New products at Dobies
by Sarah - May 20th, 2016.Filed under: Dobies, New Products.
New items at Dobies
Veg Salad Plant Collection £19.99
A collection of 10 Super Plug Plants of tasty salad veg:Tomato Hundreds & Thousands (Micro) – This amazing tomato is perfect for hanging baskets or patio containers. The cascading plants live up to their name, producing literally thousands of sweet, juicy, grape-sized tomatoes in an inexhaustible supply throughout the summer (we counted over 2000 tomatoes from a single basket!). Plants are vigorous and easy to grow, and you won’t be able to resist popping the delicious fruits in your mouth every time you walk by! Voted a Which? Best Buy too! 1 Super Plug Plant.Tomato Lizzano – This tomato shows excellent resistance to the scourge of late blight. A bush type and therefore very easy to grow (no side-shooting), it is equally at home in a sunny spot in the garden or in a large container on the patio. The fruit, produced in enormous quantities, is large cherry-sized, deep red in colour and exceptionally sweet! (Bush variety – very easy to grow as trusses do not require support and fruits without side shoots being removed.) 1 Super Plug Plant.Tomato Tigerella – Unusual Tiger striped variety. Tasty medium sized fruits. Harvest July-October. 1 Super Plug Plant.Pepper Redskin – A dwarf pepper producing good yields of medium-sized exceptionally sweet-flavoured red fruits. 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! 1 Super Plug Plant.Pepper Apache – Neat compact plants bearing a prolific crop of medium hot green (turning to red) chillies. Grows to 45cm (18) tall. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. 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! 1 Super Plug Plant.Cucumber Mini Baby – Aptly named, this mini cuc is one of the sweetest we have ever found in our trials. Harvest this little beauty from 7.5cm (3) up to 15cm (6) in length. Very prolific and has resistance to powdery mildew disease. This greenhouse/outdoor variety is a good source of vitamin A, magnesium, phosphorus and manganese, and a very good source of vitamin C, vitamin K and potassium. Harvest July-September. Tom says: The perfect snacking cucumber, the flavour of this mini cucumber when eaten straight from the plant is so far from the flavourless green batons you find in a supermarket. Ideal for lunch boxes, snacking with dips or eating straight from the plant. 1 Super Plug Plant.Lettuce Mixed (Amaze, Mottistone, Lollo Bionda) – If you’ve never grown your own lettuce plants to experience that ‘fresh from the garden’ taste, try this pack providing a range of colours, tastes and leaf types. 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! 4 Super Plug Plants.
Pepper (Chilli) Plant Collection £19.99
Collection contains 10 Super Plug Plants (2 of each variety) of the following Pepper (Chilli) varieties:Harbanero Red Devil – Exceptionally hot red chilli. Strong productive plant ideal for pots and containers on a sunny patio or conservtory.Habanero Big Sun – Wrinkled fruits approximately 6cm (2) long and 5cm (2) wide with a strong fruity flavour. They grow on a bushy plant and mature from dark green to a fantastic vivid yellow. Height 100-120cm (38-48). Rating 250,000-350,000 SHU (rating measured in Scoville heat units – SHU.Joes Super Long – High yields of hot, slender, cayenne-style chillies reaching up to 25cm (10) long. Ripen from a dark, bottle-green to red with a strong pungency that is excellent for making hot sauces or for drying to make powders. For glasshouse or outdoors. Height 80100cm (32-40) in a 7-10 litre pot. (South America) – 15,000-20,000 SHU.Prairie Fire – Masses of very small, upward-pointing peppers that ripen from cream, through yellow, orange and purple to red. Ideal in pots and super for a windowsill. Small, tapering fruits are 1cm () at widest, 3cm (1) long. Height 20-30cm (8-12) when grown in 10cm pot. (Mexico) – 70,000-80,000 SHU. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.Piri Piri – A small but hot pepper, used in the preparation of Piri-Piri sauces. They are 1-2cm (-) long and 1cm () wide. Great for pots on the patio or balcony. Height: From 30cm (12) when kept restricted in a 10cm (4) pot to 120cm (48). Rating 175,000-250,000 SHU.(Rating measured in Scoville heat units – SHU. The higher the rating the hotter the chilli.)
Lavender Hidcote Plants £19.99
No summer garden should be without this traditional favourite! Be creative with your lavender: its mounds of fragrant grey-green foliage are ideal for borders, hedging, in pots, or in combination with other architectural plants such as agapanthus. Hang bunches of flowers to dry and use it in potpourri indoors. Hidcote – A compact variety of the popular English lavender. Its dense, intensely aromatic, silver-grey foliage is covered, in summer, with spikes of fragrant, deep violet flowers. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Height 60cm. Middle of border variety.
Poppy Mixed Plants £19.99
An outstanding mix of poppies bringing a range of colour to containers and beds in your garden or patio:Pizzicato – A breathtaking semi-dwarf mixture producing robust plants with red, orange, salmon, mauve, rose, pink and white flowers 15-20cm (6-8) across, all with a distinctive black centre. Height 50cm (20).Coral Reef – Large flowers, often 12.5cm (5) across, in an intense and vivid coral pink never seen before in true oriental poppies and rarely matched in the entire flower kingdom! Produces many blooms over a long period and is not prone to ‘flopping over’ like so many older varieties. Flowers late May-August. Height 60-69cm (24-27). Middle of border variety. Papaver orientalis (Oriental poppy) – These hardy oriental poppies, with their velvety, bowl-shaped blooms, are simply breathtaking! Superb for creating texture in a border.Royal Wedding – These hardy oriental poppies, with their velvety, bowl-shaped blooms, are simply breathtaking! Royal Wedding – Exquisite large white flowers with black blotched centres from late spring, ideal for mixed border. Flowers May-July. Height 90cm (36); spread 50cm (20). Supplied in a 1 litre pot. Back of border variety.