Growing Guides

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  KING EDWARD

  This old traditional English favourite needs good soil to do well and crops are more modest than some but it's well worth growing. Long growing season.Boil, steam, mash, chip, saute, bake or roast.

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  AILSA CRAIG

  (Indeterminate) A popular cordon variety that is reliable, with medium-sized fruits of fine shape and flavour. Ideal for greenhouse and outdoor growing.

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  ONION DE PARIS

  Onion de Paris gives a delicious crop of small, rather flat, white-skinned bulbs which are perfect either for pickling or adding to casseroles or salads. It has a good, full flavour.

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  MONTELLO

  (Determinate) This vigorous variety is so prolific; producing handfuls of tasty fruit that are so easy to harvest through mid- to late summer. Delicious enough to eat straight from the plant or added to salads; they also make excellent rich Bolognese sauces and soups. Can be grown in the greenhouse or outdoors.