Grow Your Own made easy

04/09/2009

There is nothing nicer than the taste of home-grown fruit and vegetables. And now Gardening Direct has made it easy for gardeners of every level of expertise to Grow Their Own with their new Vegetable Collections.

The new Vegetable Collections are available in Family Plot size (for a family of four

or an allotment) and Small Plot size (for the smaller garden). The varieties supplied as large plug plants throughout the year at the optimum time for planting. The Collections cost 149.95 and 49.95 respectively

The Family Plot selection is designed for an area measuring 20 ft x 30ft and features 27 different varieties of vegetable! These varieties have been carefully selected to ensure that customers have fresh vegetables to harvest throughout the year and are enough to feed a family of four!

Varieties include: Broad Bean Aquadulce, Broccoli Marathon, Broccoli Purple Sprouting, Cabbage Celtic, Cabbage Durham Early, Cabbage Dutchy, Cabbage Primo,

Carrot Paris Market Baron, Cauliflower Madallion, Cauliflower Igloo, Courgette Collection, Cucumber Green Fingers, Cucumber Marketmore, French Garlic Christo, Leek Bandit, Lettuce Little Gem, Lettuce Mixed Baby Leaves, Red Salad Bowl, Lettuce Tom Thumb, Pea Dwarf Sugar Snap, Potato Carlingford, Runner Bean Streamline, Spinach Perpetual, Spring Onion White Lisbon, Squash Waltham Butternut as well as Sweet Peppers and Tomatoes.

The Small Plot collection features Broccoli Purple Sprouting, Broad Bean Aquadulce, Lettuce Little Gem, Cauliflower Igloo, Mixed Lettuce Baby Leaves, Spring Onion White Lisbon, Runner Bean Streamline as well as selected Tomatoes and Courgettes.

So whatever the size of plot available, customers can now easily grow their own. Gardening Direct also supplies gardening advice on how to easily grow fruit and vegetables.

Other vegetable highlights include Asparagus Gijinlim (an excellent heavy yield hybrid producing a profusion of thick tender spears) and Garlic Purple Moldavan (a rare Black Sea variety from antiquity!).

Fruit varieties include Blueberry Blue Crop (long-lived, fully hardy and easy to grow in ericaceous compost), Gooseberry Invicta (a vigorous grower and resistant to mildew with an abundance of smooth skinned flavoursome fruit), Raspberry Glen Ample (exceptionally heavy cropping variety with good virus and aphid resistance and superb flavour) and Cherry Stella (self-fertile with attractive spring blossom and delicious dark red fruits).

Prices for all the fruit and vegetable varieties are highly competitive, starting at only 5.99.



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