Lambley Nursery

Lambley Gardens & Nursery, 395 Lesters Road, Ascot, Victoria 3364
Phone +61 (03) 5343 4303, Fax +61 (03) 5343 4257

Lambley Nursery Vegetable Seed Catalogue

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Lettuce

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

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, 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 ‘Bravura’ F1

Bravura Piel de Sapo Melon

Juicy with a delicious sweet flavour ‘Bravura’ makes a productive strong healthy plant with excellent disease resistance.

Grow them in two ways:

Packet 10 seeds $7.75 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 ‘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 ‘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

Onion, 'Red Long of Tropea'

Red Onion

This classical Italian onion with its torpedo shaped bulbs has a sweet mild flavour. It’s wonderful baked whole with a roast. It doesn’t store well so should be eaten straight after harvest which is usually from mid-summer until early autumn.

Packet 200 seeds $5.50 each

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

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

Onion, Red ‘Cabernet’ F1

Red Onion

Cabernet produces medium to large globe shaped onions with a deep red colour both externally and internally. Narrow necked with mostly single centres Cabernet has good storage potential of 4 to 6 months. Best grown in southern Australia.

Packet 100 seeds $5.50 each

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

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

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

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

Peas

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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