Growing Guides

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  SCARLET EMPEROR

  The variety everyone knows - probably because it is reliable, crops well and produces beans of outstandingly good flavour. There are better strains available, but none which is as well loved or as widely grown as this great old performer.

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  HARRIER

  One of the quickest maturing varieties producing good yields of fruit in just over 3 months. Fruit have a sweet flesh and average 1kg in weight.

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  EXCEL

  The sweetest flavoured spring cabbage, its small heads are quite delicious. The flavour is perhaps better still when harvested as really young spring greens.

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  RHUBARB

  The plant forms clusters of leaves tinged red with a deep red rib.The leaves can be gently cooked like Spinach and the ribs treated like Asparagus. Pick young stems and the plant will keep producing new growth. Ideal as a baby leaf and adds colour to salads, with its remarkable red petioles, mid-rib and veins.