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This page shows the plants that are only available at our Totnes Market stall (Fridays, March to September), or by making an appointment to visit our nursery in Yealmpton, Devon.

Jump to: Vegetables, Fruit, Herbs.


Vegetables

Cardoon

Similar to globe artichoke - so flower buds can be eaten. Battered and deep fried stems are traditionally served in New Orleans on St Joseph's day (19th March).

Cauliflower - Romanesco

Curds have distinctive 'fractal' appearance.

Chard - Bull's Blood

Attractive edible red salad leaves.

Cucumber - Melen

All female.

Florence fennel - Romanesco

Large round bulbs.

Leeks - Atlanta

High yielding variety, and is frost tolerant.

Marrow - Tiger cross

Can be picked small as courgettes, or grow to a monster! Resistant to cucumber mosaic.

Mustard - Giant red salad leaves

Tasty & decorative salad.

Squash - Blue ballet

Excellently flavoured squash with blue / grey skin and orange flesh.

Swede - Wilhelmsburger

Yellow roots with firm flesh, stores well.

Tomato - Ace 55

Dwarf bush variety.

Tomato - Tumbling tom yellow

Small yellow fruits, excellent for hanging baskets.

Fruit

Blackberry - Merton Thornless

Good cropper - not as vigourous as the thorned varieties but this makes it easier to manage.

This plant is not organic.

Blackcurrant - Ben connan

Early, high yielding variety with large berries. Resistant to mildew and leaf cutter.

Blueberry - Top hat

Dwarf variety ideal for pot growing. Plump berries.

This plant is not organic.

Blueberry - Patriot

Early cold hardy variety bearing consistently large berries.

This plant is not organic.

Blueberry - Gold Traube

Pink flowers give autumn colour. Heavy crops of good flavour.

This plant is not organic.

Cranberry

Prefers moist soil

This plant is not organic.

Gooseberry - Martlett

Red dessert gooseberry.

Gooseberry - Whinhams Industry

Prefers partial shade.

Gooseberry - Careless

The name says it all.

Grape - Boskoop Glory

Variety suitable for outdoor growing in sunny spots in Britain. Self fertile and produces purple grapes for eating or wine making.

This plant is not organic.

Jostaberry

A cross between a blackcurrant and a gooseberry - thornless.

Loganberry - Thornless

Hybrid cross of blackberry and raspberry. The cone shaped berries are best to eat when they have matured to a burgundy colour.

This plant is not organic.

Raspberry - Autumn bliss

This easy to manage variety crops in Autumn from its first year.

Raspberry - Malling Jewel

Excellently flavoured red juicy fruits

Redcurrant - Red start

Late maturing - gives heavy yields of medium sized berries. Good resistance to mildew.

Tayberry - Medana

Another cross between blackberry and raspberry but fruits earlier than the loganberry. 'Medana' indicates that this is the only virus free variety to date.

This plant is not organic.

Whitecurrant - White Versaille

Reliable cropper with large trusses of fruits for early July cropping.

Herbs

Clary Sage

Biennial aromatic herb.

Horse radish

Perennial deeply rooting tall herb - make your own sauce for Sunday lunch.

Lavender - English

Perennial scented lilac flowers.

This page lists plants that aren't available by mail order - only from our Totnes Market stall (Fridays, March to September), or by making an appointment to visit our nursery in Yealmpton, Devon.

Jump to: Vegetables, Fruit, Herbs.

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