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New products at Dobies

by Sarah - May 8th, 2013.
Filed under: Dobies, New Products.

New items added today at Dobies

Winter Veg Salad Plants - Collection

Winter Veg Salad Plants – Collection £8.99
Three excellent varieties that can be picked continuously throughout winter. Ideal for salads or stir-fries.Chard Rainbow Mix – Delicious and attractive stems in an array of bright shades. 18 Value plug plants.Lettuce Mix – A mix of different tastes, leaf colours and shapes. 18 Value plug plants.PLUS a packet of Rocket Pegasus Seeds – provides a good supply of strong flavoured leaves.

Tomato Grafted Plant - Cupido

Tomato Grafted Plant – Cupido £4.99
A red plum cherry tomato with excellent taste, which can be harvested loose or as a truss. The fruit average 15-20 grams and have very high brix with good cracking tolerance.For BEST VALUE, Pick and Mix any 4 Grafted Potted Plants for only £3.99 per plant! (Offer applies to Potted Plants only, not Super Plug Plants.)What’s so good about grafted veg plants?We are revolutionising the home grown vegetable market with our range of grafted vegetable plants! Commercially the grafting method has been used for some time, but we’ve developed them for the home gardener, and early adopters have had extraordinary results: – Big increases in yield from larger, more vigorous plants – Earlier cropping, yet with sufficient vigour to crop well later in the season – Grow in the greenhouse or outdoors – little or no heating required – Excellent resistance to soil-borne pest and diseases – no more ring culture or grow bags – plant straight in the soil – Greater tolerance to nutritional disordersTomatoes – We have selected leading commercial varieties and some traditional favourites – chosen for their fruit quality and taste – and grafted them, under carefully controlled conditions, onto Maxifort rootstock. Varieties are listed in approximate order of fruit size. Note that grafted tomatoes are not suitable for grow bags. An improved technique for tomato grafting – Since 2012, all Suttons grafted tomato varieties now use this new technique which leads to even earlier and bigger crops, with fruiting beginning lower on the stems, producing at least one extra fruit truss per plant during the season!

Autumn Veg Plants - Collection

Autumn Veg Plants – Collection £9.99
Comprises NEW Brussels Sprout Doric (a vigorous variety for later planting, good yields of quality, dark green buttons from Christmas through to February), Sprouting Broccoli Claret (large purple spears from early April). Cabbage F1 Sparkel (quick to crop and produces lots of tasty, nutritious leaves), Cauliflower Mayfair (high quality curds in April), Cabbage Spring Hero (solid heads from early May) and Kale F1 Reflex (a heavy-cropping variety; pick off the tasty, dark green leaves as required). Collection contains 36 plants (6 of each variety).

Kohl Rabi Plants - Duo Pack

Kohl Rabi Plants – Duo Pack £6.99
Twin Pack contains 18 plants (9 of each variety): Kolibri (a mid-early, purple-skinned variety with a flattish spherical shape and excellent flesh quality) and Korist (a very early white-skinned variety with a flattish globe shape with a mild crisp taste, which holds well without going woody).You don’t have to have a large vegetable garden to grow your own. Even the smallest patio or balcony can accommodate a few containers that will give you a bumper crop of delicious fresh produce!

Vegetable Protected Plants - Collection

Vegetable Protected Plants – Collection £9.99
You may think that during the winter months there is not much you can grow in the garden, but with this protected crop collection you will be able to grow on these plants under protection successfully for late winter-spring harvest. Five superb varieties to grow under cloches, or in a tunnel or greenhouse, for harvesting from early spring. Featuring:Lettuce Frostie – A hardy, pointed, leafy variety that is slow to bolt and retains its colour well. Cauliflower All The Year Round – Large, tasty, well-protected curds.Broccoli Marathon – Good crops whatever the weather! Carrot Chantenay Red Cored – A stump-rooted variety which is renowned for its fine flavour and texture.Collection contains 36 plants (18 Lettuce + Mixed pack of 18 Cabbage/Cauliflower/Broccoli) + Pack of Carrot seeds.

Tomato Grafted Plants - Cupido

Tomato Grafted Plants – Cupido £9.99
A red plum cherry tomato with excellent taste, which can be harvested loose or as a truss. The fruit average 15-20 grams and have very high brix with good cracking tolerance.What’s so good about grafted veg plants?We are revolutionising the home grown vegetable market with our range of grafted vegetable plants! Commercially the grafting method has been used for some time, but we’ve developed them for the home gardener, and early adopters have had extraordinary results: – Big increases in yield from larger, more vigorous plants – Earlier cropping, yet with sufficient vigour to crop well later in the season – Grow in the greenhouse or outdoors – little or no heating required – Excellent resistance to soil-borne pest and diseases – no more ring culture or grow bags – plant straight in the soil – Greater tolerance to nutritional disordersTomatoes – We have selected leading commercial varieties and some traditional favourites – chosen for their fruit quality and taste – and grafted them, under carefully controlled conditions, onto Maxifort rootstock. Varieties are listed in approximate order of fruit size. Note that grafted tomatoes are not suitable for grow bags. An improved technique for tomato grafting – Since 2012, all Suttons grafted tomato varieties now use this new technique which leads to even earlier and bigger crops, with fruiting beginning lower on the stems, producing at least one extra fruit truss per plant during the season!

Winter Veg Plants - Collection

Winter Veg Plants – Collection £8.99
Three first-class veg varieties have been selected that can be picked regularly all through the winter. Includes: Kale Cavalo Nero – Tasty kale leaves to pick young and use in salads or boil/steam in the usual way. 18 Value Plug Plants.Kale Fizz – Nutritious leaves for salads or cooking. 18 Value Plug Plants.Pea Twinkle – Enjoy delicious, crunchy, vitamin-packed, pea-flavoured shoots in just 3 weeks from sowing. 1 packet of seed.

Cut & Come Again Twin Pack

Cut & Come Again Twin Pack £13.99
A bumper pack that combines both our salad and veg plant collections.Winter Salad Collection – Three excellent varieties that can be picked continuously throughout winter. Ideal for salads or stir fries and includes: Chard Rainbow Mix – 18 Value plug plantsLettuce Mix – 18 Value plug plants Rocket Pegasus SeedsWinter Veg Collection Pick regularly all through winter and includes Kale Cavalo Nero – 18 Value plug plantsKale Fizz – 18 Value plug plants Pea Twinkle Seeds

Autumn Veg Plants - Collection

Autumn Veg Plants – Collection £14.99
Comprises NEW Brussels Sprout Doric (a vigorous variety for later planting, good yields of quality, dark green buttons from Christmas through to February), Sprouting Broccoli Claret (large purple spears from early April). Cabbage F1 Sparkel (quick to crop and produces lots of tasty, nutritious leaves), Cauliflower Mayfair (high quality curds in April), Cabbage Spring Hero (solid heads from early May) and Kale F1 Reflex (a heavy-cropping variety; pick off the tasty, dark green leaves as required). Collection contains 72 plants (12 of each variety).

Broccoli Plants - Summer Purple (Sprouting)

Broccoli Plants – Summer Purple (Sprouting) £5.99
A versatile broccoli for summer/autumn production, producing a reliable harvest of tender, fine-flavoured purple shoots over a long period. Healthy young plants, individually rooted in small plugs of compost, ready to plant out.