Vegetable Plants
This is a full list of all the vegetable plants that we home grow here at Flitton's Nursery.
Plant Variety | Description | Availability |
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Aubergine F1 Money maker | Medium plant height with standard dark fruits, averaging 100gms in weight per fruit. An early maturing variety | Available NOW |
Beet Leaf Swiss Chard Bright Lights | Celery flavoured stalks and spinach-like leaves for Summer and Autumn Harvest. A range of colours including white, cream, yellow, orange, pink, lipstick and red. Terrific colour splashes for use in salad packs, or for growing as large plants. Harvest for leaf and stem production. | Available NOW |
Beetroot Bolt hardy | A popular variety for early and main crop sowings. Round roots with good internal colouring. Good resistance to bolting. | Available NOW |
Beetroot Detroit 2 Crimson Globe | Very good selection of Detroit beetroot, globe shaped roots with good internal colouring-suited to main crop sowing. | Available NOW |
Broad Bean Bunyards Exhibition | Tall plants producing good yields. Very reliable performer, with around 5 white beans per pod. | Available NOW |
Broad Bean Imperial Long pod | Approximately 5-8 green beans per pod. Very good flavour, high yielding variety. | Available NOW |
Broad Bean Masterpiece Green Long Pod | Pods contain six or seven large juicy beans which are good for freezing. Green seeded variety. Broad Beans are easy to grow producing large succulent beans | Available Now |
Broccoli Purple Mixed Sprouting | Designed to provide continuous cropping of purple spears from mid-February through to mid-May. | |
Broccoli Summer Purple | A great, high-yielding summer purple sprouting variety with good flavour that has good resistance to heat. This variety was bred in Britain and is therefore able to withstand the UK weather. The seeds produce a reliable, lovely purple-coloured sprouting. | Available NOW |
Brussels Sprout F1 Maximus | A relatively early variety that can also be sown later for midseason and pre-Christmas harvest. Medium vigour. Produces a high yield of round, smooth, very dense buttons which are well spaced on the stalk. | Available NOW |
Brussels Sprout F1 Trafalgar | A tall variety for the November and December cropping period. Has a strong root system. Medium sized buttons with an excellent flavour. | |
Brussels Sprout f1 Bosworth | Second early variety for late Autumn to Christmas production. Excellent holding ability and high yields. Well-spaced buttons with sweet flavour, suited to picking as required or as complete stalks. | Available NOW |
Cabbage Duncan | A small pointed variety that has crisp, sweet and nutty leaves, an excellent variety and size for the home-grower and is great in the kitchen too. | Available Now |
Cabbage Durham Early | Produces firm, pointed, well flavoured hearts on compact plants. This compact variety also be sown or planted closely for delicious 'spring greens' ready to harvest from February. | Available Now |
Cabbage F1 Advantage | A versatile variety suitable for the production of greens and hearted cabbage throughout the year. Dark green and winter hardy. Harvest June to July | |
Cabbage F1 Red Rodiea | A mid-season large headed red cabbage. | Available NOW |
Cabbage F1 Rigoletto Savoy | Hybrid, top performing Savoy- very high quality, with good vigour and uniformity. Dense heads of good colour, good holding ability and very winter- hardy. | |
Cabbage F1 Ruby Perfection | Easy to grow, maturing after approximately 80 days. Firm head and strong resistance to cracking. Produces deep dark red heads. | |
Cabbage F1 Serve | Summer savoy, maturing approximately 90 days after transplanting. Attractive dark green colour. | |
Cabbage F1 Stanton | Round to flat medium green variety producing uniform dense heads. Very good cold tolerance and excellent standing ability. | |
Cabbage F1 Stonehead | Late mid-season maturity; round, medium, green heads, densely packed, very compact, resistant to splitting. | Available NOW |
Cabbage Greyhound | Pointed Green cabbage | |
Cabbage Primo | For general purpose use. Early and compact ball head. Harvest July to September. | Available NOW |
Cabbage Red Ruth | Pointed Red Cabbage | |
Cabbage Tundra | Round to oval medium to dark green heads, late maturing and very winter hardy. | |
Calabrese F1 Ironman | Excellent quality dome shaped heads with uniform head weight. Harvesting June- November. Matures after 100-110 days. | Available NOW |
Calabrese F1 Marathon | Produces small evenly sized buds with good bud colour, deep well-formed heads suitable for early, main and late cropping. Tolerant of Downy Mildew. Matures after 75-95 days. | |
Calabrese F1 Zen | Maturing approximately after 90-100 days, this variety has excellent high domed, dark green heads with a solid stem. Easy to trim. Tolerant of Downy Mildew. Crops best in Autumn, from a June planting.� | Available NOW |
Carrots Autumn King 2 | Late maturing main crop variety, with good storage ability. The smooth tapered roots are suitable for slicing. Sow March- August. Harvest June- October. | |
Carrots Early Nantes 2 | A 2nd early type and main crop (tapered stump) type, virtually coreless with good texture and flavour. | Available NOW |
Carrots Paris Market Atlas | An improved high quality version of the popular Paris Market type. An early type. An early variety with superb almost round roots. Excellent colour. Ideal for shallow soils. | Available NOW |
Cauliflower F1 Celio | Early large framed Romanesco type. Produces very high quality pinnacle heads in an attracted green. | |
Cauliflower F1 Freedom | Good quality round white curds. Approximately 70-80 days from transplant to harvest. | Coming Soon! |
Cauliflower F1 Graffiti | This stunning purple coloured cauliflower is a great improvement on the older purple types. The colour intensifies with exposure to light. An open plant habit should be encouraged in cultivation. | |
Cauliflower F1 Lazio | A Romanesco variety extended cropping through to December. Good mildew resistance. Maturity approximately 130 days from transplanting.� | |
Cauliflower F1 Nautilus | Gives high quality, very round, pure white, solid heavy curds. For mid-June- October cropping. | Available NOW |
Cauliflower F1 Navona | A Romanesco cauliflower producing a uniform crop of dark green, turreted curds with no bracts. It is a vigorous variety with good holding properties. | |
Cauliflower F1 Triomphant | Robust semi-erect foliage gives attractive appearance and good curd protection. | |
Celeriac Prinz | Top quality, light skinned variety, with excellent bolting resistance, so it is especially suitable for early cultivation under glass, plastic and fleece, as well as later, unprotected, field cultivation. | Available NOW |
Celery Celebrity | Yellow to green stalks which, if blocked will self-blanch. | Available NOW |
Courgette F1 Atena | Good for outdoor production producing yellow courgettes. | Available NOW |
Courgette F1 Eight Ball | A hybrid courgette variety producing dark green, uniform, round fruits. More even cropping with higher yields than open pollinated round varieties. Bush habit. | Available NOW |
Courgette Green Bush | Striped fruits, good uniform stock, well suited to plant sales. Can be picked as standard sized courgettes, or left to mature into marrows. | Available NOW |
Courgette Midnight | Available NOW | |
Cucumber F1 Burpless Tasty Green | A popular variety for outdoor production, dark green medium to long fruits. | |
Cucumber F1 Femspot | All female flowered, quick, strong grower, earlier than most other cucumbers, bitter free, ribbed. | Available NOW |
Cucumber F1 Pony | A prolific producer of 'snack sized' fruits, typically up to 10cm in length and weighing up to 100 grams. The fruits have a smooth skin, with excellent flavour and texture. Most productinve when used for heated indoor production but can also be used for outdoor production during the summer. Ideal for containers | Available NOW |
Cucumbers F1 Carmen | For Summer and Autumn cropping, 34-40cm long, slightly ribbed, smooth fruit. Resistant to scab and leaf spot, bitter-free, high resistance to powdery Mildew and partially tolerant to Downy Mildew. All female. | Available NOW |
Dwarf French Bean Purple Queen | As the name suggests, this variety produces slightly curves, long dark purple pods, which are round in profile. Excellent flavour and string-less. Best picked when pods are young. Turn dark green when cooked. | Available NOW |
Dwarf French Bean Stanley | A white flowering, white seeded variety that reliably delivers impressive yields of top quality beans. Medium green pods, 14cmx10cm in size. Suitable for early and late sowings. | Available NOW |
Dwarf French Bean Tendergreen | Pencil podded, brown seeded type, dark green pods 15cm x 12mm, a standard Dwarf Bean variety. | |
Dwarf French Bean Valdour | Produces round pods, 6-8mm in diameter and 12cm in length, with attractive golden yellow pods. Slow growing variety and a late cropper. Good upright plant habit, 50cm in height. | Available NOW |
French Bean (Dwarf) Voltage | With eye-catching yellow pods and a delicious taste, try planting French Bean Dwarf Voltage seeds for a rich and exciting crop in the summer. | Available NOW |
French Bean Cobra | Long round pod, approximately 20cm x 7-9mm, bright green, black seeded variety. String-less with good flavour. | Available NOW |
Fruit Trees. Loganberry, Black Currant, Blackberry, Red Currant, Gooseberry | Loganberry, Blackberry, Red Currant, Gooseberry | |
Gherkins | Available NOW | |
Herbs | Rocket, Thyme, Rosemary, Parsley, Basil, Coriander, Thyme | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Black | Available NOW | |
Hot Pepper Bulgarian Carrot | This variety may look a baby carrot but be warned it can be very hot. Produces a very high yield of bright orange peppers, up to 10cm in length. Compact plant really suited to containers. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Curry | Available NOW | |
Hot Pepper F1 Basket of Fire | A compact semi-trailing plant that produces a prolific crop of small, hot fruits. The fruits mature form deep purple to cream, to orange and then to red at maturity. Ideal for containers and baskets. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper F1 Super Chilli | A hybrid small fruited Thai type, with upward pointing fruits. Attractive 8cm long fruits on a compact plant, typically 30-45cm high fruits turn from green to red. Very hot. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Gusto Purple F1 | A medium/hot chilli pepper that has been developed for the UK Climate. Suited to cropping outside as well as indoors. The peppers taper to a point, approx 45cm long, and mature from purple to a rich red colour. Very good yields. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Jalapeno | A very hot pepper (used for hot pepper eating contests in the U.S.A.!) extremely pungent plants reach up to 1 meter under cover. High yielding. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Loco | Suitable for baskets | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Red Flame | A hot, pungent pepper with long, thin fruits maturing from green to red. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Red Fresno | The Fresno chile or Fresno chili pepper is a medium-sized cultivar of Capsicum annuum. It should not be confused with the Fresno Bell pepper. It is often confused with the jalapeño pepper but has thinner walls, often has milder heat, and takes less time to mature. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper Scotch Bonnet Red | Popular habanero type pepper. Very hot with Strong pungency. | Available NOW |
Hot Pepper, Long Red Cayenne Pepper | Very hot red chilli- use fresh or dried in many culinary dishes. | Available NOW |
Hot pepper F1 Apache | A dwarf, chilli type pepper producing good yields on compact plants. | Available NOW |
Kale (Borecole) | Tall, erect plant producing high quality heads, very strong, dark in colour. Extremely hardy. Performing well in exposed areas. | |
Leek Musselburgh | Musselburgh is a proven performer and still takes some beating as a winter leek. An exceptionally hardy variety, very reliable and heavy cropping. | Available NOW |
Leek Zermatt | An early Swiss giant variety with long shaft and erect foliage. Features good base and some rust resistance. Good storage characteristics. Suitable for baby leek production. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Allsorts | Mixed varieties- | Available NOW |
Lettuce Krista (Lolla Bionda) | Open leaved lettuce, like Lolla Rossa in habit and cropping but with attractive pale green curled leaves. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Little Gem | A quick maturing, compact small Cos type with tight hearts. Especially suited to small pots. Very sweet flavour. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Matador (Lolla Rossa) | Non-hearting type, red tinged leaves with waved and serrated edges. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Mixed Leaves | Cut and come again. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Moonred little gem | Crisp and flavoursome glossy red outer leaves enclose this dense hearted romaine-type lettuce. Neat and compact, Lettuce ’Moonred’ is the ideal choice for growing in more confined spaces, including window boxes and patio containers as well as making neat rows on the allotment. The attractive and nutritious leaves are the perfect addition to sandwiches or as part of a refreshing, mixed salad. Easy to grow, sow throughout the spring and early summer months for a long lasting crop which continues through to late autumn. Height: 20cm (8”). Spread: 15cm (6”). | Available NOW |
Lettuce Paris Island Cos | A Lobjoit's type but with a pale green heart. Crisp texture and sweet flavour. Medium to large sized heads. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Pigail | A very attractive red Little Gem type, with dark red outer leaves and green hearts. Suitable for spring, summer & autumn production. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Saladin (Iceberg) | Standard crisp head variety, large dark green heads, fairly dense. Very good holding ability. | Available NOW |
Lettuce Tantan | One of the best small cos varieties currently available, with good green colour and sweet flavour. Suitable for production throughout the spring, summer and autumn. | Available NOW |
Marrow F1 Bush Baby | A baby marrow variety bred to satisfy market demands for a smaller marrow. Grows to approximately three quarters the size of a standard variety. Suitable for field and container production. Produces a high yield per plant. | Coming Soon |
Marrow F1 Tiger Cross | Bush type, very high yielding with top quality fruits. Uniform and attractive with well- marked stripes and good deep colour. | Available NOW |
Melon Ogen | An open pollinated variety producing small, broad, oval fruits, green skinned with yellow flesh. | Available NOW |
Mixed Baby Leaves | Mixture of various baby leaf types. All feature excellent colour and texture. High levels of mildew resistance. | Available NOW |
Oriental Baby Leaf Essential Mix | A range of mixes that can be used for cut leaf production, or for use as growing salads when planted in containers. The varieties are matched so that leaf development and flavours complement each other. This mix includes the varieties from all our other mixes, including Mizuna, Komatsuna, Tatsoi, Red Giant Mustard and Red Russian Kale, plus additional lettuce, endive and radicchio varieties. | Available NOW |
Pak Choi Summer Breeze | A heat tolerant variety which is suitable for UK summers as well as autumn production that will resist bolting too early. | |
Parsnip F1 Gladiator | Market standard variety, extremely high marketable yield or large roots with very good canker resistance. Roots have a shallow crown to reduce wastage. | Available NOW |
Pea Kelvedon Wonder | Second early main crop variety, wrinkle-seeded, with 6-8 peas per well- filled pod. Heavy cropping dwarf (45cm) variety. | Available NOW |
Pepper Bellboy (sweet) | Plants are strong growing and will yield a heavy crop of well-shaped peppers. These can be eaten when still green or left on the plant to ripen into a deep red colour. | Available NOW |
Pepper Diablo (sweet) | High yielding Ox-horn variety, producing long pointed fruits that typically mature at around 16cm in length. The skin is smooth, while the flesh is thick, crunchy and sweet, great for stuffing with cheese and using to give depth of flavour to soups and stews. Plant has erect habit with medium spacing to internodes. | Available NOW |
Pepper Parade Banana | Yellow | Available NOW |
Pepper Phoebus (sweet) | This is an early maturing variety with vigorous growth and high yield. It produces uniform blocky fruit that turn from green to yellow at maturity. | Available NOW |
Pepper Poseidon (sweet) | A vigorous variety producing a heavy crop of block shaped peppers. The fruit turns from green to red with maturity. Features a rich lustre and thick crispy flesh. | Available NOW |
Pepper Red Star (sweet) | Green to Red | Available NOW |
Pepper snack size Orange (sweet) | Sweet and flavorful orange snack peppers. These beautiful, mini-sized peppers are delicious sautéed, as an addition to salads and, perfect for a healthy snack. Smooth, bright orange fruits average 2 1/2-3" long by 1 1/2" wide. | Available NOW |
Pepper snacksize Red (sweet) | These deliciously sweet, snack-size red peppers taste so good right off the plant that they might never see the inside of your kitchen. | Available NOW |
Pepper snacksize yellow (sweet) | 'Snack Pepper Yellow' are the perfect size for children's lunch boxes. The sweet tasting fruits are 6cm x 3.5cm and a bright yellow colour. The plant will grow to a height of 40-45cms so is ideal to grow in patio containers in a sunny sheltered spot. | Available NOW |
Pumpkin F1 Early King | Round to slightly tall pumpkin. Can be left to produce fruits weighing 10-12kg. Bright orange colour. Vine habit. Ideal for a large Halloween lantern. Tolerant of Powdery Mildew. | Available NOW |
Pumpkin Jill Belittle | ||
Pumpkin Wicked | ||
Pumpkin early abundance | ||
Radish Jolly | Top quality Cherry Belle type, strong foliage and intense red coloured roots with very little woodiness. Excellent holding ability. | |
Rhubarb | Victoria | |
Runner Bean Enorma | Reselected prize winner type, with straight, long pods, 30-32cm in length. Red flowers with purple seed. Good flavour. Popular variety, especially with competition growers. | Available NOW |
Spinach Beet Perpetual | More or less trouble free crop suited to summer and autumn production. Can be overwintered - will last up to 2 seasons. Use as an alternative �cut and come again� spinach. | |
Spinach F1 Amador | A smooth variety with a dark green colour to the leaf. Suitable for spring, summer and autumn production. Good vigour and strong bolting resistance. | Available Now |
Spring Onion North Holland Blood Red Mate | Very versatile, useful not only as salad but also as a bulbing type. Intense red colour. | Available NOW |
Spring Onion Ramrod | A very high performing variety. Winter harder. An erect, stiff leaved Lisbon type, developed for spring, late summer and autumn cropping. | Available NOW |
Spring Onion White Lisbon | Standard variety for bulbing salad onions, which bulks up relatively quickly. Medium green foliage. | Available NOW |
Squash (onion) | Available NOW | |
Squash 1 Crown Prince | Grey- skinned variety with bright orange flesh. Excellent culinary variety weighing on average 3-4kg. Sweet, rich, nutty flavour and the fruits are round and flat in shape. | |
Squash Celebration Acorn Squash | High sugar acorn squash with a multicolour flesh. Bush habit plant, very productive. | Available NOW |
Squash Early Butternut | Award winning variety is substantially earlier than other varieties. Medium sized fruit are tan in colour and have a blocky shape, with sweet, dark orange flesh. Compact, semi-bush plant produces excellent yields in 82 days. | Available NOW |
Squash F1 Hunter | One of the first varieties of butternut squash developed for the UK climate. Matures after 105 days, producing 6-7 fruits, each weighing about 1kg. light tan colour with bright orange flesh and sweet taste. | Available NOW |
Squash Harlequin | Available NOW | |
Squash Pot Uchiki Kuri | Small onion Shaped fruits orange-red in colour with a golden flesh.� Average fruit weight is 1.5kg. Very early to matures with long shelf life after harvest. | Available NOW |
Squash Sunbeam Pattie Pan | Available NOW | |
Squash Turks Turban | Available NOW | |
Strawberry Plants | Available NOW | |
Swede Marian | Purple topped, yellow fleshed variety, medium dry matter, hardy and reliable cropper. A high percentage marketable yield of large, uniform roots. Resistant to club root and mildew. | Available NOW |
Sweetcorn F1 Earliking Normal Sugar | An early season variety producing strong stocky plants. Dependable variety. | |
Sweetcorn F1 Golden Crest | A second early variety with good vigour. Medium sized cobs. | |
Sweetcorn Incredible Sugar Enhanced | Main season type, very high quality medium long cobs, with good flavour and sweetness. | |
Tomato Alicante | A version of Moneymaker. Early cropper with smooth skinned, fleshy fruit. Fruit: red, round and 70-90 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato Chocolate Cherry | Indeterminate type producing uniform round dark fruits with excellent flavour, 2.5cm in diameter which do not crack. | Available NOW |
Tomato Cocktail Crush | Tomato Cocktail Crush is an excellent UK bred, blight resistant variety. It will produces a heavy crop of cocktail sized tomatoes, around the 35g - 45g weight, with a sweet flavour, and an slightly acid tang. | Available NOW |
Tomato F1 Golden Sweet | Grape shaped fruit with distinctive orange-yellow colour. Good flavour with fine, firm, sweet flesh. Fruit resists cracking. Orange, grape, 12-16 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato F1 Octavio | A vigorous variety that produces uniform trusses. Firm fruit of excellent quality. Fruit: red, round, 90-100 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato F1 Olivade | Elongated 4 oz fruit with an all over colour. | Available NOW |
Tomato F1 Rosanda | An indeterminate cherry plum type, with small oval shaped fruits. Vibrant orange, red colour and excellent flavour. Prolific cropper with large trusses. Fruit: red, cherry plum, 12-16 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato F1 Shirley | Early, short-jointed type with large trusses giving heavy yields of good-shaped fruits. Fruit: red, round, 70-90 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato F1 Sungold | Small, delicious tasting orange coloured fruits on long trusses- ideal for salads. Fruits: orange, cherry, 14-18 grams. | |
Tomato F1 Supersweet 100 | An early maturing cordon type, which produces a heavy crop of small fruits. Excellent flavour. Fruit:� red, round, 18-25 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato F1 Tumbler Red | Bush variety producing up to 2kg of fruit per plant. Ideal for use in hanging baskets (one plant per 12� basket). Fruit: red, cherry, 12-16 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato Gardeners Delight | An old variety but still as popular as ever. The numerous small fruits have a fine tangy flavour. Fruit: red, cherry, 14-18 grams. | Available NOW |
Tomato Gigantum | Available NOW | |
Tomato Golden Crown | Also known as 'Goldkrone', this is an outstanding early variety and according to many, this is the best yellow cherry tomato they have ever tasted. Outstanding under glass but equally happy out of doors. Plants are very vigorous and prolific and the sunshiny fruits have a superb flavour. | Available NOW |
Tomato Honeycomb | Tomato Honeycomb is an attractive golden orange coloured cherry variety. With a higher sugar content than sungold, it has a superb sweet flavour when ripe. | Available NOW |
Tomato Modus | An indeterminate mini plum type, with oval shaped fruit, with high sugar content. Attractive colour. | Available NOW |
Tomato Nectar | An early cherry tomato variety, with open plant habit, long trusses and good fruit setting. Producing nice shaped red fruit 14-16g in weight with good taste and firmness. | Available NOW |
Tomato Pannovy | Tomato Pannovy F. 1 Hybrid is a quality truss tomato. Outstanding round shaped tomato with a beautiful calyx. Lovely shiny deep red skins and will keep for many weeks in perfect condition. | Available NOW |
Tomato Roma | Available NOW | |
Tomato Sweet & Neat Lemon Sherbert | Lemon yellow bush tomato with a good yield. Excellent taste and ideal for containers. | Available NOW |
Tomato Sweet Aperitif | Cherry tomato with high yield of cherry sized fruits 10-15g in weight. Bright red with an exceptional flavour, sweet with a refreshing taste. | Available NOW |
Tomato Tropical Ruby | Small red oval | Available NOW |
Tomatoe F1 Big Boy | A large beefsteak variety with very smooth, rounded fruits, 10-12cm in diameter. Will crop outdoors and under cold glass. Fruit: red, beefsteak, 160-180 grams. | Available NOW |
Tumbling Tomato Yellow | Cascading, highly productive variety ideal for baskets and containers. Sweet cherry sized fruits. | Available NOW |
Turnip Falko | Round shaped hybrid Milan type, with purple top and white base. Very smooth skin and easy to clean. Excellent internal quality, with no hollowness. Suitable for early and main crop growing. | Available NOW |
Watercress | Crispy- textured with a delicious pungent flavour. High in vitamin C. crop as baby leaves or allow maturing. | |
Watermelon Champagne | Coming soon |
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