This traditional heavily savoyed bunching spinach has been bred for cooking not for salads. Best grown for harvesting in autumn, winter and early spring.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘Attiya’F1 is a flavoursome variety with strong growth and production to the end of the tomato season (May here at Lambley). ‘Attiya’ has excellent disease resistance. Gourmet variety (standard size) averaging 180-200g per fruit.
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.
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.
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.
This full sized tomato is an excellent alternative to Valiant which has been discontinued. It has an excellent rich flavour, on a vigorous plant with high yield and good disease resistance. The medium to large fruit has a good classic red colour.
'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.
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.
This staking variety of Roma tomato is a superb replacement for the superseded Masai. It can be picked over a very long period as ripening isn’t as concentrated as in the determinate varieties, but it boasts a more extensive disease package and great flavour when ripe.
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.
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.
A new Lebanese zucchini with a more compact growth habit than older varieties needing less space in the garden. Heavy cropper of pale green tapered fruit with a nutty flavour.
‘Button Squash Pinwheel’ Pinwheel is a pure yellow button squash with the typical yellow peduncle and blossom end. The distinctive scallop shape is retained as the fruit grow larger. Resistant to Zucchini yellow mosaic virus. These squash are a joy to grow and pick.
