BEST SELLING – RHS AWARD WINNING PATIO VEGETABLES COLLECTION

Growing your own vegetables couldn’t be easier! (And I know I’ve been telling you this for months now! )
Home grown, tasty, flavoursome crops and no vegetable plot to dig.
Offer ends: April 30th 2010

Only £9.99+P&P
It’s so easy to grow tasty, Home-Grown Vegetables with this Royal Horicultural Society Award of Garden Merit winning Vegetable Collection, plus Planters are perfect for small gardens, patios or even balconies.

Never grown your own vegetables before? Don’t worry, Thompson and Morgan supply easy to follow, step by step instructions with every collection.

Grow veg easy

Runner Bean St George
– An RHS AGM Winner thanks to its early and heavy crops of superior quality, stringless, smooth, fleshy, 25-30cm long pods which follows its distinctive red and white bi-coloured flowers.

Carrot Adelaide F1 Hybrid – Another RHS AGM Award Winner, one of the earliest maturing varieties, giving cylindrical, smooth-skinned, sweet and juicy carrots.
And F1 doesn’t mean it’s a car – it means it’s guaranteed to come out just like it should!

Potato Vales Emerald – An RHS AGM Winner. This exciting Maris Peer/Charlotte cross, gives huge yields of round/oval, cream-skinned and fleshed tubers. Ideal as an early-maturing salad potato.

Patio Vegetable Planters – Specially designed for growing fresh vegetables on the patio or in small gardens throughout the year. Each pack contains three planters in different sizes, chosen specifically for the varieties provided.

So easy to grow – Plant tubers, beans and seeds in their planters and water and feed as instructed. No digging, hoeing or strenuous work required. Compost not included. (But is available at every supermarket known to man!)

GET ALL THIS FOR ONLY £9.99+P&P

Don’t buy the kids an easter egg buy them this kit instead! OK, maybe not … but treat yourself to this amazing veggie kit and you’ll have so much fun growing vegetables on your patio this year that you’ll be hooked by this time next year!

Get your skates on and start thinking about whether you want to buy any ready grown plug vegetable plants. Now’s the time!
Fruit and Vegetable Plants at Gardening Direct
With 12 fruit trees to pick from you could be planting your very own orchard at home. They take very little loking after and you’ll get to pick lots of amazing fruit.
The soft fruit bushes are excellent value – and grow the rights ones and you could be picking fresh raspberries this time next year.
With gooseberries and blackcurrants available too you’ll find you can make the best jams imaginable!
Their vegetable collections are well worth considering – all the hard work took out of growing things from seed!
Great gardening shop online!

It’s time to start buying any winter veg you want to be planting this autumn (Unless you’ve been organised and actually bought seeds and got them ready to plant out now!)

Winter Vegetable plants bargain from Dobies – 50 plants for only £9.95
Only 1 week left!
Last order date 21st August
50 Plug Plants (10 of each variety): Sprouting Broccoli Late White – Tender
white shoots from mid-March; Sprouting Broccoli Claret – Enjoy the large purple
shoots from early April; Cabbage Excel – Crisp, tasty hearts in the early spring
but enjoy as tender greens in autumn; Cabbage Spring Hero – From early May start
to pick the solid heads of Spring Hero; Cauliflower Mayfair – Firm white curds,
crop from April.

I’ve also been eating lots of freshly picked veg including yellow tomatoes from a neighbouring plotholder’s greenhouse and some delicious runner beans. And a courgette!
I’ve sliced the courgette (A diamante round one) into fairly thin slices and gven them a thin lick of oil, and put them on the grilling machine grill we have. Then turned until they’re done and put a tiny drop of pesto and sandwiched the slices up and then gave it another minute. They looked amazing and tasted fantastic! I’ve eaten runner beans, lightly cooked, and thrown into a dish with some pesto and tomatoes and that was really nice too!
I’ve now got to freeze some runner beans – which you do apparently by preparing as normal, blanching in boiiling water for 2 mins and then cooling as quickly as you can. Use ice packs in a bowl of cold water after you’ve dashed them under the cold tap. Then dry and pack into portions. The portion size is important as if you don’t dry them completely, or freeze separately you’re likely to get blocks that you can’t split up and will have to cook too many at once. Small portions best and put inside bags and then boxes to help eliminate freezer burn.
Some people swear by just cutting and freezing them, so I might try both methods and compare!
I’ve also been told of a chutney for runner beans (tomatoes, onions, runner beans, and normal chutney recipe adapted and it’s delic!)

You can plant a variety of vegetables to overwinter for either an early harvest or winter pickings.

Seed Potatoes, Garlic, Onions, Mushrooms from Thompson & Morgan

They sell several types of garlic which does well from an autumn planting – Early Purple Wight which can be harvested as early as May, Lautrec Wight  and Purtple Moldovan.

Onions ‘Senshyu’ and ‘Shakespeare’, as well as Shallot ‘Escalote Grise’ are good from an autumn planting.
They also have 4 types of asparagus – ‘Ariane’, ‘Guelph Millennium’, ‘Pacific 2000’ and ‘Purple Pacific’ all ideal for autumn planting.

Two of their current best sellers include:

Elephant Garlic 12 cloves – £6.99

Asparagus Autumn Collection 20 crowns – £24.99

Thompson & Morgan have so many different vegetable plants and seeds available you’ll really enjoy looking at their website for gardening ideas and inspiration.

It’s easier than you think to grow fruit and vegetables at home. You don’t need a massive garden, a patio or balcony is enough if you’ve got room for a few large pots. Decide what you really like eating best if you’re short of space and if you’ve got more room then you can grow more!

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