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. Read more about Lettuce, Salanova® Red Crisp (Lactuca sativa)
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. Read more about Lettuce, Salanova® Red Oakleaf (Lactuca sativa)
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. Read more about Mache (Corn Salad) (Valerianella locusta)
Beautiful to look at and delicious to eat this yellow skinned, white fleshed melon is one of a new breed of juicy honeydew varieties with good vigour and a good disease resistance package.
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.
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.
A terrific replacement 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
The deep red leaves, which have a very mild mustard flavour, will add a striking colour for salad mixes. Can be used as a baby leaf or allowed to grow to full size. Sow from early August until late April. 21 days baby 40 days full size
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.
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. Read more about Onion ‘Pukehohe Long Keeper’ (Allium cepa)
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. Read more about Onion ‘Tilbury’ F1 (Allium cepa)
Great Southern White is an intermediate to long day variety with strong upright tops, with a medium to wide neck. Highly uniform, large sized bulbs with a globe shape. Best suited to Southern regions but widely adaptable.
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.
A premier variety of flat-leaf parsley with large thick glossy dark green leaves and delicious aromatic flavour. Vigorous, upright habit and very high yielding. Sow seed on bottom heat during early spring and in situ during late spring, summer and early autumn. Read more about Parsley, Flat-Leaf ‘Midori' (Petroselinum crispum)
'Viking' is a wonderful new variety of parsnip which is a vigorous grower and will produce smooth, white skinned, 27cm long, wedge-shaped roots. The roots keep a good thickness down to the base making them ideal for roasting. Read more about Parsnip ‘Viking' F1 (Pastinaca sativa)
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. Read more about Pea, Climbing ‘Alderman’ (Pisum sativum)
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.
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. Read more about Pea, Shelling ‘Onward’ (Pisum sativum)
