Silverado is a new, improved variety with glossy dark green leaves, more savoyed than Fordhook Giant It also has a narrower stem. It’s very quick to grow and can be planted the year round. It takes 30 days for baby leaf and 60 days for full size. Read more about Silver Beet ‘Silverado’ (Beta vulgaris)
Dark green, glossy savoy leaves with stems of many colours including gold, pink, orange, purple, red and white with bright and pastel variations. It’s milder in flavour than normal silver beet. Read more about Silver Beet ‘Spectrum’ (Beta vulgaris)
This is the standard silverbeet (Swiss chard) with dark green, savoyed (crinkled) leaves, white veins and broad white stems. Sow from early spring until mid-summer for cropping most of the year. The later sowings will produce throughout winter.
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. Read more about Sorrel, French Red Veined
This traditional heavily savoyed bunching spinach has been bred for cooking not for salads. Best grown for harvesting in autumn, winter and early spring.
Paragon is the market leader across Australia grown by more growers than any other spring onion. Fantastic in our trials its vigour allows it to be grown all year round cropping well even in winter.. It has deep blue-green leaves and long white shanks. Read more about Spring Onion ‘Paragon’ (Allium tricoccum)
Swedes are turnip like root vegetables which when cooked has soft sweet flesh. Laurentian has round uniform roots with excellent sweet mild flavour. Sow December and January for autumn and winter cropping.
Max is a really good doer which grows well in cooler parts of Australia. It has an excellent disease resistance package and produces good flavoured, sweet tasting yellow cobs, often two per plant.
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. Read more about Sweet Corn, Super Sweet ‘Polaris’ F1 (Zea mays)
