Australia's favourite rocket and a much improved variety on previous selections. It is also slow to bolt. The dark green leaves have good texture and excellent flavour. Plant from early spring until mid-autumn for year round cropping. Read more about Rocket, Wild Rocket ‘Nature’
My favourite roquette, it’s spicy but not too hot. Its leaves are wide and not deeply lobed. It stands hot summer temperatures well. I can pick it nearly the year round if I plant it anew every six weeks or so.
This US import has dark green, glossy savoy leaves with stems of many colours including gold, pink, orange, purple, red and white and with bright and pastel variations. It is milder in flavour than normal silver beet.
Silverado is a new, improved variety of silver beet 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 harvested the year round.
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
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)
This traditional heavily savoyed bunching spinach has been bred for cooking not for salads. Best grown for harvesting in autumn, winter and early spring.
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.
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)
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)
