Growing Guides

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  KALIBOS

  A delicious novelty - it has red, pointed heads - is notable for its sweet flavour and is perfect grated raw into salads or cooked. It originally came from Eastern Europe and is well worth trying.

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  PEPPERMINT

  Peppermint is a new and extremely attractive two-tone Swiss chard. which produces spectacular coloured leaves once the plants have established. Graduating from flamingo pink to white and with deep green coloured leaves, this variety of chard will not only add flurries of colour to your vegetable patch but can decorate any flower border it is added to.

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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.

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  DEFENDER

  Courgette Defender has an open bush habit, making it very easy to harvest. It is also very early to crop (sometimes in June). It is a heavy yielding variety which is resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus. Deep green fruits are produced all summer long if cropped regularly.