Dark green, glossy savoy 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. Read more about Silver Beet ‘Spectrum’ (Beta vulgaris)
This is the standard silver beet (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.
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. Read more about Sorrel, French Red Veined
Easier to grow than ordinary celery and can be picked over a long period just as you would parsley. Plant in a drill straight into the vegetable garden in late spring or summer, thin to 15cm apart. Or germinate in a glass house or polyhouse and plant out when big enough. Read more about Wild Celery, Cutting ‘Par-Cel’ (Apium graveolens var. secalinum)
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. Read more about Spinach 'Black Glove 10' F1 (Spinacia oleracea)
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. Read more about Spring Onion ‘Paragon’ (Allium tricoccum)
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.
This is a selected superior strain of this traditional, Southern United States variety where it is widely grown. Producing smooth, round roots, avg. 75-100mm in diameter, which are white below the soil line and bright purple above. Large, lobed greens.
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.
Polaris cobs grow to 20cm long and are sweet and juicy. The plant can make 180-200cm tall and provides good disease resistance to ensure a bumper crop. A terrific 'honey and cream' variety to use instead of Samurai. Read more about Sweet Corn, Super Sweet ‘Polaris’ F1 (Zea mays)
A mini indeterminate San Marzano type with very high disease resistance and very high yield potential boasting a good full flavour. Good fruit set in cool and hot times.
This large cherry tomato has an excellent flavour when fully ripe and resists cracking. It has an excellent disease resistance package too. With its vigorous growth and disease resistance it will produce prodigal amounts of fruit from early in the season until frosts. Read more about Tomato, Cherry 'Cherry Bite' F1 (Solanum lycopersicum)
Resistant to most tomato diseases including tomato spotted wilt virus ‘Moscatel’ is a very productive variety with firm flesh and good flavour. Resistant to cracking. Indeterminate so needs a trellis or stake.
A famous curiously shaped Italian oxheart tomato. “These big tomatoes bottom heavy shape reminiscent of a pouch with a gathered top.” ‘Rugantino’ is one of the tastiest saucing tomatoes, with dense flesh and lustrous orange red skin. Read more about Tomato, Cuore Di Bue 'Rugantino F1' (Solanum lycopersicum)
Attiya is an exceptionally strong growing plant with a terrific disease resistance package. The fruit has good flavour when fully ripe. One or two plants will keep a family in tomatoes for many months even into winter if grown in a frost free district.
Lindsay is a strong growing variety which performs well even in very difficult conditions. It has an excellent disease resistance package which helps in the production of large crops of gourmet tomatoes from early summer through to winter. Read more about Tomato, Gourmet 'Lindsay' F1 (Solanum lycopersicum)
Olivia is good flavoured mini plum when picked fully ripe. It has an excellent disease resistance package and its excellent vigour allows it to produce good quantities of fruit throughout the season and into winter in frost free areas.
Milan is a vigorous growing indeterminate Roma tomato with a strong disease resistance package. Medium large glossy plum shaped fruit are produced prolifically from early until late in the season. Read more about Tomato, Roma 'Milan' F1 (Solanum lycopersicum)
Rustler is a standout in Victorian commercial tomato growing fields and is just as good in the home garden. Its terrific disease resistance package allows heavy cropping even in difficult conditions. The fruit are glossy red when ripe with a small stem end scar. Read more about Tomato, Roma 'Rustler' F1 (Solanum lycopersicum)
Much loved by children this is a good looking, very sweet, low acid variety. It is very productive with good disease resistance although it has no resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus we have not seen any disease in our plants at all. Read more about Tomato, Yellow Grape 'Zesty' F1 (Solanum lycopersicum)
