Lambley Nursery

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

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Lettuce

Lettuce, Red Baby Cos 'Rosaine'

Red Sweet Gem Type

A beautiful looking red leaved baby cos which, athough good on its own, is great in a mixed lettuce salad. It can be sown the year round and has an excellent sweet flavour and crisp texture. It also has a terrific disease resistance package. Sow all year round.

Packet 40 seeds $5.75 each

Lettuce, Red Butterhead ‘Skyphos’

Far and away the best red butterhead available. Quick growing with tender, sweet, deep burgundy and cream hearts. A favourite at Lambley. I’ve only just started growing this superb variety. It has a sweet excellent flavour and a soft texture.

Packet 30 seeds $5.50 each

Lettuce, Red Oakleaf 'Rouxai'

A new oakleaf with attractive lobed leaves, deep cherry red colour, great flavour and texture. Good for year round production. The best red oakleaf to date.

When to sow: Year round

Where to sow: Seed trays, pots or direct sow

Depth to sow: 5mm

Packet 30 seeds $5.50 each

Lettuce, Salanova® ‘Green Crisp

Salanova lettuce are a terrific innovation in lettuce breeding. Salanova® varieties grow like a head lettuce but have a lot more leaves which are evenly proportioned and baby sized. The seed is pelleted and primed for ease of planting and quick germination.

30 for $5.75, 100 for $12.75, 500 for $38.00

Lettuce, Salanova® Green Oakleaf

Latest Innovation in Lettuce

Salanova lettuce are a terrific innovation in lettuce breeding. Salanova® varieties grow like a head lettuce but have a lot more leaves which are evenly proportioned and baby sized. The seed is pelleted and primed for ease of planting and quick germination.

30 for $5.75, 100 for $12.75, 500 for $38.00

Lettuce, Salanova® Red Butter

Latest Innovation in Lettuce

Salanova lettuce are a terrific innovation in lettuce breeding. Salanova® varieties grow like a head lettuce but have a lot more leaves which are evenly proportioned and baby sized. The seed is pelleted and primed for ease of planting and quick germination.

30 for $5.75, 100 for $12.75, 500 for $38.00

Lettuce, Salanova® Red Crisp

Latest Innovation in Lettuce

Salanova lettuce are a terrific innovation in lettuce breeding. Salanova® varieties grow like a head lettuce but have a lot more leaves which are evenly proportioned and baby sized. The seed is pelleted and primed for ease of planting and quick germination.

30 for $5.75, 100 for $12.75, 500 for $38.00

Lettuce, Salanova® Red Oakleaf

Latest Innovation in Lettuce

Salanova lettuce are a terrific innovation in lettuce breeding. Salanova® varieties grow like a head lettuce but have a lot more leaves which are evenly proportioned and baby sized. The seed is pelleted and primed for ease of planting and quick germination.

30 for $5.75, 100 for $12.75, 500 for $38.00

Melons

Melon ‘Rangipo’ F1

Best flavoured

Rangipo is one of the best flavoured cantaloupe available in Australia today. The deep orange flesh is juicier than most and has a terrific cantaloupe flavour.

Grow them in two ways:

Packet 10 seeds $8.75 each

Melon, 'Allbright’ F1

Mid-season Cantaloupe

Extends the season as it ripens a few weeks later than Saba. Albright produces good quantities of sweet well flavoured fruit.

Grow them in two ways:

Packet 10 seeds $6.25 each

Melon, 'Allstar’ F1

Harper Style Rockmelon

Medium sized ‘Harper’ style rockmelon with excellent flavour and quality and strong resistance to Powdery Mildew and Fusarium Wilt.. Very good resistance to ground cracking.

Packet 10 seeds $6.25 each

Melon, 'Piel de Sapo'

Spain's Favourite Melon

‘Piel de Sapo’ melons have very sweet juicy aromatic pale green to white flesh. This melon is widely grown in Spain. ‘Piel de Sapo’ translates as “skin of the toad’ which poetically describes the thick mottled green skin.

Packet 10 seeds $6.50 each

Melon, 'Saba' F1

Earliest to ripen

The earliest cantaloupe to ripen in our trials with the first fruit ready to pick in Early February even though the summer was cool. Productive cropper with excellent flavour. As well as being early it will ripen quite late in autumn from an early summer sowing.

Packet 10 seeds $6.25 each

Melon, Charentais 'Sultan’ F1

Early traditional French melon

Charentais are the small sweet aromatic melons preferred by the French. During their season they can be found all over France.

Packet 10 seeds $6.50 each

Melon, Honeydew 'Sweet Delight’

Productive Early Honeydew

‘Sweet Delight is a delicious honeydew melon with juicy, full flavoured flesh if picked ripe. As it is quick to ripen it can be grown in cooler areas of Australia where the later ripening heirloom strains are problematic.

Packet 10 seeds $6.50 each

Melon, Piel de Sapo ‘Ricura’ F1

Ricura Piel de Sapo Melon

A terrific new Piel de Sapo melon with good internal qualities, juicy and sweet. The flavour is delicious. A great favourite of Europeans from Barcelona to Birmingham. ‘Ricura’ has a good disease resistance package.

Packet 10 seeds $8.25 each

Melon, Watermelon ‘Conguita’ F1

New black skinned small watermelon

A terrific new black skinned variety weighing a convenient 2-3 kg when ripe. The firm flesh is sweet, crisp and deep red with a much more intense flavour than the seedless varieties.

Packet 8 seeds $9.95 each

Melon, Watermelon ‘Gatinho’ F1

New small tiger

This new small tiger striped micro-seeded variety is a prolific setter 2-3kg fruit that have a sweet crisp, red firm flesh. Good disease resistance package.

Grow them in two ways:

Packet 8 seeds $9.95 each

Melon, Watermelon ‘Tigrinho'

New tiger striped small watermelon

A beautiful looking and productive tiger striped variety weighing 2-3 kg with sweet, firm, crisp, red flesh. Flavour is out of this world, much better than the seedless types. ‘Tigrinho’ will ripen in cooler as well as warmer areas of Australia.

Packet 10 seeds $9.95 each

Baby Leaf

Mizuna

A quick growing, slow bolting salad green with a mild mustard flavour. It can be picked in as little as three weeks from sowing. It adds a piquancy to a mixed salad bowl but I enjoy it on its own with an olive oil and balsamic dressing.

Packet 500 seeds $5.50 each

Mizuna 'Miz America' F1

New Baby Leaf Dark Red Leaved Mizuna

A terrific new mizuna for baby leaf or full size. Good looking with serrated leaves it is mild in flavour. Sow from early August until late April. 21 days baby 40 days full size

Packet 200 seeds $5.00 each

Other

Okra 'Jambalaya' F1

New Early High Yielding Okra

Jambalaya is an extra early variety which will produce many dark green pods even in colder. Sow in individual pots on bottom heat in early spring for planting out when weather warms up in late spring.

Packet 30 seeds $5.25 each

Onions

Onion Flat White 'Bianca di Maggio'

Flat White Salad Onion

Delicious 'cipollini' onion suited to fresh use in salads, pickled, baked or roasted. ‘Bianca di Maggio’ doesn’t store well and should be used soon after harvest. Sow from March until June for a spring harvest.

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

Onion ‘Pukekohe Long Keeper’

This is the best open pollinated long keeping onion for southern Australia. I grow it every year and it keeps the family in onions from January until October. Plant seed in drills during August or early September. Thin to 5 or 6cm apart using the thinning as scallions.

Packet 300 seeds $4.50 each

Onion ‘Tilbury’ F1

Australia’s longest storing onion. This improved Pukekohe Longkeeper type has a high number of attractive dark golden skins next to no thick necks. If stored properly it will keep well into spring from a January harvest.

200 for $5.75, 1000 for $12.00, 5000 for $42.50

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