Best Sellers
Wild Rocket ~ Dragon's Tongue (September)
A new wild rocket with intense purple veins - great flavour.
5 organic plants per pack.
Charlotte AGM - 1kg bag - Organic seed potato (February)
Charlotte is a salad potato. With its distinctive long, oval shape, white skin and moist texture it is ideal for so much more than just salads.
Charlotte stays firm when cooked and can also be very successfully sauted and even roasted in its skin for a firm ‘roast’ potato. It is frequently sold washed and in bags or punnets which adds to the convenience value of this widely available potato.
Long yellow tubers. Stores well.
High yielding, good tuber blight resistance
Waxy salad potato
Charlotte is suitable for:
Roasting
Boiling
Salads
Price: (1 item) £3.25 Price: (2 to 3 items) £3.00 Price: (4 or more items) £2.70
Plus postage and packing.
Grafted Tomato ~ Sweet Million F1 (April)
Long trusses of sweet, round, bright red fruits; good yield. Resistant to a range of diseases including TMV (Tomato Mosaic Virus).
1 organic plants per pack.
Lady Balfour - 1kg bag - Organic seed potato (February)
Maincrop – mainly white skin with some pink; white flesh.
Lady Balfour is a very high yielding organic variety with exceptional vigour under low fertility conditions. Dormancy is extremely long, allowing long-term storage. Resistant to late blight on tubers, powdery scab, blackleg and potato virus Yo.
Price: (1 item) £3.25 Price: (2 to 3 items) £3.00 Price: (4 or more items) £2.70
Plus postage and packing.
Sarpo Mira - 1kg bag - Organic seed potato (February)
Sarpo Mira is one of the varieties developed by the Sárvári family Hungary who have been breeding potatoes for high natural resistance to late blight for over 40 years (without using GM technology).
Good all-rounder: bake, chip, mash, roast
Suitable for harsh conditions
Drought tolerant and very high-yielding
Tall, weed smothering foliage with the highest blight resistance
Perfect for gardens with more space
Which? Best buy for blight resistance potatoes
Price: (1 item) £3.25 Price: (2 to 3 items) £3.00 Price: (4 or more items) £2.70
Plus postage and packing.
Broad Bean ~ Masterpiece Green Longpod (March) Bumper Pack
New for 2015 ~ Bumper pack for the larger garden or allotment, share with friends.
A favourite variety, superb flavour, heavy yields, excellent for freezing or cooking whole young pods.
Available as seeds too ~
50 organic plants per pack.
We have November plants finished for 2017.
Seed potatoes now available to order ~ Seed potatoes 2018, click here.
Plants for 2018 ~ we are working our planting programme, as soon as it is ready, we sill switch the varieties back on. If you want to receive an email when 2018 season is ready, follow this link ~ Email update for 2018.
Peat policy and other green issuesAll our mail order plants are grown in peat-free compost or plugs. It has taken us a while to find a suitable peat-free alternative which meets the stringent requirements of professional module propagation. Most of our plants such as brassicas and lettuces don't need any heat. A few of the plants for April and May delivery (e.g. cucumbers, tomatoes, courgettes) need a bit of heat during propagation, especially on cold nights. We have a biomass boiler which burns woodchips made from forestry trimmings and thinnings. Plants are removed from our re-usable growing trays at the time of dispatch. Our loosefill packing material is 100% biodegradable and can be added to your compost heap along with the cardboard, or put in the appropriate recycling bins. |
The Gardening Which? Magazine ‘Better Plants by Post’ campaign.Gardening Which? has come up with 10 key criteria that they’d like all mail order companies to adopt. We aim to meet all these criteria 100% of the time. If you think we can improve our plant quality or customer service in any way please do not hesitate to contact us. To find out more about 'Better Plants by Post’ campaign. |
Why use transplantsMost commercial organic growers use transplants. This method allows seed to be sown early, independent of weather or soil conditions. Our plants are grown under glass and an environmental computer controls heating and ventilation. Beneficial insects are introduced to control pests. The plants are strong and healthy, ready to compete effectively with weed seedlings. |
Why buy them from us?We grow all the plants ourselves. Delfland Nurseries Ltd is the leading commercial organic propagator - 2014 is our seventeenth season as Soil Association registered plant raisers and we are inspected every year. Your plants will be of the same high quality that we supply to large-scale growers. Plants are taken from the glasshouses and packed the same day in cool conditions. |
What are the plants like?All plants are grown in larger wedge-shaped cells or cylindrical plugs than most mail order vegetable plants. Plant height varies with variety but 7.5cm (3in) is typical (excluding roots). Grown in re-usable plastic trays, the plants are removed from the trays just before they are packed. Plants should be planted straight away. All our plants are grown from organic or untreated seed. Some varieties have changed due to the availability of organic seed. The selection of plant varieties has also been influenced by our experience with:
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 How we grow and pack our plants ....All our mail order plants are grown in peat-free compost or plugs. Glasshouse plants are grown in cylindrical plugs with biodegradable paper wrappers. The rest are grown in wedge-shaped cells 4.5cm (1¾") deep, 3cm (1¼") square at the top, except leeks, onions and shallots which are 2.5cm (1") square. Plants are taken from the nursery to a cool room on the day of delivery where they are removed from our re-usable growing trays and put into plastic bags. The cardboard boxes and packing material can be recycled or added to your compost heap. Full planting instructions are included. We also offer a range of flowers for companion planting. |
'Sowing the seed'Seed is the starting point for any crop and we are in the hands of nature, if the seed crop fails (for example Tumbler was in short supply in the summer of 2007 and we had to substitute with Gartenperle another bush tomatoes), this happens from time to time and little we can do. We have to use organic seed where it is available and failing that then untreated seed. We do not know for sure what the availability will be when we are putting together the catalogue. We will always substitute the closest available alternative and change the labels accordingly. |
New Products
Wild Rocket ~ Dragon's Tongue (October)
A new wild rocket with intense purple veins - great flavour.
5 organic plants per pack.
Broccoli ~ Burbank (Early White Sprouting) (Aug)
A hybrid white variety. Produces a high yield of succulent spears on a strong, vigorous plant.
5 organic plants per pack.
Mizuna (August)
Makes a rosette of finely cut leaves with broad red petioles.
5 organic plants per pack.
Broccoli ~ Burbank (Early White Sprouting) (July)
A hybrid white variety. Produces a high yield of succulent spears on a strong, vigorous plant.
5 organic plants per pack.
Lettuce ~ Olana (Green Batavia) (July)
New large, fresh green crisp lettuce with all the latest mildew resistances.
Organic plants per pack.
Mini Winter Spicy Salad Pack for tunnels, greenhouses and outdoors (September)
2 plants of each Winter Salad Pack for tunnels and greenhouses varieties (6 x 2).
Mustard Golden Streaks x 2
Mustard Ruby Streaks x 2
Corn Salad (Lamb's Lettuce) x 2
Winter Purslane (Claytonia) x 2
Mizuna x 2
Rocket ~ Dragon's Tongue x 2
Total 12 organic plants.
The selection contains the following varieties: