Lambley Nursery Vegetable Seed Catalogue

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Melons

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Onion, Mini 'Purplette'

Mini-onion Purplette

Purplette is a glossy rich burgundy which changes to rich pastel pink when cooked or pickled. Quick to mature, taking 60 days, only it can be dug at golf ball size or smaller and holds well in the garden. Sow August or early September.

Packet 200 seeds $4.75 each

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Onion, Red 'Rio Red Rocks' F1

‘Rio Red Rocks’ has been the best red onion in our trials over the last two or three years. It’s very productive, with a firm skin and good colour both exterior and interior. Sow from the end of July until early September.

200 for $5.25, 5000 for $12.75

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Onion, White ‘Sierra Blanca’ F1

Widely adapted onion which can be grown the length and breadth of Australia. Produces large white white skinned onions with a mild flavour and thick rings. Sow early spring in southern Australia and autumn in the north.

Packet 100 seeds $4.75 each

Roquette/Rocket

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Organic Rocket 'Esmee'

Best flavoured organic rocket

Beautiful new “oak leaf” rocket with a three dimensional shape which lets it sit lighter in the salad bowl. Excellent flavour. Sow all year round. 21 days baby 40 days full size.

When to sow: Early spring - mid autumnOrganically Grown Seed

Packet 400 seeds $5.00 each

Herbs

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Parsley Curly Leafed ‘Limerick’

A new improved variety boasting a high yield from a uniform plant with sturdy stems.I plant seed on bottom heat early in the spring and outside in the garden after mid-November. Parsley will sometime bolt if seed is planted in soil which is too cold.

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

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Parsley ‘Giant of Italy'

Slow bolting parsley

A real giant but with wonderful Italian parsley flavour has an amazing size and productivity. Sow seed on bottom heat during early spring and in situ during late spring, summer and early autumn. Parsley can bolt if seed is planted in soil which is too cold.

Packet 150 seeds $4.50 each

Parsnips

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Parsnip ‘Melbourne White Skin'

We only sell fresh parsnip seed as old seed has very poor germination rates. This selected open pollinated vigorous strain has excellent white tapered roots, firm and bulky. Sow from early spring until early December.

100 for $5.50, 1000 for $25.75

Peas

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Pea, Climbing ‘Alderman’

Not for Tasmania

Climbing Pea ‘Alderman’ Tall climbing pea Alderman’ is an old climbing variety sometimes known as ‘Telephone Pea’. It needs wire or trellis and will grow 2 metres tall and produce good quantities of 12cm long pods of tasty sweet peas.

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

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Pea, Shelling 'Novella'

Not for Tasmania

Novella is a unique leafless shelling pea. It can be grown with no support as it has a mass of tendrils instead of leaves. 70 days to first pick.

Packet 150 seeds $4.50 each

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Pea, Shelling ‘Green Feast’

Not for Tasmania

An old variety which carries good quantities of 11cm long pods with up to 9 peas per pod. Will grow 75cm tall. Not for Tasmania.

Packet 150 seeds $4.50 each

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Pea, Shelling ‘Melbourne Market’ syn Massey Gem

Not for Tasmania

Melbourne Market is one of the best flavoured shelling pea and is widely planted by both professional farmers and home garden gardeners. Plants are dwarf, growing to 50cm only, and productive producing pods that contain 8 peas. Not for Tasmania.

Packet 150 seeds $4.50 each

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Pea, Shelling ‘Onward’

Not for Tasmania

An old variety, very popular in Europe and the USA ‘Onward is only just starting to make its mark in Australia. Sweet and flavoursome it is a prolific producer of large pods. Not powdery mildew resistant so best grown in the cooler months.

Packet 100 seeds $4.75 each

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Pea, Shelling ‘Princess'

Not for Tasmania

‘Princess’ is a new dwarf shelling pea which carries large straight pods some 10cm long. Peas are sweet and full of flavour. Not for Tasmania.

Packet 150 seeds $5.00 each

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Pea, Shelling ‘Willow’

Not for Tasmania

Willow is a fabulous new variety of shelling pea. It produces a large number of attractive, long, dark green pods. Willow is resistant to powdery mildew so a late planting is worth a try. Plant seeds 2cm deep in a 10cm wide band approximately 20 seeds per 30cm.

Packet 150 seeds $4.50 each

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Pea, Snow 'Green Devil' PBR

Green Devil Snow Pea

An exciting new variety of snow pea with excellent disease resistance producing dark green, flat pods under a variety of weather conditions. An October or November planting would be worth a try as Green Devil is powdery mildew resistant.

Packet 100 seeds $5.50 each

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