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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Peas

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Pea, Sugar Snap 'Sugar Bon'

Not for Tasmania

The most popular dwarf sugar snap pea for both professional farmers and home gardeners alike. Powdery mildew resistance makes it a good variety for all time slots. First pick 55-60 days.

 

 

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

Pumpkins

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Pumpkin, 'Jarrahdale Large'

This is a larger version of a WA Grey Pumpkin. It thrives under cool conditions. The breeders have focused on uniformity, rich colour, shape and classic appearance while delivering excellent flavour.

 

Packet 10 seeds $8.20 each
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Pumpkin, Butternut 'Barbara F1'

Unique style Butternut with mottled Kent pumpkin like skin and outstanding flesh quality and flavour. Flesh texture is very firm, like a butternut making for excellent cooking.

 

Packet 15 seeds $6.00 each
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Pumpkin, Grey Bush 'Nelson' F1

Early Grey Bush Pumpkin

Nelson is a new vigorous early maturing bush pumpkin with excellent eating quality. The flesh is dark orange and only a small cavity is taken up for the seeds. It stores reasonably well too.

Packet 10 seeds $8.20 each
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Pumpkin, Jap 'Ringer'

Quick Maturing

This Jap pumpkin can be grown in cooler areas of Australia as it is so early. Jap pumpkins are considered by many to be the
best flavoured pumpkins. This variety has a vigorous vine and needs plenty of space so it isn’t suited to small gardens.

 

Packet 15 seeds $6.00 each
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Pumpkin, Kabocha ‘Kurijiman’ F1

Stores well and the flavour is excellent

This is one of the main pumpkin varieties exported from Australia to the discerning Japanese market. It is a vigorous vine and can be sown earlier than other varieties as it will germinate in quite cool soil. ‘Kurijiman’ has a dark green skin and orange flesh.

Packet 15 seeds $6.25 each
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Spaghetti Squash ‘Vegesgetti’ F1

Outstanding brand new hybrid

‘Vegesgetti’ is a outstanding brand new hybrid yellow fruited spaghetti squash with yellow fruit  with traditional interior of richly flavoured spaghetti squash noodles. The plant is a semi-bush style so quite suited to smaller spaces.

 

Packet 10 seeds $6.25 each

Raddicchio

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Radicchio Tall Treviso ‘Fiero’ F1

Fiero is the variety sold in better class green grocers as red witlof. It is much easier to grow than white witlof and can be planted from late winter until early autumn for cropping just about all the year round. Beautiful deep maroon white veined heads.

 

Packet 30 seeds $5.50 each

Radish

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Radish ‘Pink Beauty’

Quick to grow and beautiful to look at this pink radish has a mild, sweet, delicious flavour. It is resistant to pithiness. It takes 26 days to mature.

 

 

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each
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Radish ‘Red Meat’

Watermelon Radish

Large round radish with unique pink flesh. It has a very sweet mild taste. Sow late summer and autumn only as earlier sowings will run up to seed.

 

Packet 200 seeds $4.25 each
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Radish ‘Rover’ F1

‘Rover’ is very quick to crop, holds well in the garden and keeps its round shape even during the hottest of summers. Skin is smooth and dark red, flesh is white and crisp.

100 for $5.25, 1000 for $9.55
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Radish, Daikon 'Alpine F1'

This half-long 12-15cm roots is the most commonly grown variety in Korea. It’s a good choice for gardens with thinner soils. Excellent flavour and can be used fresh in salads, in pickles and in miso soup. Sow seed in rows 5cm apart, thin to 10-15cm.

 

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each
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Radish, Daikon 'Miyashige'

Traditional Japanese daikon for planting late summer and autumn. Roots grow 35-40cm long. Used for pickling, salads and soups. Can be stored. Sow seed in rows 5cm apart, thin to 10-15cm. Needs a well prepared deep bed.

 

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

Roquette/Rocket

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Rocket ‘Rocketman'

New fast growing mild flavour

Dark green rocket with a deeply incised, smooth dark green  leaf giving the appearance of wild rocket. Excellent winter vigour and a mild flavour it can be sown the year round. 35 days to harvest from sowing.

 

Packet 500 seeds $4.50 each

Silver Beet

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Silver Beet ‘Bright Lights’ (Swiss Chard Bright Lights)

Our seed supplier describes Bright Lights as “Lightly savoyed, green or bronze 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.

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each
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Silver Beet ‘Silverado’

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.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each
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Silverbeet ‘Fordhook Giant’

Best Flavoured Leaf Beet

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.

 

Packet 50 seeds $4.50 each

Herbs

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Sorrel, French Red Veined

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.

Packet 100 seeds $5.25 each

Spinach

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Spinach 'Black Glove'

Baby Leaf Spinach

Black Glove is best sown from early April until early September to give excellent crops during the cooler months. If sown during hot periods it is likely to bolt. It is equally suitable for baby leaf and full size bunching spinach.

Packet 500 seeds $5.50 each
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Spinach ‘Bloomsdale'

This traditional heavily savoyed bunching spinach has been bred for cooking not for salads. Best grown for harvesting in autumn, winter and early spring.

 

500 for $5.25, 5000 for $17.95

Spring Onions

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Spring Onion ‘Guardsman’

Very early bunching onion

This very early bunching onion is a cross between a bulbing onion and a spring onion. It has all the virtues of a spring onion but with a milder taste. Sow from August to March for all year round cropping.

 

Packet 300 seeds $5.00 each
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Spring Onion ‘Paragon’

Australian market leader

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.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Other

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Swede 'Laurentian'

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.

 

When to sow: December and January

100 for $5.25, 1000 for $9.75

Corn

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Sweet Corn, Super Sweet ‘Max’ F1

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.

 

Packet 100 seeds $5.00 each

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