Lambley Nursery

Lambley Gardens & Nursery, 395 Lesters Road, Ascot, Victoria 3364
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Lambley Nursery Vegetable Seed Catalogue

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Cabbages

Cabbage ‘Red Sky’ F1

Superb Red Cabbage

Close planting produces small 1kg cabbages wider spacing will produce 4kg cabbages. Good red colouring throughout, small core, slow to bolt. 10-11 weeks from planting out seedlings. Best for summer and autumn crops, Sow from late winter until early January.

30 for $5.35, 250 for $16.75, 1000 for $44.00

Cabbage ‘Tiara’ F1

Superb Mini-Cabbage

Produces 1.5 kg round densely packed heads with a sweet flavour which is better than Gonzales which it replaces. Slow to bolt Tiara is excellent both cooked and used fresh in salads. Sow from July until February for cropping most of the year.

Packet 40 seeds $5.25 each

Cabbage, 'Primo Vantage' F1

Great Flavoured Early Cabbage
This is a good choice for those who live in very hot areas as it will flourish in the hottest conditions. The flavoursome 2 kg densely packed round heads are slow to bolt. Sow from early August until late October.

Packet 40 seeds $5.25 each

Cabbage, Red Savoy ‘Deadon’ F1

A good new winter red savoy cabbage which resists splitting for a good length of time. Plant seed from mid-summer until mid-autumn for harvesting from early to late winter. This cabbage has a good sweet flavour which improves with cold weather.

Packet 30 seeds $5.50 each

Cabbage, Savoy ‘Alcosa’ F1

A terrific savoy cabbage which can be planted from early spring until late autumn. Size will depend on how closely seedlings are planted. I plant this variety closely 25cm by 25cm to give a cabbage which will feed half a dozen people.

Packet 30 seeds $5.75 each

Capsicum

Capsicum ‘Harley’ F1

The best new proven performer blocky, sweet capsicum which ripens well in cooler districts. It has good disease resistance and good leaf cover to protect the fruit from scalding in the heat of summer.

10 for $6.75, 50 for $18.00

Capsicum ‘Sunny F1’

Early Yellow Blocky

A blocky yellow fruited high yielding variety. Fruits are thick walled, blocky and four lobed. It has a long harvest period.

Packet 10 seeds $6.50 each

Capsicum, 'Hustler’ F1

Sweet Banana Wax Capsicum

‘Hustler’ is a very productive variety of yellow with straight fruit averaging 20cm in length. The fruit has thick walls and delicious sweet capsicum flavour. Good disease resistance makes this one of the best of its type.

Packet 15 seeds $6.50 each

Carrots

Carrot 'Mokum' F1

Hybrid Baby Carrot

One of the quickest carrots to produce 36 days for baby and 54 days for full size. The slender roots have a very good sweet flavour and a crisp texture. Performs well under a range of conditions even during hot weather.

Packet 200 seeds $5.00 each

Carrot 'Romance' F1

Romance Carrot

The hybrid carrot ‘Romance’ is a good doer even in hot weather. Sow seed from August until late February for harvesting much of the year. High-yielding deep orange coloured roots to 175mm long once mature.

Packet 200 seeds $5.00 each

Carrot 'Sweetheart'

Best open pollinated baby carrot

‘Sweetheart’ is very sweet, flavoursome and productive bunching carrot for year round production. It takes about 90 days from seed sowing to harvest and maintains its flavour at a larger size.

When to sow: Late winter until early March.

Packet 500 seeds $5.25 each

Cauliflower

Cauliflower 'Skywalker F1' (Organic)

Organic Seed

The best organic variety for autumn and winter harvest. Large vigorous plants.

When to sow: Late spring until early autumn

Where to sow: In a seed tray, pots or garden seed bed

Depth to sow: 1/2cm

Packet 30 seeds $6.00 each

Cauliflower 'Veronica F1'

Romanesco broccoli

Romanesco cauliflowers have light green, amazingly beautiful, intricately spiralled heads. The flavour is more delicate and nutty than white cauliflowers. Romanesco can only be grown to be harvested in autumn and winter. Sow seed from early December until early February.

Packet 30 seeds $6.00 each

Cauliflower 'Vitaverde F1'

‘Vitaverde’ is a strong grower suited to near year round production as it is both heat and cold tolerant. Sow seed from August until late February. Makes large heads on a healthy large frame with an attractive, green curd.

Packet 20 seeds $5.50 each

Cauliflower ‘Amazing’ F1

Excellent open pollinated variety for late summer, autumn and early winter crops. Sow in succession from November until February for a long season

When to sow: Early summer to early autumn

Where to sow: In a seed tray, pots or garden seed bed

30 for $5.25, 250 for $32.50

Cauliflower ‘Snow Crown’ F1

Early and vigorous

An award winning easily grown variety for sowing from late winter until early summer for an early summer to autumn crop. Produce top quality medium sized heads.

Packet 30 seeds $5.75 each

Cauliflower, Romanesco 'Puntoverde' F1

Romanesco broccoli

Romanesco cauliflowers have light green, amazingly beautiful, intricately spiralled heads. The flavour is more delicate and nutty than white cauliflowers. Romanesco can only be grown to be harvested in autumn and winter.

30 for $5.75, 100 for $12.75

Herbs

Chervil ‘Vertissimo’

Vertissimo is a slow bolting deliciously flavoured chervil. It can be used in salads, as a micro green or a garnish. Plant seed in drills in the garden in spring and again in autumn.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Chinese Leeks/Garlic Chives/Kow Choi

Garlic chives are a perennial onion relative with a flavour closer to garlic than chives. The leaves are used in stir fries, pancakes and dumplings as well as a garlic substitute in stews etc.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Chives 'Naomy'

I always have a patch of chives in the garden. This is an excellent flavoured variety with delicate fine leaves good for both cooking and as a garnish.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Coriander ‘Santo’

As I grow coriander for its leaves rather than for its seeds I grow this slow bolting variety. It is ready to pick in less than a month and a half and will under reasonable conditions take three or four months before it runs up to seed.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Other

Chicory Italian Dandelion 'Clio' F1

Italian Dandelion

Not a true dandelion but a narrow leafed chicory this cut and come again, slow to bolt vegetable is a great addition to mixed leaf salads but is a joy when sautéed in olive oil. Slow to bolt ‘Clio’ can be sown in situ from August until April. 48 days to harvest.

Packet 100 seeds $5.50 each

Corn Salad/Mache

Corn Salad (Mache)

Anyone who has ever eaten corn salad, or mache as it is known in Europe, knows just how wonderful a winter salad green it is. A cool season vegetable I pick enough for a salad several times a week from the end of May until spring.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Corn

Corn, Super Sweet ‘Polaris’ F1

Polaris cobs grow to 20cm long and are sweet and juicy. The plant can make 180-200cm tall and provides good disease resistance to ensure a bumper crop. A terrific 'honey and cream' variety to use instead of Samurai.

Packet 100 seeds $5.00 each

Cucumber

Cucumber 'Clarion Pickler’ F1

Productive Gherkin 55 days from transplant A beautifully shaped pickling cucumber which brines well and has excellent flavour if eaten fresh. It has very uniform, cylindrical fruit which set 1or 2 fruits per node. Replaces ‘Harmonie’

Packet 20 seeds $6.00 each

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