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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Raddicchio

Radicchio 'Bel Fiore'

Radicchio ‘Bel Fiore’ Variegato di Lusia type for year round harvest ‘Bel Fiore’ (Beautiful Flower) is one of the most attractive salad vegetable. It has a cream interior spotted with red and a good nutty mildly bitter flavour. Can be braised too.

Packet 30 seeds $5.50 each

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

Radish 'White Icicle Short Top'

The 20-12cm snow white roots have a mild flavour. 27 days to maturity.

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

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

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

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

Radish ‘Shunkyo’ Semi-Long Traditional Chinese

Traditional Chinese Radish

Makes 10-12cm long red roots with a crisp white flesh. The flavour is both hot and sweet. A favourite of northern Chinese cuisine and can be roasted with soya sauce and sesame seed. Slow to bolt they can be sown year round.

Packet 100 seeds $4.50 each

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

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

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

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

Spring Onions

Spring Onion ‘Damast’

This new variety has a compact upright growth habit with dark green leaves and a white shaft. It has a long harvest period as it keeps well in the garden. It can be sown all the year round.

Packet 300 seeds $4.50 each

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

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, 'Nemo' F1

Nemo is a highly productive indeterminate cherry with a vigorous adaptable plant for open field. Fruit has an intense, sweet flavour with a weight of 12 -16g.

When to sow: Early spring

Where to sow: in 5 or 7.5cm pots

Depth to sow: 5mm

Packet 8 seeds $8.20 each

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, 'Valiant' F1

A well-tried quality intermediate type with a proven disease resistance profile for growing a larger type fruit to 150gms approximately. Good quality and strong resistance to cracking is another advantage. Bred for trellis production in the garden.

Packet 8 seeds $9.50 each

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