D'Insalate contains: Lettuce Bion...MORE
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Forms an attractive rosette of green leaves and a small heart if grown to maturity, but often sown as a 'cut and come again' salad leaf.
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Increasingly popular 'baby salad leaf' to add colour, texture and taste to mixed salads. The mature plant can also be used as a winter hardy vegetable when fresh produce is in short supply.
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Glossy, red skinned, deeper, more top shaped bulbs of darker flesh with red tinge to the rings. Flavour is quite pungent. Ideal for storing and using throughout the autumn and winter.
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Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Viserba ;produces cylindrical, glossy purple skinned fruits with bitter free flesh.
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A loose leaf 'picking lettuce', Lattuga Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo produces abundant bronzed leaves to add to salads, and sandwiches, or used as a garnish.
Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds
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Large, round, white skinned and fleshed bulb onions for storing through the autumn and winter. Delicious sliced and added to salads or used for all cooking purposes.
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A Cayenne type of hot pepper with 15cm long, tapering fruits, which turn from green to fiery red. The compact, upright plant habit produces fruits in abundance on short internodes. Pick regularly throughout the summer.
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A green fruited, Biscayne type turning bright red with long, broad shouldered slightly tapering fruits with thick flesh, ideal for grilling. Will produce an abundant crop over a long season if picked regularly.
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Slower growing and with a more serrated leaf than Cultivated Rocket but Wild Rucola Selavativca is increasing in popularity to add to Cultivated Rocket as a mixed salad ingredient.
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Often called the vegetable oyster because of its flavour. Slender, parsnip like roots, white skinned and fleshed. Ideal for lifting in the autumn for storing, or can be left in the ground and lifted as required. In the spring the tender shoots make an appetising green vegetable.
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A mixture of different tastes, colours and leaf shapes, from light to dark green outer leaves and white to gold centres, plus deep green salad endive with upright irregular shaped leaves. Ideal for summer and autumn cultivation. Mixture contains Endive Romanesca da Taglio, Fijne Krul Geel (Sempre Bianca), Pancalieri a Costa Bianca, Riccia a Cuore d'Oro.
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