Illustrated List: V

Vegetable - Easy Grow Collection - SPECIAL OFFER

The most economical way of feeding your family healthy and wholesome vegetables is to grow your own! You'll have the added benefit of knowing exactly where they've come from, and that they are as fresh and nutritious as they could possibly be. With this range of easy-to-grow vegetables, you'll have a good variety to choose from. Most of the veg featured here will be ready to pick in about 12 weeks. Some, like radish, will be ready to eat in just 3 to 4 weeks from sowing! What could be easier! Tasty and crisp, raw or cooked - always a treat!

Easy Grow Vegetable Collection comprises one packet each of:

Carrot Flyaway F1 Hybrid (500 seeds)

Courgette Defender F1 Hybrid (12 seeds)

Radish French Breakfast 3 (1000 seeds)

Lettuce Ultimate Mixed (200 seeds)

Climbing French Bean Cobra (40 beans)

Runner Bean White Lady (40 beans)

Sweet Corn Extra Tender and Sweet F1 Hybrid (30 seeds)

Tomato Sungold F1 Hybrid (10 seeds)

Spinach Medania (750 seeds)

Sugar Snap Pea Oregon Sugar Pod (300 seeds)

Vegetable - Patio Seed Collection

Here's a great little collection of easy and tasty veg to grow in planters or raised beds.

Collection comprises one packet each of:

Courgette Black Forest (4 seeds)

Aubergine Baby Rosanna F1 Hybrid (6 seeds)

Sweetcorn Minor (50 seeds)

Pea Twinkle (300 seeds)

Tomato Tumbling Tom (15 seeds)

Vegetable - Sunday Lunch Collection - SPECIAL OFFER

Imagine going out into your garden and picking all the vegetables you need for your Sunday roast! You'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you grew them yourself and that they are as fresh as they could be - and all for the price of a few packets of seed! Vegetables taste so much better when they have just been picked or pulled from the ground. Don't waste your time with supermarket veg - there's not much goodness or flavour in veg that's been sitting on a shop shelf for a week and then in your fridge for a few days! The vegetables featured here are easy to grow and will help create a delicious and nutritious Sunday lunch.

Sunday Lunch Vegetable Collection comprises one packet each of:

Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia (50 seeds)

Brussels Sprout Trafalgar (40 seeds)

Carrot Tendersnax (250 seeds)

Cauliflower Gipsy (30 seeds)

Parsnip Gladiator F1 Hybrid (300 seeds)

Pea Hurst Green Shaft (450 seeds)

Vegetable : Healthy Vegetable Collection

Thompson & Morgan are pleased to be working with Dr. Laurence J. Trueman, the research leader at Horticultural Research International. Dr. Trueman says that the 5-a-day mantra is eating as wide a variety of fruit and vegetables as you can. However, if your plot is small he suggests the following Top 11 Healthy Vegetables to help you maximise the potential for health benefits.

Collection comprises 1 packet each of:

Pea Rondo - Rich in vitamins, they help remove harmful cholesterol.

Onion Red Baron - The red ones have an extra benefit for the heart; anthocyanin.

Spinach Perpetual - Popeye was right! You can eat no better vegetable.

Kale Dwarf Green Curled & Broccoli Tendergreen - The only brassicas you really need!

Watercress - A rising star: the healthiest natural super food available.

Leek Oarsman F1 Hybrid - Enjoy to combined advantages of onions and green leafy vegetables.

Tomato Aviro F1 Hybrid - Red pigment lycopene is a very big asset to health.

Soya Bean Elena - The Chinese know about healthy food - they eat lots of these.

Carrot Rainbow F1 Hybrid - Try the multicoloured ones for the full benefit of plant carotenoids.

Pepper Summer Salad F1 Hybrid - Antioxidants in bright colours help fight the war against ageing.

Vegetable : Mini Vegetable Collections A & B

You can grow a healthy crop of vegetables even if you only have a small garden or patio by using this unique collection of compact vegetables! Each variety can be harvested at a small size, which ensures a succulent flavour.

Collection A comprises one packet each of:

Beet Pablo, Carrot Mini Finger, Courgette Black Forest, Lettuce Minigreen, Radish Rougette and Pea Half Pint.

Collection B comprises one packet each of:

Cabbage Shelta, Calabrese Kabuki, Leek King Richard, Parsnip Dagger, Runner Bean Hestia and Sweetcorn Minor.

Vegetable Collection - Customer Favourites

SPECIAL OFFER

Thompson & Morgan's selection of Customer Favourites specially chosen for the NEW 2010 Collection.
Collection comprises one packet each of:
Brussels Sprout Trafalgar, Carrot Flyaway, Lettuce Chartwell, Runner Bean White Lady and Tomato Cherrola.

Vegetable Spaghetti : Hasta La Pasta F1 Hybrid

A major improvement on the old spaghetti squash, Squash Hasta La Pasta offers appealing, deep orange flesh with a sweeter flavour. Extract the 'spaghetti' flesh from each boiled fruit to experience a very unusual vegetable. Squash Hasta La Pasta produces generous yields of pale orange-skinned fruits of up to 1kg (2.2lbs).

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Aubergine : Melanzana Prosperosa

Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Prosperosa produces flattened round, paler purple fruits with firm, bitter-free flesh.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Aubergine : Melanzana Viserba

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.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Creso

Attractive bright yellow, slender, stringless pencil podded ‘waxpods’ on vigorous bushy plants. Fagioli Nani Creso is early maturing and crops heavily over a long season if picked regularly.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco (Cannellino Bean)

The compact plants of Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco produces pale cream-yellow pods containing 6 or 7 large white ‘cannelloni beans’, essential for a range of specific dishes. Plants quite late maturing, usually grown for the fully mature seeds harvested in the autumn.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Splendido (Borlotto Bean)

Typical Borlotto. The 13-14cm, quite broad pods of Fagioli Nani Splendido 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.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Dolcio del Metro

Vigorous plants producing a tremendous crop of very long, thin green pods up to 45cm in length, hence their name. Fagioli Rampicanti Dolcio del Metro is also known as ‘asparagus bean’. Flavour is at its best when picked young and tender.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Beetroot : Bietola da Orto Paonazza d'Egitto

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.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Carrot : Carota Fucino

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.

Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Chicory : Cicoria Grumolo Verde

Forms an attractive rosette of green leaves and a small heart if grown to maturity, but Chicory Cicoria Grumolo Verde is often sown as a 'cut and come again' salad leaf.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.