New products at Suttons Seeds
by Sarah - August 2nd, 2013.Filed under: New Products, Suttons Seeds.
New items today at Suttons Seeds
Garlic, Onion & Shallot – Collection £10.49
Garlic, Onions & Shallots for autumn planting – gives you an earlier crop next year! Now an essential part of so many kitchen gardens, with excellent health benefits (lowering blood pressure, fat and cholesterol levels and combating infections). And they couldn’t be easier to grow – simply plant the garlic cloves and onion sets in autumn, and they’ll be ready to lift and dry next July. Collection contains 1 pack each of Garlic, Onion & Shallot:Garlic Purple Wight (semi-hardneck) – A good garlic that is earlier than Solent Wight being ready to lift from mid-June. Has an attractive purple-striped skin containing strong tasting cloves. Stores well until the end of the year. 2 bulbs (5-8 cloves per bulb).Onion Set Senshyu Yellow – An extremely popular Japanese over-wintering onion, reliably producing a heavy crop of semi-globe-shaped, straw-coloured bulbs of excellent quality, which should be ready to harvest in early July. 250g Pack.Shallot Griselle – A robust spicy taste that will not disappoint! Best planted October to mid December, it multiplies well to give a good crop of long, grey-skinned bulbs in June. Use green or dried for storage well into winter. 400g Pack.
Onion & Shallot – Twin Pack £7.49
Essential vegetables, each of them with a distinct flavour! Ideal for pickling as well as cooking, they are an easy-to-grow, undemanding crop and always provide good yields. Twin Pack contains one pack each of Onion and Shallot:Onion Troy – An extremely productive, early-maturing hybrid onion with excellent tolerance to bolting, which will produce a heavy crop of tasty, dark yellow-skinned, round to flat-round bulbs. Plant from September to December; harvest June-July. 250g pack.Shallot Griselle – A robust spicy taste that will not disappoint! Best planted October to mid December, it multiplies well to give a good crop of long, grey-skinned bulbs in June. Use green or dried for storage well into winter. 400g pack.
Hyacinth Bulbs – White Pearl £6.99
Tightly-packed columns of deliciously scneted white, bell-shaped flowers. Height 25cm. Bulb size 16-17cm. (Bulb sizes quoted in centimetres refer to the circumference of bulbs. All bulbs are sourced from cultivated stocks.) Please note: Handling bulbs may cause temporary itching.Dont forget that bulbs arent just for outdoors. This selection of varieties have been specially prepared to put on an outstanding show in your home. Simply plant them up in some of your favourite planters and in a matter of weeks, when they come into bud, be ready to move them into pride of place!
Tulip Bulbs – Colour Mystic (Chameleon) £6.99
A beautiful bic-coloured red and yellow tulip. The red colouring giving a splashed effect on the yellow. The unique ‘Chameleon Tulip’, whose multiple heads change colour as they age. Flowers April-May. Height 50cm. Bulb size 11/12cm. (Bulb sizes quoted in centimetres refer to the circumference of bulbs. All bulbs are sourced from cultivated stocks.) Tulips are a must for every spring garden, creating colourful displays in beds, borders, containers and rockeries. These classic beauties are, of course, the perfect companions to spring bedding plants, and they make superb cut flowers too. They are the embodiment of a British spring garden, but did you know that they have their humble origins in the mountains of Kazakhstan? And did you know that in the early 17th century, when ‘tulip mania’ hit Holland, prices of the recently introduced bulbs soared, some single bulbs selling for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman! Today there are literally thousands of varieties available, in a stunning array of colours and forms.