Growing Guides

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  RAINBOW

  Bring colour to your vegetable garden with white, red, pink and yellow stems and savoyed green leaves. A good addition to salads as a baby leaf or can be left to mature for cooking.

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  LITTLE GEM

  Britain's best loved lettuce, quick to mature and producing compact Cos type heads. Heads are a fine sweet flavour with a crisp and crunchy texture. Grows well under cloches and great for successional sowing.

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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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  ST GEORGE

  A winner of the prestigious RHS AGM, the bicolour flowers make it ornamental enough for the flower garden. The crisp, tender, fleshy, tasty pods are produced in clusters for quick, easy picking.