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Leeks – an excellent winter vegetable

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Thompson & Morgan have a variety of leeks available – seeds and plants!

Cabbage 'Tundra' F1 Hybrid (Winter Savoy) - 15 plants

Cabbage ‘Tundra’ F1 Hybrid (Winter Savoy) – 15 plants £5.49
Solid, sweet, crisp heads that are ideal for winter salads. Winter Savoy Cabbage ‘Tundra’ is high yielding and particularly hardy, so it can be harvested right through the winter. Cabbages are easy to grow being perfectly suited to the British climate, and make a delicious and healthy side dish, as they are high in vitamins and low in calories. Height: 30cm (12”). Spread: 60cm (24”).Please note: Delivery is subject to plant size, and adverse growing conditions during production may delay despatch schedules.

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Cabbage plants

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Thompson & Morgan has cabbage plants available to buy.

Cabbage 'Tundra' F1 Hybrid (Winter Savoy) - 15 plants

Cabbage ‘Tundra’ F1 Hybrid (Winter Savoy) – 15 plants £5.49
Solid, sweet, crisp heads that are ideal for winter salads. Winter Savoy Cabbage ‘Tundra’ is high yielding and particularly hardy, so it can be harvested right through the winter. Cabbages are easy to grow being perfectly suited to the British climate, and make a delicious and healthy side dish, as they are high in vitamins and low in calories. Height: 30cm (12”). Spread: 60cm (24”).Please note: Delivery is subject to plant size, and adverse growing conditions during production may delay despatch schedules.

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Kohl rabi

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Thompson & Morgan has this easy to grow unusual vegetable. Should grow in most gardens with minimum effort.

Try it! It’s a bit like broccoli stems – that’s the easiest way of describing it! Slice thin to stir fry or lightly steam it!

Kohl Rabi 'Kolibri' F1 Hybrid - 1 packet (35 seeds)

Kohl Rabi ‘Kolibri’ F1 Hybrid – 1 packet (35 seeds) £2.89
Attractive, purple-skinned roots with pure white, succulent flesh, best eaten when golf ball size, although the flesh still remains succulent and bitter free when roots are larger. Easy to grow, quick to mature in under 8 weeks from sowing. Plants have a neat, compact growth making them ideal for early sowings under cloches or fleece.Prefers well-drained, moist, rich soil in full sun. A rich source of the provitamin A, vitamins C and K and folate as well as the antioxidant carotenoids b-carotene and lutein.

Comfrey – great for your garden

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Thompson & Morgan have comfrey available to use straight away, as seeds or to grow from a plant!

Comfrey Pellets - 1 litre bag - 600 gms

Comfrey Pellets – 1 litre bag – 600 gms £12.99
All the superb attributes of comfrey – rich in potash, trace elements and minerals – for all of your vegetable plants, particularly beneficial with potatoes. Apply the pellets direct when planting, 125g per sq.m, also makes a concentrated liquid feed (200g steeped in 1 litre of water for 3 days, then diluted 1:25 as a foliar feed). Pellets can be added to rotted garden/ farmyard compost, 600g incorporated in 125 kgs of compost. Comfrey pellets naturally enrich the soil, as a soil conditioner, essential for the long term health of your vegetable garden.

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Basil seeds

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

How small are basil seeds?Basil grows best in a pot. The seeds are tiny. Start a new pot every couple of days if you like to have a lot of basil.

Seeds a mm wide and about 2-3 mm long. Tiny! So you’ll have to take care to spread them thinly!

Best value seed listed first – 4000 seeds should give you enough basil to last all summer long if you’re a huge basil fan. Different types available to give you slightly different tastes!

Basil ‘Genovese’ – Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds – 1 packet (4000 seeds) £2.29

Basil ‘The Spice Boys Collection’ – 1 packet (1500 seeds) £4.29

Basil ‘Lime’ – 1 packet (400 seeds) £1.99

Basil ‘Sweet Green’ – 1 packet (400 seeds) £1.99

Basil ‘Aristotle’ – Kew Collection Seeds – 1 packet (35 seeds) £2.99

Basil ‘Crimson King’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £0.99

Basil ‘Genovese’ – Duchy Originals Organic Seeds – 1 packet (300 seeds) £1.99

Basil ‘Large Leaved’ (Lettuce leaved) – 1 packet (250 seeds) £1.99

Basil ‘Purple Ruffles’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £1.99

Basil ‘Siam Queen’ – 1 packet (100 seeds) £1.99

Basil ‘Christmas’ – 1 packet (150 seeds) £1.99

Help starting off plants and seeds

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Some seeds need a nice warm temperature to get them started.
This is where a heated propagator comes in handy!

Thompson & Morgan just added these new items

Propagator - Jumbo Propagator - 1 jumbo propagator

Propagator – Jumbo Propagator – 1 jumbo propagator £119.99
Ideal for propagating seeds and cuttings all year round, with the capacity to hold 8 full size seed trays. Strong, sturdy frame with a thermostatically controlled heated mat and sensor. Easy to assemble.End panels can be unzipped to provide ventilation and the heated mat can be rolled up for easy storage. Thermostat can rise to 40 degrees and in increments of 8.Dimensions: 130cm x 60cm x 50cm).2 year guarantee.

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Seed Propagation trays

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Loooking to buy seed trays to start off plants?

Fantastic items available now at Thompson & Morgan.
Leeks, sprouts, tomatoes and peppers can all get started in modules and seed trays.
You can buy smaller ones which are ok for leeks and other plants. Bear in mind how long plants will be in them. Some plants like courgettes, melons, sweet peas, sweetcorn and marrow like being in a root trainer pot instead as it gives them a longer root system.

Bench Tidy - 1 bench tidy

Bench Tidy – 1 bench tidy £19.99
A practical tray ideal for keeping your greenhouse or potting shed tidy. High sided walls will hold plenty of composting whilst filling pots and trays for seed sowing or potting on.Also features a handy detachable shelf, to hold all those useful seed sowing and potting accessories.Dimensions: 61cm x 55cm x 20cm.Bench Tidy contents not included.

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Dwarf Borlotti beans

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Dwarf borlotti bean in close upThompson & Morgan sell Dwarf Borlotti beans. Some people prefer to just eat the beans when you harvest> Good for pots.
The hilum is the palest oval bit of the seed. This is where it was attached in the pod.

Dwarf Bean 'Splendido' (Borlotti Bean) - Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds - 1 packet (60 grams)

Dwarf Bean ‘Splendido’ (Borlotti Bean) – Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds – 1 packet (60 grams) £2.29
The broad, 13cm (5”) pink-red pods of this attractive variety each contain 6-7 cream and red streaked Borlotti beans. The immature pods of Dwarf Bean ‘Splendido’ can be harvested and used as French beans, but are best left to mature and harvested for the full sized seeds in autumn. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 30cm (12”).

Sweet Pea Seeds

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Close up of sweet peaTwo collections from T&M.

Thompson & Morgan have over 50 varieties so well worth a look!

Sweet Pea Collection - 10 packets - 1 of each variety (230 seeds in total)

Sweet Pea Collection – 10 packets – 1 of each variety (230 seeds in total) £12.15
An outstanding collection of fragrant sweet peas, specially selected for their colour, form and rich perfume. These cottage garden favourites are superb for cutting and the more blooms you cut, the more they will flower! Pop a few stems in a vase to fill a whole room with fragrance. Grow sweet peas against a sunny fence or trained on a free standing obelisk. Height: 180cm (71″). Spread: 30cm (12″).Collection comprises one packet each of: Sweet Pea ‘Appleblossom’ – Gently ruffled, blush-pink blooms. Sweet Pea ‘Anniversary’ – Large, frilly, white blooms with an attractive rose-pink, picotee edge. Sweet Pea ‘Chatsworth’ – 5 to 6 pale lavender blooms on each tall, straight stem. Sweet Pea ‘Cream Southborne’ – one of the best cream varieties available. Sweet Pea ‘Firecrest’ – Fiery red blooms that won’t bleach in the sun. Sweet Pea ‘Kingsize Navy Blue’ – Dark navy-blue flowers and superb, intense fragrance. Sweet Pea ‘Orange Dragon’ – An eye catching orange flowered variety for the show bench. Sweet Pea ‘Pink and White Ripple’ – Large, wavy pink and white blooms. Sweet Pea ‘White Supreme’ – Pure white sprays on long stems that are ideal for cutting. Sweet Pea ‘Wiltshire Ripple’ – Distinctive, bicolour, striped blooms of rich claret on a snow-white background. Useful links:How to grow sweet peas 

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Runner beans

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Runner beanRunner beans at Thompson and Morgan – one of my favourite summer vegetables!

Put plenty of good compost material in the bed about January and then when you plant them out you’ll find they have plenty of energy to draw on and will get going really well. Water regularly and feed well too!

Runner Bean ‘Benchmaster’ – 1 packet (40 seeds) £2.99

Runner Bean ‘Celebration’ – 1 packet (40 seeds) £3.69

Runner Bean ‘Crusader’ – Heritage – 1 packet £1.99

Runner Bean ‘Desiree’ – 1 packet (50 seeds) £3.99

Runner Bean ‘Enorma’ – 1 packet (40 seeds) £2.99

Runner Bean ‘Enorma’ – 12 plants £8.99

Runner Bean ‘Enorma’ – Duchy Originals Organic Seeds – 1 packet (30 seeds) £2.99

Runner Bean ‘Goliath’ – Heritage – 1 packet £1.99

Runner Bean ‘Lady Di’ – 1 packet (40 seeds) £3.69

Runner Bean ‘Moonlight’ – 1 packet (45 seeds) £3.29

Runner Bean ‘Pickwick’ (Dwarf) – 1 packet (12 seeds) £1.89

Runner Bean ‘Polestar’ – 1 packet (40 seeds) £2.99

Runner Bean ‘Scarlet Emperor’ – 1 packet (20 seeds) £1.99

Runner Bean ‘Scarlet Emperor’ – 1 packet (50 seeds) £2.99

Runner Bean ‘Scarlet Emperor’ – Duchy Originals Organic Seeds – 1 packet (30 seeds) £2.99

Runner Bean ‘Scarlet Emperor’ – RHS Garden Explorers Children’s Seeds – 1 packet (20 seeds) £1.49

Runner Bean ‘St George’ – 1 packet (40 seeds) £2.99

Runner Bean ‘Summer Medley’ – 1 packet (45 seeds) £3.69

Runner Bean ‘White Lady’ – 1 packet (40 seeds) £3.29