Illustrated List: L

Lamb's Lettuce : Cavallo

Vegetable.

Corn Salad Cavallo keeps on producing a mass of fresh flavoured, deep green 'lamb's lettuce' leaves. A late summer sowing will guarantee winter salads.

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1 packet (650 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Tasty water cress substitute, Land Cress is ready in 7-8 weeks. Sow seeds from early spring onwards, over-winters too. Vitamin, iron and calcium rich cress which tastes almost like watercress but has a smaller leaf providing a continuous supply over a long period. Salad Leaves Land Cress is easy to grow and does best in a cool moist soil and part shade.

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1 packet (1100 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.99

Leaf Beet 'Bulls Blood Scarletta'

Vegetable. New Intense scarlet leaf and stem colour, similar to a narrow stemmed chard, for picking regularly to add a rich colour and eye appeal to the salad bowl. Also superb as a steamed vegetable utilising both stems and leaves, hot or cold. Easy to grow in patio containers.

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1 packet (250 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.99

Leaf Beet 'Fantasy'

Vegetable. New Probably the best tasting Red Chard. The taste is mild, juicy and delicious with no harsh aftertastes unlike most Red Chards. Ideal for successional sowing through the spring and summer for both ‘baby leaf’ or as mature plants. High tolerance to downymildew.

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1 packet (175 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.09

Leaf Beet : Bright Lights

Vegetable.

An exciting mixture offering coloured stems in classic red, white, pink, violet, green, gold, orange, yellow and some even striped! The wonderfully coloured stems of Swiss Chard Bright Lights are crowned with large foliage of green or bronze. Guaranteed lo brighten the vegetable patch or why not grow Swiss Chard Bright Lights in the border. The flavour is deliciously mild and packed with nutritlonal content coming to harvest about 60 days after sowing.

Cropping from mid-summer to late autumn. After a normal winter, it will re-emerge to give an unbelievably early spring crop.

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1 packet (80 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Leaf Beet : Bright Yellow

Vegetable.

The beautiful, broad golden stalks of Swiss Chard Bright Yellow are a striking and colourful addition to the vegetable garden and the flower border or containers. The sweet stalks can be steamed as a vegetable or, when young, eaten raw in salads. Swiss Chard Bright Yellow is slow to bolting and has good winter hardiness.

Cropping from mid-summer to late autumn. After a normal winter, it will re-emerge to give an unbelievably early spring crop.

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1 packet (85 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.49

Leaf Beet : Duo

Vegetable.

Swiss Chard Duo comprises one packet each of Bright Yellow and Rhubarb Chard.

Swiss Chard Bright Yellow

Beautiful, broad golden stalks are a striking and colourful addition to the vegetable garden and the flower border or containers. The sweet stalks can be steamed as a vegetable or, when young, eaten raw in salads. Slow to bolting, good winter hardiness.

Rhubarb Chard

A colourful and tasty form of Swiss Chard with rich ruby-red leaf stalks and dark greeny purple foliage. Produces an abundance of large, tasty leaves and wide mid-ribs. Cook the succulent mid-rib like asparagus and serve with melted butter. Easier, and some consider tastier, than spinach. If the plants are left to flower, the flower stalks can be cooked and eaten like sprouting broccoli.

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2 packets - 1 of each (235 seeds in total) Save £1.39 Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.99

Leaf Beet : Five Colour Silverbeet (Heritage)

Vegetable.

A rainbow mix of vibrant stem and leaf colours maintained as an Australian heirloom. An excellent value crop as the juicy, mild flavoured broad stems (chards), and the leaves (as spinach) can be eaten. Both are best steamed, but as baby leaves the stems and leaves can be added to salads. Decorative vegetable perfect for borders and containers.

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1 packet (200 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.99

Leaf Beet : Lucullus

Vegetable.

A much more prolific form, Swiss Chard Lucullus produces an abundance of large, tasty leaves and wide, white mid-ribs. Cook the succulent mid-rib like asparagus and serve with melted butter. Easier, and some consider tastier, than spinach. If the plants of Swiss Chard Lucullus are left to flower, the flower stalks can be cooked and eaten like sprouting broccoli.

Cropping from mid-summer to late autumn. After a normal winter, it will re-emerge to give an unbelievably early spring crop.

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1 packet (200 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.09

Leaf Beet : Rhubarb Chard

Vegetable.

A colourful and tasty form of Swiss Chard with rich ruby-red leaf stalks and dark greeny purple foliage. Swiss Rhubarb Chard produces an abundance of large, tasty leaves and wide mid-ribs. Cook the succulent mid-rib like asparagus and serve with melted butter. Easier, and some consider tastier, than spinach. If the plantsof Swiss Rhubarb Chard are left to flower, the flower stalks can be cooked and eaten like sprouting broccoli.

Cropping from mid-summer to late autumn. After a normal winter, it will re-emerge to give an unbelievably early spring crop.

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1 packet (150 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.99

Leek : Autumn Giant 2 - Argenta

Vegetable.

Peforms outstandingly whether sown early or late and does well over a long season. Leek Autumn Giant 2 Argenta matures in October, yet stands ready for harvest right through to May, giving high quality, thick, long and very heavy stems, of excellent mild flavour and yield with few bolters. NIAB Recommended.

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1 packet (150 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.19

Leek : Autumn Giant 2 - Porvite

Vegetable.

An excellent Leek giving mid green, erect foliage, and heavy, uniform stems. Leek Autumn Giant 2 Porvite also features resistance to bulbiness and bolting, as well as high rust tolerance. Seeds in the RHS Vegetable Collection, this leek also has good standing ability in the garden.

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1 packet (200 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Leek : Bandit F1 Hybrid

Vegetable.

An outstanding variety for harvesting from winter through to spring. Leek Bandit has excellent garden performance and winter hardiness, showing good tolerance against rust and bolting.

Good weight of stem without bulbing and dark leaves. The dark leaves of Leek Bandit contrast with pure white, thick stems of superb flavour.

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1 packet (250 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Leek : Below-Zero F1 Hybrid

Vegetable.

British breeding has combined the vigour of an F1 Hybrid with extreme cold tolerance to produce quality leeks which will withstand the harshest of weathers. Dark leaves, pure white stems with no bulbing, long standing ability and bolting and rust tolerant. Lift fresh superb quality stems from Christmas to May.

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1 packet (50 seeds) (50 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.99

Leek : Blauwgroene herfst-Ardea - Organic

Vegetable.

An excellent flavoured autumn maturing variety, with exceptional winter hardiness. Leek Blauwgroene herfst-Ardea has very good rust tolerance, which is essential during wetter weather. Producing erect dark green foliage and pure white stems with minimal bulbing.

Bred to give increased Hybrid vigour, garden performance and flavour, thus increasing your harvest. Due to their wide ranging pest and disease resistance, there will be no need for the use of chemicals, making them ideal for organic gardeners.

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1 packet (150 seeds)	£2.29	Out of stock

Leek : Bleu Solaise (Heritage)

Vegetable.

Reliable winter variety with short, heavy stems. Extremely winter hardy for Christmas to April harvest. The blue leaves may tinge purple during extremely cold weather. Distinctive blue-ish leaves make it an attractive dot plant in the flower borders.

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1 packet (300 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.99