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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Silver Beet

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

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

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

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

Pumpkins

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

Spinach

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

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

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

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

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

Turnip 'Purple Top White Globe'

Purple Top Turnip

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.

Packet 200 seeds $4.50 each

Corn

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

Sweet Corn, Super Sweet ‘Polaris’ F1

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.

Packet 100 seeds $5.00 each

Tomatoes

Tomato, 'Ornela' F1

High Disease Resistance

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.

When to sow: Early spring

Where to sow: in 5 or 7.5cm pots

Depth to sow: 5mm

Packet 8 seeds $10.20 each

Tomato, Cherry 'Cherry Bite' F1

'Cherry Bite' has really good flavour combined with good disease resistance. It has larger size fruit to 20gms each. A top quality commercial tomato. Indeterminate so needs staking or trellising.

Packet 8 seeds $9.95 each

Tomato, Cherry ‘Felicity’ F1

Felicity was a stand out in our trials. It has a terrific flavour when ripe, it doesn’t split and it has good disease resistance. I was picking good ripe fruit at the end of April. Felicity is an indeterminate variety so it needs staking.

Packet 8 seeds $8.50 each

Tomato, Cuore Di Bue 'Rugantino F1'

A famous curiously shaped Italian oxheart tomato. “These big tomatoes bottom heavy shape reminiscent of a pouch with a gathered top.” ‘Ragutino’ is one of the tastiest saucing tomatoes, with dense flesh and lustrous orange red skin.

Packet 8 seeds $9.50 each

Tomato, Mini Grape 'Elmo F1'

'Elmo' was the best tasting of all cherry tomatoes in our trial of 23 tomato varieties last year. It has a delicious sweet well-balanced tomato flavour and a long productive harvest period. Good disease resistance package.

Packet 8 seeds $10.75 each

Tomato, Roma ‘Katya’ F1

New Top Quality Roma

From the same Israeli breeders as ‘Sheena’ this variety has an improved disease resistance and slightly better quality fruit otherwise there isn’t a lot of difference between the two.

Packet 12 seeds $8.20 each

Tomato, Roma ‘Masai’ F1

Indeterminate Roma with good flavour

This staking variety of Roma tomato can be picked over a ver long period as ripening isn’t as concentrated as in the determinate varieties. Great flavour when ripe with a good disease package. Needs a stake or trellis.

Packet 8 seeds $10.20 each

Tomato, Roma ‘Origin’ F1

New Indeterminate Roma

New indeterminate Roma with a great disease resistance package, high yield potential and good flavour. Produces clusters of full size tomatoes up until frost here at Lambley. Indeterminate variety that needs stalking or trellising

9 for $9.75, 50 for $28.95, 100 for $51.75

Tomato, Yellow Grape 'Zesty' F1

Sweet flavour low acidity

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. Indeterminate variety needs support.

Packet 8 seeds $9.50 each

Zucchini

Yellow Zucchini ‘Vista’

Compact growth habit

This beautiful looking zucchini with its bright yellow exterior and a creamy yellow interior makes a beautiful contrast when cooked with green skinned varieties. The flavour is really good too. Compact growth habit makes it a good choice for smaller gardens

Packet 10 seeds $5.75 each

Zucchini 'Goldy F1’

Bright yellow fruits

Strong plant producing good yields of attractive bright yellow fruit with a green stem end. It has a good disease resistance package including some resistance to powdery mildew.
The fruits have good quality, flavoursome white flesh.

Packet 10 seeds $5.50 each

Zucchini 'Nitro' F1

Nitro is astonishingly productive and with its good resistance to powdery mildew will produce excellent flavoured fruits right up to the end of April when other varieties have long succumbed to powdery mildew.

Packet 10 seeds $6.50 each

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