Brighten up your diet with these rainbow crops
Take pride in having a healthy rainbow diet by growing these colourful vegetable seeds available from Mr Fothergill’s.
As 2019 was Fleuroselect’s Year of the Carrot, Mr Fothergill’s has four new varieties, as well as a host of other vegetables.
Colourful vegetable seeds – Carrots
- Carrot Malbec F1: (AGM) is a red, long-rooted, imperator type. It is perfect for roasting with exceptional flavour.
- Carrot Gold Nugget F1: produces long, smooth-skinned, yellow roots.
- Carrot Volcano F1: (exclusive) distinguishes itself with strength and reliability. It is resistant to breakage, splitting and disease.
- Carrot Purple Haze F1: provides ‘Nantes’ type, dark purple roots with a bright orange core.
Brassicas
- Kale Candy Floss: features large leaves enveloping a pink heart. Its leaves are full of flavour and retain their colour when cooked. It can be grown for ornamental and edible purposes.
- Cabbage (Red) Romanov F1: (exclusive) sweet tasting, crisp and colourful. Up to 2kg heads, delicious raw or cooked. Excellent source of vitamin C and antioxidants.
- Cabbage Summer Jewel F1: fast-growing crops of large, loose-leaved heads. Versatile, tender leaves with excellent flavour. Great source of vitamin C and antioxidants.
- Turnip Oregon F1: has sweetly flavoured yellow roots. High-quality, fast-growing maincrop variety. Delicious roasted or grated raw in salads. Excellent source of vitamin C.
Colourful vegetable seeds – Beans
- Dwarf French Bean Red Swan: (exclusive) a decorative heritage variety with pink flowers and pink-tinged pods.
- Dwarf French Bean Nautica: for high yields of fine green pods.
- Dwarf French Bean Cala d’Or: provides large crops of yellow, great flavoured beans.
Other new veg varieties
- Tomato Super Sauce F1: ‘Roma’ plum type with dense fleshy fruit, ideal for sauces and soups. Indeterminate, outdoors or greenhouse.
- Tomato Shimmer: small, almond-shaped fruit, marked with bronze-gold. Indeterminate, outdoors or greenhouse.
- Courgette Summer Holiday: (exclusive) large crops of rounded, colourful courgettes. Great flavour and texture.
- Aubergine Jewel Jet F1: up to 20 small, practical-sized fruits per plant. Ideal for pots on a sunny patio.
- Beetroot Golden Eye: easy to grow with amazing colour and flavour.
- Spinach (Oriental) Mikado: versatile, attractive, mildly flavoured leaves. Vigorous crops are produced throughout the summer.
- Spinach Helios F1: great cooked or for baby salad leaves.
- Sweet Corn Gold Crest: large, well-filled sweet cobs. Shows resistance to wind damage and disease.
For full details and the latest prices, visit www.mr-fothergills.co.uk.
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