Touchwood vegetable seeds

Seed sent free with deliveries of plants, labels, DVD, otherwise: UK Postage & Packing is £1, but free for 15 or more packets. Worldwide postage is currently £1.50, £1 for £20 or more, free for £30. Postage may rise with postage charges

BUY MORE...SAVE INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS! Yes, that means with UK postage that 10 packets are £16 but you can get an extra 5 packets for only £2.75 as 15 packets are only £18.75 ...........and yes 20 are only £20 incl UK postage! So go on, treat yourself! Don't forget, there's LOADS of non-aquilegias to choose from as well to buy the required amount for the discount.

READY RECKONER: 1packet=£1.50, 2=£3, 3=£4.50, 4=£6, 5=£7.50., 6=£9, 7=£10.50, 8=£12, 9=£13.50, 10=£15, 11=£16.50,12=£18, 13=£18.75, 14=£18.75, 15=£18.75 and free p&p in UK , 16=£20, 17=£20, 18=£20, 19=£20, 20= £20, 21=£21, 22=£22 .et cetera! Yes….if you buy 10 packets, you may as well buy 20: £4 more (incl postage) for 10 more packets! Don't forget to add postage if under 15 packets.

VEGETABLES Not very many offered this year, due to lack of interest in veg during the last two years. Below is seed remaining from last years list (half price).

atriplex hortensis rubra Purple Orache: a hardy annual that self-seeds. Ornamental foliage plant to 1m or more with luscious deep purple-black leaves. Luscious? Yes, edible as a leaf to mix into salads! Tenderest for salads when young, it can also be cooked!

~Cress As easy to grow as cress! Broadcast quite thickly is a small area of the garden and keep cutting-and-coming-again over many weeks. I love this spicey flavour, totally unlike the 'growing salad' punnets from supermarkets which is usually rape seedlings.

~Cress American OR Land CRESS Tastes as close to watercress as you can grow in an ordinary garden, unless you have water flowing through it. Totally unfazed by frosts, you can keep picking right through the winter months. Biennial, with clouds of yellow flowers, this will self-sow each year for you.

+~Herby salad mix lettuce,mizuna, rocket, cress, giant red mustard, chicory

+~KALE 'Scarlet' great veg, stands winter well, also as baby leaf saladling.
decorative

+~KOHL RABI Purple Vienna Eat the swollen stems, very tender. Quick to harvest.

~mustard Ruby Streaks Well flavoured red-streaked finely divided leaves. tasty and ornamental, both in the garden and on the plate.

+~ RADISH Black Spanish Round Go on, confuse, horrify or excite your friends with these unusual radish! White flesh contrasts well with the black skin. Large roots said to store well, with a milder flavour.

+PEA Salmon coloured flowers
Heritage selection
Pea with lovely salmon coloured flowers. SOLD OUT 2008

Tomato SPECIAL OFFER BUY ANY 3 PACKETS AND CLAIM A 4TH PACKET FREE!

Tomato ‘Gardeners’ Delight’(15) Despite much experimenting, I find it very difficult to grow a better flavoured tomato than this.

+Tomato yellow, lemon shaped (15) Loads of lemon-shaped and coloured fruits! Photo shows four of them compared to a Gardener's Delight tomato. Look fantastic, whole, in salads.

+Tomato San Marzano (10) A long plum tomato with fleshy fruits, which have very few seeds. Really good for slicing.

+Tomato Brown Berry (10) That's different! The two shown here have been contrasted with a Gardener's Delight tomato to show the colour difference.

+Tomato Sungella (15) Long, large trusses of golden yellow, well flavoured fruits. If this is what I can achieve when I don't bother to ever feed the tomatoes, just think of how they'll respond to your tender loving care!

+Tomato Tigrella (15) The tiger-striped tomato! The stripes are subtle but definitely stronger than I could get the photo to show. Larger sized fruits, with good flavour.

+~Tomato Tamina (15) Early, huge crops.

+Tomato Great White (10) Beefsteak tomato that changes from green to a greeny-white when ripe.

+Tomato President Garfield (10) Named after the 20th American president, who was assassinated a few months after taking office.
This is a big, butch tomato.

Best sown Tuesday-Sunday.

LAST YEAR'S VEGETABLE SEED LIST

Below I list spare vegetable seeds from Touchwood or from swaps/purchases from 2007.

None appear in this year’s main seedlist.

75p / packet, 10 or more 50p so use this ready reckoner: 1=75p,2=£1.50, 3=£2.25, 4=£3, 5=£3.75, 6=£4.50 7=£5, 8=£5, 9=£5., 10=£5, 11=£5.50, 12=£6, 13=£6.50, 14=£7, 15=£7.50, 16=£8, 17=£8.50, 18=£9, 19=£9.50, 20=£10, have free packet! 21=£10, 22=£10.50, 23=£11, 24=£11.50….et cetera! See main seedlist for postage costs in UK and abroad.

LAST YEARS VEG	SPARE SEEDS
+~PEA	Mangetout 'Zuccola'	maincrop sow March-June 8cm apart Mature in 14-16 weeks
+~PEA	Mangetout 'Sugar Ann'	Early organic sow late March onwards 5-8 cm apart Mature July
+~PEA	Mangetout 'Carouby de Mausanne'	maincrop sow April onwards 5cm apart Mature early July onwards
+~PEA	Sugar pea 'Oregon Sugar Pod'	early sow March to early May 5-8cm apart Mature late Juneonwards
+~CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN	Corona d'Oro	Tasty and virtually stringless golden pods.
+~CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN	Cosse Violette	Well flavoured large darkest purple pods.
BORLOTTA BEANS		Red and green seedpods. Grow and harvest as runner beans, or wait and harvest the seeds themselves as dried beans.
+~MITSUBA		A type of Japanese parsley, grown for the leaf. Cut and come again.
+~Tatsoi Tah Tsai		Chinese cabbage. Rosette forming, spoon shaped leaves.
+~SAVORY		Winter savory, great herb used rather like thyme. Bees love the plants. Hardy perennial.
~BASIL		Italian large leaf. Cut and come again.
+~MUSTARD	'Golden Streaks'	Sister to Ruby Streaks above. Finely divided tasty leaves. Cut and come again.
+~MUSTARD	'Red Giant'	Large leaves, red colouring, fine flavour. Cut and come again.
+~ROCKET	'Sky'	Rocket is one of the easiest salad crops to grow. Even the flowers are edible! Cut and come again.
+~BEETROOT	'Crimson Globe'	Try it raw: grated. Tastes good and is even better for you!
+~BROCCOLI	Early purple sprouting	Sow spring for crops the next spring when nothing else exciting is available. Good raw as well as cooked.
+~CHINESE CELERY	Kintsai	Perennial, grown for the leaves and stalks. Cut and come again
+~SALAD MIX	Spicy green	A great mix of wonderful cut and come again saladlings.
+~LETTUCE	'Tom Thumb'	Sow March-April (under glass if necessary). Good for also raising in pots or windowboxes.
+~SUMMER PURSLANE		Unusual salad crop. Succulent leaves.
+~WELSH ONION	Red form!	Perennial grown for the tasty leaves...here in red.
+~SPRING ONION	White Lisbon	For sowing March to Sept
+~RADISH	Rat tail ...eat the pods!	Long long pods to harvest. Forget the roots when each plant bears hundreds of tasty pods that are even juicier, and nicer, than the roots!
+~RADISH	Easter Egg 2 Mix	All shapes and sizes and colours...including purple! Sorry, no pic.
+~RADISH	Jaba sprouting seeds	Grow indoors in jam-jars as a sprouting seed, or in the garden as a cut and come again leaf salad.
+~SPINACH	Campania f1	Sow Jan-March and Oct-Dec Use young leaves in salads and cook older ones.
+~SPINACH	Fiorano f1	Sow April-Sept Use young leaves in salads and cook older ones.
+~CORIANDER		Salad leaves, very easy to grow. Musky orange flavour.
+~TOMATO	Alicante	Well flavoured fleshy tomato.

Good quality white labels …….30 for £1 ................70 for £2

‘Invisible’ green labels……….20 for £1 .................50 for £2

‘Highly visible’ yellow ....……. 20 for £1 ..................50 for £2

or mix yellow and green…….20 for £1 ..................50 for £2

or mix 5 colours…………......….20 for £1 ..................50 for £2

Label postage: they are relatively heavy, so 50p per 50 (or part thereof)

But no seed postage to pay if you order labels, and labels sent free with plants-by-post orders

Stabilo Write-4-all permanent marker ...... £1.50 plus 40p postage (free postage with seed order)

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