Lambley Nursery Vegetable Seed Catalogue

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Asian Greens, Baby Bok Choi ‘Li Ren Choi’ F1

Best Baby Green Stemmed Bok Choi

This true baby bok choi is a great improvement on older types. Takes 45 days from sowing to harvest. Heads will not grow large so harvest at baby stage. Sow August until April. 45 days.

When to sow: September to February

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

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Asian Greens, Bok Choi ‘Black Summer’ F1

The best Bok Choi of the half a dozen varieties I’ve planted. It has dark green leaves on light green stalks. and makes a perfect vase shape even when small. Slow to bolt. I plant from September through until February.

When to sow: September to February

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

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Asian Greens, Bok Choi ‘Win-Win’ F1

Win-Win bok choi is smaller growing than Joi Choi and has excellent crisp white stems with dark green leaves. It can be harvested as a mini vegetable or grown to full size. It is vase shaped and has white stems and deep green leaves.

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

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Asian Greens, Choi Sum 'Gunsho F1

Choi Sum or Chinese broccoli is one of the most popular Chinese vegetables. They are harvested just before or just as the first flowers open. The stems are bright green, very sweet and have excellent flavour. The plant regrows and can be cut many times. Sow all year round.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

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Asian Greens, Choi Sum 'Hon Tsai Tai

Hon Tsai Tai

A purple stemmed and budded Chinese broccoli which will produce a large quantity of long, pencil thick stems. A good cut and come again variety. Used raw in salads or cooked in stir-fries or soups. Best sown from January until early May.

Packet 100 seeds $4.25 each

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Asian Greens, Shungiku

Aromatic edible chrysanthemum greens. Cut when 10-15cm tall for a flavousome addition to salads, pickles and sushi. Can be stir fried too. Sow seeds 1/2cm deep in 12cm wide bands about 80 seeds per 30cm. we are offering a fine leaf strain. Plant from August until April.

Packet 300 seeds $4.50 each

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Asian Greens, Tatsoi

Makes a compact rosette of dark green smooth leaves for salads and stir fries. 21 days baby leaf 45 days full size. Slow to bolt if planted from late spring until mid-autumn. Sow seed 1cm apart for baby leaf and thin to 15-20cm apart for full size.

Packet 500 seeds $5.50 each

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Asian Greens, Tokyo Bekana

21 days baby 45 days full size. A popular Japanese mini Chinese cabbage which can be harvested as a baby leaf or mini cabbage. Curly and ruffled light green leaves are excellent for salad as well as stir-fry. A good cut and come again vegetable. Sow all year round.

Packet 500 seeds $4.50 each

Asparagus

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Asparagus 'UC157 F1'

Bred in California for growing in hot climates ‘UC157’ is best both for commercial plantings and home gardeners. Or direct sow seeds 1cm deep and 2cm apart in a drill after the danger of frost is over. Transplant the following winter into permanent beds.

30 for $5.75, 100 for $14.75, 1000 for $95.00

Baby Leaf

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Baby Leaf Mustard Greens 'Golden Frills'

Baby Leaf Mustard Greens

21 days baby 40 days full size. A light green very frilled and ruffled leaf which makes a spicy sweet tasting salad green. Best harvested as a baby leaf for salads and as a full size for pickling or stir-fry. Sow from August until April.

Packet 500 seeds $4.50 each

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Baby Leaf Mustard Greens 'Red Antler'

Baby Leaf Mustard Greens

21 days baby 40 days full size. A sweetly flavoured mustard green with finely cut, dark red, ruffled leaves which will add a beautiful spicy touch to a mixed leaf salad. Sow from August until April.

Packet 500 seeds $4.50 each

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Baby Leaf, Amaranth Red Leaf Vegetable

Baby Leaf Red Leaf Vegetable Vlita

Vegetable Seed Online is a wonderful way of getting hold of this plant that Greek people love with its rich spinach flavour. It is far superior to silver beet. In Greece it is boiled in salted water and then served with a squeeze of lemon and a splash of olive oil.

Packet 200 seeds $4.25 each

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Baby Leaf, Beetroot ‘Ruby Lips’

Baby Leaf Beetroot

‘Ruby Lips’ is a red leaved beet for baby leaf production. It can be sown the year round and is especially useful for giving brilliant glossy red leaves in winter.

Sow from August until end of April for year round production.

500 for $5.25, 5000 for $12.75

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Baby Leaf, Premium Greens Mix

Asian Greens Baby Mixed Leaf

A beautiful looking mix of different leaf shapes and colours with an equally diverse range of flavours from mildly spicy to slightly sweet. This mix includes red mustard, green mustard, Chinese cabbage, bok choi and tatsoi. Sow from early August until late April.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

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Baby Leaf, Sorrel, French Red Veined

Baby Leaf Sorrel

An uncommon perennial herb/vegetable which will give salads a tangy lemon flavour. It can be cooked like spinach, made into a creamy fish sauce or a sorrel soup. Use young leaves only. Direct sow 1/2cm deep 12 seeds per 30cm and thin to 30cm apart using thinning as baby leaf.

Packet 100 seeds $5.50 each

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Baby Leaf, Spinach 'Black Glove'

Baby Leaf Spinach

Black Glove is best sown from early April until early September to give excellent crops during the cooler months. If sown during hot periods it is likely to bolt. It is equally suitable for baby leaf and full size bunching spinach.

Packet 500 seeds $5.50 each

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Baby Leaf, Spinach 'Raven'

Warm season baby leaf spinach

Raven is best sown in the warmer months from early October until the end of March. It has an upright growth habit and very dark, slightly savoyed, oval green leaves with excellent texture.

Packet 500 seeds $5.50 each

Herbs

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Basil 'Goldfields Early Wonder'

‘Gold Fields’ is a selection of Genovese basil, the one used for pesto, that is more tolerant of cold weather than traditional varieties. A strong plant with dark green leaves it has all the flavour of older types but can be sown a month or two earlier.

Packet 100 seeds $5.50 each

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Basil Italian Large Leaf

This variety is sweeter and has less of a clove-like flavour than normal basil. I find it a much pleasanter basil to use in pesto and tomato salads.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Beans

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Bean, Broad ‘Aquadulce’

This is the traditional variety which can produce up to 5 beans to each pod. Our strain has been rigorously selected to give long pods well filled with beans.

Packet 50 seeds $4.50 each

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Bean, Broad ‘Coles Dwarf’

Smaller growing and earlier cropping than ‘Aquadulce’. Our strain is rigorously reselected to give long pods often holding 5 beans per pod. Although dwarfer growing than ‘Aquadulce’ this variety will still need staking.

Packet 50 seeds $4.25 each

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Bean, Bush ‘Hickok'

Good looking, great flavour, excellent disease resistance and vigour. Beans are held well off the ground. Massive concentrated crop. Sow from September in warm districts, October in cold districts. Can be sown up until the end of January.

50 for $5.35, 250 for $9.95, 1000 for $32.00

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Bean, Bush ‘Jackson'

A brand new improved replacement for Rex with the long picking period from dark glossy green pods. Jackson handles hot and wet conditions better than its competitors. Improved disease package including resistance to summer death. Jackson has a superb flavour.

Packet 40 seeds $5.00 each