Salad

Great Value Seeds from Country Value

Very quick to grow, producing crops within days, of narrow white stemmed, green leaved shoots with pungent spicy flavour. Great in salads and with egg sandwiches!

For those who like it hot, this unusual cress will add a great flavoured kick to mixed salads. It has attractive spoonshaped leaves with a crinkled surface and edges, making it ideal for garnish. It can be grown indoors all year round or outside in summer for larger, hotter leaves.

An all-the-year round, nutritious salad crop. Easy to grow outdoors in the summer and inside during the cold months of the year.

Italian salad vegetable used to add zest, colour, texture and unique flavour to mixed salads. Ideal for autumn and early winter use, with outstanding weather resistance. Can also be used as a salad leaf through the spring and summer. Distinctive flavour and texture in a mixed salad.

Prefers a fertile, well-drained soil in full sun.

A welcome addition for your salad leaves. Best grown outdoors. Quick maturing with an upright habit making large, dissected, slightly pungent leaves about 25 days from sowing. Sow in succession for a complete season of baby salad leaves. Slow to bolt if kept well watered.

A delightful salad plant either by itself or tossed with other salad ingredients and delicious with cheese sandwiches or with a cheese dip - it even makes superb cold soups. The dark green peppery flavoured leaves are rich in vitamins and minerals including vitamin C and iron. Although usually grown commercially in water it can be grown in the garden soil provided it is given plenty of water and will crop from early summer till around Christmas if protected with cloches etc. You can also grow it in a container stood in a saucer of water.

Perfect lunchbox snacks, these exciting little cucino fruits can be eaten straight from the plant without peeling. Crisp, flavoursome mini-fruits are produced prolifically throughout the season indoors or in a sheltered position outdoors.

Yes, its true. No indigestion problems with this cucumber. Crisp, delicious, no bitterness and ideal to eat just like celery. Pick at 20-25cm (8-10in) long when flavour and vitamin content is very high. Very easy to grow.

An all female American slicer ideal for both outdoor and greenhouse growing. Plants produce a heavy crop of slightly spined dark green fruits 20cm (8in) long with a crisp, juicy flesh.

Excellent powdery mildew, weather and scab resistance.

Greenhouse/All Female

A vigorous plant habit, producing many long, dark green skinned, slightly ribbed, bitter free fruits 28-35cm (11-14in) long, throughout the season. Its vigorous habit makes it ideal for growing in an unheated glasshouse, but is equally at home in a heated one for a very early crop. Excellent powdery mildew tolerance.

New & Exclusive 2008

Improved breeding in delicious, crunchy tennis-ball sized mini Icebergs. Plants have a compact habit with very few wasted outer leaves and produce a dense, crunchy delicious meal for one from a single heart. Stands well in good condition for long periods if watered regularly.

One of the earliest varieties to mature. Little Gem produces small compact plants which are packed with a crisp sweet heart and little outside leaf. Very useful for cloches too.

A reliable, simple, productive and space-saving method which can be tailored to your weekly requirements. Early sowings should mature in about 60 days, mid-season sowings in about 40 days. Valmaine is specially chosen because the young leaves have no bitterness.

Medium heads with solid, crisp hearts. Very hardy, reliable and dry weather tolerant. Ideal for successional and autumn sowing.

A fine lettuce known for its exceptional cold resistance and bred solely for autumn sowings. It is a large lettuce, light green in colour, with tasty, crinkled leaves.

Still the premier garden lettuce in most peoples vegetable patch. It has large, wrinkled leaves with a big tight centre of crisp, white leaf. It is outstanding whether the summer is wet or dry and always slow to run to seed.

The smallest lettuce. A compact, solid butterhead type with deliciously soft leaves just right for small families or restricted space. It can be grown as close as 15cm (6in.) apart and makes a useful early crop in a cold frame or cloches. Very fast growing, from an early spring it will be the first variety to harvest.

The tastiest of all the Romaine lettuces we have ever trialled. Renowned for their crunchy texture and the sweetest flavour. Excellent downy mildew resistance, with good bolting tolerance and heart quality during hotter summer conditions.

Ideal for spring and summer sowings. Suitable for cut and come again, baby leaf or mature hearts.

If you dont agree this is the sweetest lettuce we will give you your money back - guaranteed!

To claim a refund, please advise the Horticultural Manager in writing of which variety you believe to be better, together with the reasons. Full details available on request. No such claims will be accepted after 31st August 2008.

Your whole summer lettuce supply from just one packet! Tender and tasty butterheads, crisp and crunchy icebergs and sweet and succulent cos types make up this extra special, great value blend. Slow to bolt meaning longer cropping. Contents: Avondefiance, Diana, Romany, Bubbles, Court.

A tantalising mixture of bronze and red shades to add colour, texture and taste to your salad bowl and side garnishes. Enjoy as salad leaf and full heart crops all summer without worry, as this mix is particularly resistant to bolting. Endless supply of loose-leaf lettuce in red shades.

An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. It is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with deep red edge. Very easy to grow and attractive in gardens, tubs, containers etc and in the salad.

A slightly larger Little Gem type which is similar in flavour, but has slightly more bubbled leaves, giving it a more distinctive appearance. Ready to harvest approximately 11 weeks from sowing with delicious crisp, romaine hearts that stand well during hot summer weather.

Crunchy, dense, uniformly shaped hearts of excellent quality and flavour. Recommended for sowings from spring and throughout the summer as it has excellent mildew resistance. Heads stand well in hot weather and will keep for 2 weeks in the refrigerator after cutting.

Here is a high quality crisp head lettuce with small compact heads which are just the right size for the home gardener. The solid, crisp and tasty heads are quick to mature and slow to bolt. Recommended for harvesting in succession from spring to July and can also be sown in October in cold frames *or* the cold greenhouse for cutting in early May.

A specially bred Little Gem Cos for sowing from September to January and for growing in a unheated greenhouse or in a cold frame for overwinter production (not suitable for growing outdoors). Delicious small, crunchy, sweet hearts equal in taste to Little Gem, will be ready to harvest from January onwards, for use in winter salads.

Thanks to Columbus who is credited with discovering the cayenne pepper, gardeners and cooks can enjoy the pleasure of this mixture containing red, yellow and orange. Beautifully ornamental and offering a mind blowing hot flavour experience. Most suitable for greenhouse culture. (Capsicum annuum)

These peppers might look small, but they certainly make up for size when it comes to flavour! One bushy plant will give you a non-stop summer crop of literally hundreds of mini, extremely hot peppers. (Capsicum annuum)

New 2008

Dwarf, compact plants produce a huge crop of small, blocky shaped, sweet peppers in red, orange and chocolate colours. Early to flower and to set fruit throughout a long growing season. Suitable for growing in a greenhouse or outdoors. Productive and decorative when grown in containers on a sunny patio.

Unbelievably long, slender, cayenne-style fruits with strong pungency, excellent for hot sauces or for drying to make powders. Fruits ripen dark bottle-green to red. High yielding of fruits up to 25cm (10 inches) long. Bushy plants for indoor or outdoor growing.

An attractive range of small, brightly-coloured fruits produced non-stop throughout the summer on compact, bushy, 37cm (15in) tall plants, making them ideal for growing in containers on a sunny patio.